282 Notes and Gleanings. 



1870 and 1 87 1 the tree bore abundantly, and its fruit were as large as those of 

 its parent, a trifle later, but very rich and good, and the tree luxuriant and healthy. 

 There are other seedling trees of the same race. All have given fine fruit, 

 and one of them is remarkable for its earliness. Early Rivers in 1870 ripened 

 with its parent ; in 187 1 it was three or four days later. Thomas Rivers. 



[This very excellent cherry, which we figure from a cluster sent us by Mr. 

 Rivers, has been very appropriately named. It possesses merits of a high order, 

 and, we feel satisfied, will become one of our most popular varieties. The fruit 

 is produced in large clusters of ten to twelve, two to four on a very short, com- 

 mon peduncle. Fruit nine tenths of an inch in diameter, roundish heart-shaped, 

 and somewhat uneven and " hammered " on the surface, slightly pitted on the 

 apex, and with a distinct style point ; suture not well defined ; skin black ; stalk 

 an inch and a quarter long, rather slender, green, with a small, rather deeply- 

 embedded disk ; flesh very tender, sweet, and agreeably flavored ; stone ex- 

 tremely small, perhaps the smallest in any cherry.] 



English Journal of Horticulture. 



CoLEUS. — A compost consisting of equal parts of peat, loam, and leaf mould 

 will suit coleus admirably. They must be grown in the full light at all seasons 

 ■of the year, and be kept rather confined at the roots. A few cuttings can be 

 struck in the autumn for maintaining a young stock, or some of the old speci- 

 mens may be kept during the winter for furnishing a supply of cuttings in the 

 spring. They cannot be wintered satisfactorily in a green-house temperature. 



Gardener's Magazine. 



Basket Plants. — The easiest and most effective basket plants are easily 

 discovered. All the trailing TropjEolums, and especially those of the Lobbianiim 

 race, are suitable. Campanula garganica makes a beautiful blue fringe on the 

 edge of a basket. Pilogyne suavis and Mikania scandens make elegant green 

 wreaths four or five feet long. Thunbergia alata is peculiar as well as elegant. 

 There is nothing like it, either in style or color. Then there are the ivy-leaved 

 geraniums, and the pretty variegated geranium called Alafiglesii, with petunias, 

 verbenas, and Lobelia e rimes, all suitable for baskets. Floral World. 



Stock Gilliflowers. — That this is a great favorite in gardens is shown by 

 the following statistics : At Erfurt, whence comes the main supply of German 

 stock seeds, about 600,000 flower pots are planted annually with about 3,600,000 

 of these plants, for the purpose of obtaining seeds. In the year 1863, 150,000 

 pots were planted with 1,550,000 gilliflowers for seed, and these brought in an 

 income of nearly 50,000 thalers. The production of the gilliflower, in sixteen 

 varieties and over two hundred colors, established the horticultural fame of 

 Erfurt. Florist and Pomologist. 



The London Horticultural Society held an exhibition at Nottingham 

 from June 27 to July i, which was every way successful. More than two thou- 

 sand five hundred pounds sterling were received for admission fees. 



