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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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similar, sufficiently distinct; but those who have grown them extensively in this 
country find them to be identical. It is, however, a most valuable decorative plant, 
as our figure, for which we have to thank Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, suffi¬ 
ciently shows. We lately saw it in great quantity in the Boyal Ascot Nursery, 
Eouvardia Vreelandii (Davisoni). 
and Mr. Standish informs us that it is easily grown in rich, light soil, abounding 
in leaf-mould, and with a night temperature of about 50° in winter. During 
summer the plants thrive in low, well-aired houses, having a north aspect.—T. M. 
FKUIT ELECTIONS. 
FEEL much interested in the Fruit Elections, the results of which are now 
being published in your pages, and beg to offer my opinion thereon, and to 
add a few other observations on the lists generally, especially as regards-, 
the Apples, Pears, and Plums. Taking the first list as it stands (p. 122), I 
