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THE BELLEGARDE PEACH.-REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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from the forcing pit for use there, if it can he 
avoided. It is better to place them for a day 
or two at the warm end of a greenhouse.—H. 
J. Clayton, Grimston. 
THE BELLEGARDE PEACH. 
[Plate 582.] 
0 apology is necessary for introducing to 
our readers this old variety of Peach, 
for it is, also, a good one, and conse¬ 
quently worthy of being brought for¬ 
ward as a standard whereby to judge the new 
introductions. Its synonymous names are 
Galande, French Galande, Ronald’s Brentford 
Mignonne, Noir de Montreuil, &c. 
The Bellegarde is not only one of the oldest, 
but furthermore it is still one of the very 
best of Peaches. For hardiness of constitution 
and free bearing properties it is second to 
none, and consequently it lias found a place 
in every garden where Peaches are grown. 
For open wall culture it is specially in request. 
We owe the fine examples here figured to 
Mr. Coleman, of the Eastnor Castle gardens, 
with whom it is a great favourite as an 
exhibition variety, as well as for supplying the 
dessert. The late Rev. W. F. Radclyffe, a 
most successful amateur peach-grower, who 
also thought very highly of the Bellegarde, first 
called our attention to its special excellence, 
and wrote as follows :—“ Bellegarde (French 
Galande) is a noble Peach, and very rare, as 
the Yiolette Hative (English Galande), a 
relative, is generally, almost universally sent 
out for it; out of ten trees I have only one 
true to name. The Bellegarde is larger, deeper 
in colour, blackish-blood, looking when ripe 
as if Indian ink was veneered into the blood¬ 
stained skin, and has dark, very dark, green 
shining foliage. Yiolette Hative is of the same 
family, hut smaller, lighter in colour, and 
earlier.” 
The Fruit is large, round, slightly flattened 
and hollowed at the apex. Skin deep brown 
or dark red, sometimes very dark indeed. 
Flesh pale greenish yellow, somewdiat coloured 
at the stone, juicy, and of a rich and pleasant 
flavour. It is a midseason variety, ripening 
in the early part of September. The Flowers 
are small, dark red, and the deep green Leaves 
are furnished with round glands. It requires 
to be worked on the Pear Plum, or Damas 
Noir stock.— T. Moore. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Agave ( Manfreda ) Alibertii, Baker ( Gard. 
Chron., N. s., xix., 176). — A remarkable species of 
Agave, which was distributed in 1877 by Messrs. 
Haage & Schmidt as Agave virginica, and has re¬ 
cently been described by M. Marion as a new genus 
of Amaryllidacese under the name of Alibertia 
intermedia. Tne plant dies down in winter to a 
rootstock which is sheathed by fleshy scale-leaves, 
the 10—12 lanceolate denticulate produced leaves 
forming a rosette; the peduncle including the lax 
simple subspicate raceme grows 4—5 feet high, the 
flowers an inch long, having short pedicels, a funnel- 
shaped greenish tube, short lanceolate deltoid limb 
segments, and stamens which are finally exserted 
more than an inch beyond the segments. The 
history of the plant is not known.—M. Deleuil. 
Ajuga eeptans variegata, Lemoine, Cat. PL 
Nouv., 1883.—A variety of the common Bugle, with 
glaucous green leaves bordered by a broad edging of 
white. Like the type it freely produces its stolons 
which root at every joint and speedily cover a broad 
surface. The plant is recommended for mosaiculture, 
for margins to beds, and for covering bare spaces 
rapidly, and as a hardy bedding plant will probably 
become popular. It is in the hands of M. Lemoine, 
Nancy. 
Angrjecttm EicnLERIANUM, Xranzlin (Gar¬ 
ten- Zeitung , 1882, 434, fig. 102).—A large white- 
lipped epiphyte, related to Angrcecum infundibuli- 
forme. It has tall leafy stems, furnished with dis¬ 
tant channelled elliptic leaves, unequal-sided and 
blunt at the apex, and large solitary flowers with 
lanceolate light green sepals and petals, and a large 
helmet-shaped lip, which is white, cuneate at the 
base, obcordate, deeply emarginate with a triangular 
apiculus in the sinus, the spur erect narrow straight 
conical or extinguisher-shaped, and about as long as 
the sepals, in which respect it differs from the allied 
species already referred to. Native of Loango in 
W. Africa. 
Begonia Bruanti, Bruant, Cat. Nouv. Hyb. 
Begonias, 1882, 3.—A hybrid raised from B. 
Schmidtii fertilised by B. semperflorens, remarkable 
for its hardiness and much-branched growth in the 
open air in summer, forming large tufts, but seldom 
exceeding 12—16 inches in height. The erect fleshy 
red stems are swollen at the joints, and bear velvety 
purplish-tinted leaves, and well-furnished coral- 
stalked cymes of. white or rosy flowers, produced so 
freely and abundantly that it may be regarded as a 
perpetual bloomer. The flowers are white under 
glass, shaded with rose in the open air in shady 
situations, and of a soft rose outdoors in the full sun. 
It was noted in Revue Horticole, 1882, 377, under 
the name of B. pictavensis, indicating its origin at 
Poictiers, where it was raised by M. G. Bruant. 
Calanthe Regnieri.—A handsome species in 
the way of C. vestita, but with flowers of a more 
circular form. The leafless pseudobulbs, which are 
large with a contracted neck, are of a greyish colour; 
and from their base are produced the woolly flower 
scapes, H—2 feet high, which are furnished with 
large acuminate bracts, and are drooping at the 
upper part where the 8—10 flowers are situated. 
The flowers are about 2 inches across, the elliptic 
recurved sepals an inch long, white, and the petals, 
which are of similar size and form, spreading, 
white with a faint rosy central stripe ; the lip is 
flattisb, elbowed or indexed near the base so as 1o 
project forwards, three-lobed, the front lobe deeply 
emarginate, the whole surface including the column 
of a lively rose pink, with a deep crimson centra] 
spot. The flowers have a slender curved spur about 
