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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[July, 
a deep rosy-pink colour ; lst-olass Certificate R.H.S., 
June 13. — Victor Lemoine. Eurydice : a double- 
flowered variety, with large soft rosy-pink flowers, 
full and handsome; good habit; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S., May 23.—H. Cannell & Sons. Masterpiece : 
a very fine single-flowered variety, magenta-pink 
flushed with orange, fine pip and truss ; a true hybrid 
ivy-leaved va'iety, being a seedling from a high- 
coloured snort from Sr. George ; lst-class Certificate 
R.II.S., June 13.—J. George. 
Pelargonium (Show), Gratitude. —Dirk upper 
petals,.with distinct margin of lilac; lilac lower 
petals, slightly blotched with crimson ; very fine 
form; an improvement on Blue Boy; lst-class Cer¬ 
tificate R.II.S., June 13.—G. Smith. 
Rose, Heine Marie Menriette. — A charming 
climbing Tea-scented variety, with large and full 
globular soft pink flowers, crimson-lake when half 
open ; a good addition to this class ; also known as 
the Red Gloire de Dijon ; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., 
May 23.—R. T. Veitch. 
Viola, Champion. — A creamy white-flowered 
variety, of dwarf and compact growth; the eyes 
rayed with dark lines ; dwairf and free-blooming; 
lst-class Certificate R.II.S., June 13.—Heath & Son. 
NEW APPLIANCES. 
Mead’s Patent Replex Garden Seat and 
Table. — Combinations are usually ingenious, but 
not always serviceable; as an article arranged to 
serve two different purposes is often incomplete for 
either singly. In the case of this seat and table 
these two useful and necessary articles are well and 
easily combined, without straining to effect one at 
the expense of the other. The large arms of malleable 
iron, of a neat ornamental pattern, work on pivots in 
the end pieces in such a way as to fall down easily 
and form standards for the attached back board, 
which, by merely turning over, forms a strong firm 
table for coffee or tea at " 5 o’clock,” or whenever 
desirable. It can as instantly be changed back, no 
GARDEN SEAT AND TABLE. 
bolts, pins, or screws being used. The back, though 
straight, is placed at such an angle as to be most 
comfortable, while the seat forms, in addition, a com¬ 
modious and useful locker box, in which Bats, Balls, 
Lawn Tennis Sets, Garden Tools, Quoits, &c., can be 
stowed away; or if standing in a lobby or entrance 
hall, Gloves, Gaiters, Rugs, Riding Whips, &c., can be 
put in it. One advantage in being able to reverse 
the back is that the occupier can use the seat to sit 
on either way —often desirable in strong sunshine or 
wind. They are made of Best Pitch Pine, are also 
fitted with awnings, and a special pattern is made 
with an extra back rail, when the ordinary back is in 
use as a table.—Warhurst. 
NEW BOOKS, ETC. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (May 20—June 17) 
describes the following novelties ;— Bomareafrondea, 
Mast. (p. 668, fig. 102), noticed at page 108. Aerides 
suavissimum, Lindl. (p. 668), a rare species now 
seldom seen, grown to a height of 4 feet, bearing five 
spikes at ooe time.— Dr. Paterson. Crinum Northia- 
num, Baker (p. 671), a fine Bornean species, with 
the habit of C. asiaticum; leaves lorate ; flowers 30— 
40 in a dense umbel, with lanceolate pure white 
segments. Not vet introduced. Elaphoglossum 
Backhousianum , Moore (p. 672, figs. 103—105), 
otherwise Acrostichum Backhousianum, a fine Mexi¬ 
can fern, with simple oblong-lanceolate short-stalked 
fronds, 1J—2 feet long, the caudex slowly creeping, 
and the edge of the fronds fringed with a double row 
of brown scales; the fertile fronds are smaller and 
with longer stipes.—Backhouse & Son. Davallia 
Griffithiana, Hook. (p. 672), a handsome ever¬ 
green fern adapted for basket culture; it has long 
creeping rhizomes clothed with silvery scales, and 
dark green deltoid fronds of moderate size.— 
W. Howard. Scolopendriumvulgareden < ium > Ts.elwa.y 
(p. 673), a very remarkable sport of the common 
Hartstongue fern, in which the fronds are 3—4inches 
high, very much branched and crisped, so as to form 
little green bails, comparable to cushions of green 
velvet.—Kelway & Son. Asplenium Laffanianum , 
Baker (p. 673), otherwise JDiplazium Laffanianum, a 
Bermuda fern, with oblong deltoid bipinnate smooth 
fronds, from an erect caudex, the pinnae lanceolate, 
the pinnules oblong obtuse, the veins free, and the 
sori running nearly from the costa to the tip of the 
veins.—Kew. Cattleya labiata bella, Rchb. f. (p. 
700), a superb novelty, with large wavy flowers, 
having white sepals, delicate mauve-lilac petals, and. 
rich mauve-lilac lip marked with a darker tint 
separated by white veins, the upper part blotched 
with orange.—G. Hardy, Esq. Odontoglossum 
Schrosderianum , Rchb. f. (p. 700), a supposed wild 
hybrid, in the way of O. tripudians , with oblong 
acute white sepals and petals blotched with mauve- 
purple, and a pandurate lip, which is broader and 
larger in the binder part, smaller and obcordate in 
front; and is white with two mauve-purple spots in 
the fore part of the disc, the callus with a plate of 
radiating spines on each side, yellow with red soots. 
-—Baron Schroeder. Pha' cenopsis delicata, Rchb. f. 
(p. 700), an elegant plant, near P. intermedia , 
supposed to be a wild hybrid; the roots and leaves 
are like those of P. amabilis ; the flowers twice the 
size of those of P. eqiiestris (rosea), with the sepals 
and petals white, the latter having some amethyst 
spots at its base; the lip has the side lobes spotted 
with brown at the base, and striped with lilac over the 
middle and border, while the middle lobe is ochre- 
coloured, lilac on the anterior part.—Low & Co, 
Cyrtopera plantaginea, Lindl. (p. 700), a long known 
plant now flowered for the first time in Europe, in 
Bohemia ; it has leaves like the Calanthes, and a long 
raceme of white and green flowers, the side lobes of 
the lip bluisb-green, the middle lobe white. Mada¬ 
gascar.—Baron Hruby. Olearia Gunniana (p. 732, 
fig. 113), a handsome composite shrub, from Tasmania, 
also known as Eurybia Gunniana; it forms a bush 
3—5 feet high, with hoary branches and polymor¬ 
phous leaves, the starry flowers clothing it with a 
sheet of white ; hardy in sheltered positions or against 
a wall.—Yeitch & Sons. Miltonia Warscewiczii 
atherea, Rchb. f. (p. 732), a variety with a white lip. 
—C. Winn. Eoya globulosa, Hook. f. (p. 732, fig. 
115), a fine cool stove climber, with oblong leathery 
leaves, and globose umbels of straw-coloured flowers. 
