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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ September, 
occurs in Polypodium cambricum. They have thus a peculiar depth and leafiness, which, 
together with the excessively fine cutting and acute toothing of the margin, render it one of 
the most beautiful objects that can be imagined amongst Ferns. 
-Jn reply to a question as to the results of Steeping Timber in lime 
water at Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, Mr. Bowie, the gardener 
there, states that in the erection of the greater part of the buildings on that 
estate, between thirty and forty years ago, home-grown timber of various 
sorts, but more particularly Scotch Fir, was largely made use of; and for several years 
part of the timber for such purposes, before being used, had been put to steep in a large tank 
amongst lime water. Much of the timber so treated is at the present day (to all appearance) 
as sound as when first put up ; whereas timber of the same sort and quality, grown in the 
same plantation, and employed in the erection of similar buildings, but not so treated, is fast 
going to decay. 
-Haxton’s Supreme Pea proves to he a variety of high merit. It 
was raised from Laxton’s Prolific, crossed with Little Gem. The seed 
when dry is of a dark olive green, and slightly indented. The plant grows 
about 31 feet in height, is quite as early as Daniel O’Rourke, and bears remarkably fine 
large full pods, with about ten large well-flavoured peas in each. It is, unquestionably, a 
first-class early Pea, and will be a great acquisition. 
- £1 good addition to our popular Ferns will he found in Lomaria 
gibba crispa , a sport raised by Mrs. E. Cole & Sons, which is of dwarfish liahit, 
and so densely leafy and wavy that the edges of the pinna take on a 
decidedly crisped appearance. Another variety of the same species, called 
major , has been raised in several places. It is very much larger in its growth than the true 
L. gibba, produces many fertile fronds as broadly leafy as those of a true Blechnum, tho*e 
occupying the position of the normal fertile fronds being also le3s contracted than in the 
type; the plants, indeed, appear intermediate between L. gibba and Blechnum brasiliense. 
It has been shown by Mr. W. Dean, Mr. Nelson, and Mr. Westland. These varieties are 
quite distinct from the finely ramose and crested L. gibba Bellii, grown by Messrs. Osborn 
and Sons, and Messrs. Veitch & Sons. 
- j&OME fine examples of Lilium auratum have been bloomed this year. 
At Melcliet Court, Mr. Cross had one bulb with three stems about 8 feet 
6 inches in height, which bore respectively 81, 84, and 28 flower buds ; 
besides four small offset stems, hearing eight flowers, making a total of 
151. In the gardens at Quarry Bank, Allerton, another had five stout stems from 7 feet 
6 inches to 8 feet high, three having 17 flowers each, and the other two 15 each ; also nine 
smaller stems, from 3 feet to 4 feet in height, bearing amongst them 19 flowers, making 
100 flowers. Mr. Tanton, of Epsom, had one with seven stems, on which was an aggregate 
of 52 flowers, while another later spike had 49 well-swelled buds. Mr. Tanton grows his 
plants in good peat, and does not shake them out when dormant; but they are allowed to 
start again in the same pot, and are shifted onwards in the same compost. Much of the 
failure that sometimes takes place in the cultivation of this beautiful Lily must be attributed 
to the division and shaking-out of the bulbs—operations which not only bruise, but actually 
sometimes break away the outside ripe scales, each of which forms in itself a reservoir of 
nutriment for future growth and support. 
©&ttuatg. 
-JUr. Bichard Pearce, who had been for some years in the employ 
of the Messrs. Yeitch & Sons as a collector of new plants, and who in that 
capacity had introduced many subjects of first-class merit, died on the 19tli of July, at 
Panama, of bilious fever. He had recently entered into an engagement as collector with 
Mr. Bull, and had only reached Panama some ten or twelve days before his death. 
