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NEW LARGE-FLOWERED PELARGONIUMS. 
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GALLOWAY PIPPIN APPLE. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
® HIS fine culinary Apple was exhibited last season before the Fruit Com¬ 
mittee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and was awarded a First- 
f class Certificate by that body. It is regarded as an excellent late variety, 
succeeding well in the North. That it is a full-sized and good-looking 
fruit, Mr. Macfarlane’s portrait of it, which we now publish, is good evidence. We 
are indebted for the examples figured (several specimens, remarkably uniform in 
character, having been sent to us), to Messrs. Backhouse and Son, of York, by whom 
it is to be distributed. It appears to be also known under the name of Croft-en- 
Reich, having been grown from time immemorial in an orchard called Croft 
Angry, adjoining the town of Wigtown. Hitherto its fame has been local. 
The fruit, it will be seen, is above the middle size, roundish, somewhat flat¬ 
tened, and having a slight tendency to angularity around the eye. The skin is 
a greenish-yellow, taking on a pale red glow on the exposed side, strewed with 
russet dots, and having here and there traces of russet. The stalk is short and 
stout, seated in a deep cavity, and the eye is medium-sized and partially closed. 
The flesh is firm, but tender, and of a yellowish colour, with a greenish tinge,, 
juicy, with a pleasant brisk acidity. It is in use till the end of January, and may 
be had even much later. 
Few Apples pass the ordeal to which they are submitted by the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s Committee, so that it may reasonably be concluded that the 
present variety possesses very considerable merit.—T. M. 
LARGE-FLOWERED PELARGONIUMS OF THE YEAR. 
f ROB ABLY never before in the history of the Show Pelargonium has such 
a number of new varieties received First-class Certificates as during the 
? present Summer, or have such unquestionably grand flowers been produced. 
At various times these new varieties were shown by Mr. Turner, but the 
culminating point was at the Great Show of the Royal Horticultural Society on 
the 5th of June, when a large group of them was staged almost in the centre of 
the principal tent, and attracted, as they deserved, a great amount of attention. 
There were many fine features in that Exhibition, but a prime one was this 
group of Pelargoniums; the massive flowers were finely developed, and the 
colours were rich, bright, and pleasing. 
As many as eighteen varieties obtained First-class Certificates at the meetings 
of the large Societies held during the year ; of these seventeen were raised by Mr. 
Foster, and one by Mr. Hoyle. Alphabetically arranged, Mr. Foster’s flowers 
run as follows :— Brilliant , bright orange-carmine lower petals, with a small 
dark blotch on each, dense glossy black upper petals, very bright in colour ; showy 
and distinct. Chancellor , dark top petals margined with rose, lower petals violet- 
rose, with dark blotch rayed with vermilion; a finely formed free-blooming variety. 
3rd SERIES.-V. K 
