68 



iiMsii (iAin)i:xiX( 



Avritinjj; tn us u-ccutly lu- says : " I sowih 

 rollecttHl from my own I), alpimis ur()\\ in 

 1). (leltoides. and the oriuinal ])lant (»f D. 

 fordiiMisis \\as om- of the icsnitant see 

 The plant is nrat in liahit. inlcrmrdi 

 cliaracter hotwecn the parents, and 

 tloriforons : it makes many cutlinL's. wliidi 



readily. T liavc 



several otlicr in 

 ti'restinii. and 1 

 tliiid< inipn.vcd. 

 t \ pi's mat HI Jul: 

 f'rom ..thri 

 erossfs." Mr. 

 Clarence Klliot. 

 Me understand 

 has ae(piirt-(l the 

 stoekof Dianthus 

 xWoodtordiensi- 

 for distiihution. 

 and in hiseapahlc 

 h a n d s a 1 a r ue 

 su))ply should 

 soon he a\ail- 

 ahle. 



I seeds showing its IVee-liowerinu ijualities when hedded 

 U near- out durinti the sununei' months in Kew (Jardens. 

 Wood- Thehyl)ridC. x Hallii is extremely Horiferous. 



dlin<:s. l)earinu innuineral)le ratliei- small llowcis, and 

 ate in as the plants hraneh very lively the total elleet 

 \-er\- is iiood. eompensatini: tor any lack of si/e in t he 

 istiike individual flowers. The cilOnr of the lloucis 



\aiies helwceu 

 ^ n I p h II r and 

 leiii.^ii.andaiiood 

 idea ot the 

 -eneral appear- 

 ance of the plant 

 is ol.taiiia hie 

 from the plant 

 illustrated. 



15. 



Primula 



Excelsior. 



Calceolaria 

 X Ballii. 



.Shrubby Calceo- 

 larias have be- 

 eoiiu? popular of 

 recent years, due 

 to tlie production 

 of several orna- 

 m e 11 1 a 1 f r e e- 

 flowering hybrids 

 They are green- 

 house plants, 

 making a good 

 display during 

 th e su m mer 

 months. Whether 

 some of these 

 hybrids may i-huto bui J)iANTni.s .■ W 



yet prove useful 



for •• bedding out " remains to be seen. 

 The plant under notice, which was raised in 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, is a 

 free-ffoAvering hybrid, very intermediate in 

 character between its parents, C. deflexa and 

 C. Forgeti, both Peruvian plants. The lirst- 

 named is more commonly called (1 fuchsiffifolia, 

 and flowers in winter, though this character is 

 not so pronounced in the hybrid. C. Forget i, 

 one of Messrs. Sanders' introductions, is found at 

 an elevation of 8,000 feet in the Andes, and was 

 figured in the ('^arc/ewers' Chraincle. Jan. 27, 1012, 



WiiKN the orange 

 scarlet P. Cock- 

 biirniana was in- 

 troduced great 

 results were ex- 

 pected from it 

 l)>- the hybridists, 

 and the\- have 

 lisap- 

 ted. The 

 hvbrid to 



not 1) 



first 



appear was 

 I'niipie (P. ])ul- 

 \-eiulenta + P. 

 Cockburniana) 

 and it received an 

 Award of Merit 

 from the Royal 

 H or tic u It ural 

 Societv on May 

 28, 11)07. This 

 w as a c t u a 1 1 y 

 raised at Messrs. 

 DDi-oKUJKx.sis. \i,'.A. M'ltini \'eitch"s Feltham 



Nursery, but the 

 stock was never robust, and and never made 

 any headway. The reverse cross was eventually 

 made by Mr. T. W. Briscoe at Langley, and 

 when exliibited on May 4, 1909, as P. Unique 

 " Improved " it also received an Award of 

 Merit from the R. H. 8., and was then put 

 into commerce. 



All hybrids from P. })ulverulenta and 

 P. Cockburniana are forms of P. Unique, and 

 Messrs. Veitch sold plants which \\ere the result of 

 both ways of crossing. No difference could be de- 

 tected so far as constitution was concerned. 



