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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ September, 
fringe the banks of the streams; they are to be found in the recesses of the woods; they hang 
from rocks and walls and trees, and crowd into the towns and villages, fastening themselves 
with sweet familiarity even to the houses.” 
- ®HE Helianthus cucumerifolius^ from Texas, a new annual Sunflower, 
forms a free-growing and branching plant, 3 ft. in height, and flowering profusely 
at the points of the shoots. The flower-heads are remarkable for their long 
slender stalks, and are some three inches across, or more, of a deep golden yellow, with a 
striking black disc in the centre. It will be very useful in large borders, and for planting 
on the margins of shrubberies where there is ample room for the plants to grow. It forms 
what would be considered a large-growing plant, but without any touch of coarseness, and 
hence may be regarded as a flower-garden acquisition. 
- lender the name of Peche Quetier^ the Eevue Horticole gives a coloured 
figure of a new late freestone Peach, of large size, globular, with well-marked 
furrow, downy on the surface, deep red on the sunny side, yellow elsewhere. 
The flesh is yellow, sweet, vinous, and is qualified as excellent. It is said to be a seedling 
from an English variety, raised by M. Quetier, of Meaux. 
- ^ FINE new hardy annual, Godetia Lady Albemarle^ has been sent us 
by Messrs. Daniels Brothers, of Norwich, which seems . likely to be quite an 
acquisition. It grows about 1 ft. in height, forming nice shrubby little plants, 
profusely covered with flowers of a rich, glossy magenta, each flower, when fully expanded, 
measuring over 3 in. across. It is easy of cultivation; if sown in the autumn, it is reported 
to stand our severest winters out-of-doors, and bloom early in the following summer; or if 
sown in spring, it will bloom the following July and August.^ 
- ^MONG the points to be specially noted as regards the successful treat¬ 
ment of Cyclamen ])ersicum^ the first, and most important, is not to overpot them, 
but in the language of gardeners, to “let their roots feel the pots.” Another is to 
remember that green-fly is an enemy very apt to attack the foliage in the earlier stages of 
development, and that unless the plants are kept clear of these insects irreparable injury will 
be done. . Again, established plants, after flowering, require a dryish rest to secure perfect 
maturation, but the drying process must not be carried too far—not so far, indeed, as was 
commonly the case in the olden times. 
- f0^R. George Fleming died at Hanchurch on July 27, aged 67. He 
was for many years gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, at Trentham,and under 
him the gardens acquired that celebrity for high cultivation which they have 
fully maintained under his successor, Mr. Stevens. Some years since, Mr. Fleming turned 
his attention to agricultural pursuits, in which ho was occupied up to the time of his death. 
He was interred at Trentham. 
- TOilliam Burnley Hume, Esq., of Hill House, Winterton, Norfolk, 
and 124 Harley Street, Lond 9 n, son of the late Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., died 
on August 3, at Winterton, in his 57th year. Mr. Hume was a great lover of 
Orchids, of which he had a fine collection, and was an occasional exhibitor. He occupied for 
some time a seat on the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society, and he acted as one of 
the representatives of that Society at the International Horticultural Exhibition at Cologne 
last year. 
- i^R. John Eoyston Pearson died at Chilwell on August 14, aged 58, 
and was interred at Attenborough. Mr. Pearson carried on an extensive nursery 
business at Chilwell, near Nottingham, and was well known as a successful cul¬ 
tivator. Of Jate years his name has been more intimately associated with orchard-house 
Fruit-trees, new Grapes, and new Pelargoniums, in the raising of which latter he was 
especially successful. 
