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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[April, 
the following:— Adonis (Paul), dark red lacing, 
large; Crossflat Gem (Paul), narrow purple lacing, 
large, full, extra; Duke of Edinburgh (Downie), 
clear rose laciug, broad petals; Henry Cannell 
(Paul), broad purple lacing, large, fine; Janet 
Cochrane (Paul), rosy purple lacing; Malcolm Dunn 
(Downie), heavy lacing of maroon, extra ; M. Camp¬ 
bell (Paul), dark red lacing, fine; Mrs. W. Persse 
(Paul), dark purple lacing, very double, fine. 
Primula Sieboldii. —Many interesting varieties 
of this fine decorative hardy plant are now in culti¬ 
vation, and of these the following are now offered: 
■— Charmer, soft delicate mauve, stout flowers; 
Hermia (Allen), rosy lilac, distinct and pleasing, 
free ; Rosalba (Allen), rosy pink, pleasing, and quite 
distinct; Ophelia (Allen), bright lavender, very fine 
form; Purpurea, bright mauve purple, large and 
very effective.—R. Dean. 
Rose ( Hybrid Tea), Earl of Pembroke. —One 
of the new Shepperton hybrids, and a flower of 
great promise; the blossoms have a most exquisite 
perfume, and are sufficiently large and full, the 
colour being a bright cherry crimson of much 
brilliance and richness.—H. Bennett. 
NEW VEGETABLES. 
Cauliflower, Dean’s Early Snowball. —An in¬ 
valuable dwarf cauliflower, with large and fine white 
heads, ready to cut in four months from the time of 
sowing, and yielding a supply from May till the late 
summer varieties come in.—Nutting & Sons. 
Celery, Wright’s Grove Pink.— This is regarded 
as a very early variety. It is of a bright pink colour, 
grows straight and stout, and is both crisp and 
sweet. In bulk it is a trifle larger than Grove Red. 
—Nutting & Sons. 
Cucumbers. — Chesterfield Hero .- a cross between 
the Telegraph and the Manchester Prize, of fine 
quality, and growing to an average length of 18 
inches, but often attaining to 2 feet; the fruit is 
smooth, in appearance like Tender and True, but is 
said to be more productive. It has taken two 1st 
prizes at local shows. Pettigrew’s Cardiff Castle .- this 
is said to be one of the best sorts in cultivation for 
either summer or winter crops. The fruit is of 
handsome shape, of a rich green colour, and grows 
18 to 20 inches long, three or four being produced 
from a joint.—Both offered by Nutting & Sons. 
Potato, Victoria alba (Donaldson).—A fine new 
main crop round white variety, raised by Mr. 
Donaldson, gardener to the Dowager Countess of 
Kintore, as a seedling from Paterson’s Victoria, from 
which it is quite distinct, having a pure white 
flower. Its tubers are rounded, smaller in the eyes 
and neater, its flesh is whiter and of finer quality 
when cooked, and it is a heavier cropper. 2nd-class 
Certificate R.H.S., 1881; 1st prize at Great Potato 
Show at Inverness.—Nutting & Sons. 
NEW APPLIANCES. 
Garden Trellis. — The accompanying figure 
represents a new folding wood lattice, intended for 
garden use in the form of bordering, trellises, &c., 
and which, being produced by machinery, admits of 
being sold at a low price. It will last for several 
seasons, and when not in use during winter it can be 
closed up for convenience of stowage. It is recom¬ 
mended as suitable for pea or bean training, and as 
making a capital boundary for side walks in gardens, 
where it can be used for training fruit-trees, toma- 
tos, sweet peas, and other creepers. It is made in 
pieces of 50 square feet when open, measuring 10 ft. 
by 5 ft., but will stretch longer if kept narrower. 
When closed up it measures 6 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft., and 
is f in. thick. When fully open a long length is 
said to make a capital garden arch. It is also 
well suited to form a border to croquet or tennis 
lawns.—Burbidge & Co., Melksham. 
GARDEN TRELLIS. 
Gardeners’ Edging Shears. —This recently 
patented novelty is designed to admit of the use of 
ordinary clipping shears as edging shears, by means 
of two extra shanks or legs which spring from the 
shears at convenient angles to the ordinary legs so as 
to be parallel to each other when the blades are 
closed. All the shanks or legs may be threaded at 
the ends to screw into the wooden handles ordi¬ 
narily used; or they may be fitted to the handles in 
any other convenient manner, so as to admit of being 
readily attached and removed.—G. Brockelbank, 
Thornsett Road, Anerley. 
Green’s Grass Edge-clipper. —This machine 
is introduced with the object of doing away with the 
tedious operation of clipping the overhanging grass 
at the edges of walks and beds or borders by the 
ordinary edging shears. It has undergone several 
improvements since its original introduction, and is 
now recommended as a very efficient implement, 
which does its work well and may be used at an 
ordinary walking pace. Eor all such implements, 
however, the edges should be kept true and well 
defined, and in that case they do their work very effec¬ 
tually, but on uneven edgings their work is less 
satisfactory. The present implement has a wheel 
cast inside the drum, into which a pinion on the 
star-cutter is geared, the cutter having six cutting 
edges over the bottom shear, by which the over¬ 
hanging grass can be easily and effectually cut. As 
is the case with all machinery, it is designed to work 
true, and consequently to work efficiently the edging 
to be operated on must also be kept true; thus much 
is necessary to do justice to the implement. 
