Febraary 15,1894 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
129 
- A Sportive Fuchsia. —Everyone familiar with Fuchsias 
knows that the variety Phenomenal is a huge double with red tube and 
sepals and a rich bluish-purple corolla. It is one of the finest doubles 
in cultivation. At Swanley Mr. Cannell has a couple of sports from 
this variety, but oddly enough occurring on the same plant. In one 
the corolla is a bluish mauve, and the other of a pure white. These 
are two important additions to our stock of giant Fuchsias.—D. 
- Devon and Exeter Gardeners’ Society. — Members of 
this Society held their fortnightly meeting at the Guildhall on the 
7th inst., when Mr. Alfred Tucker read a paper on “ Kew and Kew 
Gardeners.” Kew, the essayist said, was regarded by most Londoners 
merely in the light of a public park. It was in reality a Botanical 
Institution, which could boast of a collection of plants brought from 
studying his latest discoveries in connection with the materials in the 
Herbarium, has presented a century of dried plants, consisting of new, 
rare, and interesting species, chiefly of his own collecting. The same 
gentleman has presented a copy of the first part of his illustrated work 
“ leones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum.” It contains fifty, with 
few exceptions, coloured plates of South African Orchids. The figures 
are excellent, and the analyses of the flowers very complete. From 
Mr. E. E. Galpin of Queenstown, Kew has received a parcel of about 
sixty species of dried plants, including many of great interest, among 
them a flowering specimen of Sterculia Murex, described in the “ Kew 
Bulletin ” (1893, p. 155). A figure with a fuller description will shortly 
appear in “ Hooker’s leones Plantarum,” t. 2278. Mr. T. L. Bullock, 
H.B.M. Consul at Newchang, has presented a collection of about 150 
species from North China. From Mr. E. Whittal, Smyrna, Kew has 
Fig, 20.—CORNUS BRACHYPODA VARIEGATA. 
every known quarter of the globe, which no other country could equal. 
In the world of science it played an important part; its commercial 
influence was of value to the Mother Country and her Colonies, and it 
was acknoviledged by all to be one of the best training schools for 
horticulturists. 
- Presentations op Dried Plants to Kew. — Professor 
C. S. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Brookline, Massachu¬ 
setts, has presented to Kew the plants collected and dried by Mr. 
W. W. Rockhill, formerly Secretary of the United States Legation at 
Pekin, on his last adventurous journey in Mongolia and Central Tibet. 
The collection consists of about fifty species, some of them probably 
undescribed. It will shortly be worked out and the results appended 
to Mr. W. B. Hemsley’s forthcoming paper on the plants collected by 
Dr. Thorold, who accompanied Captain Bower on his equally memorable 
journey from Western Tibet to China. Dr. Rowland has sent a further 
collection of about 300 dried plants from Lagos, which, with previous 
collections recorded in the “Kew Bulletin” (1893, p. 146), have been 
approximately determined, and the duplicates distributed to other 
botanical establishments with which Kew exchanges. Mr. Harry Bolus, 
F.L.S., a resident near Cape Town, who has been some L^^nths at Kew 
received another century of dried plants sent chiefly with the view of a 
selection being made of such as were deserving of cultivation. Mr. 
H. N. Ridley, F.L.S., the Director of the Gardens and Forest Department 
of the Straits Settlements, has sent a further collection of dried plants 
from Malaya, numbering some 500 species ; and Mr. Curtis, Assistant 
Superintendent at Penang, a collection of 100 species, partly from 
Siamese territory.—(“ Kew Bulletin.”) 
CORNUS BRACHYPODA VARIEGATA. 
Among variegated foliaged shrubs the above mentioned Cornua is 
probably destined to take a foremost position, inasmuch as a fine 
specimen of it forms a most effective object. Branches of it were 
shown by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea, 
at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society last year, and on 
which occasion a first-class certificate was awarded for the exhibit. 
The leaves are nearly 4 inches in length, the centre of each one pale 
green, blotched with a deeper shade, and the deep margin creamy white. 
Fig. 20 represents a spray of this beautiful shrub. 
