A STERLING NOVELTY. 

 Calceolaria Veitch's Hardy Hybrid "Golden Glory/ 5 



EXTRACTS FROM THE GARDENING PAPERS. 



THE " GARDENER'S CHRONICLE," June 29, 1907, says: 



CALCEOLARIA VEITCH'S HYBRID.—" This plant has been obtained from a 

 cross between C. plantaginea and a variety of the herbaceous section. It is extreme]) 7 

 valuable as a garden plant, having proved hardy in Devonshire, Surrey, Essex, and some other 

 counties. It produces its many-flowered inflorescences very freely, and the flowers, which are 

 of moderate size, are of a brilliant yellow colour, with a few small red spots on the back of 

 the lower lip, which show through. The plants, as shown, had flowers from 12 to 14 inches 

 high, and the foliage very similar in form to that of C. plantaginea. The accompanying 

 illustration at fig. 174 is reproduced from a photograph kindly supplied us by Mr. P. C. M. 

 Veitch, and shows the plants blooming in Messrs. Veitch's nursery in a position in which they 

 have besn planted for two years, during which time they have withstood 18 degrees of frost 

 without receiving protection." 



THE " GARDEN," June 29, 1907, says: 



CALCEOLARIA VEITCH'S HARDY HYBRID— " A showy plant, raised between 

 one of the herbaceous kinds and C. plantaginea. The plant is about 1 foot high, and is said 

 to have withstood 18 degrees of frost." 



THE "GARDENER'S MAGAZINE," November 2, 1907, says: 



CALCEOLARIA GOLDEN GLORY.— " After many experiments Messrs. Robert 

 Veitch & Sons, Exeter, have secured a distinct hybrid race of calceolarias by crossing the 

 herbaceous florists' varieties with the hardy herbaceous Calceolaria plantaginea. The race 

 not only gives distinct and beautiful garden plants, but these have proved hardy in several 

 districts south of the Thames. At Exeter they have stood unprotected through the winter, 

 but they are so charming that if some protection is necessary in exposed gardens and cold 

 districts the trouble incurred will be amply repaid. The plants grow about 18 inches 

 high, at least that is their height when in flower. The somewhat straggling habit of 

 C. plantaginea has been reduced by the sturdier and more shapelier habit of the florists' forms, 

 whils the inflorescence has been amplified and the flowers materially enlarged. The colour 

 varies a little in different seedlings, but as a rule it is bright golden yellow with a few minute 

 red-brown dots. Some idea of the character of this new and very interesting race may be 

 gathered from the accompanying illustration, which shows a plant flowering in the open at 

 the Exeter Nursery this summer, after having stood out unprotected throughout the winter. 

 From the middle of June and to the end of July seems to be the period of flowering." 



For Illustration see opposite page. 



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