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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ May, 
early bloom. What was formerly grown at Chiswick under this name of French 
Paradise is quite a different thing, and relatively very inferior. Of course this 
Paradise stock is not intended for orchard use, where the freer-growing stocks are 
preferred.” 
The French Paradise stock referred to in these remarks is that which we now 
figure. The plant is of spreading habit, with purplish shoots. The infloresence 
is abundant, and precocious as to season, and also in relation to the age of the 
plant. The young leaves are glabrescent, oblong-lanceolate, the apex acute, the base 
rounded, the margin crenulated, the crenulations mucronulate ; the petiole is less 
than half the length of the leaf, setose, and the stipules are linear-subulate, as long 
as the petiole. The peduncles are about three-quarters of an inch long, setose ; 
the flower-tube glabrous urceolate, reddish, one-eighth of an inch long ; the 
calyx-lobes triangular, gradually acuminate, setose within ; the petals concave, 
oblong, obtuse, tapering at the base into a short stalk, and provided with a few 
cottony hairs on the inner surface ; the styles are crested at the base for a short 
distance, and there slightly covered with cottony hairs, dividing above into five 
stigmatic branches. 
The fruit, which is a really good early eating Apple, is, according to our 
notes, of medium size, oblate, somewhat angular, yellow, changing on the exposed 
side to deep golden-yellow, and sometimes having a thin flush of rosy-red. The 
eye is broad, but closed, sunk in a rather deep cavity. The stalk is short, scarcely 
projecting from the hollow, which is not so deep as that of the eye. The flesh 
is pale straw-colour, fine-grained, solid, juicy, and with a brisk agreeable flavour. 
It ripens in the middle and end of August, and would form a good useful early 
dessert apple, independent of its value as a dwarfing stock for apple-trees grown 
in the bush or pyramidal form.—T. Moore. 
CELOSIAS AS DECORATIVE AND EXHIBITION PLANTS. 
a OTH the crested dwarf and the pyramidal growing kinds of Celosia have 
been greatly improved, and each has its admirers ; the dwarf Cockscombs 
being more particularly grown for exhibition purposes, whilst the pyramidal- 
habited are most prized for conservatory decoration, as well as being 
extremely useful for cutting. 
Of the latter there are various graceful strains, which attain large dimensions 
under favourable culture, presenting flower-plumes of the most brilliant colours, 
with such elegance of habit and durability as to place them amongst the most 
desirable decorative plants that we possess. The first sowing of these should be 
made in February or March, in fine soil, the seeds being placed in heat to germi¬ 
nate, and the pots set up near to the glass, as soon as they appear above the soil, 
to prevent drawing. As soon as the young plants are fit to handle they should 
be pricked off separately into well-drained pots, keeping them, as soon as they 
take to the soil, close to the glass, and potting them on as they may require it. 
For ordinary purposes 6-in., 7-in., or 8-in. pots will be sufficiently large, and plants 
