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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[February, 
“ open night and day.”—E. C. Lodei’, Esq.— Agave 
Victoria Begince, T. Moore (p. 448), a woodcut 
showing the long spicate inflorescence of this re¬ 
markable species, from a photograph taken in the 
Cambridge Botanic Garden, TT.S.; the plant is a 
native of the mountains of Northern Mexico.— 
Anemone palmata alba [pi. 364] a rockwork gem 
with cordate-orbicular, obtusely lobed toothed leaves, 
sessile tufted bracts, and 10—12 sepalled flowers, 
which are wdiite with a yellowish tinge near the 
centre; T. S. Ware.— Utricularia montana [pi. 365], 
which has a striking resemblance to some Orchid, 
though its relationship is far distant.— Sobralia 
xantholeuca [pi. 366], a tall reed-like Orchid, with 
lance-shaped plaited leaves, and large terminal clear 
yellow flowers of great beauty.— Orchis foliosa 
[pi. 367], a charming terrestrial Orchid, with broad 
lanceolate leaves, and tall spikes of purplish flowers 
varying in tint and marking.— Dendrobium infun¬ 
dibulum [pi. 368], one of the gorgeous nigro-hirsute 
Dendrobes in the way of D. formosum.— Ochna mul¬ 
tiflora [pi. 369], a singular plant representing the 
order Ochnacese, introduced so long since as 1820, 
but now seldom seen; it is a stove shrub, with oblong 
evergreen wavy leaves, and yellow flowers of which 
the calyx grows on and becomes of a brilliant red, 
reflexing so as to display the ripening fruit, which is 
of a dark purple colour.— Vanda Hooker iana [pi. 
370], the handsome species described at p. 155 of our 
volume for 1882.— Lilium Martagon album and L. 
dalmaticum [pi. 371], the one with white, the other 
with almost black flowers of the recurved type.— 
Cypripedium Morganice [pi. 372], a handsome hybrid 
between superbiens and Stonei. 
The Gaeten-Zeitung (Nov. —Jan.) contains a 
coloured figure of a hybrid Anthurium, a cross 
between A. pedato-radiatum and A. leuconeurum; 
it has palmately-lobed leaves intermediate between 
those of the parents.— Selaginella grandis, Moore, 
the figures reproduced from the Gardener s' Chronicle. 
—Sprekelia glauca, Lindl., an old garden plant, and 
like its ally S. formosissima, the Jacobaea Lily, not 
so much grown as it deserves to be. The coloured 
plate of the January number represents a group of 
decorative plants ; the number also contains an illus¬ 
trated article on the American Vine Mildew, of 
which we have given an abstract at p. 18. 
The Bevue Horticole (Nov. 1—Jan. 16) con¬ 
tains coloured figures of the Kishmish Ali Grape, 
a black variety which seems to be mixed up with 
the Frankenthal.— Tritoma Saundersii, a handsome 
and free-flowering species from Natal.— Fcheveria 
return speciosa, a very superior form of this useful 
plant, which is more than usually floriferous.— Epi- 
dendrum arachnoglossim, from New Grenada, a 
showy species with erect leafy stems, the leaves 
distichous, alternate, oval-oblong obtuse, wanting 
in the upper part of the stem, which forms a long 
peduncle to the roundish or corymbose raceme of 
deep violet crimson flowers, the lip of which is 
three-lobed, with roundish pectinately laciniate 
lobes; grown by M. Godefroy-Lebeuf.— Caraguata 
cardinalis, a gorgeous Bromeliad, allied to C. lingu- 
lata, with a vase-shaped inflorescence of brilliant 
scarlet bracts, of which the inner ones are tipped, 
some with yellow and some with white ; introduced’ 
from New Grenada.— Streptosolen Jamesoni , the 
pretty slender twiggy stove subshrub better known 
in this country as Browallia Jamesoni, the former 
name being however now adopted by Bentham and 
Hooker in the Genera Blantarum ; it was figured in 
the Bot. Mag., t. 4605, in 1851. 
The Journal des Boses (Nov. —Jan.) gives 
good portraits of the following varieties ■—Madame 
Boll, raised by M. J. Boyau pere of Angers, a 
strong-growing h.p., with the flowers large and full, 
of a bright carmine rose colour and highly perfumed. 
Bene d'Or, a Noisette of extremely vigorous habit, 
with largo and beautiful flowers of a delicate yellow, 
paler towards the edge, and with coppery reflections 
in the interior. Madame la Comtesse de Jaucourt, 
a vigorous-growing h.p., with stout foliage, and 
moderately full extremely odoriferous flowers of a 
delicate rose-colour, shaded with salmon in the centre, 
and silvery at the edge; obtained in 1863 by M. 
Desmazares from seeds of Triomphe de l’Exposition, 
and sent out in 1866 by M. Cochet. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
HE grand Indian Magnolia Campbellii 
is likely to flower this year for the 
first time in Europe in the grounds of 
W. Crawford, Esq., Lakelands, near Cork, 
there being at present over thirty flower buds on it. 
We trust that nothing may interfere with the de¬ 
velopment of its gorgeous flowers. The tree is not 
growing in the garden trained to or receiving the 
protection of a wall, but as a standard in a low- 
lying portion of the grounds, at a considerable dis¬ 
tance from the garden, and quite near the foreshore 
of that portion of the estuary of the Lee known as 
the Douglas Channel, as we learn from the Irish 
Farmers' Gazette. 
— Referring to the new Pine-apple Lady 
Beatrice Lambton, in a recent number of the 
Gardener, which we regret to see has been 
brought to a close, Mr. D. Thomson, who is well 
known as an expert amongst pine growers, writes:— 
“ When Lady Beatrice Lambton Pine-apple was sent 
out we procured two plants of it, and have now well- 
nigh a score in fruit. Having adopted the most 
rapid way of increasing it within our knowledge, we 
find that none of the plants are of that strength to 
which we consider this variety capable of being 
grown ; nevertheless, our ripened fruits have ranged 
from 7 lb. to 9 lb. But it is not its size to which we 
wish to refer, but its appearance as a dessert fruit, 
and, above all, its quality. The shape of the Pine is 
unique, being a perfect cone, the colour being very 
bright, tinted with red, and the crown very small. 
Its quality has been praised without any reservation. 
We know of no pine so juicy: when it is cut the 
juice follows the knife in a stream. The flesh is 
melting and rich in flavour, something in this respect 
like a Prince Alfred when at its best. This pine seems 
to be a very free fruiter; for we have not failed in 
fruiting a single plant that we wished to start, even in 
a very young state. It seems to require much less 
water than Smooth Cayennes and Charlotte Boths- 
childs; in this respect it classes itself more with 
Queens. Those who grow pines for exhibition would 
do well to display their very best culture in this 
Pine, for it is uncommonly beautiful in both shape 
and colour. Its fault is that it is a tall grower like 
Prince Alfred, but like that Pine, more of it can be. 
grown in the same space than Smooths or Boths- 
childs—it is such an upright grower.” 
— {[The destruction of the Phylloxera was 
the subject of a statement by M. Dumas in 
November last, at a meeting of the French 
Academy. At the very beginning of its work the 
Academical Commission for the destruction of the 
Phylloxera proposed to arrange for the immediate 
destruction by fire of each plant proved to be in¬ 
fested ; but objections being made to this scheme, 
grounded on the state of French legislation on rural 
