JuneJ27, 1805. ] 



JOUENAL OF HOUTIOULTURE ANB COrTAj&E GARDENER. 



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Mrs. Milford (E. G. Henderson & Son) .—Vigorous habit; 

 leaves with a very broad bronze-coloured zone, becoming at 

 length yellow ; flowers deep scarlet, distinct. 



Mrs. Follocli. * * * (E. G. Henderson &, Son) .—Vigorous 

 habit; leaves flat with a broad yellow border, and zone of 

 deep red ; flowers scarlet. A very beautiful variety. 



Sunset*** (B. G. Henderson & Son). — Dwarfish and 

 spreading habit; leaves smooth, flat, with a broad yellow 

 border and distinct zone of light orange-red; flowers cerise 

 scarlet. A very beautiful variety. 



2. LEAVES MARGINATE, NOT ZONATE. 



Oloih of Gold*** (Veitoh, Turner).— Dwarf habit; leaves 

 flat, downy, deep yellow, with small bright green disk; 

 flowers deep scarlet. 



Golden Cerise Unique (Veitch). — Moderately vigorous and 

 free habit; leaves with yellow edge and reddish zone; 

 flowers small, cerise. 



Gold en Chairi*''^* (Scott; Turner). — Spreading habit; 

 leaves broad, flat, surrounded with a deep yellow edge; flowers 

 deep cerise-scarlet. 



Golden Fleece*** (Veitch, Turner).— Dwarf spreading 

 habit ; leaves flat, yellow, with green disk ; flowers abundant, 

 bright scarlet. Appears to be of freer habit than Cloth of 

 Gold. 



■Golden Harhmoay * * (E. G. Henderson & Son). — Dwarf 

 habit ; leaves lobed, and having yellow margins ; flowers 

 loose, orange-scarlet, tinted with cerise. 



3. LEAVES WHOLLY YELLOW. 



General Longstreet (Wills). — Apparently not free; leaves 

 yellowish ; flowers scarlet. 



Golden Leaf (Carter & Co.). — Dwarf habit ; leaves yellow ; 

 flowers scarlet. 



Golden Little David (Wills). — Dwarf habit; leaves yellow. 

 This plant was not vigorous enough to produce flowers. 



Robert Fish (Wills) . — A gold-leaved variety, with orange- 

 scarlet flowers of the semi-nosegay character, and highly 

 promising as a dwarf sort for edgings, but not well developed. 

 — (Proceedings of the Boyal Horticultural Society.) 



CERASTIUM TOMENTOSUM— AEABIS LTJCXDA 

 VAEIEGATA AS EDGING PLANTS. 



I OFTEN find the Cerastium tomentosum mentioned and 

 recommended as a Ijorder for Geraniums ; but as my Ceras- 

 tium has been in fuU flower for the last fortnight or more, 

 while the Geraniums were only lately bedded out, I know 

 not how these can flower together. I have a six-feet-wide 

 border of Cerastium one sheet of snow, with circular patches 

 of Geraniums at regular distances in the midst, bixt the 

 Cerasti^um is so much taller than the Geraniums, that it 

 quite smothers and hides them. Do you consider the Ceras- 

 tium Biebersteini superior to the C. tomentosum? The 

 foliage is sometimes richer, but the flowers so scattered and 

 few that I cut them off, and doubt about using it further. 



Is it sufficiently ascertained that there is a good Arabis 

 lucida variegata yellow enough to look handsome, and to 

 make it worth inquiring for from nurserymen ? — Agnes. 



[The Cerastium tomentosum is very beautiful when in 

 full bloom, and then it would be apt to dwarf out of sight 

 scarlet Geraniums when first planted out, unless these were 

 very large plants. Even in your case, with circles of Scarlet 

 Geraniums in your six-feet-wide border of Cerastium, the 

 tall flowers of the Cerastium will shade the Geraniums in 

 this scorching weather, and thus do good. The Cerastium, 

 however, makes the most effective bo.dering for scarlets, 

 blues, and purples, after the flowering is over, and the 

 edging is nicely trimmed. One great advantage is, that 

 you may cut it jjretty well as you will. One of the fluest 

 massive edgings we ever saw was at Trentham (see ac- 

 count of that place in Vol. V.) Mr. Tyerman of the Liverpool 

 Botanic Gardens also does it admirably ; but in both these 

 places the mass of white shoots was more valued than the 

 pretty white flowers. In the damp atmosphere of Liverpool 

 Mr. Tyerman cuts the Cerastium close to the ground early 

 in spring, and when it shoots takes it up, divides, and plants 

 in narrow rows, and then it becomes large enough during 

 the iBummer. Our correspondent may therefore be glad 

 rather than otherwise that her Cerastium will be <a better 



edging for small Geraniums without the flowers than with 

 them. 



We like the Cerastium Biebersteini very well, but not 

 better than tomentosum, and the former is not so hardy and 

 will not bear the knife and the shears so well as the latter. 

 In some soils it comes very white, in others and with drip- 

 ping skies it is apt to come greener than tomentosum. Both 

 require bright sun to bring out their pearly whiteness. We 

 have two little gardens on grass, each clump being edged 

 with one or the other of these Cerastiums, and the effect is 

 very pleasing and the saving of other plants in planting is 

 great. The yellow Arabis variegata lucida is very good for 

 small edgings, as distinct for the yellow markings as the 

 other variegated one is for white markings, but both are 

 apt to revert to the green original on good rich soO. It is 

 decidedly worth having.] 



CEYSTAL PALACE EOSE SHOW. 



As might have been expected from the extreme heat and 

 burning sun that we have for some time experienced, the 

 collections of Eoses were both deficient in number and quality 

 as compared with previous years. Leaving to others the 

 task of enumei'ating the prizes, &c., of the general exhibi- 

 tion, I would confine my remarks to the new Eoses of 1S63 

 and 1864, that including, in fact, Eoses from the autumn of 

 1862 to the spring of 1865, as Eoses sent out from France 

 in the autumn of 1862 are not sent out here until 1863, 

 while those of last autumn are included in the lists. 



Messrs. Paul & Son were placed first with a fine selection, 

 and considering the season, an exceedingly well-bloomed 

 collection of the following, of which the finest are marked 

 with an asterisk. *Duchesse de Caylus, Celine Gonod, 

 Jean Goujon, Lady Emily Peel, President Lincoln, *George 

 Prince, Princess of Wales, Bernard Palissy, *Alpaide de 

 Eotalier, Madame Josephine Guyot, *Duo de Bassano, 

 Gustavo Bonnet, *Madame Victor Verdier, Madame Alfred 

 de Eougemont, *Eev. H. Dombrain, *Lord Macaulay, Dr. 

 Audry, Triomphe de Villecresnes, Paul Desgrand, Emotion, 

 Comtesse de Coucy, *Pierre Netting, Louise Damazin, Sou- 

 venir de Comte Montault, Madame Soupert, *Laurent Des- 

 court, *Gabriel Peyronny, Madame de St. Arnaud, *Leopold 

 Premier, Alphonse Belin, *Claude Million, *Lord Herbert, 

 Eugene Verdier, *Hamlet, *Madame Derreulx Douville, 

 Vainqueur de Goliath, Madame de Stella, Jean Touvais, 

 Amiral La Peyrouse, Dr. Spitzer, Pavilion de Pregny, Paul 

 de la Meilleray, *Arles Dufour, Madame C. Doffoz, Abbe 

 Berlese, Louise Margottin, *Madame VaUembourg. Duchesse 

 de Caylus, a seedling of Charles Verdier's, is one of the best 

 Eoses of this season — a lovely pinkish crimson, a shade of 

 colour that we most want ; while of those of last year Ma- 

 dame Victor Verdier and Pierre Notting were the best. 

 Aries Dufour is a fine Eose, while Louise Margottin was the 

 most delicate pink of Bourbons. Gabriel Peyronny and 

 Madame Vallembourg were also fine, as were Hamlet and 

 Lord Herbert, but all of that crimson .shade of which w.e 

 have such an abundance. 



Mr. Keynes, of Salisbury, was second. His Eoses w.ere 

 Louise Van Houtte, *Alpaide de Eotalier, *Prinoe Henri 

 de Pays Bas, *Centifolia rosea, *Baron Pelletan de Kinkelin, 

 Bernard Palissy, Louise Margottin, Emotion, Abbe Eey- 

 nard, Senateur Eeveil, Triomphe de Villecresnes, Eeine de la 

 Pape, *Duchesse de Morny, Macaulay,*ClaudeMillion, *Johu 

 Hopper, Lays, *Eev. H. Dombrain, Jaune d'Or, Kate Haus- 

 burg, Madame de Stella, Alphonse Belin, Gabriel Peyronny, 

 Laurent Descourt, Madame Soupert, Jean Touvais, *Mare- 

 chal Souchet (GuUlot), *Leopold, *Joseph Fiala, *Lord Clyde, 

 Amiral La Peyrouse,*Madame Freeman, Paul de laMielleray,. 

 Abbe Eeynard, Paul Desgrand, Lamartine, Madame Victor 

 Verdier. Of these I have again marked the best ; Duchesse 

 de Morny is a good Eose, Marechal Souchet is a fine dark. 

 Madame Freeman in its expanded state reminds one of Sou- 

 venir de la Malmaison ; Joseph Fiala is a fine large-petaUed 

 Kose ; Claude MiUion, a good dark ; Prince Henri de Pays Bas, 

 a good crimson; and Gentifolia rosea, a fine rose; Baron 

 Pelletan de Kinkelin is a fine rich dark Eose. 



Mr. Cant was third. Amongst his Eoses was a fine Xavier 

 Olibo, a very rich dark colour, adding another to the many 

 good Eosas which Lacharme has given to us. 



