May 4, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
563 
VEGETABLES, 
VICTORIA SPINACH. 
Wuen a dish of this fine hardy Spinach was 
recently shown 
Drill Hall, a 
Ww 
trial this season. nder whatever name known, 
there can be no question but that it is a first-rate 
winter variety. 
one 
as proved to be far 
cand satisfactory in er respect 
than has the Birs . 
MANCHESTER BOTANIC 
GARDENS. 
RUDGEA MACROPHYLLA.—In one of the Manchester 
Botanic Garden stoves there is at the present 
time a plant of Rudgea macrophylla in fine 
bloom, twelve umbels of closely-packed flowers, 
not unlike a double Gueldres Rose. Before ex- 
panding, the e 
these bundles of sessile flowers. Pity it is not 
fragrant, 
E FALCONER 
In one of the greenhouses in the Ta ne, now 
glorious Ca Himalayan Rhododendrons, and crosses 
of them, is one * the best- eee vie of 
coner hay en. It is by n eans a large 
— zs is rohini ina 14-inch a er it ie 
eight trusses of its remarkable flowers—first, pink on 
expansion, then blush, and as the flowers age, 5 
In wes of 12 umbels 
rs, and one of the 
heads had forked i into aie Satine: c 
with accompaniment of flowers towards each 
centre, The eee An with their rusty under- 
the eral appearance of the 
praise for bringing out these two rath 
examples of flowered plants to the general notice of 
the public. J. A. 
NEW INVENTIONS, 
A SEED-SOWER AND DIBBER, 
Messrs. R. & W. Witson & Sons, Ld., are making 
a new garden implement, see fig. 79, which they 
have called the No-Back-ache OT tas ce, an 
at 
be used without the plunger for sowing seed broad- 
cast.” This convenient article is made at 90, Wardour 
Street, and 75, Dean Street, London, 
Por LIFTER, 
is a contrivance made of stout copper-wire, 
stent epee sot by fig. =" er clasp 
pot under the rim w tting it into a 
e Tus suet to rem agente can be 
held in position by bending e 1 888 aprigs of wire 
over the rim. The inventors are Messrs, C. B. Kent 
& Sons, Brush Factories, London. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
Scientific Committee. 
Aprit 23,—Present: Professor Michael Foster, 
Sec. RS., in the chair; McLachlan 
EBS, Arthur Satton, G RS. 
Wilks, c. Hugo Müller, E R.S. and Dr. 
Eh, F. R. S. 
Fusoiated Lily. — From Baron Sir Ferdinand von 
1 came a photograph ~ a fasciated specimen 
f Lilium auratum, which bore 208 more or less 
dvelopea flowers 
Fie. 79.—PATENT SEED-SOWER AND DIBBER. 
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Superposed Bulb in Leucotium.— Dr. Lowe, Wimble- 
don, sent a cerca of Leucoium with one bulb 
1 another. The older of — two bulbs 
ad produc — ri opinaron stem or ut 
1 inch in er gs » which bore at its ie til wig the new 
bulb, zo that the two bulbs resembled beads strun; 
on a 2 X 
on Pelargonium.—Dr, Masters exhibited a 
plant of Pelargonium ae —.— with a mass of 
long fine had been taken for aérial 
roots, but which or clearly the thread-like stems 
of a species of Dodder, probably introduced with the 
peat ə use of in ing. 
rogynous Willow. — The same . showed 
specimens of Willow-catkins, the lower portions of 
hich bore female flowers, the upper male flow 
Between the two there were several flowers in which 
in the dee — sey 
marked b 
2 e puncture of the 
ing to do with . morphological 
r. Masters showed flowers 
urt, show- 
probability, it 3 ev to be m 
into som a other genus. 
dered be 
e genus Saintpanlia—though, 5 a 
nally have 
wrenceana ir Trevor crea a 
President, Royal Hortiealtaral Society, sent a racem 
of this species bearing six flowers, all of w 9 
se — the same peculiarity. The two lateral petals 
were joined at sad agg edges, and adherent also 
to the back of the 
Li ie ET Arthur Sutton . 
presented to the Lindley Library ee — 
L. Plukenet's Opera Omnia, six 
ent 
site of the offices of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
NEWCASTLE SPRING SHOW. 
PRIL 24, 25——The annual spring show of the 
Durham, Northumberland, and Newcastle-on-Tyne 
the 24th 25 
Horticult d 25th 
It. in the Olympia, Ne e exhibition, 
though was r the average in 
quantity, and the quality of the Hyacinths and other 
bulbs shown be nder that of 
e exhibite one usually i with 
the shows of s i were 
hibited i g , and t 
Sala nt feature, and were executed with great 
aa 4 ttn Hyacinths, and also the best twelve, 
Messrs. H. DEWAR & Co., Ne Png Fes 
being oad. The ie although rather 
than have been exhibited here, were admirably — fo — the 
pr _ the — bition. 
J. Woop, Fenham, had Ist for nine pots of single Tulips, 
bing followed | by Mr. G. any ag the latter exhibitor 
M . T. WHE EELER, Neweastle, was the only zapre of 
Polyantbus Narcissus, and of si odils. Auriculas 
were shown dy Mr. K. PATTERSON, Sunderland, whowas lst 
na E. ADAMS. Mr. PATTERSON was re moms A 
orpe . JOHN Mo nane 
2nd, Mr. N. BLAOK, Darlington, was lst plants in 
bloom, being followed by Mr. Jno. KENNEDY, es : 
Mr, J. Mo © had best three Azalea 
indica; and Mr. . NEDY, 2nd. . T. WHEELER had 
let for three O , and Mr, J, MoDOUGALL, Dudley, for 
four nts of Diel 
en — ) Cinerarias, 
Primulas, Cyclamens, Lily of the Valley, and for six plants 
or table d last-named splendidly 
classes devoted decorations created an amount of com- 
peti i feature. 
& Co: y; Mr. F. EDMONDSON, Newcastle; Mr. T. 
BatTenssy, Blaydon; and „ E. M. i 
well, were the most exhibitors in = 
B co classes from which urserymen 
luded, and there were in bulbs in bloom 
