1882.] 
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31); a very fine stove climber from Tolima, with 
three-lobed leaves and long-tubed rosy-orange 
flowers; see p. 38. 
The Garden (Jan. 7—Feb. 11) contains coloured 
plates of ihe following :— Iry-leaved Pelargoniums 
[pi. 318],Beaute de L on, scarlet; Innocence, white 
—singles; Anna Pfitzer, salmon-pink—semidouble; 
Dr. Brocca, purplish-pink; Robert Fortune, rosy- 
pink ; and Gloire d’Orleans, magenta-rose—doubles. 
Chrysanthemum coronarium varieties [pi. 319], fine 
varieties of a pretty old-fashioned annual. Canna 
iridiflora Ehemanni [pi. 320], a noble stove species, 
with bold handsome green leaves, and large splendid 
drooping crimson flowers, produced in succession 
throughout the season ; it is a gorgeous plant which 
has come to us from the Continental gardens within 
the last 3 'ear or two. Modiola geranioides [pi. 321], 
a oharmiug little malvaceous perennial, said to be 
hardy on warm dry rock-work, with palmately- 
parted leaves having narrow pinnatifid segments, and 
the rich rosy-purple flowers measuring two inches 
across. Cattlega aurea [pi. 322], a very beautiful 
stove epiphyte, something in the way of C. Dowiana, 
but coming from a widely different habitat, the Cor¬ 
dillera west of the Upper Magdalena, in New 
Grenada ; the sepals and petals are sulphur-yellow, 
the latter broader, paler, and much undulated, and the 
lip is broadly margined with rich crimson and mar. < l 
over the golden centre with divergent veins and 
splashes of the same rich colour; introduced in 1876 by 
Messrs. Backhouse & Son, but only recently flowered. 
Mascarenhasia Curnowiana [pi. 323], a very showy 
stove evergreen climbing shrub from Madagascar, 
with bright rosy-carmine apocynaceous flowers, 
noticed at p. 37. 
Journal des Boses (Jan.—Feb., 1882) contains 
coloured portraits of Rose ( H.P .) Boieldieu, a very 
fine novelty raised from Jules Margottin crossed by 
Baronne Prevost; it is cup-shaped, full, with broad 
smooth petals, and of a pretty cerise rose; awarded 
a first prize by the Societe Centrale d’Horticulture de 
France, in 1877 : M. Margottin fils. Rose (Tea) 
Madame Berard , a charming delicate-tinted, free- 
blooming variety with moderate-sized blossoms which 
are very full, of a soft pale yellow colour with a 
coppery tint about the centre, the outer petals tinged 
with delicate salmony rose; the flowers are some¬ 
times entirely of a coppery yeliow; raised by M. 
Antoine Levet, of Lyons, from Gloire de Dijon 
fertilised by Madame Falcot; the foliage is of a fine 
deep green colour. 
The Orchid Album (part VII.) contains the 
following subjects :— Cymbidium Parishii , Rclib. f. 
[t. 25], a very beautiful epiphyte from Moulmein ; 
it has fusiform stems, evergreen distichous ligulate- 
linear leaves, and scapes supporting about three 
beautiful white flowers, which have the labellum 
ornamented with orange and purplish-red markings; 
first flowered by W. Leach, Esq., of Fallowfield. 
Calf ley a velutina, Rclib. f. [t. 26], a strikingly dis¬ 
tinct orchid, with slender terete stems, bearing a pair 
of oblong bluntish leaves, and two-flowered scapes, 
the flowers having tawny orange sepals and petals 
spotted with purple, and a white lip richly veined 
with purple; it comes from Brazil, and was figured 
from a plant flowered by Sir Trevor LawTence, Bart., 
M.P. Odontoglossum brevifolium, Lindley [t. 27], 
a very peculiar-looking plant, from the Peruvian 
Andes, having monophyllous pseudobulbs, short 
oblong leaves, and dense erect racemes of rich chest¬ 
nut brown flowers narrowly margined with yellow, 
and of which the lip is small and yellow; the figure 
was prepared from a specimen which bloomed in the 
collection of Mons. F. Massange, of Liege. Zygo- 
petalum Gautieri, Lemaire [t. 28], a fine Brazilian 
epiphyte, whose rhizomes creep over the stems of 
tree-ferns in their native habitats, and produce oblong 
ancipitous pseudobulbs, oblong plicate distichous 
leaves, and drooping racemes of three to six showy 
flowers, in which the sepals and petals are green 
blotched with brown, and the lip of a rich violet 
purple, deeper about the ruff which surrounds the 
column ; it is a free-flowering plant, aud continues a 
long time in bloom; the plate was prepared from a 
plant which flowered in the collection of Mons. 
D. Massange, of Marche. 
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[Plate 558.] 
r HERRIES of choice (quality are always 
welcome on the table; and though we 
have certain old well-known indispen¬ 
sable sorts, yet there are many others 
of good quality now known, which it is desir¬ 
able to introduce for the sake of the variety 
they give to a high-class dessert. Mr. Rivers, 
of Sawbridgeworth, has been instrumental in 
bringing before the notice of fruit-growers 
some of these hitherto little-known sorts, and 
we have to thank him for the samples figured 
in the accompanying plate, and also for the 
following descriptive notes :— 
The Bedford Prolific (fig. 1) is a seedling 
raised from the Black Tartarian, a very well- 
known and excellent sort, hut better fitted for 
walls or orchard-houses than for standards in 
the open air, as it is too tender for our 
rigorous climate. The Bedford Prolific, while 
possessing the excellent qualities of its parent, 
has the advantage of being much hardier, and 
is a cherry which will flourish in any situation 
and climate in which the May Duke will 
ripen; it is large, juicy, and rich in flavour, 
though inferior to the Black Tartarian, hut this 
inferiority is amply compensated for by its 
superior vigour and hardiness. 
The Bigarreau Gros Cceuret (fig. 2), which 
I have had the greatest difficulty in procuring 
true to name, has proved one of the largest 
and best of the Bigarreaus ; it is true that I 
have always grown it under glass, and that an 
exceptional size and flavour has resulted. In 
the same house I have grown the ordinary 
Bigarreau and the Bigarreau Napoleon, both 
among the best of their class. The Bigarreau 
Gros Coeuret has, however, proved itself 
superior in size and flavour to either of these 
two sorts. Leroy enumerates 20 synonyms— 
a good proof of its excellence; and it was 
described by Olivier de Serres in 1G00 as a 
well-known cherry in his time—a proof of its 
antiquity. In these modern times it has not 
degenerated in beauty, as the portrait will 
testify, and in flavour the owner of it will not 
be disappointed.—T. Francis Rivers. 
