Dkckmber 14, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



955 



A FINE 

 LATE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



1 white-flowered, free-growing ehrysau- P^Jj^ion 8nou:<i be provKleU early in life 



i.... hloom.^ nntTn-.rllv \n T)L^^. f^ltliough not otten chosen as a hedge phxnt 



centuries. It may be easily inoreas^Hl hy 

 cuttings, but is difficult to transplant, ex- 

 cept when small, therefore a permanent 

 posit 



inch wide, green above and glaucous 



the under surface of t4ie le 



and 



themiuii that blooms naturally in Decem- 

 Kpr. that finds sufficient accommodation 



potj won't be hurried 



aio 



a small -±o ^^iz.^^ i^^, ^^^^ ^ x.^x^ ^^^ .xx..^ eloselv 

 Woom, and ^'ke^^ps' well, is a treasure. 



purpose, and is 

 •y effective, especially when not clipi)e<l 



There is a variety with white 



Such a variety is the one exhibited so finely 

 on Tuesday, December 4, at the lloyal 

 Horticultural Hall, Westminster, hy Air. 

 6 Cradduck, gardener to Colonel M. Lock- 

 wood, C.V.O., M.P., Bishop's Hall, Rom- 

 ford. Ahout forty plants were exhibite<l, 

 and every one was as perfect a pot plant as 

 could be wished. Mr. Cradduck, who has 

 kindly promised to send ns a few^ cultural 

 notes, confesses that he is not sure what 

 the variety is. The R.H.S. Floral Com- 

 mittee awarded a cultural commendation, 

 and labelled the variety Mrs, Swinburn. 

 This committee rarely makes a mistake, hut 

 on this occasion, w^e ''had oor doots,'' as 

 to the correctness of the name. Mr. W. 

 Wells, Mr. W. Wells, jun., Mr. W. J. God- 

 frey Mr. J. B. Riding, and others ex- 

 pressed themselves as quite certain that 

 the variety was Maud Jefferies. iMr. Crad- 

 duck told ns that, to his knowledge, he 

 had not had the variety Mrs. Swinburn at 

 Bishop's Hall Grardens, and that his >dauts, 

 whatever the name, were produced Iroui 

 one that appeared in a stock of Money- 

 maker. The .variety is such a desirable o^ne, 

 especially as grow^n by Mr. Cradduck, that 

 the correct name is very desirable. 



of 



garden- 

 evei'greeii leaves, 



THE PYRACANTHAS. 



Pyracantha, the " Buisson ardent 

 Southern Europe, is familiar to 

 lovers by reason of its 

 white flowers, and r>howy orange-scarlet 

 fruit, for, in addition to being exceedingly 

 useful for clothing walls^ it grows into a 

 good-sized bush in the open border, and 

 fruits equally freely in either position . 

 Th ere a r e , however, two othoi 



species 



which are classed with it, on account of 

 their structural pe^'iiliarities being similar, 

 which are less w^ell-known. The three plants 

 have given a considerable amount ot diffi- 

 culty to botanists, for they appear to con- 

 nect the two genera Crataegus and coton- 

 i aster, but do not agree entirely with either 

 one. They have, therefore^ been placed 

 ulternately in hoth families, whilst Linnseus 

 included pyracantha under mespilus, and 

 Koemer raised it to generic rank, making it 

 Pyracantha coccinea. Amongst present- 

 day botanists there appears to be a disposi- 

 tion to follow Roemer, for Schneider adopts 

 the generic name of pyracantha for the 

 gi'oup, and the species angustifolia appears 

 ill the "Botanical Magazine" under that 

 name. All three species are evergreen, but 

 ilie European one appeam to be hardier 

 than the other two which are natives of 

 the Himalaya and 6hina respectively. P. 

 c-renulata, a Himalayan shrub or low tree, 

 has much in common with the ordinary 

 pyracantha, for its evergreen leaves are 

 ^'^ry similar iu size and general appear- 

 ance, whilst its fruits, though perhaps a 

 little smaller, are the same shade of colour. 



may be planted against a wall or in the 

 ^^pen border in the southern counties. 

 . P. coccinea, or Crataegus pyracantha as 

 ^t has been called, may he expected to grow 

 twi^lve or fifteen feet high in the open 

 K''f>'Uid about London and taller against a 

 ^^''^11. Its common name of Fire Thorn is 



fruits, and another variety, Lelandi, which 

 has larger fruits than the type. P. angus- 

 tifolia is the third and most recent intro- 

 duction. A native of China, it lias been 

 met with by soA^eral travellers, tlie Abbe 



an 



belo\\ , 



the young wood being densely pubescent. 

 The white flowers appear about May, and 



suceeded by orange-colourtHl fruits, 

 which ripen during autumn. Jt is not suffi- 

 ciently hardy for culture iu the open 

 gromul about London, but thrives against a 

 wall. Plants Ivave been known to live 

 through a winter or two fully exp<Ksed, but, 

 as a rule, they are seriously injured, if not 

 killcil : thcrefine, it is as woW to be on the 

 »afe side, and ihv ]>rotection of a 



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B.M.562 



CHRYSANTHEMUM MAUD 



JEFFERIES (OR 



PLANT. 



MBS, SWINBURN?) AS A POT 



A white variety, very finely grown in small 4^)-sized pots by Mr. Cradduck, gardener to 



Colonel M. Lockwood C.V.O., M.P., at Bishop's Hall, Romford. 



for the fiery colour of its 

 '"'• rips >Hggost the first part, and its thorny 

 TaiU'lios the latter. A common tree or 

 '^'^''ge bush in SouthiM-n Europe, it has hrvw 



occupant of our ii,ar<lcus for nearly three which are up 



Delavay being said to have been the first 

 to collect it about thirty years ago. Fran- 

 chet, who has named many of the French 

 collectors' plants, called it Cotoneaster an- 

 gustifolia, and under this name it was first 

 cultivated at Ix^s Barres by M. L. de Vil- 

 morin, who is said to have received seeds 

 from Eastern Tibet in 1895. Four years 

 later seeds were received at Kcw irom Eieu- 

 icnant Jones, an<l the plant is now tairly 

 well known, 'it differs l ioiu the other pyi a- 

 canthas hv its longer and iiarrowci- loaves. 



wall when iir>t i>lanting. In the gardens of 

 the south-west counties, however, it may 

 be expected to thrive as a hush in the 

 open or in a shruhbei y. • I^- 



to two inches lon'j; ami hali 



Berberis Wilsonae.— This must be 



regarded as the l>est of all the n<?w Chinese 

 barl^erries, as it forms a handsome, grace- 

 fully-disposed shrub, and the autumnal crop 

 berries and decaying leaves are both 

 Inight. It is of refi.ned appearance, and 

 worthy of ranking with the most select of 

 outdoor feliru])s. — W. T. 



