DITISTOX OF HORTICULTURE 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Seventy varieties of sweet peas were tested here in 1915 and were planted on April 

 12. The following varieties are named as representing superior sorts of the various 

 shades : — 



Queen Alexandra Crimson. 



Helen Pierce Marbled blue. 



Miss Wllmott Salmon pink. 



Mrs. Collier White. 



Rose du Barri Scarlet. 



John Ingman Blush. 



Mrs. Routzahn Primrose. 



Clara Curtis White. 



King Manoe! Maroon. 



Princess Mar\' Blue. 



Mrs. Cuthbertson White — pink edge. 



Irish Blue Mauve. 



The following varieties of herbaceous perennials produced bloom during the past 



year: 



AquUegia aJpina superba. 

 Aqnilegia cacrnlea hyhrida. 

 Dianthits deUoides glaucus. 

 Hesperis matronalis. 

 Papaver oricntale Goliath. 



Papaver orientale Queen Alexandra. 

 Papaver orientale Royal Scarlet. 

 Polemomum himalaicium alburn. 

 Polemonium Richardsonii. 



Eight varieties of gladioli were planted in 1915, on May 5, the variety Willy Wig- 

 man being the only one producing bloom. 



The following varieties of pseonies produced bloom during the past season: 

 Eclatante, Louis Van Houtte, Glohosa grandifiora, Delaelin, Edulis, Baronne James 

 de Eothschild, Victor Lemoine, Charles van Geart. 



DAFFODILS. 



Daffodils of the following varieties produced bloom in 1915 :— 



Horsfieldii 

 Victoria.. . 

 Sir Watkia 

 Emperor. . 



In Bloom.. 



May 27 



" 29 



" 27 



" 27 



To. 



.June 22 



. " 19 



. " 19 



. " 21 



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Lacomre. 



