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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ April, 
though they are as yet hut young plants, and have not formed a stipes. 
Both form handsome tufts of bright green leaves, 8 to 5 feet in height. 
- (Golden Queen Fuchsia is very similar in the colour of its leaves 
to Mrs. Pollock Pelargonium. It is a good grower, hut blooms very 
sparingly, and the most attractive feature of the plant is its large tricolor 
leaves, which are perfectly unique amongst Fuchsias. Golden Fleece is 
also strictly a "bedding variety, with most attractive bronze yellow foliage; it stands all 
kinds of weather throughout the summer season well, and forms a really beautiful minia¬ 
ture golden hedge, from 6 to 10 inches high, and about as much through. For effect as a 
yellow ribbon line, Mr. Cannell states that it far exceeds any Pelargonium for effect. 
- ^Eiiose who make a speciality of spring gardening will be interested 
in some pretty seedling Primroses Mr. William Paul produced at one of 
the Meetings of the Floral Committee. They were the progeny from the 
sixth or seventh year of seeding, and to very novel and even curious forms, 
were added stout and smooth-edged flowers. Mr. Paul’s aim is to induce by successional 
seeding each flower to produce the hue of colour of its parent; he finds each year a larger 
proportion of flowers representing the colour of the seed parent, and has, therefore 
reasonable hope of success.—R. D. 
-Us the time for the general planting of Potatos is near at hand, 
those who are anxious to have fine samples, free from disease, will find 
their labour well repaid by using new soil of good quality mixed with 
wood ashes and a little soot; if wood ashes are not easily procured, char¬ 
coal is a good substitute. The carbon acts as a preventive.'—J. W. 
-C£ham.®rops excelsa, the Chinese Hemp Palm, has recently borne 
perfect seeds, both at Montpellier and at Bordeaux. At Montpellier a female 
plant produced fifteen spikes of bloom ; pollen-bearing flowers were brought 
from another plant some fifteen leagues off, and the female plant thereupon 
became laden with thousands of berries so arranged as to resemble enormous bunches of 
grapes, nearly three feet in length, The berries are reniform or spheroidal, about the size of 
a large pea, black, and covered with a fine bloom. 
#bittiarg. 
- J$U\ W. E. Seemann, who was well known to botanists as having 
been for ten years associated with his brother Bertliold in the editorship of 
the “ Bonplandia,” died at Hanover on the 3rd of March. 
- JHt, C. W. Crocker, died at Torquay, on the 19th of February, 
aged 35. He was for some time foreman at Kew, where he distinguished 
himself as an energetic cultivator, but w T as compelled to resign his post on 
account of ill-health, and returned to Chichester, where he succeeded his 
father in the office of verger. He w 7 as a frequent contributor to the gar¬ 
dening periodicals. 
-■ JFtr. E. Tucker, of Margate, whose name is so intimately con¬ 
nected wfitli the Grape mildew, Oidiurn Tuckeri, which was first discovered 
by him, and named in compliment to his skill in recognising the cause of 
so fearful a malady, died at Margate, on the 9th of March. 
