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greenish-white veined with rose, and the 
petals and labellum are rose beautifully tinged 
over with brown. The inside of the pouch— 
a study in itself—is cream-coloured spotted 
with purplish-rose. These two grand things 
are among the best of the beautiful hybrids 
raised at Chelsea. 
“ The flowers of C. Schrodera;. [C. caudatum 
crossed with C. Sedeni), brought by Mr, Bal- 
lantyne, prove it to be a strikingly beautiful 
plant. In general appearance the flowers are 
like a large C. Sedeni with the petals much 
more elongated ; in fact, they are just what 
might be expected from the introduction of 
the influence of the long tails of C. ccmdatum 
on C. Sedeni. The top and bottom sepals 
are cream-coloured, veined and lined with 
rosy-brown, the bottom one being round. 
The petals are purplish-rose, and the lip pur¬ 
plish-rose outside, pale sulphur blotched with 
brownish-rose inside, the entire length of the 
flower being about 7 inches—a noble variety 
indeed. The plant is of Veitchian origin, and 
was described in the Gardeners' Chronicle 
(xix., 432). There are yet other varieties in 
which C. Sedeni has been a parent, and which 
will, no doubt, turn out well. It is perhaps 
needless to say that all have the plain green 
leaves of their (the Selenipediuni) section.”— 
James O’Brien. 
RASPBERRY LORD BEACONSFIELD. 
[Plate 602.1 
EW Raspberries are not very nume¬ 
rous, but the variety figured in the 
accompanying plate appears to be of a 
distinct character, and was thought 
worthy of a Ist-class Certificate when sub¬ 
mitted during the last summer to the Fruit 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
It was exhibited by Mr. A. Faulkner, of Ink- 
pen, near Hungerford, and was a chance seed¬ 
ling produced in his garden in 1870. This 
plant was observed to be vigorous in growth, 
although the soil in which it was grown was 
not rich, but of a sandy nature ; it also proved 
to be a very heavy cropper, continuing in a 
fruit-bearing condition for a long period 
during the season, so that it was taken in 
hand, increased, and in due time exhibited 
Avith the result noted above. 
The canes of this Raspberry, as we learn 
from Mr. Faulkner, are stout with a clear 
smooth nut-brown skin, and reach to the height 
of nine feet or more, in the sandy soil of his 
garden. The leaflets are large and pointed, 
and of a silvery hue beneath. The fruit is 
produced freely in the axils of the leaves, on 
the summer branches, and is large, roundish or 
slightly conical, and of a deep crimson colour. 
The variety is a summer bearer, continuing to 
produce and ripen its fruit for a considerable 
period in succession.—T. M. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Adiantum Weigandii, T. Moore {Gard. 
Chron., N.S., xx. 748).—A very distinct and pretty 
addition to the many ornamental forms of Maiden¬ 
hair Pern now in cultivation. It has something 
the aspect of A. decorum, having like it triangular 
tripinnate glabrous fronds, of a foot or so in height, 
and forming a neat tufted mass. The stalks of 
both pinnae and pinnules are long, w'hich gives the 
centre of the frond an open appearance, while 
the apical parts of fronds and pinnae are crowded. 
The pinnules are ovate from a broad base, freely and 
conspicuously lobate at the edge, and yet appearing 
little divided by reason of the narrow sinuses; the 
sori are large, numerous, nearly circular, one or two 
being produced on each of the lobes. Introduced 
from America (gardens ?); Messrs. Veitch & Sons. 
Allium ovifloeum. Regel {Gartenjl., t. 1134). 
—A rather pretty and interesting hardy perennial, 
with short ebulbous stems producing the fibrous 
roots from their ba«e, and from their apex the sub- 
biseriate lax carinate glabrous leaves; the scape is 
acutely 4—6 angled, and bears a lux roundish 
umbel of nodding fiowers of a deep violet purple 
colour, and an ovato-conical form, the sepals being 
connivent. Native of India in the Chumbi valley, 
between Thibet and Sikkim; H. J. Elwes, Esq. 
Caeaguata sanguinea, R. Andr^ {Rev. Sori., 
1883, 468, with tab.; Gard. Chron., N.S., xx., 716, 
fig. 127).—A fine Bromeliad of epiphytal habit, 
dwarf growing, with a dense rosulate tuft of 
numerous oblons-lanceola^e leaves, which are re¬ 
curved, plane, dilated and sheathing at the base, 
acuminate at the apex, and of a deep green colour, 
the two or three rows nearest the centre being of a 
deep blood red, when mature, shading off to orange ; 
the small yellowish flowers bordered with white 
are nestled down in the heart of the plant, and are 
not apparent unless specially looked for. Received 
a first prize medal from the Societe Nationale 
d’Horticulture de France. It was discovered by M. 
Andre on the Western Cordillera of the Andes of 
New Grenada; M. G. Bruant, Poitiers. 
Cyathea MICROPHY^lla, Mettenius {SooJc. 2nd 
Cent. Ferns, t. 99).—A charming little tree fern, with 
a caudex which attains four feet in height. The 
fronds are 2—3 feet long, ovate, tripinnate, with the 
pinnules very small and neat, ovate-oblong, deeply 
pinnatifid, the lobes oblong, obtuse entire, with a 
single vein in each. The sinus is solitary at the base 
