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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[June 11, 1887, 
the editorship of the Botanical Magazine, when he 
concentrated all his үт. resources in the 
Sir William Hooker w s his own artist; but 
Exotic Flora, containing 232 hand- 
some plate 
-The late “Duke of Bedford was a great patron of 
horticulture, and defrayed the expense of publishing 
various н. ve rus therewith—among them the 
з Woburnensis. is is a classified 
catalogue, Mostrated yoy М, flowers на тапу 
species. of Erica, and ingenious “ diagra of 
colours.” The fine нен s EA at Woburn 
H 
тё 
Maund's Botanic Garden (1895— 1842), a small 
quarto of nine volumes and 312 coloured plates, 
deserves special mention for the admirable colouring 
on each 
uarter of the present century 
be formed of the great and rapid strides then made 
in flower gardening. It is only surprising that with 
so many competitors in the field, and some of them 
рет to it, the Botanical Magazine should have 
pi important event in this period was the forma- 
tion of the Horticultural Society of London in 1805, 
followed by that of Edinburgh in 1809. An immense 
impetus was thereby given to horticulture, through 
its direct and indirect influences. out the 
socie 
and published six volumes of valuable essays under 
n 1824 the total number 
2197 by honorary and foreign members. The Society 
was supported by royalty and the nobility, as well as 
the most celebrated botanists and horticulturists of 
the er Prominent among the contributors to the 
Transactions are 'Thomas Andrew Knight, Richard 
‘Anthony Salisbury, Sir Joseph Banks, J. Sabine, Sir 
J. E. Smith, and J. Lindley. Collectors were sent to 
various parts о she vri Thus J. Don to West 
Africa, J. For 
Parks to Cli x 
wich Islands, and David D mete to North Ameriea. 
The garden at Chiswick was established, and every- 
. Perbaps the 
greatest of all the Society's successes was Douglas's 
mission to North America, the fruits of which, how- 
ever, belong to the next period. emsley. 
To be continued.) 
THE SEED TRADE. 
Pras.—The representative of one of our largest 
seed houses informed me a few days ago 
vate, select or “rogue,” Must, pick over and get 
ready for sale such an enormous bulk made up of so 
manysorts. Time was when only about a dozen lead- 
ing varieties had to be provided, now fifty at least are 
* hat an enor- 
mous amount of capital, labour, and enterprise is 
expended upon it. 
‘The following sorts of Peas may be said to be 
passing out ivati i 
ы-ы off in 
Favourite, E Royal, Paradise Marrow, Alli- 
ance, and AI 
P nate varieties are still in general 
demand :—Beck’s Thumb, First-class 
Blue, Harrison’s Glory, Pride of the Market, Dil- 
lestone’ s Early Prolific, Bishop’s Longpod, Laxton’s 
Prolific, Market Favourite, Victoria Marrow, Lax- 
ton’s Supreme, Day’s Early Sunrise, Maclean’s Little 
Gem, and Maclean’s Advancer, Champion of Eng- 
land, "оңу, Tall Green Mammoth, Dr. Maclean, 
and Laxton 
mega. 
The какша list ii wai sorts for which there 
i growin mand, and they may be taken as 
illustrating the best standard Peas in cultivation :— 
stock; Telephone, Duke of 
erican Wonder, 
looking for a change that will bring warmer and 
more genial weather. Pisum. 
A FINE LOT OF AMARYLLIS. 
T Messrs. Kelway's, Langport, Somerset, I saw 
lately in full bloom a charming collection of Amaryl- 
All those I saw (they were under glass) w 
medium size, and all had a fine smooth surface on 
the peta Some of the finest specimens were the 
following :— 
Lucifer, a large bright carmine flower, with a per- 
fect white band on each petal from base to tip, 
bold deep crimson feathers, a green bottom, and. 
a purple eye. 
sponds to it, 
= а faultless white band comes out on all the six 
tals. 
' Firebra nd, a fiery ме veined deeper; broad 
petals, the inner and the outer making two fine 
triangles. It isa gon M х азна of great substance, 
with half white bands, feathered with crimson, and a 
purple eye. 
Acme isalarge expanded flower, of a deep car- 
mine crimson, and with its gorge spotted white. 
Diana is in the way of Lucifer, but has 
scarlet in it, and less bold feathering. 
Incendie is white, with a rose blush, and very bold 
deep crimson feathering, of good shape and sub- 
more 
Antigonus is in the way of Acme, but better 
shaped. 
Phereclus is ee with crimson tips; all the rest 
is veined an ted crimson, with a green bottom; 
it is of good iuis 
Plumosa is cream-coloured, with bold crimson 
feathers and white bands ; it is of lovely s ape. 
Cherub is white, with bright carmine tips, the 
feathering uniting with the tips. It is of a fine bell- 
shape. 
Peter Drummond is salmon-scarlet, edged white ; 
all the petals are crisped, and the bottom of the 
tube is of a deep crimson; the lower petals only 
have a half white band. 
The gems, however, of this fine collection, in my 
opinion, are three or four; they are the following :— 
Ruby, colour of Jacobea Lily, of a lovely com- 
Beatrice Kelway i is of a т» carmine, edged 
white, with crimson feathering in hree upper 
petals, and a purple eye. This is an esed flower 
in every way. 
Maxentius has bold, deep carmine tips, bees 
white, and bold crimson feathering. It has 
compact sha 
St. Ga tien i is a deep crimson-scarlet me 
out, Mog at the bottom, of fine shape and broad 
eta 
The foreman thinks the Al of the collection is 
another, nam 
æa Lily 
(formosissima, or Sprekelia) both ways with their 
Amaryllis, and also with the Vallota, of which they 
have seedlings not yet flowered. Certainly in this col- 
n 
same — that i = of the Jacobeea Lily with the Hip- 
ow is that I never succeeded in 
llis. 
great feature of Amaryllis-growing in the 
Kelway nurseries is the thousands of bulbs grown 
in the open air, in the ground, without heat, and 
simply sheltered under frames, which in the winter 
are also used for other small pots, placed between 
the rows of Amaryllis 
If Mr. J. Kelway will do for the Amaryllis what 
he has pod done for the Gladiolus, and Mr. W. 
Kelway for the Peony (they must be grand sights 
when hole em of mon are seen in full bloom), 
lovers of t 
frames at all. 
growing в become as popular as the Crocus and 
the Hyac 
Mr. J. fons mace does not believe in 
acclimatisation. thinks that if the dormant 
bulb of the Алау, when first introduced, had 
been planted in the open instead of coddling it in 
ме it would have been found as hardy as it is now. 
* We find that itis hardier after шау, im 
of growth in England, and we take 
that we have hardened it, while the rel ы may 
have bomi in it in the first instance." 
may be so in some cases, but in the case of 
the Airis I do not think we have any Fu of 
the number of bulbs that have been d 
attempting to 
M 
and living under entirely the same conditions, 
e find, f reason nof 
t on ardy and thrives 
cate, and require 
to live at all. 
n spite of every саг 
dou that individuals 
е Of course many 
Provo hardening, bt ntl. The latter 
