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THE ELOEIBT AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ OCTOBER, 
diameter at the upper part of the throat. The colour is interually creamy-yellow, changing 
with age to white on the recurved portion of the segments, but retaining the yellow tinge in 
the interior of the tube. The stamens, with their golden anthers, lie^ close together, and 
scarcely project beyond the tube 5 while the thick stigma becomes purplish and ^slightly ex¬ 
ceeds the stamens ns it gains age. It will be a valuable garden Lily, on account of its blooming 
later in the season than its near ally, L, longiflorum, than which it is much stouter in the 
texture of its flowers. , 
- ^ COEEESPONDENT of the Gavdencrs' Chronicle suggests to those who 
devote attention to Hybridisation the possibility that if mucus from the stigma 
of the intended pollen parent is applied to the stigma of the plant desired to be 
fertilised, many difficult crosses might be effected. This, of course, depends on the supposi¬ 
tion that if the pollen tubes are emitted they may penetrate the style, and that the foreign 
mucus is not always, congenial for the commencement of growth. This idea appears to have 
been recalled by a recent statement in the Garden, that to get pollen-tubes for the microscope 
it is only necessary to place a sufficient quantity of mucus on the slide and apply the pollen. 
Thus it is said that if one or two drops of nectar are taken from Liliurn speciosum or L, 
auratum, and not more than a dozen grains of pollen applied, in half an hour the tubes will 
begin to appear and grow for from one to two hours. The nectar will soon harden, and • 
being perfectly transparent, a peimanent object is secured by laying on a thin glass, and 
pressing out air-bubbles before this hardening takes place. 
-- iI®pE. Cannell, of Swanley, Kent, has sent us flowers of a new Striped 
Zonal Pelargonium, wbicli be calls New Life. It is said to be in every way 
similar to the well-lmowm and deservedly-popular variety named Vesuvius, except 
that the blossoms invariably come distinctly striped. This novelty was raised by a gardener 
in the Isle of Wight. 
- ^He. W. Lovel, of Weavertborpe, near York, sends us a sample of bis 
Eurelca Post-Box, a very simple and efficient contrivance, adapted for tbe trans¬ 
mission of flowers, plants, fruits, and various other articles tbrougb tbe post. 
It is made of cardboard, and supplied at a very reasonable price. No stitching or paste 
is required, and a pattern once seen, it can be made by any person. The box, which is 
the invention of Mr. Lovel’s son, fully bears out all that is claimed for it, some grapes, which 
reached us safe and sound, having passed through the Post-office in one of them. 
- Lamhton Castle Seedling Fig is spoken of very bigbly by Mr. 
Clark, of Studley Eoyal. It was sent by Mr. Hunter, of Lambton Castle Gardens, 
and is supposed to be a seedling raised at Lambton Castle. It is of tbe Brunswick 
type, the fruit large, very handsome, slightly golden, and browmed when ripe, luscious, and 
highly flavoured. The remarkable freedom with which it produces its fruit is one of its 
go^d qualities, quite small plants being heavily laden with fruit. It has a very distinct 
foliage. Mr. C. Lee, who is well acquainted with fruits, suggests that this supposed seedling 
is the Figne dOr which, though not much known, has long been in cultivation in this 
country. 
- '^tnE management of Seedling Carnations and Picotees bas been made 
tbe subject of inquiry by“A. Z.in reply to wbicb Mr. Dodwell writes: 
“ Tbe elaborate directions wbicb you state bave been given you for tbe manage¬ 
ment of your seedling Carnations and Picotees are quite unnecessary. If you sowed seed in April, 
as you should have done, pricked out the young plants in May, and planted into the open 
ground at the end of June or beginning of July—which is the course followed by myself, 
and every raiser of seedlings I know—your plants by this time will be completely established, 
and will be quite safe, with the necessary attention to weeding, stirring of the_ ground., and 
the destruction of slugs or snails, until the bloom next year, when, of course, if promising, 
you w'ould, after layering, remove the stock to the shelter of a cold frame for wintering. If 
your plants are like mine, and others known to me, they would each require a six-inch pot 
at least, and this woirld make seedling-raising assuredly a work involving ‘ troublesome 
attention.’ But nothing of the sort is needed.” 
