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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST, 
[October, 
as A. glccuca ; it has a tall naked stem, aculeolate 
stipes, and bipinnate coriaceous fronds. — Com- 
pagnie Cont. d’Hort. Encephalartos cycadifolius 
Frederici Guilielmi, Rod. [t. 459], a stout-stemmed 
Cycad, with erect pinuate leaves, the leaflets of 
which are linear plane 7—9 nerved, and lanuginose, 
the apex of the trunk being densely tomentose.— 
South Africa. Nepenthes Henryana and N. Law- 
renceana , Hort. Aug. [t. 460], two tine hybrid pitcher 
plants, of which many forms have recently appeared ; 
both these have the pitchers handsomely marbled with 
brownish red, but those of the former are more 
elongated than those of the latter. 
Gartenflora (July—Aug.) figures Fendrobium 
lituiflorum Freemanni, Robb. f. [t. 1086], named 
Farmeri on plate, a very pretty form with pale rosy 
sepals and petals and a white dark-eyed lip, the eye 
surrounded by a yellowish white zone. Gentiana 
decumbens, L. [t. 1087, fig. 1—3], a handsome 
dwarf hardy perennial from Eastern Turkestan, 
with a rosulate tuft of elongate-lanceolate leaves, 
and congested heads of rich blue flowers; it was 
grown by Loddiges in 1804. Gentiana Kesselringi , 
Regel [t. 1087, fig. 4, 5], a glabrous perennial with 
a radical tuft of linear-lanceolate leaves, and white 
flowers in close racemed heads terminating the eight- 
inch stems; also from Turkestan. Eucalyptus 
globulus, Labill. [t. 1088], a portrait of a full grown 
tree reproduced from the Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
Agave Goeppertiana, Regel (p. 211, with woodcut), a 
Mexican caulescent species, with broadly lanceolate 
leaves 2 ft. long, attenuated into a short conical 
chestnut-coloured spiny point with minute crowded 
deltoid marginal teeth ; the flower stem grows 5—6 
ft. high, and terminates in a dense elongate close-set 
spike of flowers; comes near A. densiflora.—Botanic 
Garden, Breslau. Allium OstrowsJcianum, Regel. 
[t. 1089], a rather pretty Turkestan garlic, with 
subglobose bulbs, 2—3 linear oblong flaccid leaves, 
and flower T stems 8—12 inches high, bearing an umbel 
of pretty but scarcely showy rosy-coloured flowers.— 
St. Petersburg Botanic Garden. Hierdceum villo- 
sum, Bin. [t. 1090], a yellow-flowered hardy peren¬ 
nial Composite. Musa Ensete, Grnel. [t. 1091], an 
Abyssiman plant now well known, and often em¬ 
ployed for summer decoration in subtropical gardens. 
Revue de L’Horticulture Belge et 
Etrangebe (Aug.—Sept.) has a beautiful figure of 
Fraccena Massangeana , which has severally borne 
the names of Aletris fragrans Wachaeana, and 
Aletris fragrans foliis medio-pictik The plant has 
the leaves elegantly striped with yellow down the 
centre and margiued with deep green.—M. Jaoob- 
Makoy. Tbe same number contains a portrait of 
Dr. Masters, F.R.S. Le Progress Coleus, an elegant 
variety, in which red, white, and yellow tints prevail, 
with or without a green foundation. 
La Belgique Horticole (March—May) contains 
the following coloured illustrations :— MasdevaWa 
rosea , Lindl. [t. 3], a charming species found by 
Hartweg in 1843, in Ecuador, and having somewhat 
the aspect of M. ignea, except that the flowers are of 
a lively rose colour; it is one of the hardiest of tbe 
species.—M. Ferd. Massange. Quesnelia rufa. Gaud, 
[tt. 4, 5, 6], the Quesnelia rosea and BiUbergia 
Quesneliana Ad. Brongn., a very handsome Bromeliad 
from Guiana and Brazil, of caulescent habit, with 
long narrow taper-pointed serrated leaves, and a 
compact strobililorm inflorescence issuing from lan¬ 
ceolate acuminate whity-brown spathes, the flowers 
deep blue emerging from ovate rosy red bracts which 
have white margins.—Liege Botanic Gardens—where 
the flowering plant represented in t. 6 is between 
8 and 9 feet high. The number contains a transla¬ 
tion of Mr. Fawkes’ Horticultural Buildings, with' 
44 woodcut illustrations. 
Journal des Roses (Aug.—Sept.) figuresthe Moss 
Bose Feuil de Paul Fontaine , raised by M. Fontaine, 
of Clamart, near Paris, and introduced to commerce 
in 1873 ; it is a vigorous rose, with stout foliage and 
very mossy prickly stems, the flowers full and cup- 
sliaped, and of a deep shaded crimson. Tea Rose 
Emelie Dupuy, a fine pale yellow variety deeper in 
the centre, raised from Madame Falcot fertilised by 
Gloire de Dijon, in 1869, by M. Levet, of Lyons. 
Bulletin d’Arboriculture, &c. (July) figures 
tbe Pear Fijzeling, a handsome looking fruit, for 
notes on which see page 156. 
Revue Horticole (Aug. 1 —Sept. 16) has coloured 
figures of Apple “ Rouble bon Pommier,” and the 
Grape Raisin Turc (Henab Turki), an Egyptian 
Vine which we shall notice later on. Eupatorium 
grandiflorum, an ornamental Composite, with cordate 
serrated leaves, and large corymbose heads of rosy 
pink flowers, becoming paler after expansion ; it is a 
hardy perennial of some merit. Pear Madame 
Caroline d’Airoles, a bluntly oval fruit, raised in 1850, 
of a greenish brown colour. 
Garten-Zeitung (Aug.—Sept.) figures a nice- 
looking Apple of the Calville type, named Wilhelm 
von Eisner, obtained by Herr Martin Eisner, of 
Gronow, near Kalinowitz, and named after his father. 
The September number gives two plates in illustra¬ 
tion of Dr. Paul Sorauer’s remarks on the injury 
caused by Frost to the branches of fruit-trees. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
— <!The Horticultural event of the year has 
been the Great International Fruit and 
Flower Show, which took place on September 
13 and 14, in the "VVaverley Market at Edin¬ 
burgh, a covered area of about lj acres, well glazed 
and lighted, and convenient of access. The Royal 
Caledonian Horticultural Society, under whose 
auspices this great exhibition has been held, deserves 
the grat.ilude of gardeners for its spirited policy. 
The schedule of prizes was a liberal one, amounting 
to over £1,000. We understand that the response 
was of a corresponding nature, there having been no 
less than 2,200 entries, and the exhibits occupying 
the whole of the large available space. Edinburgh is 
specially well provided with a building for the hold¬ 
ing of such large displays, the new Waverley Market 
in Princes Street beiim superior to anything of the 
sorb we have in England. Grapes, which in the 
North always form a special feature, were represented 
by about 1,500 bunches, and were of fair average 
merit. The champion of the day in the fruit classes 
was unquestionably Mr. Mclndoe, gardener to Sir ,1. 
Pease, Bart., Hutton Hall, Yorkshire, who not only 
was awarded two of the Yeitch Memorial Medals for 
his beautiful examples of Gros Guillaume Grapes and 
his collection of twelve varieties of fruit, but also 
gained numerous first prizes (see also p. 153). 
- Hmongst the notable events of the past 
month may be mentioned the Grand Na¬ 
tional Dahlia Show at the Crystal Palace on 
September 8 and 9; and the International Po¬ 
tato Exhibition on September 20 and 21. The 
entries for the former show, which is more fully 
noticed at p. 145, included 9 stands of 48 blooms, 28 
stands of 24 blooms, 38 stands of 12 blooms, and 14 
stands of 6 blooms, besides a fine display of Pompons 
and Singles. 
— Che Trial Potatos at Chiswick were 
examined by a Committee on September 5, 
with the result that the following varieties 
