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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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of great size, about 5 inches in diameter, the petals being 3 inches across, 
rounded and symmetrical. 
T. Hewitt. —Double, very full dense flower, dark scarlet. 
Mr. If. Forbes. —Single, scarlet; a large, bold, handsome flower, well 
proportioned. 
Mrs. Weches. —Single, white margined with rose, petals round; an 
exceedingly pretty and distinct type. 
Her Majesty. —Single, blush white, very delicate tint; the flowers 
4 inches in diameter, round and symmetrical. 
Caladium Maclame Mitzand. —Leaves large, bronzy red, with bright 
red veins. 
Caladium Baron James de Rothschild. —A pretty variety; leaves 
white with dark rose-coloured veins. 
Caladium L'Aurore .—Leaves suffused with rose, having darker- 
coloured veins and a creamy edge. 
Gloxinia Mrs. Coomber. —A distinct and handsome variety with large 
well-formed flowers, rich rosy crimson spotted on the lobes and margined 
with white. 
Gloxinia Beauty. —Dark purple with a white margin, broad and well 
defined, dotted with purple ; peculiar and pretty. 
Gloxinia George Amcr. —Rich rose with a white margin, finely dotted 
with rose. An exceedingly pretty variety. 
To Messrs. W. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross, for 
Rose Etendard Jeanne d' Arc. —A Tea variety with globular creamy 
white flowers, extremely fragrant; free and of good habit. 
To Mr. H. James, Castle Nursery, Lower Norwood, for 
Odontoglossum polyxanthum. —A handsome Orchid; the sepals and 
petals yellow barred with rich brown, the lip broad and fringed. 
Odontoglossum mulus. —Very pretty; ground colour yellow with nume¬ 
rous bars and blotches of brown, the sepals, petals, and lip being tipped 
with yellow. 
To Mr. Cypher, Cheltenham, for 
Cypripedium Rcebelinii. —A new species in the way of C. hevigatum ; 
the sepals white striped with dark purple ; the petals narrow, twisted, 
5 inches long, and of a purplish tint. 
To Mr. B. S. Williams, Upper Holloway, for 
Cypripedium ciliolare. —A handsome species suggestive of C. super - 
biens, of a purple hue, with regularly striped dorsal sepals and spotted 
petals. 
To Messrs. R. P. Ker & Son, Liverpool, for 
Croton Flambeau. —Very elegant; leaves narrow, 1 inch wide, 12 to 
18 inches long, red, dark green and yellow, prettily mottled. 
Croton Sunrise. —One of the most distinct and best-coloured varieties 
yet obtained; leaves li inch broad, 12 to 18 inches long, bright golden 
yellow mottled with red and green. 
Croton mosaicus. —Bolder in habit than the preceding ; leaves 2 inches 
broad, 12 to 14 inches long, deep crimson mottled with dark green and 
yellow. Very handsome and effective. 
Ficus elastica varicgata. —Previously described on several occasions. 
A useful plant, preserving its variegation well. 
To Messrs. Sander & Co., St. Albans, for 
Odontoglossum elegans superbissimum. —A charming variety ; ground 
•colour, creamy white, with narrow sepals and petals, dark brown bars and 
blotches, and a yellow base to the lip. 
To the New Plant and Bulb Company, Colchester, for 
Acer palmatum roseum. — Similar in form to A. palmatum aureum, 
which has been previously described, but of a uniform bright red colour. 
To Mr. H. Little, Hillingdon Place, Uxbridge, for 
Pelargonium G. Shepherd. —One of the decorative varieties ; the 
flowers of good size, scarlet edged with white ; very showy and free. 
Pelargonium Harvester. —One of the same type, with crimson lower 
petals, dark maroon upper petals, and a light centre ; good habit. 
VINES BLEEDING. 
I have read my notes on the above subject, and fail to see what cause 
I have given Mr. Waiting to speak of “ beliefs, doubts, statements, and 
incredulity.” Any candid reader will see that the statements unsupported 
by facts are on his side, not, mine. I ask for proof, he has given assertion. 
He has also changed ground. In his former notes he said that water was 
“ the ” cause of Vines bleeding—now he says it is the “ chief ” cause. Why 
this change ? If he was right in the first instance, why not hold his 
ground ? and since he has conceded this much how are we to know where 
his concessions will end ? 
But he does not even attempt to answer my question as to why in a 
house one or more Vines should bleed, they having the same treatment 
with those that do not. Neither has he attempted to make good his 
assertion that bleeding is a great injury to Vines, and until he does this it 
is unnecessary for me to write more on this subject. 
I see no reason why my belief or incredulity should puzzle Mr. Waiting, 
but perhaps it is what he is pleased to term my threat of a visit that is the 
real puzzle. 
So far as I am able to judge, there is nothing surprising in the fact that 
a Black Hamburgh cane 11 feet long should produce twenty bunches of 
the weight named ; but to anyone who has seen Black Hamburgh grown 
year after year there is something astonishing in the assertion that eleven 
and nine bunches respectively, weighing about three-quarters of a pound, 
should even form a perfect chain from the roof to the floor of a house 
II feet high. With his averages I have nothing to do. I await proof 
of his assertions.—J ustitia. 
I am not surprised that your correspondent Mr. Waiting’s statements 
have attracted attention, because, like his Vines, they “ will not hold 
water,” notw.thstanding the confident tone in which they are put forward. 
Mark his declaration at page 345 that “ He could and would have stopped 
the bleeding of his Vines, but, accepting the theory of several writers that 
the so-ca’led sap was only water without substance, he let them continue 
until they ceased.” A likely plea this ! Did ever anybody before hear of 
an intelligent gardener suffering his Vines to bleed to death, for anything 
he knew, on the strength of statements in a doubtful controversy, with the 
power of prevention in his own hands if he chose to use it, and therefore 
save all risk ? I deserved to lose my crop, as Mr. Waiting has done since, 
if I acted in the same way and let bleeding go on when I could have turned 
the tap off, so to speak, and stayed it. 
I have a conviction, however, that the real reason Mr. Waiting did not 
stop his Vines from bleeding was because he could not stop them if he had 
tried when once they had begun, neither by his plan of withholding water 
nor any other, save by lowering the temperature to as near the freezing 
point as possible (a thing seldom practicable) to arrest circulation, and 
painting the wounds after when dry with styptic. Having propounded the 
water theory it did not, however, suit your correspondent, I suppose, to 
admit that he could not prevent the bleeding. Blaming your contributors 
for the consequences of his own neglect will deceive no gardener. Mr. 
Waiting does not seem to encourage the proposed visit of “ Justit a,” and 
I am not surprised at it. 
As to water being the cause of bleeding, your correspondent is safe in 
that view thus far—that a Vine without any water (sap) in its tissues could 
not bleed—if he ever saw such a phenomenal Vine ; but water is not the 
“ cause ” which is wounding the Vine not long before the sap begins to 
rise. If water was the cause most Vines in the country would have bled 
to death by this time.— Non-Believer. 
At a general meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held 
last Tuesday, Major F. Mason in the chair, the following candidates were 
unanimously elected Fellows—viz., John Ashton, Richard Bannister, 
Stanley Dent, Thomas Young. 
- At the Committee of the National Rose Society on Tuesday, 
the Secretary, the Rev. H. H. D’Ombrain, exhibited a box of three Roses, 
consisting of two magnificent blooms of David Pradel, grown by Mr. 
Eckroyd Claxton of Liverpool, and a fine bloom of Etoile de Lyon, 
grown by Mr. Hall of Larkwood, Rockferry, which was greatly admired, 
and for which a vote of thanks was given to the gentleman who had so 
kindly sent them. 
- Mr. J. Udale, The Gardens, Shirecliffe Hall, Sheffield, sends 
us an excellent sketch of a double-spathed Richardia, in which 
there are two spathes of full size and ordinary form opposite to each 
other, but one slightly the larger partly surrounds the base of the other. 
We have seen similar examples to this before, but they are not common, 
and whether the double form is more ornamental than the other is simply 
a matter of taste. 
- There appears to be considerable difference in the extent of the 
Gooseberry CROP in various districts, and even in neighbouring gardens; 
but it is extremely probable that the mode of pruning has something to 
do with this variation. We recently saw two gardens in Kent; in one 
the bushes were loaded with fruits, and in the other there were very few, 
but the plants had been very differently treated. In the former the 
pruning had been confined to removing a few superfluous branches and 
shortening some that were excessively long, whereas in the other the 
bushes had been pruned hard for several seasons. Similar examples may 
be seen in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and in nearly every case 
the unpruned bushes have the best crop of fruit. 
- Inquiries are frequent for trees suitable for seaside 
GARDENS, and it is usually difficult to find sorts that will thrive in 
such positions. On the west coast of England, and especially in Lanca¬ 
shire, where the south-west gales are so frequent and violent, the difficulty 
is still further increased. In several towns there, but particularly at 
Southport, Sycamores are largely planted as screens and to form avenues 
in the principal streets ; but as an ornamental tree none surpasses Ulinus 
montana pendula, which appears to luxuriate in the sea breeze, provided 
the posi'ion is not too exposed. Many beautiful specimens of this hand- 
