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GOLDEN EAGLE PEACH.-REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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GOLDEN EAGLE PEACH. 
[Plate 598.] 
¥ E have here one of the famous senes 
of first-class Peaches, which we owe 
to the late Mr. Thomas Rivers, and 
which has greatly increased the 
variety and extended the season of high quality 
varieties of this luscious fruit. The accom¬ 
panying figure represents that named the 
Golden Eagle, and has been prepared from 
fruit kindly supplied to us by Mr. T. F. Rivers, 
from the Sawbridgeworth collection. 
It is a seedling of the second generation 
from Crawford’s Late, the fruit being of large 
size, ripening at the end of September or 
beginning of October, and having a rich 
piquant flavour. That it is a very handsome 
fruit, and most desirable as an acquisition for 
the dessert table, our present figure sufficiently 
REGISTER OF 
NEW PLANTS. 
Aerides Lawrence®, Rchb. f. ( Gard. Chron., 
N.s., xx., 460).—A graud Dew epiphyte related 
to A. odoratum, and in its habit of growth 
comparable to a large form <f A. quinquevul- 
nerum. The flower racemes are two feet long, and 
bear upwards of thirty of the lovely blossoms, 
which are nearly as large as those of A. crispum ; 
the dorsal sepal is cuneate oblong, the lateral 
ones hr >ader, the petals cuneate ligula f e, all ob¬ 
tuse, w r hite changing to yellowish, and tipped with 
rosy purple; the lip has its side-lobes hign, oblong- 
dolabriform, and its central lobe tipped with rosy 
purple, two purple lines running back to the mouth 
of the spur, which is conical, acute, incurved. The 
original plant of this species was sold by auction for 
235 guineas. Tropical Asia; Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart. 
Aster diplostephioides, Bentham { Bot. Mag., 
t. 6718).—A fine hardy perennial, sometimes referred 
to Hererochseta or Biplopappus. It has a stout 
rootstock, simple stems a foot or more in heigot, 
obovate or oblanceolate leaves 2—4 inches long, and 
solitary heads 2—3 inches in diameter of pale bright 
purple ligulate ray florets surrounding a darker 
purple disk; blooms freely in May and June; 
Himalayas; H. J. Elwes, and Kew. 
Cattleya TRiANiE Formosa, Williams ( Orchid 
Album, t. 108).—One of thefine-tof the many hand¬ 
some forms of C. Triance, remarkable for the large 
size, the excellent form and the stout substance of its 
flowers, which have blush sepais and petals, and a 
broaily expanded undulated lip, the whole front lobe 
of which is of a rich magenta purple with an 
orange-coloured throat and disk; Colombia; B. S. 
Williams. 
Crinum ornatum, Sort. Bull. —An extremely 
handsome bulbous plant said to be similar to, if not 
identical with the new C. Kirkii. The plant shown 
bore two erect flower stems, each carrying a many- 
flowered umbel, one with fourteen, the other with 
twelve flowers. They are large, white, with a broad 
medial stripe of crimson-red; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S., Oct. 9; W. Bull. 
Jasminum FLORIDUM ,Bunge {Bot. Mag., t. 6719). 
—A fine hardy or nearly hardy yellow-flowered Jas- 
attests. In its outline the Golden Eagle is 
round, very slightly depressed at the apex, 
with a deep and well-marked suture. The 
skin is of a golden yellow heavily flushed 
with crimson where exposed to sun and light 
with a pale yellow, almost lemon-coloured 
flesh, which is juicy melting and richly 
flavoured; and has a slight tint of red next 
the stone. 
Mr. Rivers states that the fruits borne by 
pot-grown trees sometimes measure as much 
as ten inches round; and he very signifi¬ 
cantly adds : “ For some years the difficulty of 
cultivating peach and nectarine trees on walls in 
the open air has been almost insuperable in 
most parts of England ; under glass their cul¬ 
ture is interesting and profitable.” 
NOVELTIES. 
mine, grown some years since under tbe name of J. 
subulatum. It is an evergreen shrub of bushy or 
subscande t habit, with trifoliate rare'y pinnate 
leave*, and numerous cymes of yellow flowers pro¬ 
ducing abundantly during the summer months. it 
grows freely on a south wall at Kew witbout pro¬ 
tection ; native of China and Japan. 
Kviphofia Leichtlinii, Baker {Bot. Mag., 
t. 6716).—A rather pretty stemless species with 
a tuft of tapering triquetrous leaves springing from 
tbe crown, bright green, and reaching the length of 
four feet. The scape is 1—2 feet high, and bears a 
spike three to four inches long of narrowly bell¬ 
shaped flowers, which are yellow on the shaded, and 
of a dull pale vermilion on the exposed side ; flowers 
in September; Abyssinia; Max Leichtlin, and Kew. 
LjElia Wyattiana, Rchb.f. {Gard: Chron., n.s., 
xx., 426).—A lovely Orchid imported with a batch of 
short-bulbed L. purpurata , and probably a natural 
hybrid. The flowers are as large as those of L. crispa, 
with the sepals and the very acute petals white, the 
lip having the general shape of crispa, rhomboidal 
with the apical part undulated; the lateral lobes are 
of a light yellow outside, the front lobe is of a fine 
light purple, the veins of the disk dark purple, the 
central ones being coloured their whole lengtu, while 
the outer ones are coloured only at their base ; pro¬ 
bably from Brazil; E. Sander. 
Masdevallia Harryana atrosangtiixea, Wil¬ 
liams {Orchid Album, t. 105).—A highly-coloured 
form of this extremely popular Orchid. The habit of 
growth is that of the type, but the flowers are of a 
strikingly handsome glowing tint of crimson flushed 
with magenta, which contracting with the orange 
yellow of the tube, is very charming; New Grenada; 
R». Warner, Esq. 
Masdevallia Harr yana miniata, Williams & 
Moore {Orchid Album, t. 110).—A splendid variety 
of this beautiful cool-house Orchid, with the general 
habit and aspect of the type, but with the flowers of 
a bright vermilion-red flushed with scarlet, and an 
orange yellow tube, which forms a yellow eye to the 
flower; bright and beautiful; New Grenada; W. 
Lee, Esq. 
Medinilla Curtisii, Sort. Veitch. — A very 
free blooming and elegant plant, likely to be useful 
