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THE ELORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
This can be best regulated by ventilators in the roof, and by having the 
windows constructed to push up or down as may be found necessary. The 
coarser Apples should be placed on the lower shelves in larger quantities, but 
the more valuable kinds should not lie one upon the other. In winter a little 
soft hay should be placed over them to keep off the dust, as well as to assist 
in excluding the frost. Each sort should be kept separate and properly 
labelled. They will require to be examined now and again, so that any 
showing symptoms of decay may be removed, thus preventing the others from 
being contaminated. There should be rollers and blinds in front of the shelves, 
which may be drawn up and down at pleasure, so as to exclude light or dust. 
A seed-room would also be a very useful appendage, and might have a series of 
drawers round the sides so as to secure the seeds from vermin; and in the 
centre of the room, a table, with drawers in it, might be placed for containing 
annuals, &c. On this table a small desk might be placed for the use of the 
gardener, and in the room a small press should be placed to hold books for the 
use of the gardeners.—(P. G., in the West of Scotland Horticultural Magazine.) 
OUR CONTEMPORARIES. 
Revue des Jardins. —The March Number contains a plate of Olivier de 
Serres Pear, a seedling from Fortunee d’Angers, which first fruited in 1861. 
The fruit is from 3 to 3^ inches in length, by about the same across, the sec¬ 
tional outline being nearly square. The skin is yellowish green, with numerous 
brownish red patches, and sometimes bright red next the sun ; the flesh is 
smooth, melting, juicy, and very sweet, with a slight acidity. Ripe in 
February and March. - 
La Belgique Horticole for March is illustrated with a coloured plate of 
Billbergia pallescens, a pretty Bromeliad, producing a scape bearing bright red 
bracts and green flowers, the sepals and petals tinged with blue at their 
extremity. It was discovered by Libon in Brazil, and sent by him to M. de 
Jonghe, of Brussels, who called it Wiotiana, by which name it is known in 
some gardens, but in Germany that name is applied to another species. 
The letter-press chiefly relates to the arrangements for the Amsterdam 
Exhibition. There is an article by Dr. Regel, the Director of the Botanic 
Gardens at St. Petersburg, containing some interesting observations on the 
effects of climate on vegetation, observed in his journey to Brussels ; and a 
memoir of the naturalist Junghuhn, who died in Java on the 20th April, 1864. 
Flore des Serres, No. 11., Vol. XV.—This Number has just appeared, and 
fully maintains the character of the work for fidelity of representation and 
beauty of execution. It contains plates of 
Aplotaxis Gossypina. —“ One cannot help regretting,” says M. Planchon, 
“ that this charming Alpine plant has not borne the name of Nidulans (nest 
plant), with which a happy inspiration of Dr. Wallich had formerly saluted it. 
It is indeed a nest, and one of the most delicate softness—this cup of eider-down 
where the flowers seem to conceal their loves.” This lovely composite plant is a 
native of the Himalayas, and was discovered in 1818 by Mr. Gardner, one of 
the correspondents of Dr. Wallich in Gossan-Than. Subsequently Wallich 
himself found it in Nepaul during his journey in 1820 and 1821, and it has 
been observed by other travellers, among whom are Drs. Hooker and Thom¬ 
son, who met with it in Sikkim. 
Dischidia Rafflesiana. —This curious climbing Asclepiad is not remarkable 
for the beauty of its flowers, but for the singular organs which take the place 
