Marcu 26, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
417 
If he does not dominate the nursery, he is the Dominy 
of cultivation. 
In another journal I have lately given an account 
f the named herbaceous Ponies (mostly 
the Chinese varieties, chinensis, syn. edulis, syn. 
albiflora), and of the 200 Tree Ponies (moutan, 
Fic, 81.—ARD-RIGH (IRISH KING) DAFFODIL; BRIGHT GOLDEN-YELLOW. 
зуп. arborea), with the peculiar 
= ssfully practiced by 
n 
more than twenty devoted to Pxonies. 
Literally, both ki ү 
> nds * . 
ti ^A are being raised here by tens of 
varieties will be found 
Of Christmas Roses 
good 
here eventually, though the old gentleman only 
acknowledges two sorts of niger—itself and altifolius 
ike the unmusical man who only knew two tunes; 
as ‘ Save the Queen,” and the other was 
not. Immense quantities o i 
inch deep, with a curious method 
from weeds, The soil is covered an inch deep with 
Wy 
chaff of straw cut fine, The seedlings come up the 
the chaff is removed, 
and practised 
following method :—Get your seed 
before it is quite ripe, cover it with fine soi 
piece of slate. In November look under the slate. 
It will have come up like Mustard and Cress, 
you must protect it from slugs with ashes, 
Plants also grown here are Dahlias, and the old 
arri: groans to think what our taste has come 
о 
(sex Р, 416.) 
striped one, should be in every garden. In Py 
i in store for him, for 
ised by the firm 
of singles sown by Mr. 
ome famous all over 
thrums an equal surprise 
though the double Pyre 
are t beautiful a lot 
Kelway, jun. have bec 
England. 
ould any one raise a true crimson Cineraria what 
a fortune it would be, The objectionable colour—it 
is the only word for that vulgar violet—overrides 
