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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
May, 
cannot live against.” But he mast remember, as in all laws involving penal consequences 
punishment follows only upon full proof of offence; so in the case of a bizarred flower, 
disqualification can follow only upon the plainest evidence that one or more petals are desti¬ 
tute of the needed colours, and though through-stripes are so desirable, and to give the flower 
a high position amongst its fellows must exist, yet, as a shield io disqualification, faintest 
flash or splash, though not larger than a pin’s head, will suffice. 
I well remember the bringing of this point to a practical issue twenty-one years ago 
The schedule of prizes of the Northern Counties’ Carnation and Picotee Society required, and 
properly required, that bizarred flowers should contain the two colours, in addition to the 
white, in every petal. The exhibition was held at Manchester, in the Garden of the Botanical 
and Horticultural Society, and the Judges were Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. Merry weather, of 
York, and Mr. Robert Dunderdale, of Bolton. An otherwise very fine bloom of Haines’ Black 
Diamond, C.B,, which I proposed to exhibit in my collection of twelve, was deficient of 
bizarre in one _ 9 ?«a?’f/-petal, exhibited indeed a faint fiash or splash only, and the late Mr. R 
J. Kaye, well known for his experience and high-standing amongst growers of the Carnation 
and Picotee, warned me that that petal would inevitably lead to the disqualification of my stand, 
and urged its removal. But as the symmetry of the flower would thus have been destroyed, 
and I dissented from the interpretation that “ two colours in every petal, in addition to the 
-white,” meant definite throitgh-st7'ipes ofi colon?-,” it was agreed to submit the specimen to 
the Judges, and these gentlemen without hesitation ruled that'the flower would pass, though 
as against one in which the marking was to be found in bold, handsome, through-stripes, 
ivith its sym??ietry unimpaii-ed, it would necessarily occupy a secondary place. The reason 
impelling the disqualification of a flower exhibiting a split pod is of course to be found in the 
fact that were a split pod tolerated, its symmetry would be fatally impaired. — E. S. Dodwell. 
TKANSPLANTING CEDAES, Etc. 
introduce the annexed figure of a young Deodar Cedar—one of the 
most graceful of our hardy evergreen trees, and yet not folly trustworthy 
as hardy in every situation—for the sake of more forcibly impressing on 
our readers the fact that now, when the trees are in the flush of young 
growth, is the best and safest of all periods in the year for transplanting them. 
The sap is in motion, the roots are active, and if the work be at all carefully and 
skilfully performed, success is now certain. The same rule applies to Hollies, 
and probably to most, if not all our evergreens. 
The inexperienced may be reminded that, in the case of all choice specimen 
trees, there should be no cramping of the roots. The pit prepared for the tree 
should be wide enough to take the full spread of its roots ; it should be broken 
up deeply and thoroughly, new soil being worked in, if requisite. The surface, 
before receiving the tree, should form a flat cone, the apex of which should bring 
the neck of the tree a little, or in some soils—moist ones—more than a little, 
above the surrounding surface. Every separate root should be separately em¬ 
bedded at its full length in the earth. In dry soils and dry seasons the roots, 
when slightly covered, may be well soaked with water, leaving the finishing-off 
for twenty-four hours, till the flush of water has soaked away. Support against 
wind is necessary, for the same reason that the barbarous practice of lifting 
and shaking the tree, “ to settle the earth about its roots,” should never be re¬ 
sorted to. Both these processes tend to draw the roots from the position in 
which they are or should be laid out, and necessarily bends or cramps them at 
some point or other, since they are not like wires, capable of forcing their way 
through the earth back to the original position from which they were moved by 
either the lifting or the wind-waving.—T. M. 
