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which Mr. Cooling, of Derby, stated his belief that the first variety of this type, 
which must have been raised forty years ago, was one called Willoughbyanum, and that it 
had been bred from the ordinary varieties of that period crossed with such sorts as Moore’s 
Victory, Fair Helen, &c., Willoughbyanum being one of the seedlings thus produced. 
- @The beautiful white-flowered form of Lilium Krameri , exhibited by 
Mr.,Wilson at South Kensington on July 21st, has, it appears, been identified by 
the Lily authorities with the long-lost Lilium japonicum. It is a remarkably 
chaste and beautiful flower. 
- ®he magnificent examples of Lilium auratum to which we referred 
last year as growing in the garden of James McIntosh, Esq., of Duneevan, 
Oatlands Park, Surrey, are, if possible, excelled by the productions of the present 
season. The garden, or rather pleasure-ground, is very prettily laid out on a steep slope, the 
Lilies being planted around beds of American plants on the less sloping parts, and their deep 
green foliage throws up the flowers admirably. The finer and more established plants pro¬ 
duce stems which are 3 in. to 4 in. in circumference, and average 6 ft. to 9 ft. high, in one 
case reaching as much as lift, high, with great bluntly conical heads 2£ ft. to 3 ft. broad 
and as much in depth, composed of 20, 30, 40, 50, or even 60 flowers. One three-stemmed 
plant produced 120 flowers. The large number of these Lilies grown by Mr. McIntosh must 
have yielded him many thousands of flowers, and the atmosphere of the whole garden is 
pervaded by the perfume. As might be expected, among so many plants there are numerous 
varieties as regards the size, form, and marking of the flowers, the largest of which 
measured a foot across. Some also flower early and others late, which greatly prolongs the 
season of bloom. 
- ®he Northumberland Fillbasket Raspberry is said to be one of the best 
sorts for producing a fine average sample of fruit. The fruit are not only very 
large, but rounded, of a deep red colour, and richly flavoured. This variety 
ought to be universally grown. 
- ^he following has been recommended as effectual in the removal of a 
colony of Black Ants. They took up their abode in a propagating frame, which 
was full of cuttings of various kinds, and made their nests in nearly every pot, 
the frame being quite overran with them:—Some camphor was procured, and broken into 
small pieces; these were distributed on the surface in the frame, which was immediately shut up 
quite close for twenty-four hours; upon opening it, it was found that the ants had all decamped, 
and not one ant was to be seen either in the frame or near it. 
--- Jesses. Bunyard and Sons, of Maidstone, write (September 14,) 
respecting the Prince Englebert Plum , as follows :—“ Some time since you figured 
Prince Englebert Plum. It was made too small. We enclose you fruit from an 
oast wall, to show that it is well worthy of cultivation, and far larger than your figure. They 
will hang yet for a month.” Our plate was from specimens grown on a standard tree. Those 
referred to in the note above quoted, were very fine specimens, measuring nearly 7 in. round 
in the shorter, and 8^ in., in the longer axis. They were deeply coloured, finely bloomed, and 
of a brisk agreeable flavour. 
©Iittuarg. 
— m ■ Adolphe Stelzner died recently, at Ghent, in his 46th year. He 
was born at Arnstadt, in Thuringia, and studied at the University of Gottingen, 
where he devoted himself specially to vegetable physiology and systematic 
botany. He travelled subsequently in Germany, Russia, England, and France, and in 1857 
entered the establishment of M. Van Houtte. In 1862 he entered into business on his own 
accoimt, turning his attention specially to Ferns, and being the raiser of several supposed 
hybrid Gymnogrammas. 
