Aprit 23, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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care, we lost Mr. Standish's fine variety in four or 
five ne € Prince of Orange is quite as 
vigor erit was. There is still a good field 
for d hybridist with Prince of Bis as a pollen 
The 
is, smooth well formed petals, clear yellow with few 
defined edge of red or rose 
colour. The only three in trade that can be recom- 
mended to use as seed or pollen Ба are the 
varieties I have already na А e yellow 
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varieties flower much later than the thé flowered 
and advantage may be taken of this trait in 
their ibid to keep up a succession of bloom for 
two months or more. We had two months of them 
last season, by placing a few plants, of es variety 
in а warm house in March, and by keeping some 
of them out- aon until the dowen 4 were about 
to open. If it 
ground ought to be previously prepared by trench- 
ing i iving i dressing of well de- 
he plants which have 
been kept in cold frames ding the rie Кү Ъе 
carefully planted without injuring the roo I po 
the whole of our stock from layers abo "^ ‘the first 
week in October—at the time the sees of the 
ordinary type are planted. They are placed in a 
жа frame, the lights of which are Lu rather close 
ntil young rootlets are formed. 
well est re air is t freely. 
he weather was very w: t potting time, апа the 
plants have Moda Pacers p to the sides of the 
very bene Apt ries exhibited this 
ear have received six e ррл Certificates from 
three different societies. I do not intend to say any- 
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colour will be quite a woe Eus ; one variety is 
ey marked with i t. I intend to try them out- 
say that the Carnation and Picotee succeeds better 
planted out than it does in pots. J. Douglas. 
NAMED GOLD-LACED POLYANTHUS. 
The past de. p ace term may now safely 
employed, ved very destructive to 
> a elisa Раушан 
From all parts ай the country where these 
lants are grown for show s comes the same 
intelligence, i 5. Santon writes from Stakehill 
House anthuses in my principal frame 
Regen 
di T had e 
ants as I could desi 
f Pese 0 esire 
0 s 
b xia Haw rug they a ре ne the worse 
pio & few days all the uut. lisa d almost 
M mde exception rotted away just at the i 
It 
For 
n h je bi t edes " 
the eni ert ey ha ад in o do wi 
E o ai hat has been wrought, 2. 
riety Pride of 
A DECADE a de aoe ADIAN- 
(Concluded from р. 448.) 
А. cyclosorum (Moore in Hort. Veitch).—Fronds 
triangular, tripinnate, glabrous, semi-deciduous ; 
iat ais those of ир mature fronds ovate, 
wly ovate when less developed, stalked, the 
pals shorter upwards; pinnules rather large, t 
upper basal ones porro the rachis, terminal ones 
cuneate deeply lobed, intermediate ones dimidiately 
rhomboid, lobed on the upper margin, the basal ones 
t Uy lobed at the end, all ‘distinetly pedi- 
cellate; veins prominent beneath, و‎ 2л 
forked, the чамы free; sori numerous, large, cir- 
cular, seated in а very shallow sinus at vx e tips of the 
marginal lobes, and covered by glabrous indusia of 
the same sign tipes and rachides glossy ebeneous. 
Habitat Ecu 
This well fed species was introduced by Mr. 
Pearce in 1873 1 the кше, p Messrs. Veitch & 
Sons, of Chelsea, and has bee good deal over- 
looked, so that the Mcd of its Eoi habitat is lost. 
Ecaudor, sent us by Messrs 
= 
Ф 
n in its 
very handsome, 
bold in character, 
The fronds are froin 
mer dress it is, 
in dimensions, 
een colour. 
upper side and end, the circular fi of whi 
very n nhc has a stoutish, glossy black 
to 10 inc long, wide-spreading 
stipes, 
sed which, when but slightly divided, e c 
larger individual pinnules, but which in the 
matured state become more ее e oigh" di 
central pinnules РЕ smalle 
i.n 
; pinne crowded, 
1} pius wide, eda oblong; pinnules large, — 
overlapping, E lateral ones rhomboid, 9 lin 
long and 6 lin s wide, ie term inal ones br ipi 
flabellate, an MRG width ; the margins 
deeply lobed and densely frilled, d qe fronds 
fimbriately laciniate; veins as in ak ; sori 
imperfectly developed, elongate i ten соп- 
tinuous around the en of the lobes ; Mid and 
rachides glossy ebene 
the most beautiful forms of our native 
ppeared, m 
First-class Certifi 
Royal Horticultural Society. raised by 
Mr. G. Masters, the gardener at High уут Hall, 
Knutsford, who, cumul = it was more compact in 
a batch of seedlings of A. 
he vind om а it for 
ed by 
South Kensington, ov 
graceful manner, which habit, 
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their charmingly undul a 
renders the plant worthy of a place in every ¢ col- 
ection. 
Adiantum Capillus-veneris digitatum, n. var.— 
Fronds is unsymmetrical, but with a tendency to be- 
come porem s ov de dwarfish, зале evergreen ; 
pinnz, as wel e pinnules, unequal in size and 
irregular in idi e latter very aia i in size, and 
b ed apex, deeply furcat 
bs edges a ER: veins flabellately eru as iit 
e type ; 
p curious ws of the common Maidenhairs 
obtained 
v 
singular ap rmorphie fronds. 
'The terminal pinnule, where there is one developed, 
is cuneato-flabellate deeply cut down from the apex, 
and the 1 rmed again The 
at the end бит; divided Fer the others into deeply 
cut, and t again into shallower lobes. he 
edges of the Гита аге marginate. О 
mens of this form came from Mr. 
dienen From a MS. of the late T. 
Moore 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
Tue present is вне most vei time to transplant 
of te argenteum (Pampas-grass) ; a deep peaty 
most cun d йо 16 will grow well 
Planted in clumps or 
of walks or carriage-driv 
ance. The old foliage should be 
the young leaves d to develope. A mulch- 
soil should be placed over the 
poured into the centre ea 
established plants. In order to have аай 
plumes the plants must be well fed. 
Wall Plants.—W all plants should now be trimmed, 
and fastened to their allotted в spaces. A oS 
plant fo 
is а vety striking object in autumn, and is very fius 
ful, with its drooping shoots clothed with рыл pd 
flowers. It is а fairly rapid grower, and w 
cover a wall 12 to 14 feet high. It ai ioe а 
groups or at plants. It may 
sary to sacr 
them Minas d vigorous, 
too poor to afford nourishment 
some additional soil ‘should be added. 
e foliag 
has s become brown. Tt will be best to sluiv the бөө 
of the old foliage off with an old scythe ; this will 
the better allow of getting the whole surfaces well 
water will destroy any por ipe is about the 
only insect which infests Ivy. here the foliage is 
in good condition а knife should be гч so as the 
not be mutilated. 
of 
ta "bedding plants, where iati is any defic ciency. 
Prick out all аера 7 as 800 
and all subtropicals as 
EZ 
Es 
E. 
plan Grad 
bedding plants to full exposure, the more tender 
sorts should still hes pierde in heat. W. M. Baillie, 
Luton. 
EASES.— Professor Max Cornu is 
LANT DISE 
delivering a course of lectures on this subject at the 
Museum of Natu istory, lectures, it 
may be hoped, will ultimately be published, as there 
ons more competent in this matter than 
the present Director of the Jardin des Plantes. 
