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FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS
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CHOICEST NEW FLOWERS
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Garden, Stove, or Conserbatory.
BY THE
REV. H. HONYWOOD DOMBRAIN, A.B.
HON. SEC. OF THE METROPOLITAN FLORAL SOCIETY.
THE DRAWINGS BY WORTHINGTON G. SMITH, F.L.S.
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CONTENTS.
. Vriesia brachystachys.
. Bicolor Pelargonium—Mareschal M’ Mahon.
3. Gladiolus—Nestor.
. Verbenas — Emma Weaver, Pink Queen,
Carnation.
. Begonia Intermedia.
}. Antirrhinums — Delicatum and William
Robinson.
. Dahlia—John Standish.
. Aichmea Marie Regine.
9. Primula Japonica, var. Lilacina.
. Rose—Lord Eldon.
. Fucshia—Splendens.
. Aucuba luteocarpa.
3. Cyclamen persicum, vars. Queen of Crimsons,
Snowflake, and Purpureum.
Marvel.
. Masdevallia ignea.
. Azalea
). Draceena excelsa.
. Celosia Huttoni.
. Single varieties of Chinese Primrose.
. Cinerarias—John Standish and Lady Kal-
morey.
. Toxicophlea spectabilis.
. Tricopilia fragrans.
. Amaryllis—Olga.
. Double varieties of Chinese Primrose.
. Dracena metallica.
. Camellia—Souvenir d’ Emile Defresne.
26. Odontoglossum Denisone.
. Auricula—Alderman Wisbey.
. Masdevallia Lindeni.
. Fancy Pansies—James Neilson, Lady Ross,
John B. Downie, and David Mitchell.
. Azalea—Beauty of Surrey.
. Hyacinth—Excelsior.
2. Cattleya Mendeli.
3. Lilium Californicum.
. Coleus Tryoni.
35. Lycaste Skinneri alba, and nigro-rubra.
36. Hibiscus (Rosa simensis) miniatus semiplenus.
. Bedding Violas and Pansies.
. Wallflower-leaved Pyramidal Stock—Mauve
Beauty.
. Persian Ranuneulus—Columbia, Argo, and
Hilda.
. Oncidium—Creesus.
11. Double Zonal Pelargonium— Jewel.
2. Tea Kose—Cheshunt Hybrid.
3. Gladiolus—Jupiter.
. Tillandsia Lindeni vera.
5. Odontoglossum Andersonianum.
.6. Hibiscus (Rosa sinensis) albo-variegatus.
. Calceolarias—Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Forest.
.8. Rose—Madame George Schwartz.
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Aichmea Marie Regine .
Amaryllis—Olga
Antirrhinums — Dslicleaw and William
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Aucuba luteocarpa.. ;
Auricula—A lderman Wishey :
Azalea—Beauty of Surrey
Azalea— Marvel
Begonia intermedia
Calceolarias—Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Forest
Camellia—Souvenir d’ Emile Defresne
Cattleya Mendeli .
Celosia Huttoni.
Cinerarias — John Standish
Kilmorey .
Coleus Tryoni .
Cyclamen persicum, vars. Gace of eine
sons, Snowflake, and Purpureum
Dahlia—John Standish .
Draczena excelsa
Draczena_ metallica .
Fuchsia—Splendens
Gladiolus—J upiter
Gladiolus—Nestor .
Hibiscus (Rosa stnensis) albo-variegatus .
Hibiscus (/osa sinensis) miniatus semiplenus
Hyacinth—Excelsior .
Tnlium Californicum . ;
Lycaste Skinneri alba, and nigro- aba :
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Masdevallia ignea .
Masdevallia Lindeni .
Odontoglossum Andersonianum
Odontoglossum Denisonze
Oncidium—Creesus.
Pansies, Fancy—James Neilson, Lady Ross,
John B. Downie, and David Mitchell .
Pelargonium, bicolor—Mareschal M’ Mahon
Pelargonium, double zonal—Jewel.
Primrose, Chinese—double varieties .
Primrose, Chinese—single varieties
Primula Japonica, var. Lilacina
Ranunculus, Persian—Columbia, Argo, and
Hilda
Rose—Lord Eldon
Rose—Madame George dunes
Rose, Tea—Cheshunt Hybrid .
Stock, Wallflower-leaved Pyramidal—Mauve
Beauty .
Tillandsia Lindeni vera .
Toxicophlea spectabilis .
Trichopilia fragrans
Verbenas — Emma Weaver, Pink Queen,
Carnation .
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JANUARY, 1872.
[No. l.
EXHIBITIONS.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Dec. 6th.
Ove of the greatest boons conferred by this Society
on horticulture has been their monthly or bi-monthly
Wednesday meetings. They afford an opportunity to
those interested in gardening in any of its branches,
of meeting together during the dull months of the
year, when much has to be talked about, although,
perhaps, but little to be seen. They also permit of
products being brought before the public, which would
otherwise be kept either in the nursery or private garden.
The intense frost in the early part of the month
prevented growers from sending in any tender plants to
the monthly exhibition on the 6th of December, but
there was still a sufficiently interesting collection : prizes
were offered for twenty-four cut blooms of chrysan-
themums and, notwithstanding the very unfavourable
nature of the season, some very nice collections were
exhibited, the first prize being awarded to Mr. Rowe,
gardener at the Rookery, Roehampton ; the second to
Mr. Douglas, gardener at Loxford Hall. Amongst the
blooms exhibited were Dr. Masters, Red Dragon, John
Salter, Chang, Apollo, Lady Hardinge, Mr. Brunlees,
&c. Mr. Goddard, gardener to Mr. Little, Cambridge
Villa, Twickenham, had the very darkest cyclamen we
have yet seen, and which we hope to figure before long ;
it is called Queen of Crimsons, and well deserves the
name. There were some examples of a new strain
of Chinese primula with white flowers, and measuring
from one inch and a half to two inches across; also some
nice specimens of berry-bearing hardy shrubs; and ex-
amples of the Yew and Cypress type, exhibited by Messrs.
Standish and Co., Ascot, who also showed a plant of
asparagus decumbens, with a slender trailing habit of
growth, and likely to be very valuable for cutting for
bouquets, so that although the variety was small, there
were many objects of interest.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
Unper this head we purpose noticing from time to
time some of those contrivances which are being con-
tinually introduced, for the purpose of aiding the
gardener, and more especially the amateur gardener,
in his pleasant labour of love, and we may class as
amongst the most useful of these—
RENDLE’S PLANT PROTECTORS, AND
LOOKER’S ACME FRAME.
We class these together for, although somewhat dif-
ferent in appearance, they are made upon the same
principle—viz., a combination of earthenware and glass.
Probably the first effort of the kind was that of the
Curate’s Vinery of Mr. Rivers; this was, however, of
wood and glass. Mr. Rendle’s is simply brick and
glass, while Mr. Looker’s has besides a wooden moveable
frame. We can testify to the great value of these in-
ventions ; we have tried them as protectors for lettuces
in the winter and spring, as means of forcing straw-
berries, bringing them into fruit fully a fortnight
before those in the open grounds, for pricking out seed-
ling plants of flowers before transplanting into beds ;
and inall these cases we can conscientiously recommend
them. It has been objected to them that they are
liable to breakage ; we have not found them so. They
require a little care in putting up, but the instructions
given are ample and clear, and if followed out, cannot
fail to command success. In small gardens they are
invaluable, being not unsightly, and easily removed
from one part of the ground to the other; they are,
moreover, most reasonable in price, so that no amateur
need be without them.
REVIEWS.
The Orchid Growers Manual. By Benjamin 8, WittuMs,
F.R.H.8. Fourth Edition, enlarged and revised,
with Illustrations. 1871.
THERE is always a difficulty in combining sound
scientific knowledge with popular and readable instruc-
tion. On the one hand, the man of science is so
wedded to his own way of seeing and describing the very
simplest things, that his writing is likely to be so dull and
uninteresting that the general public will not care to
read it; while there is the danger that he who writes
popularly will be so ignorant of, or so indifferent to
scientific details, that it deprives his writings of any
permanent value or any real authority. In the book
now before us we have combined both thorough know-
ledge of the subjects on which the author writes, and
also a pleasant and agreeable method of communicating
information. It is true that Mr. Williams disclaims
any idea of dealing with orchidaceous plants from a
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scientific point of view, but withal it is clear that it is
the work of one who could do so if needed, and who
so writes that scientific men can accept his statements.
In this edition the author has introduced some illus-
trations, “and thoroughly and carefully revised the text,
which has received many additions under the heads
of both cultural treatment and descriptions of recently
introduced orchids ;” and as Mr. Williams has long
been known as one of our most successful cultivators
and exhibitors of orchids, it cannot but be that all that
is necessary for understanding them and their growth
is here given. It is no slight thing to be able to say
that his work has not only been the means of assisting
amateurs in their cultivation, but also of inducing
many other plant-lovers to attempt their cultivation.
In fact, his work has now come to be regarded as the
standard work on orchid culture.
The clear good sense with which Mr. Williams writes is
manifest all through his work. Take, for example,
where he speaks about imitating the natural condition
in which orchids are found growing, but which, he
says, may after all be fallacious; for if we are to
imitate nature, it must be where nature is in her best
garb, while many of those who see orchids growing in
their natural habitats see them as we may see many of
our native plants growing in unsuitable localities, and
consequently stunted and ill-favoured; while it can be
hardly questioned that in our own orchid houses may
be seen finer specimens than travellers have ever met
with in their native habitats. But it is needless to
dwell further on the merits of the book. AJ] who care
to grow orchids or to understand their culture will do
well to possess themselves of a book which so thoroughly
meets their wants.
Domestic Botany. An Exposition of the Structure and
Classification of Plants, and of their Uses for Food,
Clothing, Medicine, and Manufacturing Purposes.
By Joun Smiru, A.L.S., Ex-Curator of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reeve and Co.
A Book for those who wish to know whence comes the
food they eat, the medicine they take, the cloth they
wear, the stuffs that dye them, and numbers of sub-
stances used in arts and manufactures. The intro-
ductory portion of the book is a little old-fashioned, as
might be expected from one who acquired his botanical
knowledge from the past generation rather than the
present, but the second and principal portion is brim
full of just such information as inquiring persons desire
to find but do not know where to look for. Not only
does it tell us the vegetable substances used in civilized
countries, but informs us also what constitute the food,
medicine, clothing, &c. of the native inhabitants of the
countries where they grow. The work is illustrated
with sixteen coloured plates from the pencil of Mr.
Fitch, which exhibit many of the most remarkable
forms of vegetable growth in foreign lands.
The Young Collector’s Handy Book of Botany. By the
Rev. H. P. Dunster, M.A. Reeve and Co.
As its name implies, a “ handy book,” and a very pretty
and useful one too, for those bringing home their first
gathering of Wild Flowers, Grasses, Ferns, Mosses,
Funguses or Seaweeds, giving them just such informa-
tion as they at once need in examining, drying,
arranging and preserving their specimens, with a peep
into the Science of Botany, which will not make them
shut up the book as dry, but rather create an appetite
for more. There is a chapter on preparing skeleton
leaves, and at the end some excellent woodcuts with
dissections of the plants to assist the Young Collector
in naming his specimens.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
Spring Catalogue of Vegetable, Agricultural, and
Flower Seeds, Garden Requisites, &c. Dick Radclyffe and
Co., F.R.H.S., 129, High Holborn, W.C.; Seed Grounds,
Erfurt, Prussia—An excellent and well-arranged cata-
logue, with a full account and illustrations of the
various horticultural contrivances introduced of late
years, amongst which we notice Dr. Graf’s indelible
ink for all kinds of labels.
Tree and Shrub List. Richard Smith, Nurseryman,
Seedsman and Florist, Worcester.—A name too well
known to need any recommendation. Suffice it to say,
the list is ample, the price moderate, and, as we can
testify from personal knowledge, the stock of the very
best description.
Descriptive Catalogue of Flower, Vegetable, and Agri-
cultural Seeds, 1872. B.S. Williams, Victoria and Para-
dise Nursery, Upper Holloway, London.—A very full
and complete list, containing some new and choice
seeds, amongst which is especially to be noted the new
Pea, Emperor of the Moroccos.
Sutton’s Amateur Guide and Spring Catalogue for
1872. Sutton and Sons, Reading.—Prepared with
the usual taste displayed by this well-known firm, it
contains, as usual, a number of novelties both in vege-
table and flower seeds.
James Veitch and Son’s Catalogue of Garden and
Flower Seeds, Royal Exotic Nursery, King’s Road,
Chelsea, S.W.—Contains, as might be expected, an .
interesting and complete account of vegetable and
flower seeds. Amongst the novelties in the latter de-
partment are Amaranthus salicifolius and Primula verti-
cellata ; var. Sinensis. ps]
Puate 1.
VRIESIA BRACHYSTACHYS.
Considerable attention has been given of late years to the family (Bromelacee) to
which the plant now figured belongs, and amongst the lamentable results of the civil war
in Paris we have to deplore the loss of the very complete collection preserved in the gardens
of the Luxembourg, under the care of the able and intelligent Curator, M. Auguste Riviere,
and which perished, as so many collections did, when, for want of fuel, all such luxuries
had to be given up.
The Vriesia are epiphytal plants, and are sent home on pieces of wood; it therefore
becomes necessary to consult, as far as possible, their natural condition, giving them but little
soil, so that, we are informed by Messrs. Veitch, they grow them in as small pots as they
possibly can, or rather in very shallow pans or baskets, using a very little soil, or moss
mingled with broken pots; being stove plants, they require a high temperature.
Vriesta brachystachys is a neat growing plant, bearing some analogy in appearance to
the pineapple, to which the family is allied. The colour of the foliage is a paie yellowish
green, the scape is produced on a long stalk marked with crimson, and is flat, the
base of the individual flowers and the bracts being of the same colour, the remaining portion
orange witha black tip. It was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Chelsea (to whom
we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it), at the Royal Horticultural Society, and
obtained a first-class certificate.
PLATE 2,
BICOLOR PELARGONIUM—MARESCHAL M‘MAHON.
There are distinct types in the very striking and effective class of Bicolor Pelargonium : one
in which the yellow margin most largely predominates, and the zone occupies comparatively
a small portion of the leaf; and another in which the margin is smaller and the zone not only
larger but of a more deep and intense colour. f the former class we may instance such
flowers as Impératrice Eugenie and Reine Victoria; and of the latter, Harl Rosslyn and Black
Douglas. It is to the latter class that the very fine variety we now figure belongs, and we
may without hesitation say, it is the finest that has as yet been produced.
Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing have long been noted for the position they have
taken in reference to these flowers, and to them we are indebted for the opportunity of
figuring this fine plant. Being one of their newest seedlings, it has been largely exhibited
during the past season, and has been awarded certificates both at the Royal Horti-
cultural Society’s Exhibition, South Kensington, and at the Metropolitan Floral Society’s
Show, at the Crystal Palace. The leaf is, as will be seen from the figure, very circular, with
but slight indentations, while the zone is very broad and of a deep ruddy brown ; the habit
of the plant is excellent and the foliage ample.
We are informed by Mr. Laing that there is a very great demand for the seed of this
section of pelargonium for the Continent, where they seem to be greatly valued for decorative
purposes.
Puate 3.
GLADIOLUS NESTOR.
The French are not such admirers of yellow flowers as we are, nor do they quite under-
stand our admiration of Marshal Niel rose, or the yellow tea roses in general, however
willing they may be to minister to our tastes in this respect. It is we suppose for this reason
that Nestor, one of the new gladioli of last year, is placed in the third series of seedlings by
M. Souchet, although the general verdict in this country will be that it is deserving of a much
higher place.
The yellow flowers amongst Gladioli are few, and, as often happens with flowers of that
colour, the bulbs are delicate. We have had Canari, Ophir, and Eldorado for some years,
Solfaterre, a somewhat newer kind, is exceedingly delicate, and the varieties named are seldom
seen in an exhibition stand; we have, however, good hope that Nestor will, both from the
larger size of the flowers and from its better constitution, take a prominent place as a show
flower. Flowers of this character are much needed in order to add still further variation to
the many beautiful colours which we now have.
Nestor is a flower of large size, of a beautiful clear yellow, the spike long and ample, (the
lower divisions of the flower of a deeper yellow,) striped with red. We have bloomed it in our
own garden, and it was exhibited both by Mr. Douglas, gardener to F. Whitbourne, Esq.,
Loxford Hall, Ilford, and by ourselves in the winning stands at the Metropolitan Floral
Society's Show at the Crystal Palace, in August last, and was very much admired. ©
PLATE 4,
VERBENAS—EMMA WEAVER, PINK QUEEN, CARNATION.
Although the taste for Verbenas has somewhat declined, and it has even fallen into
disfavour with those who carry out the bedding-out system fully (a mistake, as we imagine,
for a bed of mixed Verbenas is always a telling sight), yet that improvement is still taking
place amongst them is evidenced from the fact that during the past season six have gained
first-class certificates, the raisers being Mr. Eckford and Mr. C. J. Perry—the latter well
known as our most successful exhibitor: the flowers of the former being more adapted, as a
general rule, for outdoor gardening; those of the latter for growing in the greenhouse and
for exhibition purposes, although some of them have proved valuable for the garden as well ;
but as a general rule, their delicate hues of colour can best be seen when grown under glass.
The flowers now figured have been exhibited by Mr. Perry during the past season, and
will, with some others of the same raiser, be let out in the present spring by Mr. Charles Turner,
of the Royal Nursery, Slough. They are :—nma Weaver (fig. 1), a handsome flower, blush
white in colour, with a large bright violet-crimson centre ; the plant is robust ; this has obtained
a first-class certificate. Pink Queen (fig. 2) is a large flower of a delicate soft pink colour,
with large white eye. Carnation (fig. 3) has a white ground, distinctly striped with a purplish
crimson, very bright and striking; ‘it is an improvement on the class of striped and
spotted flowers which were first received from Italy, and examples of which have been figured
in the former series of the Floral Magazine. We believe that these flowers will uphold the
high position which Mr. Perry has attained as a raiser.
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EXHIBITIONS.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, SOUTH
KENSINGTON, Jan. 17th.
A.tuouGu the prizes offered on this occasion were only
for ivies and hardy conifers, yet a considerable number of
other plants, both pretty in appearance and excellent in
quality, were set up, making the council-room quite gay
in the dead season of the year. Collections of cyclamens,
than which nothing can be gayer and prettier at this
season; of forced flowers and orchids; and of tricolor
pelargoniums, all united to make avery beautiful display.
Amongst the most noticeable things were some very
fine orchids from Lord Londesborough, Grimston Park,
Tadcaster. There were amongst them :—Phalenopsis
Porteana, a lovely white flower with a rosy purple lip
tinged with orange at the base and dotted with crimson ;
Odontoglossum Denison (which we hope to figure),
named after Lady Londesborough, evidently a variety of
O. Alexandre, large flowered and exhibiting a tendency
to semiduplication, the long spike with eighteen flowers
on it was very lovely; and Sophronitis grandiflora
with large flowers. From the Messrs. Veitch came as
usual a very beautiful collection, comprising a large
number of Lycaste Skinneri and other orchids, also a
Charles X. lilac, Hippeastrum pardinum, and Lily of
the Valley in bloom. Mr. Standish of Ascot sent a
very beautiful collection of forced flowers in bloom ;
conspicuous amongst them were some very admirable
examples of Bouvardia jasminoides. Mr. Turner of
Slough had some baskets of excellently grown and
well-coloured Tricolor pelargoniums, amongst which
Mrs. Headly stood prominent. Mr. Bull of Chelsea
sent some good plants, including Macrozamia coral-
lipes and plumosa, Crinum amabile (very showy), and
Cypripedium pardinum. From Mr. Williams came a
number of his fine Aucuba luteocarpa, affording a
pleasing contrast to the red-berried varieties, some
magnificent specimens of which were shown by Mr.
Turner of Slough; Cattleya Walkeriana in fine bloom
and colour; and from Messrs. Backhouse of York came
a fine plant of Lelia autumnalis grandiflora in fine
flower. Nor must we omit one or two objects which
were well deserving of attention—the Carter Challenge
Prize Cup, value fifty guineas, offered by Messrs.
Carter & Co., Holborn, for collections of vegetables at
the Society’s provincial exhibitions ; and the Victoria
Electric Thermometer, for indicating changes in the
temperature of houses; this was the invention of Mr.
Rothnie, and brought into notice by Mr. Williams
of Holloway. We know of something of the kind in
use at Mr. Thompson’s, of Petham in Kent, but
whether identical with this we are not aware.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
ITALY IN ENGLAND.
Unprr this somewhat sonorous title Mr. J. W. Looker,
the inventor of the Acmé Frame, has brought out a
little brochure in which he gives instruction as to
the best method of using these structures, as well as
the propagating boxes which so many have found
useful. In enumerating the uses to which the plant
covers may be put, he mentions the sheltering of lettuces
and endives that are fit for use, as well as young plants
of the same; for sheltering parsley (which in the
winter months is very necessary) ; for accelerating the
growth of mint, tarragon, and other herbs. Their
greatest value in the kitchen garden, he says, wiil be
found in the assistance they will afford to young plants
of lettuce, cauliflower, celery, and other vegetables
raised in the propagating boxes and pricked out. In the
flower-garden, seeds of asters, of ten-week stocks, mari-
golds, &c., may be brought forward better in them than
in heat. But the Acmé Frame and ground vinery is
the invention on which he lays, and we think rightly,
the most stress. It has, he says, two great advantages,
its cheapness and its portability. Amongst its perma-
nent uses he classes the cultivation of grapes, cherries,
plums, and other fruits, and of asparagus amongst
vegetables: and amongst its temporary uses the pro-
duction of endive, small celery, early radishes, and
carrots, the earliest crops of peas, and dwarf French
beans. Ample directions are given for the fixing of
these useful inventions, and also for the cultivation of
the various kinds of fruit, flowers, and vegetables for
which they are adapted. There is also a monthly
calendar which will be found very useful, and altogether
the little book is very complete.
4 THE FLORAL MAGAZINE.
CHAPMAN’S PATENT CUT FLOWER AND
EXHIBITION CASES.
Exuisitioys are now so frequent, and so many persons
are interested in them, that we do not hesitate to rank
among the necessities of the horticulturist these ad-
mirable contrivances of Mr. Chapman. Having been
amongst the first to recognise their value, we have
been pleased to mark the steady way in which they
have progressed in the favour of exhibitors; and every
show at which we have been present during the past
season has given evidence of the widespread character of
their success. They enable the exhibitor to place his
flowers ready for the exhibition table in his own room
at home—they make him indifferent to the carelessness
of railway porters or the jolting of cabs—they keep his
flowers steady and fixed in their places, and enable
him, when he arrives at the show, to simply draw out
the tray and place his stand. We have thus taken up
ur gladioli, we have seen stands of verbenas, always
a difficult flower to carry, put on the exhibition table,
looking as fresh as when they were cut; while dahlias,
asters, and other flowers are carried with the greatest
ease. They are also admirable for sending bouquets,
and are also adapted for carry-
| ing game and fruit, and are
‘jp largely used for this purpose.
Mr. Chapman has recently pa-
tented a plant protector, which
we have in use in our own gar-
den, and which we hope to re-
port upon by-and-by. It is very
‘tT? simple, and seems as if it could
be adapted for the purpose, and a number of them
may be easily packed in a small space when not in use,
an advantage they possess over the cloche and the ordi-
nary hand-glass.
N&1I2 THE MALTON
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
Gardener’s and Farmer’s Vade Mecum. Carter,
Dunneit, and Beale, High Holborn.—As might be ex-
pected from a firm of so
much eminence as this, and
commanding so much the
confidence of the horticul-
tural world, this catalogue
is abundantly rich in mate-
rial; the illustrations. have
reached an extent (upwards
of 200) which we have not
seen equalled by any cata-
logue, English or foreign.
They are very carefully exe-
cuted, as the accompanying
example shows, so that buyers can form an idea of
what they are purchasing, not merely from description,
but from, which is far better than description, a cor-
rect figure. The vegetable seed portion is also largely
illustrated, and contains a great many novelties.
Hooper and Co.’s Gardening Guide and General
Catalogue.—Another admirably compiled and profusely
illustrated Catalogue of Vegetables, Flowers, Plants,
and Gardening requisites. Among the illustrations of
flowers and plants we recognise several which have
recently appeared in our own pages, besides a great
number which do not fall within our province. The
cuts are mostly well executed, and perhaps as well
printed as the circumstances of a catalogue permit,
though in this respect they do not do full justice to the
artist. They convey as good an idea of the character
of the plants as uncoloured figures can do. The most
successful are those figuring palms, draceenas, and
other plants valued for the gracefulness of their foliage ;
those of flowers, where colour is so essential a character,
necessarily fail to give us all we desire.
Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. Francis
and Arthur Dickson and Sons, Chester—A carefully
arranged and extensive catalogue, containing all the
novelties of other growers besides several of their own.
Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. Messrs.
Rollison and Co., Tooting.—An excellent catalogue, and
especially rich in the seeds of subtropical plants, for
which this old-established firm is famous.
Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. Barr and
Sugden, Metropolitan Seed Warehouse.— Very full
and complete; the List of Gladioli is very ample, and
the different varieties are arranged under the various
colours, thus giving at a glance all the sorts, new and
old, and enabling purchasers to select at their option.
Wheeler and Son’s Little Book of Select Seeds.—
One of the neatest, most select, and carefully arranged
catalogues published.
Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. William
Cutbush and Son, -Highgate.—A carefully prepared
list, containing notices of Cullingford’s Magnum
Bonum Peas, and Pottle’s Prince Teck Potato.
Co Correspondents.
T. S.—It would be impossible to figure fruits in our Magazine, nor
do we think there is an opening for an illustrated magazine especially
devoted to them.
G. T.—We know of no remedy for the Gladiolus disease ; it has been
very bad in some places this past year, and Messrs. Souchet’s stock has
been affected by it to a certain extent.
F. J.—It is not too late to plant shrubs ; some prefer this time of the
year to an earlier one.
FLorist.—Yes; we hope to figure some of the new auriculas. We
hear that there are some fine things amongst Mrs. Headly’s seedlings,
now in Mr. Turner’s possession at Slough.
Puate 5,
BEGONIA INTERMEDIA.
In the former series of the Moral Magazine we were enabled to figure, not only the fine
species of Begonia discovered by Mr. Pearce—viz., Begonia Bolivensis and B. Veitchii—but also
hybrids from them (for it was at once seen how admirably they could be adapted for this
purpose); but we question very much whether any of them, either species or garden varieties,
can vie with that which we now present.
We are informed by Messrs. Veitch and Son, in whose establishment this fine variety
has been raised, that it is a cross between Begonia Bolivensis and B. Veitchii ; the flowers are
of the same colour as the latter, and of intermediate form. The habit is somewhat in the
way of Begonia Bolivensis, but still retaining a great deal of Vettchit. It is very robust, sturdy,
and free growing, and flowers very freely indeed; as it has so much of the Veztchii blood in
it, it may be reckoned amongst the free-flowering greenhouse Begonias. With regard to
culture, there is very little difficulty ; it requires to be grown in a light rich soil, and to be
carefully supplhed with water; when started, it may afterwards be more freely supplied.
As the shoots lengthen they should be neatly tied to small stakes, for, being succulent, they
are apt to be broken off. ew greenhouse plants are more effective than a well-grown speci-
men of any of these greenhouse Begonias, and we can well imagine that a plant of this fine
variety will make a more brilliant display than either of those from which it has originated.
PLATE 6.
ANTIRRHINUMS—DELICATUM AND WILLIAM ROBINSON.
Amongst the flowers which have of late years experienced the skill of the hybridizer is
the old-fashioned Snap-dragon or rabbit-mouth of our childhood; and many and great are
the changes that have been thereby produced. Its peculiar form admits of no modification,
unlike in this respect the pansy, the dahlia, or the pink; but its size has been materially
increased, and the variations in colour multiplied.
As an herbaceous plant the Antirrhinum is one of the easiest grown of our garden
favourites, and for the continuity of its bloom deserves a place more than many which are
more sought after; it seeds most freely; those who have a good collection can by saving
seed, and sowing it in pans in the spring, obtain an abundant supply of plants, which will
flower finely in the summer and autumn. It is a very useful flower for cutting for bouquets.
The flowers in our plate were raised by Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing, of Stanstead
Park, Forest Hiil, to whom we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring them. Delicatum
’ (fig. 1) has the ground colour pure white, sparingly striped with bright crimson and minutely
spotted all over with crimson spots; the lip is light yellow, and the spike is very densely
arranged. William Robinson (fig. 2) is in colour a rich deep crimson, top of the lip lined
with orange. These varieties are fair examples of the very great improvement which has taken
place in this old-fashioned flower, under the careful culture of those who, like Messrs.
Downie and Co., have taken pains to follow out step by step the results obtained.
PLATE 7.
DAHLIA—JOHN STANDISH.
Those who have seen the wonderfully symmetrical blooms of Dahlias arranged at some
of our great shows, and the varieties of colour they exhibit, would imagine that it is
impossible to add anything to them either in form or colour, and that new varieties could.
only be a repetition of those that were already in existence, but it is not so; and every year
adds to our lists some which in a little while take the place of others in the same style, from
some superiority of character which they exhibit.
No Dahlia that has been brought out of late years has attracted so much attention as
that which we now figure. We have seen it exhibited in many places during the past season,
and wherever it has been seen, we have remarked the admiration also which it has excited,
even amongst those who have been Dahlia growers for years.
John Standish was raised and exhibited by Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal Nursery,
Slough, and has received first-class certificates at the Royal Horticultural Society, and the
Metropolitan Floral Society’s Show at the Crystal Palace. It is a flower of remarkable
symmetry of build, high up in the centre, the colour a deep rich scarlet crimson, and of
extra size. One remarkable feature about it is its constancy, the plant nearly always
producing perfect flowers; and when exhibited, stands of a dozen flowers put up at a time
were all equally good, an unusual circumstance with Dahhas. It will be sent out this spring
by Mr. Charles Turner, with other varieties, and will no doubt be largely exhibited during the
coming season.
PLATE 8.
AICHMEA MARIA REGINA.
Amongst the many beautiful stove plants which have been introduced during the past
season, that which we now figure lays claim to being one of the most remarkable ; and this
in a year in which new stove plants have certainly been more numerous than during many
past seasons.
The Aichmeas being Bromeliads, like most of that family, from the character of their
foliage and from the fact that most of their beauty depends on the colouring of their bracts,
they maintain their brilliancy for a very long period, often remaining some months in -per-
fection, a fact which of course adds greatly to their value.
Aichmea Maria Regine was introduced by Mr. Wendland of Hanover, and is a plant of
robust habit with leaves of about eighteen inches in length arranged vase-like ; the flower-
spike rises from the centre, about two feet and a half in length, clothed with boat-shaped
bracts four inches in length, of a rosy pink colour; the flowers, tipped with blue and
changing to salmon colour with age, and arranged compactly on the upper part of the spike,
materially add to the beauty of this grand plant; the bracts are very persistent and retain
their rich colouring for several months. It was exhibited by Mr. B.S. Williams of the
Victoria Nursery, Holloway, and received first-class certificates both at the Royal Horti-
cultural Society and at the Crystal Palace, a distinction which it well merits. Its cultivation,
like that of many of the other Bromeliads, is not difficult; it requires to be grown in a small
pot, with a good deal of water.
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[No. 3.
EXHIBITIONS.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Fes. 14th.
Tne council-room was on this occasion filled with a very
charming collection of plants. Orchids in large num-
bers, primulas, cyclamens, &c., contributed by Messrs.
Veitch, Bull, Williams, Rollisson, Little, Standish,
Denning, and other well-known exhibitors. Amongst
the orchids were some remarkably fine examples of
Masdevallia ignea, from.Mr. Marshall, of Clay Hill,
Enfield ; Lycaste lasioglossa, a very curious species,
from Mr. Veitch; Lelia Anceps, from Lord Londes-
borough’s collection, with upwards of sixty fine flowers ;
Cattleya Fuane, from the same; a very fine broad-pe-
talled variety of Odontoglossum Alexandre, from Mr.
Richards, gardener to Baron Rothschild, Gunnersbury ;
Ceelogyne cristata, from Messrs. Veitch, a very fine
specimen, between three and four feet through ; Odonto-
glossum odoratum, from Mr. W. Bull, and a very fine
Dendrobium nobile, from Messrs. Rollisson, Amongst
other noticeable specimens were Tillandsia Lindeni
Major, with beautiful bright blue flowers (figured
in our former series), and two new palms, from Lord
Howe’s Island, exhibited by Messrs. Veitch—Kentia
Australis and Kentia Canterburyana; a very fine spe-
cimen of Daphne indica rubra, from Mr. Johnson,
gardener to T. J. Clarke, Esq., Uxbridge; and a
splendid specimen of Hippeastrum pardinum, from
Messrs. Veitch. Amongst the groups of plants, there
was an exceedingly beautiful collection of spring
flowers from Mr. Standish of Ascot, amongst which
were two remarkably fine crimson-flowered cinerarias,
Lord and Lady Kilmorey, one of which we hope
shortly to figure, and some beautiful small plants
of Bouvardia. Messrs. Carter and Co. had a group
of caladiums, exceedingly good for the season. Mr,
Little of Twickenham had a beautiful group of cycla-
mens, among which one called Admiration was
remarkable for its size and the brilliancy of its colour.
Mr. Ware, of Hall Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, had a
nice collection of hardy spring plants, conspicuous
amongst which was the lovely deep purplish blue Iris
reticulata. When to these are added the dielytras, pri-
mulas, lily of the valley, and other flowers, it will
be seen that the display was both numerous and
interesting, and fully sustained the character of these
Wednesday meetings.
MEMORIAL TO THE LATE MR. JAMES
VEITCH.
Ir will be interesting to many of our subscribers to
know that besides a Portrait of the deceased presented
by Mr. R. T. Crawshay, the munificent sum of 9007.
has been subscribed and invested in the names of
trustees as a permanent fund for the encouragement of
horticulture. No more appropriate, lasting, or useful
mode of commemorating the eminent services of the
deceased could have been devised. The following is
the text of the deed securing the trust, with the mode
and conditions of its appropriation :—
“The income of the said trust fund and the investments thereof
shall be applied by the said trustees in the first place in payment of
all costs, charges, and expenses which shall or may be incurred or
become payable by the trustees in providing a place of deposit and
exhibition of the said portrait, if thought expedient, or from time to
time altering such place of deposit and paying for the proper cus-
tody thereof, or the exhibition thereof, to the subscribers and their
friends and the general public, and also of insuring the same from
fire, and of preserving and repairing the same, and the frame, fit-
tings, and appurtenances thereof, and generally for such purposes in
connexion with the said portrait as the said trustees shall from time
to time deem meet and expedient ; and in the next place for provid-
ing and procuring the die or matrix for a commemorative medal
bearing the name, or a medallion portrait of the said late James Veitch,
from which medals may be struck for the purposes hereinafter men-
tioned ; and in the next place, of defraying the expenses of print-
ing, advertising, postages, wages of servants, messengers, and other
persons employed by the said trustees, and generally, of all expenses
connected with the trusts hereby created and the duties imposed
upon the said trustees; and in the next place, of providing and
giving prizes for the advancement and improvement of the science
and practice of the culture, or for the successful culture of plants,
flowers, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and otherwise for the advance-
ment of the science and practice of horticulture, as the said trustees
shall think fit; such prizes to be offered and given at such ex-
hibitions of the leading Metropolitan Horticultural Societies in
the three kingdoms as the said trustees shall from time to time
in their discretion deem most expedient, with power to the said
trustees to vary the number, value, and nature and subjects of,
and time or times for competition for such prizes, as to the said trus-
tees in their absolute and uncontrolled discretion may from time to
time seem meet; and to give the same either in the shape of com-
memorative medals, bearing the name or portrait of the said James
Veitch, or of money, or in such other mode or manner as they shall
in their absolute and uncontrolled discretion think best calculated
to effect the advancement and improvement of horticulture. Pro-
vided always, that it shall not be necessary for or incumbent upon
the said trustees, or any of them, themselves to take part in the de-
termination or selection of the successful candidates or exhibitors
for such prizes, or any of them, or the adjudging of the said prizes
so to be offered by them; but the said trustees shall have full power
6 THE FLORAL MAGAZINE.
either themselves to select such successful candidates, and to ad-
judge such prizes, or to delegate and commit the said selection of
candidates and adjudging of prizes either to some one or more of
their body, or to the committees or committee, secretaries or secre-
tary, managers or manager of the exhibitions at which the same
prizes may be offered for competition, or to any other person or per-
sons whomsoever as to the said trustees shall seem meet and expe-
dient. Provided further, that the said trustees shall have full power
at their discretion to retain the annual income arising from the said
trust fund for any number of years not exceeding three, and to add
the same by way of accretion to the said trust fund, or to accumu-
late the same and to devote and apply the accumulations thereof in
any one year for and to the same purposes and objects as are herein-
before directed, of and concerning the income of the said trust fund
in any one year; but so, nevertheless, that the total amount of the
additions to the principal trust fund shall not at any time exceed
one-third part of the total amount theretofore received by way of
dividend or income upon the said trust fund.”
REVIEW.
DL’ Amorphophallus Kiviert. Par Aveusts Riviere.
Tuts monograph is an exceedingly good illustration
of the care, even to the minutest details, which our
French neighbours exercise in small matters. The
plant here described was received as a small bulb by
M. Riviere amongst some seeds from Cochin China,
Like many of the Aroids, when it flowers it emits a
nauseous, abominable odour ; and happily its flowering
season is of very short duration. The foliageis exceed-
ingly elegant, and constitutes the beauty of the plant.
Figures are given of it, and the whole is edited with the
scientific care which our esteemed friend brings to
everything he undertakes.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
Catalogue of Flower and Vegetable Seeds. W. Bull,
King’s Road Chelsea.—Catalogue of select gladioli—
copious and well arranged. Mr. Bull’s seeds have a
high character, and especially from foreign correspon-
dents.
Vick’s Ilustrated Catalogue and Floral Guide, 1872.
James Vick, Rochester, New York.—A remarkable in-
stance of the go a-headism of our American cousins.
The frontispiece is a photograph of the proprietor, of
which he says he could only obtain 120,000—then
there are coloured plans of ribbon-beds and of pansies.
The catalogue itself is printed on toned paper, with
an ornamental border to each page, while the illustra-
tions literally crowd the pages. We have already
noticed some very admirably illustrated catalogues, such
as Messrs. Sutton’s and Carter and Co’s., but here is
one we are inclined to think equal to any for copious-
ness of illustration and elegance of appearance. Our
home friends must look to their laurels.
Catalogue des Rosiers Nouveaux, 1872; Charles
Verdier, Rue Dumerel, No. 12, Paris. Rosiers Nou-
veaux, de Guillot fils, Lyon; Catalogue des Rosiers
Nouveaux ; J. Schwartz, successeur de M. Guillot
pere, Lyon.—The war of 1869-70 prevented our receiv-
ing the usual supply of new roses, and consequently of
new catalogues, and, with the exception of a few from
Lyons, none reached us last year; but this season all
is altered. We find in these catalogues between seventy
and eighty new varieties described, but of what cha-
racter they will be it is impossible to form any judg-
ment: the names of some of the raisers are a guarantee
that something good may be found amongst them.
But when they have not been seen, and where a vivid
imagination is at play, it is very difficult to decide.
Any of those whose business it is to cultivate and pro-
pagate, must be sorely perplexed as to those on which
to bestow their attention.
SPECIAL PRIZE LIST FOR THE BIRMING-
HAM EXHIBITION.
We understand that in addition to the Carter Chal-
lenge Cup of fifty guineas, offered by the Messrs,
Carter and Co., for a collection of vegetables, and the
liberal prizes of ten guineas offered for peas by the
Messrs. Sutton of Reading, Messrs. J. C. Wheeler and
Son of Gloucester offer a prize of ten guineas for the
best collection of plants in pots, in bloom, bearing
sweet-scented flowers: such as roses, lilies, honey
suckles, stocks, jasmines, magnolias, violets, carnations,
pinks, &c., ornamentally arranged. This ought to be
an interesting competition, and we believe has been
suggested by Lady Corisande’s garden in “ Lothair.”
These special prizes (while evidencing the enterprize of
the firms by whom they are offered) cannot but add
much to what we believe will be a grand exhibition.
To Correspondents,
A. Z.—The weekly gardening papers give such copious details of
operations necessary to be performed from time to time, that anything
we could do would be utterly useless in comparison,
W. S.—The Metropolitan Floral Society’s Report can be had of the
secretary; but we may just add that there is a balance in hand, and
that it is proposed, in addition to what was done last year, to include in
the programme for 1872 an International Fruit Show at the same time
as the Autumn Show.
PLATE 9,
PRIMULA JAPONICA, var. LILACINA.
The interest which Primula Japonica excited on its first introduction has in no way
abated ; and its grandeur as a fine decorative plant has been fully admitted. The only point
which has been mooted as a matter of doubt has been its hardiness; but the evidence on
this point has been so conclusive, that we cannot think it to be any longer doubtful ; and
we believe it to have arisen from the fact that this, like many species of Primula, loses its
leaves somewhat in the winter, especially during severe weather. But this is no evidence
against its hardiness, as many of our most hardy primroses do the same.
We mentioned, when figuring this plant in our former series, that there were several
varieties of it known to the Japanese, and that some of them had been exhibited by Mr. Bull.
One of the most beautiful of these is that which we now figure, where the bright magenta
colour of the original is replaced by a beautiful soft lilac: by many it will be thought to
be the more attractive of the two.
We notice that a good deal of seed has been imported from Japan, and is now being
offered for sale. It is well to remember that the seeds are very uncertain as to their period
of germination, some of them not doing so until the second season, so that those who have
purchased seed would do well not to be hasty in emptying the seed pans. We hope that
during the present season this fine plant may be largely exhibited.
PLATE 10.
ROSE—LORD ELDON.
The singularly coloured rose which we now figure is one of a class in which we are
somewhat deficient—free-growing, free-flowering climbers, and will therefore, we believe, be
acceptable to those who, having walls with southern aspects, may be desirous of filling them
with ornamental flowering plants. Recently we have received some English contributions to
this class ; for in Mr. Knight’s Princess Louise Victoria, and in Mr. George Paul’s climbing
Victor Verdier, we have two excellent varieties of good habit; and Lord Eldon may be
regarded, although in a different class, as a not unfitting companion.
We are informed by Messrs. Paul and Son, of Cheshunt, into whose hands the stock
has passed, that Lord Lidon was raised from seed by Mr. Coppin, of Shirley, near Croydon,
from Cloth of Gold Noisette, and resembles its parent in habit and constitution, but is a freer
bloomer. It will be useful as a coppery-coloured climber for a south wall, while its strong
sweet perfume will greatly recommend it. It will be seen from the drawing that it is not
an exhibition rose, being too loose in petal for that; but for the purposes named it will be
well suited ; and it was, no doubt, on account of its very distinct colour that it received from
the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society the reward of a first-class certificate.
Mr. Coppin speaks highly of its merits, and if it grows freely in his light soil, we may
reasonably conclude that in richer and deeper soils it will grow more freely still. It will be
let out by Messrs. Paul and Son in May next.
Puate 11.
FUCHSIA SPLENDENS.
Tt has fallen to our lot more than once to endeavour to rescue from oblivion plants which
were not of recent introduction, but which had so been put on one side by the rush for
novelties, that they might almost ber egarded as new when re-introduced : such a plant is that
which we now figure.
In visiting the gardens of Sir Henry Tufton, Bart., at Hothfield, we have been for some
two or three winters struck with the exceeding beauty of this plant, which the intelligent
gardener, Mr. Dury, cultivated largely and with success. Desirous of obtaining its name, we
brought it to London, and showed it to many of our leading nurserymen, who did not know it ;
and we were so convinced of its value, that we determined to bring it again into notice,
although it was figured thirty years ago in the Botanical Register.
The great value of this plant consists in its being an essentially winter-flowering one.
We have seen it in all stages; it strikes most freely, makes rapid growth, will bear forcing
well, and when forced, comes into flower early in the winter, but does best in the interme-
diate house, as in a cold greenhouse the flower-buds are apt to drop ; but with this moderate
degree of warmth it continues a long time in beauty, is admirable for cutting for bouquets,
and altogether is a very desirable plant. We believe that Mr. William Bull has now a large
stock of it, and we hope that it may again find favour with all lovers of beautiful plants.
PLATE 12,
AUCUBA LUTEOCARPA.
The promise which the introduction of the male Avcuba gave of enriching our shrub-
beries with a more ornamental berried plant, and the hopes which it inspired of giving us
still more interesting varieties by hybridizing, have been abundantly fulfilled ; while it offers
also to those who are interested in the decoration of rooms, halls, and conservatories, a bright
and easily managed plant, which will stand the evil influence of gas and dust to a consider-
able degree. We have in the former series of the Moral Magazine shown the results of this
introduction of the male Aucuba, while the plant which we now figure evidences that still
further variety is to be looked for.
We are informed by Mr. Williams, of The Victoria Nursery, Holloway, that this
interesting plant was found by him some few years ago in the neighbourhood of Manchester,
and that it is believed to be an imported one; some doubt was entertained by those to
whom he showed it, as to whether it would retain its very distinctive character, the golden
colour of its berries. But after three years of trial, he has not found any tendency in it to
alter, so that we may regard it as an accidentally obtained, but now permanently fixed variety.
While not perhaps so showy as the red-berried varieties, the contrast which it affords with
them makes it a very desirable plant, and the facility with which it is cultivated will bring it
into quite as wide notice as those which have been previously sent out. Some nice plants of
it were lately exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington.
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EXHIBITIONS.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Marcu 6.
A very pretty exhibition, but very deficient in novelties,
for with the exception of the pretty white Toxicophla
(which we hope to figure), exhibited by Mr. B. 8. Wil-
liams of Holloway, and a few roses, there was really
nothing new; for the Imantophyllum, although very
beautiful, we regard as very similar to one exhi-
bited by Mr. Bull some time ago. But if deficient in
novelty, it decidedly was not so in objects of interest ex-
hibiting great cultural skill; foremost amongst which
must be placed the magnificent specimen of Phalzenopsis
Schilleriana, exhibited by Mr. Masson, gardener to R.
Milne, Esq., Viewfield House, Arbroath. It had two
branchy spikes covered with 207 of its beautifully
coloured rosy blossoms. Then Messrs. Veitch had some
beautiful specimens of Odontoglossum Alexandre and
Triumphans, and Dendrobium Farmeri. Mr. Denning,
gardener to Lord Londesborough, had Cattleya Triane,
Cypripedium Lowi, Cypripedium eburneum, and other
fine orchids. Mr. Bennett, Manor Farm Nursery, Staple-
ford, Salisbury, sent some plants of some of the new
roses, and amongst them were Baroness Louise d’Ux-
hull, Richard Wallace, Madame George Schwartz, and
Madlle. Cécile Berthod (Tea). It is very difficult, when
plants are so much forced as these, to judge of their
future prospects ; but one or two of these gave promise
of being good, the Tea-scented rose being a particu-
larly clear bright yellow; but we dare say more will be
seen of all these by-and-by. The Council-room was well
filled with a large and miscellaneous collection of flower-
ing plants, such as Cyclamens, Orchids, Primulas; beau-
tiful hardy plants from Mr. Ware of Hall Farm Nur-
series, Tottenham, interspersed with Palms, Caladiums,
altogether forming a very beautiful show. The day
being fine, the room was so crowded that it was with
difficulty the flowers could be seen, and we believe at
the next show an alteration will be made by holding
it either in the French Court or Conservatory.
Marcu 20th—* This,” says the Journal of Horti-
culture, “ was the first spring show ; well was it sup-
ported, well worthy of inspection was it by all interested
in those beautiful flowers which adorn our conservatories
and windows at the present season. The Hyacinths, as
they generally are at the Society’s show, were superb ;
the quality was remarkably good throughout, while in
some of the collections—as those of Messrs. Veitch and
Mr. William Paul—there were numbers equal to any-
thing in past years. In the amateurs’ class there was
considerable improvement: Mr. Douglas and the Rev.
H. H. Dombrain stood far to the front, showing much
better examples than were produced in times gone by.”
Besides Hyacinths, there were some admirable col-
lections of plants ; among which we may notice a beau-
tiful collection of small plants of Camellias, shown by
Mr. William Paul, Waltham Cross; Messrs. Lane and
Son exhibited a group of Camellias, Rhododendrons,
&e.; Messrs. Cutbush of Highgate, a basket of their
very handsome Aucuba, Aureo-maculata (figured in our
former series) ; Mr. Denning, gardener to Lord Londes-
borough, a beautiful collection of Orchids; Messrs. Rol-
lison of Tooting, and Mr. Williams of Holloway, a
beautiful collection of miscellaneous plants; Mr. E.
Dixon of Beverley, some fine specimens of Antherinum
Scherzerianum, a fine pair of Trichomanes radicans,
and other plants ; and Mr. Ware of Tottenham a group
of hardy plants; and Mr. Turner a collection of Show
and Alpine Auriculas, and a very beautiful basket of
Mrs. Headly, tricolor pelargonium.
It is announced that a course of lectures on Flowers
and Fruits will be delivered in the Council-room of the ~
Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington by
W.T. Thiselton Dyer, B.A., B.Sc., F.L.S. (Professor
of Botany to the Society), on the following subjects :—
April 11, “ Flowers: their common plan of construc-
tion.” April 25, “ Flowers: the variety in their forms,
and how brought about.” May 9, “ Flowers: their
colours and odours.” May 23, “ Fruits: their struc-
ture.” June 6, “ How seeds are sown in Nature.”
June 20, “ Flowers and Fruits under cultivation.” The
lectures will commence at 3 P.M.
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, Marcu 13.
Tue new corridor from the Conservatory was used for
the first time for a very beautiful exhibition, of which
Hyacinths were the most remarkable objects. Messrs.
Veitch and Son, who last year appeared for the first
time as exhibitors, came out very strongly on this occa-
sion not only with twelve magnificent spikes, but also
with a large well-bloomed collection of one hundred
pots. Mr. Veitch’s twelve were, Koh-i-noor, Solfaterre,
Czar Peter, General Havelock, King of the Blues, De
Candolle, Grandeur a Merveille, Vuurback, Macaulay,
Haydn, La Grandesse, and Ida. Mr. Douglas, gardener
8 THE FLORAL MAGAZINE.
to Francis Whitborne, Esq., Loxford Hall, Ilford, was
first amongst amateurs with a remarkably fine collection.
There were some very good collections of plants in
flower: Chinese Primulas, and Cyclamens were exhi-
bited in large collections by Mr. Goddard, gardener to
H. Little, Esq., Twickenham ; Messrs. Dobson and Co.
of Isleworth, Mr.Wiggins, and Mr. James. Amongst the
novelties in these classes was a Cyclamen with fringed
edges, exhibited by Mr. Wiggins; some new Hyacinths
from Mr. Wm. Paul, Waltham Cross; while new Palms
and plants were exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, Rollison,
and Williams, amongst the most noticeable being
Veitchea Canteburyana, Kentia australis, and Kentia
Fosteriania, from Mr. Veitch ; Toxicophlea Thunbergi,
from Mr. Williams; and Martinezia erosa and
Calamus verticillaris, from Messrs. Rollison. Mr.
Ware had one of his charming collections of spring
plants; and Messrs. Carter a basket of a new scarlet
pelargonium, Velocipede, which seems likely to be an
acquisition.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
CLIMAX LAWN-MOWER.
Wirnovr at all entering into the merits of the different
lawn-mowers, we can safely recommend this as an adjunct
to any now in use. Nothing is more usual now than to
have narrow grass borders, and for these even the
12-inch mower is too wide when the beds are filled.
The Climax Mower, the invention of Messrs. Fellows
and Bates, Manchester, answers admirably for all such
places, as well as for those small plots where the owner
would consider it not worth his while to go to the ex-
pence of a larger machine. We used it during the last
summer, and found it admirably adapted for the above-
mentioned purposes. That it was appreciated by the
public may be gathered from the fact that between five
and six thousand were sold last season.
DINNER TABLE DECORATIONS.
It would seem that the rage for this use of flowers is
greater than ever, if we may argue anything from the
fact that the Royal Horticultural Society offers alto-
gether 84/. in prizes for table decorations; its premier
prize of the whole year, 30/., being the first prize for a
dinner table laid completely for twenty; while we
also observe that the proprietors of the ‘ Gardener’s
Magazine” offer prizes to the amount of 25/. for the
same object, making the very wise proviso that artificial
light must be used ; and yet notwithstanding these large
amounts, we are assured that a far more simple style of
ornamentation than that formerly used is now the only
one which is tolerated at the best tables. And we can
quite understand this: the tax upon both the garden
and the time of those who undertake the arrange-
ment is very great. When first the fashion was intro-
duced, high stands, such as those invented by Mr.
Marsh, and called from him Marsh Stands, with two
receptacles for flowers, one about eighteen inches above
the other, with a glass rod as a support, were much
used. Various modifications of these were introduced,
and we have even seen the centre of a round table filled
with a pile of gorgeous orchids and other flowers four
feet high; but these were seen to have the disadvantage
of hiding the guests of one side of the table from those
on the other. Small plants have also been much used.
Then shallow trays of flowers placed in the centre
of the table; while more recently nothing higher than
a foot has been permitted, and small specimen glasses
holding a few flowers placed before each guest, or
round the central lamp, as the case may be. We
cannot but think this is by far the more sensible
method. We shall be curious to see what new com-
binations these liberal prizes may be the means of
bringing forward. Certain it is that those who are
to act as judges on the occasion ought to be persons
not only of good taste, but who are conversant with the
usages of modern society in its best phases ; we are too
apt to run into extravagances when copying the doings
of our neighbours. And so in this instance we make
ourselves ridiculous by the extremes to which we have
run in copying “diner a la Russe.” It may be that we
shall see something of a more refined and purer taste
than those which have taken prizes of late years.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
H. Cannell’s Illustrated Floral Guide for 1872.—
This is something more than a mere catalogue. Mr.
Cannell professes in it not only to give the names
of new varieties of plants, but also his own observations
upon them, and as he confines himself exclusively to
what are ordinarily called soft-wooded plants, and is a
keen and sharp-witted observer, his recommendations
may safely be relied on; moreover, there is much
pleasant and interesting information as to the various
classes and the raisers of the new flowers, and he adopts
the system of not only selling rooted plants, but also
cuttings and rooted-cuttings, so that for a small sum
lovers of these flowers may have the opportunity of
adding to their collection.
Co Correspondents.
T. S.— Disa pauciflora is no doubt given to capriciousness, as all who
have grown it can testify ; it has been tried during the past year as an
out-of-door plant by Dr. Moore, of Glasnevin, and it succeeded admi-
rably. But you would hardly like to try it thus until it was more abun-
dant with you.
B. 8.—We hope to give a group of the plants shortly.
Puate 13.
CYCLAMEN PERSICUM, vars. QUEEN OF CRIMSONS,
SNOWFLAKE, AND PURPUREUM.
Amongst those who have taken a leading part in the improvement of the Cyclamen, a
foremost place must be given to Mr. Little, of Cambridge Villa, Twickenham, and we have
therefore figured three of his best varieties, which have all obtained first-class certificates
from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. As he is so successful a
cultivator, we are enabled to give some notes on their culture, which he has been kind
enough to furnish :—
“‘T sow the seed in September, in pots, in a light fibrous soil, with a little leaf-mould
and sharp sand. When fit to handle, prick out about ten or twelve in a 48 pot, in similar
soil; when large enough, pot singly in 60-sized pots, and repot when these are full of roots.
The last potting prior to blooming use rather stiffer soil, with leaf-mould, sharp sand, and
some well decayed mantre (be careful to examine this to get rid of grubs and worms), giving
plenty of drainage. While growing during the summer, the foliage must be kept perfectly
clean, and well syringed. When in bloom, do without fire heat as much as possible, giving
air on all occasions when free from frost and rain. I cannot too strongly insist on the abso-
lute necessity of keeping the plants in all their stages of growth and bloom free from red
spiders and green fly. Stop them at once, and do not leave off till all traces of them are
removed, for if allowed to gain head, the beauty of the bloom and foliage will be completely
spoilt, the bloom becoming crippled, and the foliage shrivelled and unhealthy.”
We have only to add that all the three varieties are of first-rate character, and that
Queen of Crimsons especially is a great advance in colour, and the expanded flowers remain
for a long time in perfection.
Puate 14.
AZALEA MARVEL.
Among the many beautiful flowering plants which tend to make greenhouses gay in
the spring months, a very prominent place must be given to the lovely tribe of Azaleas, so
profuse in their flowering, so varied and bright in their colouring, or pure in their snowy
whiteness ; and amongst them we must class as one of the most useful, if not brilliant, the
small Azalea amena, for, while deficient in the grander and more brilliant features of its
compeers, it is in truth one of the most beautiful things for early flowering that we possess.
Small in foliage as in the blooms also, one has the advantage of being dense and shrubby,
and the other of being produced in the greatest abundance. The latter are of a rich rosy
crimson colour, with a hose-in-hose corolla; and both in the plant and when cut for bouquets,
the flowers are very persistent in consequence of their peculiarity of form. We owe it, as
we do many of our fine things, to Mr. Fortune, who met with it in a nursery at Shanghae.
Azalea Marvel, which we uow figure, is of the Amzna type; it was exhibited by Mr.
William Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea, and received a first-class certificate from the Royal
Horticultural Society ; it must have had considerable merit to receive this distinction. ‘This
merit consists in its greater abundance of flowers, with the same dwarf and shrubby
habit ; so that for early blooming it may be considered a decided acquisition, although of
course not to be compared in brilliancy with those larger-flowered Aza/eas which are so pro-
minent a feature at our Spring Exhibitions, and of which we have already given many
illustrations.
Puate 15.
MASDEVALLIA IGNEA.
We have already figured in our former series examples of this curious and interesting
genus of Orchids, many additions to which have been made of late years; and we have now
the pleasure of giving one which has been greatly admired when exhibited during the
present year.
The Masdevallias are all interesting, and as they occupy but little space and are very
easily grown, they are worthy of a place in any orchid house where the cool treatment is
adopted ; for as in the case of many other Orchids, they have been grown in too high a
temperature, and consequently failure has often attended their cultivation ; the idea formerly
entertained having been that, because some Orchids coming from the East Indies and
other hot countries required a high temperature, all did so; the Masdevallias will thrive
under the same treatment as Odonfoglossum, should be potted in moss and sphagnum, and
always kept moist at the roots without being soddened.
Masdevallia ignea has been exhibited by oe Veitch, Mr. Bull, Mr. Day, of Tottenham,
Mr. W. Marshall, of Clay Hill, Enfield, and other Orchid growers; the flowers are of a
crimson-red, or sometimes orange-scarlet colour, the veins ecole shaded with crimson ;
it was imported from New Grenada, and sold at Mr. Stevens’s sale. Like many of the
Orchids, it varies very much in colour, some of those exhibited by Mr. Marshall being so very
dissimilar, that to many they appeared almost like a distinct species ; the species is remarkable
for having the upper sepal bent down between the sinus of the lateral ones, giving it a
singular appearance.
Puate 16.
DRACAINA EXCELSA (or ELEGANS).*
“The Dracenas,” says Mr. B. Williams in his valuable and thoroughly practical book,
“Choice Stove and Greenhouse plants,” “are amongst the most useful and beautiful of fine
fohaged plants, partly owing to their noble but graceful habit, and partly owing to the
colour which the leaves of many species assume.” We may add to this, that another title to
their being more generally grown is their great use for the decoration of houses, halls,
ballrooms, &c.; they will stand a considerable amount of exposure to heat and dust without
being materially injured thereby. The various varieties of D. indivisa are exceedingly beau-
tiful for this purpose ; while others, such as D. Cooperi, D. ferrea, D. robusta, D. terminalis, make
very admirable plants for subtropical gardening.
In the matter of cultivation they do not present much difficulty, a compost of two-thirds
peat, and one-third loam, being that best adapted for them; they should also have a fair
amount of pot room.
Dracena excelsa is a beautiful South Sea Island plant, with spreading leaves broadly
oblong and narrowed at the base; the colour is a rich deep olive green, and the edges of the
leaves are margined with bright carmine. As a decorative plant of medium growth it pro-
mises to be very useful, and for this purpose Mr. Bull, in whose establishment we saw it,
considers it a decided acquisition.
* The name it bore when our drawing was made, but subsequently changed, whence the discrepancy disco-
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EXHIBITIONS.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Apvrit 3.
ALTHOUGH not equal in excellence and importance to
the Hyacinth Show, this was really a very creditable
exhibition; the prizes offered for Odontoglossums,
Cyclamens, Cinerarias, and Amaryllids, brought to-
gether some splendid collections, while the miscel-
laneous class contained many groups of high merit.
The Odontoglossums exhibited by Messrs. Ward,
Bull, and Linden of Brussels, comprised O. Trium-
phans, Phalwenopsis, Hallti, Pescatorei, roseum, hystrix,
and odoratum; the Cyclamens exhibited by Mr.
Goddard, gardener to H. Little, Esq., Cambridge Villa,
Twickenham, were marvels of good culture. Nothing
can be more attractive than these plants, and they
may be had in bloom where there is a good collection
from October to May. The Cinerarias were far behind
the examples we have seen exhibited in former days ;
the only collection of Amaryllids shown was that of
Mr. Baxter, gardener to C. Keiser, Esq., Broxbourne ;
it contained some remarkably fine flowers, Olga being
the cream of the collection. It would be impossible to
enumerate the many beautiful plants shown by Messrs.
Veitch, Paul, Williams, Rollisson, and others. There
‘were a few very remarkable new plants submitted to the
Floral Committee by Mr. Linden of Brussels, com-
prismg Masdevallia Lindeni, a most lovely species,
with brilliant magenta-coloured flowers: Tillandsia
Lindeni vera, with deep rose-coloured bracts and _bril-
liant violet-blue flowers—these we hope to figure.
From Mr. Veitch came Oncidium cresus, and from
Mr. Bull, Draceena metallica, with dark bronze foliage,
‘and Zalacca orientalis, an ornamental palm; and from
Messrs. Smith of Dulwich, Azalea Beauty of Surrey,
one of the very finest, if not the very finest white
Azalea yet introduced.
April 17,—Another exceedingly good and varied exhi-
bition, in which prizes were offered especially for Azaleas,
Rhododendrons, and Auriculas, but at which (as usual at
these shows) the miscellaneous subjects formed a large
and important portion of the show; amongst the
most interesting plants were the Auriculas, which we
have never seen at these shows in such good character
‘and condition. Mr. Turner took first prize for twelve,
and Mr. James of Isleworth second. In the class
for amateurs, the Rev. H. H. Dombrain, Westwell
Vicarage, Ashford, Kent, was first with (says the
Journal of Horticulture) “trusses in which the pips
were large without being coarse; his varieties were
Traill’s Mayflower, Gairn’s Model, Headly’s George
Lightbody, Campbell’s Pizarro, Smith’s Waterloo, and
Cheetham’s Lancashire Hero. In the Metropolitan
Floral Society’s classes, the Rev. H. H. Dombrain was
first for six, Mr. James second, and H. Little, Esq.,
Twickenham, third; for green edges Mr. Turner was
first with Leigh’s Colonel Taylor, the Rev. H. H. Dom-
brain second with Admiral Napier, and Mr. James
third with Lovely Ann; for grey edges the same exhi-
bitors occupied the same position with Headly’s George
Lightbody, and for white edges with a plant named
John Waterston, but evidently not it, and Smith’s
Ne plus ultra; for selfs the Rev. H. H. Dombrain was
first with Spalding’s Metropolitan, very fine in truss
and splendid in colour, Mr. Turner being second with
Pizarro, and Mr. James third with Mrs. Smith.”
Amongst the miscellaneous subjects perhaps one of the
most interesting were the Azaleas of M. Van Houtte
of Ghent, who received first-class certificates for J. G.
Veitch, Madlle. Marie Van Houtte, a large semi-
double white flaked with salmon, Sigismund Rucker,
pink bordered with white nicely painted, very like
Ivery’s Fascination but larger. There was also a very
beautiful collection of the fine cutleaved Japanese Maples.
REVIEWS.
The Fairfield Orchids,
We need no greater evidence of the widespread attention
given to the cultivation of Orchids, than that afforded
by the book now before us; it is in truth, a catalogue
of the Orchids grown for sale by Messrs. James Brooks
and Sons, the Fairfield Nurseries, near Manchester.
But instead of being merely a dry catalogue, it contains
an introduction of twenty-six pages on the best method
of treatment ; then an admirable descriptive list of the
various species in cultivation; and an appendix, giving’
the meaning of the names by which they are called.
The cultural directions seem to us to be founded on
plain principles, and to be carried out with good common
sense: take, for example, the following remarks on the
culture of the suspended Epiphytes :—
“The best and easiest way is that most natural to
the plants themselves, and that is to let them feed after
their own manner from an atmosphere saturated with
moisture which contains the products of some simple
vegetable matter. ‘Io be dosed from a watering-pot
with liquid manure is not natural to them. ‘The most
easy and natural formula is atmospheric precipitation,
10 THE FLORAL MAGAZINE.
the fermenting vegetable material being so located in
the orchid house as to be a source of no annoyance
either to visitors or to workers therein, and at the same
time, able to communicate its products freely to the
atmosphere. The material decidedly the best to employ
is tanner’s refuse bark, with the addition of a small
quantity of stable manure.”
In the same vein are the remarks on “the Rest of
Orchids ;” and altogether we consider the book a
valuable contribution to the literature of Orchid culture,
even although it only assumes the form of a trade
catalogue.
The Natural History of the Year. By the late B. B.
Woopwarp, B.A. Partridge and Co.
This is a very charming book for young persons, well
written, beautifully printed, and illustrated with wood-
cuts characteristic of the months and seasons of the
year. The author, evidently a lover of Nature, is just
such a companion as a child would delight to have in
his first country walk, to help him to see, observe, and
enjoy the curious and wonderful objects lying in his
way at every step. Relating the charm of his own first
introduction to nature, he continues :—
“ You will smile I dare say when I tell you that this
happened on a winter’s day. There was no snow on
the ground, but everything looked wet and cheerless ;
the sky was clouded, and the wind so cutting that
when I set out on my walk I shivered with cold. But
before I had gone far, I saw a small kind of grass in
ear, and I gathered it, wondering why it had not waited
till the sweet spring was come; next I espied the pretty
white stars of the chickweed, and as I had never noticed
it before, I plucked it with as much delight as if I had
found a most splendid and fragrant flower; and then I
saw other flowers and mosses, and berries both black
and red. And J listened to a lark which was singing
far above my head, and to the blackbirds and redbreasts
in the trees close beside me; and I forgot the cold, and
everything except the wonder and the beauty of the
world which God was adorning in this way, even in the
depth of winter.”
And so our author takes us a monthly ramble through-
out the year, directing attention to the various objects
of interest peculiar to each. Here and there are thrown
in bits of what are intended as religious instruction,
which smack more of the theologian than of the
naturalist, and which we strongly suspect are from
another pen, as the book is said to have been revised.
These may be acceptable to some persons, but we con-
fess not to ourselves in the form in which they appear.
We love religion, and regard nature as its handmaid ;
so we also like sugar, but we should object, as would a
child also we think, to have lumps of undissolved sugar
thrown into every dish of meat or vegetables. Why
not let nature teach its own lesson, and make its own
impression? It will do so much more effectually and
naturally than any theologian. Notwithstanding this
slight blemish, if indeed it be one, we strongly recom-
mend this little book as a gift which will be highly
prized by every child who is fortunate enough to obtain
a copy.—F. L. 8.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
SHADING MATERIALS.
ALrHouGH not so much troubled with brilliant sun as our
Continental neighbours, we are yet, if we desire to keep
our plants in good condition, obliged to resort to some
sort of shading during the summer weather. The rays
of the sun, concentrated by glass, burn and scorch the
leaves, and hence this provision is necessary. Shaw’s
Tiffany has been for a long time in use, and is doubt-
less a useful material, but we have found, after a three
years’ trial, Collinge’s far better. It is much stronger,
looks neat, and admits a sufficient degree of light, and
does not in any way draw the plants. We have also
found it useful as a protection for strawberries (for we
are troubled by blackbirds who, some way or other, do
understand that good strawberries are better eating
than indifferent ones), and also for small bush cherries.
There are, we are aware, other shading materials, but
we can only bear witness to the value of that which we
have tried.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
Mr. C. Turner’s Spring Catalogue of Geraniums, &c.
Messrs. Downie, Land, and Laing’s Descriptive
Catalogue of Florist’s Flowers, &c.
Mr. T. Ware’s Catalogue of Florist’s Flowers.
We have grouped these together, as they are evidences
of the return to the cultivation of florist’s flowers, which
the rage for other things had driven out of the field.
Mr. Turner has long been known as our chief cultivator
of pinks, carnations, picotees, auriculas, &c., and his
present catalogue is very comprehensive. — Messrs.
Downie and Co. have always maintained a high reputa-
tion for pansies, phloxes, pentstemons, &c., and in
their various classes we perceive several additions to
their already rich collection—Mr. Ware has greatly
contributed to the revival of a taste for alpine and
herbaceous plants in the neighbourhood of the metro-
polis, and we are glad to hail him as another worker in
reviving the taste for our long neglected favourites.
Mr. B.S. Williams’ Catalogue of Plants for 1872.
—This complete list commences with a list of the
novelties introduced by him, such as Echimea Marie
Regine, Viola cornuta magnificent, &c., and is illus-
trated with some characteristic woodcuts of ferns,
orchids, &c.
We are requested to notify that the Manchester
National Show will be held on May 17th and follow-
ing days, aud that the Metropolitan Floral Society’s
Autumn Show (with which will be combined an
International Floral Show), will take place at the
Crystal Palace on Wednesday and Thursday, August
28th and 29th.
PLATE 17.
CELOSIA HUTTONI.
This family (to which many ornamental plants belong, some of which are specially
suitable for the ornamentation of the conservatory in autumn,) has lately received a valuable
addition in the handsome plant which we now figure, originally named Amaranthus Huttoni,
but since altered to its present name.
Like most of the family known to us it is an annual, and requires the treatment of a
stove during the earlier periods of its growth ; the seeds may be sown in a hotbed in March,
and then pricked out into small pots, afterwards to be transferred to the stove or greenhouse,
and potted off as they increase in size; they will then form conspicuous objects for the
greenhouse when Azaleas, Pelargoniums, and other summer-flowering plants have passed their
prime and been turned out of doors. Like many other plants of this character, the Celosias
are liable to be attacked by red spider, but if well syringed this pest may be kept down;
like others of the Amarantacee it is hoped that the plant may prove useful for bedding
purposes, the redness of its colouring approaching to that of Jresene Herbstii, but somewhat
darker; and may, in warm summers especially, add another to the many shades of coloured
leaves which, as well as flowers, tend to make up the results of the modern system of summer
gardening.
Celosia Huttont was introduced by the Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Chelsea, from Java
—sufficiently indicating its character as a stove plant; and we are indebted to them for the
opportunity of figuring it; it is a fitting companion to the Amaranthus salicifolius, figured in
the last volume of our former series.
Puate 18,
SINGLE VARIETIES OF CHINESE PRIMROSE.
Those who are able to look back for some years at the progress of horticulture cannot
but be surprised at the immense improvement that has taken place in many of our favourite
flowers. The Cyclamen we have already adverted to, and the Chinese Primrose may be
evidenced as another : formerly the flowers were small, and the colours but few—now we have
them with large flowers of many hues of colour, and equally great variations have taken
place in the foliage, as for example the fern-leaved varieties, and latterly we have seen a large
white variety with very dark foliage.
We have seen most of the different strains that have been brought before the public,
and although many of them are very beautiful, we are of opinion that that of which we now
give an illustration is of the very finest character; there is so much beauty and such brilliancy
of colour that they lay claim to being of the very first order. We would especially refer to
the brilliant crimson of that marked fig. 4, and the curiously spotted magenta flower marked
fig. 2. No names have been given to these flowers, as Messrs. Stuart consider them but
types of the general character of the plants produced from their seed.
We are indebted to Messrs. Stuart and Co. of Nice, and also of 5, Tavistock Row,
Covent Garden, for the opportunity of figuring them, and are informed by them that such
varieties may be expected from their seeds, and we hope in our next number, (where we
purpose figuring a selection of double varieties) to give an account of their method of
cultivation.
Puate 19.
CINERARIAS—JOHN STANDISH AND LADY KILMOREY.
There are few flowers more attractive for early spring blooming than the Civeraria, and
in former years there was always a large number of handsome well-grown specimen plants
exhibited, but these seem now to be almost a thing of the past; perhaps it is considered
that more showy plants better occupy their place, or that good varieties can be so easily
obtained from seed, that 1¢ is not worth while to take the trouble of propagating and growing
named varieties, or the encouragement given to them in the way of prizes has been so small
that exhibitors have been deterred ; be that as it may, they are certainly by no means so well
grown and exhibited as formerly.
It is quite true that good varieties may be obtained from a packet of seed, but so may bad
ones also ; and in a large establishment where hundreds of plants can be grown, and used up,
of whatever character they may be, either for decoration or bouquets, either plan may well
be adopted ; but to the amateur who loves form, high colour and clearness of marking, this
will not do, and he will be always glad to have good sterling varieties, even although their
cultivation does entail a little more trouble.
The Messrs. F. and A. Smith of Dulwich, and more recently Messrs. Standish and Co.
of Ascot, have greatly improved the flower, introducing a sort of tricoloured marking into it,
and very attractive were some of the plants exhibited by the latter this spring ; from among
them we have selected two—John Standish (fig. 1), an intensely brilliant magenta purple, and
Lady Kilmorey (fig. 2), a beautiful bright mauve ; indeed the latter possesses a colour quite
new in this beautiful flower, and we hope to see a still further improvement as the result of
the care bestowed on them.
PLATE 20.
TOXICOPHLAA SPECTABILIS.
This handsome and fragrant plant has been exhibited during the present season at
South Kensington and the Regent’s Park under the name of Yovicophlea Thunbergii ; but a
more careful examination of it, by Professor Dyer and others, has led them to the conclusion
that it is not identical with that plant, but is a more showy and valuable species.
The old 7. Thunbergii, with which it was supposed to be identical, is a native of the
Cape of Good Hope, and derives its name from the fact that the aborigines use a decoction of
the bark for poisoning their arrows. Very few of the genus are worth cultivating (their
culture, however, being of the very easiest nature), but the plant we figure, says a con-
temporary, “from its showy leaves, will recall those of some P2t/osporums, and from its dense
masses of fragrant white and [xora-like blooms, is one that is likely to prove of great value
as a warm greenhouse plant’”—a verdict which will, we think, be borne out by the accurate
and characteristic figure given by Mr. Smith.
Toxicophlea Thunbergit was exhibited by Mr. B. 8. Wilhams, of Victoria Nursery, Hol-
loway, by whose kindness we figure it, and gained at the Royal Horticultural Society a first
class certificate, and at the Royal Botanic, a botanical certificate of merit; it is amongst the
new plants announced by Mr. Williams as to be sent out by him in May, and we have no
doubt, from its ornamental character, and the easiness of its culture, it will find its way into
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[No. 6.
EXHIBITIONS.
CRYSTAL PALACE, May 11.
Tuts, the first of the Grand Exhibitions of the Metro-
polis, was a complete success ; for although the number
of plants exhibited was probably not so large as on
some former occasions, yet the general excellence of
the exhibits was far above the usual average; espe-
cially in the classes of stove and greenhouse plants,
heaths, and foliage plants. And indeed throughout the
Exhibition there were not, as far as we could judge,
any inferior specimens, while some were marvels of
excellence. We would single out, as perhaps the most
remarkable plants in the show, the two Sarracenias
exhibited by Mr. Baines. The large Azaleas are cer-
tainly inferior to what they used to be; but then those
exhibited in smaller pots were decidedly far more
attractive, the collection exhibited by Mr. C. Turner,
of Slough, being especially beautiful. There were
some excellent miscellaneous collections of plants exhi-
bited by Mr. Williams, of Holloway, Messrs. Carter,
of Holborn, and Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing, of
Forest Hill. The roses in pots of Messrs. Paul and
Son were marvels of fine cultivation; while the box of
cut blooms of Maréchal Niel, exhibited by Captain
Christy, of Westerham, were probably the finest ever
seen. The Metropolitan Floral Society offered prizes
for Tulips and Pansies, which had the effect of bringing
together a larger number of the former than we have
seen for many years; the principal exhibitors being
Messrs. Turner, Walker, and Hooper, amongst nursery-
men; and Mr. Norman and the Rev. H. H. Dombrain
amongst amateurs. Pelargoniums showed a great falling
off as compared with former years; but we fear the
rage for bedding out plants has driven them out of the
field.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, May 15.
THE principal features of this Exhibition were the pot
Roses and the Table Decorations, and as the latter are
not so often exhibited as the former, we prefer to notice
them. There were two classes—one for a dinner for
twenty persons, the other for a dinner for twelve. In
the former, Miss Hassard, of St. Ronan’s, Church
Road, Norwood, took the first prize, and deservedly so ;
it carried out the conditions of good taste which we
have always insisted upon—the one point that is
doubtful to our mind being, whether the letting of the
pot into the table is a legitimate plan. The arrangement
of the table was—Two ferns (Pteris) were placed at
either end, and where the stem rose from the table
was a circle of fern-leaves ; the centre contained a tall
stand of glass, the base of which was surrounded by
fern-leaves on which were placed blooms of Cactus
speciosissimus and Lilies of the Valley, while Rhodanthe
and Maiden Hair fern filled up the stand. The top con-
tained some grasses and Hotteian Japonica, and was
exceedingly light and elegant. Between the ferns and
the centre-piece were two recumbent figures, sur-
rounded with Lycopodiums, and specimen grasses were
placed round the table. Altogether it was very elegant,
and deservedly merited the place it obtained. Miss
E. Blair was second, with a table similarly arranged.
There were some very remarkable instances of bad
taste, one especially, which was all colour, and the
stand surmounted with flags. We were told it was
exhibited by an American firm. We did not think the
- second class by any means good; but the vagueness of
the schedule, in which it stated economy of cost was to
be considered, led to poverty of appearance. We hope
that the decision of the judges in determining to ex-
clude from prizes those which were so over-done, will
have the-effect of disseminating a better taste.
The collection of Roses in pots was very good, and
a very interesting collection of agaves and succulents
added a feature not often seen. Dr. Kellock, and Mr.
Jean Verschaffelt, from Ghent, both exhibited a fine
collection; as did also Mr. Peacock, of Sudbury, but
his collection was not for competition.
MANCHESTER HORTICULTURAL
EXHIBITION.
Wrruovt exception the finest Exhibition that we have
seen for many years, not excepting those held in the
metropolis, There was a bank of Orchids shown which
we might challenge London to equal, and which has
not for many years been equalled there. Then there
was the magnificent collection of plants shown by Mr.
Baines, gardener to H. B. Micholl, Esq., of Southgate
House, which no other grower could produce ; while
Azaleas, pot Roses, zonal and variegated Geraniums,
herbaceous plants and Rhododendrons and Ferns, found
12 THE FLORAL MAGAZINE.
fitting representatives. The whole show was a credit
to the exhibitors, and the liberal list of prizes, amount-
ing to nearly 1000J., displayed the liberality and public
spirit of Manchester. It may be interesting to state
that the special prizes offered by that munificent patron
of Horticulture, Sam. Mendell, Esq., for the best plants
in the Exhibition, were awarded to Ixora Colei, exhi-
bited by Messrs. Cole and Son, of Manchester, and to
Sarracenia flava, exhibited by Mr. Baines. The whole
arrangements of the Exhibition were carried out in a
manner which reflected the highest credit upon all
concerned ; the palm of praise being clearly due to Mr.
Findley, the able curator of the Botanical Society under
whose auspices the Exhibition was held; and indeed,
as far as we have seen, the Northerners completely
beat us Southerners out of the field in the manner in
which they enter into any enterprise of this character.
There is far more warmth and energy amongst them
than with those who live in a more favoured climate,
where the difficulties attending the growth of plants
bear no comparison with those experienced by the
lovers of gardeuing in the North.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
GREEN FLY, AND THE METHODS OF ITS
DESTRUCTION.
Ir we were to believe all the statements made as to
the various compounds, powders, liquids, &c., for get-
ting rid of this pest, we ought never to be troubled
with it; and yet, after all, we very much question
whether anything is equal to the old plan of fumigating,
and whether anything is better than the various forms
of tobacco. We have tried several, and we believe that
good tobacco-paper is the most efficient cure for the
enemy. Various machines have been also recom-
mended for using the preparation, but, although many
of them are ingenious and many expensive, we find none
to be better than the very simple contrivance known so
largely and so well as “Appleby’s Fumigator ;” and we
venture to say that with this and abundance of his
compound paper, the pest can soon be got rid of—
indeed it need never appear—for if the house be fumi-
gated occasionally, there need be no fear of its harbour-
ing the enemy. The Fumigator is very simple, and no
inconvenience whatever need be felt by those who use
it. It may be lighted, and left in the house to do its
own work.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
Catalogue of Bedding and other Plants. James
Carter, Dunnett and Beale, 237 and 238, High Hol-
born.—The extensive seed business of Messrs. Carter
gradually necessitated the addition of a nursery to
supply the orders received, and no more remarkable
instance of the rapid growth of such an establishment
can be adduced than the Forest Hill Nursery belonging
to this firm ; for from thence not only have there been
immense quantities of plants sent out, but some very
remarkable seedlings, especially amongst the Tricolor
Geraniums, have emanated from thence. We need only
mention Prince of Wales and Mrs. Dunnett to bear out
our assertion. The catalogue now before us contains
an extensive assortment not only of what are popularly
known as bedding plants, but also of stove and green-
house plants—ferns, herbaceous plants, succulents,
&e.; while the abundant testimony given throughout
their pages of the satisfaction experienced by those
who have obtained plants, will be a sufficient guarantee
of the excellence of their stock ; for it will be borne in
mind that cheap bedding plants may be very dear, if
they are not well managed.
A Retail List of Beautiful and Rare Plants. Wm.
Bull, Seed Plant Merchant, King’s Road, Chelsea,
S.W.—An extensive catalogue of a very valuable col-
lection, illustrated with numerous woodcuts, and a
large frontispiece of Mr. Bull’s Winter Garden. Not
only are there detailed descriptions of the many new
and rare plants which Mr. Bull has introduced for the
first time, but a large number of the most valuable
introductions of recent years. No one desirous of
adding to their collections should be without this very
extensive and interesting catalogue.
Catalogue of Cheap Bedding Plants. Thomas Samp-
son, Preston Street, Yeovil.— Mr. Sampson’s establish-
ment is well known in the West of England for the
marvellous cheapness and excellence of the bedding
plants sent out from thence. We have here geraniums
and other plants at 2s. per dozen; while others of a
more valuable character, such as Mr. Sampson’s
own seedling, Amazon, will attract the attention of
growers.
Spring Catalogue. E. G. Henderson & Son, Wel-
lington Road, St. John’s Wood, N.W.—A most excel-
lent catalogue from a firm which has brought into notice
some of the most valuable bedding plants that we
have.
Notices to Correspondents.
B. T. asks how he is to prevent cockroaches in his orchid house.
We can assure him, on the authority of Mr. Petch, the able gardener at
Manley Hall, that Griffith Hughes’ Oriental Powder will completely
eradicate them ; it is manufactured by the inventor at Cateaton Street,
Manchester, and is very cheap. One or two doses is quite sufficient to
clear the house infected by them.
PLATE 21.
TRICHOPILIA FRAGRANS.
In sending to us a plant of this beautiful and rare orchid, our esteemed friend, Mr. James
Backhouse, of York, says: “ No characteristic or even decent figure of it exists that we know
of; the one in the Botanical Magazine so called, is possibly Zrichopilia albata; it has green
instead of white sepals and petals, and the leaf half the size; it often blooms with two stems
(one on each side), and the stems have three to five flowers each.”
“This genus,” says Mr. B. 8. Williams, in his Orchid Growers’ Manual, “ contains some
very handsome and distinct plants; their flowers are curious in form, and are produced from
the base of the pseudo-buds ; they are dwarf evergreen plants, and are best grown in pots with
peat and good drainage, and should be elevated above the rim of the pot on account of their
drooping flowers, which proceed from the base of the bulb. Too much water at the root at
any time is highly injurious to them. They will do best in the Mexican House, and are
propagated by dividing the plant.”
Trichopilia fragrans is a very lovely orchid, the colour being a pure white with a small
yellow spot on the petals; it is also, as its name implies, sweet smelling, and we are sure
that orchid-growers will agree with us as to its being a desirable plant to add to collections
of these lovely flowers.
PLATE 22,
AMARYLLIS—OLGA.
It is to us somewhat surprising that this beautiful class of plants is not more exten-
sively cultivated, for their culture presents no great difficulty, and their gorgeous beauty
cannot be questioned. We are enabled, through the kindness of C. Keiser, Esq., of Brox-
bourne, who is an ardent and excellent grower of amaryllids, to figure this very beautiful
seedling, named by pérmission after Her Majesty The Queen of Wirtemberg, and also to add
the following note with which he has been kind enough to furnish us :—
“The Amaryllis in their dormant state are kept in a temperate house on or underneath
a stage, without a drop of water. Karly in spring they ought to be repotted in loam mixed
with some well-rotted leaf-manure (sifted), the pots well drained, all offsets (large enough)
removed, taking care not to remove the outer skin, however loose; they are then placed in
a temperate house near the glass, without watering, till they appear to move, and then only
sparingly, but when in full force of vegetation they require plenty of water.
“As they are required for blooming they are put into a temperate or warm house.
After blooming they require no artificial heat, but all the light, sun, and air possible, with
occasional watering according to the vigour of their growth. When they have done blooming
water should be withheld, and they placed in their winter resting-place.”
Such is the treatment which produces the fine plants exhibited at the Royal Horticul-
tural Society ; but Mr. Keiser is also a raiser of seedlings, and O/ga is the result of a cross
between Akermanni and Rubra Calamistrata. It is a very delicately marked flower, of good
form and substance, and has received a first-class certificate from the Floral Committee of
the Royal Horticultural Society.
PLATE 23.
DOUBLE VARIETIES OF CHINESE PRIMROSE.
We gave in our last number an illustration of some of the beautiful varieties of Chinese
Primroses obtained from seed by Messrs. Stuart and Co. of Nice ; we now have the pleasure
of adding one of their equally beautiful double varieties, and at the same time offering the
method of cultivation which they have so successfully pursued :—
“The seeds are sown during the first fortnight in May, in shallow pans, and placed in
a greenhouse. They soon vegetate, and whilst the seedlings are quite small they are potted
out into 2-inch pots; when strong enough and well rooted, they are transferred to 34-inch
pots, using a light, rich mixture of loam and leaf-mould. During the hot season the plants
require great care in watering and shading, and occasionally a little weak liquid manure ;
finally, during the month of October they are repotted into 5-inch pots, and commence
blooming early in January, the flowers attaining great perfection and extraordinary richness
of colour.”
The above is very much the plan adopted by our best English cultivators, the necessity
for shading not being so great with us as in the brighter atmosphere of Nice; still it is a
point that ought to be borne in mind by all who desire healthy plants. While all
figured are very beautiful, we would especially draw attention to the crimson and magenta
varieties, the intense deep colour of the former being especially remarkable; and we are
assured by Messrs. Stuart that there is almost a certainty of such flowers being produced
trom the seeds saved by them.
PLATE 24,
DRACAINA METALLICA.
In this highly decorative class of plants we meet with many different types, both as to
colouring and growth ; in some we have erect, in others drooping, foliage; in others beauti-
fully marked leaves, as in Dracena Lvcelsa, lately figured by us; and in others plain lustrous
ones, as in that which we now figure; but all are strikingly beautiful, and are more and
more valued for decorative purposes.
Dracena Metallica, which has been exhibited by Mr. Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea,
and for which he has obtained a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society,
is of very robust habit, “ and is undoubtedly the finest of all the dark-coloured Draczenas ; the
leaves are as much as sixteen inches in length, of an oblong-acuminate form, and, with the
sheathing leaf-stalks, are of an uniform rich coppery purplish hue when young, becoming a
dark purplish bronze when mature. The leaves are somewhat erect and arching, and alto-
gether, taking into account their large size and their full and rich colouring, together with
the free habit of growth, Dracena Metallica comes into the very foremost rank amongst
decorative and exhibition plants. It has been imported from the Samoan Islands.”
We notice that not only has Mr. Bull these very beautiful Dracenas, but that other
growers of plants are introducing them, so that we may expect to see them taking the high
place they deserve as ornamental plants for the conservatory or house.
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[No. 7.
EXHIBITIONS.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
June 5th, 6th, and 7th.
Tuis, with the exception of the Great Provincial Show
to be held at Birmingham, is the most extensive one of
the year held under the auspices of the Society, and
was largely contributed to by the most celebrated
nurserymen and amateurs who exhibit in or near the
metropolis. In a show of so extensive a character, it
were idle in our brief space to attempt an enumeration
of the many points of interest and value it presented ;
but where the magnificent plants of Mr. Baines, and pe-
largoniums of Mr. Ward,Ferns,Orchids, Bulbs, and Stove
plants from Williams, Jackson, Bull, Veitch and others,
were to be seen, besides a tent full of cut flowers and
fruit, it may well be considered that there was some-
thing worth looking at. Yet, to our mind, there was a
want of finish and taste in the arrangement of the tent,
which was to be lamented. In the first place, the wood-
work of the tent ought to have been green, not stone
colour. Then, when one entered the tent and stood on
the raised mound which was the “ coign of vantage,”
there was a lumpiness about it that was very dif-
ferent to what we saw at Manchester. There were here
fine roses in pots and foliage plants in what we may
call the aisles, hidden from this point of view, which
might with advantage have been placed in the fore-
ground, or middle foreground, while the pelargoniums
that occupied the position might have taken their place.
We should add that some foreigners entered into com-
petition. Mr. A. Dalli¢re, of Ghent, sent some fine
Dracenee, and Mr. Pfersdorff, of Paris, a choice collection
of Cacti. The day was one of the finest we have had in
this wet and cold season, and a very large number of
people attended on the first day. The Fruit was the
finest we have seen at this season of the year for a long
time.
REVIEW,
Botany for Beginners: an Introduction to the Study of
Plants. By Maxwutt T. Masrmrs, M.D., F.R.S.
How true it is that only men who thoroughly know
their subject can write simply, and never do scientific
men confer a greater boon on the particular science
they follow than when they venture so to do, for,
as the accomplished author of this little volume
before us truly says, “one of the greatest difficulties
in the way of those beginning to study Botany arises
from the profusion of details usually presented to their
notice at the outset.” And his book is an honest and
successful attempt to encourage the study of his favourite
science by making these details as interesting as pos-
sible. We say successful, because in our own family these
papers, as they appeared in the “ Gardeners’ Chronicle,”
were perused with delight, and led to an earnest follow-
ing out of the subject which other books failed to effect.
The style in which the book is written is pleasing and
attractive, while a reverent spirit, such as we would
always wish to see shown in works of this kind, per-
vades its pages, and, without dragging in religious
topies, the author lets it be seen that his wish is to
encourage his readers to regard the works of Creation
as a testimony to Creation’s God. ‘O, si sic omnes!”
It would be impossible for us to enter into any de-
tailed criticism of this charming little brochure, but we
may give as an illustration of the author’s style and
mode of treatment the following passage :—After allud-
ing to the speculations as to the origin and distribution
of plants, he says, page 89 :—“ The beginner, however,
for whom these notes are penned, will be apt to say,
‘Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, I cannot
attain unto it;’ but, in all humility be it spoken, he can
attain unto it to a certain extent, and it is this very
circumstance that should stimulate him to study God’s
works as fully as the means at his disposal will permit.
Let us not be misunderstood ; no amount of speculation,
apart from the search for and accumulation of facts, will
avail him aught, it will be so much waste labour and
loss of time. His speculative faculty must be turned
to account, not in framing mental fragments on a base-
less foundation, but in divining the meaning and im-
portance of the facts before him. This will be as fertile
in good results as the other will be sterile. New facts
and new aspects of old facts will continually arise before
him, and if he never attain to the full fountain of
knowledge, which is not for finite beings to hope for
here, at least he will be always progressing, and extend-
ing his knowledge of the marvels of Creation.” We
may add that the book is profusely illustrated by wood-
cuts, most of them from the facile pencil of our artist,
Mr.Worthington G. Smith, and that it is “got up” in a
very attractive manner.
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Le Jardin du Hamma de la Société Générale Algérienne.
This pamphlet has been called forth by some observa-
tions which seem to have been made against the present
direction of the garden, under the care of M. Riviere,
son of the accomplished director of the Garden of the
Luxembourg, at Paris, and is a successful vindication of
the management. It appears that the garden was in a
very bad condition when handed over to the Society in
1868, that since then it has been completely remodelled,
and that the three objects which it was stipulated
should be carried out have been successfully achieved.
It has been made a public promenade, has cultivated
indigenous plants for distribution, and has also received
many exotics which have become acclimatized and also
distributed. Amongst other things we are glad to see
that the fine collection of Bromeliads which had perished
in the siege of Paris has been preserved in duplicate
here.
jn Wemoriam.
G. W. HOYLE, ESQ., READING.
TuERe has lately passed away from amongst us, at
the age of seventy-one, a gentleman to whose skil
and perseverance as a hybridizer the pages of the
“ Floral Magazine” have been indebted for many of its
most beautiful subjects, and to whom all lovers of the
pelargonium owe a great deal of enjoyment, for to
Mr. Hoyle, perhaps more than to any man, is the past
improvement that has been made in the pelargoniums
to be attributed. We say this, recollecting Mr. Foster,
of Clewes, and Mr. Garth, of Farnham; and the simplest
way to test this is by observing the varieties which
take the place of honour at our exhibitions. It will be
found that by far the greater portion are of Mr. Hoyle’s
raising. Of late years Mr. Foster has got out of the
narrow-petaled varieties, and his flowers now assume the
round petals and form of Mr. Hoyle’s flowers. We re-
member the enthusiasm with which our friend detailed,
on a visit we paid him, his various specimens and those
he hoped to obtain, and we were therefore much sur-
prised to hear that he had abandoned his favourite
pursuit; but so it was. Whether he considered that
improvement could no further go, or that increasing
age hindered him from following it out with his former
energy, at any rate he thoroughly gave it up, and
when we last saw him he was as enthusiastic over
fungi as he had been over his pelargoniums.
Mr. Hoyle did not take up a public position as a
horticulturist ; he wrote but little, did not exhibit
his own flowers, which always passed into Mr. Turner’s
hands, and was another instance of the many we have
known who combined a real hearty piety with a zealous
love of flowers. His name will be gratefully re-
membered by many who love the flowers he did so
much for.
GEORGE LIGHTBODY, OF FALKIRK.
We had hardly penned our brief notice of Mr. Hoyle
when we received from his family a notification of the
death of an old and valued correspondent, Mr. Light-
body, of Falkirk, one of the last surviving members of
the old florists, who pursued with such untiring
energy and skill the cultivation of florists’ flowers. He
was not only a successful cultivator of the Tulip, Pink,
Ranunculus, and Auricula, but the originator of many
fine new varieties, especially of the two latter. His
stock of Ranunculi comprised between three and four
hundred named varieties, all of his own raising, while
his Lord Clyde, Richard Headly, Star of Bethlehem,
and other Auriculas, will always bear witness to his skill
as a hybridizer. Latterly, owing to his infirm health, he
had abandoned all bis cultures with the exception of the
Auricula.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
LOOKER’S HOLLOW BRICK VENTILATOR.
AN ingenious contrivance for the admission of fresh
air into garden frames, ground vineries, forcing pits,
&c. The bricks are grooved and a sliding-board runs
on the grooves, consequently air can be admitted
partially ; or the whole of the apertures can be closed,
as shown in the accompanying woodcuts. The price
is reasonable, and we believe they will be found most
useful in all such structures as Protectors, Acme
Frames, &c. Itis not the fault of inventors if the
gardening world are not supplied with helps to carry on
their operations.
Natices to Correspondents.
Messrs. Cutbush and Son, Highgate.—The perpetual flowering dark
clove carnation is likely to be a valuable addition to this class.
W. H.—The geranium, although pretty, is too flimsy in texture.
We have many superior to it.
PLATE 25,
CAMELLIA—SOUVENIR D’EMILE DEFRESNE.
There is no flower more generally admired than the Camellia, and indeed when we
consider the perfection of its form, the substance of its petals, and the brilliant glossy
character of its foliage, it seems to possess every requisite in a flower with the exception
of perfume.
Although the Camellia is a hardy plant, and can be very easily grown, it is very often
badly treated, and, as a necessary consequence, is often seen in a very unhealthy con-
dition. It should be borne in mind that it is a plant that delights in a great deal of moisture
and shade, and that if these can be afforded it under proper conditions, it is sure to do well.
We are convinced that a great mistake is oftentimes made in overpotting and too frequently
potting the Camellia. We have ourselves plants from Belgium, grown in nothing but
vegetable mould in pots not more than seven inches across, and yet the plants must be
twelve or fourteen years old. Under the ordinary treatment they would receive in this
country, they would be in pots double the size ; it should be remembered that as it requires
a good deal of moisture, there must be no defect in drainage, or the water sours the roots.
Souvenir d’ Emile Defresne is one of the striped varieties, the colour a brilliant red, and
the stripes very distinct ; it has been exhibited several times, and our figure was taken from
a bloom obligingly sent to us by Mr. William Paul, of the Nurseries, Waltham Cross, by
whom it was exhibited in a very admirable collection shown by him at one of the spring
shows of the Royal Horticultural Society.
PLATE 26.
ODONTOGLOSSUM DENISON i.
We have much pleasure in figuring this beautiful Orchid, which was exhibited by the
Royal Horticultural Society and obtained a first-class certificate. Lord Londesborough, from
whose splendid collection it came, is well known as a munificent patron of Orchids, and this
fine Odontoglossum has been named in compliment to Lady Londesborough. We are enabled
to add the following notes from Mr. Denning, his Lordship’s able and intelligent gardener.
“ Odontoglossum Denisone is a supposed natural hybrid between O. crispum and O. histriz ;
it partakes of the latter variety in shape of flower and length of spike, also in the general
contour of the plant, and of the former variety in colour only ; in fact, it appears to be a
white histrix. It was imported amongst a batch of O. Alexandre or crispum, by the Messrs.
Backhouse, of York, from whom Lord Londesborough secured it about three years ago. At
that time it only declared itself to be something distinct, but each succeeding year cultivation
has proved it to be a real acquisition. It will be observed that it unites also the variety
of crispum called Bluntii. O.crispum is divided into two or more sections, of which—
First, O. Alexandre is the most admired one: this is the variety having the pure white sepals
and petals with a white lip, an orange throat and various eccentric crimson markings;
in some varieties this form becomes as regular as a florist’s flower is supposed to be. Second,
O. Bluntii is similar to O. Alexandre, but the crimson markings are extended to the sepals
and petals. Third, O. Andersoni, the markings in which are elongated, not round, as in the
two previous varieties, seeming to be a cross with O. gloriosum. In the case of the variety
in question, it combines all the above peculiarities, with the exception of the 0. Andersom
type. With the additional traits of O. histriv or luteo-purpureum, in having branching spikes
of flowers and the peculiar long tapering sepals and petals of this latter variety, it also grows
much stronger than O. crispum is usually seen to do.”
PLATE 27.
AURICULA—ALDERMAN WISBEY.
It is a great satisfaction to those who admire florists’ flowers to find that they are once
again assuming the position they formerly deservedly occupied—especially is this the case
with the Auricula. It has been exhibited this year in large numbers, and wherever exhibited
has attracted the attention and elicited the admiration of all who have seen the collections
that have been staged.
The difficulty of raising fine varieties is so great, that the catalogues of Auriculas contain
but little change from year to year, and as confirmatory of this statement, we may say that
our esteemed friend Mr. George Lightbody, who has just passed away from amongst us,
although he has been a raiser of the Auricula for forty years, has not left more than half a
dozen varieties of his own raising which will find a permanent place in our catalogues.
Another raiser and grower is Mr. Richard Headly of Stapleford; he too has for a lifetime
been engaged in the same pursuit, and has raised the finest Auricula in growth (George
Lightbody), but has only raised a few really valuable varieties. His stock has lately
passed into the hands of Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough, and by his per-
mission we have been enabled to figure one of his latest seedlings. It belongs to a class (the
green-edged section) in which we are somewhat deficient, and in nearly every point it fulfils
the requirements of a first-rate Auricula—the green edge is especially bright, the paste is
good, and the eye circular ; it has, however, one defect, a sight roughness on the edge, but it
is almost impossible to find an Auricula perfect in every respect.
PLATE 28.
MASDEVALLIA LINDENI.
There are few varieties of Orchids which have received more important additions of late
years than Masdevallia; and we have endeavoured from time to time, as they have been in-
troduced, to present accurate portraits of them. In our former series there appeared Mas-
devallia Veitchii (p. 481) and MW. Harryana, (p. 555,) named so by Professor Reichenbach in
honour of Mr. Harry J. Veitch; while in our present series we have already figured Masde-
vallia ignea, remarkable not only for its brilliancy of colour, but its singular form. .
Masdevallia Lindeni, the subject of our present plate, is the most marvellously brilliant-
coloured one of any that have been yet introduced. We say “yet,” because it is said that we
may expect many more. Nothing can exceed its lovely brilliant magenta colour, and when
exhibited at South Kensington it immediately attracted the attention of all present. It was
sent over from Brussels by M. Linden, the enthusiastic grower who has done so much to enrich
our gardens in every department, and especially in the family of Orchids, and who received
unanimously from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society a first-class cer-
tificate. Like those of the family which have already been figured, it is an Orchid of com-
paratively easy cultivation, and is very lasting, the blooms remaining in perfection for some
weeks, and as they succeed one another, the plant is rarely for long out of bloom.
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[No. 8.
EXHIBITIONS.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S GREAT
PROVINCIAL SHOW, Bremincuam, June 24-29,
We have had a long and general experience of Horti-
cultural Exhibitions, both at home and abroad; we
have a vivid recollection of our Great International one
held in London; we have seen them at Paris, where
all these things were supposed to be so much better
done than with us, and we do not hesitate to pronounce
the Exhibition held at Birmingham, under the auspices
of the Royal Horticultural Society, to have been the
most complete one that we have ever seen. Others
may have had features of more striking aspects: we
missed, for example, the grand masses of Azaleas and
Pelargoniums that made so marked a feature at the
International; but then it had features of its own
which none of the others had—the Table Decorations,
the large show of cut flowers, the fruit and vegetables,
the vast collection of horticultural appliances of all kinds,
from greenhouses to garden-knives, a!l combined to form
a most complete show. Only one element was needed to
insure complete success, and alas! that element was
wanting for the two first days of the show. The
weather was most wretched ; the rain descended in
torrents. As the walks were freshly gravelled, anything
more deplorable than the state of the ground cannot he
imagined. In a show of such magnitude it would be
impossible for us to do more than merely chronicle the
event, and when we add that nearly all the Metropolitan
exhibitors of eminence, Messrs. Veitch, Williams,
Turner, Jackson, Rollison, Baines, &c., were there, that
a very large number also came from the neighbourhood
of Birmingham, Manchester, and the Midland counties
generally, and that in one class alone there were upwards
of fifty entries, it will be seen that it is no exaggeration
to describe it as the most complete Exhibition ever held.
A great deal of the success was due to the indefatigable
exertions of the Hon. Secretary at Birmingham, Mr. E.
W. Badger, whose energy, skill in organization, and
attention to minute details, and courtesy, were beyond
all praise.
CRYSTAL PALACE ROSE SHOW, July 18th.
Ow1ne to the very unfavourable nature of the weather in
May and the early part of June, it was determined
to postpone the Rose Show announced for June 22 to
the above date, and it was feared by manythat, owing
to the hot weather we have lately experienced, it would
not be so successful as those of previous years. We
are glad to say that these fears were not realized, and
that, as far as the growers for sale are concerned, they
never came out in greater force, or exhibited finer roses.
It is curious to see how certain roses come out im
different years, as, par excellence, the roses of the
season ; last year La France and General Jacqueminot
were finer than we ever recollect seeing them. This
year Alford Colomb and Baroness Rothschild were
pre-eminently good, and of the prizes offered for the best
twelve blooms of any one rose, they carried off the
palm ; and moreover, in every stand in which they were
exhibited, they were to be seen in fine condition. We
noticed that several new roses of English origin were
exhibited, and amongst them some which we think are
likely to take a good position. One exhibited by Mr.
Curtis, of Torquay, and called Bessie Johnson, is said
to be a sport from Abel Grand; very light in colour,
almost white, and therefore we think likely to be an
acquisition. Another, a very dark rose, exhibited by
Messrs. Paul and Son, of Cheshunt, and called Rey-
nolds-Hole, seems to us to be a very fine dark variety.
Both of these received first-class certificates, and the
latter we hope to figure by-and-by. Besides the roses,
there were, as usual, several miscellaneous collections,
and conspicuous amongst them some very beautiful cut
blooms of carnations and picotees, exhibited by Mr.
Charles Turner, of Slough. We are glad to hear that
these flowers are once again becoming popular, for they
are exceedingly beautiful, and a collection well grown
gives a vast deal of pleasure. There was a large dis-
play of table decorations, most of them in good taste,
although we think that the desire to be simple had led
to poverty of appearance. Altogether the Exhibition
was a very successful one, and was attended by a large
number of visitors.
THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW.
Dr. Hooker anp Mr. Ayrton.
No one, however small their influence, who is connected
with the horticultural world, or who has any sense of
that which is just and becoming, ought to be silent
concerning the extraordinary treatment to which our
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most eminent botanist, the worthy son of a worthy
father, has been subjected by our British Aldile. It is
sufficient to put the names in juxtaposition, and all who
are acquainted with them will at once know on which
side right is most likely to be. All who know anything
of Dr. Hooker know him to bea man of eminent ability,
of unfailing courtesy, and untiring energy. No one
who knows anything of Mr. Ayrton from his public
utterances, will accuse him either of ability or courtesy ;
and it is therefore no wonder that, when the annoy-
ances and vexations to which Dr. Hooker has been
subjected have so far worked on him as to make-him
speak of resignation, men of all parties should at once
be filled with alarm, and have no hesitation in placing
the blame where it is justly due. Kew Gardens is one
of our most cherished national institutions—a place of
which every Englishman may be proud; and to equal
which he would in vain travel east and west, north and
south. Could not, then, Mr. Ayrton—in whose case
we must reverse the Latin saying, -“ Quod zon tetigit,
ornavit,” and whose boast it is that- he cares nothing
about art and gardeners—have left this alone, instead
of bringing his meddlesome fussiness to bear upon it ?
We trust, however, that the storm of indignation which
the matter has aroused may have the effect of set-
ting matters right, and that Dr. Hooker may be left in
the peaceful occupation which he has been engaged in
under various Governments, for the good of science,
and the enjoyment of vast numbers of the inhabitants
of our great metropolis, to whom Kew Gardens are a
veritable boon. We are glad to find that energetic
measures are being taken, and we hope that the matter
may soon be set at rest.
THE ORIGIN OF GLOIRE DE DIJON ROSE.
“Ty you were enabled to grow only one rose, what would
you select?” is an inquiry often made, and I believe in
many cases the answer would be ‘‘ Gloire de Dijon ;” it is
so vigorous, does so well on any stock, in any situation,
on a wall, as a standard, forced, or in any way, that it
is, par excellence, the rose for all, and yet it is remark-
able that it is entirely a chance seedling. We were
recently paying a visit to that quaint old French town
of the Bourbonnais, Dijon, and, amongst other things,
went to see M. Henri Jacotot, who was the raiser and
sender-out of the flower, and he assured us that he
could tell nothing about it, that it came up amongst a
number of seedlings raised from seed promiscuously sown,
and that he had not the slightest idea of its parentage ;
and it is a remarkable fact that the same may be said
of our best roses, while those who have taken the trouble
to hybridize have scarcely seen any result worth
noticing. Mr. Ward, the raiser of John Hopper (of
which he did know the parents), has never equalled it,
although he has most carefully hybridized ever since,
and it is a curious fact that Jacotot has never sent out
another rose worth mentioning.
REVIEW,
The Rose Amateur’s Guide, §c. By Tuomas Rivers.
Tenth Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
THE book which we now criticize is so well known in
the rose-growing community, and its venerable author
so honoured as the man who, par excellence, has given
the greatest stimulus to his favourite flower that it has
ever received, that many remarks on the excellence
and practical character of the book would be super-
fluous; and while Mr. Rivers is, in one sense, a /awdator
temports acti, white with pardonable pride he points
back to what was done in times past, he is yet so
practical that he does not hesitate to acknowledge the
onward march of progress. He would not say old
Brown Bess was a superior weapon to the Henry-
Martini rifle, and so he details new methods of cultiva-
tion, improvements on old flowers, and does not hesitate
to discard old favourites when better flowers have sup-
planted them; and the whole character of his book
may be gathered from this concluding sentence of his
preface :—“ A practical cultivator, in writing on culti-
vation, labours under a disadvantage. He almost
obstinately supposes that every one must know some-
thing relative to these, with him, every-day opera-
tions. He is apt, therefore, not to go suificiently into
detail. I have strenuously combated this feeling, and
humbly trust that what I have written on the subject
will be found sufficiently explicit.” We have only to
add that all who grow even a few roses should, if they
have it not already, possess themselves of Mr. Rivers’
valuable little guide.
METROPOLITAN FLORAL SOCIETY.
Twn third exhibition, to be held at the Crystal Palace
on the 28th inst., promises to be the most successful
the Society has yet held, and will have the additional
interest of a Fruit Show.
PLATE 29,
FANCY PANSIES—JAMES NEILSON, LADY ROSS, JOHN
B. DOWNIE, AND DAVID MITCHELL.
The progress which has taken place in this very beautiful class under the fostering care
of Messrs. Downie, Laird and Laing, is very remarkable. In looking back on former volumes,
where they were figured, and when indeed great strides were considered to have been already
made, and comparing them with those figured in our present plate, this progress is at once
manifest; in regularity of form, in brilliancy of colour, and especially in size, they have ad-
vanced immensely, and may in all these points take rank with those long known as florists’
pansies. During the present season large numbers of them have been exhibited by the firm
to whose kindness we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring the very beautiful varieties
in our plate.
James Neilson (fig. 1) is a flower of large size; the ground colour a rich bright yellow
with large intense black blotches in the lower petals, both they and the upper petals being
lightly edged with lilac. Lady Ross (fig. 2) has intense deep purple top petals; the lower
petals being of the same colour, and margined with white, and the eye deep orange. John
BL. Downie (fig. 3) is a remarkably coloured flower, a light puce, of regular outline, and the
edge of the petals margined with a lighter shade of the same colour. David Mitchell (fig. 4)
is a very curious flower, the upper petals claret, with a margin of straw colour; the lower
petals with deep blotches of the-sanre colour running off in slight rays towards the margin,
which is curiously blended with orange, straw colour, and puce. ~This flower is the quaintest
and most novel of those figured, although all are well worthy of cultivation.
PLATE 30.
AZALEA—BEAUTY OF SURREY.
We are glad to recognise and record the fact that our English growers of this beautiful
spring flower have not abandoned the raising of seedlings, notwithstanding the number which
have been raised and brought forward on the Continent, and introduced into England by
the Belgian growers. We last year figured one of Mr. Ivery’s, and now have the pleasure
of figuring one raised by the Messrs. Smith, of Dulwich, to whom we are indebted for some
of the finest Azaleas that we possess.
It would seem that the Belgian growers have rather, in their raising of new seedlings,
considered size and brillancy of colour, while our English raisers have aimed at per-
fection of form; thus the Belgian flowers exhibited this season were much more open and
flat, while larger in size than we are accustomed to see here, and no doubt to the casual
observer they are more striking and brilliant.
The flower we now figure was exhibited by the Messrs. F. and A. Smith, of Dulwich,
at one of the spring shows of the Royal Horticultural Society, and was awarded a first-class
certificate by the Floral Committee. Large and small plants of it were exhibited together,
and we were particularly struck with its free flowering character, plants not eight inches high
being full of bloom. It will be seen to be very round and regular, the outline of the petals
being very perfect, while on all the plants exhibited we did not seea single blotched flower—
a remarkable point in a white Azalea, as they are apt, in florists’ language, to sport. This
constancy gives the flower an additional value.
PuATE 31.
HYACINTH EXCELSIOR.
The prizes that are annually offered by the Royal Horticultural Society for new
Hyacinths have been the means frequently of bringing out some remarkable novelties,
although, as we have frequently stated, nothing can be more delusive; for owing to the
difficulty of their propagation, a great many years must elapse before they can be generally
grown, and even the present generation may not see them so cheapened as to be within the
reach of the general mass of growers. This season, however, there were no very great
novelties introduced, possibly because there is very great difficulty in obtaining flowers that
are in advance of those we already possess. Very few flowers of the last twenty years
surpass the Grand Vanaquier, Grand Vedette, Waterloo, Orondates, &c., that former genera-
tions knew and grew.
Among the flowers exhibited by the Messrs. Veitch there was one which, from the
novelty of its colouring, seemed an advance, and which consequently received a first-
class certificate from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and which
we now figure. vcelsior has a fine large spike of flowers, the individual pips being
small, but, as they are very numerous, they form a dense head of bloom. The colour
is a very delicate fawn, each segment of the flower being tipped with crimson, and growers
of the Hyacinth know that while red, blue, and white flowers are numerous and good, those
of the shades of yellow and anything approaching thereto are comparatively scarce—hence
the variety should be a valuable addition to the class.
Puate 32.
CATTLEYA MENDELI.
It was our privilege, at the time of the Manchester National Show, to visit the gardens of
Samuel Mendel, Esq., at Manley Hall—a place which has not its equal in the whole kingdom
in its own peculiar way. There are places of greater extent, and gardens containing probably
a larger extent of ground; but for the amount of glass and the value of the collections con-
tained in the houses, we believe it to be approached by no other place in the kingdom.
Under the able superintendence of Mr. Petch, everything is in the highest state of order ;
no part seems to suffer neglect, and the frames of Auriculas and beds of Pansies seem equally
to share his attention with the magnificent coilection of Orchids and the lovely exotic Ferns.
In passing through the Orchid houses, our attention was attracted by a Cattleya which
was not only new to us, but for its beauty seemed to surpass most of those with which we
were acquainted, and through the kindness of Mr. Petch we are enabled to figure it.
Cattleya Mendeli, named after the generous patron of horticulture who has been the first
to flower it, was received from the Messrs. Backhouse and Son; of York, by Mr. Mendel.
They had obtained it from their collector in New Grenada, 200 or 300 miles up the Magda-
lena River, and, we believe, a region from whence Trianz Cattleya has been before sent.
The flower is very large, the petals and sepals of the most delicate lavender-blue, and the lip
deep brownish crimson and yellow; and, although we have figured many varieties of Orchids,
we do not think that it has fallen to our lot to figure a more beautiful one than Cattleya
Mendeli.
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[No. 9.
EXHIBITIONS.
Att the great Metropolitan Exhibitions are now over, and
the period of Country Shows is at hand. With regard to
the former, we believe them, on the whole, to have been
eminently successful. It is manifest that the zeal of
horticulturists is in no way diminishing; that the rage
for novelties increases; and that no great change can be
made in the method of conducting our Exhibitions. Two
days’ shows have been held, but we do not think they
will answer. We visited the Royal Horticultural
Society’s great June Show on the second day, and the
attendance of visitors was very small, while growers of
orchids and stove plants do not care to give them the
exposure involved in so long an absence from their
quarters. Amongst the most noticeable exhibits which
have been brought forward during the month was the
collection of variegated Pelargoniums on August 7th, but
a great mistake is made in fixing so late a period for
them ; they ought not to be exhibited later than Mav,
when the young growth, which is the most highly
coloured, covers the plant; later on the colours are not
nearly so brilliant. Some new varieties were brought
forward, but, with rare exceptions, there is but little
novelty in them, and the same coloured leaves might be
easily gathered from plants of the older varietics. The
collection of Phloxes exhibited on the same occasion by
Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing was very beautiful,
and showed how much they were capable of as pot
plants. They had suffered a little by the severe storms
which have been so prevalent. The surprise and admi-
ration expressed by many of the visitors showed how
very little this beautiful tribe is cultivated in comparison
with its merits.
The Exhibition on the 20th August brought together
some fine collections of Gladiolus, those of Messrs. Kelway
and Son, and Mr. Douglas being especially noteworthy ;
both of these growers had some fine seedlings of their
own raising, while amongst the older flowers, Meyerbeer,
Norma, Adolphe Brongniart, Virgile, Rosa Bonheur,
Orphée, were conspicuous for their beauty. Amongst
those of the present season, Jupiter is a fine rich flower
of very high colour; Antiope, a beautifully marked
one, somewhat in the style of De Candolle; Celiméne,
a richly marked orange-scarlet variety. On the mag-
nificent exhibition of this splendid flower at the Metro-
politan Floral Society’s show, and on the new flowers,
we shall have further remarks to make next month.
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At Taunton, on August 8th, we had a good opportunity
of seeing how earnest the people of the west are in their
flower-shows, The Exhibition itself was most creditable ;
the plants were, many of them, quite equal to those
around the metropolis, while the display of roses and
eladioli was excellent. But it was not so much the Ex-
hibition itself that attracted our attention as the manner
in which it was taken up by the inhabitants and gentry
around. Had it been a royal visit the town could not have
been more profusely decorated, while by all the families
around it was evidently considered the one day in the
year which they ought to endeavour to make a success.
The day was remarkably fine, and thus financially it
was as successful as it was in other respects. We wish
all parts of England would take a lesson from the
Somersetshire horticulturists, for we should not then have
to deplore such very ineffective and struggling exhibi-
tions as we have. It is of little use people professing a
desire to forward them, unless they work as the Secretary
and Committee of the Taunton Deane Horticultural
Society worked.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
CHAPMAN’S PATENT PLANT CASE.
Mr. W. F. Cuarman, the inventor of the cut-flower
transmission case, which has proved so great a boon to
exhibitors, is determined to leave no stone unturned to
make his invention as widely useful as possible. Thus
the difficulty of bringing plants to an Exhibition fer
table decorations has led him to invent a new ease, in
which he has endeavoured to meet this want. The pots
are fixed in their places by pieces of wood which run in
parallel grooves, one piece catching the pot near the
bottom, the other holding it fast at the rim; it is thus
impossible to cause any injury to them; in fact, we saw
Mr. Chapman turn the box completely over, and the pot
remained immovable. We think that it may be made
specially useful for the conveyance of Auriculas, Pansies,
Polyanthus, and such like plants, which are exhibited in
pots, but which often suffer from the rough manner in
which railway porters treat all such things.
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THE BEST WAY OF HEATING A SMALL
GREENHOUSE.
Now that the question of coals becomes a serious one
for those who have what is called “limited means” (for
who has unlimited means we are at a loss to know), it
may be worth while to say a few words on a question we
have been asked by a correspondent—viz., What is the
best method of heating a small house for an amateur, say
twenty feet by twelve? Hot water is, of course, the
pleasantest and most healthy heat for plants, but we
hardly suppose that in a house of that size it is intended
to keep up a constant supply of heat for forcing, but
that the object is simply to exclude frost. In that case
we should not advise hot water. If the pipes are not
constantly in use they are apt to corrode, and damage
frequently happens, while no hot-water apparatus that
we have ever seen was so small as not to involve a great
waste of fuel when applied to a house of thiskind. We
are therefore of opinion that the old-fashioned fireplace,
with a brick flue, is the cheapest, and is certainly as
effective as any. In our case we have a modification of
this. We have a brick flue for about six feet from the
fireplace, and then we carry it on with glazed earthen-
ware pipes, taking care that a sufficient rise is given to
enable the smoke to ascend easily. Care must be taken
to see that the elbows do not become choked with soot,
and they should consequently be looked to occasionally.
We would say that there is no greater mistake than that
which some amateurs make, to keep up a heat in their
house when there is no frost. Such greenhouses generally
contain a miscellaneous collection of plants, to which
such treatment is very injurious, It is best to keep
them as hardy as one can, and then they will be better
able to withstand cold ; whereas if they are kept in a state
of tenderness by fire-heat they very readily succumb to
the least touch of frost. The common fireplace has also
the advantage of burning any kind of fuel; in fact we,
after the fire is lighted, rarely burn anything but cinders,
and this at the present high price of fuelis a great
advantage.
IVY AS A DECORATION IN SITTING ROOMS.
We have frequently seen this used very effectively in
large rooms, ornamental narrow boxes being filled with
earth and then a light wire trellis being fixed to them,
on which the ivy runs. These placed on tables in
window recesses form a pleasant screen, always fresh and
green, <A writer in the Gardener's Magazine suggests
their employment for the filling up of fireplaces, in lieu
of the paper ornaments now used. ‘The box should be
made the size of the opening—the trellis made to slant
backwards, the ivy planted in spring, and the box kept
in the greenhouse or some outhouse until wanted ;
flowering plants might also be introduced into the boxes
in front of the ivy, and altogether we think it would
have a pleasing effect.
REVIEW,
The Young Collector’s Handy-book of Recreative Science.
By the Rev. H. P. Dunster, M.A. Reeve and Co.
Turis is a companion volume to one we noticed some
months since (No, 1, New Series), and is designed, as
stated in the preface, “to introduce young persons of
both sexes to the study of some of the many interesting
subjects ineluded within the large circle of the recreative
sciences.” The author further remarks that “in the life
of every individual—even the busiest and best em-
ployed—there are hours of leisure to be rescued from
idleness, interludes that ought not to be given over to
listlessness and inactivity, for which a most pleasurable
occupation may be found in the wide field of nature,
amidst the created wonders of the living God.” In-
tended as a “ Recreatire” companion rather than a
working scientific treatise, it would be hardly fair to
subject it to a strictly scientific test. That it will prove
a useful, agreeable, and instructive companion to any
young person disposed to adopt it we have already lad
proof. It treats of Fossils; Minerals and Precious Stones;
Land and Coast Shells; Beach Stones, Pebbles and
Beach Fossils; and Fresh and Saltwater Aquaria.
FF. eS:
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
Messrs. Sutton’s Catalogue of Fresh Imported Bul-
bous Flower Roots, Plants, Seeds, &e.—Prepared with
much care, and containing plain and practical hints for
the cultivation of the various bulbs. Annexed there are
also select and useful lists of such flower-seeds as it is
desirable to sow at this season of the year. The well-
known character of the firm is a sure guarantee for the
excellence of their stock.
Messrs. Veitch and Son’s Catalogue of Hyacinth and
other Bulbous Roots.—An excellent catalogue, contain-
ing amongst other things a good selection of Gladioli—
a flower which is coming rapidly into favour, and de-
servedly so, for its exceeding beauty ; it is very largely
illustrated with small but accurate figures of the flowers
recommended.
Messrs. Carter and Co.’s Catalogue of Dutch Flower
Roots, &c.—No house goes so extensively as this into
the trade for Dutch roots, and their catalogue is a most
valuable help to the amateur who is desirous of growing
bulbs successfully.
Dutch Flower Roots. From A. Arthur Dickson and
Sons, 106, Eastgate Street, Chester—A neat and well
arranged list by one of our best provincial firms.
Catalogue of Hyacinths, &. Messrs. James Cutbush
and Sons, Highgate.-—Mr. Cutbush is well known for
his success as an exhibitor, and is justly proud that nearly
all the first prizes for Hyacinths at our great London
shows have been obtained by bulbs supplied by him.
General Bulb Catalogue. B. S. Williams, Victoria
and Paradise Nurseries, Holloway.—A good catalogue,
containing also an extensive selection of fruit trees and
roses, the latter well arranged and described.
PLATE 33.
LILIUM CALIFORNICUM.*
It has very much surprised us that the cultivation of this charming tribe of plants has
not become more general. Some species, such as Auratum and Lancifolium are largely
cultivated, and nothing can be more lovely than they are; but there is an immense number
of species that we very rarely see; and although very liberal prizes have been offered by
the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society, no competition has taken place. Some fine
plants have been exhibited by George F. Wilson, Esq., but as he is a member of Council he is
prevented from taking prizes.
We have had the opportunity of seeing Mr. Wilson’s collection of Lilies at his residence,
Heatherbank, Weybridge Heath, and one is not likely to forget the exceeding beauty and
grandeur of his masses of Lilium auratum planted out amongst the Rhododendrons. This
seems to be exactly the place suited for them, and the foliage of the shrubs gives a slight
protection to the young shoots; other kinds are grown in pots in the orchid houses. Mr.
Wilson is enthusiastically devoted to their culture, and is constantly adding new species to his
collection.
Lilium Californicum is a native of California, and is a very beautiful species, the
colours being arich orange, densely spotted with brownish-black spots. It was exhibited by
Mr. Wilson, to whom we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it, and was awarded a
first-class certificate by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Puate 34,
COLEUS TRYONTL.
The introduction some years ago of some new species of Coleus, through the enterprise
of the late Mr. John G. Veitch, led to a great improvement in the class as decorative plants,
while a few years later a still more decided advance was made, when the beautiful golden-
edged varieties were raised, and their value for ornamenting the stages of the conservatory
and for the decoration of the dinner-table was at once perceived. Although the great rage has
subsided, and the very extravagant prices then given can never be looked for again, they
still are much used for these purposes, and nothing can be more beautiful than small plants
of Her Majesty, Princess Royal, Baroness Rothschild, and others of the same character.
Tn all these varieties the golden variegation is confined to the edge, the centre of the
leaves being of various shades of maroon. In the variety which we now figure, and which
was raised in the garden of Capt. Tryon, near Leicester, after whom it has been named,
it will be seen that the variegation is of an entirely different character, the upper half of the
leat’ being maroon, and the lower half golden, giving it a very beautiful appearance. It was
exhibited last year at the Royal Horticultural Society, and obtained a first-class certificate.
It has again been shown this year, and the high character given to it last year was fully
sustained.
Nothing can be easier than the cultivation of these varieties of Coleus, but it must be
remembered that they require a stove in the winter, being natives of the South Pacific
Islands.
* Named on plate L. Washingtonianum, under which name it has also been described.
Puate 35.
LYCASTE SKINNERI ALBA, AND NIGRO-RUBRA.
Amongst the many species of Orchids which have been introduced of late years, few
are more generally acceptable than Lycaste Skinnert. The facility with which it can be
grown, the length of time that the individual flowers continue in bloom, and the infinite
variety of its markings, all entitle it to a high place amongst decorative plants. It can be
easily removed to the sitting-room without injury, thus becoming valuable for many purposes.
Amongst those who have most largely imported and most successfully cultivated this
charming Orchid, is the firm of Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, and a visit to their Lycaste house
when the plants are in bloom is a great treat. A collection of florists’ flowers cannot
exhibit a greater variety in marking than do the Lycastes, while their large rich pendent
leaves impart an air of luxuriant vegetation which florists’ flowers cannot do.
We have selected two for our illustration. Lycaste Skhinnert alba (fig. 1) is a pure
white, without marking of any kind, with the exception of a pale faint tinge of yellow.
Lycaste Skinneri nigro-rubra (fig. 2) has the sepals pale lilac, while the lip is intense dark
crimson, forming a remarkable contrast to the pure white of alba. The former of these has
obtained a first-class certificate.
These Lycastes succeed well in a house where the temperature does not exceed 60°, and
which is dry and light, not requiring, as some Orchids do, shade and moisture.
PLATE 36.
HIBISCUS (Rosa sinensis) MINIATUS SEMIPLENUS.
This genus contains already many very ornamental plants, both hardy and stove and
greenhouse, and the species Hosa sinensis, or Chinese rose, has been known for upwards of a
hundred years to our botanists and gardeners, both in its single and double varieties. This,
which has been introduced by Mr. William Bull, of the King’s Road, Chelsea, will suc-
cessfully vie with any of those previously known.
“This remarkably showy stove plant, says Mr. Bull, in his carefully drawn up and
beautifully illustrated catalogue, “has firm and leathery ovate leaves, which are coarsely
toothed, and brilliant flowers of a vermilion scarlet colour, darker towards the base of the
petals. The flowers are semi-double, the petals being very much waved and recurved, forming
an irregular undulated mass, four inches across, from which the partially petaloid staminal
column projects two inches. These brilliant and attractive flowers are remarkable for the
absence of formality, the shape being wild and abounding in fantastic curves, but neverthe-
less they are remarkably handsome. It has been imported from the South Sea Islands.”
The propagation of this species is simple enough. Young shoots should be placed in
sandy soil under a bell-glass, and then placed in bottom heat; after they have struck they
should be potted off in small 48-sized pots, in a mixture of peat and loam, with the addition
of some silver sand. The ordinary temperature of a stove suits them. ‘They are best
adapted for large houses of that character, as they grow rapidly, and soon form large orna-
mental shrubs, when they are very attractive.
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OCTOBER, 1872.
[No. 10.
EXHIBITIONS.
METROPOLITAN FLORAL SOCIETY—THIRD
GREAT EXHIBITION.
CrystaL Paracn, August 28th and 29th.
TuIs was a most successful exhibition, and we have never
seen autumn flowers in greater perfection,—while all the
arrangements were made with that care and considera-
tion which always mark the Crystal Palace shows. The
principal features were Gladiolus, Dahlias, and Holly-
hocks ; although Asters, Roses, and Verbenas contributed
to make the display rich and varied. Of Gladiolus,
Messrs. Kelway and Son sent a stand containing between
five and six hundred blooms, beside those which they
staged for the prize for thirty-six, which easily fell to
their share. The stands contributed by amateurs were
exceedingly creditable, in fact we do not believe three
such stands of twelve as those exhibited by Lord Hawke,
Mr. Douglas, and the Rev. H. H. Dombrain have ever
been shown—near London at any rate; the stand of six,
of the Rev. J. G. Hodgson, of Croydon, was also re-
markably fine. There can be no doubt that this flower is
increasing in popularity, and were it not for the disease
to which it is unfortunately subject, it would be still more
popular. Dahlias were wonderfully good; there was
not merely size but great refinement in their growth,
and great purity in their marking. Mr. Keynes, of
Salisbury, and Mr. May, of Bedale in Yorkshire, extreme
south and north of England, coming into close competi-
tion, and the victory resting with the southern grower,
who now after fifty years of exhibiting retires from the
field, leaving it to younger hands to carry on that which
he so actively carried on for half a century. We believe
that we shall still see him as an exhibitor of Roses and
seedling Dahlias, but as an exhibitor of the latter he
now retires from the lists for competition. Hollyhocks,
especially those staged by Lord Hawke, and Mr. Chater,
of Saffron Walden, were wonderful specimens of skill.
Mr. Perry, of Castle Bromwich, was as usual strong in
Verbenas ; while the Roses contributed by Mr. Prince,
of Oxford, were beyond question the finest we ever saw
at an autumn show—in fact Mr. P. seems to be intro-
ducing a new era into rose-crowing; these roses were all
cut from plants budded on seedling briars. We know
that the French nurserymen have long used them for Tea
Roses, and now it would seem that they will come into
use for exhibition roses, A most wondrously beautiful
box of Clemence Raoux was sent by Mr. Prince, the
strikingly beautiful markings of this rose being very
fully shown in the blooms.
It was determined to try and revive the Autumn Fruit
Show in connexion with this exhibition; but owing to
the very exceptional character of the season, all out-of-
door fruits being so very scarce, the attempt was not
very successful. We hope to see it under more favour-
able auspices next year.
BRIGHTON FLORICULTURAL EXHIBITION.
September 11th.
Tuts was also a great success; but our principal reason
in noticing it, is to show the value of Chapman’s Patent
Cases. We sent two large boxes containing twenty-four
blooms of Gladiolus ; they were entrusted to the tender
mercies of two railways, yet so admirable is this plan of
packing them, that the flowers were so little injured that
they took the first prize; and when we received the
boxes back, nearly a week afterwards, the blooms were
still 7m si¢z, and some of the upper flowers were still pre-
sentable! They are unquestionably a great boon to
exhibitors.
KEW GARDENS.
Tue controversy that has unfortunately arisen respecting
the management of these gardens, induced us after an
absence of some years to pay them a visit last month,
and we must say, that after having had recently the
opportunity of paying a visit to some of the foreign
scientific establishments, it was with some feeling of
pride that we went through this great establishment ;
the order and neatness were not more conspicuous than
the extent of the collections, while the combination of
popular gardening shown in the bedding-out was ex-
cellent,—it is here in fact that the great danger lies, an
unscientific head of a department will hardly feel so
much interest, for example, in a thoroughly accurately
labelled collection of succulents, as he will in a gorgeous
display of bedding plants, and may possibly be inclined
to subordinate the scientific to the popular. No greater
calamity could possibly happen to Kew than this, for
not only in this country but abroad, it holds the very
highest place in the estimation of scientific botanists,
Collections are to be met with here,which no other botanic
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garden can hope to parallel; and it is to be earnestly
hoped that it will continue to enjoy under the care of
the present Director the high position it held for
so many years under his illustrious father; and we
trust that the well nigh universal testimony as to the
necessity of such maintenance may prevent any further
interference with a management which is so evidently
calculated to promote the continued efficiency of our
national botanic gardens.
A FEW HINTS ON SPRING GARDENING.
Tue fact that owing to the extension of the bedding-out
system the flower borders were for so many months
empty, led to the attempt of making them gay in the
spring months with other plants. Some have tried it
with bulbs, and those who live in the metropolis have an
opportunity of seeing how effective this is in Hyde Park ;
others have used a few common-flowering plants, and Mr.
Quilters, of Aston Park, Birmingham, is the best
example we know of what can be done, both in extent
and variety, by a few simple plants, as he only uses
varieties of the double daisy, pansies, and golden feather
pyrethrum, and one or two other small things. But
these plans both involve a good deal of trouble, and, in
small gardens, would take up too much space; we there-
fore would advise a combination of the two, having
some beds of bulbs—bearing in mind that we cannot have
the crocus, hyacinth, and tulip in bloom together—and
some beds of flowering plants; some annuals, such as
Nemophila insignis, and Silene pendula, come in ad-
mirably for the purpose; while those who have mixed
borders will always have in the spring months a number
of interesting plants in bloom. In planting bulbs it is
desirable to place them thickly in the beds; they have not
a great deal of foliage, and if they are planted thinly they
look poor and mean; it is, then, better to have smaller beds
or groups well filled, than larger beds where the bulbs
are sparse. It should be remembered too that we must
not sacrifice the summer garden for the spring display—
we mean, not to leave the plants or bulbs used for it so
long in the ground as to interfere with the planting out
of the geraniums, &c., intended to make the garden gay
through the summer months. In growing bulbs let not
the charming little Scilla be forgotten: its lovely blue
colour and dwarf habit make it a delightful thing for
the edges of beds; nor must we banish the old-fashioned
snowdrop, which charms us, not merely by the purity
of its colour, but also as the harbinger of brighter days.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
A Retail List of Tuberous-rooted Plants, offered by
Wm. Bull, King’s-road, Chelsea—A very excellent
catalogue, containing many things not to be found in
any other lists. Mr. Bull has also a wonderful collee-
tion of Primula Japonica, in various sorts, a plant which
ought to be in every one’s collection.
Catalogue of Flower Roots for 1872, imported and
sold by Waite, Bernell, Huggins and Co., Southwark
Street, London.—A select list printed in large type, in
fact which might be called a Catalogue de luxe. The
selections seem to be good.
Spring Flowers, being a choice collection of Hardy
Bulbs and Early Flowering Plants; Thomas S. Ware,
Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham.—Any one who has
seen the beautiful collections exhibited by Mr. Ware at
the Spring shows in London, will readily believe that
he is a faithful guide, and in the revived taste for
herbaceous plants his catalogue will, we doubt not, be
often consulted as to the best method of making gardens
gay in Spring.
Autumn Catalogue of Dutch Bulbs, &c., &e.; Dick
Radclyffe, and Co., 129, High Holborn.—Characterized
by the usual neatness of Mr. Radclyffe’s catalogues, it
contains also a number of illustrations of fern cases and
other requisites for indoor gardening, for which this firm
especially lays itself out.
Hooper and Co.’s Gardening Guide, &c., for 1872.—
This ample catalogue is arranged on a new plan, being
divided into two sections, one embracing those bulbs to
be had in a dormant state; the other, bulbs which can
only be had in pots. There are also lists of plants suit-
able for various purposes.
Barr and Sugden’s Autumnal Descriptive Catalogue,
&c.—Very copious and admirably arranged. A great
deal of pains has been taken to make correct divisions of
Lilies, Narcissus, &c., in which great confusion at present
exists.
Answers ta Correspondents,
C.S.—A few good Hyacinths for exhibition are Argus, General
Havelock, Prince Albert, Mimosa, Grand Lilas, Charles Dickens, blue.
—Garibaldi, Howard, Lord Macaulay, Solfaterra, Von Schiller, General
Cavaignac, Noble par Merite, Sultan’s Favourite, Koh-i-noor—red.
Alba Maxima, Grande Vedette, Madame Van der Hoop, Mont Blane,
Snowball, Grandeur & Merveille—white ; and Ida, Alida Jacoba, and
Anna Carolina—yellow.
W. F.—A bicolor geranium is the same as a gold and bronze, and
must have a yellow margin to the leaves,
PLATE 37..
BEDDING VIOLAS AND PANSIES.
We are indebted to Messrs. Dickson and Co., of Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, for the
_ opportunity of figuring the varieties of Bedding Violas and Pansies in our plate, and for the
following observations. “The first varieties were obtained some seven or eight years ago,
by hybridizing V. montana, V. cornuta, V. lutea, V. amana, and V. stricta, with Show Pansies ;
and by carefully continuing the hybridizing with the finest seedlings of each season, we have
now succeeded in raising a considerable number of valuable sorts, similar to those now
figured—raising annually from twelve to fifteen thousand seedlings, for the purpose of obtaining
eight or twelve varieties superior to those previously sent out. In selecting these we have
kept in view—1. Habit, which must be branching and compact. 2. Flowering properties, which
must be both profuse and continuous; thus, while the native species V. amana after two years
of garden cultivation could not be induced to bloom for more than six or eight weeks in the
early part of the summer, we have now got greatly improved seedlings forward, which
will flower continuously from the beginning of April to October. 38. Colour, which to
be used extensively must be of one shade, and that a distinct and striking one. There are a
few exceptions to these: such as Fuiry, Fairy Queen, and Butterfly, with double upper petals
and distinct margin of golden yellow. 4. Size; to this quality we attach the least
importance, the primary object being to obtain the greatest amount of a certain shade of
colour within a given space, and this is probably better effected with a medium-sized than a
large flower, the former being less likely to be injured by wet weather.” These flowers
are invaluable in wet seasons, as while geraniums and other bedding plants suffer much, they
continue to blow in the greatest profusion throughout the entire season.
PLATE 38.
WALLFLOWER-LEAVED PYRAMIDAL STOCK, MAUVE BEAUTY.
Stocks form a very easily cultivated, fragrant, and beautiful addition to the flower garden,
and we are therefore pleased to record the raising of a very beautiful new variety from Mr.
Richard Dean, of Ealing, who says concerning it :—‘‘ It came to me originally from one of
the London wholesale seed houses, and being much struck with the peculiarly soft beauty of
its colour, I thought it capable of great improvement if persistently and carefully selected
from for a few years. What I this season exhibited, represents the result of some five or six
years’ patient labour, and itis not a little worthy of notice that what has been obtained is by
the use of my own saved seed, during the time named. The percentage of double flowers was
this season fully 80 per cent. I have classed it with the summer-flowering pyramidal Stocks to
be sown in the spring, but it is also a first-class intermediate Stock if sown at the end of
August or early in September, and grown in pots. I believe that if some one were to grow
it for market purposes, it would command a ready sale. It has this season obtained first-class
certificates from the Royal Horticultural and Royal Botanic Societies.”
We believe that Mr. Dean is engaged in selecting other varieties of Stocks, with plenty
of promise of similar satisfactory results; and it is pleasing to record, that not only in the
scarcer and more valuable kinds of flowers is the hybridizer at work, but that the more
common and accessible flowers are also being improved.
PLATE 39,
PERSIAN RANUNCULUS—COLUMBIA, ARGO, AND HILDA.
In the whole range of Florists’ flowers, there is scarcely one more charmingly
beautiful than the Ranunculus; the variations of its colouring, the perfection of its form,
and the delicate beauty of many of the varieties, all tend to give it a very foremost place ; it
has latterly too, after years of neglect, been included amongst the flowers for which
the Metropolitan Floral Society offers prizes, and the Royal Horticultural Society also has
included it in its schedule; we may hope therefore to see it more extensively exhibited
for the future.
The varieties which we now figure were selected from the collection of seedlings raised
by Mr. Geo. Lightbody, of Falkirk, and which, to the number of nearly four hundred,
passed a couple of years ago into our hands; they evidence most unmistakeably the energy
and skill which Mr. Lightbody always showed in anything that he undertook. With the
exception of Mr. Cary Tyso, of Wallingford, no cultivator has ever given so much attention
to them as he did.
The cultivation of the Persian Ranunculus, though not difficult, yet requires considerable
care; the beds intended for their reception should be dug out to the depth of from nine inches to
a foot in the autumn, and a layer of well-rotted cow-dung placed at the bottom, to the depth
of four or five inches; the soil should then be returned, and the ground levelled; the beds
ought not to be above the level of the paths, as the Ranunculus like moisture. In the spring
they do not require any digging over, but just simply surface hoeing and the levelling of the
beds. These should be edged with thin boards, and in planting it is best to take a piece
of wood notched to the depth of one and a half inches, and this should be firmly pressed
on the bed, so as to make drills of that depth; in these drills place some sharp sand and
plant the tubers firmly in it at that depth, cover them with the earth, and let the beds
be undisturbed, keeping them clear of weeds, watering in May if it be dry, and shading when
the plants advance to the blooming stage. They will amply repay the trouble bestowed upon
them.
Puate 40.
ONCIDIUM CRCSUS.
This very beautiful dwarf species of Oncidium was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch & Sons,
at one of the exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society, where it obtained a first-class
certificate; although devoid of the grandeur of some of the genus, it yet, by the pleasing
contrasts of its colours (the rich deep brown and brilliant yellow), is exceedingly pretty, and
is a desirable plant to have in any collection of Orchids; it will submit to cool treatment.
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EXHIBITIONS.
THE season we may now say has past. Even the Wed-
nesday meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society are
only held once a month, and all the grand tournaments
of the year are over, and we may therefore now briefly
record our ideas of their character and influence. Taking
the three great metropolitan centres: the Royal Horti-
cultural Society, the Royal Botanic Society, and the
Crystal Palace: we may safely say that the first of
these has more than maintained the character of its
shows, and that were it not for a perversity that is mani-
fested as to some of its arrangements, the progress
would be even greater than it has unquestionably been ;
while the provincial show held in. connexion with it at
Birmingham has been without doubt the finest yet
held. But then we have to remember that the credit
of this belongs not to the Society, but to the Local
Committee, whose energy and perseverance would
achieve the same results without the aid of the Society ;
indeed the advantage of thus connecting them is
obviously only that accruing from its name and position,
and not for any material aid that it affords. The
Wednesday meetings, continued as they are throughout
the year, are calculated to greatly benefit horticulture.
They afford an opportunity for the raisers and producers
of varieties or remarkable instances of horticultural
skill, to bring them before the public ; moreover it affords
a place of meeting to the lovers of flowers, both profes-
sional and amateur, which is both profitable in a com-
mercial point of view, and pleasing. Improvements on
arrangements might still be made, and we might suggest
that some other place and time might be found for the
Fruit and Floral Committee to lunch than in the room
where the flowers are exhibited, and when the public are
admitted. The exhibitions of the Royal Botanic Society,
we grieve to say, exhibit symptoms of decadence. A
prize list largely curtailed, and doubtless of necessity so
curtailed, has had the effect of curtailing also the number
and importance of the exhibits. This must ever be the
case; not that exhibitors are influenced by the mere
money value of the prizes, but the expense of exhibiting
is very great, and unless there is a prospect of something
like a remuneration, exhibitors will not run the risk.
The Crystal Palace has worthily maintained the character
of its exhibitions; the liberal prizes offered, the extreme
courtesy and consideration with which exhibitors are
treated, the charms of the palace itself, all tend to make
the horticultural fétes there the pleasantest in or around
the metropolis.
The influence of exhibitions on horticulture cannot very
well be overrated ; the stimulus given to the production
of novelties, the competition to produce remarkable
instances of horticultural skill, the publicity which is
afforded to these results, all act favourably on the pro-
egress of the science—and we may see that just in
proportion as flowers are encouraged at the exhibitions
so do they increase in popularity, and as they are
neglected in the prize lists, so do they decrease in
general growth.
Provincial exhibitions are increasing both in number
and importance, and wherever we have had the oppor-
tunity of seeing them they have been creditable to their
promoters, and have, we are assured, tended to the
advancement of horticulture. So that reviewing the
past season, we may say that it has altogether been
a favourable one.
ROSE STOCKS.
CoNSIDERABLE sensation has been occasioned this season,
by the exhibition of some wonderful blooms of roses,
exhibited by Mr. Prince, of Oxford, from plants budded
on seedling briars, and the question has been mooted, as
to which is the best stock for roses, and also as to their
duration. The Manetti has so long held its own for
dwarf roses, that it would be very difficult to substitute
anything in its place; at the same time we are bound to
say that the magnificent roses exhibited by Mr. Prince,
will induce many to give the briar a fair trial. The
French have for along time used them, especially for
Tea Roses, and we have grown such plants in our own gar-
den. Now, Tea Roses are not always easily managed, but
we have found the imported plants grow very vigorously,
the only inconvenience being that the stock is apt to throw
up suckers, but then so does the Manetti, while those of
the briar are more easily distinguishable from the rose
shoots, and consequently do not run the chance of being
left so as to overpower the rose. Its advantages ac-
cording to Mr. Prince are very great—he says they
are these: “ The brilliancy of the colour of the blooms;
its adaptability for all kinds of soil (gravelly soils posi-
tively suit them) ; it does not require so much assistance in
manuring as other stocks; it blooms freely, whether
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pruned or not, pyramids of hybrid perpetual roses eight
or ten feet high and four feet in diameter, may be grown
in three or four years, most of the varieties having as much
vigour in them as Jules Margottin, or Marie Rady’s.
Tea and Noisette Roses grow ten feet in a season, and
ripen their wood earlier than on wild briars, or on their
own roots. They may be safely transplanted every two
years to reduce their growth if required. The earliest
blooming of roses is acknowledged to come from the
briar, and the latest will also be gathered from the cul-
tivated seedling briar, The most perfect union of
scion and stock—not more than one offshoot or sucker
from the briars appear in one hundred plants when pro-
perly worked; from cut back plants on this stock, a much
larger number of show blooms may be obtained, thus
enabling amateurs to compete in large classes at exhi-
bitions. If but one half of these advantages are realized
in the actual working, it will not be long before it
drives the Manetti out of the field. Those who wish to
try it, should gather the hips when ripe, and keep them
until March or April, when the seed should be sown;
some will come up soon, others may remain a longer
period; we believe that it is not so certain as the
Manetti, and consequently they can hardly be sold at the
same price. As to the duration of roses, it is a question
dependent we think on the varieties more than on the
stocks ; we have some that have been budded fourteen or
fifteen years, and are vigorous and hearty, and we have
seen roses on the briar that must be thirty or forty years
old. Should the cultivated briar maintain its position,
it will create quite a revolution in rose growing, and
probably next season will bring the matter to more
practical issues. We are trying some in our own garden,
and hope to report on them in due time.
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.
Charles Turner’s Catalogue of Roses, Fruit Trees, &c.,
Royal Nurseries, Slough, and the Nursery, Uxbridge.—
A catalogue prepared with Mr. Turner’s usual care, and
we need not say that his name is a sufficient guarantee
of the excellence of its productions.
George Prince’s Descriptive Rose Catalogue—We
have already alluded to this catalogue; while not so ex-
tensive as some, it is evidently compiled with great care.
Catalogue of Conservatories, Greenhouses, &c.; Dick
Radelyffe and Co., 29, High Holborn, W.C.—This firm
is well known for the excellent taste with which their
productions are arranged, and in this pamphlet larger
scope is given than in the ordinary catalogue issued by
them,
William Chater’s Catalogue of superb double Holly-
hocks and Roses.—Mr. Chater is so well known as an
exhibitor and raiser of Hollyhocks, that his catalogue is
naturally looked upon as a sine gud non to the Hollyhock
grower.
Descriptive Catalogue of Roses and Hollyhocks.
Francis and Arthur Dickson and Sons, 106, Eastgate
Street, Chester.—An excellently arranged and sufli-
ciently copious catalogue.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
THE PATENT VERMIN ASPHYXIATOR.
Although the chief merit claimed for this invention is
the destruction of rats and other vermin, yet as it also
claims to be useful for the employment of tobacco paper,
&e., in the greenhouse, it comes within our province to
notice it. It is somewhat expensive, and we hardly
think will take the place of such simple and effective
contrivances as Appleby’s Fumigator.
JEWEL PELARGONIUM.
In reference to this fine Hower, Mr. Laxton, the raiser,
says: “It was obtained by me, in 1869, by crossing
Madame Rosa Charmeux with Lord Derby, and was the
best of a batch of about 200 seedlings of that year. I
had previously been crossing the doubles of the Inquinans
type, but found it impossible to get out of the coarse
growth and habit which attach to the Gloire de Nancy
and Victor Lemoine type—and there can be no doubt
that its dwarf habit will make it the more valuable.”
The Exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society,
in 1873, are fixed for the following dates :—January 15;
February 12; March 5,19; April 2,16; May 7, 21, 22;
June 4, 5, 6, 18; July 2, 16; August 6,20; September
3,17; October 1; November 5; December 3.
Answers to Correspondents.
B.—We agree with you that it is hardly fair that Mr. Van Houtte
should reproduce in his “ Flore de Serres,” our plates without a single
word of acknowledgment, and for the future we trust he will not do so.
M. E.—Hyacinths are to be potted by the beginning of this month ;
they rejoice in a rich light compost, nearly one-half of which may be
well-decomposed cow manure. They should then be plunged in coal
ashes, tan, or some such material until they have rooted and started a
little,
Prats 41.
DOUBLE ZONAL PELARGONIUM—JEWEL. (Laxton.)
There has not been for some years any great advance in the class to which this flower
belongs ; flowers of various shades of red and rose have indeed been raised, but they have
shown but little improvement on those already in cultivation, the form of the flower and the
style of colour being very much the same; now, however, we hope that something different
has been obtained. We hear of a new double-white, raised by that well-known amateur,
M. Jean Sisley, of Lyons, which has passed for distribution in England into the hands of
Mr. Wm. Bull, of Chelsea; and in Jewe/, an English flower, we have what we believe to be
a very distinct variety.
Mr. Laxton, of Stamford, is well known for his skill as a hybridizer, and the horti-
cultural world is indebted to him for some fine varieties of peas and other garden products,
and when paying a visit to his garden, on the occasion of the Stamford Show in September
last, we were particularly struck with the very distinct character of Jewel, its great
peculiarity being its form ; in colour it is a very deep shade of scarlet, but its dense thick
clusters of flowers are very peculiar—each individual “ pip” being an exact miniature rose,
so that when detached it would be almost impossible to believe it to be a pelargonium ;
hence, when thus separated and mounted on wire, it will be invaluable for button-hole bouquets ;
it is also very free flowering, small plants producing fine trusses of bloom.
We are not singular in our belief of its value, as strong testimony has been borne to it
from other quarters, and it has received a first-class certificate from the Floral Committee
of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Puate 42,
TEA ROSE—CHESHUNT HYBRID. (Paut anp Sov.)
The beauty and fragrance of Tea Roses are acknowledged by all lovers of flowers, and
have made them deservedly very great favourites ; their one defect being that as aclass they
are deficient in those brilliant colours which made the Hybrid Perpetuals and Bourbons.
Nothing can be more exquisitely delicate than the various shades of yellow, primrose, peach,
and salmon that are to be found amongst them; but a stand of Tea Roses always seems to
look faint alongside of the brilliant flowers of other classes, and hence any advance in the
direction of unusual depth of colour must be hailed as a boon; such an advance we believe
to have been made in the flower which we now figure.
Mr. George Paul, who has been fortunate enough to raise this flower, says: Cheshunt
Hybrid was from a seed-pod of the dark pink Tea Rose, Madame de Tartas, in our rose-house;
the plant producing it being under an overhanging cluster on the roof of the dark Hybrid
Perpetual Rose, Prince Camille de Rohan, with which it was suggested it was fertilized ;
it is a strong, free grower, with vigorous, almost climbing habit, and free as an
autumn bloom.” As it will be sent out during the present autumn, growers will have
the opportunity of testing it for themselves, and we shall be surprised if it do not become a
general favourite.
It may be well to remark that in a season like the present, when everything has been
so strange and exceptional in horticulture, Tea Roses have been wonderfully fine, and
have continued in bloom up to a very late period, and this although we have not had that
warm sunny weather which is considered necessary for their success.
Puate 43,
GLADIOLUS JUPITER.
The past season has evidenced the increasing attention that is being given to this
beautiful autumnal flower. Never in or near the metropolis have so many collections been
brought together, and certainly never have they been of such grand excellence of character,
while seedlings of English origin have been exhibited in very large numbers. We last year
figured an English seedling, and we have now the pleasure of figuring one of M. Soubit’s new
varieties of 1871.
Various communications have been made to the gardening papers on the culture of this
flower, and from these we gather the fact, which we have all along felt to be the greatest
hindrance to their more general growth, that the mysterious disease to which they are subject
is mourned over by almost every grower; we have seen, thus far, beds more than decimated
by it. With our friend Mr. Edward Banks, of Shelden Lodge, Deal—a grower who is not
likely, from lis well-known services, to have allowed anything to be left to chance, or his
bulbs to be lost through ignorance—we saw beds where manure had not been used, beds
where the Gladiolus had never been grown before, beds manured with bone dust, all suffering
from the disease. We fear that there is no remedy for it; but we think that powdered
charcoal placed in the holes, instead of sand, when the bulbs are planted, is likely to act as a
preventive.
Jupiter, when exhibited by Mr. Wheeler, of Warminster, and ourselves at the Crystal
Palace Show, received a first-class certificate. In colour it is a deep rich crimson, with
dark blackish crimson flashes—a great improvement on Newton, a flower of somewhat similar
character, raised some years ago.
Puate 44,
TILLANDSIA LINDENI VERA.
In the former series of the Floral Magazine we published (p. 529) a figure of the
beautiful T’Wandsia Lindeni, under which name it had been exhibited; but during the
present season another plant has been exhibited as the true Zl/andsia Lindeni by Mr.
Linden, of Brussels, and we have been enabled, owing to the kindness of Messrs. Veitch and
Sons, of King’s Road, Chelsea, to whom it had been consigned by Mr. Linden, to figure it
in our present number.
On comparing our plate with that in our former issue alluded to, it will be seen that there
are notable differences. ‘The colour of the flower is an entirely different shade of blue—being
much darker. The centre, instead of being white, is of the same colour as the rest of the
petals, while the habit of the plant is very dissimilar. In the former case the scape grew
erect from the plant, while in the present one it is semi-prostrate. In order to illustrate
this difference a small figure of the entire plant has been added to our illustration.
Tillandsia Lindeni Vera obtained when exhibited a first-class certificate—and deservedly
so—from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. Its cultivation in no
way differs from that previously described as appropriate for Zi//andsia Lindeni—viz., to be
grown in spongy peat, with the addition of loam and sand, requiring, like most of the
Bromelias—to which it belongs—the heat of a stove.
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EXHIBITIONS.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
NovemBer 6th.
Amonast the perversities of the Royal Horticultural
Society’s arrangements alluded to in our last number, is
that of holding their November Show on the first instead
of the third Wednesday in the month. The main features
of the Exhibition are Chrysanthemums, and the Inter-
national Fruit Show. If it is considered at all desirable to
have Chrysanthemums, it is well known by all cultivators
that the best period of their blooming season is from the
middle to the end of November, and that the best period
of exhibiting is somewhere about the 20th, and conse-
quently there never have been but a few stands of blooms
and a few plants sent for exhibition ; and we believe that
the grand exhibition of frnit would have been just as
available for the 20th as for the 6th, and so this year the
number of the flowers shown was as scant as usual.
Amongst those exhibited on this occasion, Mr. Rowe,
gardener to Mrs. Lewis, the Rookery, Roehampton,
obtained a first-class certificate for Japanese Chrysan-
themum Elaine, a pure white, with flat shaped petals of re-
markably good shape, while Messrs. Veitch and Sons had
some splendid blooms of the well known varieties which
always figure in stands of cut flowers, such as Jardin des
Plantes, Golden Beverley, Queen of England, Gloria
Mundi, &., &e. The pot plants exhibited were very few
and not very remarkable. There were some other very
interesting plants exhibited, amongst which we noticed
especially Dracsena imperialis, a broad-leaved variety of
dense habit, with white and rosy variegations beautifully
blended. This was shown by both Mr. Bull and Messrs,
Veitch and Son of Chelsea, and also Maranta Makoyana
(exhibited by Messrs. Veitch as Maranta olivaris), a beau-
tiful dwarf species. These obtained first-class certificates,
as did also Mesospinidum Vuleanicum, a pretty small
orchid with rosy lake flowers, and the tip whitish. There
was also exhibited a very pretty miniature palm called
Malortica simplex, and also Calamus ovoideus and Calamus
Roxbarghii, two Eastern tropical palms with pinnate
fronds and stems furnished with needle-shaped spines.
Mr. H. Cannel, of Woolwich, had a basket of a very dwarf
free flowering scarlet Pelargonium, Payne’s Perpetual,
said to be a seedling from Mrs, Pollock. Mr. Crowther,
gardener to J.T. Peacock, Hsq., exhibited some sucen-
lents from a collection which we suppose, for a private
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class certificates, the most curious amongst them being
Mammularia Peacocki, which formed a semi-globose mass
which seemed to be composed of grey woolly hairs and
spines.
Of the Fruit Show it hardly falls within our province
to say anything, but we may notice that for the season
it was a remarkable display, and that the presence of
pears from the Royal Horticultural Society of Namur,
brilliant pears from Jersey, and equally brilliantly coloured
apples from Nova Scotia, gave it somewhat more the
character of International than is usual on such occasions.
We believe that these exhibitions, occurring at seasons
not very suggestive of Flora’s or Pomona’s gifts, are
amongst the most beneficial portion of the Royal Horti-
cultural Society’s operations, as they tend to keep up the
interest in gardening operations, and bring horticul-
turists of all grades together.
ZONAL PELARGONIUMS AS DECORATIVE
PLANTS.
Wuatever may be thought of the excessive use of this
tribe of plants in the decoration of the flower garden, we
think that it is impossible to overrate them as decorative
plants for the greenhouse or conservatory. We do not for
a moment concede that they are at all comparable to the
show Pelargoniums, but then they are summer Howering
plants; while the Zonals come in so usefully at a season of
the year when flowers for the greenhouse are somewhat
scaree—viz,, during the months of September and Cctober.
Nor let it be thought that this involves the use of one
colour only, scarlet ; they are to be found of various shades
of salmon, buff, white, flesh colour, crimson, as well as the
dazzling scarlets, which are so numerous. When all the
summer flowering plants have been put out of doors, then
the Zonals can be brought in to take their place. For
this purpose it is best to select young plants of the
previous autumn; keep them singly in pots during the
winter, and, when possible, in a moderately warm tem-
perature: this is one of the best preventives of damp.
They should in February be potted off into large pots of
good compost, consisting of loam and a little well-rotted
manure; too much of this is injurious, as it is apt to
make the growth too gross. After the month of March,
when all danger of frost is over, a cool pit is the best
place for them, so as to induce a dwarfish growth.
They can be removed to the greenhouse when there is
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space for them, giving them plenty of air, and turning
them frequently, so as to ensure symmetry of growth.
Many of them will continue blooming up to a late period,
and with care some will give flowers all through the dull
winter montlis.
THE BEST ROSES.
Amipst the multitude of Roses, persons are often be-
wildered as to which they should select. We have there-
fore thought that the following list might be useful to
those who are either contemplating the formation of a
rose garden, or adding to their collection.
Tea and Noisette Roses.
Maréchal Niel.
Gloire de Dijon.
Cloth of Gold.
Réve d’Or.
Devoniensis.
Sombreuil
Madame Margottin.
Souvenir Vun Ami.
Madame Faleot.
Adrienne Christophle.
Celine Forestier.
Souvenir d’Elise Vardin.
Hybrid Perpetuals and Bourbons.
Alfred Colomb.
Antoine Ducher.
Beauty of Waltham.
Centifolia rosea.
Charles Lefebre.
Comtesse d’Oxford.
Comtesse Chabrillant.
Devienne Lamy.
Dr. André.
Duchesse de Caylus.
Duke of Edinburgh.
Dupuy Jamin.
Edouard Morren.
Elie Morel.
Emile Hausburg,
Felix Genero.
Fisher Holmes.
Francois Treyve.
General Jacqueminot.
John Hopper.
Jules Margottin.
Duchesse de Morny.
La France.
Louise Peyronney.
Lord Macaulay.
Louis Van Houtte.
Madame Charles Wood.
Madame Fillion.
Marguerite de St. Amand.
Madame la Baronne de
Rothsehild.
‘Madame Victor Verdier.
Madame Vidot.
Madame Rivers.
Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier.
Maréchal Vaillant.
Marguerite Dombrain.
Marie Baumann.
Marquise de Castellane.
Marquise de Montemarte.
Mons. Norman.
Pierre Notting.
Prince Camille de Rohan,
Princess Mary of Cambridge.
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Senateur Vaisse.
Victor de Bihan.
Victor Verdier.
Virginale.
Souvenir de la Malmaison.
Xavier Olibo.
GARDEN ECONOMICS.
RENDLE’S PATENT RUSTIC ORCHARD
HOUSE.
Mr. Renvue is determined not to be behindhand with
his inventions, and this his latest one promises to be
very useful. It is simply a glass roof supported on each
side by rustic trellis-work, for the purpose of growing
peaches, nectarines, &c.; for after the fruit is set they
require plenty of fresh air, and in the spring of the year,
when the bloom-bud is just bursting, canvas or netting
can be put up against the sides of the house. This can
be put up and taken down as simply as a window-blind.
When the fruit is set, and all danger of frost is past,
then the netting or canvas can be taken down, and the
health of the plant secured by a thorough circulation of
air, the whole of the glass can be taken off in a few
hours if necessary, and put up again. It promises to be
a useful contrivance in our very variable climate.
NEW WORKS ON GARDENING.
A New Edition of “ My Garden,” by Alfred Smee,
Esq., is announced, with additional matter, and 100 new
woodcuts.
“ The Six of Spades,”’ a series of papers which appeared
some years ago in the “ Florist,” by the Rev. S. Rey-
nolds, will shortly be published.
“ The Gladiolus: its History, Cultivation, and Exhi-
bitions,”’ will appear early in January, by the Editor of
the “ Floral Magazine.”
LE CERCLE HORTICOLE LYONNAIS.
We have been requested by the Secretary of this
New Institution, to say that he will be munch obliged by
any of the Nurserymen or Florists in Great Britain
sending their Catalogues, addressed thus :—
Mons. JEAN SISLEY,
Secrétaire Général,
Du Cercle Horticole Lyonnais,
Rue St. Maurice No. 1,
Monplaisir, Lyon,
(Rhone)
France.
London ; Savill, Edwards & Co,, Printers, Chandos Street, Covent Garden,
PLATE 45.
ODONTOGLOSSUM ANDERSONIANUM.
In the whole range of the singular and beautiful family of Orchids, there is not one
group that gives us so great a variety as the Odontoglossums, a fact to which our pages, both
in our former and present series, bear witness, and which is still further illustrated by the
magnificent monograph of Mr. Bateman.
The following, from the pen of our greatest living Orchidologist, Professor Reichen-
bach fils, will be the best description we can give. ‘ When I originally described this doubt-
ful plant, most probably a hybrid between O. crispum and prestans, or gloriosum, I had but
a couple of flowers at hand; at a later period, J. Day, Hsq., sent me a parcel of the same
thing, but with much less richness of colouring. Now, in 1872, comes the glory of the plant.
Messrs. Veitch having imported masses of the Grenadan Odontoglossa and Masdevallias,
Samuel Mendel, Esq., of Manchester, got alot of these. One of these Odontoglots has just
flowered, and Messrs. Veitch obtained a flower which had to travel from Chelsea once more
to Hamburgh. Our French friends would call it dors de ligne. The day of its flowering
must become a red letter day in the Mendelean calendar. This grand flower is of the d/er-
andra shape, yet the sepals and petals are a little narrower; it is creamy white (not milk
white), the inferior halves of the sepals and petals are adorned internally with reddish brown
dots and streaks, and some such blotches are to be found on the disk of the anterior lip,
whose superior part is yellowish. I feel very much pleasure in finding that Harry Veitch, Esq.
immediately had the idea of its being a cross between O. Alewandre and O. gloriosum. Messrs.
Veitch knew that they had such a wonder, since they possessed a beautiful dried inflorescence
of the plant, now a magnum decus of my herbarium.”
We are indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the opportunity of figuring this very fine Orchid.
PLATE 46.
HIBISCUS (rosa sinensts)-—ALBO-VARIEGATUS.
We have already figured (plate 36) in our present volume, a fine semi-double variety of
Hibiscus, which has been distributed by Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea, and we add another, very
different in character, but at the same time both curious and beautiful.
Fibiscus-albo variegatus, is a free-growing and elegantly marked stove plant, obtained
from the Pacific Islands, of a closely branched habit, with pale green stems and with ovate
slightly serrated leaves, which are finely mottled and variegated with greyish green and
white, breaking out irregularly in a manner similar to the markings of Hibiscus Cooperii, to
which it would form a companion plant, having the variegation white instead of pink ; it
should be grown in full light, near the glass, to bring out its proper colouring.
Such is Mr. Bull’s description of the plant ; the flower it will be seen is of an Indian red
colour, with a peculiarly long style, which adds to its striking appearance ; it is easily culti-
vated, and to those who desire to have free-flowering variegated shrubs in their stoves, it will
be a decided acquisition.
PLATE 47.
CALCEOLARIAS—MRS. PAUL AND MRS. FORREST.
The Scotch nurserymen have ever been distinguished for the zeal with which they have
followed out the cultivation of Florists’ flowers, and to their skill and perseverance we
are indebted for some of our very best Pansies, Auriculas, Hollyhocks, Ranunculuses, &. ; and
we have now the pleasure of figuring two entirely novel shrubby Calceolarias, raised by
Mr. Paul of Paisley.
The beautiful spottings and markings in this herbaceous Calceolarias are well known,
from the collections from time to time exhibited by Mr. James and others at our metropolitan
shows, and it would seem that we are now likely to get something of the same in the shrubby
class. Of the two which are now figured, J/rs. Paul (fig. 1), Mr. Paul informs us is
a seedling between Sang’s Ambassador and Little Beauty. ‘The habit is very dwarf, not ex-
ceeding when bedded out eight inches in length; it is a most profuse bloomer, and for green-
house or conservatory purposes it is most valuable as a decorative plant. It has received
certificates at Edinburgh, Paisley, and Belfast. he colour is a rich deep crimson, spotted
all over with minute dark spots. J/rs. Forrest (fig. 2) is a seedling between Little Beauty
and Ifiss Gray, and both in the form and marking of the flower is a decided improvement on
the former flower; it also forms an admirable decorative plant, the ight orange colour form-
ing a good contrast to the darker flower.
The cultivation of these flowers calls for no particular remark; they will thrive well in
ordinary good compost of loam, manure, and sand, with a little leaf mould, and require
attention so that greenfly does not attack them.
We have only to add, that they will be sent out by Mr. W. Paul, of Crossflat Nursery,
Paisley, in May of next year.
Puate 48.
ROSE—MADAME GEORGE SCHWARTZ.
We never recollect a season in which fewer new roses have been exhibited than
that which has just closed; notwithstanding that the French lists included upwards of one
hundred varieties, the classes for new kinds were chiefly composed of varieties of the preceding
seasons, nor did we amongst those which were exhibited notice anything very remarkable.
Some of the Lyons varieties we were enabled to grow in our own garden, chiefly those
sent into commerce by Mons. Guillot fils, and Mons. G. Schwartz, the successor of the elder
Guillot, who has long been known as a rosarian, and amongst them we think that which
we now figure was the finest, and indeed the best rose of the season, as far as our judgment
goes ; the colour is a very bright carmine pink, the foliage is ample, and the habit vigorous,
so that we think it will be an acquisition ; it also blooms freely in the autumn. Amongst
the new varieties in the Hybrid Perpetual Class besides the one figured, we think that
Baronne Louise Urhull, Baron de Bonstetten, Ltienne Levet, Lyonnais, Frangois Michelon, Presi-
deut Thiers, Richard Wallace, Victor Verne are likely to be amongst the best; but with the ex-
ception of two or three of them, we have had no opportunity of judging personally of their
merits. Amongst Tea Roses, Louis Gigot, Madame Celine Berthod, Madame Jules Margottin, and
Marie Van Houtte, are probably the best; nor must we omit our English raised roses, Bessie
Johnson, a sport from Abel Grand, obtained by Mr. Curtis, of Torquay, Cheshunt Hybrid, which
we have already figured, Annie Laxton, bright rose raised by Mr, Laxton, of Stamford,
Reynolds Hole, raised by Mr. George Paul, of Cheshunt, are all lkely to prove good and
vigorous-growing roses.
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