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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 
[Jury 6, 1895, 
'wn from seeds supplied by them: and Mr. HOLLAND, Vine 
Nurseries Lee 
сч ч —e —The produce from cottagers, — 
in one of th: was very satisfactory. 
KEW NOTES. 
LPHUS LEwOINEI X,—Of the Mock Oranges 
no bh m, there is not one possessing more 
касі quaittied than this, It is a hybrid, having 
n raised by Mons. Lemoine of Nancy, by crossing 
Р. еч with Р, microphyllus. In leaf charac- 
ters, stature, and size of flower, it is intermediate 
between its parents, but besides being quite distinct, 
it is superior a garden past € either of its 
parents, Whilst it is larger an ore sho 
Р; microphyllus, it has purer eee flowers 
but its 
ar from being as generally 
own as it deserves to s bé. 
Rosa MULTIFLORA (зүм, Б. POLYANTHA), 
For the past few weeks this Asiatic Rose has be 
the most effective of all the species in flower. 
blossoms individually are small (scarcely 1 inch 
other parts of the grounds, 
Moat strikingly, perhaps, is its beauty seen in the 
Bamboo garden, w it is planted on a bank 
allowed to clamber over old tree-roots, forming huge 
mounds of white flowers. Its small flowers, whose 
fragrance may be detected many yards away, its 
cone-shaped, numerously-flowered trusses, and th 
fimbriated а at the base of the leaf, render 
the ies an easily recognised one, The ng, 
arching shoots grow to a ipo of 8 or 10 feet in 
one season. It is a native China, Japan, = 
Corea, but although the — Ii vari 
been known in England since the early years of this 
century, the true single - flowered type was introduced 
аа a 1875. A fine specimen is figured in 
vers’ Chronicle for ын 26, 1887, under 
the name of Rosa polyan 
SPIRXA BRACTEATA. 
и of the very latest additions to the 
genus, this is at least one of the most uncommon of 
Spiræas in E gardens, It is a very pre 
species, of habit, growing to a height of 2 or 
; abundan 
with 
most orbicular leaves, which fre- 
ашу have a few shallow teeth near the apes. 
of а peculiarly 
bs, The 
ra to a bract midway on the stalk of 
the flower ; оп ae — ones — їз large and leaf- 
like, the ter- 
minal nme — ey енун. русенци to Professor 
ne species is a native of the mountainous 
main Island of Japan, among 
other places is found on the slopes of Foji-san. It 
aopears to have been first introduced to 
Von Siebold. owering shoot is 3 in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle for February 28, 1585, as S. 
nemo var. rotundifolia alba, It may be * у 
ngs taken as soon as 
pest fairly firm. [See also Hemsley in 8 
Chronicle, June 16, 1894, p. 746. Ep. E».] 
behaviour of several other leguminiferous plants, 
amongst which are natives even of our own country. 
ood many years ago some scores of plants were 
put out in the wild semi-wooded part of Kew Gar- 
dens nearest Richmond. Although the soil here is 
the poorest sand, these plants have succeeded well, 
golden yellow flowers, and amidst the surrounding 
greenery these masses of glowing colour are particu- 
larly effective, The leaves are small, lanceolate, and 
not divided. It was introduced as long ago as 17 (^ 
and was figured by Lindley in his Botanical R 
in 1844, but still remains quite an uncommon pla nt, 
Daring the last few years it has, however, been 
planted more extensively. V. J. B. 
COLCHESTER ROSES, 1895. 
Іт was with many misgivings that I turned my 
head rr Colchester on the Aer morning of 
June 20. I had seen many Roses cut hard by the 
frost of February, and had many 2 M about 
others, And now the opportunity h at 
the condition of the Roses in their min d ever 
enlarging home in East Anglia, To this end I was 
m 
Cant's, and walk through 
gardens as 2 A glimpse at the 
Roses in this. show was most enco 
The Colchester Rose and Horticultural Society 
was specially 2 this year by the weather, 
though a soaking shower passed over the tents about 
12 o'clock, It also ема the warm patronage of 
the ex- Mayor, Hen oody, Esq., and of the present 
Mayor, E. Egerton а Esq., the President of the 
Horticultural Society, who has been indefatigable in 
his efforts to make the w one of the chief 
features of the year, In this, assisted by the Mayoress, 
who presented four Medals for fe four best Roses, 
he has admirably succeeded, the 
edifice, as it were, of his other Alte by devoting his 
personal service on the day of the show, and gran 
ing the Society the use of his beautiful grounds at 
East Hill House, near the Castle. 
So far as the trade were concern e Col- 
he growers won and held the aaa ion prizes 
among them, courteously changing places among 
themselves, but resisting the ingress of outsiders, 
Mr, Benjamin me the veteran grower, and founder 
of the Rose industry, was Ist for thirty-six, and 
Mr, Frank Cant and the Messrs. Prior & Sons 
"нем the other — prizes, 
ong was a wider 5 
sane & very re share of prizes wer 
won ester growers, auch as the pide 
Mayor with the energetic ‘secretary of the society, 
Mr. С. С. Orpen. The winners of the four silver 
medals presented by the Mayoress were Miss Pem- 
berton for а grand bloom of Horace Vernet, Mr, 
O. G. Orpen for Tea, The Bride, Mr. 
Frank Cant for а — bloom, La Fraicheur 
an a rather severely criticised, Mr. Mais 
UN had the fourth medal for the best doze 
. other fine Roses at Colchester on the 
20th were Maréchal Niel, Madame Cusin, Souvenir 
de S. A, Prince, Catherine Mermet, Jean Dacher, 
Arums, i 
de Nadailla, Delle Lyonnaise, and Marie Van eer eui et oe 
Houtte. A perpetuals, the following, —— Asters, per bunch... 26-30| — i$apmys w 0 
others, were good for slow а size, form, quality : Carnations, N 18 26 — 12 bims. 6 
Horace Vernet, Mrs. John Laing, Duchess of Oxford, 7 "per dor - 2 60| Odontoglossum Е 
Dr. Andry, D uy Jamain, La Fran „Marie Baumaan Тарыбе, Бы 1 0- 20 Pyrethrums lbu 2 
Madame Gabrielle Luizet, General Jac queminot, Lilao (French), per се „Тев, por doz. 1 
Prince Arthur, John Пори. Earl Daff»rin, | Senate Lilies of the Vall wai in — — 
* 
Vaisse, Duke of Teck, D. e of Edi A. E. doz, e, 20 26 Е 4 
Williams, Charles a Grandeur of Cheshunt, m i, per STU = nm a pue а 
Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, Marie Rady, te . $ — 4 
And now, а most ng per dozen ad 40 Tris, per doz. buns, 3 
ра Pen Maidenhair ern, dozen 
а. n tet ber 12 bunches ., 60-8 0 — 4 
we are face to face thousands ati — . 121 Mime cf). 
thousands of Roses, and Briars of тб бум sorts BLOOM in variety 
a 
and sizes. Almost the only mark they bear of 
brilliant and pon than on June 20, 
ithout exaggeration, the Colchester Rotes 
were without speck or flaw of any sort. On ex- 
amining acre after acre, not а sign of mildew nor 
speck of rust were seen, nor a bud bored, nor a leaf 
browned, nor burrowed by caterpillars or maggots, 
And yet ‘the persistent drought and the ever-present” 
north-east winds, are held to be the most 
adopt artificial watering. But they fight the drought 
through liberal, deep culture, and a loose surface- 
mulch of frequently-boed soil, 
It seems that bat few of the Roses had had their 
heads or roots protected last winter, and it was 
tions the standard Teas were hit very hard, and the 
dwarfs cut to the ground. Others covered their 
standard Teas with Pea-straw, and these were saved; 
rushing into bud, were — a —— > а hundred 
iles to see in th hear such 
depressing reports of the n Рай of the 
innocent Roses in February, and the lingering, 
enfeebled life of yet larger numbers ever since, D. T. . 
Obituary, 
5. А. Woops. regret to hear, through the 
Journal of поминая. of the death of Мг, Woods 
of Osberton on the 26th ult. from poisoning, It 
Gra d 
remarking, “I know I shall go mad," Shortly after 
this he took a bottle of “Wasp Destroyer,” which 
resulted in his death, Mr, Woods, who was fifty- 
one, has been gardener to the Foljambe family for 
eighteen years, and has given great satisfaction. 
ALDERMAN MASTERS.—The death is recorded 
in the Evesham Standard of this well-known market 
gardener, at Evesham, a 
The deceased gardener was thrice Mayor of his 
Pests Com 
tigation which mad 
revision of rates ‚ Masters was one of a deputa- 
tion who laid the views of Ж“ gardeners before 
President of the Board of Trade, In every par, : 1 
ék 
the ae b E to: bear dà exceptional degree 
of — and perseverance, Journal of 
cultur 
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