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sized, roundish, flattened. Skin green, changing to lemon 
yellow, dotted with greyish-green specks. Stalk thick 
and short. Eye in a shallow, plaited basin. Flesh 
yellowish, firm, crisp, and highly aromatic. One of the 
best summer apples. August. 
Owen’s Golden Beauty. See Joanncting. 
Ox Apple. See Gloria Mundi. 
Oxford Peach. See Scarlet Pear-main. 
Pearmaiu. See Winter Pearmain. 
Pjeaeson’s Plate, d. —Small, roundish, and flattened. 
Skin greenish yellow, red next the sun. Eye open and 
shallow. Stalk half an inch long. Flesh greenish yellow, 
firm, crisp, juicy, and sugary, with a fine brisk flavour. 
A first-rate dessert fruit. December to March. 
Pennington’s Seedling, d. —Medium sized, flat, and 
slightly angular. Skin covered with yellow russet, pale 
brown next the sun. Stalk long, thick, and set in a wide, 
irregular cavity. Eye with long segments, shallow. 
Flesh yellowish, firm, crisp, and highly flavoured. No¬ 
vember to March. 
Phillipps’ Reinette. See Court of Wick. 
Piles’ Russet, d. —Rather large, irregular. Skin pale 
green, and covered with thick russet. Stalk short. Eye 
closed. Flesh greenish yellow, firm, sugary, and aro¬ 
matic. March and April. 
Pineapple Russet, d. —Above medium size, roundish 
ovate, and angular. Skin greenish yellow, dotted with 
white spots on one side, and covered with thick yellowish 
russet on the other. Stalk an inch long. Eye small, set 
in a shallow, plaited basin. Flesh pale yellow, crisp, very 
juicy, tender, with a highly aromatic perfume. One of 
the best dessert apples. September and October. 
Pinned Seedling, d. ( Card’s Seedling). — Medium 
sized, roundish ovate, and slightly angular. Skin greenish 
yellow, nearly covered with russet, and with a reddish- 
brown cheek next the sun. Eye small and closed. Stalk 
short. Flesh yellowish, crisp, juicy, sugary, and brisk. 
December to April. 
Pitmaston Nonpaeeil, d. (Russet Coat Nonpareil ).— 
Medium sized, flat, compressed at the ends. Skin dull 
green, covered with a thin yellow russet, with a faint 
red next the sun. Stalk short. Eye open, large, and 
placed in a broad, shallow, and irregularly plaited cavity. 
Flesh greenish yellow, firm, and richly aromatic. No¬ 
vember and December. 
Pomme Geise, d. —Small, roundish, or ovate. Skin 
russety, with a brownish-red tinge next the sun. Eye 
small and open. Stalk short. Flesh yellowish, tender, 
crisp, juicy, sugary, and aromatic. October to February. 
Portugal, See lleinette dc Canada. 
Potter’s Large. Sec Kentish Fill Basket. 
Powell’s Russet, d.— Small, roundish, flat at the ends. 
Skin yellowish green, and russety. Stalk short and slender. 
Eye small. Flesh pale yellow, rich, and aromatic. No¬ 
vember to January. 
Princess Noble. Sec Golden lleinette. 
Princess Noble Zoete. See Court-pendu Plat. 
Queen’s Apple. See Borsdorffer. 
Ravelston PirriN, d. —Medium sized, roundish, irre¬ 
gularly shaped, and ribbed. Skin greenish yellow, covered 
with red streaks. Eye closed. Stalk short and thick. 
Flesh yellow, firm, sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. 
August. 
Read’s Baker. See Norfolk Beefing. 
Red Asteachan, d. (Anglesea Pippin). —Medium sized, 
conical, and angular. Skin entirely covered with bright 
red on the side next the sun; deep yellow in the shade, 
and covered with a bloom. Stalk short, deeply inserted. 
Eye closed. Flesh white, and richly flavoured. Ycry pro¬ 
lific, and an excellent dessert apple. August andSeptember. 
Red Quarrenden. Sec Devonshire Quarrenden. 
ITo he continued.) 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
GROWING HYACINTHS IN BEDS. 
“ Will you tell me whether the following plan will answer for 
Hyacinths ? I have planted somo in pots, which are now 
covered with tan, in a cool place, and arc rooting nicely. In the 
spring I wish to have them in the beds, afterwards to be occupied 
by the bedding plants. I prefer them in pots, because they can 
be taken away without presenting the untidy appearance of 
fading leaves, &c. Should I put them in their pots in the beds 
now, where I mean them to bloom, or keep them in-doors during 
the winter? Iam afraid the latter plan will make them bloom 
sooner than I want them, in tliis cold climate. Will the frost 
hurt them if plunged in the beds now ? ”— Cambria. 
[Wc were arranging our ideas of bulbs in beds, and your plan 
of potting them, and placing thorn in tan, as for forcing, was to 
be our text. The subject was to be divided into three heads. 
And, first, the best way to have a bloom of Hyacinths out of 
doors, in April, is to pot the bulbs in large 48-pots,—one bulb in 
a pot,—not later than the 20th of September; to plunge them, 
out of doors, just as you have done, with five or six inches ol 
tan, or finely-sifted ashes, over them ; and to leave them there till 
all the leaves and autumn refuse were swept right out of the 
garden, and the beds cleaned, cleared, and dug very deep. Then 
choose a dry, sunny day before Christmas, and take up the 
bulbs and plant them, pots and all;—the tops of the pots to be 
full three inches below the surface of the bed ; after which put a 
very slight mulching of sifted something soft, to keep the suriace 
from caking after rain, snow, and frost; and sprinkle a little 
soot over the mulching, to deceive mice, who are fond of nibbling 
bulbs. But soot puts them oil’ the scent, as your plan put us oil' 
the host article we ever wrote, all but the second and third heads. 
But the first head was the best, and the rest are not good without 
it. You must not indulge your Hyacinths under cover,—we 
mean in-doors, or in any kind of frame or pit. If they are out 
in the open air, and in the plunging material, they will take no 
hurt or harm, even if you are forced to leave them out of the beds 
till February.] 
CULTURE OF MEDINILLA MAGNIFJCA. 
“ Can you give me the name of a good work that treats of the 
culture and propagation of stove plants ? Also, through the 
medium of your columns, some information on the Medinilla 
magnfica, which I should wish to flower in a manner worthy 
of its name ? I do not know whether I may expect the following 
favour, but if it is expecting too much, it can but he refused :— 
I have a very nice Rose garden, but hare never yet seen it looking 
as nice as I should wish it. If I send a plan of it to your 
office, will you give me directions ? ”—C. M. M. 
[There is no separate work on stove plants that we are aware 
of. Can you grow and bloom Hydrangeas in pots ? If not, you 
must first learn to do it, and then apply the very selfsame rides 
to Medinilla magnifica, hi a stove temperature. There is not 
a pin’s difference between the propagation, the cultivation, and 
the flowering of the two plants, except the heat, and the extra 
moisture which the heated air must be supplied with, to make 
it congenial to free growth. Have you not read every thing that 
is known, or worth knowing, about the whole management of 
Medinilla in The Cottage Gardened, even to blooming it in 
small cutting-pots, just like blooming autumn-struck cuttings of 
Hydrangea ? That was done by the Messrs. Henderson, of (he 
Wellington Road Nursery, last spring, as was stated in our 
report of their establishment ? Have you, also, not read about 
their Cyclamens, and forgot all about them ? If we had a stove, 
we should propagate tln-ee or four dozen cuttings of Medinilla, hi 
August and September, from two old plants, which we would 
plant, purposely, in a rich bed, in a cold pit, which we would 
keep hot by closeness. After the 10th or 15tli of Jidy, we would 
take off the lights of the Medinilla pit at night, and put them on 
in the daytime. We would select our cuttings as we would those of 
Hydrangeas, strike them in GO-pots, and flower them from April 
to July in the next sized pot, just as was done at the Wellington 
Road Nursery ; but we have no stove, and we mean to flower one 
dozen of their Cyclamens for every pretended Medinilla. We 
buy them by the hundred, pay down on the nail, and insist on 
getting them at trade price. We prefer (he race of Count, alias 
vermim of botany. Of this are the lovely gems of Atkiimi, all 
as hardy as Count, and all the kinds of Fersicum. The two are 
