Achimenes Meteor

A most splendid addition to this most beautiful and useful class of plants. Color, a rich crimson scarlet, with petals of great substance. It is, without exception, the finest achimena ever raised.

The best of the present achimeni are A. Behmontia - a very fine and beautiful variety, with very large flowers of a rich deep violet plum color, with a conspicuous yellow blotch in the center which is covered over with crimson spots.

Acorn

A lady has kindly sent us a most remarkable acorn from the Plains of Troy, awakening some classical allusions, but we fail to find any description in the books. She calls it the Valonia Oak.

Actaea Rubra And Alba, (Necklace Weed.)

Before leaving the deep rich soil of the vale, we may find these plants, with clusters of small white flowers; but they are better known

This plant produces a single spike of small white flowers, nearly one loot in height. It exhibits the same tenderness which belongs to most of the flowers of this period. It accompanies the following species, which it much resembles, in the borders of moist woods.

Acuba Japonica

There are many individual specimens in gardens. It requires continual shade. The summer sun seems more hurtful than the frosts of winter. Its beautiful foliage affords a pleasing feature, and might be more frequently introduced in shady places.

Ad-Interim Report

The ad-interim report from the Committee of the American Pomological Society, will be found of the highest interest. The new! fruits ripened the past season, have undergone the scrutiny of the Committee, and they give their unbiassed opinions in a manner highly satisfactory; their labors will attract the attention of all persons interested in these important topics.

The length of the above report has prevented the insertion, this month, of " Visits to Country Places, around Newport;" Mr. Chorlton's excellent article on " Peas" supersedes one of the "Old Digger's" on the same subject, and contains later information as to kinds to be selected for growth. The interesting biography of Loudon being concluded in the present number, we shall have more space in our next to devote to our correspondents. .

Adiantum Gracillimum

"One of the most elegant ferns in existence. Introduced in England by B. S. Williams. Its fronds are about a foot in length, and some 8 inches to 9 inches across the widest part They are very distinctly five times pinnate. The texture of the frond is very thin and fragile, and its color is a very pale yellowish-tinted olive-green. The multiplicity of minute pinnules, and the almost invisible ramifications of the roots give the plant a peculiarly charming appearance - The Florist.

Adiantum Patens

From Messrs. Veitch and Son, Exeter and Chelsea. This is an extremely elegant stove fern, producing a tuft of erect fronds, which in this instance were a foot or more in height, though the plant was not fully developed. The fronds are bright green, pedately branched, the branches being pinnate; the pinnules oblong, very obtusely rounded, somewhat curved backwards, crenately-lobed, and bearing a few reniform-orbic-ular sori. The plant was awarded a first-class certificate of merit, as being a desirable species of a highly ornamental character. It had been obtained from the continental gardens, as a species of Lindsaea.