Plate 43. 



GLADIOLUS JUPITER. 



The past season has evidenced the increasing attention that is being given to this 

 beautiful autumnal flower. Never in or near the metropolis have so many collections been 

 brought together, and certainly never have they been of such grand excellence of character, 

 while seedlings of English origin have been exhibited in very large numbers. We last year 

 figured an English seedling, and we have now the pleasure of figuring one of M. Soubit's new 

 varieties of 1871. 



Various communications have been made to the gardening papers on the culture of this 

 flower, and from these we gather the fact, which we have all along felt to be the greatest 

 hindrance to their more general growth, that the mysterious disease to which they are subject 

 is mourned over by almost every grower ; we have seen, thus far, beds more than decimated 

 by it. With our friend Mr. Edward Banks, of Shelden Lodge, Deal — a grower who is not 

 likely, from his well-known services, to have allowed anything to be left to chance, or his 

 bulbs to be lost through ignorance — we saw beds where manure had not been used, beds 

 where the Gladiolus had never been grown before, beds manured with bone dust, all suffering 

 from the disease. We fear that there is no remedy for it; but we think that powdered 

 charcoal placed in the holes, instead of sand, when the bulbs are planted, is likely to act as a 

 preventive. 



Jupiter, when exhibited by Mr. Wheeler, of Warminster, and ourselves at the Crystal 

 Palace Show, received a first-class certificate. In colour it is a deep rich crimson, with 

 dark blackish crimson flashes — a great improvement on Newton, a flower of somewhat similar 

 character, raised some years ago. 



Plate 44. 

 TILLANDSIA LINDENI VERA. 



In the former series of the Floral Magazine we published (p. 529) a figure of the 

 beautiful Tittandsia Lindeni, under which name it had been exhibited ; but during the 

 present season another plant has been exhibited as the true Tittandsia Lindeni by Mr. 

 Linden, of Brussels, and we have been enabled, owing to the kindness of Messrs. Veitch and 

 Sons, of King's Road, Chelsea, to whom it had been consigned by Mr. Linden, to figure it 

 in our present number. 



On comparing our plate with that in our former issue alluded to, it will be seen that there 

 are notable differences. The colour of the flower is an entirely different shade of blue — being 

 much darker. The centre, instead of being white, is of the same colour as the rest of the 

 petals, while the habit of the plant is very dissimilar. In the former case the scape grew 

 erect from the plant, while in the present one it is semi-prostrate. In order to illustrate 

 this difference a small figure of the entire plant has been added to our illustration. 



Tittandsia Lindeni Vera obtained when exhibited a first- class certificate — and deservedly 

 so — from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. Its cultivation in no 

 way differs from that previously described as appropriate for Tittandsia Lindeni — viz., to be 

 grown in spongy peat, with the addition of loam and sand, requiring, like most of the 

 Bromelias — to which it belongs — the heat of a stove. 



