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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[December, 1877. 
oil the flowering plants for cuttings. This is continued all the season with each succeed¬ 
ing batch of plants. As soon as the cuttings are well rooted, they are potted into 2j-inch 
pots, in a good loamy soil, with a little manure and sand added. As soon as these pots 
are well filled with roots, they are potted into 4-inch pots, using the same compost; they 
may receive another shift by-and-by, but the 4-inch pot is the preferable size for market 
purposes, and its producing-power is wonderful. As soon as well established and care¬ 
fully hardened-off, they are plunged out-of-doors in an open situation in prepared beds of 
coal-ashes or tan, and well attended to till October, when they are housed in a cool house, 
carefully keeping them from frost till they^ire introduced into the forcing-house.—So 
writes “ E. W.,” in the Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
- ^ COLLECTION of Toiiiatos lias been grown for trial-purposes in pots 
under glass this year at Chiswick. The collection was represented by over sixty 
differently-named varieties, two plants of each being grown. The smallest variety 
was Red Currant, of about the same size as a Currant; the largest variety was the Trophy, 
the earliest the Early Gem, and the latest De Lay’s, which is of little value. First-class 
Certificates have been awarded to Little Gern (Bliss), a medium-sized, round, deep-red 
variety, very fi'ee-fruiting, and very early; to New Improved (Vick), a large, smooth, 
ovate variety of a distinct rosy-crimson colour, free-fruiting; to Vilmorin’s Large 
Red (Vilmorin), a very large, slightly-ribbed variety and a wonderful cropper; to 
Trophy, an exceedingly large nearly smooth red variety, of fine appearance, and late. 
Hathaway’s Excelsior was found to w^ell merit the certificate that was awarded to it 
some time ago; also Carter’s Green Gage, as being by far the best yellow variety. Con¬ 
queror, One Hundred Days, and Portsmouth, amongst the new varieties, were greatly 
admired.'—The excellent Tomato called the Stanifordian, one of the best varieties in 
cultivation, w'as, it appears, selected and grown by Mr. Jackson, at Casewick, and was 
named and sent out at an earlier date under the name of Jachson’s Favourite. 
- (fSrREAT progress has been made with the Douhle Pyretimm., and Messrs. 
Kelway and Son, of Southport, -who have lately entered the field as raisers of 
novelties, own the following sorts, remarkable for their size, fullness, symmetry, 
and striking hues of colour :— Amethyst, pink flushed with violet-blue, large, full, very 
fine and striking in appearance; Achille, rosy pink, large, full and very fine; Captain 
Boynton, cherry-red, a fine dash of colour, large and full; Captain Nares, soft magenta, 
fine shape, and remarkably full; Ceres, bright pink, deepening to rose on the ray florets, 
large and very fine; C?eopnfra, pure white, large and full; Duchess of Edinburgh, pale 
pink, tinted with violet, and surfaced with silver, very pretty and attractive; Galopin, 
deep magenta shaded with maroon, very fine in colour, large and full; Kreimhilda, pale 
pink, a pretty hue of colour, large and full; and Queen Mary, blush flushed with pink, 
fine and full. These Pyrethrums are most effective border flowers. 
- Et is said that Coffee is an Antidote to Strychnine. Dr. Attilio Lelli 
having met with a case in which a dose of strychnia was administered in coffee 
without fatal consequences, was, as we learn from the Lancet., led to institute 
some experiments to determine whether it possessed antitoxic power against this drug. 
The animals employed were rabbits, and by comparative trials he found that a dose of 
five centigi’ammes proved fatal in a short space of time. AVhen the same or a larger dose 
was given in a very strong infusion of coffee, he found that the coffee either acted as a 
complete antidote in preventing the poisonous effects of the strychnia,'Or that it materially 
diminished the violence of its action. 
-- Hn the Lily house at Kew, according to the Gardeners^ Chronicle^ 
Nelumhiuni aspericaule has been found to be a great improvement on N. 
speciosum for garden culture, requiring a lower temperature, blooming more pro¬ 
fusely, and having flowers that are even more magnificent. The petals are broader than 
those of N. speciosum, narrowing less to the base, and of a deeper rose-colour over the 
entire surface. The glow of colour within the flower is to the eyes almost like that of 
some molten metal. It was raised, we believe, by the late Mr. Sylvester. The plant 
above referred to was grown in a pot, which seems quite sufficient for its development. 
