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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[November, 
fleshy, brown, inserted level with the surface or in 
a narrow ribbed cavity. Mye occupying a deep 
narrow rounded basin. 'Flesh white moderately 
firm, melting, the juice briskly luscious and per¬ 
fumed. Eipens in November and keeps till December 
or sometimes till January. Tree rather vigorous, 
moderately but constantly fertile. The fruit is 
sometimes of large size, and is then suitable for 
exhibition. It is highly recommended by M. 
Pynaert. 
NEW VEGETABLES. 
PoTATOS. —The following varieties received 1st- 
class Certificates from the Committee of the Inter¬ 
national Potato Show at the Crystal Palace on Oct. 
8:— Chancellor (Dean), a fine and handsome white 
kidney from King of Potatos and Woodstock Kid¬ 
ney ; a late variety, a heavy cropper, and fine 
quality. Harvester (Dean), white round, from 
Beauty of Hebron and Woodstock Kidney ; hand¬ 
some, a great cropper, fine table quality, an excellent 
main crop variety. London Hero (Dean), a hand¬ 
some pebble-shaped white round; handsome, fine 
quality, and an excellent cropper; E. Dean.— Miss 
Foivler (Eoss), a very handsome white kidney of 
excellent quality; raised from Woodstock Kidney. 
M. F. (Eoss), a round white variety, having the 
appearance of Climax; a heavy cropper, good keeper, 
and excellent quality; C. Eoss.— Ellingtonia, coloured 
kidney, white, stained with purple; fine cropper and 
good quality, from American Purple and Eoyal 
Ashleaf; W. Ellington.— Fride of Fydon, white 
kidney, handsome, good cropper, very fine table 
quality ; from Beauty of Hebron and Myatt’s Ash¬ 
leaf ; J. Hughes.— James Ahbis, a very handsome 
pale red kidney, raised by Mr. Eobert Penn; an 
excellent quality, hut pedigree not stated; Sutton & 
Sons.— Sukreta, a flat white round ; excellent quality 
and a good cropper, raised by Mr. Holmes; Carter 
& Co. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Botanical Magazine for October, contains : 
Hcemauthiis Katherince, Baker [t. 6778], a fine 
Amaryllidaceous bulb, with elliptic oblong leaves, 
and cotetnporary scarlet flowers in globose umbels 
lifted well above the leaves; Natal; Kew.— Cory- 
lopsis himalayana, Griff, [t. 6779]*, a hardy deciduous 
shrub or small tree of hazel-like character, with 
broadly ovate rugose leaves, and short dense pendulous 
racemes of small pale yellow primrose-scented flowers 
produced in the early spring; Indian mountains; 
Kew.— Fyrus (Cydonia) Maulei, Masters [t. 6780], 
figured by us in our volume for 1875.— Chrysanthe¬ 
mum cinerariaefolium, Visiani [t. 6781], a slender- 
growing herbaceous perennial, with pinnato-pinnati- 
fid leaves, and long-stalked heads of flowers, an 
inch and a half across, with spreading white ray 
florets and yellow disk; it "yields the Dalmatian 
insecticide powder now so universally used . . . which 
must not be confounded with the Caucasian insecticide 
P^rethrum roseum”; Dalmatia; Kew.— Strepto- 
carpus Kirkii, Hook. f. [t. 6782], an elegant little 
stove plant, with erect leafy-stems, four to six inches 
high, with opposite bluntly ovate-cordate leaves, and 
slender lax-flowered dichotomous cymes of small 
but pretty bright lilac tubulose-campanulate curved 
flowers; Tropical East Africa; Kew. 
The Eevue Horticole (Sep. 16—Oct. 16) con¬ 
tains figures of Peach Felle de Saint-Oeslin hlanc, 
a white-fleshed pale-skinned variety supposed to be 
a sport from Belle de Saint-Geslin, one of the latest 
of Peaches known, and whose good qualities are 
shared by its Offspring.— Clematis Francois Morel, a 
variety which according to description belongs 
to the patens type, but has flowers of a violet red, 
with a bar on each sepal of bright velvety red. The 
figure, except as regards foliage, and of these none 
from the leafy shoots is represented, is more sug¬ 
gestive of its being one of the Viticella group ; it is, 
says M. Andre, a hybrid of the patens type, like 
Madame Grange, which however we should not 
refer to the patens group at all.— Ismene Andreana, 
Baker, a handsome coloured figure, showing this to 
be a very distinct and ornamental Amaryllid; the 
perianth is white, the segments are lance-shaped and 
undulated, the corona jagged at the edge three and 
a-half inches across, distinctly marked with a green 
band opposite the sinuses from the top of each of 
which a white filament with its anther is projected 
inwards. 
L’Illustration Horticole (9 liv.) has the 
following coloured figures :— Fanda Sanderiana, 
Echb. f. [t. 532], a fine double plate of this splendid 
new Orchid, which comes from Mindanao, one of 
the Philippine Islands.— Dahlia coccinea var. novee 
[t. 533], a group of three single Dahlias, which 
however show no indication of being related to D. 
coccinea, but evidently belong to D. variabilis.— Tea 
Rose Frincesse Julie d'Arenherg [t. 534], a clear 
yellow variety, vigorous, free-flowering, the flowers 
large and full. 
L’Orchidophile (No. 41) has a photographic 
representation of Burlingtonia fragrans. 
Journal des Eoses for October has a portrait 
of H. F. Rose Madame Marsicault, a beautifully 
formed expanded flower of full average size, and of a 
delicate blush colour, deeper towards the base of the 
petals ; it won a Ist-class Certificate at the meeting 
of the Association Horticole Lyonnaise in June last. 
La Belgique Horticole (Mar.—April) figures 
Friesea fenestralis, Morr. [t. 4—5], a handsome 
Bromeliad with beautifully chequered leaves, and 
yellow flowers; See p. 166.— Ornithocephalusgrandi- 
jlorus, Lindl. [t. 6], a neat dwarf Brazilian Orchid, 
with drooping spikes of green and white odoriferous 
flowers. 
Eevue de L’Horticulture Belge, &c. (Oct.), 
contains a good figure of Staphylea colchica, Steud., 
a hardy shrub which has been found very useful 
for forcing to obtain early flowers. It has been also 
sent out under the false name of Hooibrenckia for- 
mosissirna. 
Bulletin d’Arboriculture, &c. (Sept.), figures 
the good-looking russety-skinned Fear Casieline, of 
pyramidal-turbinate form, with a yellowish juicy 
flesh of excellent quality, and having a fine and 
special aroma; ripe in December and January, and 
may be kept till March. So says the Fomone 
Tournaisienne. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Sept. 30—Oct. 11) 
describes the following novelties :— Oymnogramma 
Lathamice, Moore (p. 360), a fine new hybrid fern 
slightly silvery beneath, its supposed parents being 
G. decomposita and G. scliizophylla; it has fronds 
upwards of two feet long, and is quadripinnate, with 
the ultimate divisions narrow linear; see p. 166.— 
Adiantum Fergusoni, Moore (p. 360), a curious and 
somewhat abnormal fern found in a greenhouse in 
Ceylon. It has triangular-ovate tripinnate fronds, 
having the pinnules various in form, but generally 
bluntly ovate, truncate at the base with a pair of 
deeply cut basal lobes, and smaller lobes above; 
sometimes the lobes are more numerous and the 
lobing irregular ; sometimes the pinnm are distant, 
and sometimes so closely imbricated towards the 
apex that the parts have a semicristate character; 
sori oblong at the apices of the lobes. It has been 
supposed to belong to A. tenerum, but this cannot 
be as the pedicels are continuous, not articulated; 
we believe it is more nearly related to A. Capillus- 
veneris.— Oncidium aurarium, Echb. f. (p. 394), a 
neat-looking species, with compressed pear-shaped 
pseudobulbs, ligulate acute leaves, and a panicle 
4—5 feet high, with numerous zigzag twigs, bearing 
