June 9, 1S63. ] 



JOCSXAL OF HOKIICrLIU&E AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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In pruning in summer, care should be taken not to start the 

 lower buds ; but if some of the Perpetuals are thus started in 

 autumn — as Geant des Batailles, ic, and ti.e bulk of the 

 Chinese — and the top old shoots are merely pruned away, these 

 young shoots will bloom in ordinary greenhouse temperature 

 without getting any heat worthy of the name of forcing; and 

 by this means, with little trouble and preventing blooming in 

 summer, most of the Chinese section and the hardier of the 

 Teas would bloom ail the winter in a temperature averaging 

 from 45" to 50 ; at night. In priming in autumn, weak growers 

 should be cut pretty close, and strong growers should have the 

 weak twig; either removed or pruned back to a bud ; the 

 stronger well-ripened shoots should merely be stopped a little 

 and bent a little so as to cause the buds to break regularly. 



In winter water should be given only as the plants need it, 

 and never lower in temperature than that of the house. As the 

 leaves expand freely and the buds begin to show, weak manure 

 water may be given alternately with clean water. Very httle 

 water will be required until the young shoots are fairly started. 



Successions will be easier managed than the first lot of early 

 ones. When the plants are done djwering they should be 

 protected in a cold pit until they can be put out of doors in 

 April and Hay. 



Tne more air the plants have after they are started the better, 

 provided the air is moist and mild ; but in winter in very sunny 

 days, when the air is frosty and parehingly dry, it should not 

 play on the young foliage or buds until it has been heated and 

 moistened ; and hence, under ordhury circumstances, it will 

 often be better to shade a little, and damp the floors and stages 

 in such cases instead of giving a great amount of air. 



In most ec.--e; a little greenfly may : c ex reeled, and smoking is 

 the test remedy, though some prefer dr?.wi::g the shoots affected 

 through weak tobacco w-ter and syringing with clean water 

 the following morning. Ihere are also two opposite evils to be 

 guarded against : If the air should be harsh and dry the leaves 

 may have a visit of the red spider, and moisture and the syringe 

 and not too much heat are the preventives. The other is 

 mildew it the weather should be very foggy and moist ; and the 

 remedies are dusting with sulphur, but chiefly a little dry heat, 

 to disperse the fog and promote a brisk circulation of air. 



Does your Cyanophyllum stand near the heating medium and 

 where there is an evaporating-trough ? If so.-and the plant get 

 very dry. tae ieaves would be browned. We have also seen a 

 plant a Httle affected in the same way from the sun beating on it 

 fiercely, when the leaves were damp and air had not been given 

 soon enough in the house. R. Fish. 



PLOEISIS' FLOWEBS 



al ihe eoyal hobiicrltrb-ll society's exhibition. 



Hay 27th. 



"Iterum, Serum, iterumque" one may indeed cry out at this 

 the third great Exhibition held in the merry month of May. 

 Erom the Regent's Park to the Crystal Palace, and thence to 

 Eensington, has been the lot of many an Azalea, Pelargonium, 

 and Rose this season ; until at last we should think, " blushing 

 and suffused with rosy tint" must be descriptive of them all, 

 if they can hear the loud praises bestowed on their personal 

 charms. "What a Up!" " What a lovely form ! " "How deli- 

 cate ! " " Did you ever see so charming a colour ? " heard on all 

 sides from gallant cavaliers and fair maidens — bestowed by 

 royalty, nobility, commoners, and the bourgeoisie, must surely 

 have been too much for even the native modest; of Elora's fair 

 subjects, and leaves but httle after the detail I gave of the Crystal 

 Palace Exhibition for me to say. What can 1 say, for instance, 

 in Pelargoniums, but that Air. Turner with the selfsame plants 

 took as usual first prizes, and the Messrs. Eraser a good second 

 — that the Roses ot Messrs. Lane and Air. Wm. Paul were again 

 very nearly matched, but that the freshness end novelty of the 

 latter s gained for him the fir=t place — that Tulips and Pansies not 

 coming within the patronage of the Society were absent, with 

 the exception of some sent by one or two growers for sale — 

 that the same seedling Pelargoniums were there as at the Palace, 

 and placed very much in the same position as they were then 

 placed? 



There were, however, two collections, which, although not 

 amoD^st florists' flowers, were to my mind as interesting as 

 anything there — Alessrs. Ivery's collection of British Ferns, 

 and MrT Salter's of variegated plants. Anything more delight- 

 fully fresh than the former collection it is impossible to conceive ; 



and I question if a collection of exotic Ferns would exhibit more 

 beautiful and varied forms than did this of native species. 

 Messes. Ivery are so well known for the magnificent collection 

 in their possession, that we need hardly say that rarity and ex- 

 cellence of cultivation characterised their productions. I noticed 

 amongst them especially the following: — Aspleniurn marinum ; 

 Allosorus crispus ; Athyrium Filix-fcemina apuacforme, crispum, 

 depaupera'uni, diffbum, Fieldiae, Frizelliae, lnolle incisum, multi- 

 fidnm, p'.umosum, thyssanotum ; Ceterach otfic.narum ; Cysto- 

 pteris irsgilis ; Lastrea Filix-mas crispa, cristata, incisa, Jervisii; 

 Osmundi regalis : Polypodium dryopteris; Polystichum angu- 

 lare proliferum; Scolopendrium vulgare ciispum, endivke folium, 

 fissum, multifidum, ramosum, corymbiferum majus. In Mr. 

 Salter's collection of variegated plan's —ere Fuukia undu'-ata 

 variegata ; and variegated forms of Acer negundo, Heiera helix, 

 Rata graveolens, Scrophularia nodosa, Hesperis arabidaefolia, 

 Tussilago farfara, Salix caprea, Spirtea uhnaria, fto. This col- 

 lection was also a hardy one, and thus suggested how much 

 may be done in adorning our gardens with this section of 

 ornamental-foliaged plants. 



As there are many who are interestrd in the Pelargonium I 

 give here the names of the winning plants, although it is nearly 

 a repetition of those of the Crystal Palace. Air. Turner was 

 first in 12 Show Pelargoniums wi:h Fairest of the Fair, Boseum, 

 Desdemona, Bacchus, Rose Celestial, Guillaume Severyns, Sun- 

 set, Tjjy Taunton, Tiola, Empress Eugene, Candidate, and 

 Picnic : the Messrs. Eraser second with Carlos, Desdemona, 

 Sir Charles icTapier, Sanspareii, Roseleaf, Leviathan, Air. Mar- 

 nock, Etna, Ariel, Eestus, Sarace::, Empress Eugenie. Amongst 

 Amateurs — for Eaucies, Air. Weir, gardener to Mrs. Hodgson, 

 the Eiins. Hampstead, we.s y with Delieatum, Le.iy 



Hume Campbell, Hadame Sontag, Emily, Csrminatum. 



In Fancy Pelargoniums Air. Turner was again first with Cloth 

 of Silver, Roi des Fantaisies, Lady Crave::, Clemanthe, Deiiea- 

 tutn, Ellen Beck ; and the Messrs. Eraser second with Acme, 

 Celestial, Clara LSovello, Cloth of Silver, Bridesmaid, and Mul- 

 tirlora. 



Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Air. Bull sent collections of 

 new hybrid Alimulus and Zonale Geraniums. Amorgst the 

 Messrs. Hendersons' were some pretty tricolor-leaved varieties — 

 Italia Eoiia, Sunset, Mrs. Pollock, and Countess. Mr. Standish 

 again had his new Japanese Cienia'ises ; but novelties were, as 

 yeu justly said last week, not very numerous. 



What, then, about the Exhibition as a whole per se, and as 

 compared with the others of the season ? This must be a matter 

 of taste ; but for beauty of appearance I question whether the 

 palm will not be universally given to the KoyaJ Botanic Society. 

 And as to the plants there can be but little difference : the same 

 exhibitors and the same plants are to be noticed at all of them, 

 and arrangement must decide the preference. It seemed to me to 

 be a great mistake, for instance, not to have had a slight covering 

 of tiffany over the plants. It need not have been an awning ; 

 but a semicircular canopy springing from the back of the stages, 

 and just reaching over the plants, would have greatly improved 

 their appearance ; for not only did the light deaden the colours, 

 but the immense size of the buildinj dwarfed the plants. A 

 slight tiffany shading would have neutralised these effects. The 

 wideness of the nave gave an excellent opportunity for moving 

 about, which was increased considerably by the, to my mind, 

 unfortunate arrangement of separating the music in toto from 

 the flowers. If one band had been stationed at the majolica 

 fountain, and the other left in the gardens, it would have en- 

 hanced the Exhibition vastly, instead of, as it did completely, 

 cutting the matter in two. — D., Deal. 



REDISCOVERY in ENGLAND of TEICHOXLANES 

 RADICALS. 



WttTi you afford me space in your Journal for the announce- 

 ment of my having discovered the Triehomanes radicans, or 

 European Bristle Fern, in the neighbourhood of the Suowdon 

 range in North Wales ? 



This may be interesting to your readers who take pleasure in 

 the cnitivation of Ferns, as there is no record of its having been 

 found in England, Scotland, or Wales since the year 17S2, in 

 which year it was found at Binglev, in Yorkshire. 



The only recorded habitats of this beautiful Fern which bring 

 it within the category of British Ferns are some few places in. 

 the lake district of Ireland and in the county Wicklow. 



