OCTOBER 4, 1919.] THE GARDENERS’ 
concentrating stiff stemmed Cactus varieties, 
am the Sand that Mu Dobbie апа Co. 
have now a race of really excelient true Cactus 
Karietios with pee тш n upright stems 15 
to 18 inches long. The of co is not 
so wide yet as е е xhibiti type, but I 
saw shades of pink, amber, yellow, rose and 
blush, and a few striped varieties. I hope 
Messrs. Dobbie and Co. will show these varieties 
in London next season, as I am sure they would 
create a new interett in the Dahlia. Old 
Grower. 
BUDDLEIA OFFICINALIS. 
dE species of Buddleia illustrated in Fig. 
a native of China, and was introduced 
E gardens by Mr. E. H Wilson , who met with 
grows wild in the Yang-Tse "Valley and other 
pe. enin a shrub Lon 4 feet to 8 feet in 
eight. In Plantae Wilsonianae it is stated 
that Buddleia forms a common shrub in rocky 
pl bout 2,700 f Я d i 
very Чу бин fragrant а nd ornamental. 
flowers are developed in thyrses at ү d s 
the branches, and the inflorescences 
t i in The 
imes 12 inches in lengt з ponent is very 
le lilac with orange thr he plant is not 
uted f culture his country, ex- 
cept in very favou parts—such as the south- 
purpose to which the pla an be pu 
growing in a pot in a greenhouse or с. 
The specimen illustrated in Fig. 80 i n 
growing in ot in the Royal Botanic Gardens 
Kew. Th plant is easily propagated from cut- 
ting in t at т 
Specimens raised in = кс may be potted and 
plunged осе the open during the 
summer taken indoors деч the beginning 
of тетир to flower іп win 
BOTANY AND THE EMPIRE., 
(Co eee desc. о. 164. 
IN India there is pro a larger area р 
pies -cane than i in any c country. Its 
`~ 
one tho from Assam to Ma Punoi a йыга, 
| о miles. The difference in Сеш yee 
Кей influen 
ospheric conditions has a mar ce 
E e character of the canes grown in "the two 
regions. n Southern es c pu are stout 
and usually as productive irrigated areas 
as in other tropical вінна ay in the North 
the canes are more slender, m w sn — isis d 
and owing to the w percentage of fibre 
much less. pr tive in su m 
g : 
е peaking pees Ng the sugar industry in India 
18 not in a satisfactory condition. In игы of 
m s 
mprove the 
Character of sg xe oa es tabl ish varieties 
fr A sugar station was 
established for ten purpose at Samalkola. It 
Was s evide tU n 
ndia. Wh 
e hardy type ‘of cane capable of holding 
its own a wills the field conditions and the re- 
Sources of the cultivators. To obtain these they 
ig te 
* British Association for the Advancement о 
Address to the Botánica en by Sir Daniel | ir 
bel „М-А., D.8e., D.C.L., LL.D., F.L.S., President 
os raising озен н canes the ые difficulty was 
the 
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resources of nitrogen. What ге hoped for was 
that the "m gomg see not only a larger 
acreage in countr ту under wheat, but also a 
A фу Duri ing 
the great War the Betah ME, have realised 
n ress of a fight for existence that the 
estion of food supply is the most vita all 
national in ts. Both in this countr ind in 
idi in the Overseas Dominions great pro- 
gress is being r in raising new varieties of 
у lding large returns per acre possess- 
d 
I 
in wheat breeding by Saunders in Canada and 
Farrer in New South Wales. Their work ри еа 
of enormous benefit, as it not only 
varieties of superb quality, but also ‘those that 
ж be successfully grown in districts wher 
wl eat growing for various r E isi dE a d 
impossible. During recent years Biffen, by his 
shown thai characteristics distinguis ing 
numerous aiti can be traced, and the re di 
up of a fresh combination of these character 
ng 
[Photograph dios E. J. Wallis. 
FLOWERS PALE LILAC, WITH ORANGE-COLOURED 
ossible on pra actical lines. * As the losses 
widel с‹ 
Biffen anally ресама “Tit Jos > which, 
after trials extending over a peri 
years, is said to yield four bose dera acre more 
than any other variety. Fu т, it possesses 
distinct disease- resisting SEL 
Another of Biffen's new wheats is “ Yeoman.’ 
is was rai i "de 
Thi aised in order to ie oa what are 
wn a ng w 5 T are in great 
; produce a flour 
strong wheats. ese 
in this country, as they 
which is = тербесе for baking purposes to 
the flou English wheat. In pre-war days 
Cehadian ps: wheat ded i 
arke more per quarter than the ng- 
iis h y ап?” not only rg cocaina the 
Den with it the rage yielding ya ор Rigg of 
n English whea 
