NAMING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION.-October 14,1S5G, 
HYPERICUM OBLONGIFOLIUM. 
! Among the novelties imported by Messrs. 
; Yeiteli & Co., of Exeter, is this handsome 
species, which is represented to be hardy. 
! Mr. Thomas Lobb found it on open hills at 
Mofllong, a station in Khasia well known to 
Indian travellers. Griffith speaks of three 
i species as growing there, one of which 
! (No. 880) with five styles, said to be a 
branched shrub two to four feet high, in¬ 
habiting wet places in the valleys, may pos¬ 
sibly be this. In general appearance the 
plant resembles II. datum; but it has very 
large, rich, reddish-yellow flowers, ami firm 
sessile ovate acute coriaceous leaves, slightly 
marked with transparent dots, some of which 
are minute and circular, others larger, long, 
and linear, The flowers appear at the ends 
of the branches in forked cymes, having oval 
leafy bracts recurved at the point. The sepals 
are large, roundish ovate, very blunt, and 
I slightly tooth-letted at the edge ; the stamens 
i are scarcely polyadelphous; the pistil has five 
! distinct recurving styles, rather shorter than 
! the ovary ’.—(Horticultural Society’s Journal.) 
Our correspondent, “ H. C. K., Rectory, 
Hereford," has given us another proof (page 
476) of how university-men mistake the use 
which is made of Latin iu the language of the 
sciences,—the scholastic delusion, as I call it. 
He says my name Diadeniatum regium is non¬ 
sense. I assert, and I can prove it, that this 
name is as good and true as ever Virgil himself 
penned ; and I can prove, also, that JDiadcma- 
tum regina, which he says “ has the advantage 
of being sense,” is no sense at all out of the 
circle of the said delusion. I can prove, 
also, that a thousand such names as mine 
can be brought up from the first authorities, 
and I challenge him to produce thirty names 
on his model by a third-class authority. I could put him 
on the right scent now, but he hit me too hard, and I chal¬ 
lenge him to first prove by the school rules that I am 
wrong. Assertions go for nothing in fair criticism.—D. 
Beaton. 
TWO NEW GRAPES. 
It would appear as if there was just now a shower of 
new Grapes; and it speaks much for the intelligence of 
the cultivators of the present day, that their efforts have 
; been so successful, and so productive of great results. 
| In addition to the varieties we have brought before our 
| readers during the past few mouths, we have now the 
pleasure of adding one more from Mr. Fleming, of 
Trentham. We have been favoured by Mr. Fleming 
with a specimen of his new Grape, and we can safely 
say, that we never tasted one richer in flavour,if so rich. 
It was only the portion of a bunch which we received, 
j and, therefore, cannot describe the character of a perfect 
I one. The berries are oval and jet black, covered with a 
beautiful bloom; and they contain from two to three 
; stones ; the flesh is very melting, juice abundant, and of 
a very sugary and vinous flavour, and with a fulness 
which approaches a syrup. The skin, though not thick, is 
j so membranous as to warrant us in supposing it will hang 
i well. In a letter we received from Mr. Fleming, he says, 
j “It is one sent to us among many others—twenty sorts 
I at least, all of which we planted in one house. * Some 
j came from abroad, some are English-raised seedlings; 
j we had them, in short, from all quarters, and there is 
Hypericum oblongifolium. 
no note or history of this one. It is a free grower, and | 
resists powerful sun better than any Vine we have, and 
it ripens with the Hambro’, hut keeps plump long I 
after the Hambro’ shrivels. The size and shape of [' 
bunch arc much that of a Muscat of Alexandria, and tho I 
colour a fine-Plum black, which comes on it regularly 
and quickly, and not slowly and irregularly as in tho 
case of many of our black Grapes, few of which colour 
well even under the best treatment. It will not only 
prove to be an early Grape, but, from its keeping quali¬ 
ties, it will be a good winter Grape. We are preparing 
to plant a whole house of it.” This last sentence speaks 
volumes; such a course pursued by such a gardener 
says enough for the character of this Grape to stamp it i 
at once as a most valuable variety. 
If allowed, we would suggest that the name of this [ 
Grape should be Fleming's Trentham Blade. 
Another variety we have received is from Mr. 
Melville, gardener to the Earl of Roseberry, Dalmeuy 
Park, N.B. This, also, is a Black Grape, raised from 
a cross between Black Prince and Black Damascus. 
The bunch sent us was fourteen inches long, loose, and 
not shouldered, the berries large and oblong, jet black, j 
and covered with a flue bloom ; the flesh is green, but, 
unfortunately, they were not ripe, and even what 
flavour they had was destroyed, from moss being used 
as a packing. We should like much to see this variety i 
again when it is more advanced in ripeness. Mr. : 
Melville describes it as being a variety which hangs for 
a long time. 
