Моткмвкв 23, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
619 
Higginbotham is ass, large, hairy variety of 
rosy-lilac and silver, Dut of Maidenhead, a long- 
ose Japanese, white with lemon centre. 
Jao. Lightioot, a silver-coloured Japanese, with 
lilac-rose-margined florets, gradually spreading over 
same asthe flower develops; florets forked. Certifi- 
* 2 the National Society on 
e striped rose, below silvery. A seed 
ling a celeb, Woke VAT, from ra. AN vale 
in colour, lacking grace; and F m, an 
American seedling, Japanese p warm bl — 
1 introductions 
; 
me Blanche ( ome a white, smooth 
pane | in the in stance under notice, having more 
yellow on the otherwise white flowers than we had 
previously seen. 
Dover Housg, ROEHAMPTON, 
ca em: — ER P Mita annually culti- 
the gar of J. P. Mor, wegen cd is Lom in 
most respecte Aga some others we ond seen well- 
arposes, the d practised is 
i where the 
finale of all die care and 1 
lants are grouped togethe 
or other eee 9 ure, they fur 
for s see good exhibition bloo 
of oicer well аз of the latest 
varieties ; and, moreover, the plants present à better 
cared-for appeara r of ir arf 
character and their retained foliage, than is some- 
wW rowers sole object has 
been to secure flowers for his exhibition * 
To some minds, 16 may ful 
grow large blooms at the expense of numerous small 
ones, when the green is but to provide material for 
cutting t think so, but, on the co 
e 
rooms h blooms, is to use RE sized pots— 
ed 9 Wee in diameter are qui cient in most 
; gro ideam plants well id. fairly strong, à and 
thin. the "нбни to three, four, five, ог віх to each 
plant, ечк to bus habit of the variety. By such 
means excellent blooms are obtained, of good size 
ore handsome, and will 
expensive than t smal 
We said or итәме varieties advisedly, because 
nerally atyle decorative varie- 
Pompon-flowered sorts, whic 
effective, when AA i any, thinning is practis 
The collect notice numbers abont 
1500 plants, ап à Mr. 7. F. McLeod has added almost 
аП the iens that have proved themselves worthy 
а place in a collection containing already as many 
as 357 varieties, It is thought, чеч reasonably 
enough, that this number is needlessly large, and 
8 = seriously veu it before 
ost of the varieties which 
have been noti 
pretty fully in other collections, we shall only men- 
tion a few that were conspicuous a week ago. In 
the first is dese’ 
Gate, a 
yellow smooth florets, and doubt a very 
good one to cultivate for cutting from; the 
plants only grow moderately high, Jno. Shrimpton, 
on warf sturdy 
looking plant, is like very useful, the habit being 
sò good, Sunflower is d sos always kind, but here we 
noticed a number of good blooms, wen, 
Malle, T. Rey, Viviand Morel, President Borel, Mrs. 
Os 
E vro G. C. Schwabe, H. L. Sunderbruch, 
Florence press and Golden Empress of 
India, , Golden Beverley, i, Dga чш Jno, 
alter were all good, in Mr. 
McLeod’s а is Lady aoe sera short- 
growing good habited Japanese, bear ooth 
white flowers ну warm lemon : — en — 
pene vat, a moderate- sized Japanese 
flower with теа fores m Duke of Wellington, may 
also be remarked, ne-flowered sorta included 
the old Fleur-de-Marie, pr the new and excellent 
Descartes ; d Marguerite, violet - 4 ; 
ачаг) wh with pale lemon centre; and 
Marguerite Solleville, “ie, — dme shaded 
white, —— and excellen is afforded 
t is given a — 2 — Ret ae and 
everything th 
there will soon x a capital display of early-flowered 
Cyclamens. 
Ат Mn. Srevens’, Purser, 
For very many years has Mr. es Stevens been 
growing Chrysan Fus at Putney, and during 
these years he has raised and аео not a few 
sterling емне He may have been engaged in 
thirty seasons, perhapa more; окуда, 
me for 1 — 
the Hig There can be no 
question that Chrysanthemum culture for market 
ав rewar a few ye b h higher 
prices than can now b true, th 
public are buying th mon with 
almost all kinds of flowera more freely no 
than they have ever do but parallel with 
this is the better варріу, và late 
only have a greater number of 
with, but many of these cu tiva the plants in soe 
digious and hith erto unheard-of numbers, he 
large producers are also с ontent with such a return 
how and by what means nem secure any profit at all, 
The outcome of all this is, ius doubt, а boon to 
| to get their“ bunch“ 
of Chrysanthem w pence as once they 
paid sh Oa dé phe hand, the growers 
themselves are driven to the strictest economy in 
labour and g 
adapta- 
bility to the "rolaction of & quantity of bloom, 170 
furnish a at the present market p 
spite of ee са ia little doubt ч pres — 
tevens cultivates give a good 
he e b 
he 
blooms than t owing to the desire of the 
have as large a number as possible for the 
в, 
Among varieties іп bloom a week ago in this 
cians im — * Percy, vien included 
owing to dis n to free flowering. Malle, 
T. Rey, a не сма. ne for — а number of 
better-class blooms; Stevens, a variety raised 
supply; Rubra perfecta, a pretty little crimson 
flower; Golden Gem, of which a number of planta 
were in bloom; and Mrs. C. hard, another of 
the Source d'Or class, Boule de pd is still kept 
f white blooms 
in good quantity for the producti 
at a late date, thongh the ара aie not #0 pure as 
could L, Canning is grown largely. 
ng as any, perhaps, с a batch of 
m, amber of good 
plant. It Mim likely prove very desirable from the 
market growers’ point of view for ту 2 of what 
term dee ele blooms, 
из BaRK.—Mr. David Hooper, in the 
crane owrnal ber 26, an article 
and as s verm 
as good an insecticide as 
HOME ÜORRESPONDENOE. 
SPORTING IN POTATOS.—I cannot admit, in 
— gr to "D. T. F.“ suggestion, — I have 
met with nu er sports in Potatos in my time. 
prn m that being iiA, T die vi r 
met with a sport; indeed, in my own per 
rience, never, Mr, Fenn hasa striped Potato which 
he says —— from the whi r of 
a . Chopping, of Sittingbourne, : A. pret 
dit Potato which is said to have 
icar о еһаш. I w 
The sportiveness I have chiefly met with in 
to Potatos is their tendency to appear from time to 
time under diverse appellstions—but N haa 
ing tod that. Diversities come only as 
the product of intercrossing the flowers, but that is 
not sporting. If I were told that a white flesh Potato 
ad sported t one, or Is 
simply — &t the suggestion, Naturally sceptical, 
I àm not credulous, and always doubt what pe 
observation leads me to regard as the reverse of fact. 
A, D. 
THE TRUTH ABOUT PRICES.—My scepticism as 
tain them. He may row his fruit well, and 
insist on his gatherers rejecting all unsound Apples, 
so that they may not t his stored he He 
may sort and pack carefully, and allow no unfair 
rading, th e will gradually acquire a good 
character. Then his goods become known and 
ia d are enqair r and el off the 
ile 
m will not — 2 double the prices ruling in th 
market 
REGULATIONS AT THE DRILL-HALL MEETINGS, 
any description sent or brought for consideration by 
the committee at the Drill-Hall meetings, than to 
eart em out. о doubt all that Visitor 
suggests could be done, but, all the same, in the 
majority of cases it mal noe "24 
produce to the Hall Hall and T it —— == — 
* ЭРТ — 
— ry en 
intui hom inline, come, E 7 
cannot be absolu Ep secured, what use 
securing it at ut again, w 
if it be known to whom the respective prod 
at least, and say that it 
bers, known or unknown persons, alike ; 
It must 
ordinary ee e secresy as 
desirable ; ough I think few men would, 
If — be any, I have not seen i 
last Masc 8 issue = pem — Ch — mention 
is made чн Ше — treatment of this t. 
When livi 
of it, thinking І might be able to fruit it. I kept it 
in an interm -house, and т 1 special atten- 
tion, э without success, an idea that if it 
was treated house (аз 
our t 168 wo 
b I should like to know what age the 
t now fruiting Kew is, and what is the 
size of the that it isin, Geo, B » Berwick, 
chased in n. 7 
Sons, of Reading dinary com- 
qu pota vaghe of greenhouse plants 
the summer it was atten regularly 
with water; when the pot was filled j eee we 
gave it weak manure-water occasi 
