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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ June 19, 1884, 
New Zealand, and the Sandwich Islands. Some of the others are equally 
common to the tropics of both the Old and New Worlds.—X. 
COMING FLOWER SHOWS. 
Exhibitions are as numerous as ever, the following being those for 
June, July, August, and September, of which we have received any noti¬ 
fication at present:— 
June 19th.—York Floral FSte. Sale (three days). 
„ 24th.—Royal Horticultural Society, Fruit and Floral Committees ; 
Fruit and Vegetable Show, South Kensington. 
„ 25th.—Croydon (Roses). Leeds (three days). Tooting (two days). 
„ 26th.—Richmond. Canterbury (Roses). 
„ 28th.—West Kent. Camden Park, Chislehurst. Reigate (Roses). 
July 1st.—Edinburgh International Forestry Exhibition. National Rose 
Society, South Kensington. Stoke Bishop. 
„ 2nd.—Royal Botanic Society’s Evening Fete. Hull (three days). 
Wimbledon. Cardiff. 
„ 3rd.—Bury St. Edmunds. Winchester (two days). Bath (Roses). 
Chiswick. Farnham (Roses). 
„ 4th.—Sutton (Roses). Tunbridge Wells. 
„ 5th.—Crystal Palace (Roses). 
„ 7th.—Brockham (Roses). 
„ 8th.—Royal Horticultural Society, Fruit and Floral Committees ; 
Promenade Show. 
„ 9th.—Edinburgh (two days). Salisbury (Roses). Lee (two days). 
„ 10th.—Oxford (Roses). 
„ 14th.—Wolverhampton (three days). 
„ 16th.—Bedford. 
„ 17th.—Carlisle (two days). Wirksworth (Roses). Newport. 
„ 19th.—Manchester (Roses). 
„ 22nd.—Royal Horticultural Society, Fruit and Floral Committees; 
Fruit and Vegetable Show ; Carnation and Picotee Show. 
„ 28rd.—Newcastle-on-Tyne (three days). Feltham. 
„ 24th.—Sheffield (two days). 
„ 80th.—Warwick. 
August 2nd.—Liverpool (two days). 
„ 12th.—Royal Horticultural Society, Fruit and Floral Committees; 
Cottagers’ Show. 
„ 14th.—Maidenhead. 
„ 20th.—Shrewsbury (two days). 
„ 21st.—Reading. 
» 26th.—Royal Horticultural Society, Fruit and Floral Committees; 
Fruit and Vegetable Show. Banbury. 
September 2nd.—Stratford-on-Avon (two days). 
„ 3rd.—Glasgow. Bath (two days). 
„ 6th.—Crystal Palace Fruit and Dahlias (two days). 
„ 9th.—Royal Horticultural Society, Fruit and Floral Committees. 
,, 11th. Bury St. Edmunds (two days). Dundee International (three 
days). 
„ 17th.—Edinburgh (two days). 
„ 25rd.—Royal Horticultural Society, Fruit and Floral Committees; 
Fruit and Vegetable Show. 
CACTACEOUS PLANTS. 
( Continued frontpage 422.) 
Cereus GRANDIFLORUS Maynardi.— This magnificent hybrid is un¬ 
fortunately now rather scarce, yet its beauty and distinctness entitle it to 
prominent attention. In 1837 Mr. H. Kenny, gardener to Viscount Maynard, 
Easton Lodge, Dunmow, Esses, crossed C. speciosissimus with pollen from 
C. grandiflorus, and, the fertilisation proving successful, seeds were obtained 
which produced the plant under notice. This combined the characters of 
the parents in a striking manner, the habit of growth and form of the flowers 
of C. grandiflorus, with the addition of the rich colour of (J. speciosissimus, 
rendering it invaluable. The flowers are 9 to 11 inches in diameter, and 
7 to 9 inches long, the petals more cupped than in the ordinary C. grandi¬ 
florus ; they are rich red with a tinge of orange, and usually last for two or 
three days, opening every evening. At its original home, Easton Lodge, 
now the residence of Lord Brooke, the plant had been quite lost, until 
recently, by the generosity of Mr. Major of Croydon, a specimen was furnished 
to the gardener Mr. EL Lister. 
C. speciosissimus. —Though stronger in growth than the majority of 
the trailing species, this may be considered in that group, as it is more fre¬ 
quently grown trained to a wall, rafter, or trellis than in any other way. 
With very slight support it will assume an erect habit, but the upper parts 
of the branches then hang downwards, indicating the natural habit of the 
plant. It is a superb plant, and when in flower it cannot be rivalled in 
brilliancy by any other plant grown under glass. Large specimens are fre¬ 
quently seen in old gardens, but one of the most notable that I have seen is 
at Orsett Hall, Romford, the residence of Capt. Wingfield Baker. This has 
about thirty stems, each 6 to 8 feet high, which have been produced by 
repeatedly cutting down the main stem, and during April or May there have 
frequently been from sixty to eighty buds and flowers upon the plant at one 
time, sometimes twenty being fully expanded. This plant is in a large pot, 
and has not been disturbed_ for many years. The gardener, Mr. R. Castle 
finds that all the assistance it requires is a good supply of water at the time 
of flowering, with a little weak liquid manure occasionally. It is, however, 
a fast-growing species, and is benefited by a rather richer compost than 
that usually afforded such plants, a small proportion of old manure bein' 7 
incorporated with the loam and sand employed. 
. The stems often assume a reddish hue, are about to 2 inches in diameter, 
with three to five rather deep ridges, furnished witn prominent clusters of 
spines in dense tufts of white wool-like substance. The flowers vary greatly 
in tint, usually presenting a beautiful combination of scarlet and purplish 
crimson, the petals being quite glossy and shining in sunlight. They vary 
in size from 6 to 8 inches, the petals expanding fully with abundant stamens. 
When cut and placed in water they will last three or four days, retaining all 
their brilliance of colour for that period. The fruits are green, ovate in 
form, 1 to inch long, with a pleasantly flavoured subacid pulp somewhat 
suggestive of nearly ripe G-ooseberries. 
The species was originally introduced from Mexico to Madrid, and was 
thence sent to Paris by the Comte de Salm. It passed to this country, and 
is believed to have first flowered in the collection of the Comtesse de 
Vandes about 1820, when it was figured in the “Botanical Register” (t.486). 
Numberless varieties have been raised? from C. speciosissimus, as it se»ds 
freely and crosses readily with other species. Many years ago Mr. Donald 
Beaton raised scores of seedlings from crosses between that and C. flagelli- 
formis, and has stated that he never found a barren seedling. Mr. Pressley, 
gardener to W. Boyd, Esq., Plaistow, also raised some seedlings about 1832, 
some of which were exhibited, one named lateritius being described as of a 
very beautiful scarlet tint. Much attention was given to these plants about 
that time, for Sir Edmund Antrobus is said to have exhibited specimens 
with from 200 to 300 flowers each, which were as greatly admired then as large 
specimen Orchids are now. Hybrids between this Cereus and some of the 
Phyllocactus have also been obtained, but these will be referred to under 
the latter genus. 
C. SPECIOSISSIMUS HYBRIDUS [M ALLISON]. —A beautiful hybrid from 
C. speciosissimus (the seed parent) and C. flagelliformis, which is deservedly 
a great favourite in many gardens. It was raised over fifty years ago by 
Mr. Mallison, gardener to Sir Samuel Scott, and is curiously intermediate 
between the parents, resembling the seed parent in the size, colour, and form 
of the flowers, and the other in habit, though with rather stronger stems. 
It has bright rosy crimson flowers 4 to 6 inches in diameter, very freely pro¬ 
duced, and most handsome when the stems are trained to a rafter and then 
allowed to hang over a path. It is grown in this way at Kew, where a fine 
specimen is grafted upon a stem of C. MacDonaldise. It requires a rather 
warm position in a stove. 
C. MacDonaldijs, Hooker .—A handsome slender-stemmed species, which 
ought to be grown much more generally than it is at present, for it is one of 
the finest of the night-flowering Cactere. It resembles C. grandiflorus in the 
size and appearance of the flowers, which are fiequently 12 to 14 inches in 
diameter, with creamy white lanceolate petals with an outer fringe of narrow 
yellow sepals. The growth is, however, different, the surface of the stem 
being covered with irregular tubercles, not distinctly ridged as in most other 
species ; it is slender, usually half to 1 inch in diameter, and trailing. A fine 
specimen is grown in the Cromwell House collection, trained over the wire 
arch shown in fig. 93, p. 405, and this plant has produced flowers 14 inches 
in diameter. Mr. W. Wright, the gardener in charge of this collection, has 
crossed C. MacDonaldim with pollen from C. speciosissimus, which may be 
expected to yield an interesting and beautiful progeny. The species was 
introduced from Honduras to Ivew by Mrs. General MacDonald, and first 
flowered in the Royal Gardens in 1851. 
C. flagelliformis, Haworth .—Under the popular names of Whip-cord 
and Rat’s-tail Cactus this plant is well known, and probably is the most 
generally grown of all the Cereus. It is one of the oldest-known in England, 
having been introduced in 1690 by the Earl of Portland, the same year as 
C. triangularis made its appearance here. The plant was cultivated by 
Miller, and was included in the Kew collection in Aiton’s time. In reference 
to its habit and the number of ridges on the stem it was named by some of 
the old writers Cactus repens decemangularis, and amongst other still older 
titles bestowed upon it was Eicoides americanum, in reference to its native 
country, Peru, and contiguous districts of South America. The stems are 
very slender, about half an inch in diameter, and they grow to the length of 
4 or G feet, being of pendulous habit. At Kew there is a fine example grafted 
upon a stem of C. rostratus 6 feet high, which has a dense cluster of branches, 
about sixty, each 4 or 5 feet long. When flowering this has a most striking 
effect, the bright rosy-coloured flowers, which are produced in spring and 
early summer, being extremely attractive. Owing to its very pendulous 
habit this species is generally seen to better advantage grafted on a stem of 
the columnar Cereus, upon any of which it seems quite at home. When on 
its own roots it appears to succeed best in a loamy compost, porous, but 
heavier than is usually given to Cactere. 
. Many other trailing Cereus could be named, such as C. Napoleonis, 
Ce rostratus, C. Lemoinei, C. Karstenii, C. nycticallis, C. Cavendishi, C. ser- 
pontinus, and C. colubrinus, but they are most rare, and as regards their 
fl ral attractions, those already described are preferable.—L. C. 
NOTES FROM BOURNEMOUTH. 
Perhaps a few notes respecting the floral and arboreal beauty, 
situation, and surroundings of this far-famed health-giving Hampshire 
seaside town may prove interesting to those of your readers who may 
not have had an opportunity of visiting it, 
Bournemouth is situate on the slopes and tableland east and west of 
a valley about a mile and a half long, and from 150 yards to 200 yards 
wide in its greater length, in the midst of Pine trees and a variety of 
flowering and ornamental shrubs. Except those in Southbourne Terrace 
and the Landsdowne Road, in which the several banks, town hall, theatre, 
arcade, &c., together with the numerous fashionable shops, are situate, 
the houses, for the most part, are detached villas, nestling in the privacy 
of their own well-kept grounds. Some distance from the well-made and 
capitally kept public roads and footpaths, and between the latter and 
the former, on either side, is a row of Pine trees, which afford at all times 
an agreeable shade. These gardens, the owners of which seem to vie 
with each other in the possession of graceful trees and shrubs and floral 
masses of various colours, extend for miles, and for the last month, espe¬ 
cially in those gardens in the neighbourhood of the Old Christchurch 
Road, the Laburnum, Scarlet Thorn, White Broom, L lac, &c , have formed 
a very pleasing picture. 
The Public Pleasure Gardens .—These are situated in the valley referred 
to above, which slopes gently from the neighbourhood of the west station 
of the Salisbury, Bournemouth, and Weymouth branch of the London and 
South-Western Railway in a southern direction to the handsome and sub¬ 
stantially constructed iron pier. In the formation and planting of these 
extensive gardens taste and judgment have been exercised by the land¬ 
scape gardener in turning to the best advantage the liberal assistance 
which Nature, in the undulated surface and surroundings of this once wild 
valley of Pinewood and Heather, freely offered to his art. Through these 
gardens flows, in a southern direction, a quiet stream or bourne, which, 
