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should be devoted to a few of the earliest 
varieties, which are calculated to fill up a good 
interval before the general crop comes in from 
the open quarters. For example, in this pre¬ 
sent season, 1880, we commenced to gather 
Jaune Hative, or the White Primordian, a most 
excellent kitchen plum, on July 15, after 
which time we had a constant supply from 
it, and from Rivers’ Early Prolific, Precoce de 
Tours, and Early Orleans, which carried us 
well on to the supply from the open quarters, 
about August 20th.— John Cox, Bedleaf. 
DAVALLIA 
name has been provisionally adopted 
r a pretty dwarf evergreen Davallia, 
own by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and 
found in Japan by their enterprising collector, 
Mr. Maries. It very closely resembles, in its 
running rhizomes, and in the form and mode of 
division of its fronds, the well-known and beau¬ 
tiful D. bullata; only that species is deciduous, 
while the present plant is evergreen, keep¬ 
ing quite fresh and green even in a cold pit 
during the winter months. The Messrs, Veitch 
describe it as “ a very elegant Japanese fern, of 
dwarf habit and free growth, sent to us by our 
MAKIESII. 
collector, Mr. Maries, after whom it is named. 
It has a creeping rhizome about a quarter of an 
inch thick, covered with ash-brown scales. The 
stipes are numerous, slender, erect, about 4 in. 
high, and support a spreading triangular tripin- 
nate frond, about 6 in. long and half as broad 
at the base, the ultimate pinnae of which are 
very finely cut. The fertile fronds are bright 
green, and the sterile ones of a deeper shade. 
“ As a basket-fern for the conservatory and 
greenhouse, D. Mariesii is one of the best. Its 
flexuose rhizomes spread freely in all directions, 
and its numerous fronds thence present an 
