August 23, 1883. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
159 
APPLE MR. GLADSTONE. 
CAN any of your readers inform me through the Journal 
who was the raiser of the Apple Mr. Gladstone? I was 
not aware but what it was sent out some time ago. We 
'have a tree of it from Messrs. Charles Lee & Son, Ham¬ 
mersmith, two years ago. Having been at the Royal Hor¬ 
ticultural Society’s Gardens last Tuesday I saw it there, 
and could see it was exactly the same kind as mine. I 
could have exhibited a much better sample than I saw 
there, and if I had done so who would have had a right to 
the certificate?—G. T. 
[We do not know the origin of this Apple, which we 
suspect has been in cultivation for some years. Perhaps 
Mr. Bunyard or Mr. Killick, both of whom grow it, may 
be able to give information on the point. If our corre¬ 
spondent had staged better fruit than that exhibited at the 
meeting in question he would presumably have had a 
certificate. Can any of our correspondents inform us who 
named this Apple “Mr. Gladstone.”] 
PEA EVOLUTION. 
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Fig. 29 .—Dryuoglossum tiloselloides. 
I have grown this new Pea of Mr. Laxton’s during the 
■present season, and it appears to me to well keep up that 
character of multum in parvo which is one of the chief 
characteristics of Mr. Laxton’s seedlings. As Mr. Ward 
said the other week, Evolution is essentially a Pea that 
must be sown thinly, partly from its branching habit, and 
partly from its broad strong foliage. I am of opinion that 
we often breed weakness in our Peas, and by so doing 
invite disease, as mildew—to say nothing of the waste of 
valuable seed—by our habit of sowing too thickly. Now 
Evolution and Omega, and indeed most of Mr. Laxton’s 
Peas, must be sown thinly, or mischief will follow. Evolution grew with me 
this year 3J to 4 feet high. It produced flowers soon followed by stout and 
straight well-filled pods, containing eight and nine peas in a pod. This 
very characteristic of strong and well-filled pods will enhance its value 
materially in a market point of view, as peas with thin and flabby pods 
with knocking about soon look bruised and unsaleable at good prices. 
Summing up, it does not require much consideration to predict a useful 
future for Evolution, it having all the good qualities already mentioned, 
which we may now tabulate thus :— 
1, Economy of seed, by thin sowing; 2, Shortness of haulm, not re¬ 
perseverance is constant and we have no doubt success will be the ultimate 
result. 
The finest of the plants were shown in the largest tents and formed highly 
attractive features. Owing to the absence of distant exhibitors, such as Mr. 
Cypher and others of equal note, the smaller local exhibitors had a good time 
of it and secured the chief plant prizes ; but as they have been striving for 
this for some years many of their specimens richly deserved the highest 
distinction. This was especially the case with the eight distinct exotic 
Ferns shown by Mr. Woodward, gardener to C. Luard, Esq., Llandaff House, 
Cardiff, who had some grand specimens, including Gymnogramma chry- 
sophylla, Davallia Mooreana, Adiantum tenerum, and A. farleyense G feet 
basal and two large spreading lateral lobes, the margin entire; fertile frond 
on a stipe often 12 inches long, 4 to 6 inches each way, cut down into five 
linear-lanceolate or lanceolate lobes, one erect, two spreading and two de- 
flexed, of which all except the last are sometimes again forked ; texture 
coriaceous ; costa polished ; veins hidden ; sori continuous all round the 
margin. Wall. Cat. 88. Hook. Syn. Fil. 166. Clarke. F. A. I. 470. Lito- 
brochia ludens and pedata, Bedd. F. N. I. t. 26 and 27. 
Chittagong Hills up to 1000 feet elevation ; Orissa, on the Balasore Hills ; 
Birma. (A specimen in Wight’s herbarium of this or an allied species is 
supposed to be from the Dindigul mountains in the Madras Presidency ; but 
it has never been found there of late.) 
Also in the Philippine islands. 
DRYMOGLOSSUM ( Presl .). 
( Drymos , wood ; glossa , tongue.) 
2, Drymoglossum piloselloides (Presl.). — Rhizome long filiform, 
wiry, clothed with adpressed, diamond-shaped, peltate, laciniated scales, 
which are sometimes hair-pointed; stipes about 2 lines long in the sterile, 
■often about 1 inch long in the fertile fronds ; fronds dimor¬ 
phous, the barren ones roundish or obovate, half to 2 inches 
long, three-quarters of an inch broad, very thick and fleshy, 
and when young more or less covered with stellate hairs ; 
the fertile ones 2 to 4 inches long, one-eighth to one-fourth of 
an inch broad ; veins immersed, areoles with copious free 
veinlets ; sori in broad continuous marginal lines, often at 
length confluent and covering the whole under surface ; cap¬ 
sules mixed with a few stellate paraphyses. Presl. Tent. 
Pterid. 227, t. 10. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 55 and F. S. I. t. 186 
(Niphobolus nummularifolius). 
Bengal Plains; Birma ; Ceylon ; South India, common in 
the Malabar plains (Calicut, &c., on trees) also on the moun¬ 
tains, up to about 2000 feet elevation (Anamallays, Wynad, 
Goorg, &c.) 
Also in Java, Philippines, and Japan. 
With regard to the last-named plant, it may be re¬ 
marked that a specimen at Kew differs widely from the 
figure, the fronds being much larger, more ovate in form, 
and decidedly less ornamental in appearance. Probably, 
however, this is due to cultivation, which often destroys 
the typical characters of plants. It may be further added 
that a variety distinguished by stellate hairs and more 
pointed scales has been named Beddomei by Mr. Clarke 
in honour of Col. Beddome. 
As regards printing, paper, type, binding, and general 
finish the work is all that could be desired, and will 
undoubtedly be welcomed by many lovers of Ferns both 
at home and in our Indian empire. 
quiring high sticks; 3, Qtiickness of produce, soon ready; 4, Strength 
and fulness of pod and pea; and 5, Pleasant flavour when cooked.— 
N. H. Pownall, Lenton Hall Gardens. 
THE GLAMORGANSHIRE SHOW. 
This Show was held at Cardiff on August 15th. T[ie exhibits were 
displayed in six or seven large tents, which were erected in a field adjoining 
the Sophia Gardens, and although rather a strong wind was blowing the day 
was a very enjoyable one. As a rule this Show is largely supported by 
exhibitors, sightseers, and subscribers from all parts of South Wales and 
Monmouthshire ; and this year’s Show fortunately proved no exception to its 
predecessors, as the patronage was very good, the exhibits numerous and of 
high quality generally, and the management was all that could be desired, as 
Mr. H. F. Lynch Blosse,the Hon. Sec., and Mr. J. G. Jones, the Assistant Sec., 
are unremitting in their attentions to all the details which concern the well¬ 
being of the Society and Show. In times gone by the weather has 
occasionally interfered with the harmony of the proceedings, but the 
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