THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND bere aide GAZETTE. 
[JANUARY 9, 1864, 
28 
The reason given for this deviation from th neral | 
mode of eating is a wide-spread belief at Engers | 
wl ich metis touched Dokola are hides to e cu ta- 
disea: 
1 
shoot was eei off and grafte 
EM e shoots e ees. off M the plant pare 
ing ou ut tw e or three each time, the first savers fe 
lways considered it to be a sport from pr n 
when last inio confirm 
stent 
neous sibel 
tender skin of eMildre en; an wid es ; the Fijians a are very 
fond of their offspring, "they are most scrupulous in 
using 
r present Plate. Our iss were reared from 
brought home by Dr. Seemann, and P Anis n in | 
bs stove of the Royal Gardens in July. 
num 
y becoming more and more obsolete. | 
Botanical Mugutina, t. 5424. 
EXHIBITION PLANTS. 
THE INDIAN MET I. 
Ty treating of this magnificent es of plants, my | 
intention | isto give the Me of prac! experi 
ing overa ve Re por during which 
time I have been l grower, and a buyer of | 
most of the new leve rper as they made their Apar 
ance. In my early days we may have had 12 sorts, | 
including varieties ms A cvi this would have been 
the greater part of them were 
roe ae What a dee bas taken Lect since that 
or 
oro dina above mentioned is the pw aye ej 
ing | of the three p csv ed to. 
th iterio 
| Eulalie and Criterion 
tot off others of a different vm some of them 
co 
of later grafts 
by taking off their tops as soon as the had — suffi | 
cient growth: so that hs Fe next prs Ih 
of ey" sai grafted | 
i yer, and 
tie ere, quite — as they 
had shown themselves sh x the one shoot the year nici 
I have them under number (sport 1, 2, [rx 3), b 
my surprise all | When 
until they 
bioomed 1 
One of 
E These sports are now beginning 
= 
| Sou deed and a pla 
Verschaffelt from Mr. Veitch’s collection being T fe 
VET preserving t 
of secuit generation, although I may yet 
get sonal ling i ood from t 
that when plan 
| stub y, they e. the 3 Moe p pond to sport. Many 
| sports e pow their appearance while the plants are 
y! 
the wood hard and 
5 
oung, but they advance in growth and age, still 
more vill +s Peek sent One can generally deter- 
caltfration E the plan 
Thos 
Chi 
habit of — the 
Mk oe 
kA ualde of plants vocanti di n x very n variegata, lateritia, and Gledstanesii, representin g one 
erfection, M": only as £o their growth an d cultivation, ber dan but EE of these E: the original ad cannot 
mt also as to the "eh - colour of their flowers. The t 1 "s N deest ey are vits -— one 
plantsof those days wer cre € and - «we on poe ; And, as the  whiteground sorts- show 
Pisone all-tiod^ ii as oi be nght to greater disposition than others to yield sports, I am 
"y bibtun db onl dbe-lmé xr visu. dime “tor led to suppose that Gledstanesii is the original. Ih 
oall, se ldo om e ceedi n the si zes waled 24s or 168; the per t three E developed upon one plant when | ™ 
ter g, r of the varieties separately ; but 
mi ne byt 
Ris instance, there are the 
I have noticed, peril in these Indian Azaleas, | 4 
ts beco and 
y of the best judges of the 
-same thing. I have no 
een u^ n id, ei 
s, before sending them out to the is : 
i 
m 
n 
However, as time moved on, and every ya 
Lo 
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7 
E» 
a very 
mprovem ent i in cultivation had taken place ; and ne 
wi 
I have M flt Sleds and variegata more disposed 
to sport than 
There are now iso fine sports from the kinds sn 
named, as well | as some | few varieties that have been pr 
cial purposes, or as Scd mita for heir om 
pleasure: I fear we shal] have too many sent out; t; and 
e number of new varieties we are Co! s d Wy reco 
i lieve 
y 
F 
ore and more manifest, until now 
out | - out by ‘Messrs. Ivery & Son, of Dorking, very much 
| from sports to one’ ‘from seed. There is variegata superba, 
in these t 
eannot allt si iilii I ca Merit Me 
to those whoare cultivators of either seedli ings or "d 
magnificent specimens fuii fes 
in s'ze, and literally covered with b 
pe 
To the dozen speci es and varieties we had to Mem 
pape at the time I refer to, there have been made 
0 the present time something Ley ees 
tinting chiefly of varieties, 
Yearly all edere as Ns ne have baer ii quite 
th raised from seed, and whe the sporta "ug 
Pere ion 
pcm SES m. 
4 
o 
HE 
$2 
es, | bloom th 
d really a fine thing, well worthy of a place in 
collect; ; howev er limited. — Another sent out by ar. 
nich is not of a of a superior poem Stine v we d 
have such a crowd of varieties that many of the bet 
imi 
from variegata ; and when i - bloom I cann not pe 
sve the | least difference between this and vari - 
perba, which had been sentout Met or seis le 
the. Due d'Aremberg made its ce. There i 
of =, E sieh I pedes e to provi 
uctions; but having oat 
them rather red for p uim I have not been able to 
bat sig 1 dosi om ae are all ae | 
ny prios, = cae have snes iecidentally 
sent out as‘ new pete Azaleas—not that I 
it makes any difference to the buyer whether a desir- 
able novelty is a jupe S ENS I feel ¢ 
odi 
of its sporte, 
Fs ca e tied or ane iacu. I myse 
ports mg — from Etoile de 
the greatest e by ; one of them, a 
mtiful maimon | pink, has a distinct white stripe down 
that. above half t number w 
are now 
i 5 .5 
A cA, "n 
En 
more inclined to spo than others: the MA a 
— kinds X a ed them disposed to 
from these almost all the colours we possess have been 
grafted, and cultivated, and then generally 
introduced m as seedlings, 
I remember that at some of the great shows last 
season da counted seven dis tinct Mio: all open » the 
same time, upon Admi 
le e t in s! d | 
— distinct in colour hen thos à ap, and 
uit of 
ok vale = saw a p 
acere h seven d it; and had 
the €— ren mine I bond Y felt felt dispose o p 
Magna is another ki kind & 
t are thin ind ti 
times it will Ein "ofr splendid Haw aromi td 
in b s fine 
adame Mi xad a 
ground varieties purple-striped i 
aon it vate e aped a wide field for 
Pi bel 
ba kind grown, It is really astonishin 
nd oniy 
do so, and 
of them were v Mat be 
worth 
very bees 
although the 
» grandmother, 
or great Sakina of more new varieties. than nt a 
It i 
y Another is a rosy peach with a lilac or rose 
g in the throat, and finely spotted. Tf I can 
lings and sports. William Barnes, Camden N 
Camberwell. 
NOTES ON GAR DRM T II. 
(Continued from p. 1133, 1863.) 
YORK.—EDINB 
ot i 
owed themselves Jast season, I flatter myself they 
Sl prove two of the very best Azaleas ever seen, as 
a pe and Sh aby: is everything that could be 
There is 
| Criterion, which has „yielded many sports. Had In 
red b 
Ebo 
another family of Azaless represented by 
THE grounds at York, in elit ped Museum 
asaya ee an l Soci 
from t 
= oan og = 
Museum, th 
h 
ot | great) tion of fin NS the Museum there is a 
| been assu Mr. I 
» | he had raised it from seed, n hould 
Ferns an ueri eos fine 
whilacout of deni ic^ 
was a ES x i ti 
sor : uar ve many un Tad a a 
Sa mprov: emt from Iv. 
T" ‘tower ae nase Gee and D^ texture ; ers 
b with | 
gives |i 
em very fine flowers, 
"d aeri drin 
>y 
of the Hospitium, an old building : filled with Row? 
part of the ounde cen with well 
green 
and T 
standing i cannot distinguis we the | 
heir eferring to their numbers, 
of their leav ves, the shape 
on caudal 
fronds; Phegopteris 
fal avery Nothochlena to 
very N. tricho; i 
an 
entosa, d 
chomanoides ; the cum. 
noble imen 0 
nary sports this will produce, I hav: 
[oes with RR rode it, a 
+h 
g and were | 
none of them in the - like the pa 
ei 
tel su sns dh e d tha ti thong 
multiplied it yielded eft three varietion.. 
had on 
ll ite di poa 
e most 
as | com 
ers, the same not only in 
The original! openi 
— a frilled ed e, in th 
d very vend dark-spo ~ = pertes. cios |Z 
h Alexa’ x IL it will ie hang precisely 
growth bnt in the buds before 
ing, and in the w whole sspseb of the plant I had! 
nas eere form 
Nowelliana; Scolopendrium vivo-polyschides in É 
> pia 
- acis these natives, 
of rea montana 
