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but to get the tips, as in Hermione, the same mode of treatment 
is necessary. 
Dr. McLean, another two-year-old, is the best of them all for 
show-specimens, the habit is so good. The flower is also first- 
rate, incurved of course, and of the liveliest rosy purple. 
Madame Clos, a rosy violet of the same age, and not quite so 
good a flower as the last, is yet as valuable for making a specimen 
for the shows or for a conservatory. And Prince Albert, the 
large, dark crimson, as they say, is on a par with Madame’dos 
and Dr. McLean for a pot specimen. It is gratifying to be able 
to tell country cousins of kinds which will thus do credit to then- 
pot culture, and the tendency is increasing. 
In addition to a first-class certificate, by universal accord, at 
the Eloral Committee the other day to Mr. Salter for Lady 
Hardinge, another seedling by him had a certificate, on ths 
strength of that tendency to form bushy plants which flower 
down on the branchlets. 
White Globe, a splendid large flower with incurved florets, but 
only next-best properties. Miss Ret, though now of a certain 
age, is a dear little thing to those who admire colour and good¬ 
ness in a small compass: where is there such another shade o ' 
lilac in the family? Madame Gordereau,Anemone-flowered, whit I 
outside, and a sulphur centre' “ as large as your fist ” when ! 
properly done. Antigone, a fine, soft white. Marshal Duroc, 
one of the very best shaped by Nature, and a splendid bloome • 
with rose and lilac, but requires a particularly good soil and 
treatment to see it at the head of the staff. Madame Lebois, 
finer than I ever saw it; a first-class flower, of a most pleasing j 
pink outside, fading into straw colour towards the centre, and 
very large. Dupont de l’Eure, the largest ever seen of the kind, 
the best shaped by Nature, and the most easy to do first-rate 
with second-rate means: we have no name for this mixed colour 
of rose, buff, and carmine. The old Lucidum, six flowers on a 
small stem, such as no dresser could imitate—verily the proper 
culture is half the battle. White Beauty, a sport from the old 
peach-coloured Beauty, and quite as good, and as flat and as 
much across: every floret of such as these, and of all that are 
of the habit of Madame Poggi, would need to go through the 
curling-tongs to get them up to the natural standard of such as 
Dupont de l’Eure—more is the pity they should be so disfigured 
Anaxo, still a first-class flower of peculiar shade of light orange 
red. Triomphe du Nord, a most extraordinary flower in size, 
colour, and shape; a true recurved flower, dark Indian red, with 
a dash of Anaxo in the centre. An old, recurved flower, Madame 
Poggi, has thrown a sport this season, every flower of which is 
incurved and stands upright, the colour the same as the original. 
Quintus Curtius, a very large flower of a peculiar colour, the fat 
of salmon tint, incurved, and rather new. Beaute du Nord, in 
the way of Alma and Alarm, but not so high up in the centre as 
Alarm. Garibaldi, a fine purplish-lilac seedling, which is coming 
out in the spring—a compact, well-shaped bloom. Dragon, a 
very strong seedling, with flowers nearest to crimson: and a 
third seedling, called Mayoress, a hybrid—or half large, half 
Pompone size. This is of perfect form by nature, very fine to 
bloom, and will be one of the improved growers for specimen 
plants : it is a pure white, tinted like Eormosum in the centre. 
In the subjoined lists the descriptions are given only to those 
flowers which are under two years old from the first nui-sery sale 
of them to save room. Besides, it may be advisable to make a 
revised list at the end of their season, when the whole will be 
described in the lump. 
The best six kinds of large Chrysanthemums, out of twentv 
new sorts, which were sent out last spring by Mr. Bird for the 
first time:— 
Alarm , a fine, rich crimson flower, with long incurved petals, 
rising high in the centre as if it were a dressed flower. 
Negro Boy, a very large flower of the deepest dark red, 
approaching to dark crimson, with a rich metallic lustre. The 
petals are long, wide, and incurved. Mr. Bird says this is the 
darkest yet known. 
Novelty, apparently a seedling from Goliath, which it eclipses 
in all the parts and properties of a first-class flower. It is the 
largest flower in the family, is up in the centre like a dressed 
flower. The colour is a light shade of French white, with the 
bottom or outside petals of a deeper tint. Mr. Bird describes 
it fairly as “ forming three-parts of a cricket-ball.” A noble thing. 
Sacoa Vera, a most beautiful, large, lilac, incurved flower. The 
name seems a misreading of the well-known tally, Saccoa Nova. 
M. Saccoa was a celebrated Italian raiser of Camellia seedlings 
twenty-five years back. If Mr. Clark, the raiser of these fine 
GENTLEMAN, November 20, 1860. 
Chrysanthemums, should see this he will favour us with the 
proper entry for the stud-book. 
Yellow Perfection, a noble flower well named, a seedling from 
Plutus, probably. Plutus was the fabled king of the nether 
world, and, hitherto, he will only hold the second rank in this 
among the yellows. Mr. Bird says any stand of flowers for 
competition will not be complete without this gem of a flower. 
Alma, a fine, rosy purple, incurved flower, which is as good as 
the best of the old kinds in its tint; but only a second-rate sort 
as compared with the five preceding ones. 
The best out of all the kinds which were sent out in 1859:— 
Golden Queen of England, shape, size, and substance as in 
Queen of England. 
_ Cassandra, a fine, incurved White • one of the few that have 
tipped florets. 
Fabius, large, incurved, bright orange and salmon flower. 
Prince Albert, large, dark, fine for pot specimen. 
Dr. McLean, rosy purple, like the Black Hamburgh Grape. 
This will be the gardener’s friend. 
The following old kinds have all first-rate qualities in the 
estimation of Mr. Bird :— 
Aimee Ferriere, Alfred Salter, Anaxo, Aregina, Beauty, White 
Beauty, Delight, Duke, Dupont de l’Eure, Formosum, Hermione, 
Lucidum, Madame Andre, Madame Poggi, Madame Lebois, 
Marshal Duroc, Nonpareil, Plutus, Princess Marie, Queen of 
England, Triomphe du Nord and Vesta. 
The following are the next best according to the same authority : 
Alma—rosy purple of 1860, Madame Clos—aforesaid of 1859, 
and White Globe—ditto then; Albin, Annie Salter, Beaute du 
Nord, Christophe Colomb, Cointe de Morny, Madame Boucharlat, 
Miss Rate and Themis.—D. Beaton. 
SCARLET GERANIUMS SPOTTED—CAMELLIA 
LEAVES DISEASED. 
What shall I do with a quantity of Scarlet Geraniums that 
have white spots on the leaf like the enclosed? My first impulse 
was to cut them down to the old wood (they are lifted plants) 
and scar the wounds with stiefe caustic. 
On the under side of some Camellia leaves I find a moist, soot¬ 
like spot. It rubs off with the sponge; but what is the cause of 
it ? Candidissima comes in for the greater share. I think it must 
be an exudation from some insect, but I cannot find any. 
I have raised a number of long Verbenas and treated them as 
recommended the other day, and they have never flagged a 
leaf.—H. B. 
[When your Scarlet Geraniums begin to grow next spring, 
just top them and no more, unless you want cuttings, and you 
will get rid of the disease of yellow dots—it is not at all 
formidable, but your Camellias are under the sway and influence 
of the most deadly enemy to them, and to the like of them—the 
dreadful tln-ips. Three or four good smokings of shag tobacco, 
as many waterings after each, and after that a thorough sponging 
to the under side of all the leaves, are the best means of cure at 
this season.] 
ORCHARD-HOUSES. 
There is something very good in many of I. R. Pearson’s 
remarks on “ oi-chard-houses ” at page 76; but his charge against 
lean-to houses is too sweeping. Had his experience reached the 
northern, or some of the colder midland counties, he would 
I have found his favourite span-roofed houses, even if built sub- 
| stantially of brick, wood, and glass, would not answer in all 
j localities one season out of five, without fire heat in spring to 
prevent the fruit-buds being injured and often wholly destroyed 
by frost; and in cold and late summers fire heat woidd be re¬ 
quired again in the autumn to ripen the fruit. 
I know from experience that to insure a crop of well-ripened 
fruit in many parts of England, an orchard-house to succeed 
without fire heat must be a lean-to against a brick wall. The 
advantage of a house of this description is apparent in early 
spring on sunny days and frosty nights, especially if the back 
wall is of dark-coloured brick, which attracts the heat of the day, 
and retains it in some degree through the night, at least suffi¬ 
cient to keep out frost; whereas in a span-roofed house the 
frost would enter and often destroy the crops. The same remarks 
refer to cool vineries. 
