The Weekly Florists' Review, 



32J 



Rose Garden on the estate of Mr. E. D. Adams, Seabright, N. 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



During a recent trip i» tlie '■oUl sod"' 

 inv tirst visit was to the nursery of the 

 old firm of Austin & :\lrA.~lan, at Cath- 

 cart. some mih's nut nf (;his;,'o\v. Among 

 things es])eeially noticeaLile Were some 

 fine plants of Aciiantuni Itoehf.irdi, some- 

 what coarser tljau A. euneatum hut evi- 

 dently a decided iiiiin..\enient upon that 

 variety, and some <\i'll(iii -i iilling tu- 

 berous begonias an.l ;j1m\iiii;i ~. Some 

 hybrid roses in a (;l;i-un\v ilc.wir store 

 were perfection in -liap.. rdlm ,iii<l frag- 

 rance, but alas, thi\ l.n l^. I -i in. 



I next made fur tnhlhi> ~ .-lablish- 

 ment in Bailiston, win re there i.s a large 

 area of glass devoted to tomatoes as 

 well as palms. Though it was the mid- 

 dle of July they had fire heat in their 

 palm liiiiiM-. They keep their kentias 

 ill a niulii iriiipeiature of 55 degrees in 

 Willi. I. \ll )ialiiis are plunged in old 

 lioi-. 111:111111 r iliat has be'en several times 

 (ivei III iilrii \\:i- irild they preferred cocoa 

 lilin lull I In iiihvr was cheaper. I noted 

 soiiii ,1 1 .iih ,1 1 i;i~ in small pots in the 

 prM,..-(ii iMMiiiin. They were in a frame 

 liuili nil a liriii h covered with panes of 

 cla^~ anil hrxv -papers and given a gentle 

 heat \>\ leii water pipes. Rubbers are 

 rooted iiiini single ej'es in pots without 

 bottom heat. For shade whiting mixed 

 with turpentine and a bit of oil is used. 



While in Edinburgh I visited Dickson's 

 and the Botanic Gardens and saw some 

 tine beds of roses containing the following 

 varieties: Prince Camillc de Rohan, 

 Mme. Gabriel Uii/it. T.n Fiaiiep, Vis- 

 coiintess Folkestone. ( ilmi , I .\ .iiiiiaise, A. 

 K. Williams (reseinl.j mj .l,H.|in 1, Mme. 

 E. A. Notte (rcseiiiMiirj s.mprn and a 

 great bloomer). A Chinese variety called 

 Fabrier, the flowers somewhat darker 

 than Crimson Rambler, was especially 

 noticeable. 



From Edinburgh I went to Thomas 

 Rochford's Turnford Hall Nurseries in 

 Broxbourne, some miles out of London, 

 probably one of the largest ranges of 

 glass in the world, and I was told it had 

 grown from a small beginning to its pres- 

 ent size in but 14 years. About 300 

 men are employed. Tomatoes, cucumbers 



whole seetioui 

 one variety of palm, all plunged in cocoa 

 fibre. A 'hous'e of orchids, the plants 

 hung from plate to ridge and the long 

 white roots hanging, presented a rather 

 stringy appearance. Japan lilies are 

 grown in large quantities and the fore- 

 man said they wei'e not profitable if 



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Also euelein-, I'ainlann- \eilelii,. ilni- 

 caenas, cocos, anthuriums, stvphanotis, 

 and ferns of all descriptions. One 400- 

 foot house was filled with Bridesmaids 

 and Mcrmet. and a fmv Liliertics. This 

 was the .mix -l.-il. Hill ilnln't compare 

 favoralil\ uiiliiln- \ 1 1. .1 n -rown arti- 

 cle. The ro>e- \\>ir [ilaiiled in the 

 ground, probably no drainage, with sev- 

 eral 4-inch hot water pipes running 

 lengthwise about two or three feet above 

 the ground. Out of doors were what 

 se'emed acres of chrysanthemums, hydran- 

 geas, hybrid roses, etc., in pots. Every- 

 thing was in uniformly fine condition. 



At the Kew Botanic Gardens I noticed 

 a bed of [n n-li nnni- and think this would 

 be a u-iiul ili v^n for any garden. A 

 bed of Aiiih.ni\ Watei'er spirsea inter- 

 spersed with eandidum lilies was attract- 

 ive. Some Aconitum cammarum (var. 

 Stoerkianum ) looked as though they 

 might have a market value. The roots 

 of all the species are, however, very poi- 

 sonous. Clarkia elegans showed up rich 

 in color. Begonias semperflorens rosea 

 and alba make fine bedders here. In the 

 stove houses I noticed some fine speci- 

 mens of Adiantum sethiopieum and A. 

 Veitchianum, coarse varieties with long 

 stems that might prove a welcome change 

 from asparagus. I saw here a pink petu- 

 nia called Mrs. F. Sander, the equal of 

 which we have never been able to get in 

 an American collection. Salpiglossis va- 

 riabilis, a free flowering border plant, 

 caught and held my eye and the most 

 beautiful plant I ever saw was under 

 a bell glass in one of the orchid houses ; 

 it was Maeodes Petola. Outside, a bed of 

 odd thorny plants were Solanum atro- 

 purpureum. 



Old L:i 



ifVo 



■ose takes the lead as a 

 lehet. color somewhat 

 .■.1 -iii'ii'.' canes. Souv. 

 X,,- , line white. Vis- 

 II. III. I Augustine Gui- 

 uie lim pink .uul blush shades. 

 h Brunner and Mrs. John Laing 

 ? in all their glory. Hon. Edith 

 vas the best white seen. Prin- 

 la-aii «,i- a fine dark color and 

 w.Hil.l inaki ,111 e\i-ellent pot plant. 



I 11. xi w.aii In the way of Harwich to 

 Aiitw. rp, llir.iii^h the land of old Dutch 

 wiudniills, througli Brussels, over miles 

 of level country where women could be 

 seen in the fields with sleeves rolled up 

 makiin,' hay. In due season I arrived 

 in li:i-li, Sw ii/.iland, and after a visit 



to III! |.ki.. i\ birth I again looked 



np M.jhi^ ih.i 1. iiitural. In the public 

 market of this city were florists' stalls 

 and an exceptional feature to me was 

 that made-up designs for funerals Were 

 kept on sale awaiting a eustom'er. The 

 design most in evidence was the crescent 

 wreatli, the base being in most cases 

 made of laurel leaves. The gi'eenhouses 

 here are mostly small even-span struc- 

 tures. 



While in Zurich I visited the estab- 

 lishment of Otto Froebel. A novelty 

 seen here was Franciseea magnifica per- 

 fecta, flowers blue and resembling those 

 of a hibiscus. Euphorbia fulgens is 

 grown here and I was told they prefer it 

 to Poinsettia pulcherrima. Some fln'ely 

 colored crotons were grown in a frame 

 exposed to the full sunlight. In the 

 herbaceous garden Tigridia eonchiflora 

 made quite a show. It is called "Ein- 

 tagsblume" in German because the indi- 

 vidual flowers last but a day. 



In the public gardens of Geneva the 

 beds of tuberous and Vernon begonias 

 eclipsed all else as fine bedding plants. 



At the Paris 'exposition I saw some 

 remarkably fine dracaenas. crotons, etc., 

 and was especially pleased with.Kentia 

 australis, Maranta illustris and Panda- 

 nus Sanderi. The latter is more varie- 

 gated than Veitchii and is a grand thing. 

 I also noted a fine lot of Ardisia cr'enu- 

 lata grown in a mixture of sand and 

 leaf-nrould in G-ineh pots. A bed of Celo- 



