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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[May, 
but nearly as green as grass ”; the whitish lip is 
trifid, with five short keels ; F. Sander. 
La Belgique Hokticole (Feb.) contains figures 
of Vriesea Rarilletii, E. Morr. [t. 3], a species from 
Ecuador, of moderate growth, with a rosette of brown¬ 
ish-green leaves which are swollen at the base and 
again enlarged near the acuminate apex ; the flowers 
are yellow, and grow in an ancipitous spike of close 
boat-shaped bracts which are yellow minutely and 
thickly spotted with dark red; M. Barillet-Descliapes. 
—Schlumbergera Morrenicma, E. Morr. [tt. 4—G], 
another Bromeliad of grand dimensions, the leaves 
thick arched a yard long, beautifully veined, and 
the flower stem terminating in a compound head of 
crimson bracts with white flowers ; S. America; M. 
F. Massange-de-Louvrex. 
Bulletin d’Arboricultuee, &e., for March 
figures a dessert Pear Amed&e Thirriot, a large 
oval yellow fruit, ripening in November, a variety 
of the first quality, as yet very little known. 
Journal des Boses for March contains a good 
figure of the Rose Persian Yellow, whose bright 
yellow blossoms are well displayed by the small 
elegant but dark green foliage. This rose, it is 
stated, was imported from Bersia into England 
about 1838. M. Petit-Coq, in describing it, ob¬ 
serves that it is a double variety of B. lutea of 
Miller, It. Eglanteria of Linnaeus; and that it is 
not of long duration when grown upon its own roots. 
The flowers sometimes reach a diameter of four 
inches. The number for April has a figure of II.P. 
Rose Eugene Furst, a cup-shaped flower with smooth 
broad petals of a rich velvety crimson, moderately 
pale and very fragrant; it was raised and Fent out in 
1876 by Messrs. Soupert and Notting of Luxembourg. 
L’ Illustration Horticole (liv. 4) contains 
figures of Dieffenbaehia viagnjica, L. Lind. & Bod. 
[t. 482], a Venezuelan Arad, with bold ovate acumi¬ 
nate green leaves, heavily marked between the veins 
with spots and blotches of white ; a very fine form ; 
Compagnie Continentale d’Horticulture.— Camellia 
Madame Lemonnier [t. 483], a fine variety raised 
by M. Lemonnier from Lavinia Maggi; it is of fine 
form, creamy wliite, faintly striped and shaded with 
rose.— Vanda PLoolceriana, Bchb. f. [t. 484], already 
fully described at p. 60. There is also a plate giving 
a bird’s-eye view of the new entrance and the num¬ 
berless plant houses in the establishment of the 
Compagnie Continentale. 
Bevue Horticole (April 1—14) figures Adeno- 
carpus decorticans, Boissier (p. 156), a hardy Spanish 
shrub, with crowded sessile awl-shaped leaves, and 
numerous yellow leguminous flowers, which give 
the plant something the aspect of the common 
furze.— Onoseris Drakeana, Ed. Andre (p. 180), a 
frutescent composite from New Grenada; it is spar¬ 
ingly branched, the trunks and under surface of the 
ovate-lanceolate or hastate leaves clothed with whitish 
wool, the flower heads having the ray florets of a fine 
purple; M. Breante. 
The Gartenflora (Mar.) contains— Viola pe- 
data atropurpurea, D.C. [t. 1110 a], a pretty dwarf 
hardy perennial with pedatifid leaves, and numerous 
flowers, of which the three lower petals are white 
with the faintest tinge of lilac, and the two upper 
ones are dark purple.— Saxifraga retusa, Gouau 
[t. 1110 b], a pretty little Alpine herb, of close pros¬ 
trate growth, furnished with greyish-green obovate 
triquetro-cariuate foliage, and abundant starry pink 
flowers ; Alps and Pyrenees. — -Mammillariasanguinea, 
E. A. Haage [t. 1111], one of the interesting group 
of dwarf Cacti, with a cylindrical stem covered with 
stellate spines, and bearing rosy-purple flowers in a 
dense ring near the apex ; Mexico.— Anthurium 
elegans, Engler [t. 1112], an elegant Orontiad, with 
green leaves having terete'/petioles,and'a'pedato-radiate 
limb of several unequal narrowisli segments, and green 
lanceolate spathes free from the obtuse cylindrical 
spadix; Columbia; St. Petersburgh Botanic Garden. 
NEW GABDEN APPLIANCES. 
Garden Bake. —The accompanying figure repre¬ 
sents a new form of Garden Bake, which will no 
doubt be found to be an 
improvement on the older 
forms, inasmuch as it is 
made of wrought steel, all 
in one piece, and the teeth 
are twisted so as to give 
greater resisting power. 
The socket for the handle 
is in two pieces, so that any sized handle can be 
readily introduced and fixed. It is a strong, light, 
and handy tool, and if made known is likely to come 
freely into use. The makers are Messrs. Sabatier & 
Co., Bread Street Hill, E.C. 
Stove Ornaments. —Some very pretty floral 
designs for stove ornaments have been introduced 
this season, and they come sufficiently within our 
lines to justify us in noticing them. We have been 
especially pleased by some of those introduced by S. 
Hildesheimer & Co., of Silk Street, which are exceed¬ 
ingly correct and tasteful. One, a group Of lilac flowers 
is quite life-like and pictural from its naturalness. 
Another, a Begonia is good, the white and different 
shades of green on the upper surface of the leaves 
contrasting well with the red of the under-surface 
and the stalks. A Geranium, which is represented 
as in a decorated china flower-pot, has variegated 
leaves and a good amount of scarlet blossom. There 
arc others : some representing animal life, as the 
Kingfisher in a lake scene, with water-lilies and two 
of these brilliant birds in the foreground. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
GAIN has the Ghent Quinquennial 
Flower Show become a thing of tlio 
past, hut it will long linger in the 
memory of those of our countrymen who 
took part in it, whether their thoughts revert to the 
