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REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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merits of which seem to be fairly established; it is 
as large and as handsome as President, with a richer 
and more sprightly flavour; fruit large, evenly 
conical or broadly cockscomb-shaped, dark red, the 
surface deeply pitted, with moderate-sized seeds; 
flesh firm, tinged with pale scarlet throughout, solid, 
juicy, with a brisk flavour and fine aroma. Raised 
by Mr. Forman, of Louth, from the variety named 
James Veitch ; 1st prize at Nottingham in 1875. 
Strawberry, President V. Meurein. —This variety 
belongs to the Alpine section, surpassing in size and 
fertility all that have hitherto appeared. The fruit 
is deep red, roundish-conical, as large as the Pine 
Strawberry, with a firm flesh and an exquisite flavour. 
It is moreover very productive. Raised by M. 
Aramburu, of Lille, and awarded a lst-class Certificate 
by the French Societe Regionale d'Horticulture da 
Nord. Sent out by M. Mulie, of Neuville-en-Ferrain. 
NEW VEGETABLES. 
Potato, Alderman de Keyser, a very early pale 
pink kidney, very handsome, a great cropper, and of 
excellent quality; lst-class Certificate International 
Potato Show, Sept. 13, 1882.—R. Fenn. 
Potato, James Abbiss, a handsome fiattish round 
white variety, early, of medium growth, a great 
cropper, fine quality; lst-class Certificate Inter¬ 
national Potato Show, Sept. 13, 1882.—R. Fenn. 
Potato, Recorder , a very fine and handsome white 
kidney, short top, early, a great cropper, and having 
very fine table quality; lst-class Certificate Inter¬ 
national Potato Show, Sept. 13, 1882.—R. Dean. 
Potato, Sir Walter Raleigh, & very good cooking 
fiattish round white variety; haulm about 3 feet; 
excellent flavour and a great cropper; lst-class 
Certificate International Potato Show, Sept. 13,1882. 
—C. Ross. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Aug. 26—Sept. 
16) describes the following novelties:— Fuchsia 
triphylla, Lin. (p. 263), a West Indian species, long 
since described, but not till now introduced; an 
ornameutal shrub, of dwarf and neat bushy habit, 
with medium sized ovate leaves, and terminal nod¬ 
ding racemes of glowing cinnabar-red flowers, in 
which tbe petals are shorter than the sepals and the 
stamens are included.—E. G. Henderson & Son. 
Crassula monticola, N. E. Brown (p. 264), a dwarf- 
branched shrubby species, with opposite connate 
ovate acute leaves, and terminal corymbose cymes of 
pinkish white flowers; South Africa.—Cambridge 
Bot. Garden. Kcempferia vittata, N. E. Brown 
(p. 264), a Sumatran stove perennial, with oblique 
elliptic obtuse apiculate leaves, dark green prettily 
marked with a feathery grey stripe along the centre, 
and curious white flowers, the middle lobe having a 
central band of yellow.—Veitch & Sons. Anthwmm 
longipes, N. E. Brown (p. 297), a stove Arad, with 
creeping stems, erect narrow oblong leaves on very 
long slender petioles, and light green reflexed lanceo¬ 
late spathes, nearly 4 inches long; Bahia.— Kew. 
Schismatoglottis Lavallei purpurea, N. E. Brown 
(p. 298), and S. L. immaculata (p. 298), two varieties 
of a pretty variegated Arad, the first from Sumatra 
with the grey-blotched leaves purple beneath, the 
second from Java with the unspotted leaves purple 
beneath.—Veitch & Sons, and Compagnie Continen- 
tale d’Horticulture. Arum elongatum, Steven (p. 
298), a Crimean tuberous perennial, with elongate 
sagittate hastate leaves, and a 6—9 inch elongate 
lanceolate acuminate spathe blackish-purple inside 
the limb. Soya lasiantha, Kortlials (p. 333, fig. 57), 
a Bornean climber, first introduced some 25 years ago, 
and having opposite smooth ovate elliptic leaves, and 
drooping umbels of orange-yellow flowers of which 
the basal half is densely clothed with soft white 
hairs, the projecting corona being ochreous yellow ; 
also called Plocostemma lasianthum. —Veitch & Sons. 
Aglaone.ma Hookerianum, Schott (p. 333), a North¬ 
east Indian Arad, with dark green elliptic-ovate 
leaves, and green boat-shaped spathes.—Kew. Den- 
drobium Dearei, Rchb. f. (p. 361), a fine new Eastern 
Dendrobe, with stems 1—2 ft. high, oblong-ligulate 
leaves scarcely 2 inches long, and a raceme of 8—18 
large white flowers having a yellow spot on the disk, 
and resembling those of D. infundibulum and I). 
Jamesianum. 
The Botanical Magazine (Sept.) figures the 
following:— Impaticus Sultani , Hook. f. [t. 6643], 
the pretry scarlet-flowered balsam from Zanzibar.— 
Kew. Bacularia monostacliya , F. Muell. [t. 6644], 
a small-growing palm (4—12 ft.) with slender ringed 
stems, and a band of numerous recurved pinnatisect 
leaves 2—4 ft. long, having ligulate plaited truncate 
segments, and slender drooping spadices bearing the 
unattractive flowers ; it is an Australian plant and is 
called the 'Walking-stick Palm; and also Areca mono- 
stachya, and Kentia monostachya.- —Kew. Pceonia 
Wittmanniana, Steven [t. 6645], a pale yellow- 
flowered Pseony from the Caucasus and Armenia, in¬ 
troduced in 1842, but still scarce ; 2—3 ft. high ; 
flowers 4 inches in diameter. Berberis Thunbergii 
1).C. [t. 6646], a small twiggy Japanese Berberry, 
with reddish brown branches armed with simple spines, 
small obovate or spathulate leaves in tufts along the 
branches, and numerous small drooping flowers, which 
are straw-coloured suffused with red, more red than 
yellow.- Kew. Bredia hirsuta, Blunie [t. 6647], a 
small shrub 2—3 feet high, with ovate 5—7 nerved 
leaves, and lax panicled cymes of small rosy flowers; 
from Japan. Catasetum callosum , Lindl. [t. 6648], 
a Venezuelan epiphyte, with curious long narrow 
brown flowers. 
The Garden (Aug. 26—Sept. 16) contains co¬ 
loured figures of— Spatlioglottis Lobbii [pi. 34l ) 
fig. 1], a Blelia-like terrestrial Orchid, with pretty 
yellow flowers having the lower sepals streaked with 
red.—India. Ipsea speciosa [pi. 341, fig. 2], a 
Ceylon terrestrial Orchid, with an erect stem 1|—2 
feet high, bearing 2—3 large golden yellow flow'ers. 
Impaticus Sultani, Hook f. [pi. 352], a bright-look¬ 
ing Balsam from Tropical Africa, of dwarf habit, 
with fine carmine-red flowers —Kew. Kypocalymna 
robustum [pi. 353], a pretty myrtaceous New Holland 
shrub, of gracefully twiggy growth, with linear 
leaves, in the axils of which are clustered the pretty 
five-petalled peach-coloured flowers. Ranunculus 
anemonoides [pi. 354], a neat-looking dwarf Alpine, 
with biter uate multi fid leaves, and many-petalled 
flowers, which are white on the inner and purplish 
on the outer surface. 
L’Illustration IIorticole (7—8 liv.) contains 
figures of Aerides Houlletianum, Rchb. f. [t. 455], a 
very beautiful epiphyte from Cochinchina, with the 
habit and foliage of A. virens, and a dense many- 
flowered raceme of large fleshy flowers, the sepals and 
petals buff yellow, the lip trifid with tbe bifid anterior 
lobe trowel-shaped, white tipped with rosy purple ; this 
has been noted as A. Ellisi, and as A. Mendelii in 
some gardens.—M. Luddemann, Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
and M. Linden. Anthurium Lindenianum , C. Koch 
et Augustin [t. 456], a very handsome but little 
known species, from New Grenada, with long stalked 
spreading cordate bright green leaves, and large 
oblong erect spathes which open whitish and after¬ 
wards become tinted with rose-colour, the cylindrical 
spadix being at first reddish, changing to brown.— 
M. Linden. Aphelandra Chamissoniana [t. 457, as 
punctata\, a pretty stove Acanthad, with the green 
leaves white passing off into dots along the course of 
the ribs; the spike has reflexed yellow bracts and 
flowers of a more brilliant yellow. Alsophila con- 
taminans. Wall. [t. 458], a fine tree fern known also 
