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fragrance these are our most charming white 
roses. The flowers are freely produced 
throughout June and the summer months. 
The varieties belonging to the type are Eliza 
Boelle, Mad. Noman, and Mad. Oswald de 
Kerchove. 
Mad. A. de Rougemont tape.— The varieties 
of this type differ greatly from those of the 
preceding. The habit of growth is free or 
vigorous, the wood is smoother, the foliage 
more oval and glaucous like the Bourbon roses. 
The flowers are even more freely produced 
than those of the other type, but are inferior 
to them in quality. The principal sorts are : 
Baronne de Maynard, Coquette des Alpes, 
Coquette des Blanches, Mad. Auguste Perrin, 
Mad. Franqois Pittet, Perfection des Blanches. 
Gloire de Dijon type.— The head of this 
family was sent out in 1853, and is the variety 
from which most of the Climbing Teas have 
sprung. Young plants of this type are often 
difficult to start after being rooted from cut¬ 
tings, but when well established grow luxuri¬ 
antly. The parentage of Gloire de Dijon is 
unknown, but I believe it must have originated 
from a natural cross between some Bourbon 
and Noisette (Tea-scented) Roses. The foliage 
shows much of the Bourbon character ; the 
flowers are of globular form, very large, and 
full. Varieties belonging to this type are: 
Antonia Decarli, Belle Lyonnaise, Gloire 
de Bordeaux, Jean Lorthois, Mad. Berard, 
Mad. Trifle, Marie Bertin.—These types are 
about all that are really distinct. 
Among the Hybrid Teas it is likely that a 
separation into groups will be desirable at 
some time in the future, as this is destined to 
be an increasing class, hut at the present time 
La France represents the class in a sufficiently 
distinct way. 
The Teas might be arranged in family 
groups, but this is a task which I shall not 
attempt until some other time. It would be a 
division less useful than those given.—H. B. 
Ellwanger, Rochester, N.Y. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Croton Eyrei, Hort .—A neat-habited and very 
elegant hybrid Croton with long narrow recurved 
leaves, very freely variegated with golden yellow, 
the young branches and petioles red ; the leaves have 
a very pleasing twdst, and seem to colour well in a 
young state ; it is a hybrid between C. Johannis and 
majesticus ; lst-class Certificate R.II.S., Oct. 10.— 
C. Ross. 
Cypbipediuji Arthurianum, Rchh.f .— A very 
fine hybrid raised between C. insign e, and C. Fair- 
rieanum ; it has a very fine dorsal sepal which is pale 
green, tipped -with white, and ornamented with clear 
dark pencillings; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., Oct. 
10.—Veitch & Sons. 
Cyprifedium reticulatum, RM. f. (Xenia 
Orchid., in, 223 ; Oard. Chron., N. s., xviii., 520),— 
A remarkably distinct and singular species of Lady’s 
Slipper, of quite a new type as compared with the 
species previously known in cultivation. It comes 
from Ecuador, and is of vigorous habit, with a strong 
woody rhizome and a paniculate inflorescence, some¬ 
times consisting of as many as seven flowers. The 
leaves are ligulate acuminate, nearly three feet long, 
dark green and rough like shagreen leather on the 
upper side. The flowers, which emerge from ligulate 
ancipitous carinate bracts, are apple green -when they 
first open, the centre of the sepals becoming whitish 
later on ; the dorsal sepal is ligulate, the inferior one 
oblong, both much crisped, and reticulately nerved, 
while the lip forms a blunt pouch, the whitish- 
yellow inflexed portion covered with blotches,.which 
are mostly green, but a few of them sepia browm. It 
was found by the late G. Wallis, and has been col¬ 
lected for Messrs. Low and Messrs. Veitch, the latter 
of whom have recently flowered it. 
Cupressus Lawsoniana erecta alba, Hort. 
—An interesting and ornamental variety of the 
Lawson Cypress, but having no claim to iank with 
erecta viridis as regards its habit. It is in fact a 
variety of slender twiggy growth, stiff and compact, 
but feathery at the points, and of a rich glaucous 
whitish-grey or silvery hue; lst-class Certificate 
R.I1.S., Oct. 10—L. F.'Davis. 
IIaberlea RHODOPENSIS, FrivaldsTcy (Rot. Mag., 
t. 6651).—A charming little hardy perennial of the 
Gesneraceous order, closely related to Ramondia, 
and found abundantly on the southern declivity of 
the Balkans. It is a stemless plant, with radical 
obovate or oblong-oval, deeply crenate hairy leaves, 
and stout purple-brown scapes 4—6 inches high 
bearing 2—5 pretty umbellate drooping flowers of a 
pale lilac colour, with a tubular corolla having an 
obscurely two-lipped limb with rounded emarginate 
lobes. Flowers in April.—Kew. 
Lavatera arborea yariegata, Hort. — The 
Tree Mallow is an evergreen shrub which will stand 
uninjured in all moderately mild winters and in 
favourable situations. The variegated variety re¬ 
sembles the type in all but the variegation of its 
ample deeply lobed foliage, which shows an elegant 
and effective combination of dark greet), pale green¬ 
ish grey, and pure white. It is said to come true 
from seeds, and is likely to be a grand ornamental 
plant for large beds during summer. Plants potted 
up and kept in a cool house during winter will make 
splendid specimens the second season. See p. 106. 
Lilittm auratum virginale, Hort. —Not a new 
but a rare form, with white flowers wanting the 
usual spotting found in the blooms of this fine 
species, and being simply banded with yellow; it is a 
distinct and pleasing variety ; lst-class Certificate 
R.II.S., July 25.—Veitch & Sons. 
Mormodes pardina l t nicolor, HooTcer. —A 
handsome and now little grown Mexican Orchid, 
with stout oblong pseudobulbs a foot high, plaited 
lanceolate leaves, and long radical drooping racemes 
of fine singularly formed ye’low flowers, which have 
a powerful and delicious aromatic perfume; lst- 
class Certificate R.II.S., Oct. 10.—Veitch & Sons. 
Nepenthes nigro-pubpi t rea ( Gard. Chron., 
N. s. xviii., 425, fig. 70).—A very distinct and 
handsome Pitcher plant recently introduced from 
Borneo, and probably of specific rank. The cylin¬ 
drical stems bear leathery glabrescent leaves, acute 
at both ends, and pouch or bag-shaped pitchers 
which are of a dull purplish-browm colour, almost 
self-coloured, being marked only by a few scattered 
paler spots; these pitchers are about six inches long 
by two and a half inches in diameter, and have a 
