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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Juse 22, 1895, 
tograph forwarded by Mr. B. H. South, of Graham’s- 
town, shows a plant of Protea cynaroides as growing 
in its native wilds. It is, however, not necessary to 
go to rhe Africa to see it, as there is a fine ena 
m in the Succulent-house (No. 5) at Kew 
able. 
posed in heads of the size of those of a Sunflower, 
but the bracts are of a lovely shade of rose-pink, and 
the foliage itself is highly effective. 
THE APIARY. 
HONEY PROSPECTS. 
Tue continuance of dry weather does not augur 
well for a 7 rer! harvest this year, although 
some good takes have already been rl 8 
places, and a nice lot of new honey was st: 
‘the Essex Agricultural Society’s Show at Southend 
on the 12th and 13th inst. The white Clover plant 
is beginning to suffer severely from the drought, 
and 15 rain does not soon come in sufficient quan- 
tity to hasten plant growth, very var honey will 
be gathered from this source, Few 
ate eno 
middle of May ee ee stopped the ee 
from such of Apple blossom as has 
rarely before 8 ene with at "the same 
time, such fayourable weather for the bees to work 
it. Stocks, owing to the severe winter, were not 
very forward this, spring, and a much arer per- 
centage of lost colonies has been re reported t han usual, 
by —— through the bees being „ ee 30 
long a time to the hives, and not having a chance of 
a cleansing flight or weeks together. tocks well 
ith ed from this cause, and it 
Has been a a puzzle to some beginners in the craft to 
divine the reason of their bees dying out with an 
abundance of food about them 
explained, altho 
to account for it. In with 
it is an important r to know the most profitable 
y of going to work. 
and 
store enough B winter. 
to almost as great an extent as if nothing had 
occurred, If an ä 
as spare queens would thereby be 
N fal any nuclei not wanted could be united 
on, Expert, 
ROSES. 
A Rose Sronr.—Mr. G. W. Ewen sends us an 
interesting sport, the nature of which will be evident 
from the letter: —“ I send you by this post 
two Roses, both borne on the same stock. In 1888 
Thad badded on an ordinary Briar stock the dark 
pro- 
pink Rose, in clusters of 
fore 
with less light than 
five to seven buds, of strong fragrance, and all 
splendid blooms. As the display is this year equally 
e of “budding.” The shoot is 
above the place where the original bud was inserted 
(by my present gardener), and there are other shoots 
of Henry Bennett close to it. I shall be glad to 
show it to anyone who may ine to satisfy them- 
selves that this is a real sport, as I believe it to 
be.—I am, Sir, yours 1 George W. Ewen, 
The Lodge, Farnborough, Hant: 
Lorn Prnzance’s Bria 
Those who may not have seen pie plants in 
growth should pay a visit to Kew, where, on one of 
si , lawns, are two beds of these Roses. Editors 
nerally find it necessary to avoid superlatives 
naam ad and desirable to eliminate those of their 
st ents, but in this case their use might be 
ll justified, as anyone will admit who sees them. 
Couns ty 
This hybrid 10 1 is, as seen erg one of the 
noblest Roses of its kind. Its 1 double rosy- 
pink flowers are produced in ede and for a long 
peri 
Rosa RUGOSA ALB. 
A charming double variety of slits species is now 
in bloom at Kew. The plant is of relatively low 
growth, and covered with large double flowers of a 
peculiarly pure white colour. 
Rosa suLPHUREA, Horr, 
Mr. Gilbert sends us a fine spray of this noble 
Rose. It is one of the oldest of Roses in cultivation, 
but there are even now to exceed it in 
stated to be tender, difficult to grow, 
ver, magnificent. 
The wood is ofa rich e ews, with strongly 
recurved, scattered es, and slightly glaucous 
leaves, with oa or elliptic. toothed 
and small 
‘sub-globose, thinly * with 
The flowers are 3 inches across when fally expanded 
globular, very double, and pure yellow. vy 
known to Clusius and Parkinson. Acc to 
Crépin, a wild form of this Rose is Rosa Rapid of 
Boissier 
rand Persia, See Boissier 
vec webe ii., 1872, p. 672. This is the Rose 
. ee tradition i in former days said originated 
from a Rose having been engrafted on a Broo 
stock. We are afraid this is an instance of the un- 
trustworthiness of some horticultural literature, 
fed well figured in Botanical 
ee the 
Chiswick in July, 1889, the report of which will be 
found in the Journal 
who are in n the history, progress, and 
mor condition of the plants treated of, 
eee HERICART DE 
BERRY, 
for 
purposes, and i is peculiarly adapted for early 
orcing, the p 
almost any other, It is a sure 
and abundant cropper, and the fruit is of fair size 
fine flavour. It is also known in Britis 
r the name of Garibaldi. The photograph from 
e. illustration Se 118, p. 775) was taken, was 
sent < Mr, Joseph at Mulgrave 
he gardens at this a The 
fruits number 155, and weighed 3 lb., the heaviest 
fruit weighing 5 dr. 1 8 It is yet a to 
beat as a forcing Stramber outdoors, For Jam 
The outdoor crop of the cee is very promising, 
VF 
eme 
HOME CORRESPONDENGE, 
THE ORIGIN OF THE omaha ta Bes. 
It is wi some surprise that I h — ; 
meh letter in the Gard is Chrome June 15 
8 yer states that Mr. Nicholson he, 
mond, written in 1826, i 
x nd gave his 
ee in ovata Cn nerarias, and describes 
his efforts to ve C. cruenta. This article Mr. 
yer reproduces, claimiog it as evidence that our 
Cinoerarias arose from cruenta alone 
ure, let poi 
in Ans Ta letter (Nature, April 25, of 
ci your inspection) in ques. 
Dyer's Nee ee hat our Cineraria 
rammond after th 
Gardeners’ Magazine for 18 of 
thie I quoted amongst other evidence, a passage from 
rs. L 3” sa of Gardening, 1842, 
p. III, to the effect that C. eruenta was longs 
having raised it from seed, and found the 
vary N daa N ee idea 
it with C. lanata [Heri 
o make his experiments in hybridising with inna by 
the ania 287 ed by Bouché of the Ber 
en. tter had an 1 yin 10 
account of N in raising seedlings from 
hybrids, Wille finding that ‘they differed 
ee their parent, a certain resp 
nata., A reference to this paper of Bouché’s was 
given in the os rib of the G agazine, 
in which Da The fact 
that, up to 1827, Drummond | po not tried to 
hybridise his Cin is in 
history of the hybridisation: ine, 15 at showed in the 
letters to which I have Crane ere is abundant 
it a 1827 A 7 and DEE 
Cambridge, June 16, 1 
have been much interested daring the 
ars in noting the variations in the 
gardener panic a 
plant exhibited by Mr. Green et — er than 
228 1 Heritir raion, A maeh mong 
Botanical Magazine, (a 33; but rena 
the early plates of E Botanical al Magazine 
aw 
