144 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [June, 



(£oleuses intended for Winter Decoration should be raised from cuttings 



put in in July, the plants being potted on as required, and pinched in to give 

 them the desired form. They will be found remarkably effective during the 

 ■winter months, being excellent for grouping amongst other plants, while their smaller 

 branches come in useful amongst cut flowers at a season when flowers are scarce. Coleua 

 Verschaffeltii, Veitchii, &c, require a rather high stove temperature to keep them in respect- 

 able trim during the winter, and this is a drawback ; but many of the new hybrids, such a3 

 C. Bausei, Marshallii, Berkeleyi, and Saundersii do exceedingly well in a temperature which 

 might be called intermediate, averaging at night between 45° and 50° only. 



©he Prize of £5 for an essay on the Variegated Zonal Pelargonium, 



to form a basis for discussion at the meeting of exhibitors and others, held on the 

 day of the Special Pelargonium show at South Kensington, was awarded to Mr. 



Grieve, of Culford, the author of an excellent treatise on this family of ornamental plants, of 

 which, indeed, he may be designated the founder. Seven essays were sent in, of which a 

 second by Mr. Smith, of the Jersey National School, was considered sufficiently meritorious 

 to be recomended for a second prize of £2. 



£J.t a recent sitting of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, Dr. Masters exhibited, on the part of G. 0. Oxenden, Esq., 

 some drawings representing a yellow-flowered Orchid found wild in East Kent, 

 and which was said to be Ophrys lutea, but which, far more probably, was a yellow-flowered 

 Bee Orchis, a singular variety, which has hitherto escaped observation. 



©he semi-double flowers of Henri Capron Pear produced this season at 



Chiswick have had a very beautiful appearance. On a large pyramid tree fully 

 one-third of the flowers were in this state — one or two branches entirely so. This 

 character has not been noticed before, and attention was directed to it through the dense 

 and beautiful appearance of the blossom. The tree, although in the midst of a plantation of 

 over one hundred varieties all in full bloom, stood boldly out, the most beautiful of them all. 



- ©he Sub-tropical plants at Battersea attained great perfection during 



the last hot summer. The following are the heights of a few of them : — Ferdi- 

 nanda eminens, 12 ft. ; Wigandia caracasana, 8ft. ; Polymnia grandis, 6 ft. ; Canna 

 peruviana, 11 ft.; Oanna Annaai, 12 ft. ; Canna maxima, 9 ft. ; C. VanHouttei, 9 ft. ; Solanum 

 laciniatum, 8 ft. ; Ricinus, several varieties, 18 ft. ; Musa Ensete, 15 ft. The stem of one plant 

 of Musa Ensete measured 4 ft. 5 in. in circumference at the ground, and 2£ ft. at 3 ft. higher up. 



®iir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., died on the 10th ult., of 



quinsey, followed by erysipelatous inflammation, at St. Petersburg, to which 

 capital he had been invited as one of the representatives of England at the 

 Russian International Horticultural Exhibition. Ho was born on February 18th, 1810, and 

 ■was educated at Westminster, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. For many years he took a 

 prominent part in the management of tho Society of Arts, and that of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, the resuscitation of the latter being duo, in no slight degree, to his exertions. He 

 was a leading member of the Executivo Commissions of the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 

 18G2. He also acted as Chairman of the Committee of the International Horticultural 

 Exhibition held in London in 186G, and in this capacity horticulturists will long remember 

 him for his indomitable energy and administrative skill, qualities which much conduced to 

 the success of that undertaking, with which he retained his connection by accepting tho office 

 of Trustee of the Lindley Library established with the surplus funds. Few men who have 

 not been actually engaged in the practice of Horticulture have done more to promote its 

 interests than the late Sir Wontworth Dilke ; and his associates in horticultural matters, no less 

 than his personal friends, will preserve an affectionate remembrance of the frank and genial 

 friend, who was ever courteous and sensitive in his consideration for others, and ever ready 

 with his counsel or aid, for those who needed either. 



