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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
The Echinate group has the florets in the form of stiff, slender quills, which are a little 
incurved and pointed at the tips. The Radiate has singular spider-like flowers, with a close, 
button-like disk, and a spreading ray of a single series of long, straight, slender, tubular 
florets. The Actinioid group, which seems to be the most numerous as well as most novel 
and ornamental, has the florets rolled longitudinally into a long, subulate, or thread-like 
form, at length twisting and falling about in a confused manner, but forming loose, elegant 
tassels. The Ribbon-flowered group consists of varieties with long, broad, flat, but pointed 
florets, which in many instances, probably in all, form large showy blooms. 
- 0wing to the manner of cooking Potatos in France—viz., cut in 
slices and boiled in oil or lard, called Pom,me cle terre frite, the Kidney form 
of Potato is preferred to the round. Mr. Knight, of Pontchartrain, states, 
on the authority of one of the chefs cle cuisine, that the Milky White variety 
is exceedingly well adapted for this mode of cooking, leaving out of the 
question its whiteness, and other extra good qualities. As a profitable second 
early, he considers it has no equal. 
- tUmosE who intend to make a fine display with Gladioli, should 
lose no time in preparing the beds, selecting good rich soil, and digging 
the beds over fully 18 inches deep. If the subsoil is very heavy, there 
should be mixed with it a good quantity of coarse sand, but no manure, 
unless verv old.—J. W. 
- ^The Chrysanthemums at Wollaton Hall, have this season been a 
most attractive feature, as we learn from a Nottingham contemporary. The 
plants have been grown to single stems without stopping, and the strength 
which they had attained was remarkable, and consequently the flowers 
were unusually fine. The system of growth pursued by Mr. Gadd is most 
simple. “The cuttings are planted in a gentle bottom heat in February. They are 
potted-off when rooted, into small pots, and nursed on until the end of May, care being 
taken to get them as strong as possible. At that time they are transferred to 6-inch pots, in 
rich compost, and set out upon a hard surface in the open air. The plants are not stopped at 
all, but each as it progresses is secured to a proper stake. Liquid manure is freely supplied. 
Later in the season the plants are removed into 11-inch pots, in which they flower. The 
plants so treated vary in height from 3 feet to nearly 6 feet. Two of them, White and 
Yellow Queen of England, each with some thirty flowers, many of them measuring IS inches 
in circumference, were superb examples of skilful cultivation.” 
dBfntuaq). 
- Schulz Bipontinus, of Deideslieim, long known to botanists 
as a diligent investigator of the Compositae, died on the 17th of December, 
in the 63rd year of his age. 
—- Mx . Thomas Ansell, who for fifty years carried on successfully 
the occupation of a nurseryman and florist at Camden Town, died on the 
26tli December, at his residence, Camden Road, in his 74th year. Mr. 
Ansell was the fortunate raiser of Dahlia “Unique,” which at the time 
it was brought out created quite a sensation in the floral world. 
- Mx, James H. Dickson, of Newton Villa, Chester, died on the 
28th of December, at the age of 72. He was the head of the firm of 
James Dickson & Sons, Chester, and was one of the foremost men in his 
profession, well-known, and universally respected. 
