. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. st of its race. It seems indeed a tree come down to nestle on theGrass.] The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has issued itsschedule of prizes for tho year 187G. Among them are 60 dollarseach for the best seedling Pear, Apple, and hardy Grape, withsmaller ones for the small fruits, and nearly equal premiums for newflowers and vegetables, to ho awarded mostly after a trial of threeyears. Tho Whitoomb premium of 200 dollars is offeroil for thelirst seedling Potato urigiualcd since 1870, and to be awarded in isrs. M
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. st of its race. It seems indeed a tree come down to nestle on theGrass.] The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has issued itsschedule of prizes for tho year 187G. Among them are 60 dollarseach for the best seedling Pear, Apple, and hardy Grape, withsmaller ones for the small fruits, and nearly equal premiums for newflowers and vegetables, to ho awarded mostly after a trial of threeyears. Tho Whitoomb premium of 200 dollars is offeroil for thelirst seedling Potato urigiualcd since 1870, and to be awarded in isrs. Mae. 25, 1876.] THE GARDEN. 281 THE INDOOR GARDEN. NEW DOUBLE WHITE EPACRIS. (ePACHIS )Tins is the first double-flowered Epacris wliicli has beenintrodviced to our gardens. It forms a vigorous little bush,a good example of which was exhibited by Mr. W. Bull at themeeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, which took placeon March 1st, when it received a first-class ceitifioate, a dis-tinction which it well deserved, for we believe that it will be. New Double White Epacris. largely grown as a decorative plant when plentiful enough fordistribution. It has deep green ovate-acnminate leaves, andaxillai-y flowers of the purest white, each about ^ in. indiameter, and as double as the blooms of a white doubts were expressed at the meeting in question as tothe identity of this plant with E. onosmfeflora, a pointrespecting which Mr. Bull gives the following particulars :— Before my plant was exhibited there had not, I believe,been a living plant of the double-flowered Epacris seen in thiscountry. I have been years trying to import it, but until lastyear always failed to get it alive. The double Epacris alludedto in Seamans Journal of Botany is in thejKew Herbarium,a dried specimen, but no liring plant of it has been seen in this country. Obviously a dritd specimen in a herbarium is a verydiflerent thing from introduced living plants. However,
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