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Jone 15, 1895.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
747 
well when they are ina situation to put a trifle each 
year into this fund, 
mployer went to him, 
and after a little chat told Di that every time he 
drank a pint of beer or a glass of spirits, he swallowed 
a yard of land, and that if he took two pints daily 
he would swallow an acre in six and 
who have had to fall back on this institution through, 
no fault of their own, it behoves us who are si" 
able to try, though difficulties stand in the way, t 
dom, who is n ot yet a member, would 
. himself of his Aoh and glass of beer for 
fourteen months, and put the money by, and at the 
y had not only been 
able to put all on the pension-list who had applied, 
but th ed. To 
all who happen to read this think 800 
over the difficulties of obiera, and assist in some 
way to relieve them while they dare the oppor- 
tunity. H. C. Prinsep, 
ANTHRACITE COAL v. SOOT AS A MANURE, 
ill you al ps me to ask your readers’ 
pinions as to the value of small anthracite coal 
instead of svot — agricultural use. 
ra who will be able to advise me on this matter, 
H, 
HYBRID POPPIES.—On p. 719 of the Gardeners’ 
ronicle, Mr, Wolley Dod speaks of the supposed 
eo 
yet quite convinced that I have ever as yet met with 
true hybrid amongst the many species of Papaver. 
Of course I do not be 
of — — this rupif-orient hybrid, — orientale, 
has led me to the yee that they are all forms of 
same plant, the 
pigmies of the r race, the orientales the giants, and 
the “ rupif-orients ” those o medium stature. This, 
at least, is certain, that I have raised several of 
these medium forms from seed of rupifragum pure 
rientale and rupi- 
fragum are the two extreme forme, Large and pigmy, 
of one species, than that an accidental h 8 
“pe 
within a year or two, seems to me to heighten the 
8 Ri A: trae hybridisation having occurred, 
miy ail that the seedlings of which [ spak, from 
rupifragum, when they flower the first year, appear to 
be —5 rupifragum, hardly any—if any difference 
being discernible; t gin to differ 
ing plants sent me of P. orientale x 
somniferum, and was assu the e n 
—.— they turned out to be the coarsest orientale. 
its appearance, I would suggest, ord it not rather 
be a somewhat unusual form of eitber one or the 
other, the result of natural development or atavism ? 
For my own part, ea Puede ae an at what 
Hookeri is, if it be nota Persian 
P.R I 
welcome auc 
comes and is y 33 
the fortunate hybridist who — it. W. Wilks. 
NTINd OUT VIOLAS.—When I urged t 
—— out of Violas in May, to which Mr. Oink: 
Fie. 114.—MALE FLOWERS OF SCIADOPITYS. 
bertson takes exception, I was but cpr Se piee. he 
ot understand, considering the exi of 
ber, does his . for 
winter and spring in the shape of h Ibs, with 
carpeting spring flowers; and his summer - 
clog in May. B that I am not Te 
. Cuthbertson’s co visin 
planting of of ag bag beds or where they 
woul rem in the spring, I 
Tar v pring planting at all, but 
ther autumn planting. That ia beat f —＋ 
h it is best to 
lant out in March, pence TA * 
ik the Tempe i harsh winds prevail. 4. D. 
FLY. — This insect pest is all too abun- 
dant 5 0 and leafage is very much spotted. 
Pars afage is in the same state, It 
is rather oid cto 20 far, ae being so generally 
ry. deen i 
respect rs the. — whilst last y 
ere was not much with the Celery-fy 
until late in the summer, It may mere con- 
jecture, but it would 1e CO’ rains 
year not only checked the y mate- 
— e 
rogen 3 operative. It — Ae cult 
A. an here Bai 
its eggs mi it, but once je peeing. on on 
the leafage, then Jene 
but to gather 
the leaves affected and burn the hn D. 
of 
Strawberry, Laxton’s Noble, to show you a sample of 
— 8 
ground on 
i a on sh of this month; andin 
e ripe on the 26 
1893 on May 15, Strawberry John Raskin is 
ripe; Vicomtesse Hericart du Thary we have dis- 
5 
4 
a 
[The fruite which ace ompanied above note were of 
excellent quality, indeed they were as — as any we 
have men. Ep | 
SCIADOPITYS 
male flowers of this curious Japanese Conifer 
are but little known. They are ” gee 
in Siebold’s Flora Japonica, but up to 
have been rarely seon in British gardens, "Oa this 
an n illustration (fig. 114) e. the Kindness of Mr. 
Kent, who sends us from Me tch’s nursery at 
Coombe Wood flowers for the Fe . The pollen 
grains are shown highly magnified, They are 
globular and tuberculate eae from the 
pollen of Abies or Pinus, or indeed of any Conifer 
known to us. To the left a group of . in the 
centre an anther from the face, and from the side 
showing the truncate connective, to the right the 
pollen grains dry and moistened, magnified 300 
iameters, M. T. M. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
x 11,—After the large exhibition at the Temple 
on the 24e ult. it could hardly have been expected 
that on the occasion of the ord 
ommittees was unusually heavy. 
side the extraordinary number of Orchids, there 
were no numerous an of hardy flowers 
ts in season. Pœonies pied a 
large edia of the space, 
In the the usual l' ture, 
the three Veitch — No Medals were di 
to the selected gentlemen by the President of the 
N, Sir Trevor 3 (eee p. 743), 
3 Committee. 
Present: W. Marshall, Esq., in the chair; and 
Messrs. H. B. May. T 3 O. Thomas, J Laing 
J Walker, G H „Eoglebeart, H 
ETE Bennett Fes, W. Selfe 2 tee Pant, 
and H. Turn 
HERBACEOUS PLANTS, &c. 
Mr. THOS. S. WARE, Hale Fa 1 ies, Tottenham, bad 
avery gay display of hardy flowers in large variety. In tha 
centre was a fine group of sprays a Lilium colchicum, and 
plants of Spiræa palmata, well nena The « ff-cti 
flowering Heuchera sanguinea epresented by numerous 
bunches, and Ornithogalom dennen and Lilium pyren- 
aicum . pomponium were e. Some profusely- 
flowered plants of —— japonica — compacta were 
effective, pyrami 
shown, includi ng C. 
y large number of 
double-flowered Pæonies, was sanhi toy — VEITCH 
& Sons, Royal Exotic Nurtery, Less Tne 
collections rhown, were rather below 
intense — 8 naar dahurice, were 
