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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ August 7, 1890. 
suffice this week, therefore it shall be resumed when an hour’s 
leisure affords me the opportunity of dealing with the matter.— 
Lewis Castle. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Floral Committee met at the Society’s Gardens, Chiswick, on 
July 22nd. Present: W. Marshall, Esq., in the chair, and Messrs. 
Hibberd, Lowe, Druery, Walker, Herbst, Nicholson, Baines, Leach, Dean, 
Goldring, Paul, and Holmes. The Committee inspected the collections 
of Carnations, Picotees, Stocks, and Pansies growing in the Gardens, 
when the following awards were made. *** Equivalent to first-class 
certificate ; ** to award of merit :— 
Carnation ***Juliette (R.H.S.), bright rosy purple self. 
„ Mrs. Frank Watts (Ware), white self. 
„ Borneo (Paul & Son). 
„ Augusta „ 
„ Pica „ 
„ Juno „ rose self. 
„ Snowdrift (Fisher, Son, & Sibray), white self. 
„ Horace (Dan), scarlet self. 
„ Maggie Laurie (Dicksons & Co.), delicate blush self. 
„ Caledonia „ bright purple. 
„ The Moor (Dean), dark crimson. 
„ Rowena „ bright scarlet. 
„ B. J. Bryant (R.H.S.). 
„ Favourite (Turner). 
„ Clown (Dodwell), yellow ground. 
„ Oxonian „ salmon self. 
** Beatrice (Fisher, Son, & Sibray), buff self. 
„ Fair Maid (Dean) blush. 
***The Bride (Dobbie) creamy white, edged blue. 
„ Duchess of Fife „ orange, edged bronze. 
„ Neptune „ dark purple, top petals pale. 
** Duchess of Sutherland (Dobbie) pale lavender. 
„ Marchioness of Tweeddale ,, pure white. 
***Large Ten Week (Putz) brilliant rose. 
» » » purple. 
„ „ „ white. 
sulphur yellow. 
Picotee 
Carnation 
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Picotee 
Carnation 
Pansy 
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Stocks 
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Dwarf Ten Week 
lilac. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee. 
Present : T. F. Rivers, Esq., in the chair, and Messrs. Cheal, Crowley, 
P, Veitch, Balderson, Warren, Wythes, and Hudson. The Committee 
inspected the collections of Peas growing in the Gardens, and made the 
following awards of merit :—The Daisy (James Carter & Co.) a dwarf 
wrinkled Marrow ; Boston Hero (G. Bunyard & Co.) a tall white 
wrinkled Marrow ; Ambassador (H. Eckford) a tall green wrinkled 
Marrow. 
The Floral Committee, on July 31st, again inspected the collections of 
Carnations and Picotees, also the Pelargoniums, growing in the gardens, 
and made the following awards :—■ 
Carnation 
Picotee 
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Carnation 
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Picotee 
Carnation 
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Mrs. Reynolds Hole (Veitch), terra cotta. 
Grandiflora (Veitch), deep rose. 
Alice Ayres (Veitch-Ware), white, slightly streaked. 
Globe de Nancy (Veitch), white, large. 
Germania (Veitch-Benary), yellow. 
Baby Castle (Turner-Veitch), rose-pink, fine const! 
tution. 
Admiration (Veitch), dark purple edge. 
Guiding Star (Ware), scarlet self. 
Will Threlfall (Paul), bright yellow. 
Edith (Fisher, Son,& Sibray), pale pink, spotted scarlet 
Canary „ pale yellow. 
Comtesse de Paris (Paul), pale blush. 
Penelope (Hooper), white self. 
Merlin (Lakin), deep crimson. 
Boadicea (Douglas), purple flaked. 
Caractacus „ crimson bizarre. 
Feuerball (Benary), deep scarlet self. 
Mirakel von Zirbst (Benary), very dark crimson. 
Albrecht Duesser ,, deep rose, crimson flake. 
Orestes (R.H.S.), pale rose. 
Countess of Ellesmere (R.LI.S.), pale flesh, spottec 
with crimson. 
Agnes Chambers (Turner), yellow ground, lilac edge. 
Colonial Beauty ,, terra cotta, streaked. 
Dorothy (Turner), terra cotta. 
Scarlet Premier (Storrie), scarlet self. 
Rose Celestial (Turner), rose self. 
Atalanta (Dodwell), yellow ground. 
Diana (Dodwell), white self. 
Ariel ,, yellow. 
Andromeda (Dodwell), terra cotta flaked. 
Grosken (Veitch), purple edge. 
Alfred Grey (Dodwell), yellow ground. 
Hypatia (Paul), white self. 
Double-flowered Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums — 
„ ***De Quatrefages (Lemoine), violet-magenta. 
„ „ Souvenir de Charles Turner, flowers of a deep pink 
shade. 
,, ,, Galilee, No. 1, soft lilac. 
„ ,, „ No. 2, soft rosy pink. 
„ „ Madame Thibaut, deep pink. 
„ „ Le Printemps, rosy pink. 
„ „ Comtesse Horace de Choiseul, satiny rose. 
„ „ Gloire d’Orleans, bright pink. 
Single-flowered, Ivy-leaved— 
„ ***Gem, blush white. 
,, „ Mrs. H. Cannell, deep mauve purple. 
Zonals ***Charles Mason (Pearson), fine scarlet, of good habit. 
„ „ Mons. Poirer (Lemoine), flowers of a beautiful purplish 
shade, of good habit of growth. 
Stock, Large-flowering Ten Week— 
„ ** Aurora (Putz). 
Fuchsia ** Dunrobin Bedder (Melville), seedling from F. Riccar- 
toni, a dwarf, free-flowering, bedding variety. 
Mimulus ** Moschatus compactus (Putz), of dwarf, even growth, 
free flowering, and useful for edging purposes. 
NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. 
The “Botanical Magazine” for July contains coloured illus¬ 
trations of several good plants that are worth the attention of 
cultivators. The plates, strangely enough, have been again bound 
wrongly, a mistake that has occurred rather frequently of late. 
Bignonia rugosa. 
A climbing plant with large elliptical leaves and pale yellow 
flowers. Sir Joseph Hooker says respecting it :—“ In the absence 
of fruit, Bignonia rugosa was described as a doubtful species of 
the genus, and for its generic confirmation the Royal Gardens are 
indebted to their excellent correspondent, Dr. Ernst of Caraccas, 
who transmitted seeds to Kew in 1872, together with the descrip¬ 
tion of the fruit which is given above. Its nearest ally is probably 
a plant, a native of the Antilles, figured as Macrodiscus rigescens 
by Bureau in his beautiful Atlas of the flowers and fruit of the 
new genera into which he proposed to divide Bignonia, and of 
which the letterpress has most unfortunately never been pub¬ 
lished. As in B. rugosa the calyx is truncate, the corolla tubular 
with subequal lobes, the stamens and disc are the same, as are the 
fruit and seeds in all essentials. Macrodiscus is probably a well- 
founded gems. B. rugosa was discovered by the collector Wagener 
in the province of Choco, United States of Columbia, at an eleva¬ 
tion of 4000 feet, and is described as a climber 10 feet high. In 
the description by Schlechtendal, and in native specimens from 
Dr. Ernst, there are stipulary leaflets at the base of the petiole. 
“ The Kew plant of B. rugosa was raised from seeds sent, as 
stated above, by Dr. Ernst in 1872, and which flowered in the 
Palm house in October, 1889.” 
Lueddemannia PescatoreiJ 
A handsome Orchid with long racemes of flowers, the sepals 
streaked, spotted, and suffused with red, the petals and lip 
yellow. It will be seen that a slightly different orthography 
is adopted for the generic name from that usual in gardening 
periodicals—Luddemannia. An account of the botanical difference 
between this, Peristeria, Cycnoches, Acineta, Lacsena, and others is 
given, and the description concludes with the following note— 
“ L. Pescatorei is a native of the mountains of Ocana, a province 
of Kew Grenada, at the mouth of the Magdalena River, where it 
was found at elevations of 6000 to 9000 feet by Schlim in 1848,. 
who sent it to Linden, and it has been subsequently collected in 
the same country by Roezl. Specimens with the spike upwards of 
3 feet long, and bearing upwards of ninety flowers, are known. 
The specimen here figured was sent for figuring by Mr. Moore of 
the Glasnevin Botanical Gardens in July, 1889, the spike being 
34 inches long. The flower had a strong scent, rather like decay¬ 
ing Oranges.” 
Asarum caudigerum, 
A peculiar species from China with small spotted flowers, the 
three divisions of the flowers prolonged into whitish tails, and 
exactly like one of the smaller Masdevallias. In an illustration, 
if it were not for the leaves the plant might easily be mistaken for 
a Masdevallia. This is a curiosity, and as such would be worth a 
place in a collection, but it would be of little horticultural value. 
Masdevallia Carderi. 
One of the small flowered species, with pretty bell-like drooping 
flowers, wffiite, with a red ring near the base, which is yellow, the 
sepaline tails being marked with red and yellow. 
“ Of all the genera of Orchideae, none is so remarkable as Masde- 
