Jaaaary 11,1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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Madame Charles Heine is another gorgeous coloured variety, and 
Aneitumensis has long leaves, reticulated bright yellow. Aigburth 
Gem is regarded as being the best variety in existence for table or 
room decoration. The colour mainly is red, which is what is required 
where artificial light is employed. In style of growth this variety 
resembles Interruptum, but so much more graceful. Baroness Kothschild 
has large broad leaves, variegated deep carmine red ; and Chelsoni has 
narrow pendent foliage, deep red and yellow. Very few Crotons excel 
Sinitzinianus for elegance of form, either as small or large plants. The 
long interrupted foliage is very largely variegated with bright primrose 
yellow. Newmanni has large noble foliage, variegated vermilion crimson, 
an exceedingly showy variety, fine habit, and abundantly clothed with 
leaves. Although I name Warreni last it is, nevertheless, one of the best; 
its long pendulous waved and twisted foliage fits it for any form of 
decoration, variegated with red and crimson.— E. M. 
PHRYNIUM VARIEGATUM. 
Fob decorative purposes few ornamental foliage plants are more 
useful than Phrynium variegatum. When well grown this plant forms 
an attractive feature in the stove, and it is also admirably adapted for 
table decoration. The character of this Phrynium is so well depicted 
in the illustration (fig. 4) that a djt.riled description is unnecessary. It 
usually grows from a foot to 18 inches in height, and the foliage is 
prettily marked with deep green. In most cases it is grown in a stove, 
but an intermediate temperature suits it, and if cultivated under the 
latter conditions it is hardier and more suitable for the embellishment 
of warm apartments. The engraving has been prepared from a plant 
supplied by Messrs. B. D. Shuttleworth & Co., Albert Nurseries, 
Peckham Rye. 
OSMUND A REGALIS. 
I AM sending a photograph of a noble specimen of this truly “ Royal 
Fern,” growing in the grounds at Hendrefoilan, near Swansea. It is 
the finest single plant that I have seen, although acquainted with many 
a fine Brake in its undisturbed boggy habitat. The following figures 
will demonstrate the robust luxuriance and happy condition thereof :— 
Diameter of the crown, 7 to 8 feet; ditto, measuring across top of the plant 
from tip to tip of fronds, 18 to 20 feet. In this measurement the fronds 
occupied their natural position, but if bent outwards several more feet 
could be added. It grows in a boggy position in a portion of the 
grounds that are in semi-wilderness state, and though amply shaded by 
native tree-growth it is not at all overcrowded or confined by under¬ 
growth. Mr. Hawkins may safely be trusted to guard this interesting 
Fern, as well as many other good plants that nestis cosily in the many 
sly nooks that fond hands in the past have laboured to create here and 
there in these woodland gardens. 
Mr. Hawkins’s name is more familiar to your readers in connection j 
with Ewenny Priory, where he served eighteen years, and only left at 
the death of his late employer. Col. T. Picton Turberville, a surviving 
brother succeeding to the estate. The widow, Mrs. Turberville, took up 
her abode at Hendrefoilan, retaining Mr. Hawkins in her service, where 
we find him actively engaged in renovating a good old garden which 
has for some years been badly neglected, and preparing again for 
“ friendly ” hostilities in the South Wales horticultural arenas.— 
Beadwen. 
[The plant is a magnificent one, but the photograph is unfortu¬ 
nately not suitable for reproduction.] 
ZONAL PELARGONIUMS IN WINTER. 
Most gardeners are cognizant of the fact that Zonal Pelargoniums 
are valuable for producing a grand display of bloom during the winter, 
and yet all do not attend to their cultivation for that purpose so closely 
as they might do with advantage to themselves. Compared with 
Chrysanthemums Zonal Pelargoniums can well hold their own, and were 
they given half as much attention in private gardens the results would 
be most satisfactory. It is, however, in a few trade establishments that 
these useful plants are seen at their best, and I was reminded of this by 
a recent visit to Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft Nursery, Lewisham. Here, 
as readers of the Journal of Horticulture are aware, Chrysanthemjums 
receive special attention ; but other plants are by no means neglected, a 
feature at this time of the year being the Zonals. A long span-roofed 
house is devoted to their culture, and this is now filled with plants that 
are flowering profusely. All the best varieties in cultivation are grown, 
and in addition to those sent out by other firms Mr. Jones has many 
new kinds of his own raising. The whole make a display that for 
brilliancy can hardly be excelled, the bright colours showing up 
splendidly when everything outside is covered with snow. The single 
varieties flower with characteristic freedom, while the double ones are 
well represented, and it may be of interest to enumerate a few of the 
best newer kinds now in bloom. 
Amongst the single varieties introduced last year Mr. W. Wright was 
particularly noticeable. This has a grand truss and flowers of a deep 
salmon shade, the plant possessing a robust habit. Mr. B. C. Ravens- 
croft is conspicuous for its bold crimson scarlet pips, the white eye in 
the centre of each forming a pleasing contrast. As a white Edith Syratt 
is very fine, the flowers being extra large and freely produced. Another 
comparatively new variety of exceptional merit is Mrs. W. Wright, a 
variety that has been certificated several times. It is of a bright purplish 
magenta shade, possibly the nearest approach to a blue extant. The 
plant is of good habit and profuse in flowering. Mr. F. T. Shepley is a 
fine magenta crimson, and Mr. D. B. Crane is one of the best scarlet 
varieties in existence. All the above-mentioned kinds have been intro¬ 
duced by Mr. Jones, and it is probable that they will in due course be 
found in many collections. Of those sent out by other firms Flamingo, a 
fine orange scarlet, was flowering freely, the same also applying to 
Galatea, salmon rose ; and Puritan, white, delicately tinted salmon, 
FIG. 4.—PHRYNIUM VARIEGATUM. 
Marquis of Dufferin has large, rich, crimson magenta flowers, and 
Cyelops is a splendid dark rich crimson with a white eye. Lord Salis¬ 
bury is a magnificent variety with enormous, richly coloured pips of 
great substance, and Conde is a brilliant crimson scarlet. 
With reference to the double or semi-double varieties of recent intro¬ 
duction, Mr. W. S. Sach appeared to be an improvement on the well- 
known F. V. Raspail, the pips being large and the trusses of bloom very 
freely produced. Colossus is a gigantic bloom of a rich reddish 
crimson hue, and in Mr. J Surman w^e have a pleasing blush pink shade. 
Mr. John Spencer Phillips is a charming deep salmon, the plant being 
dwarf and very free. Golden Rain is a variety that should be exten¬ 
sively cultivated; the flowers are large, of excellent form, and a striking 
orange scarlet colour. Nydia has white blooms, and a pink centre being 
conspicuous in each pip it is an attractive kind. The same may be 
said of Turtle’s Surprise, a sport from F. V. Raspail, which is a grand 
free-flowering variety. White Abbey is considered an improvement on 
many existing double white varieties, inasmuch as it has a dwarf 
spreading habit and chaste flowers of fine form. Besides the foregoing 
the best of the older varieties are represented, though these it is needless 
to mention.—C. 
