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Late Green Gage 
Reine Claude de Bavay 
Yellow Gage 
B. Clingstones. 
Knight’s Green Drying 
Lucombe’s Nonesuch 
McLauglin 
** Summer shoots downy. 
1. Skin bank. 
a. Freestones. 
Blue Gage 
Coe s Late Red 
Columbia 
Early Orleans 
Orleans 
Royale 
Royale Ilative 
Tardive de Chalons 
B. Clingstones. 
Black Bullace 
Morocco 
Peach 
Royale de Tours 
2. Skin pale, 
a. Freestones. 
Apricot 
Denniston’s Superb 
Drap d’Or 
Lawrence Gage 
B. Clingstones.. 
Hidings’ Superb 
Imperial Ottoman 
White Bullace 
II. fkttit oval. 
f Summer shoots smooth. 
1. Skin bark. 
a. Freestones. 
D’Agen 
Autumn Compote 
Cooper’s Large 
Early Prolific 
Fellemberg 
Eotheringham 
Prince Englebert 
Quetsche 
Red Magnum Bonurn 
Royal Dauphin 
Standard of England 
B. Clingstones. 
Blue Imperatrice. 
Cherry 
Ickworth Imperatrice 
Imperiale de Milan 
Pond’s Seedling 
Smith’s Orleans 
2. Skin pale, 
a. Freestones. 
Autumn Gage 
Dunmore 
Mamelonne 
Mirabelle Tardive 
St. Martin’s Quetsche 
White Imperatrice 
St. Etienne 
B. Clingstones. 
Coe’s Golden Drop 
Downton Imperatrice 
Emerald Drop 
Guthrie’s Apricot 
Guthrie’s Late Green 
Topaz 
St. Catherine 
White Magnum Bonum 
ft Summer shoots downy. 
1. Skin dark. 
a. Freestones. 
Clieston 
Damson 
Diapree Rouge 
Early Favourite 
Perdrigon Yiolet Hatif 
Sharp’s Emperor 
Stoneless 
Red Perdrigon 
B. Clingstones. 
Belle de Septcmbre 
Blue Perdrigon 
Corse’s Admiral 
Diamond 
Goliath 
Isabella 
Precoce de Tours 
Prune Damson 
Winesour 
2. Skin pale. 
A. Freestones. 
Blecker’s Gage 
Gisborne’s 
Imperial Gage 
Mirabello 
Precoce de Berglliold 
Washington 
White Perdrigon 
White Primordian 
B. Clingstones. 
Jefferson 
White Damson 
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Abricot Rouge. See Beach. 
Abricot Vert. See Green Gage. 
Abncotee Blanche. See Apricot. 
Abricotee be Bkaunau. —Fruit about medium size, 
roundish, and marked with a deep suture. Skin green, 
ike the Green Gage, covered with a white bloom, and 
becoming yellowish as it ripens, and sometimes with a 
blush of red. next the sun. Stalk an inch long, stout. 
Flesh greenish-yellow, rather firm in texture, juicy and 
nch, with a fine and remarkable piquancy, and separating 
ireely from the stone. The kernel is rather sweet. Shoots 
smooth.. 
A most excellent plum. Ripe iu the beginning of 
September. Its fine sprightly flavour is as remarkable 
among dessert plums as that of the Mayduke is among 
cherries. 
Abricotee de Tours. See Apricot. 
D’Agen (Agen Fate ; Prune D’Ast; Prune die Poi; 
Robe de Sargent; St. Maurin ).—Fruit medium sized, 
obovate, and somewhat flattened on one side. Skin deep 
purple, almost approaching to black, and covered with 
blue bloom. Stalk short. Flesh greenish-yellow, sweet 
and well flavoured. Shoots smooth. 
An excellent drying and preserving plum. Ripe in 
September. It is this which, in a dried state, forms the 
celebrated pruneaux d’Agen. 
Agen Date. See D'Agen. 
Amber Primordian. See Jaune Hdiive. 
American Damson. See Frost Gage. 
Anglaise Noire. See Orleans. 
Apricot (Abricotee Blanche; Abricotee de Tours ; Old 
Apricot; Yellow Apricot ). — Fruit larger than Green 
Gage, roundish, and slightly elongated, with a deep 
suture on one side of it. Skin yellowish, with a tinge of 
red on the side next the sun, strewed with red dots, and 
covered with a white bloom. Stalk about half an inch 
long. Flesh yellow, melting and juicy, with a rich, 
pleasant flavour, and separating from the stone. Young 
shoots covered with a whitish down. 
A dessert plum, requiring a wall to have it iu perfec¬ 
tion, and when well ripened little inferior to Green Gage. 
Ripe in the middle of September. 
Askew’s Golden Egg. See White Magnum Bonum. 
Askew’s Purple Egg. See Red Magnum Bonum. 
(To be continued.') 
NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
Siphocampylos amcenus. Planch. Nat. ord., Lobeliaccce. 
Native of Brazil or Central America, and introduced into this 
country via Belgium.— Subkerbaceous, with erect, slightly 
branching stems. Branches angular, puberulently clothed. 
Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, acute, narrowed at the base 
into a short petiole; margins toothed, each tooth glandular. 
Inflorescence racemose, terminal, bracteated. Bracts linear, or 
subulate, gradually becoming broader below, until they blend 
with or become the leaves of the upper part of the stem. Calyx 
tubular, enclosing the ovary iu its lower half; limb composed of 
five acute, subulate teeth, clasping rather closely; the base of 
the corolla green. Corolla tubular, rather straight, two-lipped, 
divided into five slightly divergent segments. Stamens five ; 
filaments connate; anthers slightly bearded. 
A very handsome crimson-flowered species of this fine genus. 
It delights in a light compost of loam and peat, about one part 
of the latter to two of the former, in which small nodules of 
charcoal may be freely mixed to secure an equable diffusion of 
moisture; lor stagnation is very disagreeable to it. In the 
growing season, however, the plant requires a very free appli¬ 
cation of water. Tlirips and red spider frequently attack this 
species early iu the season ; but if it is kept rapidly growing in 
a moist and not very warm stove atmosphere these enemies 
seldom appear. It blooms in autumn and winter, and though 
not long lasting it is always bright and pleasing. Cuttings root 
freely 7 in mild bottom heat in very sandy peat or leaf soil. 
Manettia cobbifolia. Mart. Nat. ord., Rubiacece. Native 
of Buenos Ayres.-—Suffrutescent, climbing, perfectly smooth. 
Branches numerous. Leaves opposite on very short channelled 
petioles, ovate-cordate, acute, often also acuminate, thin, soft, 
perfectly entire, dark green, and somewhat shining above, paler 
beneath ; veins also prominent there. Stipules two, interpetio- 
lary, connate with the petioles, subulate, often much reduced. 
Inflorescence axillary. Peduncles about an inch and a half long, 
slender, drooping, one-flowered. Calyx composed of four subulate 
sepals, with a minute tooth in the sinus of each, green. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, flattened towards the apex on the sides so as to as¬ 
sume a quadrangular form ; limb small, of four much-reflexed seg¬ 
ments, orange-red, becoming slightly paler towards the base of 
the tube. Stamens four, alternate with the segments of the 
corolla; filaments quite absorbed into the tube until near the 
