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THE FLORIST AND TOMOLOGIST. 
Velours pourpre. — Flowers 3^- inches in diameter, full, bright velvety 
crimson, shaded with dark brown, scarlet, and violet. 
The principal Hybrid Perpetuals of other growers are :— 
Alba carnea (Touvais).—Medium sized, full, and very well formed, white, 
slightlv tinged with rose, reverse of the petals pure white. 
Antoine Ducher (Ducher).—Raised from Madame Domage ; flowers very 
large, full, and well formed, bright red. Plant very vigorous. 
Aspasie (Touvais).—Large, very full, flat, clear red, with a bright crimson 
centre. 
Bertlie Chanu (Fontaine).—Large, full, imbricated, bright rosy carmine. 
Capitaine Paul (Boyau).—Large, full, bright red. 
Charles Verdier (Guillot pere).—Raised from Victor Verdier. Plant very 
vigorous; flowers very large and lull, v r ell formed, beautiful rose colour, edged 
with blush. 
Claire Renard (Oger).—Large and full, cupped, bright rose. 
Comtesse de Vallier (Damaisin). — Medium-sized, well formed and full, 
lively deep violet purple, shaded with a blackish hue. 
Docteur Larrey (Moreau-Robert).—Large, globular, and full, vinous red, 
shaded with carmine. 
Eugene Scribe (Gautreau).—Large, well formed and full, fiery red, 
Felix Genero (Damaisin).—Large, full, and of fine form, beautiful violet rose. 
RED ASH-LEAVED KIDNEY POTATO. 
We grew here a Potato this season with the above name, and I presume 
that it is the identical kind mentioned in last month’s Florist and Pomologist 
by your highly valued correspondent, the Rev. Mr. Radclyffe. A better 
flavoured more prolific Potato we had not in the garden, although we planted 
about twenty distinct kinds. It is remarkably short in the haulm, and may be 
safely planted much more thickly than Potatoes generally are. For gardens of 
limited extent I strongly recommend this kind. I only found a very small per¬ 
centage of diseased ones : this is a most important point to all growers of Pota¬ 
toes. With us it was not quite so early as the old Ashleaf, but this is of minor 
importance when all its other good qualities are taken into consideration. 
Wrotham Park. John Edlington. 
NOTES AT THE FLORAL AND FRUIT COMMITTEES. 
November 6th. —A very interesting feature of this meeting w r as a collection 
of branches of hardy fruiting shrubs and trees from the gardens of the 
Society, consisting of nine varieties of Crataegus, the most showy-looking being 
C. coccinea, having large, round, bright crimson fruit, and C. aronia, with large 
yellow fruit; four varieties of Cotoneaster ; the common Yew; Arbutus; Snow- 
berry ; Berberis asiatica, with oblong red fruit; Biggs’s Everlasting Crab, with 
large reddish orange fruit; the common Privet; Arum zebrinum, furnished 
with compact heads of orange-coloured fruit; and Phytolacca decandra, also 
producing close heads of Blackberry-like fruit. From Messrs. J. & C. Lee 
came cut specimens of Schizostylis coccinea from the open ground, with rich, 
saucer-shaped, crimson-scarlet flowers freely produced on spikes. Should it 
prove hardy this will be an invaluable autumn or winter-flowering plant for the 
open ground. It is also well adapted for cultivation in pots. From Messrs. 
E. G. Henderson & Soil came a number of plants of the beautiful silvery- 
