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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST, 
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terminal corymbs: North America. — Ahles 
religiosa, Schlecht. [t. 6753], a haodsome tall- 
growing evergreen Silver Pir; it is unfortunately 
tender, and will succeed only in Ireland or tbe 
Western Counties; Mexico; A. H. Smith Barry, 
Esq.— Tulipa Kesselringii, Regel. [t. 6754], a pre'ty 
hardy bulb, with lorate lanceolate leaves, and smallish 
yellow flowers which are green margined with red on 
the back; Turkestan ; Kew.— Sagittaria monte- 
vidensis, Cham, et Sohl. [t. 6755], a most beautiful 
tropical water plant, with a tuberous rootstock, 
hastate leaves, and panicles of white flowers having 
at the base of each of the three petals an ovate rich 
brown spot bordered with yellow; Buenos Ayres; 
Kew.— Solarium Meaglia, Schlech. [t. 6756], one of 
the forms of the wild potato, which it is now pro¬ 
posed to call Darwin’s Potato; it comes from Chili, 
and has pinnate leaves and white flowers ; Kew.— Til- 
landsia streptophylla, Schwend. [t. 6757], a curious 
Mexican Bromeliad, with a rosulate tuft of spirally- 
contorted albo-lepidote leaves, the upper central ones 
pinkish, and the flowers bright lilac with green 
bracts; Kew. 
L’Illustration Horticole (3—5 liv.) contains 
Vriesia hieroqlyphica, E. Mor. [t. 514], a beautiful 
Brazilian Bromeliad, forming a large rosulate tuft of 
loriform recurved leaves which are of a yellowish 
green, with irregular transverse bands of dark 
green above, and of purplish brown beneath; Com- 
pagnie Continentale.— T)aMia coccinea Paragon [t. 
515], which appears to be neither D. coccinea nor 
Paragon, the figure representing a variety 
of the D. variabilis, and the colours not being 
those of Paragon maroon and purple, but 
maroon and crimson.— Begonia Countess Louise 
Brdody [t. 516], a handsome variety with 
silvery leaves tinted with green and red, the base 
irregularly cordiform, with the smaller lobe spiral 
and raised above the larger one.— Saccolabkun gigan- 
teum illustre, Rchb. f. [t. 517], a very fine variety 
in which the flowers are larger and more closely set 
on the spike, while the purple spotting is more 
decided, and the lip is of a deeper richer purple ; it 
is a very fine thing. — Leea amahilis splendens, 
Lind. [t. 518], a variety in which the white striped 
leaves are prettily and freely variegated with bright 
cinnabar red ; Borneo ; Compagnie Continentale.— 
Impatiens Jlaccida albijlora, Rodigas [t. 519], a 
white flowered flat-petalled Balsam from Ceylon; 
Compagnie Continentale.— ScMsmatoglottis pulchra, 
N. E. Br. [t. 520], a dwarf stove Arad, of csespitose 
habit, in which the oblong acuminate unequally 
cordate leaves are of a glaucous green thickly spotted 
with small silvery blotches; Borneo; Cmipagn'e 
Continentale.— Panax Victorice, Ilort. [t. 521], 
an erect growing stove plant, with trilobed or pin- 
natifid leaves, having the leaflets irregularly toothed, 
and more or less deeply bordered with white.— 
Gymnogramma schizophylla gloriosa, Rodigas 
ft. 522], a splendid variety of a wonderfuTy grace¬ 
ful fern, having the lax finely divided proliferous 
habit of G. schizophylla, but with a degree of vigour 
superaddrd which makes it truly glorious ; obtained 
by Mr. Maron, Chateau de Herbault; Compagnie 
Continentale de Horticulture. 
Journal des Roses (April—May) contains 
portraits of the old Felicite Perpetue Rose, a variety 
of R. sempervirens with white flowers ; and Rose 
Triomphe de VExposition, a flat or expanded crimson 
rose obtained by M. Margottin, and sent out 
in 1855. 
L’IIorticulture Belge (April—May) gives 
illustrations of EapTine Genlciva, Sieb. et Zucc., a 
handsome early-flow'ering shrub, which is the same 
as the Daphne Eortunei of Bindley; and two fine 
varieties of Lycaste SJcinneri, one with white flowers 
the other with the lip crimson and highly coloured. 
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GARDEN GOSSIP. 
— JHessrs. Sheath 
Brothers invite our at¬ 
tention to their Patent 
Magic Svrxnge, of which 
a figure is annexed. Its 
advantage is, that without 
having to detach and screw 
on a separate rose to pro¬ 
duce a jet or a shower of 
wa*^^er, it is all done by 
twisting the syringe itself, 
so that the nuhance of 
having to use detached roses 
is done away with. The 
change is effected instanta¬ 
neously. There are two 
chambers in the rose part 
of tbe instrument, one for 
the single jet, the other for 
the shower, each being pro¬ 
vided with a seat for toe ball 
valve, and connected by a 
channel through which the 
ball runs. "When the ball 
is pn the single jet seat the 
jet outlet is stopped and the 
shower is thrown, and when 
the ball is on the shower seat 
the shower outlet is stopped, 
and the single jet is thrown. 
The change of action is 
momentary ; thus with one 
charge of water a shower or 
jet may be thrown alter¬ 
nately for nine different 
times. The letters S and J 
marked on the syringe in¬ 
dicate the point to which it 
I must be turned to produce 
the shower and jet respec¬ 
tively. 
— One of the grand¬ 
est sights of the season 
is the Exhibition of 
Orchids in Mr. Bull’s 
nursery at Chelsea, which 
has been described as “a 
scene of orchidic beauty 
baffling description, and we 
almost said defying exaggeration. In truth it 
. marvellous display for any nurseryman to 
reato single-handed, and speaks volumes for the 
esourcps of the establishment.” It occupies a long 
pan-roofed house, with a broad central stage topped 
)y Palms and other foliage plants, and two side 
tages with a setting of Maidenhair and other ferns, 
ill crowded with Orchids of the choicest and rarest 
ypes including many novelties. In many cases 
groups of varieties of the same species are brought 
ugether with excellent effeot. At one time, there 
vere of Odontoglossums alone 1,160 spikes of bloom, 
ind of Cattleya Mendelii 112 blooms. Odonto- 
■jlossum Alexaudrce alone affords many choice groups 
)f widely differing forms, and are truly a splendid 
ot, every variety being a gem in its way. The genus 
Cattleya includes C. labiata briUiantissima, a new 
variety, with the markings of Backhousiana on the 
oetals, and the labellum of the richest^ crimson- 
maroon, with yellow' blotches on the side lobes. 
We note also the new L. Schilleriana Mastersii, 
white with purple lip, and the side lobes fringed 
with the purple, and many others. 
