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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[M Alien, 
Spicerianum, though from what I can hear of 
it it is a most desirable species to have, hut 
I must wait till it gets a little less expensive 
before investing, especially when I have already 
got so many good old sorts. 
I pot nearly all my Cypripediums in good 
clean sphagnum, a little rough peat, and some 
charcoal, and give them, when making then- 
growths, a watering with weak liquid manure. 
I find this better than using loam or any such 
material in the compost, for it is apt soon to 
get sour, and thus to cause the plants to 
become unhealthy.—N. B. 
ERYTHR2EA DIFFUSA. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Abies Eichleri, Lauclie {Garten-Zeituhg, 1882, 
63, with col. plate).—A beautiful silver fir from the 
Caucasus, allied to A. Nordmanniana, from which 
the author distinguishes it by its cones, which in 
the young state are bluish-black instead of green, 
and at a corresponding stage of growth measure VO 
millimetres (21 in.) long, and 22 millimetres (1 in. 
nearly) broad, instead of 15 centimetres (6 in.) by 
5 centimetres (2 in.); and by the whiter or paler 
under surface of its mature leaves, and the blue- 
green colour of its young shoots, whence it was at 
first regarded as a variety merely of A. Nord¬ 
manniana. The cones above referred to were pro¬ 
duced by the only plant raised from seeds collected 
at Tidis twelve years ago by Dr Badde. It forms a 
fine hardy evergreen tree, growing to the height of 
about 100 feet, of rapid and symmetrical growth, 
with brownish grey bark, bluish-green leave 1 , having 
two silvery stripes on the under surface ; and cylin¬ 
drical bluish-black cones about 3 inches long, rounded 
at the base, and shortly conical at the point. The 
tree is said to make its growth late in spring, and 
thus to escape damage from frost. Eaised by Garten- 
inspoctor Lauche, of Wildpark, Potsdam. 
Athyrium Pilix-fcemina tjnco-glomeratum, 
Stansf. —A pretty dwarf variety of Lady fern with 
the fronds branching and crested like those, of 
A. F.-f. acrocladon, but the ultimate divisions are cut 
up into numberless minute segments like those of 
Sisymbrium millefolium. —E. W. & H. Stansfield. 
Blechnum Spicant Aitkenianum, Stansf. — 
A neat dwarf evergreen hardy fern, of robust habit, 
with the lower portions of the fronds contracted, 
the surface slightly corrugated, and the apex magni¬ 
fied into a huge branching head, of which the under 
side bears traces of an excurrent line like the 
marginate Scolopendriums. Pound in Co. Clare by 
the late Mr. Stansfield, of Todmorden, and named in 
honour of his friend and travelling companion, Mr. 
Thomas Aitken. 
Eomarea conferta, Benih. {Gard. Chron., n. S., 
xvi., 330; xvii., 186, fig. 31)—A brilliant green¬ 
house climber, with fleshy tuberous roots, introduced 
from the mountains of Pichincha, and also from near 
Bogota; it is of vigorous growth, having downy 
purplish stems, and scattered broadly lance-shaped 
LIXABIA MAEITIMA. 
tail-pointed leaves 4—5 inches long, the stems ter¬ 
minating in large crowded drooping umbels of 
about 50 rich crimson funnel-shaped flowers, 2—2) 
inches long.—Shuttlewortb, Carder & Co. 
Eomarea VITELLINA, Masters {Gard. Chron., 
N. s., xvii., 143, fig. 26).—A very beautiful tuberous- 
rooted climber adapted for conservatory culture. It 
has smooth stems, with ovate-oblong acute leaves 
and numerous showy flowers in large drooping 
umbellate cymes. The individual flowers are nar¬ 
rowly bell-shaped, 2 inches long, with the outer and 
inner perianth segments unequal in length, and of a 
rich deep orange-yellow colour. It is a native of 
Colombia, near Ocana.—Shuttlewortb, Carder & Co. 
Erythrjea diffusa, Woods —A very pretty 
low-growing hardy perennial, of irailing habit; the 
well-ramified branches, with their roundish closely- 
set glossy green leaves lying prostrate on the ground, 
form a mos'-like turf; the flowers standing erect 
appear in great pro'usion, so that the effect it pro¬ 
duces, when planted, in groups or beds,is exceedingly 
striking and beautiful, the colour being a lively rose 
similar to that of F. MiiMenbergii. For pot culture 
it is also we'l suited; moreover, the long drooping 
branches with their neat and elegant, foliage make it 
adapted for hanging baskets, &c., and it is, like the 
Moneywort, of beautiful appearance even when not 
in bloom. It has been recently introduced to 
cultivation by Messrs. Ilaage & Schmidt. 
Linaeia MAEITIMA, Be Candolle {Garten- 
Zeitung, 1882, 111, with coloured plate).—A pretty 
