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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ September, 
show how easily people may make mistakes, I may mention that shortly after we 
got a good stock of plants, we put some out in an old kitchen garden, and added 
plenty of chalk at times. We found them to be very useful, as we could always go 
in autumn and get a few fair dishes of good flavour. In time, this old garden was 
destroyed, and the Hautbois was planted into a strong clayey loam, such as good 
growers would consider perfection for the varieties of the British Queen race. 
The‘result was, that if we had not known the qualities of the variety before, we 
should have said it was the sterile variety that never fruited.—J. Fleming, 
Cliveden. 
SCUTELLARIA MOCINIANA. 
IflLL you allow me, through the medium of your pages, to draw the 
j£jl attention of those brothers of the craft who have any considerable 
ffS? amount of plant-furnishing for drawing-room, staircase, and boudoir 
{(f adornment, to the remarkable adaptability of Scutellaria Moqiniana for 
this purpose. It can easily be grown in any sized pot, from a small u 60,” to one suited 
for a specimen as per Baines, and will flower as successfully in the small pot in pro¬ 
portion to its size, as it would if grown in one 15 in. across. It has a charming 
manner of exposing its rich orange-scarlet heads of tubular flowers ; and no one can 
pass without being arrested by the brightness of its colours when in full beauty. 
My object in bringing a plant of this description before your readers is because 
it generally receives a bad character. Its habit is said to be bad and straggling, but I 
find it acquires this straggling habit in the same way that a great many other bad 
habits are attained, namely, by its bad bringing-up. Being a stove plant, it gets 
treated in general as stove plants usually are treated, being afforded a moist heat, 
and a considerable amount of shade, which treatment is to this plant positive 
cruelty. When grown in full sunshine, in moderate heat, and with sufficient air, it 
flowers freely as soon as it attains a height of 8 in. to 10 in., and plants in small 
60-pots will often have four or five of its lovely trusses of flowers fully 
expanded at one time. By putting in batches of cuttings every few weeks, this 
plant may be had in flower all the year round. Peat, loam, and sand, with good 
drainage, will suit its requirements as to soil.— William Denning, Norbiton. 
ABTOCARPUS CANNONI. 
^F the several subjects of interest exhibited at the meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society on the 18th ult., three forms of Artocarpus —the 
toifS )' genus of the Bread-fruit tree—claim especial notice. They were all natives 
of the Islands of the Pacific, and had been recently imported into this 
country. They consisted of Artocarpus laciniata and A. laciniata metallica, from 
the collection of Messrs. Veitch and Sons; and of A. Cannoni from the collection of 
Mr. Bull, the latter being represented in the accompanying illustration, for which 
we are indebted to Mr. Bull, who describes his plant as follows:— 
u This remarkably ornamental plant, which is a native of the Society Islands, 
