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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ December, 1865. 
-- &he new Pelargonium Beauty of Oxton is a splendid companion plant 
to that called Queen Victoria. The varieties of this crimped-flowered class, such 
as Queen Victoria, Captain Raikes, or Prince of Pelargoniums, are amongst the 
handsomest and most useful of the family; their petals are so numerous that they lap 
overreach other, and they are of such substance, and so much crimped, that they appear 
double. Queen Victoria is of a rich vermilion, the petals broadly margined with white. 
Beauty of Oxton is also margined with white, and beautifully fringed, but the upper petals 
are rich maroon darkly blotched, and the under ones dark crimson, shaded with maroon; 
the flowers are particularly large and full. These two varieties may be strongly recommended 
for decorative purposes. 
—— ^t Mr. J. Fraser’s Nursery, Lea Bridge Road, we noted, during the 
past summer, some Verbenas adapted for Bedding ; they were German varieties, 
and seemed to have inherent vigour of constitution, such as our English varieties 
once had, but which many of them now lack—a fact which, perhaps, accounts for the neglect 
into which they have fallen. Some of the most distinct were :—Baron von Bookheim, 
bronzy scarlet; Rudolph Brandt, purple, with white eye, somewhat recalling the fine olcl 
bedding plant of yore, Lantana Selloana ; Moritz Schulz, deep claret, with small white eye ; 
Baron von Apraxine, rich violet; Hofgartner Noak, rosy pink, pale scarlet eye; Baronin von 
Paussinger, rose with crimson eye ; Alemaine, deep rose pink with white eye; Theodor 
Emmel, light vermilion, with white eye ; Paul Vas, deep scarlet with dark eye; La Loire, 
maroon with white eye; and Gruss van Strassburg, orange-scarlet with large white eye. 
These may be recommended as well worth a trial. 
-- err Albert Bruchmuller, one of the most enterprising and perhaps 
most successful collectors that ever entered South America, was killed in OcaTia 
some time early in August last, by a French criminal, who had been a soldier in 
the French Army. A revolution had been going on in the United States of Colombia, and 
some parts of that country were in a state of anarchy. Mr. Bruchmiiller was a native 
of Magdeburg, in Prussia, and some few years ago entered the service of Messrs. Low and 
Co., of Clapton. As a plant collector he was eminently successful, sending home to the 
Messrs. Low, and subsequently to Mr. Bull, several fine new Orchids, and immense quantities 
of the best known sorts. His extensive consignments to Mr. Bull may be said to have done 
a great deal towards the great reduction in the price of Orchids which has taken place 
within the last few years. 
— m. Alexander Boreau died recently at Angers, at the age of 72. 
He was best known as the author of the useful Flore du Centre de la France , of 
which three editions have been published. He was one of the school of critical 
botanists. 
- fEL W. DE Schonefeld, who has filled with admirable ability and 
zeal the post of Secretary to the Societe Botanique de France since its founda¬ 
tion in 1854, died recently. The Society and botanists in general were under 
special obligations to this distinguished man for his services in reference to the publications 
of the Society. 
-- ®Illiam Plant, Esq., M.D., died at bis residence, Monkstown, on 
October 23. The name of Dr. Plant had been associated for more than half a 
century with the most successful cultivation of his three specialities—Auriculas, 
Carnations, and Tulips. As a grower of Auriculas, in particular, he had few, if any, equals, 
certainly no superior; and to see his Auricula-frames, and again, his marvellous Tulip- 
beds, in their flowering season, was a sight worth going a long way to see. Dr. Plant was, 
we believe, at his death the oldest member of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland, 
having been for more than forty-five years a member of its Council; he had arrived at tho 
ripe age of 85 years. 
