THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, November 3, 1857. 
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ACHIMENES GHIESBREGHTII OF THE GARDENS. 
Presented to the Horticultural Society 
by Mr. Andrew Henderson, of the Wel¬ 
lington Nursery, St. John’s Wood Road, 
ift 1849. 
Stems erect, deep purple brown, with a 
few scattered hairs. Leaves opposite, 
stalked, oblong-lanceolate, rugose, convex, 
coarsely serrated, not unlike those of the 
larger stinging-nettle. Flowers solitary, 
axillary, with a slender hairy peduncle, 
twice as long as the leafstalks. Calyx 
sihooth, equally five-parted. Corolla de~ 
flexed, nearly cylindrical, gibbous at the 
; base on the upper side, one inch and a 
half long, bright scarlet, with an oblique 
regular limb, and a circular throat. Disk 
a lobed fleshy ring. Stigma large, two- 
lob ed, very hairy. 
This is a neat, distinct, and rather 
slender kind, requiring the same treatment 
as the old A. coccinea , and easily increased 
by the small scaly rhizomes. It grows 
about eight or ten inches in height, and 
flowers from June to August. It is 
very handsome .—(Horticultural Society's 
\ Journal.) 
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j BRASSAVOLA CUCULLATA. 
Origin unknown. This cut represents a floiver of what 
we believe to be 77. cucullata. It is pure white, and remark- 
| al,le for tlie manner in which its long tail-like lip and other 
floral divisions fall to one side as soon as they are dis¬ 
engaged from each other in the bud. In the foliage there 
is nothing to distinguish the plant from several other species. 
If the old figure of the species in the Botanical Magazine , 
t. 543, is to be trusted, the lip must be subject to some 
variation in form; but we have no plant now in cultivation 
which corresponds with that figure, nor has such a plant 
been remarked by me in herbaria. 
A neat little kind, more singular than ornamental.—( Hor¬ 
ticultural Society's Journal.) 
STUD HOUSE, HAMPTON COURT. 
Mr. Beaton having brought my name so prominently 
into notice, at page 406 of the last volume of your valuable 
journal, in connection with my visit to the gardens at the 
Stud House, and having assigned to me the important post 
of chief imaginary commissioner, permit me to state in 
justice to myself that my visit was quite unconnected with 
any association whatever, and that I repaired to the Stud 
House merely to satisfy myself and to form an opinion 
about Mr. Kidd’s system of Tomato growing. 
I found, indeed, everything fully confirmed that which Mr. 
Beaton had said of their excellence, both as regards quality 
and quantity. A border upwards of 400 feet in length from 
end to end was quite scarlet with the showy fruit, and Mr. 
Kidd deserves every credit for his skilful mode of growing 
them. I may add that in the kitchen garden were excellent 
crops of fruit and vegetables, and that the pleasure 
grounds were in the highest style of keeping.— W. Forsyth, 
Ounnersbury Park. 
PEACHES RIPENED ON STANDARDS. 
Ae have received from Mr. Rivers two specimens of 
the Peche des Vignes which have been ripened on a standard 
tree in his nursery at Sawbridgeworth. He says, “ You 
know all about the Peche des Vignes , the sort they grow 
I 80 . abundantly as low standards among the Vines in the 
middle ot I ranee, and the fruit of which is used for pre- 
serving, &c. A few years ago I imported some of the trees. 
I hey aie very hardy, and do not grow too luxuriantly, but in 
spring frosts so constantly destroyed their blossoms that I 
almost forgot their existence. In passing to-day one of my 
forgotten trees I found some very nice fruit on it, and as 
I eaches from standards ‘ are rare birds ’ in England I send 
