Colored Plates Of Fruits

The June Horticultural Art Journal has plates of the Arkansas apple - a very pretty dark red of large size, said to be a first class variety for the South. The Shannon is another Arkansas apple, large and yellow. The Puyallup Mammoth gooseberry, a variety of the English race, but raised in Oregon; and a very good illustration of the Pocklington grape.

Varieties Of Turnip

It is wonderful to contemplate how great has been the improvement in garden vegetables during the past quarter of a century. There is now so much variety that every class of taste may be suited. The Lan-dreths have issued a colored plate in which are no less than thirteen kinds of various forms, from long like a carrot to a perfect globe. When cooked the taste is as various as the form. The yellows especially have a wholly different flavor from the whites.

Large Cherries

A Germantown correspondent sends us some cherries of Napoleon Bigga-reau, which he asks through the Monthly whether any larger have been produced of that variety. They measured just three inches round.

Downingia

This pretty annual, named after our famous Downing, and often grown in gardens under the erroneous name of Clintonia, seems likely to be reduced to the old genus Lobelia. A new species has been discovered, named by Greene D. concolor, which he says "has a cleft corolla, too much like Lobelia".

Aphyllon Fasciculatum

Mr. W. L. Morris of Des Moines, Iowa, sends fine specimens of this pretty root parasite, which is closely allied to the Broom-rapes of Europe, growing on zonale geraniums in pots, that were cuttings last October. As the seeds have to sprout, take hold, grow and flower and produce seed within six months, it proves that the plant is an annual of very rapid growth. Some were on the young roots - and one on the main stem of the cutting, which, though under ground is scarcely a root.

Floral Conformation Of The Genus Cy-Pripedium

Dr. M. T. Masters, the author of the interesting work " Teratology" which treats of vegetable malformations, has given us a treatise much of this character, on Cypripedium, in which those who make an intelligent study of orchids, will find much to interest them.

Latin Names For Garden Varieties

The English garden folk, who insisted on changing the name of our Arbor Vitae, Tom Thumb, to Thuja Ellwangeriana, and Geo. Peabody to T. aurea ele-gantissima, and we do not know what, are now about tired of Latin names, and are trying to come to our plain ways in these cases. Hereafter all garden varieties are to have English and no more Latin names. Botanical species will, of course, continue to have their Latin names used as before.