February to, 189\ ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
165 
Peas, Beans, Beet, Radishes, Carrots, and Tomatoes are remarkably well 
represented, and in the Holborn display there are twenty-five sorts of 
Peas, two Beet, three Radishes, fourteen Beans, five Carrots, and nine 
Tomatoes. The last-named make very effective samples prepared in the 
manner indicated. 
TABLE PLANTS. 
The demand for graceful plants of moderate sjze and with brightly 
coloured or clearly variegated foliage is rapidly increasing, and every 
addition is readily welcomed that will impart some variety to those 
already in use. We have published several illustrations of plants 
adapted for this purpose, and another is now given (fig. 2-t) represent¬ 
ing an excellent and elegant plant. It has a somewhat cumbrous 
name—Anthericum albo-medio pictum—that is not likely to increase 
its popularity, but the merits of the plant are sufficiently pronounced to 
ensure it a large share of attention. The leaves are tapering, narrow. 
Sarracenias Chelsoni, melanorhoda, Wrigleyana, and porphyroneura 
Ferns.—Pteris serrulata, cretica nobilis, hastata, and adiantifolia ; 
Adiantums farleyense, cuneatum, cardiochlmna, fulvum, setulosum, 
and macrophyllum ; Nephrolepis Duffi, Doryopteris palmata, Poly¬ 
podium aureum, Scolopendriums vulgare and Kelwayi. 
A SIEVE FUMIGATOR. 
Fumigating is a necessity in all gardens, great or small, where 
such plants as Roses, Pelargoniums, and Calceolarias are grown. Peach 
trees need it either for green or black fly, and so do Vines occasionally, 
and as the time is fast approaching when fly of both colours will be on 
the increase, I thought a note on the subject might be useful to some 
who do not understand the best method of performing what is to some a 
very disagreeable task. Many men—myself among the number cannot 
stand the smoke without feeling giddy during the time it is necessary 
to remain in the house. We use a large sized sieve, having an inch 
Fig. 24.—anthericum ALBO-MEUIO PICTUM. 
and gracefully arching ; white in the centre, and edged with green. It 
seems to keep its variegation well and requires but little heat. 
This Anthericum and the following useful table plants were shown 
by' Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons at the Royal Horticultural Society’s 
meeting on October 22nd, 1889. Those with variegated foliage are 
marked with an asterisk. Dracmnas angustata, angustifolia, Cooperi, 
terminalis, norwoodiensis, Louisa, terminalis alba, Doucetti, Ernesti 
Frederic), and gracilis ; Crotons elegantissimus. Countess, Johannis, 
angustifolius, Chelsoni, and volutus ; Aralias Veitchi graclllima, Kercho- 
veana, Chabrieri, and elegantissima, leptophylla and *monstrosa : Panax 
Victoria and fruticosum multifida; Carex viridis and *variegata, 
■''Bambusa Fortunei variegata, *Pandanus Veitchi, ’•’Ananassa sativa 
variegata. Asparagus plumosus nanus and tenuissimus, Tillandsia Zahni, 
’’■'zebrina, *majus, and *tessellata, Nidularium amazonicum. Nepenthes 
Mastersiana, *Fittonias Pearcei and’''argyroneura,’•’Ophiopogon spicatus, 
*Acalypha musaicus, *Begonias Arthur Malet and *Louis Chretien 
(improved), *Gynerium argenteum variegatum, *Earya latifolia varie¬ 
gata, Anthericum latifolium, and *albo-medio pictum. Cocos Wed- 
delliana. Geonoma gracilis, Kentia gracilis, Thrinax elegans, Kentia 
Belmoreana, Areca Verschaffelti, Phcenix rupicola, Solanum Capsicas- 
trum, ’"Ficus Parcelli, Grevillea robusta, *Aspidistra lurida variegata, 
mesh, turning it upside down on the floor of the house. If placed on 
three bricks laid in triangular form so much the better, as more draught 
would be obtained, although there is a difficulty in seeing the bricks 
when the house is nearly full of smoke, and the position of the fumigator 
requires changing, as it does constantly, to distribute the smoke 
evenly. On the wire of the sieve we place three or four red hot cinders 
about the size of a hen’s egg. These are covered with tobacco paper, 
which has previously been torn to pieces about 3 inches square. If at 
all dry—as it should not be—the paper must be wetted, using a fine- 
rose waterpot. Attention is necessary to prevent the paper blazing and 
burning too rapidly. Keep the waterpot always at hand ready for this. 
Some people cover the paper with damp moss ; I do not care for the 
plan, as it prevents the tobacco paper burning so freely as it would do 
without the moss. 
The advantage of using a large sieve is that a greater surface is given 
from which more smoke is obtained. The greater the amount of smoke 
at once the quicker is the house filled, and that being the object, the 
most ready method should be sought. If the cinders are spread all over 
the sieve a greater body of smoke will be obtained than is possible from 
any other kind of f umigator that I have seen. When the house which has 
to be fumigated is a large one, two sieves might be used with advantage 
at the same time. For the last eight years we have used no other kind 
of fumigator than a coarse-mesh sieve, and I consider a cheaper or a 
more efficacious one cannot be found. If the tobacco paper is in a right 
state, well pulled to pieces of the size named, very little attention is 
