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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[January, 
excellent flavour.—Carter & Co. Carter's Strata¬ 
gem : a dwarf, robust, hardy wrinkled blue_ marrow 
pea of the finest quality, a heavy cropper, with large 
remarkably well-filled pods, often containing 10 large 
fine-flavoured peas; grows 2 feet highland is con¬ 
sidered remarkable for its sturdy branching habit. 
Carter & Co. Culvertvell’s Giant Marrow : a grand 
blue wrinkled marrow pea, 5 to 6 feet high, of 
strong branching habit; covered with large pods con¬ 
taining 10 to 13 very large peas of the finest flavour; 
“ unequalled as a main crop sort.”—C. Sharpe & Co. 
Dean's Divarf Marrow : like Advancer, but a more 
compact grower and prolific bearer; grows about two 
feet in height, and averages nine peas in a pod. An 
excellent variety for small gardens.—Ilurst & Son. 
Edinburgh Beauty: one of the earliest of dwarf 
marrow peas, l.[ feet high, with several strong stems, 
bearing “ a profusion of well-filled pods containing 
peas of the finest flavour.” The seed “ should not be 
planted thicker than beans”; well attested.—Hurst & 
Son. Laxton's Earliest of All: a dwarf early variety, 
preceding any other known pea ; very prolific; good, 
well-filled pods, and excellent quality.—Hooper & 
Co. Laxton's John Bull: a blue wrinkled main 
crop pea of the first size and quality, from the same 
crop as Marvel; pods abundant, larger, deeper- 
coloured, and less curved than those of Marvel, 
densely filled with 9—13 compressed peas, of excel¬ 
lent flavour.—Hurst <fc Sou. Laxton's Minimum : 
“ the dwari'est of all peas,” and earlier than Little 
Gem, a white marrow, very prolific, “ the crop being 
practically all corn.” The best of all peas for frame 
culture and for forcing.—Hurst & Son. Williams’ 
Holloway Rival: a splendid early wrinkled variety, 
2] to 3 feet high, robust, prolific, the pods contain¬ 
ing 8 or 9 peas of delicious flavour.—Hurst & Son. 
Potatos. —A few new English sorts are already 
announced.— Cosmopolitan: a fine white kidney, the 
produce of a cross between the large white American 
Success and Woodstock Kidney; it is early, very 
productive, of handsome form, and fine quality.— 
It. Dean. Defiance: a very handsome and distinct 
kidney, of a violet-purple colour, white flesh, a heavy 
cropper, and of good quality.—C. Lee & Son. 
Duke of Albany: a white kidney, the result of a 
cross between Beauty of Hebron and Early Good- 
erich; short-haulmed, very early, fine quality, a 
heavy cropper, and keeps well.—C. Sharpe & Co. 
Early Cluster : a very early white round, producing 
a wonderful cluster of handsome tubers of the finest 
quality; very dwarf, and an excellent variety for pot- 
culture and frames.—P. Dean. Sharpe's Victor: a 
seedling raised from the Alma Kidney and the Early 
Short Top; round; it is strongly recommended for 
pots and frames.—C. Sharpe & Co. 
The following are of American origin:— Adiron¬ 
dack : a pale blush-coloured round sort; handsome, 
productive, and of good quality; fine for exhibition. 
—Hooper <fe Co. Queen of the Valley : a large and 
coarse-looking white oval-shaped variety, of fine form 
and quality; an immense cropper.—Hooper & Co. 
Tomatos. — Abundance : the chief features of this 
variety are productiveness, solidity, and firmness; it 
grows to a large size; colour scarlet.—Hooper & Co. 
Carter's Dedham Favourite : a very fine and prolific 
variety, certificated by the K.H.S. It is in the way 
of Criterion, which is probably one of its parents, 
but is larger, globular, without corrugations, and of 
a ruby red colour; remarkable also for solidity and 
high quality.—Carter & Co. President Garfield : 
a very coarse-lookiDg sort, remarkable for its ugliness, 
the fruits being very deeply ribbed, with, in addition, 
a circular depression, producing a resemblance to a 
Turk’s-cap Gourd; said to have reached 48 oz. in 
weight, and to be of fine flavour. Trentham Early 
Fillbasket: a variety raised at Trentham from a cross 
between Trophy and Criterion; of handsome globular 
shape, with smooth even surface, fine bright colour, 
and wonderfully prolific, setting fruit at every joint; 
the quality is first-rate, fully equal to Trophy.— 
Veitch & Sons. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Under this sub-head we intend to notice 
briefly the novelties described or figured in 
the principal Horticultural publications, home 
and foreign. 
Botanical Magazine.— The December number 
contains figures of the following subjects :— Clematis 
coccinea, Engelm [t. 6594]—A slender creeper from 
Texas, allied to C. Viorna but differing in its scarlet 
flowers, and its glaucous reticulated leaflets, which 
are 3 to 5, ovate or ovate-cordate; the flowers are 
ovoid with recurved sepals; flowered in a cool 
conservatory at Kew. Salvia columbarice, Benth. 
[t. 6595]—A dwarfish California annual, with oblong 
lobulate radical leaves, and whorls of deep blue 
fiowers; produced at Kew in June. Aloe Perryi. 
Baker [t. 6596], from Socotra, and which yields the 
Socotrine aloes of the materia medica ; it has short 
simple stems, surmounted by greyish lanceolate 
toothed leaves, and a tall simple or branched raceme 
of bright red yellow-tipped tubular flowers; flowered 
at Kew. Calceolaria Sinclairii, Hook [t. 6597]—A 
New Zealand species 1 to 2 feet high, with long-stalked 
ovate or oblong leaves, and loose cymes of bell-shaped 
flowers, pale flesh-coloured externally, spotted with 
purple inside ; raised by Mr. Anderson-IIenry. Pip- 
tospatha insignis, N.E. Br. [t. 6598]—A dwarf Arad 
from Borneo, with narrow elliptic lanceolate leaves, 
and short nodding closed spathes, which are white 
suffused with rose; of little beauty. Escallonia 
rubra punctata , Hook f. [t. 6599]—A pretty free- 
flowering Chilian shrub, with elliptic ovate finely 
serrated leaves, and terminal corymbs of deep red 
flowers; flowered at Kew, against a south wall, in 
July. 
Iconography of Indian Azaleas. —M. Auguste 
Van Geert’s new work on Azaleas has reached the 
third number, and is improving as it proceeds. The 
varieties figured are:—1. Alba speciosa plena; 2. 
Madame Paul De Schryver; 3. Antigone; 4. Elise 
Lieber; 5. Madame Louis Van Houtte; 6. James 
Yeitch; 7. Madame Louisa de Iverchove; 8. Camille 
Yervaene; 9. Koseo-picta. 
Gartenfloba for November contains figures of 
Allium stipitatum, Kgl. [t. 1062, fig. 1—3], a hardy 
bulb from West Turkestan, growls 3 feet high, with 
linear-lanceolate leaves, and hemispherical large 
heads of narrow-pet aled rosy-lilac fragrant flow r ers ; 
allied to A. atropurpureum. Allium Suworowi, Kgl. 
[t. 1062, fig. 4—5], a hardy bulb from Turkestan, 
smaller than the last, with linear-ligulate flaccid 
leaves, and small globose umbels of sweet-scented 
rosy-violet flowers. Statice callicoma, C.A.M. 
[t. 1063, fig. 1], a hardy perennial from East Tur¬ 
kestan, having the aspect of S. incana, with a tuft 
of spathulate mucronate lepidote leaves, and branched 
cymes, with triquetrous branches of pinkish-lilac 
flowers. Aconitum rotundifolium, Kar. et Kir. 
[t. 1063, fig. 2], a curious hardy perennial from 
Tasclikend in Central Asia, growing lj foot high, 
with roundish-cordate lobed radical leaves, and few 
flowered racemes of green and white flowers. Tana- 
cetum leucophyllum, Kgl. [t. 1064], a hardy perennial 
from East Turkestan, of branched, decumbent habit, 
with greyish silky 7- stems and leaves, the latter bipin- 
natifid, and small stalked heads of yellow flowers. 
L’Illustration Horticole (10 liv.) contains 
figures of Pescatorea Klabochonm, Kchb. f. [t. 431] 
