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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[January, 
their existence, soon after the sepals show 
colour, they endure fresh and fair for from ten 
to fifteen days, if the water be changed occa¬ 
sionally. A fully exposed breezy position 
suits them best; indeed recent gales, which 
have destroyed all late blooming hardy plants, 
seem to have given additional vigour to the 
Wind-flowers. 
A bed of seedling Anemones, as seen on a 
bright spring day, is most bright and cheery : 
scarcely two flowers are alike, and all are 
beautiful. I cordially advise the culture of 
seedling Anemones to all who have to provide 
flowers for cutting at all seasons.—F. W. 
Burbidge, College Botanic Garden, Dublin. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Alpinia mittica, Roxburgh. —A stately stove 
perennial of the Scitamineous order. It sends up 
several tall simple leafy stems, six to eight feet in 
height and formed of the compressed sheathing leaf¬ 
stalks, the leaf-blades being smooth sword-shaped 
and about two feet in length. Tee large and ex¬ 
ceedingly beautiful flow r ers form a spike-like raceme 
at the top of the stem, on which the flowers grow in 
pairs ; they are obliquely funnel-shaped, the segments 
blush-white, the large conspicuous lip bright yellow 
beautifully veined and speckled with crimson, the 
mouth oblique and beautifully crispulate ; introduced 
from Borneo.—W. Bull. 
Anthurium ferrierense, Devansaye (Rev. 
Sort., 1882,476).—A handsome new Aroid, obtained 
by crossing the scarlet-spathed A. Andreanum by 
the white-spathed A. ornatum. The new hybrid is 
of vigorous growth, and very floriferous, resembling 
A. ornatum in having the leaves rounder and less 
cordiform than in A. Andreanum; the spathe is of 
a beautiful rose colour, the spadix erect, white, the 
tip at length becoming orange-yellow; raised at 
Ferrieres, the seat of Baron A. de Rothschild, and 
exhibited at the show of the Societe Centrale d’Hor- 
ticulture de France in October last.—M. Bergman. 
Cosmos bipinnatus purpubeus. — A revival 
rather than a novelty. It is a fine old and very useful 
autumn and winter flowering plant, blooming very 
freely at this season of the year in an ordinary 
greenhouse, and yielding a quantity of pale pinkish 
purple composite flowers, very much resembling small 
Dahlias; 2nd-class Certificate R.H.S. Dec. 12.— 
R.H.S. Gardens, Chiswick. 
Cratasgus Carrieri, Sort— A very handsome 
hardy tree raised from C. mexicana, to which it is 
much superior. The flowers when they expand in 
spring are white, bat subsequently become flesh- 
coloured. These are followed by fruits, which re¬ 
semble cherries in size, form, and colouring, bein°- 
of a bright red ; their chief merit, however,"consists 
in their being persistent through the winter, when 
the leafless boughs laden with orange or crimson fruit 
have a very ornamental appearance. The tree is very 
hardy, having withstood the winter of 1879-80 un¬ 
hurt. It is grafted on the hawthorn.—MM. Baltet 
freres, Troyes. \C. mexicana has greenish-yellow 
fruits.] 
Cypripedigm montanuh, A . Gray .— A beautiful 
little hardy Orchid from Oregon; grows'about a 
foot high, and has lanceolate pubescent leaves, a,nd 
brownisli-purple flowers with a white lip, striped with 
red inside, the column yellow spotted with crimson. 
—T. S. Ware. 
Dendrobitim Rimanni, Rchb. f. (Gard. Chron., 
N. s., xviii., 680).—A stately Dendrobe in the way of 
D. Mirbelianum, and bearing flowers equal to those 
of a good D. speciosum. The furrowed stems are 
cylindric-fusiform, leafy above, the leaves oblong 
31 inches long, and very coriaceous like those of a 
Cattleya. The flowers grow in terminal racemes, 
which are somewhat zig-zag; the sepals and petals 
are yellow, the former striped with purple outside ; 
the lip white, marked with purple reticulations. 
Native of the Moluccas.—F. Sander. 
Fallugia paradoxa, Sndlicher ( Bot. Mag., t. 
6660).—A very neat-growing and pretty Rosaceous 
subshrubby plant, of branching habit, allied to 
Geum, and found in the dry interior regions of 
N. W. America, in Utah and Nevada, but chiefly in 
New Mexico. It is a slender bush, much branched, 
2—4 ft. high, with the leaves, which are bright green 
above, white beneath, collected in fascicles, small, 
cuneate, flabellately and pinnately cut into linear 
obtuse lobes; the flowers are pure white, an inch and 
a half across, arranged in a loose raceme or sometimes 
solitary at the ends of the branchlets. Flowered at 
Kew. 
Grammatophyllum elegans, Rchb. f. (Gard. 
Chron., n.s., xviii., 776).—A new and elegant species 
of a somewhat limited genus of Orchids, recently 
introduced from the South Sea Islands, and closely 
allied to G. Fenzlianum. It has largish oblong 
pseudobulbs, with elongate distichous leaves, and an 
erect peduncle, a foot high, bearing six or seven 
flowers, which are showy, having oblong sepals of a 
sepia brown with ochre yellow margins, the narrower 
petals being of the same colour, and the lip yellow 
with brown markings in front and a hairy disk, 
trifid, the front lobe wedge-shaped and emarginate. 
The column is white with a pair of brown lines 
below the stigma.—B. S. Williams. 
Lastrea Hopeana, T. Moore (Gard. Chron., 
N, s., xviii., 744).-—A very elegant stove evergreen 
fern, with a slender glabrous stipes, and ovate or 
subdeltoid fronds a foot long and eight inches wide. 
These fronds are thin in texture, pinnato-pinnatifid, 
the sessile lanceolate caudate pinnae being cut down 
nearly to the rachis into narrow ligulate falcate 
acute segments. The veins are simple and close set, 
and bear small sori close to the midrib. Its slender 
stipes, thin texture, caudate extremities, and narrow 
falcate lobes give it an elegant character, which must 
render it useful for decoration. Native of the South 
Sea Islands and Fiji.—Veitch & Sons. 
LiSTREA prolifica, T. Moore (Gard. Chron., 
N. s., xviii., 744).—An interesting ornamental hardy 
evergreen fern from Japan. The fronds are rigid, 
deltoid, bipinnate, deep green, with the pinnae rather 
distant, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, the posterior side 
most developed; the pinnules are unequal in size and 
form, but usually linear acute, and somewhat falcate. 
These bear numerous large reniform sori, which are 
distributed over the whole back of the frond, and are 
covered by prominent indusia which are red in the 
centre with a lead-coloured margin. The fronds are 
gemmiparous in the axils of the segments aud on the 
margins. It appears to be known as Lastrea 
Fortunei, an unpublished name; and is the Aspidium 
prolificum of Maximowicz.—Veitch & Sons, and W. 
Bull. 
Pescatorea Vervaeti, Sort .—A pretty species 
of this remarkable genus, with the habit and general 
aspect of P. klabochorum, but apparently producing 
smaller flowers; their sepals and petals are of a 
waxy white boldly tipped with claret-crimson, the 
lip being entirely of the latter colour; lst-class 
