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very fine spike. Hector, beautiful azure blue, with 
white centre; very fine branching spike of great 
size. Minerva, delicate azure blue with grey centre, 
tinged with lilac; semi-double. Fetrarch, beautiful 
light blue with white eye, metallic tinge; splendid 
spike three feet in height; a vigorous grower. Pink 
mil, light blue, finely shaded with lilac, white eye, 
magnificent spike of great breadth and length. 
Psyche, fine bright blue with metallic tinge, white 
good shape; fine spike. Royal Standard, bright 
blue, fine white eye; grand spike. Venus, semi- 
double purple flowers, with dark blue tips, fine 
compact spike; a grand acquisition. West Coates, 
rosy lilac with azure blue edges, semi-double, very 
fine compact spike ; E. B. Baird & Sons, Edinburgh. 
Roses (H.P.).— Grandeur of Cheshunt, a noble rose 
of great size, vigorous, and thoroughly perpetual, 
being early and late flowering; colour light crimson, 
with a shading of rose, peculiarly distinct; large in 
size, fine petal, and good shape; Paul & Son, 
Cheshunt. Marshall P. Wilder, a variety of vigor¬ 
ous growth, raised from General Jacqueminot, and 
bearing good foliage, and large full semiglobular 
well-formed cherry-carmine very fragrant flowers, 
like those of a pale Maria Baumann; may be con¬ 
sidered as an improved Alfred Oolumb, being more 
vigorous and hardy and a freer bloomer; the best 
American rose yet raised; Ellwanger & Barrv, 
Rochester, U.S. 
Rose {Tea), Rosalie or Fairy Queen, raised from 
Marie Van Houtte. Of slender healthy growth, 
with small dark-green foliage, and small flow'ers a 
little larger than those of Paquerette, of a deep 
pink colour, and having a pleasant fragrance ; very 
pretty in the bud state, and of good substance so as 
to last a considerable time when expanded; a dis¬ 
tinct free blooming and charming miniature rose; 
Ellwanger & Barry. 
KEM FRUITS. 
Apple, Reinelte rouge etoilee {Pull, d'Arbor, de 
Flor., &o., 1884, 5, with col. tab.).—This Belgian 
Apple is remarkable for its rosy-tinted flesh, with 
the pip-cells embedded in white flesh, which forms a 
central star. The fruit is of middle size, round, 
with a short thick fleshy stalk set in a broad open 
basin ; the eyQ is large and open ; the skin at matu¬ 
rity is entirely of a deep carmine red, sparingly 
dotted with brown. The flesh is tinted with rose 
near the outside, and is fine solid and moderately 
juicy, sweet and with an exquisite perfume. It is 
of the first quality as a table fruit, and in use from 
January till March. 
_ Lemon, Bijou, a charming little fruit, of the 
size and shape of the Lady Apple. It is quite small, 
the shape is oblate, with a depressed crown, in the 
centre of which is a small swelling bearing the style 
point, and the skin is remarkably thin. The flesh 
is very juicy, and has a fine brisk lemon flavour; 
T. Rivers & Son. 
NEW VEGETABLES. 
Cabbage, Waiters Hew Early, a new and distinct 
variety that may be justly termed the “ earliest of 
all,” being fully ten days earlier than any other 
known kind; dwarf, compact, very firm, and with 
but few loose leaves. Is equally adapted for spring 
or autumn sowing; Waite, Nash, Huggins & Co. 
Lettuce, Waite’s New Cabbage, a distinct variety 
adapted for summer use, of the same pleasing colour 
and general appearance as “ All the Year Round,” 
hut quite distinct both in the colour of the seed and 
habit of tlae plant, growing nearly double the size, 
and standing much longer before running to seed ; 
AYaite, Nash, Huggins & Co. 
Onion, Sandy Prize, said to be the finest form 
of the White Spanish type, being a selection from 
large prize bulbs only, for which the first prize was 
awarded in the open Market Gardeners’ Class at the 
Sandy Show, the same strain having for some years 
previously secured first prizes at these annual shows. 
Sound bulbs from this strain may be grown upwards 
of fifteen inches in circumference; T. Laxton. 
Celery, White Plume, a variegated sport obtained 
three years ago at Newark, N.J., from what is called 
the Half-dwarf Celery. It shows a variegation of 
creamy-white chiefly confined to the centre stalks and 
leaves, and is therefore presentable at table without 
the tedious process of earthing up. Whether it is 
at the same time crisp and tender, as blanched celery 
should be, is not stated. Not only are the stalks 
white, but the leaves also, which gives it the aspect 
of a bunch of white feathers ; hence the name of 
White Plume; it has the drawback of being more 
tender than the green-leaved sorts; Peter Hender¬ 
son, New York. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Dec. 22—Jan. 19) 
contains figures or descriptions of: — Oncidium 
Jonesianum, Rchb. f. (p. 781), a charming species 
with terete subulate leaves, and few-flowered racemes 
of flowers in which the undulate cuneate oblong sepals 
and petals are whitish wdth sepia-brown blotches, 
and the large subreniform bilobed blade of the lip is 
white w'ith purple spots near the isthmus, and the 
two basal auricles pale yellow; Paraguay; E. Hors- 
man & Co.— Pinus Laricio Pallasiana (p. 785, fig. 
142), the Crimean representative of the species, and 
an ornamental tree for the park.— Oncidium eury- 
cline, Rchb. f. (p. 812), allied to O. unijlorum, with 
ligulate obtuse pseudobulbs, cuneate-ligulate leaves, 
and two-llower-ed peduncles, the flowers having light 
reddish ochre sepals and petals with a few dark bars 
at the base, and a broadish cordate-reniform bilobed 
yellow lip, spotted with brown on the isthmus ; W. 
E. Brymer, Esq. — Phalcenoysis Sanieriana mar- 
morata, Rchb. f. (j). 812), a vigorous form with dis¬ 
tinctly veined leaves, and full-sized flow'ers yellow'ish- 
w'hite, the lateral sepals having numerous row's of 
sma'l purple sjiots at the base, while the lip has 
three broad basilar bars on the side lobes, and the 
middle lobe is neatly marbled with p)urple on the 
sides, bears purple dots down the centre, and is 
coloured w'ith a wash of light purple between, the 
callus yellowish with red spots; Low & Co.— Mil- 
tonia Warscewiczii xanthina, Rchb. f. (p. 812), a 
beautiful variety with the sepals and petals of a 
deeper yellow than in the type, and a light yellow 
lip with a narrow white border, the column pure 
white ; W. Lee, Esq.— Odontoglossum Pormaniamim, 
Rchb. f. (p. 11, 1884), a handsome epiphyde which 
forms a link connecting O. crocidipterum, blandum, 
and nscvium; it has elliptical blunt ancipitous 
wrinkled pseudobulbs, with short linear-lanceolate 
acute leaves, and dense racemes of flowers, which 
have white or whitish stellate sepals and petals with 
dark sepia-brown spots, and a ligulate acuminate lip 
tipped with a large brown spot, and marked with 
pure yellow or yellow with red stripes at the base; 
New Grenada; C. Dorman, Esq.— Oheronia cylin- 
drica, Lindl. (p. 11), a curious Orchid from Manilla 
described by Lindley in 1840; O. O. Wrigley, Esq. 
— Ismene Andreana, Baker (p. 11), a fine Andean 
greenhouse bulb, w'ith linear synanthous leaves, and 
s cnder one-flowered scapes, the flowers 4— 5 inches 
long with green tube and white limb, the corona 
white, striped with green ; see p. 28.— Pinus Laricio 
(p. 18, fig. 1), the Corsican Pine, recommended as a 
timber tree.— Sarcanthus Lendyanus, Rchb. f. (p. 
44), a species allied to S. termissus, but differing in 
its linear blunt bilobed leaves, and its loosely panicled 
flowers, which are greenish, with a white purple- 
spotted lip, of which the two lateral lobes are orange 
with two purple lines; Saigon, Annam; Major 
