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THE FLORIST AND POJVIOLOGIST. 
[November, 
R.H.S., Chiswick ; W. Smith. Edgecote Purple, said 
to be a seedling from Purple Ashleaf, a good 
cropper, and of excellent table quality ; lst-class 
Certificate, International Potato Show, Sept. 13 ; C. 
R. Wills, Banbury. Hughes’ Prolific, of the same 
type as the Beauty of Eydon, and of equal good 
quality ; both are said to have been raised from Beauty 
of Hebron crossed with Hyatt’s Ashleaf; lst-class 
Certificate, International Potato Show, Sept. 13 ; J. 
Hughes. Midsummer Kidney, very early, ripens 
even earlier than the Ashleaf, a large cropper, very 
handsome and of excellent quality ; raised from the 
American Success crossed with Woodstock Kidney; 
lst-class Certificates R.H.S., Chiswick, and Inter¬ 
national Potato Show, Sept. 13: R. Dean. Prime 
Minister, a seedling from Magnum Bonum and 
Woodstock Kidney, a large flatfish oval round with 
a netted skin : a great cropper, and of high cla«s 
quality; lst-class Certificate, International Potato 
Show, Sept. 13; R. Dean. Snowdrop, a variety 
somewhat resembling Snowflake, but firmer in tex¬ 
ture and of better flavour and quality; an extra¬ 
ordinary cropper; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., Chis¬ 
wick ; Mr. Perkins. The Dean, a greatly improved 
Yicar of Laleham, from which it is a seedling, of 
excellent quality and a capital cropper; it is a very 
liaudsome deep purple-skinned round ; lst-class Cer¬ 
tificate, International Potato Show, Sept. 13 ; R. Dean. 
Welford Park Kidney, a seedling from Woodstock 
Kidney, handsome, of fine quality and a heavy cropper; 
lst-class Certificates R.H.S., Chiswick, and Inter¬ 
national Potato Show, Sept. 13; C. Ross, Welford 
Park. 
Tomatos. — Chiswick Red, a selection from General 
Garfield ; fruits medium-sized, obovate, smooth, deep 
red ; very productive ; lst-class Certificate R H.S., 
Chiswick; The Society. Improved Large Orange, 
fruits large, round, smooth, deep orange-yellow in 
colour ; very handsome ; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., 
Chiswick; Mr. Henderson. 
Turnip, Kxtra Early Milan. —A valuable addition 
to our garden turnips, as it is much earlier than the 
Extra Early Munich, and of finer quality; the bulbs 
are round and flattened, deep rosy purple on the 
upper side, and with a very slender tap root; the 
leaves are strap-shaped and rather short, and the 
growth is very compact; lst-Class Certificate R.H.S., 
June 12; Veitch & Sons. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Sept. 22—Oct. 20) 
contains descriptions of the following plants:— 
Sigmatostalix mallefiera, Uchb. f. (p. 360), acurious 
little Orchidaceous gem, with oblong pseudobulbs 
1£ inch high, linear ligulate leaves, and slender 
peduncles bearing yellow flowers, the sepals and 
petals with transverse bars and spots of sepia brown, 
and the lip parted into three narrow segments, and 
bearing a hammer-like callus; New Grenada; P. 
Sander.— Masdevallia trichcete, Rchb. f. (p. 360), a 
pretty plant in the way of .M. triglochin, but with 
longer linear lanceolate leaves and smaller flowers of 
a richer brown purple with orange tails, some parts 
of the base being also orange-coloured with brown 
nerves; Dr. Wallace.— Masdevallia Reichenbachiana 
aurantiaca, Rchb. f. (p. 360), a beautiful variety in 
which the lateral sepals are rich orange instead of 
purple brown ; F. Sander.— Zygopetalum forcipatum, 
Rcnb. f. (p. 360), a curious epiphyte allied to Z. 
gramineum, with whitish ochre-coloured flowers 
having a broad roundish lip fringed in front, and 
marked with two brick-red blotches on each side the 
callus, and by a few purple spots in tho front por¬ 
tion ; Shuttleworth & Carder.— Cattleya labiata 
Warneri, Hort. (p. 372, fig. 57), a good illustration 
of a full-sized flower of this fine variety of C. labiata 
— Statice Suworowii, Regel (p. 392, fig. 59), a pretty 
greenhouse or half-hardy annual, with oblong run- 
cinate leaves, dense spikes of small pale rosy-lilac 
flowers, which are either single 15—18 inches high, 
or with several shorter branching spikes growing out 
from the base; W. Turkestan ; Haage & Schmidt.— 
Vanda insignis Schroderiana, Rchb. f. (p. 392), a 
beautiful variety, with the sepals and petals light 
yellow, with light orange blotches, and the lip cream- 
coloured with two orange lines.— Maxillaria varicosa, 
Rchb. f. (p. 392), a stout growing species, with fusi¬ 
form pseudobulbs, oblong-ligulate leaves, and three- 
flowered racemes of flowers iu the way of those of 
M. corrugata ; Bolivia ; T. Christy. — Gentiana 
ornata, Wallich (p. 396, fig. 60), a charming little 
trailing perennial, with oblong-lanceolate glabrous 
leaves, and tubular funnel-shaped dark blue flowers, 
with a stellately spreading calyx; Eastern and 
Central Himalaya; G. F. Wilson.— Corynocarpus 
' Icevigata, Forster (p. 396, fig. 61), an evergreen 
greenhouse shrub, with large oblong glossy leaves, 
and white flowers succeeded by olive-shaped berries ; 
New Zealand; fruited at Tresco Abbey, Scilly Isles. 
— Lcelia Wyattiana, Rchb. f. (p. 426), a beautiful 
Orchid, supposed to be a wild hybrid, and imported 
with a quantity of the short-bulbed L. purpurata, 
with flowers as large as those of L. crispa, having 
white sepals and petals, and a slightly undulated 
light purple lip with dark purple veins over the 
disk; Brazil; G. Neville Wyatt, E-q. — Pleris 
serrulata Pocockii, Moore (p. 426), an elegant variety 
of this useful evergreen greenhouse fern; it is of 
slender habit, with long-pinnuled drooping segments 
which are all developed at the apex into a shortish 
dense tasselled tuft, which gives to the plant its 
drooping character, and is its principal cha¬ 
racteristic; a garden variety ra ; sed by Mr. C. 
Pocock, Wincanton.— Vanda Sanderiana, Rchb. f. 
(p. 440, figs. 67, 68), the grandest novelty introduced 
for mauy a year, of vigorous stocky growth, with 
recurved distichous leaves, and flowers 4—4j inches 
across, having the three upper segments blush, the 
two lower sepals very large yellowish veined all over 
with crimson, and the small lip dull brownish crim¬ 
son ; Tropical Asia; W. Lee, Esq.— Masdevallia 
infracta purpurea, Rchb. f. (p. 460), a variety with 
larger flowers than the type, of the brightest purple 
mauve; Sir T. Lawrence.— Aerides Laivrencice, Rchb. 
f. (p. 460), a grand and unique species, allied to A. 
odoratum, but having flowers nearly as large as those 
of A. crispum; it bears a long raceme of flowers 
which are white tipped with purple, the middle lobe 
of the lip also purple with two purple lines running 
back to the mouth of the spur ; the finest of all the 
known species ; Tropical Asia ; Sir Tr. Lawrence.— 
Masdevallia racemosa, Lindl. (p. 466), a charming 
species, with broad lanceolate long->talked leaves, 
and racemes of 4—14 fine flowers which appear to 
be of a bright yellowish orange colour, or very delicate 
orange red; Cordillera of Western South America; 
Veitch & Sons.— Dendrobium polycarpum, Rchb. f. 
(p. 492), a species allied to D. Mirbelianum and D. 
Rimauni, with shining stems 3 feet long, and flowers 
in lax racemes, yellowish with purple-red side lobes 
to the lip; Sonda Isles; Veitch & Sons.— Cattleya 
Brymeriana, a fine novelty in habit like a short- 
bulbed Lsclia elegans, the flowers have the sepals and 
petals rosy-purple, the lip unusually broad with the 
middle lobe projecting, obcordate, the central area 
orange with a broad line running out to the base, 
the margins of the side lobes, and of the middle lobe 
in front of the origin is of the warmest purple- 
mauve, very beautiful; Low & Co.— Pyrus pinna- 
tfida, Ehrliart (p. 492, fig. 78), a handsome small 
tre8 with oblong pinnately cut leaves, and corym¬ 
bose clusters of white flowers, succeeded by scarlet 
berries ; well-known in collections. 
The Botanical Magazine for October contains 
