188 
THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ August, 
as they have done flowering, and then pile some good soil about the bases of the 
branches, or side-slioots. By the end of the summer, they will root into the 
added soil, and the plants can then be lifted, the rooted side-shoots removed, 
and planted out to grow into size. C. Dillenianus has coppery-buff flowers, and a 
rather straggling and weakly habit of growth. It can be treated in the way 
recommended for C. Marshal Hi , but to have it good and clean, it should be 
grown in pots under glass, and kept in a cold frame. 
Bast summer, Mr. James Allen, of Shepton Mallet, having to move some 
plants of C. Marshallii just as they were coming into flower, cut away all the 
flowering-stalks; the consequence was that the plants made a second growth, 
which flowered towards the end of the summer, and singular to state, some of the 
seed-pods, which invariably fail to mature themselves on C. ochroleucus , in this case 
produced seeds. The seed was sown as soon as ripe, it speedily germinated, the 
plants were grown on through the winter and spring seasons, and they are now just 
beginning to flower. Mr. Allen has just fulfilled a kind promise to give me 
some account of his seedlings when they bloomed, and I cannot do better than 
append his remarks, premising at the same time that his experience serves to 
strengthen the assumption that C. Marshallii is a hybrid between C. ochroleucus 
and Erysimum Peroffsldanum. In a letter just received, Mr. Allen states :— 
“ My Clieiranthus Marshallii seedlings are a puzzle to me. Many of them are 
now showing bloom, and some twenty plants are already open. Most of these 
are from 18 in. to 24 in. high, and appear to have lost their perennial character, 
and to be only improved forms of Erysimum Peroffsldanum , with colours 
varying from that of Clieiranthus Marshallii to that of E. Peroffsldanum. I 
noticed one plant had much larger flowers, and stouter, than C. Marshallii. Some 
of the transplanted seedlings as yet unbloomed have the habit of C. Marshallii; 
whilst many others have that of E. Peroffsldanum. As so very few have, so far, 
bloomed, I cannot say much about them yet, but I am already convinced I have 
two distinct classes of plants from one parent. I am hoping to obtain a Clieiranthus 
with the colour of E. Peroffsldanum , and the habit of C. Marshallii , but larger 
flowers ; and also a very much improved strain of Erysimum. I think it is very 
evident that C. Marshallii is a hybrid, and my seedlings are c harking back ’ to 
the two parents.”—R. Dean, Ealing. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
URING the month of July Floral Exhibitions abound, but the remarkably 
wet period through which we have passed has been anything but pro- 
pitious for them. The most important is that of the Royal Horticultural 
f Society , on the 21 st and 22nd ult., which was the finest exhibition seen in this 
country since the memorable International Show of 1866. The main portion of the show 
was furnished gratuitously by the leading nurserymen and plant-growers, and was intended 
as a demonstration of the vitality of the horticultural element, which had been depreciated 
and insulted by members of the Council who had recently resigned,—intended also as an 
encouragement to the purified Council, now in office, to persevere in the difficult task of 
