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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ January, 
wliicli Professor Reiclienbach has given the 
name of Cypripedium vexillarium. It is dwarf 
in habit, with ligulate leaves, marked with few 
dark hieroglyphic reticulations, and compara¬ 
tively large flowers, the latter having the back 
sepal broad, whitish, a little green at the base, 
washed with purple, and traversed by wine- 
coloured veins, which are feathered upwards ; 
the ligulate petals are deflexed, wavy, hairy at 
the margin, the inner veins green, and the 
outer purple ; and the lip has a broad hollow 
claw, with transverse staminodia, and is brown¬ 
ish-green, with purple reticulations. 
The plant was raised by Mr. Dominy in the 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, between C. bar- 
latum, and C. Fairrieanum, which latter was 
the father. It received the award of a First- 
class Certificate from the Floral Committee at 
South Kensington in January, 1871. 
THE ECKLINVILLE SEEDLING 
APPLE. 
EFORE the planting season passes away, 
I should like to draw attention to 
the superior merits of this excellent 
Autumn culinary Apple. It originated in 
Ireland, where it is extensively grown and 
highly appreciated, as it is alike good for 
boiling, cooking whole, or for exhibition. At 
the autumn shows, its great size, handsome 
appearance, and superior quality make it the 
leading fruit in its class on the exhibition 
table, in the same way as Lord Suffield is 
shown in this country. Upon my return from 
Ireland twenty years ago, I obtained trees, and 
have grown it ever since ; and when nearly all 
other kinds have failed, this has produced 
heavy crops of clean fine fruit, in fact I have 
never known it to miss a crop. 
In the sister Isle I have seen large standard 
trees carrying many bushels of fruit, but owing 
to its great size—when grown in this way—it 
should be planted in a sheltered situation. It 
makes a handsome and most prolific pyramid 
on the free stock, and does well on the Paradise 
as a bush, in which form it is well adapted for 
small gardens, as owing to its fruitful pro¬ 
pensity it makes but moderate growth, and 
requires little more than thinning or spur- 
pruning. Like all large Apples that are fit 
for use direct from the tree, it has a tender 
skin, and requires careful hand-picking and 
storing, when it may be had in use from the 
early part of September until the middle of 
December.—W. Coleman, Eastnor Castle. 
NOTES ON BOOKS. 
MONGST the new books lying before 
us awaiting a record, there is none 
more welcome than the Rose Annual 
for 1879-80, by Mr. William Paul, which is pub¬ 
lished by him at Waltham Cross. It gives us 
a variety of information on the Rose, which is 
all the more valuable for being in this collected 
form ; and it presents us with portraits of some 
of the new flowers, whose acquaintance we are 
glad to make, as well among the leaves of 
the Rose-bush, as on the leaves of a Rose book. 
The varieties figured in the present annual are 
H.P. Pride of Waltham , a charming picture, 
if we mistake not from Mr. Fitch’s pencil, of a 
lovely flower, which, we are told, will probably 
prove one of the most beautiful of light roses, 
the colour a delicate flesh, shaded with bright 
rose, with the habit of Countess of Oxford. 
H.P. Masterpiece , a seedling from Beauty of 
Waltham, which has proved itself during the 
past unfavourable season entitled to rank 
amongst the best of its class, but of which the 
portrait is rather hard and heavy. Little Gem , 
or Crimson Moss de Meaux, a tiny gem, which 
will be courted and planted by every lover of a 
garden, but of which the figure, again, is not 
altogether a happy one. These three are raised 
by Messrs. W. Paul and Son. H.P. Pules 
Chretien , a fine, large, deep red, shaded with 
purple, raised by M. Joseph Schwartz. The 
literary portion of the Annual comprises the 
following articles, which we commend to the 
notice of rosarians and all lovers of roses:— 
The Current Year, New Roses, The Best Roses, 
Rose Synonyms, Correspondence, and the Rose 
Shows. 
Correspondance Botanique : Liste des 
Jai'dins, des Chaires, des Musues, des Revues, 
et des Societes de Botanique du Monde. 
Septieme edition, Novembre, 1879. (Liege, 
a la Boverie No. 1.) A most useful list to all 
who are concerned in botanical correspondence, 
and for which they owe a debt of gratitude to 
Professor Morren, who charges himself with 
the task of keeping it au courant with the 
times. Each successive issue shows manifest 
improvements.—T. M. 
