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longer the Calville Blanche is kept, the fuller 
and richer is its flavour. So much is this the 
case that as the new year advances this fine 
Apple is worthy to rank with most of our finer 
dessert Apples, and is highly appreciated by 
not a few who seldom eat any other Apple. 
Its flesh becomes mellow and rich, while re¬ 
taining its crispness and briskness, and it has 
a peculiar aroma and fulness of flavour w T hich 
are much relished by many. 
Though rather deeply ribbed, and finishing 
with considerable roughness around the eye, 
which is deeply depressed, yet the Calville 
Blanche, during its later stages, makes a 
handsome dish, while its luscious perfume, as 
well as full and satisfying flavour, make it 
a welcome addition to the dessert through 
the earlier months of the year. Its size and 
appearance contrast well with Grapes, Pears, 
and other Apples, while its flesh and flavour 
may be described as unique. 
Those who would like to equal or rival 
Continental specimens in size must choose the 
warmest spots for its growth, thin the fruits 
rather severely, feed them liberally, or grow 
them under glass. Medium-sized fruits, how¬ 
ever, equal in quality the largest, while the 
quality of all is very inferior indeed until the 
fruits are in season, the proof of which is the 
change of colour to a pale orange. —D. T. Fish. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Agave Victoria Regina, Moore ( Gard. Chron., 
N. s., xviii., 841, figs. 148, 149).—This beautiful 
small-growing Agave forms a compact cone of over 
200 conniving leaves, which are margined with white. 
The flower-stem is about 10 feet high, and 2 inches 
thick at the base, the dense flower-spike occupying 
the upper 6 feet, the lower part covered with nu¬ 
merous linear-subulate bracts, the lower ones 4—5 
inches long. The flowers are densely crowded, con¬ 
stantly arranged in threes, and of a pale greenisli- 
yellow, 1£ inch long, with the stamens projecting 
about an inch and a half; Monterey, Mexico.— 
Botanic Garden, Cambridge, U. S. 
Caraguata CARDINALIS, Andr& (Rev. Sort., 
] 883,12, with col. plate).—A gorgeous Bromeliaceous 
plant introduced from the Western Andes of New 
Grenada and Ecuador. The plant is robust, with 
Ungulate recurved bright green leaves a foot and a 
half long, dilated at the base, and a flower-stem 
12—20 inches high, terminating in a vase-shaped 
head, more than eight inches in diameter, of brilliant 
crimson bracts, of which the smaller inner ones are 
some tipped with yellow and some with white; the 
flowers have not been observed. It is one of the 
most brilliant plants of the order, and one of manage¬ 
able size, the bracts retaining their bright colour for 
a very long period.—M. A. de la Devansaye. 
Cyrtosperma Johnstoni, N. R. Brown ( Gard. 
Chron., N. s., xviii., 808).—A handsome and distinct 
Arad, with the semi-erect arrow-shaped leaves veined 
with red, and supported by dark mottled petioles 
which are armed by irregular whorls of stiff spines 
and marked with flesh-coloured bands above the 
spines ; the peduncles are terete like the petioles, and 
similarly armed and coloured; they support an ovate- 
lanceolate spathe convolute at the base, about five 
inches long, and described to be of a brownish colour; 
the spadix also brownish, terete, half an inch thick, 
and two inches long. Introduced by Mr. Bull from 
the Solomon Islands, and sent out in 1878, and now 
flowered for the first time in Europe by the Com- 
pagnie Continentale d’Horticulture. 
Dahlia excelsa anemonjeflora, Maund, 
( Botanist , ii., t. 88; G-ard. Chron., N. s., xix., 60, 
fig. 10).—One of the fine subarboreal species of 
Dahlia from Mexico, which require a longer summer 
than ours to perfect their flowers, but which form 
noble objects in a mild conservatory where there is 
sufficient height for them. This has been grown as 
D. arborea, but is the same as D. excelsa anemonse- 
flora figured by Maund in the work above quoted. 
It grows 12—20 feet high, and has large bipinnate 
leaves with the petioles broadly connate; the flower 
heads are 4 inches across, the flat ray florets being 
soft lilac, with in some heads a disk of yellow tubular 
florets, and in others borne on the same plants having 
the tubular florets larger and of the same lilac colour 
as the ray, forming an anemone-shaped flower.—Sir 
G. Macleay. 
Epidendrltm ARACHNOGLOSSUM, Rchb. fil. (Rev. 
Sort., 1882, 654, with col. plate).—A handsome 
Orchid, from New Grenada, forming a tuft of erect 
terete stems which in the lower half bear distichous 
alternate glabrous sessile oblong-lanceolate obtuse 
fleshy leaves, the upper portion of the stem being 
leafless forming an elongated scape, and terminating 
in a short corymbiform or roundish raceme of red¬ 
dish-purple (carmine violet) flowers, of which the 
sepals and petals are oval oblong acute and re¬ 
curved, and the lip is three-1 obed, the lateral lobes 
roundish, pectinate at the margin, the middle lobe 
cuneate deeply bilobed, the divergent lobes also pec- 
tinately toothed; the column is club-shaped violet, 
and the disk furnished with five tuberculate calli, 
the middle one longer denticulate.—M. Godefroy- 
Lebeuf. 
CEnothera cardiopiiylla, Torrey. —One of the 
most remarkable and distinct of all the Californian 
GUnotheras. It is a perennial, throwing up numerous 
stems nearly a foot high, with heart-shaped toothed 
leaves, and funnel-shaped yellow flowers in loose ter¬ 
minal racemes, the tube about two inches long, and 
the limb an inch across.—W. Thompson. 
Pentstemon Eatoni, Gray— One of the finest 
of the genus, allied to P. centranthifolius but dwarfer 
in habit, growing about 1^ foot high, the lower 
leaves being broadly ovate, and the flowers which are 
produced in terminal panicles a foot in length, of a 
rich crimson scarlet, the corolla widening towards 
the mouth, the limb with five rounded nearly equal 
lobes ; from the Sierra of California at 8,000 feet 
elevation.—W. Thompson. 
Primula sinensis heder.efolia, Hort.—A. 
new departure in the foliage of Chinese Primroses in 
which the original palmatifid character of the leaf is 
retained, but the serratures are obliterated and the 
margins are entire, so that the outline of the leaf is 
very much like that of the ivy, Hedera Helix.— 
Carter & Co. 
Yucca recurvifolia variegata (Illiist. ILort., 
t. 475).—This very handsome hardy Yucca has been 
called Y. gloriosa recurvifolia foliis variegatis, a name 
which we have ventured to shorten, as it evidently 
belongs to the type of Y. recurva or pendula of 
