228 THE GARDENER. [May 



termediate of its two parents. Its flowers have the yellowish-green tint and purple 

 veins and blotches of caudatum, and, like them, open altogether. Messrs Veitch 

 find that it is a very free-flowering variety." 



C. Harrisianum — a plate of which at our request the Messrs Veitch prepared 

 for us, but which is, unfortunately, too large for our pages — is another magnificent 

 hybrid which we owe to the skill and perseverance of Mr Dominy. It is a hybrid 

 between C. villosum and C. barbatum, and it partakes of the character of both 

 parents, while perfectly distinct from either, and is altogether a lovely plant. 



STRAWBERRY PORCING. - PASSIFLORA 

 QUADRANGULARIS. 



The opinion of a gardener of Mr Cramb's reputation and experience 

 deserves attention. I quite agree with liim concerning the danger of 

 propagating from a barren stock ; but in our case I do not think that 

 was the cause of failure. Our first lot, which Mr Cramb saw, were 

 certainly propagated from a doubtful stock; not so the next, however, 

 for we were particularly careful to get our new stock from a fruitful 

 plantation. These we planted in March, and they bloomed freely the 

 same season ; and we were personally careful to layer our pot plants 

 from those that did bloom only, but with no better results, when the 

 forcing season came round, as regards Keen's Seedling; the other 

 varieties did well enough. After we had seen that our new plantation 

 outdoors was disposed to fruit, we picked the blooms off. The jDlants 

 grew well, and kept showing bloom for a good while, which was picked 

 off as it appeared. Next year, however, and the next, they were an 

 utter failure, though they were planted in deeply-trenched well-prepared 

 ground, and mulched during the summer. Since then we have not 

 had a Keen's Seedling on the place. I was at one time as much in 

 love with this variety as Mr Cramb is, but our confidence received a 

 rude shock at that time. I think Mr Young's experience with Keen's 

 is similar to our own. Black Prince and a few other kinds have, on 

 the other hand, quite an opposite tendency, bearing in excess both 

 indoors and out. In forcing, it has never failed with us, and we have 

 at the present time some hundreds of feet of shelving filled with plants 

 of it, in 4J and 5 inch pots, laden with fruit. 



Passiflora Qctadrangulaeis. — In reply to Mr Donaldson, I 

 beg to say, that when we bought our plant from "Fisher, Holmes, 

 & Co., " of Handsworth Nurseries, Sheffield, Mr Fisher informed 

 us that it was the true variety, as sent out by Messrs Veitch of 

 Chelsea, and that was the first time we heard of there being a doubtful 

 variety in the market. Our plant is now growing fast, and showing 

 flower-buds, and I have just examined many of last year's and this year's 



