94 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



SELECTION OF GLADIOLI. 



Selection of One Snndred Varieties for Exhibition. — Achille, Jiurelian, Blair 

 Atliol, Calypso, Carminata, Charles Dickens, Ceres, Clemence, Cuvier, Comte de 

 Morny, Crystal Palace, Diana Chateaubriand, Due de Malakoff, Dr. Lindley, Edulia, 

 Eleanor Norman, El Dorado, Ensign, Endymion, Flore. Florian, Fulton, Galatea, 

 Garibaldi, Imperatrice, Eugenie, James Watts, James Veitcli, J. W. Lane, Janire, 

 John Bull, Julia, Juno, John Waterer, Kate Kearney, Lady Alice Hill, Le Poussin, 

 Liune, Lord Granville, Lord Riglan, Ma<lame de Sevigne, Madame Domage, Madame 

 Furtado, Madame Isidore Salles, Madame Vilmorin, Madame Adelo Souchet, 

 Madame Basseville, Madame Binder, Madame Eugene Yerdier, Madame de Vatry, 

 Madame Ilaquin, ^Eadarae Periere. Midame Leseble. Ma<lame Eabourdin, Mdlle. 

 Clara Loise. McMahon, Maid of Perth, Maria, Mathilda de Landevoisin. Mazeppa, 

 Meyerbeer. Miss Porter, Mr. Marnock, Mr. "Mowbray, Monsieur Camille Bernirdin, 

 Monsieur Lebrun D'Albanne, Mrs. Edward Knott, Nanoleon III., Nemesis, Ninon de 

 I'Enclos, Opbir, Ornement des Parterres. Oracle, Pallas, Penelope. Pline, Princess 

 Clothilde, Princess Mathilde, Princess Maude, Prince of Wales, Prince Imperial, 

 Princess of Wales, Peter Lawson. Piapliael, Rebecca, Rembrandt, Reine Victoria, 

 Roi Leopold, Roscius, Rubens, Samuel Waymouth, Stephenson, Stewart Low, The 

 Favourite, The Colonel, The Major, Walter Scott, Yelleda, Vesta, Vicomtesse de 

 Belleval. 



Twenty for Clumps and Beds. — Aristotle, salmon, rose and red ; Brench- 

 leyensis, vermilion and crimson ; Bowiensis, crimson and orange ; Chateaubriand, 

 rosy cerise ; Couranti fulgens, brilliant crimson ; Daphne, cherry and carmine ; 

 Don Juan, orange-red and yellow ; Dr. Andry, orange-scarlet ; Fanny Rouget, 

 rose and carmine ; Gil Bias, carmine-rose ; Gandavensis, scarlet and yellow ; 

 Imperatrice, salmon-blush ; Janire, salmon and crimson ; John Bull, white ; 

 Madame Coudere, shaded carmine ; Mars, brilliant scarlet ; Mrs. Blouet, rose, shaded 

 cai-mine ; Mr. Vincheon, rose and reddish-salmon ; Mr. Georgeon, salmon-rose ; 

 Triomphe d'Enghien, carmine shaded yellow. 



The varieties enumerated in the last of the lists are those that have been found 

 -especially useful in the grouping system at Stoke Newington. S. H. 



Soap-Suds as Maxure. — During the course of a lecture at Bradford, the other 

 -evening, Dr. Dresser, an eminent lecturer on the physiology of plants, said that a 

 common idea prevailed that soap-suds were a good manure for fruit-trees. This 

 was a great mistake, but happily for the lives of the trees, the knowledge of the 

 true position of the roots was not generally understood. It was quite a common 

 occurrence, remarked the lecturer, for people who had a garden to preserve the soap- 

 suds, and, taking them into the orchard, to pour the suds on the soil near to the 

 trunks of the trees. By this proceeding the suds, v/hich were a deadly poison, did 

 not reach the roots, which were not near the trunk, but spread themselves under 

 ground on a line somewhat with the wide-spreading arms of the trees. Dr. Dresser 

 said this practice was quite common in the south of England, but he thought that 

 in this intelligent part of the country people who had gardens know better than to 

 deluge their trees with such a noxious element to vegetation as soap-suds. The 

 knowledge that suds are not good for manure will no doubt prove useful to many 

 people who take a pi'ide in their gardens. 



E. M., having met with the enclosed paragraph in a country newspaper, will be 

 much obliged to the Editor of the Floral World, if he will tell her in the next 

 Bumber if he agrees with it ; as she has hitherto believed that soap-suds were a 

 valuable manure for both flowers and vegetables. [The pouring of soap-suds at the 

 base of the stems of fruit-trees may not be good practice, but the statement that 

 soap-suds " is a deadly poison" to plants is, in our opinion, in direct oppo>ition to 

 known facts. We have used soap-suds largely as a liquid manure, especially in the 

 cultivation of the chrysanthemum, and it not only did not poison, but it apparently 

 promoted a vigorous growth and an abundant bloom. There may be in some soaps 

 poisonous ingredients, but, as a rule, the fat and alkali of which they consist are 

 well adapted to nourish plants.] 



