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deeper rose colour. I have seen it growing 
in three different gardens and always success¬ 
fully. The only catalogue in which I have seen 
it quoted is the Fruit Catalogue of the Messrs. 
Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, and it is there 
described as a new Syrian variety of great 
excelleice. 
The next on my list is St. Ambrose Ajjricot. 
We find this variety to suffer less from the 
sudden loss of its branches than any other 
apricot we grow, and we have five different 
varieties; it requires to be partially lifted 
occasionally in the autumn so as to ensure 
the wood not being too strong, and con¬ 
sequently more certain to ripen, otherwise it 
is not quite such a sure cropper as Moor 
Park. 
Lastly, as now is a good time to plant 
Strawberries, allow me to mention The Countess 
and UiKer Fritz as two excellent Strawberries. 
The former has with us a distinct Hautbois 
flavour ; and the latter is a useful late variety 
with some Frogmore Pine blood in it ; both 
are excellent croppers and produce fine fruits. 
—H. J. Clayton, Grimston, Sept. 8, 1884. 
APPLE BRAMLEY’S SEEDLING. 
[Plate 620.] 
T augurs well for the merit of this fruit, 
that at the Apple Congress held last 
year at Chiswick, when amongst the 
host of varieties exhibited there were 
but two selected for certificates, this was one 
of them. 
The variety was raised from seed some 
years since by Mr. Bramley, of Southwell, and 
was obtained from him by Messrs. Merry- 
weather & Son, by whom it has been distri¬ 
buted, and by w'hom it was exhibited at the 
Congress. It is a large, handsome, and really 
meritorious Apple, so that as it has become 
better known it has won increased favour from 
those who have cultivated it, and its first-class 
quality has now been attested by the highest 
authorities. 
A woodcut figure transferred from the 
Journal of Horticulture has been published 
in Hogg’s Gardeners' Year-Book for 1884, 
where also we find a description embodied in 
the following notes ; —Fruit oblate, even in its 
outline, and with five rather distinct knobs 
at the crown. Skin covered with a tinge of 
pale red, which is much striped with darker 
red ; when shaded the ground colour is yellow. 
Eye rather open with erect segments, which 
are reflexed at the tips and set in a wide round 
saucer-like basin. Stamens medium. Tube 
funnel-shaped. Stedk very short, sometimes 
a mere knob. Flesh yellowish white, tender, 
juicy, with a fine brisk acidity. Cells round, 
open. The tree is of vigorous habit, and free 
from canker, bearing freely even in bad 
seasons. According to Mr. Merryweather the 
fruits are ready for use when gathered, but can 
be kept until the following June. He adds, 
that for culinary purposes it cannot be sur¬ 
passed. Altogether, it may be regarded as a 
kitchen Apple of very high excellence.—M. 
HYACINTHUS CANDICANS. 
HIS is a bulbous plant of recent intro¬ 
duction into British gardens, and 
one highly deserving of being promi¬ 
nently brought into notice for more 
general cultivation, either under glass or , 
amongst hardy herbaceous plants, where it 
succeeds admirably. 
We have it flowering here at present in 
both positions with stems like walking canes 
three to four feet in height, and carrying up 
a succession of graceful pure white pendent 
bell-shaped flowers about one and a half inch 
long, which continue blooming on for several 
weeks. 
The time of flowering here is August and 
September, but like Gladioli they may be 
had either earlier or later in the season, if 
desired, by advancing or retarding the bulbs 
in spring. They may also be left out on the 
ground all winter, being perfectly hardy. 
The price of the bulbs being so low, and the 
plant so desirable to have in possession, it 
cannot be long ere it is seen in all the prin¬ 
cipal gardens throughout the kingdom. [It is 
now called Galtonia Candida].—J. Webster, 
Gordon Castle Gardens, Sept. G, 1884. 
GAILLARDIA LORENZIANA. 
THINK every one who has grown this 
new form is delighted with it, but one 
cannot always depend upon its being 
uniformly true from seed. Probably in 
the estimation of some this is not a matter of 
great moment, as all the variations are certain 
to be attractive. A bed of seedlings at Chiswick 
shows much diversity of character: some are 
