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PASSIFLORA HAHNII.-THE APPLE SHOW AT CHISWICK. 
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PASSIFLORA HAHNII. 
[Plate 597.] 
§§ HIS elegant Passion-flower was intro¬ 
duced to the French gardens from 
Mexico a few years ago, but does not ap¬ 
pear to have become much known in this 
country. We saw it not long since in one of 
the cool stoves at Pendell Court, the residence 
of Sir G. Macleay, Bart., and were much 
pleased with its distinct and interesting ap¬ 
pearance, the abundant flowers being nicely 
set off by the purple under surface of the 
singularly formed leaves. It is a climber well 
worthy of more extended cultivation, and with 
the object of making it better known we have 
had the accompanying figure prepared by Mr. 
Fitch, from specimens communicated by Mr. 
C. Green, the clever head of the garden estab¬ 
lishment at Pendell Court. 
The plant has smooth slender stems, 
roundish perfoliate stipules, and peltate leaves, 
which are oval in outline, rounded and crenu- 
late glandulose at the base, three-nerved, deep 
green above and reddish purple beneath. The 
flowers are of a creamy-white, about three 
inches across with a dipliyllous involucre at 
their base, and a double pale yellow corona 
within, the outer series of which has flattened 
filaments, and the inner has the filaments 
much shorter than the outer. 
This Passion-flower will succeed in a warm 
greenhouse, but like all others of the family 
should be planted so as to encourage free 
growth; it then produces a profusion of 
flowers, and is really a very elegant and pretty 
species.—T. Moore. 
THE APPLE SHOW AT CHISWICK. 
f HE “National Apple Congress ” was in¬ 
augurated by a few enterprising pomo- 
logists in order to utilise for purposes 
of instruction the great Apple crop of 
the present year. The Royal Horticultural 
Society gave every facility for the fruit to be 
brought together and displayed at Chiswick, 
and the result was that with very little pre¬ 
paration or stimulus some eight or ten thou¬ 
sand dishes of fruit, consisting of probably not 
fewer than a thousand reputed varieties, were 
staged by about two hundred exhibitors. The 
several collections have been scrutinised by 
experts, members of the Fruit Committee 
and others, aided by the Society’s most ener¬ 
getic Superintendent, Mr. A. F. Barron, and 
the results of their examination will in due 
time, it is hoped, be made public, in an 
authorised and trustworthy report. There 
has already appeared in the Gardeners' Maga¬ 
zine an audit of the unexampled display, 
giving the names or reputed names of the 
sorts exhibited, with the number of dishes of 
each which were set up, and from this it ap¬ 
pears that the well-known Blenheim Pippin 
heads the list, there having been as many as 
166 dishes of it staged. The other sorts most 
extensively shown were—Wellington (Dume- 
low’s Seedling) 132, Warner’s King 121, 
Ribston Pippin 102, Cox’s Orange Pippin 
101, Cellini 97, King of the Pippins 95, Lord 
Suffield 81, Winter Hawthornden 81, Stirling 
Castle 67, Golden Noble 64, Cox’s Pomona 
63, Keswick Codlin 63, Manks Codlin 58, 
Court Pendu Plat 57, Hawthornden 57, Mere 
de Menage 57, Alfriston 56, Emperor Alex¬ 
ander 56, Kerry Pippin 55, Royal Russet 55, 
Ecklinville Seedling 54, Golden Pippin 54, 
Fearn’s Pippin 53, Beauty of Kent 51, 
Sturmer Pippin 51, Cockle’s Pippin 50, and 
Scarlet Nonpariel 50. There were between 
40 and 50 dishes each of Adams’ Pearmain, 
Claygate Pearmain, Dutch Mignonne, Gloria 
Mundi, Lemon Pippin, Margil, Nonpariel, 
Northern Greening, Reinette du Canada, 
Tower of Glamis, and Yorkshire Greening; 
and between 30 and 40 each of Annie Eliza¬ 
beth, Bedfordshire Foundling, Bess Pool, 
Court of Wick, Downton Pippin, French 
Crab, Golden Reinette, Hanwell Souring, 
Hollandbury, Lady Henniker, London Pippin, 
Lord Derby, Mannington’s Pearmain, Non¬ 
such, Norfolk Beefing, Peasgood’s Nonsuch, 
Rymer, Small’s Admirable, and Wyken 
Pippin. 
Where as in this case the amount of 
material brought together was so overwhelm¬ 
ing, it is better to wait for the authentic 
report for such information as to synomy as 
may be gathered up. The fruit was arranged 
