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THE FLORIST AWD POMOLOGIST. 
A description of some of the varieties shown at South Kensington on the 
occasion referred to will no doubt be acceptable. The Fern-leaved varieties 
were represented by— 
P. filicifolia rubra. —Very deep purplish crimson ; flowers very large, bold, 
and stout, well fimbriated; foliage stout and strong. Very fine. 
P. jilicifolia Icermesina. —A very fine form; of the Primula kermesina colour, 
and of greater depth and richness than is usually seen. Stiff and vigorous habit. 
P. jilicifolia alba. —Large bold flowers; pure white, changing to delicate 
flesh with age ; centre lemon, with brownish orange ring. Very free bloomer, 
and good habit. 
Of their old strain there was— 
P. striata lilacina, — Light flowers, suffused and slightly flaked with lilac. 
This is a very pretty flower; the blooms were large, and the foliage stout 
and strong. 
Of double varieties there were the following : — 
Purity. —Pure white; large and very double flowers. Remarkably free 
bloomer ; habit good. A fine variety. 
Rubra. —Good double flowers of a deep lilac rose. Very free ; and of good 
habit. 
Delicata. —Pale blush flowers; large and very double. Strong and vigorous 
habit. 
Magnifica. —Rosy pink. Large and very double flowers, and good habit. 
Quo. 
A FEW WORDS ON THE APPLE. 
The Apple is one of the most widely diffused and valuable of fruit trees, 
and it would be idle to enumerate the many uses of its fruit—a fruit which may 
be enjoyed by rich and poor, and from January to December. Although by 
some it has been neglected in favour of more showy and luscious fruits, yet the 
number of those who justly appreciate its value is very great; but owing to the 
multitude of varieties which now exist, they find it very difficult to make a 
judicious selection. As, however, experience must count for something, I 
trust that the result of my observations on about sixty varieties will not be 
unacceptable to the readers of the Florist and Pomologist. 
As the season for grafting is approaching, those who have old or worthless 
sorts, and from various reasons cannot get a supply of young trees, should now 
be on the look-out to secure grafts of the best of the newer varieties. I have 
found the following exceedingly good and useful, and such as must please the 
most fastidious—viz,:— 
Dessert. 
1. Early Harvest. 
2. Cox’s Orange Pippin. 
3. American Mother Apple. 
4. Fearn’s Pippin. 
5. Eibston Pippin. 
6. Cockle Pippin. 
7. Scarlet Nonpareil. 
8. Sturmer Pippin. 
9. Wyken Pippin. 
10. Claygate Pearmain. 
11. Golden Eusset. 
12. Boston Eusset. 
The above sorts are well worth gr 
those numbered 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 15, 16, 2 
Kitchen. 
13. Lord Sufiield. 
*14. Cellini Pippin. 
15. Cox’s Pomona. 
*16. Golden Noble. 
17. Kentish Fillbasket. 
18. Mere de Menage. 
19. Hoary Morning. 
*20. Waltham Abbey Seedling. 
21. Yorkshire Greening. 
22. Beauty of Kent., 
*23. Dumelow’s Seedling. 
*24. Eoyal Eusset. 
wing. More especially can I speak of 
, as being much superior to most of the 
