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APPLE, BEAUTY OF HANTS.-REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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existed, and perhaps still exists, but I do not 
know where. It has once flowered at M. 
Van Houtte’s ; and, when visiting my friend 
the late Dr. Moore, at Glasnevin, I found 
plants bearing the name alba plena, of which 
he kindly gave me one; and, making my 
catalogue soon after this, I put it down as 
existing in my collection, but it turned out to 
be the single white.” 
Some time since, when visiting the late Mr. 
P. J. Perry, at his nursery at Banbury, I saw 
growing some strong self-sown seedlings from 
the single white Hepatica, none of which were 
improvements on the seed parent in point of 
size and colour ; but the flowers did appear 
to be fuller, and I suggested to Mr. Perry that 
if he were to fertilise the flowers with their 
own pollen (if possible to do so) he might 
make some progress towards realising a true 
double white Hepatica. Unfortunately, at the 
time he was in a delicate state of health, and, 
I fear, nothing was done in this direction. It 
is years since I was at Banbury, but it would 
be interesting to know if these seedling white 
varieties still exist in the Banbury nursery.— 
R. Dean, Ealing. 
APPLE, BEAUTY OF HANTS. 
[Plate 564.] 
HE accompanying illustration of this 
Apple, though so richly coloured, is 
but an exact and very faithful repre¬ 
sentation of the samples I had the 
pleasure of handing to the Editor last autumn. 
They were from the original tree, yet growing 
near to the gardener’s cottage in Mrs. Eyre 
Crabbe’s beautiful grounds, Bassett, South¬ 
ampton, and kindly sent me by Mr. Stewart 
for exhibition at South Kensington. 
The Beauty of Hants is not a new Apple ; 
it is even doubtful whether it can be classed 
as a distinct kind, for it is of the Blenheim 
Orange type without doubt, but of that Apple 
a very fine and somewhat distinct stock. It 
is some eleven or twelve years since I saw 
the tree in fruit at Glen Eyre, and I was then 
struck not only by the large size of the fruit, 
but also by the superb colour shown, and not 
least by the invariable prominent conical form 
assumed. A true Blenheim Orange, growing 
close by, though bearing good fruit was very 
deficient in all these features. 
Having had the honour of christening the 
Apple, a sample of the fruit was sent to South 
Kensington, and there received a First-class 
Certificate. The stock was purchased by the 
then Heatlierside Nursery Co., by which a 
few years later it was put into commerce. 
Whether it has met with the wide culture it 
so thoroughly merits I cannot say. A few 
grafts worked here several years since have 
given a fine head, and I found when the tree 
fruited freely, as it did last year, that the same 
peculiarities as to form and colour were in this 
case very prominent. Whether really distinct 
or not, it is a very fine stock, and should be 
universally grown. — A. Dean, Beclfont. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Astilbe Tiiunbergii, Miq. — A robust hardy 
perennial of Spinea-like aspect, from Japan; it has 
bold unequally pinnate or bipinnate leaves, with 
broad sharply-toothed segments, and flower stems 
2—2i ft. high, bearing branched panicles of very 
numerous small white flowers; lst-cdass Certificate 
It H S. and R.B.S., May, 1881.—Veitch & Sons. 
Azalea KUBiFLORAFLORE-rLENO. —A distinct and 
promising hardy deciduous shrub from Japan, having 
soft pilose oblong elliptic leaves, and medium-sized 
double flowers of a soft lilac-pink colour, marked 
with carmine-purple spots, very pretty; lst-class 
Certificate R.H.S., May, 1882.—Veitch & Sons. 
Bulbocodifm TRIGYNUM, Adam ( Garden , xxi., 
295, with fig.).—A pretty dwarf Caucasian bulb, 
flowering in the very early spring (February), and 
forming a tuft of three broad leaves tapering to the 
end, from between which grow about a couple of 
pretty pale lilac flowers. Mr. Baker puts it under 
Merendera caucasica. —T. S. Ware. 
Davallia Griffithiana, Hooker. — A fine 
species of Hare’s-foot Fern from Assam and Bhotan. 
It has long creeping tliickish rhizomes, clothed with 
loose shaggy silvery scales, and dark bluish-green 
leathery tripinnate fronds of deltoid outline, with 
large submarginal cup-shaped sori; lst-class Cer¬ 
tificate R.H.S., May, 1882.—W. Howard. 
DENDROBIUH Curtisii, Bchb. f. (Gard. Chron., 
n. s., xvi., 102).—A Bornean species, with tall slender 
erect leafless stems, bearing short racemes of small 
magenta-rose flow'ers, the younger shoots furnished 
with linear-lanceolate leaves.—Veitch & Sons. 
DENDROBIUH FOR1IOSUM GIGANTEUM, Sort. — 
A very fine variety from Upper Burmah, with stems 
reaching 3 feet in length, and producing flowers 
measuring 6 in. in diameter; the lip is 2 inches 
broad, with a bright golden blotch.—Heath & Son. 
GloBBa aTROSaNGUINEA, Teijsm. et Binnend. 
(Bot. Mag., t. G626).—A pretty Zingiberaceous stove 
plant of dwarf habit, introduced from Borneo, and 
first called G. coccinea. The stems, which are about 
as thick as a goose quill, are crowded, 12—18 inches 
long, gracefully arching on all sides, furnished with 
deep glossy green leaves, and terminating in a dense 
raceme of flowers, of which the bracts are scarlet 
and the perianth yellow. The plant is continuously 
in bloom during the greater part of the year, and 
the flowers are effective for bouquets; lst-class 
Certificate R.B.S., July, 1881; and by R.H.S., 
October, 1881.—Veitch & Sons. 
