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a long time in perfection. The flowers and foliage alike have a most 
powerful lemon scent. There is an idea that this plant will emit sparks 
if a lighted match be applied to it, but I have never been able to achieve 
this result. The finest plant of this that I have seen was in the garden 
of Christopher Powell, Esq., of The Old Hall, Southborough. It was 
fully 4 feet high, and as much through, It is an old-fashioned plant, 
and is generally known by the name of Fraxinella. It is easily 
propagated by seed. 
Poppies, 
Papaver orientale, a very grand and striking Poppy, of a most 
brilliant scarlet colour, appears to have somewhat reseated the drought 
of last season, as it has neither flowered so freely nor produced 
stems so vigorous as usual. There is also another Poppy which grows 
with me to the height of 4 feet, whieh I received under the name of 
occidentale, but it is more like the description of P. bracteatum ; it 
has been very showy, and seems to have stood the drought better 
than its congener. I have also had in flower a dwarfer Poppy, which I 
received from Mr. Carrington Ley, St. Helen’s, in Maidstone, of the 
parentage of which he seemed to be ignorant; it is about 1J foot high, 
with orange scarlet flowers. It is somewhat remarkable that he has 
been unable to obtain seed from it that would germinate, and has only 
been able to propagate it by division. 
Of the Iceland Poppies there is no need to say anything, these are 
so generally known and appreciated that I have only to say that they 
have done exceedingly well with me this year, and that I know no 
more pleasing mixture of colour than the white, yellow, and orange 
varieties combined. 
Aquilegias. 
There is no flower which of late years has received so great a develop¬ 
ment and afforded us such combination of colours as the beautiful and 
graceful Columbine. The old garden double varieties, pretty in them¬ 
selves, especially the white one, have been entirely displaced by the 
new race, which has originated from the admixture of some of the North 
American forms, such as Chrysantha, Skinneri, coerulea, and californica. 
There are no flowers that are more readily, one may say so readily, 
hybridised by the action of insects or wind as these, the consequence 
is that where the species are grown together and the seed gathered or the 
self-sown seedling plants taken, an endless variety may be obtained. In 
a small garden like my own one has to be contented with a few of these 
hybrids, but in the garden of Mr. Wolley Dod, with whom this tribe is 
a great favourite, or in such a garden as I saw the other day—namely, 
Mr. Powell’s—already mentioned, beds are devoted to it, and a most 
beautiful and graceful effect is obtained, The plants vary in height, 
habit, and flower, from the dwarf ones from which coerulea has evidently 
come, to Skinneri and californica the taller and larger varieties. So easily 
are these flowers hybridised it is almost impossible to keep them 
pure. I have tried to obtain seedling plants of coerulea, but have 
never been able to get them correct. Chrysantha is perhaps the 
only one about which there is any certainty, and this simply from 
the fact that it comes into flower later than the others, so that if seed is 
gathered from the later blooms of it one may be pretty sure of obtaining 
them correctly. But should there be any other in flower at the same 
time anywhere in the garden at the same time all your efforts may be 
frustrated. 
SiDALCEA CANDIDA. 
A very pretty white flowering plant of the Mallow tribe is this* 
hardy and easy of cultivation; in fact, the great difficulty is to 
keep it within bounds, and it is one of those plants which must be 
carefully watched. Some growers say it requires a close loamy soil, but 
I have found it succeed exceedingly well in an ordinary pliable garden 
soil.—D,, Deal. 
A NEW PALE PRIMROSE - COLOURED DAFFODIL 
(CERVANTES). 
The accompanying illustration (fig. 21) represents a bloom of a 
charming pale primrose-coloured Daffodil, which has been in Mr. Hart- 
land’s possession, from the Spanish Pyrenees, since 1885. He has 
named it Cervantes, and says that it has the vigour and constitution of 
the common N. Telamonius plenus. There are, he remarks, but few 
varieties of the Cervantes colour, a uniform pale primrose, possessing the 
qualifications and character of a market bloom, and one, too, that can 
be grown successfully under all conditions. Mr. Hartland ventures to 
surmise that Cervantes may prove to be but the true nobilis of Redouts, 
a lost plant to science. What say our specialists to this? The 
engraving has been prepared from a drawing made by Miss Gertrude 
Hartland, and sent us by Mr. W. Baylor Hartland, Cork. 
THE MIDLAND COUNTIES CARNATION SOCIETY. 
The annual exhibition was held in the Birmingham Botanical 
Gardens on the 4th inst., and was a most successful one, a large number 
of flowers being staged and many exhibitors attended. 
In the class for twelve Carnations, dissimilar, Mr. Robert Sydenham 
was first with Fred Phillips, Lord Salisbury (fine). Guardsman, Joseph 
Lakin (good), Sarah Payne, Robert Lord, Gordon Lewis, Agricola, J. D. 
Hextall, Thalia, and Master Fred ; second, Messrs. Thomson & Co., 
Birmingham ; third, Mr. Hy. Geggie, Bury; fourth, Mr. Crossley Head, 
Hebden Bridge ; fifth, Mr. A. R. Brown, Birmingham. For six Car¬ 
nations, dissimilar.—First, Mr. B. Simonite, Sheffield, with Duke of York, 
J. D. Hextall, Charles Henwood, Sportsman (a sport from Tim Bobbin), 
and a seedling ; second, Mr. J. Edwards, Manchester; third, Mr. J. 
Walker, Thame, with others following. 
For twelve Picotees, dissimilar.—First, Mr. A. W. Jones, Birming¬ 
ham, with a very fine stand of Mrs. Gorton, also The Princess, light 
edged bloom, Esther, Favourite, Thomas William and Mrs. Payne (all 
especially fine). Little Phil, Brunette, Ne Plus Ultra, Mrs. Barnett, Lady 
Louisa, Mrs. Sharpe, and Muriel; second, Mr. Robert Sydenham ; third, 
Mr. Charles Turner, Slough, with others following. For six Picotees.— 
First, Mr. C. Chappell, Lozells, Birmingham, with Mrs. Sharpe, Mrs. 
Beal, Nellie, Thomas William, Mona, and Little Phil ; second, Mr. B. 
Simonite ; third, Mr. C. F. Thurstans, Wolverhampton. 
For twelve yellow grounds.—First, Mr. Charles Turner with a grand 
stand of blooms. The Miser, George Cruickshank, and The Dey (three 
FIG. 21.— A NEW PRIMROSE-COLOUKED DAFFODIL (CERVANTES). 
superb distinct new varieties), Almira, Adela, Romulus, Edith, Mr. 
Wynne, Countess of Jersey, Primrose League, Janira, Agnes Chambers, 
and Mrs. Hammond; second, Mr. Robert Sydenham ; third, Messrs. 
Thomson & Co. For six yellow ground or Fancies.—First, Mr. T. E. 
Henwood, Reading, with Almira, Mrs. Whitbourn, Cardinal Wolseley 
(fine). Cowslip (fine variety), Chrysolora, and Undine; second, Mr. T. 
Anstiss, Brill ; third, Mr. G. Chaundy, Oxford ; others following. 
In the class for twelve Selfs.—First, Mr. C. Turner, with an excellent 
stand of Louis Napoleon (a fine salmon buff colour). The Governor, 
Salamander, King of Scarlets, Germania, Cedric (white Self), Fiery 
Cross, Corunna, Hayes’ Scarlet, Miss A. Campbell (lighter than 
Germania), The Hunter (darker than Germania), and Mrs. Ford ; second, 
Messrs. Thomson & Co.; third, Mr. R. Sydenham. For six Selfs.— 
First, Mr. J. Walker, Thame ; second, Mr. Wm. Kenyon ; third, Mr. G. 
Chaundy. In the class for six Carnations and Picotees for those who 
have never won a prize.—First, Mr. J. W. Bentley, Stakehill, Man¬ 
chester; second, Mr. J. Grove, Evesham; third, Mr. J. Evans, 
Newport. 
A class was set aside for twelve Carnation or Picotee blooms 
exhibition varieties, in a space not exceeding 20 inches, with a view to 
showing the calyx, and no cards or wires allowed. There were several 
exhibits.—First, Mr. A. W. Jones with a fine stand ; second, Messrs. 
Thomson & Co.; third, Mr. Robert Sydenham ; fourth, Mr. John Walker ; 
fifth, Mr. J. H. Wilson. For six Carnation and Picotee blooms, staged 
in the same way in half the space,—First, Mr. Aubrey Spur!in g. 
