GARDENERS' MAGAZINE 



New Plants, Flowers, F 



VEGETABLES. 



Violas. 



AND 



The trial of violas at Chiswick was examined by the Floral Committee on the 5th 

 mst, when the "following varieties received .three marks ( x x x), whrch may be 



rC SS free flowering rayless viola ; 



flowers ^"est cVeam colour, well formed and very fragrant ; a rather large 



very 



dwarf 



robust : flowers large, bright rosy-lilac ; lower 



form 



seementrshaded with white at the base, and having a tew violet ra> 

 Tackanates.— This is a popular viola in many gardens by reason 

 of flowering, dwarf habit, and bright blooms ; the latter have the two upper petals 



rich crimson, and the others yellow. . 



/ B Riding, a handsome viola as long as it keeps true ; dwarf m habit and 

 free flowering ; flowers of good shape, rosy-plum colour very effective. 



Sir Robert Pullar, a splendid bedding variety of robust habit, and producing 

 plenty of large purplish-blue flowers that are carried well above the foliage. 1 he 

 foregoing were received from Mr. Forbes, Hawick, N.B. 



Countess of Hopetoun, one of the best of the white violas for bedding purposes, 

 good constitution ; flowers abundant and of good shape. 



Bullion, a very dwarf and compact habited viola producing an abundance ot 

 medium sized deep golden-yellow flowers, rayed with very dark crimson. 



Marchioness is a beautiful viola with soft white flowers that have a yellow eye ; 

 the habit is good, the flowers large and freely borne on long stalks ; a grand 



bedder. . 

 Mrs. H. Bellamy, a handsome form with rounded flowers; three lower 



segments deep violet ; two upper ones violet at the base, but with a very pale 



blue border. - , 



Zona, an effective viola, dwarf and free, upper segments blue with darker 



veins ; side segments blue with violet basal blotches ; lower segment violet with a 



central blue segment. 



Mrs. C. F. Gordon.— This is coloured much as is Iona, save that the blue is 



very pale, almost lilac in some flowers. 



Duchess of Fife, a free flowering fancy viola, upper segments creamy, bordered 

 with blue, three lower segments yellow, with a very irregular blue border ; very 

 showy. 



Hamish, a pretty viola with rounded flowers ; the three lower segments are 

 deep rosy-purple, the upper segments much paler. 



Princess Louise, a dwarf grower, but producing a profusion of soft canary 

 yellow flowers that are mostly rayless ; flowers rather small. 



Blue Gown, a splendid bedding viola of very dwarf habit, fine for carpeting. 

 Flowers soft blue, freely borne just above the foliage. The foregoing ten were 

 received from Messrs. Dobbie and Co., Rothesay. 



Lettuce Crystal Palace. 



A large and early cabbage lettuce of the Drumhead type, but a fortnight earlier 

 than that form. It produces fine solid hearts, crisp and tender, and of good 

 flavour. Colour pale green, leaves with crenate margins. A.M., R U.S., July 5. 

 Messrs. Watkins and Simpson, Neal Street, Long Acre. 



Strawberry Reward. 



A second early strawberry of moderate growth, producing, this season, a 

 moderate crop of medium-sized oblong fruits that are bright scarlet both outside 

 and in. The flavour is very fine, reminding one of the pine. A.M., R.H.S., 

 July 5. Messrs. Laxton Brothers, Bedford. 



. • : • •• '\\ •■ -^y^- Peas. % 



Thos. Laxton. — This is a straight-podded variety with well-filled pods of 

 wrinkled deep green and very sweet peas. It is a good cropper, early, and grows 



about three and a-half feet high ; haulm strong. A.M., R.H.S., July 5. Messrs. 

 Laxton Brothers. 



Dt ununomfs New Pea.— A heavy cropping early pea, bearing pods in pairs ; 

 peas bright green, sweet, and highly fUvoured. Moderate in growth ; about four 

 and a-half feet in height. A.M., R.H.S., July 5. Messrs. W. Drummond and 

 Sons, Dawson Street, Dublin. 



l atch's Acme.— This grows about three feet high, and has produced a very 

 heavy crop at Chiswick ; the pods are in pairs and well filled with large deep 

 green peas of excellent flavour. ~* ' - - - ~. - 



and Vcitch's Extra Early. 

 Chelsea. 



The variety was produced by crossing Stratagem 

 A.M., R.H.S , July 5. Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, 



Strawberry Veitch's Prolific. 



A good mid-season strawberry, vivid scarlet in colour, wedge-shaped, and of 

 large size. It is a grand cropper, and produces luscious, highly-flavoured, white- 

 fleshed fruits. The variety is the result of crossing British Queen with Empress 

 of India. F.C.C., R.H.S., July 12. Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. 



Sensation Cucumber. 



A fine cucumber, much fleshed, of good size, and blunt ended; previously 

 described in these columns. ~ ~ " ~ ~~ ' 



Farnham 



F.C.C., R.H S., July 12. Mr. S. Mortimer 



Rose Edith Turner. 



A beautiful h. p. rose, with large, slightly-pointed flowers of a delicate blush 

 colour, and dehciously scented. The petals are very broad and full, margins 

 rounded. A.M., R.H.S., July 12. Mr. C. Turner, Slough. 



Rose Perle des Rouges. 



This is a beautiful polyantha rose, exceedingly free-flowering and producing 



11 ncn crimson flowers, the bases of the segments being 

 A.M., R.H.S., July 12. Messrs. W. Paul and Son, 



shaded with deep rose. 

 Waltham Cross. 



ABIES PUNGENS GLAUCA PENDULA. 



This is a graceful drooping form of f 

 of Parry's abies or Abies pungens. Th( o __ 

 gether the plant is a most beautiful one 

 deservedly popular. F.C.C., R.H.S., 

 Hollandia Nurseries, Boskoop, Holland. 



>ne and a variety iffX^-** 

 July 12. Messrs. Kost- --^ me 



er and Co. 



Carnations. 



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 Ta Pt*r, Sun. 



Sundridge, a lovely soft crimson-scarlet variety with flattie n„ 

 of broad and rounded petals. A.M., R.H.S., Tulv 12 Mr v 

 dridge Park. ' ' * ' 



Nell Gwynne, a fine and full white carnation, free in hahii „j -.v . 

 edges to the petals. A.M., R.H.S., July 12. MrT^ta\^1i^ 



Mrs. Martin Smith, a magnificent malmaison carnation with 1 

 rose flowers that have broad petals of the finest substance. The haWr of a ! ery 

 is good, both strong and free. c naDK 01 «« plant 



Calypso _ is another of the Hayes seedlings, a malmaison carnadon of the fine* 

 quality having fine big white flowers with the petals delicately veined and \ 

 with deep red. A.M., R.H.S , to each. Mr. C. Blick, tf to "W 

 Smith, Esq., Hayes, Kent. 6 10 OTarUn «• 



Kalanchce flammea. 



This new succulent has been referred to in our columns (G. M August u 

 1897, p. 497). in connection with its flowering for the first time at Kew The 

 species was discovered by Mrs. Lort Phillips and Miss Edith Cole in SoroaWand 

 and they sent seeds to Kew in May, 1895. The plant is dwarf, as compared with 

 some other species, growing only about a foot high ; the stems and the obovate 

 leaves are pale-greyish green, the latter being about three inches long by nearly 

 two inches across. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbose cyme, four to five 

 inches in length and breadth, bearing a large number of flowers, each half an inch 

 long by three-quarters of an inch across ; tube pale yellow ; spreading, four-lobed 

 mouth, vivid orange-red. Kalanchce flammea appears likely to make a more 

 popular plant, horticulturally, than any of the other species cultivated. Bot Mar 



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AUSTR 



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Amongst all the real old-fashioned summer flowering roses, none are so 

 beautiful and distinct as the Austrian Briars, and . although they may 

 claim to be amongst the earliest roses cultivated in our English gardens, 

 yet even to-day we have no varieties that excel them in the beauty of 

 the colouring of their flowers. Some twenty years ago these briar roses 

 had almost gone out of cultivation, and were only occasionally found in 

 old gardens and seldom seen quoted in rose catalogues ; indeed, the 

 writer well remembers a bunch of the Copper variety being exhibited at 

 one of the Royal Horticultural Society's meetings, when at least one 

 well-known rosarian acknowledged that he had not seen it before. Now, 

 thanks to the growing taste for garden and old-fashioned roses, which 

 has been helped by the classes introduced, and the exhibits at the 

 National Rose and other shows, and these and many other beautiful old 

 varieties, which had almost been forgotten, are again being fairly dis- 

 tributed amongst rose collection. . . 



Of the Austrian Briars, as generally known, there are four varieties 

 —two single and two double forms. The single varieties being Rosa lutea, 

 the Yellow Austrian Briar, and Rosa punicea, the Copper Austrian Briar. 

 These two varieties have been known in England for upwards of three 

 hundred years, and are also found growing wild in some parts of Europe. 

 Rosa lutea is of a beautiful clear, rich shade of yellow, quite distinct in 

 shade to any other single or double variety. R. punicea, the copper- 

 coloured variety, is of a coppery orange-scailet in colour, with shadea 

 under petals, the tints running one into the other, so much so that it i» 

 difficult to describe the gorgeous blending of those rich colours wnicn 

 make this one of the most distinct roses known. Both of these single 

 varieties flower very early, sometimes soon after the middle ot May, ana 

 when grown in quantity are most useful for supplying cut flowers, uw 

 unique shades of colour rendering them most popular with laaies iui 

 vases and table decorations. . <T n 



The double varieties are Harrisoni and Persian Yellow 

 known as_Austrian Briars, neither of these varieties onginatea 

 Europe. 



cross between mica anu a ol^u. - . YpI i 0W was 



In colour it is of a fine clear golden-yellow. The Persian * 

 sent to England from Persia by Sir Harry Willock in 1837- " 1S acc *~ 

 in colour than Harrisoni, not quite so large, but more double. 



ian briars are extremely hardy, and do remarkably **« 



with proper treatment, in the most exposed positions. . 1 j 

 perhaps, prefer a dry soil. One occasionally hears complaints o 

 not flowering^and this in most instances is to be traced to warn 1 



in pruning. ™ 11 

 should not be 



Although 



in 



> Austrian tfriars, neitner 01 uie&c van^^ ~--o . 

 The first named was raised in America, and is said J 

 .een Rosa lutea and a Scotch Briar. It was introduced inj^ 



The Austr 



These varieties, like many other summer-flov,er.ng 



j pruned at all in the spring ; it must always be . bor " e and 



that they bloom entirely upon the growth made the P^^"Js;!L lv '^cr 

 even to top the shoots is to cut away the flower. *£™5£ shortened, 

 flowering is the time to prune, the old shoots should tnen dc : ^ 

 some of them cut away altogether, and fresh growth encouraged 

 the flowering shoots for the following season's bloom. bedding 

 All the Austrian briars are very effective for grouping ano^ ^ {m 



A , , Asplenium ornatum. All the Austrian briars are very effective for grouping an ^ 



fronl'tW^i r dw «f-growing spleen wort, with very deep bronzy-green w »ere rich effect in early summer is desired. P*°P™J£ down, will 



?S? plant andLt ^£^^*}^»*J™ <™ £i*jSS P Ianted **ether, and the long .shoots pegged^ do ^ 



May, Edmonton. 



arm ror use as a « vanciy pianrea together, ana xne rung r ^" hnrae r tau 



F.C.C., R.H.S,, flower from every joint, and are most showy in the rose ou weep _ 



A Sweet Peas. 



streaked with * pink **** ™& bold standard.'veined and 



and^whgs f tee? C&^JT ' £5 T eral shadeS ° f blue fa Ae standard 

 July 12. g Mr. F. S ffier Ha vSt gIeemsh -y ellow - A.M., R.H.S. to each, 



"""" _ every joint, and are most miuwj ^ ~~ - form wee p- 



standards of all the varieties, with the shoots tied to wires i fof Jate 

 rag roses, are very novel and striking ; and even as por p j g shoots 

 spring flowering in the conservatory, if suitable plants i wu and tied 

 are selected in the autumn and potted, the shoots Dem^ f oyered ^th 



round small stakes, beautiful little specimens, which win u 



flower, may be had in March and April. 



Bath, 



w. F. Coot 



