Marcu 23, 1895. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
PLANT NOTES, 
THE SCARLET TRUMPET „ 
Tus pretty Honeysuckle, Lonicera s sempervi „ 
in 1 
well against a wall in the south and other favoured 
icts; and where it can be grown against a warm 
side of a dwelling or garden wall, no garden should 
yellow blossoms throughout late hag and early 
spring, which are, besides, valuable f 
R 
— a oia quantity of flower-buds, some few of 
h are anded, It is a wide lean-to house 
bailt tie A dwelling, in which in 
aut 
straggling shoots -e shortened back, when young 
have often observed this plant in full beauty, and 
wondered why it is not more commonly grown in the 
. in place of the strong-growing Passion- 
flowers Cobœa scandens, The flowers have not 
the F l g species, D. 
GALANTHUS ELWESII Var, 
UNGUICULATUS. 
RENCE to the figure of G. Elwesii in our 
monographic note on Snowdrops, published in our 
number for February 22, 1879, will show 
The variety was exhibited at the 
meeting of the iia, Horticultural Society by 
Messrs, Barr, 
THE SEED TRADE. 
(Continued from p. 274.) 
E is a table of growths at various tempera- 
tures as conducted by one of the American seed- 
experiment wen (North Carolina), which is 
useful wing in a simple form the effect that 
temperature m — seeds of varying hardness :— 
il 3 
Description of s of seed, Degrees of heat. 
T eee E a a 
40° | 50° 60 | 65° 
i —— 
Days Days. Davs. Days. 
Pea appears in 5 314 | 
» 7 63 44 | 4} 
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Fine Grass ,, OS ee” Oa 
Rye Grass, soj „ | a | 3 
Oats w| a| 8 1.93 
e o. 0 
Barley reir ee 
In respect to the growth of SART in in the husk, and 
the same when taken out the following experiment 
is interestin ng :— 
oo 
No, of seeds. | Days. 
8 | 3 
304 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 10 
10) seeds in husk, 8 101 34 54 65 73 79 | 66 
100 seeds ont of husk 53 | 68 |17 ad 89 | 90 
Bac atten ee E 
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powers varies considerably, and the laws of nature 
have been curiously applied in this respect, for it is 
n that seeds of some of the smallest weeds 
seed ant tr 
must be cared for directly as f — or i their utility 
is gone. 
ountry seems to employ a testing-pan con- 
structed upon a different plan; t 
British botanists would appear to answer as well as 
the elaborate arrangements such as are adopted b 
some of the seed control atations on the Continent; 
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Fic. 47.—GALANTHUS ELWESII UNGUICULATUS. 
for after all, this careful nursing is in direct con- 
tradiction to >e ordinary dictates o re; and, 
beyond being a good s for the manufacturers, i 
ky ll, whilst the apparatus empl 
do ite wor o? temperatare need only be of the mont 
n s few minutes: thus tego e 
Highland ve sage of byene bas adopted a n 
od, by means of a canes dade 
80 as 
to give a good i 
a livi pred toe ht . eeg 
tain ng 2 
GONTINENTAL NOVELTIES. 
EARLY PARIS FRENCH BEAN. Vim. 
A pwarr but vigorous variety, early and prolific, 
with straigt, very long fleshy pods, The lat s are ` 
dark green with a few black striper, which disa 
when — Beans are cooked. It is at least — days 
earlier than Bagnolet and other approved varietier, 
Dicoin Dwarr-wax Frencu Bran. Vile, 
rf bushy plant, with fleshy thick pods, com- 
pletely free from parchment. The plant is vigorous 
and prolific, and withstands heat and drought equally 
well a wet weather, which few othe — = eee 
an ood for field, as for garden e, and 
the — remain tender and 3 coll full 
grown ; a valuable acquiaition, 
Dovus’s YeLLow Snorrt-noRN Carror. Vilm. 
of the Early Nantes or 
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ng, and as a 
culinary sing of fine quality, a heavy cropper, and 
good keepe: 
Vil. 
ed from the much-prized 
equally 
Tuck STALKED bha p CELERY. 
Celery of Tours, it differs from it by its more com- 
pact growth and stronger development. Particularly 
hardy, its fleshy, tender stalks remain in good 
pr e much longer than early varieties, and it 
is therefore an excellent winter Celery 
THE HERBACEOUS BORDER. 
CORYDALIS NOBILIS, 
dlisbed. Afforded a 
fair amount of moisture, the plant offers no ame 
to the cultivator. In dry soi e plant is y 
healthy, and is ope to scorch in the summer, In 
attenti 
25 beo it aa are the long time it continues 
n flo blossoms are a golden-yellow, and 
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8. 
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8 
Pi 
1 in their permanent places without delay, ms 
The 
the 2 The 
X encouraged 
smaller pieces ma: 
freely by adding a "little J, 
thoroughly if the weather be dry. J. 
