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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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In the last class are placed the two small Indian Chrysanthemums, 
and for many years after we hear nothing more of this small-flower¬ 
ing species. 
Ihere is no necessity to point out that up to this period the 
Chrysanthemum bore no specific name, but was distinguished either 
by its form or colour, and a great deal of uncertainty was felt as to 
possibility of giving the varieties the real Chinese names with any 
expectation of being correct. Many of these names were curious and 
fanciful, and it was considered if they could have been adopted they 
might have afforded a variation in the nomenclature of those days as 
well as relieve the florists from some perplexity in giving names 
derived from the colours of blooms, a difficulty which they all agreed 
would greatly increase upon them as the number of their collections 
increased. — C. Harman Payne. 
(To be continued.) 
THE GARDENER’S PORTABLE FRAME. 
Amongst the numerous exhibits of well-constructed frames and 
houses at the Bath and West of England Show, Brighton, recently, 
much attention was attracted to the portable frames shown by Messrs. 
Wright & Holmes, 333, Moseley Road, Birmingham, of which an illus¬ 
tration is given in fig. 125. They possess several important advantages, 
one of the most important being the readiness with which the lights 
can be turned back to admit of any necessary operations being performed 
without the trouble of pulling them off or of propping them up. Each 
frame has two glass ends. They are well ventilated ; air is admitted at 
two different levels through the patent iron ventilators at the bottom— 
best late Cauliflowers in cultivation. Asa late sort there is none to equal, 
far less excel, the Autumn Giant. No finer autumn Cauliflower could be 
desired than this. Walcheren has ceased to find a place in our garden for 
some years. I consider it next to useless, as the heads seldom form 
compactly, and it is poor in every way when compared with the preceding. 
I do not now devote the attention to sowing Cauliflowers in autumn I 
once did, as by sowing a little seed of those new early ones in a gentle 
heat in early spring they head sooner than the autumn plants, and give much 
finer produce.—A Kitchen Gardener. 
IN THE GARDEN. 
The Scarlet Windflower —Anemone fulgens is almost 
too well known to figure in these notes, but its merits as a 
garden flower are great, for what else now in flower outside 
equals it. in every respect ?—brilliancy of colour, habit, freeness 
of flowering, and general adaptability to most positions, except 
absolute shade, which, as far as my experience teaches, it 
dislikes. A. rick sandy loam, or, indeed, a rather heavy loam, 
suits it admirably, with a good supply of well-bodied manure. 
It is almost useless to attempt its culture without the latter, and 
where it occupies the same position year after year a good top 
dressing of manure should be afforded. Within the last few 
years it has become very popular, and to meet the demand 
enormous quantities have been collected, and are offered to the 
public at a very low price; but of such beware. Rather pay three 
times the price for selected home-grown roots, for you may get 
the varieties of little value through no fault on the part of the 
dealer, for no plant is more variable in its native home than 
this. Yet this variability is restricted in one sense, for the only 
Eig. 125.— The Gardener’s Portable Frame. 
the ridge lifts the whole length to any required height by simultaneous 
action—the main rafters are of iron, to which the woodwork at bottom is 
bolted, and the lights are constructed so that they can be taken off if 
necessary ; each light is strengthened by an iron rod, which is fixed at an 
angle of 45°, this makes it strong and rigid ; the glass is fixed in the water¬ 
tight channelled bars with copper screws. The latter is very simple, 
and renders the removal or insertion of glass a quick and easy process. 
CAULIFLOWERS. 
These are very numerous. In one seed list of 1885 now before me I 
can see eighteen names, and in many other lists the numbers are not much 
less. There are early, second early, and late. They are not divided into 
seasons like Broccoli, but they might be, as they are numerous enough. 
There is no variety I know which has not been tried in our garden, but 
many will not be grown again. At one time, not many years ago, Early 
London was the only early Cauliflower offered, but now it is hardly ever 
seen, and I do not think cultivators need be sorry for this, as it has been 
superseded in all its good points. In earliness it is inferior, and in quality 
it has several equals. Of early varieties, cr “ extra earlies,” as they are 
termed, there are numbers ; indeed too many, as some of those which 
possess a name have no other merit to recommend them. 
I place Veitch’s Extra Early at the top of the list of early sorts. Snow¬ 
ball has never been anything different with me than an inferior “ Extra 
Early,” and I would make no distinction between it and others of this 
type which do not deserve special distinction. Veitch’s Pearl is a second 
early of great merit. It does not produce such large heads as 
Webb’s Early Mammoth, and I would include the last named in all lists 
where good Cauliflowers were wanted in June and July. Sutton’s King 
of the Cauliflowers is a first-rate summer variety ; I prefer it to Eclipse, 
and would recommend it to be grown to precede Veitch’s Autumn Giant. 
It is worth noting that Messrs. Veitch have introduced the best early and 
colour that I know of is scarlet of some shade. Many of the 
flowers come semi-double, a mixture of green bracts and scarlet 
segments, which is by no means attractive. The double A. 
fulgens, as it is called, produces flowers of this character. A 
noted Parisian firm speaks highly of it, saying it resembles the 
type in all respects except the duplication, but after repeated 
trials I shall give it up, as all the flowers come a mixture of 
green and red. 
The Snowflake Anemone.—A. sylvestris is a very chaste 
and pretty species, flowering freely when established in a moist 
position. It enjoys a light rich soil, with a good proportion ot 
leaf soil worked in, and the position it occupies should be clear 
of the mid-day sun, when the flowers will last much longer. It 
does well in the wood or wild garden, quickly forming a large 
colony, when it is quite attractive. The blossoms are extremely 
pretty in vases, and last well in water. It was introduced from 
Germany at a very early period, for good old John Parkinson calls 
it in his “Paradisus,” page 202, “the white wild broad-leafed 
Windflower,” and describes it very accurately. Curtis gave a 
good figure of it in the second volume of the “Botanical Maga¬ 
zine,” pi. 54. 
The Vernal Anemone. —A. vernalis is of a very different 
character, closely resembling the “ Pasqueflower ” (A. pul- 
satilla), and was formerly included with that and other species 
under a distinct genus named Pulsatilla, which is now, however, 
only regarded as a section of Anemone. The Vernal Windnowei 
is an alpine gem of the first rank, and should find a home on 
every rockery. It forms dense little tufts of divided leaves, 
silky when young, becoming nearly smooth with age, from whic 
are sent up dwarf solitary flowers on stout silky stalks 6 to 
