IRISH GARDENING 



Chrysanthemum Show, 

 9th and loth November, 1909. 



Messrs. Arthur S. Ritchie & Co., Seedsmen, Nur- 

 serymen, and Florists, Victoria Street, Belfast, stagped a 

 very fine exhibit, which was, perhaps, a chief feature of 

 the Show, and attracted great attention and admiration 

 from the vast number of visitors. Besides, a number 

 of artistically-arranged Floral Designs, including 

 Wreaths, Crosses, Bouquets, &c., Messrs. Ritchie 

 arranged two splendid groups of Plants, consisting of 

 all the new varieties of Nephrolepis. Pteris, Adiantums, 

 Araucarias, Palms. &c.. beautifully intermixed with 

 some of the latest varieties of Crotons. They also staged 

 a splendid collection of .Apples, including such varieties 

 as "Bramley's" Seedling. Lane's Prince Albert, Bis- 

 marck, Mere de Menage, Gascoyne's Scarlet, Lady 

 Henniker, AUington. and King of Pippins, the fruits 

 being exceptionally good in size and colour. Their 

 arrangement of potatoes was also a special treat, in- 

 cluding some of the newest varieties, such as Colleen, 

 British Queens, No. 2, Longholme Model, Carnegie, 

 White City, &c. The whole arrangement was most 

 artistically arranged, and a credit to this enterprising 

 firm. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Sex in Plants. — An "Enquirer" new to gardening 

 and unfamiliar with the elements of botany, having 



of Vegetable Marrow, showing 



observed that all the flowers in a vegetable marrow 

 vine do not produce fruit, asks the rea.son. The reason 

 is that in vegetable marrows and quite a number of 

 other plants the sexual organs are in separate flowers- 

 some being seed-producing (or female) only, and others 

 being pollen-producing or male only. The male flowers, 

 after liberating the pollen, wither away; the female 

 flowers, after being fertilised with pollen, continue to 

 grow and develop fruit.s. The accompanying illustra- 

 lion shows a male flower in section. The pollen- 

 producing sacs or anlbet-s are shown within the joined 



petals, and it will be noticed that there is no ovary 

 miderneath the bloom, as is the case in the female or 

 seed-producing flowers. 



The enquirer need scarcely be reminded that these 

 male flowers therefore are as necessary for the produc- 



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