JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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[ December 30, 1880. 
gratifying though sad testimony to his worth that thousands of 
the poor of the district in which he lived saw him laid in his 
grave, and that, as it was described to me, it was as a wall of 
tears ; and this, let it be remembered, not so much a proof of 
gratitude for temporal aid as for spiritual teaching and ready 
sympathy in sorrow.” We have nothing to add to those words, 
but may remark as evidence of the great respect in which Mr. 
Arthur Veitch was held by those with whom he associated in 
daily life, that the employes of the firm have in course of com¬ 
pletion a handsome marble memorial for the grave of their 
lamented friend, with a suitable inscription including the singu¬ 
larly appropriate words— 
“ To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die.” 
PORTRAITS OF NEW AND NOTABLE PLANTS. 
Arctotis aspera, vAR. Arborescens. —“ The genus Arctotis is 
little known to horticulturists, although one species, the present, 
of the thirty described, has long been known in botanic gardens, 
and no less than thirteen are figured in Jacquin’s “Hortus 
Schoenbrunensis,” from specimens that flowered in the Imperial 
Botanic Garden of Vienna during the last century. Sixteen (ex¬ 
clusive of one referred to Venidium) are enumerated in the 
“ Hortus Kewensis ” as being in cultivation in 1813, and there are 
five others enumerated as species in that work which are now 
regarded as varieties. The present is one of the most beautiful of 
the genus ; it was cultivated in England before 1710, and in 
Holland much earlier.— (Bot. Maq., t. 6528.) 
DiSA megaceras. —“ It is not without great consideration that 
I have been compelled to give a new name to the little-known 
Disa macrantha of the gardens, nor would I have done so were I 
not well assured that the true D. macrantha is a very different 
plant, coming indeed from a very different part of the South 
African continent from that inhabited by the present species. 
It is true that of D. macrantha very little is certainly known ; 
it is a species of Thuuberg’s, described in his “ Flora Capensis ” 
(page 33) as having the spur conical, shorter than the hood ; the 
petals small, hidden under the hood, rounded at the base, fal- 
cately recurved in the middle, angled posteriorly, dilated retuse 
and crenulate at the end, the lip oblong acute, keeled, sub-erect, 
and the anther, &c., as in D. cornuta, than which the flowers 
are rather larger. Now if the figure of the plant here given is 
compared with this description and with the plate of D. cornuta 
in this work (t. 1091), it will be seen that in all those points in 
which D. macrantha differs from D. megaceras it agrees with 
D. cornuta, notably in the short spur, in the small petals falcately 
recurved, dilated at the apex, and hidden under the hood ; in the 
oblong lip and very small broad anther ; to which must be added 
that D. macrantha is a western plant of the Cape district itself, 
whereas D. megaceras is an eastern one.”— (Ibid., t. 6529.) 
Erigeron multiradiattjs. —“ One of the most beautiful of 
the alpine Himalayan Composite, but very variable and difficult to 
distinguish from forms of neighbouring species, especially of E. al- 
pinus, to which small states of it approach very closely. E. multi¬ 
radiatus is, however, in its normal state a much larger and hand¬ 
somer plant, with the heads usually at least 2 inches in diameter, and 
of a bright purple colour. In rich moist soil old plants grow 2 feet 
high and branch very considerably, and the radical leaves dis¬ 
appear early, giving the plant a very different appearance from 
that of its younger state, in which the habit is scapigerous and 
the radical leaves copious. It is a native of grassy wet pastures 
along the whole length of the Himalayan range, from Kashmir, 
where it inhabits elevations of 7000 to 9000 feet, to Sikkim, where 
it ascends to 12,000 feet.”— (Ibid., t. 6530.) 
Worm iA Burbidgei. —“ The genus Wormia, a near ally of the 
familiar Hibbertias of our greenhouses, consists of about ten species 
of shrubs or trees with usually very handsome flowers and foliage, 
which extend from tropical Australia through the Malay Islands 
and Southern India to the Seychelles. Though known in Indian 
botanic gardens, the present is the only one that to our knowledge 
has ever flowered in Europe. It is closely allied to W. subsessilis 
of Miquel. W. Burbidgei is a native of northern Borneo, where 
it was discovered by the intelligent and successful collector whose 
name it bears when exploring the Bornean forests for Messrs. 
Veitch.”— (Ibid., t. 6531.) 
Disa polygonotdes. —“A very different-looking plant from 
the Disa megaceras, though agreeing in all generic characters 
most closely, and when more fully developed a very striking 
plant, the spike of orange flowers sometimes attaining a foot in 
length. D. polygonoides inhabits marshy valleys, and has a very 
wide range, from Grahamstown eastward to Natal; and from the 
number of collectors who have sent it, it would appear to be a 
very common Orchid. The tubers of the specimen figured were 
presented to Kew by W. B. Lyle, Esq., of Kirkley Vale Estate, 
Natal, and flowered in September of the present year in the tem¬ 
perate Orchid house.”— (Ibid., t. 6532.) 
SCUTELLARIA MOCCINIANA. 
This is a very useful plant for the stove, and it succeeds in 
an intermediate house. It is easy of cultivation, and when well 
grown makes a fine display. It is suitable for room or table 
decoration, but when grown for this purpose four or five cuttings 
should be inserted together. The reason several are recommended 
to be grown together is because it is rather difficult to produce 
good bushy plants retaining their lower leaves suitable for these 
purposes. To grow this plant well, no stopping or pinching 
should be attempted after the cuttings are inserted ; they should 
be grown on until they produce their terminal racemes of bright 
orange scarlet flowers, the throat being of a deep yellow. Under 
the pinching and stopping system I have hitherto failed to grow 
this plant well to be of much service for winter decoration. If 
propagated in spring, and the plants are pinched from time to 
time to form bushy specimens, it is seldom they produce good 
flowers. Cuttings should constantly be rooted and grown on 
strongly unlil they produce heads of flowers ; by this means they 
can be had in succession through the greater part of the year. It 
is a free-flowering plant and adapted for blooming at any time. 
The time of propagation for autumn and winter entirely depends 
upon conditions and facilities for growing the plants. The system 
most practicable is to propagate a few every month, and the plants 
should never be stopped, but allowed to bloom. It is difficult to 
produce a good specimen, as its lower leaves are very apt to fall. 
It not unfrequently happens, when stopping is resorted to, that 
strong shoots spring from the base of the plant, 6 or 9 inches of 
the lower part of the shoot scarcely having a leaf ; but such 
shoots if allowed to go unstopped produce excellent flowers. 
Cuttings root readily in heat in sandy loam without a bell- 
glass or propagating frame if shaded from strong sun until rooted. 
Leaf soil added to good loam in equal parts, and plenty of coarse 
sand, will form a suitable compost, in which the young plants will 
do well. Liberal applications of water should be given while 
growing, with occasional supplies of liquid manure when the pots 
are full of roots. This plant is very subject to mealy bug and a 
small black fly, and if not well syringed red spider will establish 
itself on the under side of the leaf.— Wm. Bardney. 
A NEW MODE OF HEATING BUILDINGS. 
Messrs. J. Weeks & Co., the eminent firm of hot-water 
engineers, have devised a mode of warming churches, schools, 
mansions, public buildings, and private dwellings, which appears 
to possess features of considerable value. It is compact and ad¬ 
mirable in arrangement, as will be seen by the accompanying 
figures, which Messrs. Weeks enable us to submit, and it provides 
for the admission of warm instead of cold air into buildings ; 
thus fresh air is being constantly admitted in the most agreeable 
manner—a matter of great importance. The system cannot be 
so well described and explained as by an extract from the circular 
that is issued by the manufacturers of the apparatus. 
“ The boiler is tubular, the apparatus economical in its cost 
and in its consumption of fuel; it is powerful, rapid in its action, 
and requires very little attention. The connections are so ar¬ 
ranged that any number of rooms from two or three up to fifty 
or more can be warmed, and the whole or any number worked 
together or separately as required. 
“ Fig. 1 shows a section through the outer wall of a church, at 
a window. It will be seen that the wall below the window sill is 
built hollow, and that the recess thus formed is filled with hot- 
water pipes. The opening at the top may or may not be covered 
by an iron grating c. A is an opening into the church and closed 
at pleasure by a wooden flap. B is an iron ventilator just above 
the level of opening A, also closed at pleasure by a flap. This 
arrangement serves as a warming apparatus and ventilating 
apparatus combined—thus : In the summer, when the warming 
apparatus is not in use, the flap A is closed and the ventilator b 
remains open. The result is that cool fresh air enters at b, passes 
up the cavity through the grating C into the church above the 
heads of the congregation. In addition to this, the current of air 
would naturally follow the direction acquired in passing through 
the cavity for some height in the church, as shown by the arrows, 
and then disperse into an immense number of small currents and 
descend imperceptibly, thus avoiding the draughts so common 
and distressing in buildings devoted to public worship. 
“ In the winter when the warming apparatus is in use, the flap 
A being still closed and the ventilator B open, the result would be 
