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Aslileaf; also to Beauty of Eydon, raised 
from the same cross ; it is of the Lapstone type 
with roundish handsome tubers ; considered 
the best flavoured potato of the season ; both 
from Mr. Hughes, Eydon Hall. 
Coloured Kidneys. —Prize and F.C.C. to 
Edgcote Purple, a singularly handsome and 
very distinct variety, whose parentage was 
not stated, from Mr. Wells, Banbury; the 
tubers are long, cylindrical, and very smooth. 
F C.C. to Cardinal, raised between Early 
Rose and Bountiful, a handsome, large, heavy 
cropping, bright red second early, of very 
line quality, from Mr. R. Dean. 
White Rounds. — Prize and F.C.C, to 
Prime Minister, raised from Magnum Bonum 
crossed with Woodstock Kidney, a splendid 
large flat round tuber, very white and hand¬ 
some, a heavy cropper, of excellent table 
quality; from Mr. R. Dean. 
Coloured Rounds.— Prize and F.C.C. to 
The Dean, a seedling from Yicar of Laleham 
crossed with Woodstock Kidney, a handsome 
large deep purple of the finest quality; from 
Mr. R. Dean. 
The show was opened By Mr. Alderman and 
Sheriff de Keyser, representing the Lord 
Mayor, who was unavoidably absent, and 
shortly afterwards a party of assembled 
visitors, including several ladies and City 
officials in full costume, proceeded to the ban¬ 
quet hall, where a splendid luncheon was 
served to about eighty persons, including not 
a few of the fair sex. Alderman de Keyser 
presided at the entertainment, the Vice-Chairs 
being filled by Messrs. Peter McKinlay and 
Shirley Hibberd.—T. M. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Cotyledon edulis, Brewer (Gard Chron., n.s., 
xx., 172).—-A distinct and remarkable plant., with 
very short thick stems, f uroished with nearly terete or 
obtusely subtrigonous leaves which stand erect, and 
are of a whitish or glaucous green colour, but 
without mealiness, and bearing tbe flowers in cymose 
panicles; they are shortly pedicellate, arranged 
along the upper side of the flexuose spreading 
branches, white, sedum-lilce 6—7 lines in dia- 
meer with acute spreading segments; found in 
California on dry banks near the sea in San I)i<=go. 
It is ihe i Sedum edulis of Nuttall, a name which 
appears to have been given because the young leaves 
are eaten by the Indians ; Kew. 
Crinum IIildebrandtii, Tatke (Pot _ Mag ., t. 
0/09).—A well-marked and handsome Amanllida- 
cecus s'ove bulb, with ovoid long-necked bulbs, 
furnished with 8—10 lanceolate bright green leaves 
contemporary with the flowers, and producing slen¬ 
der two-edged scapes about a foot high, bearing an 
umbel of 6—10 flowers, which have a sender perianth 
tube 6—7 inches long, and a pure white limb of six 
lanceolate segments 2—3 inches long and spreading 
horizontally. The filaments are bright purple, 
shorter than the segments of the flower. Native of 
the Comoro Islands; sent to Kew by Sir John 
Kirk. 
Davallia bkachycarpa, Mettenius. —A charm¬ 
ing evergreen warm greenhouse fern, with much the 
aspect of an Asplenium, to which genus it is referred 
by Kuhn. It has large arching fronds of a lively 
green colour, and moderately firm texture, with a 
broad ovate lamina, which is divided in a quadripin- 
natisect manner, the pinnae six inches long ovate- 
lanceolate, the ultimate segments cuneate trifid or 
bifid bluntish, the fertile ones falcate, bearing a soli¬ 
tary sorus on tbe inner side. Tbe sori are oblique 
oblong with a pallid membranaceous indusium ; 1st- 
class Cerlificate It II.S., July 10; New Hebrides; 
Vi itch & Sons. 
Oncidium NIGRATUST, Lindl. (Gard. Chron., 
N.s., xix , 790).—A rare and interesting epiphyte, 
about which some confusion has arisen. It has 
pear-shaped ancipitous shining green diphyllous 
pseudobulbs 4—5 inches long, the leaves ligulate 
parchment-like in texture, and the flowers in branched 
panicles with linear-lanceolate much undulated 
sepals and petals, which are white with a few blackish- 
purple blotches, and a rather broad blunt triangular 
lip obscurely three-lobed, with an emarginate sinus, 
pale yellowish with light cinnamon spots, and a thick 
saddle-like callus on the disk with Two serrated ribs 
on each side. The column is white with dark blotches, 
and furnished with four wiugs of which the lower 
pair are largest.' From Demarara, introduced by 
Messrs. Loddiges but lost, and re-introduced to the 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S., July 10; Veitcli & Sons. 
Parrya NUDICAULIS, Regel (Gartenflora , t. 
1126).—A neat hardy herbaceous perennial from 
Central Asia and North America, growing about six 
inches in height, with a tuft of lanceolate rather fleshy 
petiolate radical leaves, and coi’ymbose racemes of 
comparatively large pale purple or lilac cruciferous 
flowers having broad obcordate petals over half an inch 
in length. The plant is allied to Arabis and Hesperis, 
and has been called JYeuroloma arahidifiorum ; it was 
introduced many years ago to our gardens, but seems 
to have gone out of cultivation until re-introduced 
by M. A. Regel; St. Petersburgh Botamc Garden. 
Plagiolirion IIorsmani, Raker (Gard. Chron., 
N.s., xx., 38).—The representative of a new genus of 
Amaryllids allied to Eucharis. The bulbs are ovoid, 
and the leaves, which are not produced till after the 
flowers, have a large oblong bright green lamina 
marked by numerous distinct parallel veins. The 
scape is shortish bearing in July an umbel of 10—12 
smallish scentless white flowers, the perianth under 
an inch long, with a green cylindrical tube half as 
long as the six lanceolate segments, of which when 
fully expanded four are ascending and two spread 
horizontally; the stamens are decimate; from 
Colombia; F. Horsman & Co. 
Primula suferutescens, Gray (Proc. Amer. 
Acad., vii., 371; Gard. Chrcn., N.s., xx., 40).—A 
very pretty Californian Primrose, with long straggling 
subwoody stem®, narrow wedge-spathulate leaves, 
l.i—2 inches long, dentate at tie apex, and terete 
smooth peduncles about 6 inches high, bearing an 
umbel of 3—7 funnel-shaped rich rosy-purple yellow¬ 
eyed fiownrs measuring nearly an inch across the 
limb, which consists of obcordate segments. The 
thick rooted rootstocks are very peculiar ; requiring 
gritty soil and probably the shelter of a frame ; 
California, on exposed rocks of the Sierra Nevada at 
9—11,000 feet elevation ; T. S. Ware. 
Vanda suavis Schboderiana. —A charmingly 
beautiful a> d distinct variety of this fine Eastern 
species, differing from the ordinary form in its pure 
and unspotted lemon-yellow sepals and petals, and 
jts pure white lip. The column also is white. Awarded 
