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those of a miniature Balsam, the colour deep rose in¬ 
clining to purple ; very fine and effective; Ist-class 
Certificate E.H.S., July 22; Veitch & Sons. 
Rose (Tea) Madam JEvgene Verdier. —A beauti¬ 
ful new Tea-scented variety, possessing all the good, 
qualities of the parent, the popular Gloire de Dijon; 
in a half expanded state the flowers are lovely, both 
shape and substance being good, the colour rich 
yellow, inclining to apricot in the centre; Ist-class 
Certificate It.H.S., July 22 ; Paul & Son. 
Spirea hullata. —A small species, quite dwarf, 
the leaves small and wrinkled, and the branches 
terminated with clusters of deep carmine flowers; 
Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., July 22 ; Paul & Son. 
Tigridia Favonia alia. —The white variety^ of 
the well-known Tiger flower, the blossoms white, 
handsomely marked in the centre; very fine and 
distinct; Ist-class Certificate P.H.S., August 12; 
New Plant and Bulb Company,and H.Cannell &Sons. 
NEW PRUITS. 
Apple Souvenir d’Etichoye. — A variety 
brought into notice by M. Ch. van Seymortier, of 
Etichove, and by his desire named as above. The 
variety is about 25 years old, but is yet little known, 
though the fruits are both beautful and delicious. 
The fruit has a very fine, yellowish, lumpy flesh, 
and holds a position between the sweet and the 
acid apples. It is of an odd (bizarre) and very dis¬ 
tinct colouring, being marked with broad bands of 
purplish red on yellowish green ground, which give it 
the most singular aspect. It is slightly ribbed around 
the eye after the fashion of the Calvilles; it ripens 
in September, and keeps in maturity without losing 
any of its good qualities up till February or March— 
a peculiarity which will make this fruit much sought 
after. It will be distributed by M. E. Burvenich. 
Plum; Reine Claude de Brahy. —A figure of 
this plum is published in the March number of the 
Bulletin d’Arboriculture, &o. (p. 65). The fruit is 
very large, round, with a plainly marked suture; 
stalk short, deeply set. Skin yellowish-green, covered 
with a very fine bloom. Flesh fine golden yellow, 
juicy, tender, melting and very sugary, with a deli¬ 
cious flavour, the stone adherent. It is grown by M. 
Camille Thierr pont, formerly burgomaster of Etichove, 
near Renaix. M. Rodigas suggests it may have been 
raised by, or named after M. Brahy-Ekenholm, an 
amateur cultivator of trees and herbaceous plants at 
Herstal, near Liege. M. Thierrpont states that the 
tree is vigorous, of constant fertility without being 
excessive. The variety is a later one, and sometimes 
the fruit does not ripen. It keeps on the tree until 
the first frosts. I have gathered it, he says, on 
November 15. 
Pear Striped Beurre d’Amanlis. — The 
peculiarity of this variety consists in the presence 
of a variable number of broad reddish streaks ex¬ 
tending lengthwise round the pear, and giving it a 
striking appearance. The good qualities of the 
variety are in no wise less in it than in the type. 
Of this handsome sort a good figure has recently 
been given in the Bulletin A’Arboriculture. 
Pear Beurre Royal de Turin [Bulletin 
d'Arboriculture, May, 1884).—A variety bearing 
fruit very much like that of Doyenne d’Hiver. It 
was raised in the nurseries of MM. Simon-Louis at 
Metz, and is spoken of as a superb pear of great 
merit as to quality and productiveness. Its season 
is October and November. It is a large obovate 
fruit, a little oblique at the base, with a thick, short 
stalk, and slightly depressed eye. The skin is yellow, 
speckled with rnssety spots; the flesh melting, sugary 
and pleasantly acidulous. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (July 12—Aug. 
16) contains Bpidendrum Christyanum, Echb. f. (p. 
38), a botanical curiosity related to E. glaucum, with 
long pyriform diphyllous pseudobulbs, aod erect 
racemes of greenish and brown flowers; Bolivia ; T. 
Christy, Esq. —Masdecallia Gairiana, Rchb. f. (p. 
38), a hybrid between Veitchiana and Davisii, with 
intermediate foliage, and reddish orange flowers, the 
odd sepal excluding the narrow tail covered with 
mauve warts and similar warts less dense occur on the 
outside basilar margin of the lateral sepal; Messrs. 
Veitch. —Jloulletia odorafissima xanthina, Rchb. f. 
(p. 38), a fine showy Orchid with orange-yellow 
flowers, having a sulphur and white lip; Baron 
Hruby. — Liparis decursiva, Rchb. f. (p. 38), a 
terrestrial Orchid, with short pseudobulbs, cuneate 
oblong leaves, and racemes of small green flowers; 
India; Mr. F. W. Moore, Glasnevin.— Oncidium 
tricuspidatum, Rchb. f. (p. 71), a pretty plant with 
narrow wrinkled one-leaved pseudobulbs, cuneate 
oblong-acute leaves, and panicles of flowers having 
orange sepals and sulphur petals.— Cattleya guttata 
Williamsii, Rchb. f. (p. 7l), a fine variety with the 
purplish sepals and petals spotless, and a white lip 
with a dark purple front portion; W. Lee, Esq.— 
Crinum Sanderianum, Baker (p. 102), a distinct new 
Crinum, allied to C. zeylauicum, having globose bulbs 
two inches in diameter, ensiform leaves 1—IJ feet 
long, and umbels of 3—4 sessile flowers which are 
white, each of the six segments of the perianth 
having a conspicuous red keel; Sierra Leone; F. 
Sander & Co.— Eulophia pulchra divergens, Rchb. f. 
(p. 102), a beautiful new variety, with the lip 
broader in front, and going out into two diverg¬ 
ing retuse shanks; received under the name of 
Cymbidium rhodocharis ; W. Vanner, Esq.— Aerides 
Sanderianum, Rchb. f. (p. 134), a grand species, of 
vigorous habit, with short broad leaves retuselybilobed 
at the end, and long numerous crowded racemes of 
flowers, which from a water-colour sketch, have white 
sepals and petals with purple tips, a great yellow lip 
with the end of the spur green, and a fine purple 
middle lobe, all the segments of the lip denticulate 
and wavy; allied to A. Lawrencite; Eastern Asia; 
F. Sander & Co. —• Cypripedium Lindleyanum, R. 
Sohomb. (p. 142), a fine species of Lady’s Slipper, 
described nearly half a century ago, but just intro¬ 
duced in the living state; it has smooth green leaves, 
and panicled stems 2 feet high, of a brownish-red 
colour, the sepals and petals red-brown with darker 
veins, the lip green, the staminode yellow covered 
with stiff hairs; Guiana ; F. Sander & Co.— Balbo- 
pliyllum Sillemianum, Rchb. f. (p. 166), an elegant 
creeping species of the Sarcopodium group, with 
nearly spherical pseudobulbs, ligulate acute leaves, 
and orange flowers having the lip mauve above 
whitish beneath; Burmah; A. Sillem, Esq.— 
BifcJcia leptostachya. Baker (p. 198), a Bromeliad 
allied to D. rariflora, but more robust, with rigid 
lanceolate acuminate lepidote spiny leaves, and tall 
slender peduncles bearing a spike of a score or more 
of bright scarlet flowers; Paraguay; Kew. 
THE GKAPES AT EIBSTON. 
OE a long time Eibston has been famous 
for its Grapes. For thirty-five years 
I have seldom missed each season 
going to see the Grapes and the many 
other things worthy of inspection which 
Mr. Jones, Mr. Dent’s clever and intelligent 
gardener, has to show. Having lately paid a 
visit to this place I was pleased to see that the 
Grapes were splendid. The Muscat house 
especially was a fine sight. Fine bunches, 
