Fepevary 2, 1895 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
145 
D VERSUS NEW CALENDARS OF GARDEN 
1 1 it is to read the old 
Kalendars, and t old varieties . Peas 
zuch as Early Nichols's, omer early Golden H 
spur, Master Hotspur, — ue ae Egg. 
&c, also Broad Beans, the Sand wich Toker, &c 
n old et! the fall 
title of which i rdene 
Kalendar of Operations of Caribe ening, “ elected from 
corrected, and very much improved by James Meader, 
Fic, 22,—GLoxivERA X BRILLIANT: FLOWERS BRILLIANT SCARLET, 
gardener to the Earl of wer =e ” «phe — — 
88 in 1771. I wonder if there are at th 
any descendants of th ce ee 4 in gt 
pr. I have another old book, The Gardeners’ Poc 
, by John Abercrombie. 
the life of N author, w 
1726, and 
r, Universal 
for laying out grounds and making the best thereof.” 
G. Howes, Merton Hall Gardens, Thetford 
PLANT NaMES.— W.“ (Gardeners’ Chronic 
p. 115) is not happy in selecting the plant ageur in 
most gardens as Disa grandiflora as an example of 
Disa uniflora of Bergius, a name 
misnomer, for the plant generally bears more than 
one each cence, , the name 
commonly used in gardens, and which delights 
(sEE P, 144.) 
n Beri by its appropriateness, npea pes of right belong 
he plant at all; while that which, by the incon 
e rule of priority, is its Prope name, is mis- 
ending if it is expected to be descriptive, James 
O'Brien 
VIOLA “ soe BELL.”—I notice that in the 
catalogue of on t ondon wholesale seed 
houses, seed of Viola Blue Bell is —— and it is 
as a larg h As the raiser 
ling. It is one o 8 
colour is a pale rather than a deep blue, 
subject in your issue of 
dering what is being sent out under the name of this 
favourite old variety, No Viola out of a considerable 
collection at Bedfont stood th 
d ent out very 
nearly a quarter of a century ago. R. Diin, Ealing, W. 
CULIA GRATISSIMA.—I 3 agree with what 
r. S. A. Wood 
your yey ieee: „says with re- 
gard t K ry a fit subject 4 placing in 
2 n I was em ployed in the ne gar ne at 
Bedford min, Balham, the proprie K uch 
taken r is plant for its lovely Wee, but it 
was found that pot culture produced only unsatisfac- 
tory — 2 one day at Coombe Cottage, 
hen Mr. G. Baker filled the gardener's 
ot b 
disturbed or cramped in a flower- pot. W. R, — 
Weald, 
THE GREAT SYCAMORE AT GRIMSTON PARK.— 
When looking 7 vol. xvi, of the Garde 
Chronicle (1881) I came across the figure of the above 
au been ruined, I beg leave to correct an 
error the anying note, p. , which 
speaks of it having but three stems. It has, in fact, 
our. Regret ressed at not being able to 
give sr dimensions, I have pleasure in stating 
at it measures 21 feet — 1 at 4 feet 
fro und. The lowest limb extends 44 feet 
from the bole, and is a 6 feet from the ground, 
this heavy limb being supported by a atout forked 
prop. J. S. G. 
E ORMSKIRK HYBRID SWEET-SCENTED RHO- 
— —The valuable hybrid sweet-acented 
hododendrons raised and distributed by Messrs, 
are not 
ry 
a band of r rosy- 
purple on each side of the corolla, which is fringed 
on the ins; D 
Miss 2 pure white. 
n ur of these hybrids, but though all of 
this colou 3 varieties named di terially, an 
a foregoing may a oppo as quite distinct, 
e reason or these hybrids have 
— ast their way into pi de in the south 
o m MG * 
the late Mr. Samu sas Barlow very 
ee 8 e Rh —— “at *Stakehill, 
low’s method of treatment was simple, but it 
to after plants had 
too h. Some liquid manure gi 
plants a ae nee bloom proved of advantage 
in 4 fine trusses. R. D. 
8 QUALIFICATIONS.—Nobody, I 
3 
the main the 
uppose, is Preparo to dispute in 
i * Seeds hen dealing with this 
orbas pe but I a 
January 26 
if not an — of labour, he 
