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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
rafters, or arches. As to describing the flowers, I 
3 of all our seen acerifolia grown in shady 
lades. W. T.“ will also find this and other Gre- 
eile. pretty fully described in Nic holson’s scrapers 
to Mr. 
mbr iago "Botanic, 
its rather persistent blossoms still remain 
one who has ever seen Grevilleas could think for 
a moment that they had the faintest resemblance to 
to be 
walks atate 
a wider scope for Grevilleas as foliage plants in most 
public and private gardens, D. T. F. 
NECTARIES ON THE CARPELS OF CALTHA 
PALUSTRIS.—In reply to Mr. Cuthbertson’s question 
( Gardeners’ Chronicle, May 25, p. 657), I would say 
oer fret 8 his acco it 
ue discover 
the figure on p. 0 
3 however, was that 
s on the sides 
hat I 
the superficial tissue at certain place 
Wi GMO USI yess andeveloped 
or merismatic character of the tissue of ordina ary 
honey-glands. It seemed, therefore, that the glands 
hase become arrested in , perhaps ton 
less v here than in ermany y. 
Caltha ‘abounded last April, 
n.;” while Hooker, 
Britis h Isles, says, 
If, therefore, ees flowering period be pro- 
10 in Germany into the hotter co than 
prevails here, this may account for the t 
of visitors w ie 
honey- bee 
be quite in keeping with a correspondingly well- 
developed honey-secreting system, George Henslow 
THE DEVELOPMENT eet ie: “at have been 
very much inte r. Druery’s article (see 
Gardeners Chronicle, May 18 8), and have an example 
now, as he 
braved a frost of 4° below 
zero during the last winter, and is now. a mass of 
The scarlet colour of 
W and more vivid that of may. 
i —— Are wre scarlet Ar- 
‘too tender 4 purposes. 
‘Now in this 9 — seem to be 
masters of the position, and able to create, or if not 
actually to create 
its blossoms is 
3 re- 
ic own desire, so that we 
aa prod hither aknown colours, forms, 
qualities. Up to a certain point this ie certainly 
but there comes a t me when our power ap- 
parently ceases, when strive as we will, select, cross- 
:questioners, and we ourselves against 
wall of silence. No science at present 3 no 
e ajaptation can serve us any futher, ‘why 
is is w. ve 
must 
i 
ly gain in 
non direction. These blind ere must be ~~ known, 
nat only to men of sc „ but also racti 
eee in the —— and — of 
panii, like myself; and it would be very interesting 
if Mr. Druery’s article ete recall to some of these 
the eir porat and suggest their relations in the 
columns the re “Chronicle, Charles Noble, 
Bag 
LATE SEAKALE.—I am not sure that vee atl a 
the end of May or first week in June is raion 
valued than chat vegetable is in the m 
vember, when w 
au Kah "aM For a 
that during the spri ng months, a period when green 
in variety and not abundant, 
I have 
of procuring late supplies, 
and that plants grown on the north 
side of a high es or hedge would furnish heads as 
f course, can be better managed 
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late ne. 
in the cooler 8 of Scotland than in the south 
of England. T season was urable for 
keeping the gr , and at of last 
month we had our last dish ; but had the plants been 
shielded from the sun, they would have been several 
week er. The method of blanching is muc 
same as that recommended 2 thes, manure, 
old tan, leaf- mould, and the natural soil being 
used to exclude light and air. I found that 
perfectly tender, is 
ons of vegetables > 
a competitor, I ear, that 
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did capitally. he cook ret to the 
country when the end of the London season was 
as irig ee pleased. 
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common Scottish Kale, but think that after — 
heads were cut they could be turned to good — 
pire if blanched similar to Tarnip. W. Temp. 
A CYPRIPEDIUM CROSS —In a previous issue 
ou mentioned a hybrid Cypripedium I exhibited as 
one of the Roya grasa apie Society’ 
~~ Drill Hall, yen 23 
d C. Sedeni, preg d Cover qu 
eaves with your remark that, . it bore a 
. Lawrenceianum, it show 
e bat I should like to explain 
is i ings myself, I 
cannot vouch for = eee of the eee 
being correct, 2 re had to fall back u 
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the label, now * — which was — 
to the pan at the plant was purchased at Messrs 
Proth Sale- room, which is written 02 
one side , Lawrenceanum adeni: on the 
ther side is—Sowo April 90; seedlings, July .90, 
his statement, if not correc ll, I fear, add one 
wi 
more to the — — of doubtful crosses by which 
ike misled, 
auctioneer an r are misled, T. V. 
Swinburne, Winchcombe, 
seas alg —Anent the notice 
Temple, p. respec i the 
W dat this season), of the Corstorpoine Sera; 
we quite agree with him, is wish 
that a continental variety m recently introdaced 
under the name of Worleei, is ens te in 
and sting. It also appears equally vigorous 
in it: alli ety, of u dee 
reddish-bronze or terra-cotta colour, appe 
sport here two or three years It was 20 tho- 
riny distinct from either of the above in shada 
of colour, a beautiful, that we thought it 
we preservi — are it. J. - 
hon g Son. ng, propagating i Back 
VIOLA TRUE BLUE.— Mr. G. Reynolds, the gar- 
dener at 2 nt finds thie variety one 
of the best of its col Is was raised and dis- 
tributed by the 10 J Me. . Dean in 1878, when he 
was in business at Walsall, Sy it ie still regarded 
as one of the best blue bedders | 
Being an early bloomer, it e Se 
gardening, amy d is 55 
saree: Hy acinths, oth 
LAND TORTOISES.—It¢ has - 
that tobacco-smoke is poisonous * n = ; 
re Mi the tropical- house, on has lived there u m 
the house was built Í 
$ t, and n 3 has been 
ONA’S PRIDE POTATIS —I f 2 
endorse the remarks of Mr. Fletcher 4 * 
quality of Mo 
work, or earliness outside, and I have tri 
four varieties of the Ash dec Sa 
I ever ha 
Potatos as excellent in all respects, and they 
all planted in the same manner, had the 
of — applied, viz., half. spent hot - bed and furt 
i Mona's 
other root-crop. 
rightly, 
quality of Potatos grown on 
underneath. T. Goddard, Milner "Wil, 
SCOTLAND, 
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FROST AND SHRUBS, | 
stock for forcing, are floweri 
ositions. here is ae injury among 
E such Laurustinus 
Carron, Stirlingshire. 
Obituary. 
WIUIAM THOMAS. —It is with 
have to record the demise, on the 
Superintendent of the Wolverham! 
Although upwards of seventy J 
