APRIL 9, 1887.] 
PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE. 
STOVE FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Many of this section are now making good pro- 
gress, and will require ample space to develop, so 
that their young growths may be sturdy and short- 
is i in mud importance more ofte 
n the management of plants than fruit. 
Another etn у нты ine notice is shading. This is 
sometimes overdone, d the sparse flowering of 
Allamandas, ранок Clerodendrons, Hibiscus, 
"d 
&c. may not unfrequently be attributed to undue 
-earefulness in this d Where the ie lii 
has a footing it is almos tain to lodge in the 
trusses of the SESE Mie Clerodendron 
. fallax, Mussaenda, Ixora, and beneath the buds 
Gardenias; these should ҮКЕ ЙЕ recelve Meses 
before they expand their blossoms, for if neglected 
the eradication of tail оа 
The shoot ts of Dipladenias, Stephan and the 
а ar should 
e glass, so as to 
light; this mode of treat- 
flower is shown. 
Hoya bella is а moderate roni ing species, and pro 
duces its delicate clusters of flowers profusely ; but 
if over-potted, or too freely watered, it will soon show 
symptoms of ill-health; it requires a light position. 
These cultural Жор, е apply to рука. 
m, m. after the 
finished idein пав тать. their weak growths 
removed 
with oceasional applications of weak liqaid-mannre, 
In order to equa 
ns g 
ants, is a practice unworthy o 
adoption. . Young or weak анан should have their 
spathes removed as t 
n be manifested. 
Thoinas Coomber, Hendre на м th, 
NURSERY | NOTES. 
e. He believes in Blackberries 
е mete reer i he aay es may 
onclads,” adapted to 
cl 
the climate of ey dii cet » States, а nd the “ ordi- 
М г States, such as the 
In our climate we 
e former sectio, “and especially 
and der,” which i is, dig but a small variety, 
| Зате been for some 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
487 
— of which we 
No doubt all defects may in time be dealt with, 
but whether this has been accomplished in Mr. Ver- 
tegans' “ Best of АП” metti we cannot say. 
He hopes so, and so do 
mong novel fruits о on trial here, we desire to 
р Kaki, from 
. Wilson, of 
Жейм, Weybridge, who mui ignes it at 
S eie Kensington, as grown by in orchard- 
being of а rich NI mute ‘the size of 
‚ and transparent, wit 
a but spe mild flavour ! р. 57 2). 
egans has just announced a blue Currant, 
andi Blue зря and he is also developing the 
Juneberry, Amelanchier canadensis, a well-known 
ї et high, with bur айы blossoms 
and yellow autumn foliage, another of North 
America. The Japan Chestnut, {һе size of a a Walnut, i is 
a nut of novelty, of superi vour, it is said, with 
leaves like those of the Peach. This brings us t 
Mr. Vertegans’ * Melon-Pear ” (a species of Solanum, 
see ante, p. 386) from the interior highlands of the 
central North ie a паре а greenhouse plant 
the Tomato, and which 
o 
Cornwall; elsewhere cuttings should 
&utumn and planted out in June; or it should be 
grown in an orchard-house. 
The ornamental flowering Brambles from the 
Rocky Mountains are ge idera here, in- 
cluding: S air nutkan n. loratus, and R. 
d R. délicioená, vindi Torrey named 
against a wall, growing about 8 feet high, 
blossoming i in May 1 protected, and 
graceful bush in С dn n, when iis slender sprays of 
snow-white flowers are puce about the third 
week in May: see fig. 101, eners Chronicle, 
vol. xv., p. 537. The double rose-flowered Bramble 
is a spreading bush with large double flowers—a 
novelty for lawns, and worth a trial in warm sites, 
as well as the white flowered variety, whose limited 
due to its rather tender 
pisce or in . Vertegans recom- 
mong " wis little-known shrubs Rhodotypus 
h is sometimes called the white 
Chronicle, p. 730, 1 
the old Kerria japonic: 
those of the single Bramble, with the addition of a 
hardy ^ this country. 
is quite In Japa 
f common culture do. а пате 
favourite shrub o 
of Jamabuki. 
Other shrubs grown here are the evergreen Azara 
microphylla and Pavia macrostachya, or small- 
flowered Buckeye, the former having mes ntes 
small orange-yellow flowers, and proving hardy 
the warmer western counties, and the latter thing à a 
North America, and quite 
hardy. i i 
July, on the west side of the erator en 
as a dense broad shrub, throwi up numerous 
suckers in a moist site, and bear bs many в thes of 
t flowers lifted above the foliage, and distin- 
guished by feathery-looking stamens. It has been 
compared, not inaptly, to a little Horse Chestnut. 
The usual hei 3 to 6 feet, and its r posi- 
tion is in the 
lawn itself, where p is not starved 
can lie down on EA so to speak, furnished 
with foliage to Qu еса 
The de j^ th of esee is not the best time for in- 
specting ап open . but we walked through 
— m of alpine wi rid good and varied 
—and observed the beds of Ca Cats 
penici folia coronaria, one of the best of the white 
flowers now " Poele everywhere, this one being in 
great vem 
adir Poinsettias filled one b à 
ther there Ims and 
and a 
caught one's eye, we observed in the houses Bouvardia 
corymbifolia, white 2 «Y. Asparagus tenuissi- 
mus, and other sorts of the same graceful plant; 
Beauty of Malvern Tropeolum, and several varieties 
of Calanthe grown in baskets, and suspended in the 
n quee forlight where at the same time they 
лоб monopolise Saee 4 is o avoid 
аен in these or we should say 
is one of t 
de 
that Rad ( ао) falge 
* best’ winter flo ring у 
one not pass i 
Sunset, which was still in blossom in November, and 
which had not been without one or more specimens 
of its rich fawn-coloured flowers since it arrived 
here the previous Apri 
Other мады we дее must M дыры for the 
sake of r > Lapage ‘They 
ina Wa shah. is RA as dai аз дй) a stove 
being quite unsuited to the habit of the Lapageria, 
— 
which may be seen sometimes hig hothouses com- 
ptor spoiled i too much heat. "That the system 
pursued here suits the plant is apos from the 
staat vig Due Зе in the layers by which it is 
propagated. Even on the shoots of last year's | o de 
there are already plenty of blo soms. After blos 
soming contin uously since last June the white yet 
geria still carries many buds which will open in turn, 
through the winter, but for the moment the apri 
had vanished tó satisfy the мих demand f em. 
арен vis sae 
o still, as were a 
number of 23-year-old plants in pots. This is un- 
doubtedly an improved variety, pes ipod being 
nearly twice as large as those of L. r 
Prants IN FLowER at Мв. W. Burr's. 
In spite of the usual summer exhibition here that 
opens in May, and for which a great num mber of 
things are being үй] there is in the numerous 
houses much of interest. The Masdevallia-houses 
are full of healthy stuff bristling with flower-buds ; the 
admire, but birds iy be eren for asingle 
Camellia at а wen dist Sev nice 
m, both ite and wih white, 
Rossi majus, the white-ground and t 
flower, were showing quantities of flowers of m 
экин уунан we noted a beautiful diei of 
and with well knotted мн 
markings than the ze form, and the showy D. 
macrophyllum gigant 
The flowering iin a species of rage were 
was conspicuous, as 
with a few ca 0. eucullatum, & heavily spiked 
O. macrant , O. Kramerianum, a large group, 
ч а de diis of spikes, most of which have yet 
expand; О. sarcodes, and O. Marshallianum : the 
