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GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



New Plants, Flowers, and Fruit. 



On July 27 the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society met at the 

 Chiswick Gardens to examine the extensive trial of annuals there conducted, and 

 also to make such awards as seemed necessary to meritorious annuals, cannas, 

 sweet peas, carnations, and violas. A large amount of work was done, and the 

 committee awarded three marks to quite a number of subjects. The carnations 

 were all seedling forms, raised from seed sent by Mr. J. Douglas, and now 

 flowering for the second time at Chiswick ; the names were given by the com- 

 mittee. Judging from the amount of layering that is being done now, we presume 

 the Council intends to place carnations upon the next distribution list. 



Cannas. 



La France —This has immense flowers, nearly six inches across, with broad, 

 drooping segments ; the colour is deep carmine, heavily veined and shaded with 

 crimson scarlet ; the foliage is dark purple, x x x at Chiswick, July 27. Messrs. 



J. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. 



Reichskanzler Furst Hohenlohe. — A handsome large-petalled variety, with 

 pale lemon-yellow ground colour, freely shaded and streaked with golden yellow ; 

 the small segments in the centre are speckled with vivid scarlet, x x x July 27. 



Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons. 



Hofgartendirector JVendland. — A most brilliant crimson-scarlet flower, with 

 golden margins to the segments ; fine truss and bold flowers, x x x July 27. 

 Mr. Pfitzer, Stuttgart. 



Chiswick King. — This is a very handsome and large-flowered canna, raised at 

 Chiswick by Mr. S. T. Wright, the society's superintendent. It has very broad 

 petals that are of a very rich and deep orange-scarlet colour suffused with crimson. 

 Segments bold and substantial, x x x July 27. Royal Horticultural Society. 



Antirrhinums. 



Dwarf Yellow is a fine strain, the plants making bushy specimens, growing 

 about twelve or fourteen inches high, and bearing sturdy spikes of large and deep 

 yellow flowers, x x x July 27. Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons. 



The Moor is a dwarf-growing antirrhinum bearing long spikes of very deep and 

 dark crimson flowers. This and the above provide a strong contrast. x x x 

 July 27. Mr. W. Marshall, Bexley. 



Violas. 



Marchioness. — A lovely white bedding variety with small, yellow eye. The 

 flowers are almost entirely rayless ; fragrant and free. A.M., R.H.S., July 27. 

 Messrs. Dobbie and Co., Rothesay, and Mr. J. Forbes, Hawick. 



The Meams. — This is a well-known variety, with the three lower petals rich 

 violet-purple, and the upper two soft lilac shaded with violet. x x x July 27. 

 Mr. Forbes, Hawick. 



Bridegroom. — A very pretty viola, lilac with deapar veins, rayless, yellow eye, 

 very free and dwarf, x x x July 27. Mr. J. Forbes. 



Gipsy Queen. — A curiously streaked variety, having irregular bluish markings 

 on a white or pale bluiih ground. A variable form, x x x July 27. Messrs. 

 Dobbie and Co. 



Border Carnations, 



Firefly , rich rosy-scarlet, a soft shade ; very fine and vigorous. 



Rosy Morn, a pretty flower, fringed petals, deep rose, with a distinct red 

 suffusion. 



Cygnet is pure white with a silvery hue ; very fragrant and free, and a non- 

 burster. 



Black Douglas is an intense marone-crimson flower, fringed edges, and a 

 non -burster. 



Goletta is very distinct and effective, broad petals, white, heavily flaked and 

 streaked with deep rose and soft red. 



Lady Primrose is well named, the flowers being of a pretty primrose-yellow 

 shade ; very free and strong, x x x to each, at Chiswic k, July 27. Mr. James 

 Douglas, Great Bookham. \ 



Candytuft Rose Cardinal. 



This grows about twelve inches high, and makes pretty bushy plants that carry 

 an abundance of deep rose-coloured flowers on stout trusses, x x x July 27. 

 Messrs. Watkins and Simpson. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA MANDARIN. 



A brilliant annual, growing about fifteen inches high and carrying a wonderful 



crop of deep orange-yeilow flowers. x x x July 27. Messrs. Watkins and 

 Simpson. 



Gypsophila 



This is pure white form, producing its stellate flowers on graceful and light 

 growths, xxx July 27, Messrs. Watkins and Simpson. 



Messrs. Watkins and Simpson 



Papaver Danebrog. 



and the upper 

 high. xxx 



A large- flowered poppy, with the base of the flower white 

 part deep scarlet ; very effective ; about two and-a-half feet 

 July 27. Messrs. Watkins and Simpson. 



Poppies. 



Cardinal has big double scarlet flowers lightly striped with white ; the promi- 

 nent petals are laciniate. This grows about one and a-half feet high. xxx 

 July 27. Messrs. Watkins and Simpson. 



White Swan, very handsome, double, and with immense full and pure white 



blooms ; two and a-half feet high. xxx Tuly 27. Messrs. Watkins and 

 Simpson. 



. Leptosiphon roseus. 



This is a pretty dwarf annual with pretty and narrow leafage, and bearing a 

 protusion of small but brilliant rose-coloured flowers. The plants form dense 

 specimens about four inches high, and these are admirably suited for bedding or 

 cSSf R.H.S., July 27, at Chiswick. Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, 



xxx 



A handsome 

 coloured flowers, 

 rate plant. 

 Chelsea. 



Rosea a! ha, a fine 

 profusion of flowers t 

 *one round the eye 

 Sons. 



Clarkia elegans rosea. 



ne-nowered annual, producing masses of brilliant rose- 

 jrows about eighteen inches high, and is altogether a first- 

 at Chiswick, July 27. Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, 



Godetias. 



5* Rrtt ab <>ut eighteen inches high, and bearing a 

 „ are ot a d ehcate and soft rose hue save for a dark rose 

 x * at Chiswick, July 27. Messrs. J. Veitch and 



AU6C « 13, 1898. 



Gloriosa is a dwarf form, not exceeding a foot in h ' h 

 imson with central purple shading, xxx Messrs ^ v \ fl ? wers ^gc, dark 



ason witti central purpie snaaing. xxx Mess™ t v V A " wcrs ^rge, 

 La Belle is less than a foot high and carries 7£o&^^a"? Sons ' 



flowers shaded with rose. 



Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons 



Whitneyi grows about fifteen inches high, and has dull 

 tinged m the centre with rose. - - - - 



xxx July ». 



xxx Tuly~27 MesTr, T V ™T° n flow «». 

 'Brilliant has deep and bright crimson' flowers, eachS^ \^1 S ° \- 

 grows about ten inches high, x x x July 27. Messrs. Watkin Tand sim,!^ 

 Fairy Queen produces its white flowers, blotched with red t^ 0 ' 



It is a very dwarf variety of great merit, x x x July 27 Messrf w^ 00 ' 

 Simpson. J u / Messrs. Watkins u»i 



Duchess of Albany has delicate rosy-blush flowers when first expounded 



snnn turn whifp ? a v*rv frp#» fr>rr« v. w t t <=*puuriaea, 



these soon turn white ; a very free form, xxx July 27. 

 and Simpson. 



Viscaria cardinalis fulgens. 



Watkins 



y A T lu r ueberves more extended cultivation. The 

 blooms are of a deep and handsome crimson scarlet hue and produced wrh Z 

 utmost freedom, xxx July 27. Messrs. Watkins and Simpson. 



Alyssum maritimum minimum. 



b A very dwarf annual, about four inches high, spreading habit, and covered 

 with white flowers, xxx July 27. Messrs. R. Veitch and Sons, Exeter. 



Cypripedium Olivia. 



b A pretty hybrid with pink petals that are lightly dotted with purple and veined 

 with deep rosy-red. The broad dorsal sepal is white at the apex and sides, has a 

 greenish central tinge, and upright lines of reddish-rose. The full lip is'almt 

 white, the upper surface bein - flushed and veined with rose ; the infolding lobes 

 are heavily speckled with red. The plant is the result of crossing C. tonsum * 

 C. concolor, the former being the seed parent. A.M., R.H.S., August 9. 

 Messrs. H. Low and Co., Enfield. 



Sobralia Sanderiana. 



A very fine sobralia with soft lilac sepals and deep purplish rose petals. The 

 lip is large, having an intense orange throat surrounded by a fine broad border of 

 deepest rose, suffused with rich rosy-crimson. A.M., R.H.S., August 9. Mr. 

 Ballantine, gardener to Baron Schroder, Esq., The Dell, Egham. 



Van da Batemanni. 



This stately plant is not often seen in flower ; it has a long, erect scape that 

 will carry as many as twenty flowers, these expanding in succession from the base 

 upward. The flowers are about two and a-half inches across ; the petals are thk 

 rather narrow, fleshy, falcate, yellow, spotted with crimson, but purplish at the 

 back. The sepals are similar in shape and colour. Lip triangular, purplish- 

 crimson with a ridged and incurving front lobe. The flowers continue in good 

 condition for a very long time. A.M., R.H.S., August 9. Mr. C. Saltci 

 gardener to T. B. Haywood, Esq., Woodhatch, Reigate. 



Carnation Nox. 



A very fine self or border variety, with large shapely blooms of the 

 intense blackbird-crimson colour, a shade that suggested the name of the 

 variety. A. M. , R. H. S., August 9. Mr. James Douglas, Edenside, Great Book- 

 ham, Surrey. 



Nelumbium nuciferum speciosum. 



This has huge double flowers of a soft creamy-white colour. The outerrow 

 of segments are very broad, but the numerous petaloid stamens are much smauo 

 and less shapely, but make up a full flower. The leafage is very large 1 

 F.C.C., R.H.S., August 9. Mr. O. Thomas, Royal Gardens, Windsor. 



IV. B. Child 



Gladioli. 



lower 



segments having very decided scarlet shading, while the lip has a creamy »~ 

 A.M., R.H.S., August 9. Messrs. Kelwayand Son, Langport. .„ tf j*i 



A.M.. 



j showy 



segments of a rich blood-red hue, shaded at the base with ye 1 ' 0 *'**"*"* 11 ^-— 



Lemomei Baron J. Hulot.—K most distinct form, with violet-b ue no 

 the lower segments are heavily suffused with intense purple bl "*\. 

 R.H.S., August 9, to each of the last two. Mr. M. Prichard, Chnitdraie* 



FURCR.EA WATSONIANA. , 



A handsome plant with leaves nearly two feet^ long and three men ^ ^ ^ 

 The centre of the leaf is greyish-green, with a ' J ~—«v. 

 side : then comes a VinVht nr<»n anrl otl 



Nymph^ea ignea. 



of hardy «» 



lilies. 



One of the darkest or deeDest coloured varieties of the new race ^ 



of a deep and 



" * ; rose uui«- 



>loured. • 



August 9.. Mr. J. Garrett7gardener to A. B. Freeman-Mitford, fcjq 



It has fairly large flowers that are ot a aeep ^~:- nte A with - „ 

 when fully expanded ; the outer segments are very dark rose u» R.II.S 



finely coloured. A£» i 



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Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucester. 



Cypripedium Mrs. Reginald Young. 



An extremely quaint and yet handsome cypriped ium ' obtai ^ , 



Lowi with C. Sanderiana. Two flowers were borne : on he J" 3rc ^ 1^ 

 their long drooping petals were great attractions. » ne lf _j ,hen di**T 



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rose below and behind ; column green and hirsute ; » { x ~ ?u l 

 F.C.C., R.H.S., June 28. Messrs. H. Low and Co., Bush hi 



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