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THE GARDENERS MONTHLY 



[July, 



Wo give in this instance a copy of the award, 

 with the manner of making it, as an illustration 

 of the vast superiority of the American system 

 of judging, as inaugurated at the Centennial, 

 over all plans in previous existence. Under the 

 old style all we should have known would he 

 that Smith & Lynch " took the gold medal," or 

 "the $100 premium." But here we know just 

 whii it was given, and we fancy S. & L. would 

 not sell that award foi' a hundred gold medals. 



NIJW OR HARE PLANTS. 



New Rose, Queen of BEDnER.s. — A good hed- 

 ding rose should, ahove all other good charac- 

 ters, bloom freely. Mr. Noble, of England, in 

 fche above variety, thinks he has just the thing. 

 He says: "Its inflorescence may be imagined 

 when it is stated that a plant 18 inches high had 

 84 buds and expanded roses upon it on the 6th of 

 September, 1876, and flowered continuously from 

 June vmtil November, on the 20th of which 

 month (1876) it was still in bloom." 



Hydrangea Thomas Hogg. — We have from 

 Mr. John Cadness, Flushing, a specimen of this 

 new variety of the Chinese Hydrangea, which 

 was a foot across. It is not only a white var- 

 iety, but is every way superior to the old one. 



P1.ATYCERIDM WiLLiNCKii. — We reproduce, in 

 an abbreviated form, from the Gardener^ s Chron- 

 ich of March 6th, 1875, Mr. Moore's description 

 of this new Fern : " This fine and very distinct 

 species of Stag's-horn Fern is a native of Java, 

 whence it was introduced by M. Willinck, of 

 Amsterdam. Like its cogeners it is epiphytal, 

 and protects its rootstalk by the broad, roundish 

 imbricating bases of its sterile fronds, vvhich in 



good specimons are six inches acro88. The 

 sterile fronds are erect and slightly spreading, 

 the fertile ones, which are produced in threes, 

 fall straight down to a length of two and a half 

 feet, arc quite narrow in all their parts, and 

 forked. The froinls appear to be. less coriaceous 

 than those of the other species known in gar- 

 dens. As a species this plant is thoroughly dis- 

 tinct from any of those at present known. With 

 regard to its general habit, it groups with 

 r. grande, P. Wallichii, P. biforme, in having 

 long, pendent fertile fronds cut into many nar- 

 row furcate divisions, and very broad, erect, 

 sessile barren fronds, with a lobate margin ; but 

 it differs entirely in its fructification. This nov- 

 elty will prove a welcome addition to the few 

 well-mai-ked and very ornamental species of 

 Stag's-horn Fern already familiar in our hot- 

 houses." It received a Certificate of Merit from 

 the Royal Botanic Society, June 16th, 1875, and 

 a First-class Certificate from the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society on August 4th following. — 

 Veitch. 



A Double White Bedding Lobelia has origin- 

 ated in Prussia, and is now being offered under 

 the designation of Lobelia erinus erecta fi. albo 

 plena. It is said to range from three to four 

 inches in height, to be dense in habit, and to 

 flower abundantly in the open ground; but as 

 yet no opportunity has been afforded for deter- 

 mining its value for bedding purposes in English 

 gardens. As all the white flowered lobelias that 

 have been introduced up to the present moment 

 have proved worthless, some amount of caution 

 should be exercised in planting this new comer, 

 until it has been subjected to a careful trial ; 

 more especially; as the double form with blue 

 flowers is of no value whatever in the flower 

 garden. 



Iruit and Megetable gardening. 



SEASONABLE HINTS, 



Raspberries and blackberries should have 

 their suckers thinned out, as weeds, as they 

 grow, permitting only those to remain that will 

 be wanted next year. 



Strawberries should be assisted to make strong- 



rooted runners — good and loose soil placed near 

 where the runners are, and if these are slightly 

 covered, all the better. 



Where new strawberry beds are required to 

 be made that will bear well the next season, the 

 very first runners of the season should be se- 

 lected, and layered into small pots. In about 

 three weeks they should be cut from the parent 



