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Plum : Rivera’ Grand Duke may be mentioned as 
a valuable late sort, and not only late, but of ex¬ 
cellent quality ; while the tree is one of the best 
of growers, and succeeds well as a pyramid. It 
is an oval Plum, not very large, and of a blackish- 
purple colour. 
Vegetables. 
Pea : Carter’s Telephone and Culverwell’s Tele¬ 
graph, the former a wrinkled selection of the 
latter, maintained the high character awarded to 
them the previous year. Mr. Culverwell is to be 
congratulated as the raiser of two such meritorious 
Peas, and yet another giant, named Autumn 
Marrow, which comes to us from the same source, 
an extraordinary large-podded Pea, excellent for 
autumn use and splendid for exhibition purposes. 
Carter’s Stratagem, a dwarf, wrinkled, blue mar¬ 
row, is a grand acquisition, being a heavy cropper, 
with large, remarkably well-filled pods, and likely 
to be largely grown for market purposes. Messrs. 
Veitch will send out Laxton’s The Baron, a 
monster variety grown at Chiswick in 1873, but 
not yet distributed. 
Kidney Bean : Hurst’s New Mammoth Negro is a 
desirable sort, having fine long pods like Canadian 
Wonder. 
Turnip : Benary’s Early Munich is very valuable 
for its earliness, coming into use three weeks in 
advance of the earliest varieties. 
Radish : The earliest and finest is the Early Rose 
Globe (Rond Rose Hatif) of Leroy, a rose- 
coloured variety, intermediate in form between 
the turnip and olive-shaped sorts ; Earliest Red 
Erfurt and Short-top White Turnip Radishes may 
also be mentioned as very desirable varieties for 
forcing, being remarkably early, and with very 
small tops. 
Potato : Two varieties have come prominently 
forward as diseasc-resisters—Magnum Bonum and 
Scotch Champion. The latter, which is com¬ 
paratively new, comes from Forfarshire, and is 
intermediate between the Regent and Irish Rock. 
Although by no means handsome, it is of fine 
quality, and a most satisfactory cropper. Amongst 
newer varieties, Cosmopolitan and Avalanche may 
be mentioned as smooth white kidney varieties 
of great promise ; McKinlay’s Beckenham Beauty, 
Vicar of Lalehain, and Davis’s Model Seedling 
also deserve mention. T. M. 
TIGRIDIA PAYONIA. 
plants are more gorgeously beautiful 
n tliis, which was formerly much 
re grown than now, and to which a 
bed or border ought to be appropriated in every 
garden of any pretensions. The large size of the 
three outer segments of the tawny or orange- 
red flowers, and the rich colour and spotting of 
the three inner segments, make up a flower at 
once striking for its quaintness, and attractive 
for its size and brilliancy ; while the quantity 
of blossoms—fugitive though they be—which 
day after day appear for a considerable period 
of the summer, give it a position not to be 
despised amongst decorative and floral objects. 
The Tigridias seem to have almost gone out 
of cultivation until last year, when the intro¬ 
duction of a supposed novelty, T. r/rcmdijlora , 
but which appears to have been rather the 
advent of a new and vigorous stock of T. pavonia 
from its native country, led to their reappear¬ 
ance at the London exhibitions, where a pan of 
the cut flowers created quite a sensation. 
They are easy of culture, requiring only to 
be planted out in March, two or three inches 
deep, in a light rich soil. When planted in 
beds, T. conchiflora , as being the strongest 
grower, should occupy the centre. Daring the 
growing season the plants will take up a large 
quantity of water, and will derive benefit from 
occasional waterings of weak liquid manure. 
