New Chinese Primula

The new Primula which Mr. Maries collected for Messrs. Veitch, at Tchang, will probably be useful for hybridizing purposes on account of its distinct habit; no other cultivated Primula that we know of possesses foliage which lies, as it were, flat on the soil. The delicate mauve-tinted flowers with their bifid petals will doubtless become larger, and hence more attractive under cultivation. - The Garden.

Chrysanthemum Maywood

Mr. James Taplin, Maywood, N. Y., writes: "I have to-day mailed to you flowers of my new single Chrysanthemum Maywood, which received a first-class certificate at a recent meeting of the New York Horticultural Society. I sent with it flowers of the ordinary Marguerite, or Paris Daisy, that the two might be compared."

[These were semi-double, and a great advance in improvement on the original. - Ed. G. M.]

Keiffers Hybrid

Fruited here for the last three years, and a more worthless pear I never tasted. I could never yet ripen one fit to eat. For pickling they answer admirably.

Brighton Grape

This grape has done perfectly well here thus far, ripens early and keeps a long time on the vine, and the fruit is simply delicious. The bunches should be thinned out to about one. half, as it is liable to overbear.

Lady Washington

This superb grape fruited here for several years, and to my taste is perfection. The vine is a strong, vigorous grower, and seems to be perfectly hardy. Bunches very large, and when ripened in paper bags, the berries are nearly transparent. If this grape holds out on further trial as it did so far, it will be one of the most valuable grapes we have.

Prentiss

Fruited here for the first time the past season; a vigorous grower and healthy. Bunches of medium size, very compact. Not of best quality in my estimation, although it may prove a valuable market grape.

Jefferson

Not fully tested, but the vine is a strong grower and perfectly hardy. Fruit of first quality.

Moore's Early

This grape has disappointed my expectations. Bunch small; many bunches will set only a few berries, and the fox odor is much more prominent than in the Concord or Worden's. This latter is a much better grape in every particular, though about a week later.

Black Eagle

For an amateur grape I have great faith in this one.

Duchess

Not fruited here. Vines very vigorous, healthy and hardy.

Pocklington

A strong, rampant grower, wood and leaf of Concord type.