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ascertaining more correctly than has been yet done the best 
varieties of each fruit at different seasons of the year. The 
Ribston Pippin, though at the very top of the tree,—the Apple 
tree we suppose,—is “ nowhere” in April and May, and equally so 
in September. The Sturmer Pippin is by no means to be despised, 
even in June, but is very indifferent even so late as March. Our 
Society’s notion after one winter’s session is, that the period of 
perfection of each individual sort is much shorter than is generally 
supposed. The Golden Reinette though one of the very best we 
had in the early part of December (and we feel every reason to be 
satisfied with our fruit-cellar, so far as Apples are concerned), was, 
after New Year’s day, excelled by others not to be compared with 
it in popularity in the garden world. Exceptional seasons will 
occur, though even these are governed in their effects by laws we 
may attain somo acquaintance with ; but what we want is the 
date on which, on the average of years, each good fruit is superior 
to any and what others, and on what date it is superseded in 
quality by later sorts. The British Pomologioal Society will do 
a great deal; but soil and locality influence nearly every variety so 
much, that fruit-growers must rely in a great measure upon the 
results of their own experience ; and unless these be recorded in 
writing, whether by a family society or otherwise, for comparison 
year by year, they are but little to bo depended on.— Fbuit- 
EAteW. 
[We shall be pleased to have the result of your experience, 
which you have tak^i the most .effectual means to acquire. Much 
is to be done in this way, and we commend your example to all 
who are interested in fruit culture,— Eds. C. G.] 
NOTES ON NEW OE EAEE PLANTS. 
Dillwynia elohibunda. Smith. Nat. ord., Leguminosce. 
Native of New Holland.—Greenhouse evergreen, with shrubby, 
erect habit. Branches moderately stout, numerous. Leaves 
alternate, short, linear, stiff, and heath-like. Flowers axillary, 
usually in pairs on very short peduncles. Calyx clothed with 
very short hairs ; two lipped, slightly campanulate, upper lip 
divided into two short, acute, slightly reflexed segments, and the 
lower one composed of three short, acute, ovate teeth. Standard 
spreading, deeply lobed or emarginate at the apex ; orange, with 
a green spot, surrounded by a zone of crimson near the base. 
Wings short, oblong, crimson. Keel very short, crimson. 
A very excellent greenhouse plant, well-known in gardens 
under the name of B. splendens. The habit being naturally fine, 
and being also a profuse bloomer, it is a favourite exhibition 
plant, and is often seen at our metropolitan exhibitions in good 
collections of greenhouse plants. Sandy peat, with a small 
portion of light loam, and a good allowance of silver sand, are a 
compost in which it will thrive well. Cuttings of the partially- 
matured shoots should, in early spring, be put in very sandy 
peat, and plunged hi a very mild hotbed under a glass. It 
blooms in April, May, and June, and ripens seeds plentifully. 
Dillwynia pedunculaeis. Pentham. Native of New Hol¬ 
land. — A greenhouse evergreen, of rather prostrate habit. 
Branches very slender, drooping, clothed, in a young state, with 
very minute hairs. Leaves short, linear, with a few scattered, 
minute hairs upon the margin. Flowers terminal, upon a wire¬ 
like peduncle, about two inches in length. Pedicels very short, 
and each furnished with a small bract. Calyx slightly campanu¬ 
late, two lipped ; the upper lip is divided into two acute teeth, 
and the lower lip into three very acute divisions. Standard 
spreading, with a very deeply-lobed apex, scarlet, tinged with 
orange. °Wings very short, ligulate, scarlet. Keel very short, 
also scarlet. 
This is a less common species than the above, with brighter 
coloured flowers, but more troublesome habit, and, consequently, 
requiring more expenditure of time in forming handsome speci¬ 
mens. With the exception of greater attention to tying out and 
stopping, the conditions of culture recommended for B.Jtoribunda 
are applicable, with the same success, to this species. It is some¬ 
times seen with the garden name B. cinncibarina. 
Coleonema pulchrttm. Hooker. Nat. ord., Rulacece. Na¬ 
tive of the Cape of Good Hope.—A greenhouse evergreen shrub 
of admirable habit. Branches slender, tinged with red. Leaves 
linear, lying close to the branches when young, acute. Flowers 
axillary, terminal, and solitary. Calyx based by several subulate 
green bracts. Sepals fire, subulate, acute. Petals five, oblong, 
bright rose, Stamens five, rising from the base of the sepals, 
opposite to and not longer than them, with small, round, capitate, 
red anthers. Pistil very short. 
A very beautiful plant of comparatively easy management. 
Sandy peat about two parts and light fibrous loam one part, 
with plenty of sand, and a few small pieces of charcoal well 
mixed with the soil, are a very suitable compost for this plant. 
It blooms most profusely in May, and ought to have a place in 
every choice collection of ornamental greenhouse plants. Cut- 
I tings in the usual way for greenhouse plants. 
Hoteia Japonica. Morren and Becaisne. Nat. ord., Saxi- 
fragacece. Native of Japan, Nepaul, Gossain, and Kamaon.—A 
hardy herbaceous plant growing about eighteen inches high. 
Leaves alternate, biternate, .with ovate, acute, sharply serrated 
leaflets ; the petioles thickened towards the base, and tinged with 
purple, and at the very base are several spreading brown hairs. 
Stipules ovate, acute, membraneous, deciduous. Flowers in 
large, terminal panicles, with downy peduncles and pedicels, 
bracteated. Bracts somewhat foliaceous, small and numerous. 
Calyx consisting of five deeply-cleft segments. Petals five, 
spathulate, white. Stamens ten, projecting beyond the calyx 
and corolla. Pistils two. 
This plant is better known under the name of Spircea Japonica. 
Its habit is extremely like an herbaceous Spiraea, and the panicle 
of flowers is also superficially the same as that genus. It is very 
valuable as a winter-forcing plant; indeed, I know no plant more 
so. Out of doors it is best suited with a position moderately 
moist and partially shaded, and it will thrive in almost every 
kind of garden soil that is not a binding clay; but it thrives 
best in a mixture of loam and leaf soil or peat. As it flowers in 
April, care must be taken to keep off late spring frosts, or the 
blossoms may be prematurely cut. Propagates by division and 
seeds.—S. G. W. 
FEU ITS ADAPTED TO THE YAEIOUS 
LOCALITIES OF (TREAT BEITAIN. 
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PEACHES. 
Neil’s Early Purple. See Grosse Mignonne. 
New Eoyal Charlotte. See Royal Charlotte. 
Nivette (Dorsetshire; Yeloutee Tardive). —Fruit round, 
elongated, depressed at the top. Slciu pale green, bright 
red with deep red spots next the sun, covered with a fine 
velvety down. Suture shallow. Flesh pale green, deep 
red at the stone, rich, and sugary. Flowers small. 
Glands round. Middle of September. 
Noblesse (Lord Montague’s; Mellish's Favourite ).-— 
Fruit large, roundish-oblong, terminating with a small 
I nipple. Skin pale yellowish-green in the shade, delicate 
red, marbled and streaked with dull red and purple next 
the sun. Flesh white, tinged with yellow, slightly veined 
with red next the stone, juicy, sweet, and very luscious. 
Tree hardy and healthy. Flowers large. Glands none. 
End of August and beginning of September. 
Noire de Montreuil. See Bellegarde. 
Noisette. See Chancellor. 
Newington. See Old Neivington. 
Old Newington (Newington). —Fruit large, roundish, 
marked with a shallow suture. Skin pale yellow in the 
shade ; and line red marked with still darker red on the 
side next the sun. Flesh yellowish-white, deep red at 
the stone, to which it adheres ; of a juicy, rich, and very 
vinous flavour. Flowers large. Glands none. Eipc the 
middle of September. 
D’Orange. See Yellow Admirable. 
Padley’s Early Purple. See Grosse Mignonne. 
Pavie Camu. See Pavie de Pompone. 
Pavie Monstrueuse. See Pavie de Pompone. 
Pavie de Pompone (Gros Malecoion ; Gros Perseque 
Rouge; Monstrous Pavie of Pompone; Pavie Camu; 
Pavie Monstrueux; Pavie Rouge de Pompone; Pavie 
Rouge). —Fruit immensely large and round, terminated by 
au obtuse nipple, and marked on one side with a shallow 
