1 86 Notes and Gleanings. 



The Ivy Green appears to be on the high road to be regarded as a fancy- 

 plant, if such a term be allowable. At all events, as auriculas, and geraniums, 

 and roses are cultivated in endless variety, and regarded as "fancy flowers," and 

 flowers for " fanciers," so the ivy, apparently a most unpromising subject, has 

 evidently found one advocate of its claims to be introduced to the intellectual 

 region in which "fancies," "tastes," "passions," and "manias," originate. In 

 the Gardener's Magazine, just published, occur descriptions and figures of no 

 less than fifty varieties of ivies in the well-known collections of experimental 

 plants cultivated by Mr. Shirley Hibberd. We learn from the descriptions of 

 these ivies that they are most various in character, some of them producing 

 gigantic leaves of a thick texture, some producing white or golden berries : 

 others, again, richly variegated, and a few that are both minute and curious, the 

 smallest of all having leaves of a purple color, that in outlines resemble the foot 

 of a bird. Few of us who look casually at common things could have had any 

 idea that any one cultivator, however ardent and able, could have accomplished 

 such wonders for such a sober plant as the " ivy green ; " nor is our surprise in 

 any degree lessened when we learn that these fifty sorts have .actually been 

 selected as the most distinct and beautiful out of about two hundred. All the 

 best specimens, some two hundred in number, in the Stoke Newington collec- 

 tion, have lately been purchased by Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal Nurseries, 

 Slough, City Press. 



Cordon Apple Trees. — From twenty cordon apple trees planted last Feb- 

 ruary I have gathered above one hundred apples, some more than twelve inches 

 in circumference, although some of the trees are only two feet and six inches in 

 length. They are trained on wires, the back row fifteen inches, and the front 

 row twelve inches from the ground ; but I intend raising the wire three inches, 

 as the border under the cordons is entirely devoted to strawberries, the .foliage 

 of which has interfered with the early ripening of the apples. I have eight sorts, 

 viz. : Calville Blanche, Reinette du Canada, Reinette Grise, Reinette de Caux, 

 Reinette d'Espagne, Pomme d'Api, Calville St. Sauveur, and Northern Spy. 

 All are on Paradise stocks. Gardetter^s Magazine. 



Woodwardia radicans. — Though a hardy fern, this grows to much finer 

 proportions in a cool house. It requires plenty of pot room, and a good stout 

 soil — say half peat and half loam, with sand added. It should stand high up 

 in a conspicuous position to show the fronds well, as they always arch over 

 downwards. If you find it troublesome to root the bulbs, peg the fronds down 

 over pots filled with sandy peat, and separate the bulbs when rooted. 



Floral World. 



Deep Planting. — The English Journal of Horticulture advises to plant pear 

 trees with the upper roots " not more than a foot below the surface," and adds, 

 " No planting is much worse than deep planting." The latter statement is very 

 true ; but we should say that trees with their upper roots a foot below the surface 

 were very deeply planted. We should like to know what are our English friends', 

 ideas of deep planting. 



