1882 .] 
APPLE, SOPS IN WINE.-REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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The plants of this Campanula are most use¬ 
ful for breaking up the monotonous appear¬ 
ance of trimly arranged collections of plants 
on greenhouse stages and in conservatories, 
and they are, moreover, well adapted for 
placing in lobbies, vestibules, or verandahs, 
where they take little room, and make a gay 
appearance. As soon as the plants are seen 
to be showing the flower stems, a portion of 
the stock may be put into a cool shaded place 
so as to keep up a succession for a longer 
period. 
To ensure a good display every season it is 
necessary to sow seed every year in April or 
May, which I have found to be a suitable 
time. As soon as the plants are large enough, 
they should be potted off singly into small 
pots and grown on in cold pits or frames. 
These should be shifted into 8-inch pots in the 
following spring, for the second year’s growth ; 
plunge the pot well down in ashes in the 
frames or pits where they are to winter, and 
they will flower freely the third year. A good 
deep surface dressing should be given when 
they begin to throw up their flower stems, and 
they must be fed liberally with manure-water 
until they have nearly arrived at the flowering 
stage. It is best to discard the plants as soon 
as they have flowered, and to depend only on 
the successional ones for the following season. 
—J. Webster, Gordon Castle. 
APPLE, SOPS IN WINE. 
[Plate 56G] 
HIS is an old English Apple which at 
one time seems to have been pretty 
generally cultivated, but is now seldom 
to be met with, which is to be regretted, 
as it is singularly beautiful in appearance, and 
altogether remarkable in the reddish flesh, 
which gives it the appearance of having been 
sopped in red wine; hence the name “ Sops 
in Wine,” or “ Sops of Wine,” as it is 
sometimes given. Apart from its merits as a 
dessert or kitchen fruit—and it may be used 
for either—it is almost worthy of a place as 
an ornamental tree. What more beautiful 
than a tree laden with these glorious red 
fruits ? While for mixing with other sorts for 
dessert it is charming. The surprise created 
on cutting a fruit is most amusing. 
The fruit may be described as being below 
medium size, roundish, with a very even sur¬ 
face, and regular in form and outline. Eye 
small. Stalk slender. Skin clear greenish- 
yellow on the shaded portions, but wherever 
exposed bright red, sometimes almost black, 
and covered with a thick heavy bloom, which 
seems to increase the longer the fruit is kept. 
Flesh white, much sopped with bright red, 
tender, sweetish, but with no particular flavour. 
It is in season from October to January.— 
A. F. Barron. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Adiantum Bournei, Sort. — A pardon variety 
of Maidenhair Fern remarkable for its dense triangular 
fronds on long stipites; in the way of A. Pacuttii, 
hut less refined in its growth ; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S., May 23; shown by Mr. Smith, gardener to 
C. W. Bourne, Esq., Elthani. 
Adiantum dolabrifokme, J looker .—An elegant 
pinnate stove fern, often confounded with A. lunu- 
latum, from which it differs in being of evergreen 
habit, on which account it is greatly to be preferred; 
it forms a good basket fern of the smaller type, with 
elongated proliferous fronds and dolabriform pin¬ 
nules; Lt-class Certificate R.H.S., May 23. Brazil. 
—B. S. Williams. 
Adiantum Legrandii, Sort. —A remarkably 
pretty garden variety, of dwarf habit, with small 
triangular fronds, very densely set with small over¬ 
lapping pinnules ; it is probably a congested form 
of A. cuueatum ; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., June 
13.—Yeitch & Sons. 
Adiantum Pacottii, Sort. —A charming little 
Maidenhair Fern, growing only four to six inches 
high, the fronds elongate, triangular, tripinnate, the 
pinnae and pinnules densely set so as to be overlapping, 
and the pinnules themselves broadly cuneate and 
deeply cleft so as to resemble those of A. excisuin, 
to which it appears most nearly related; lst-class 
Certificate R.B.S , April, 1882.—W. Bull. 
AiiRiDES formosum, Sort. — A very handsome 
hy brid epiphyte, supposed to have been bred between 
A. Larpentse and A. odoratum, resembling the latter 
in growth; the flowers grow in graceful pendent spikes, 
and are white spotted, the trifid lip being beautifully 
coloured with amethyst; lst-class Certificate E.H.S., 
June 13.—Veitch & Sons. 
Athyrium Filix-fcemina laciniato-acro- 
CLADON, Stansf. — A beautiful dwarf tufted crispy 
Lady Fern, a seedling from the variety acrocladon, 
which it in some degree resembles, but the beautiful 
hair-like setse of that form are here exaggerated into 
profound horn-like laciniations. — F. W. & H. 
Stansfield. 
Athyrium Filix-fcemina hagnicapitatum, 
Stansf— A charming dwarf tufted crispy Lady Fern 
raised from A. F\-f. acrocladon. The stipes is occa¬ 
sionally branched; the rachis is branched half-way 
up the fronds; the lower pinnules are cruciate, and 
the upper half of the frond becomes expanded into a 
crested head frequently 9 inches in diameter. The 
bristle-like projections from the ultimate divisions 
are not so conspicuous as in its parent.—F. W. & H. 
Stansfield. 
Athyrium Filix - fcehina ramosissimum 
Fimbriatum, Stansf. — A very handsome much 
branched Lady Fern, larger growing than its parent 
acrocladon; the fronds are so much branched as to 
