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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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that it can be avoided by the aid of shade and -water. 
The front ventilators, and often the doors ns -well, 
are open continuously, unless -^vhen there is frost or 
cutting winds. 
— ^IThe Messrs. Carter and Co., of Holborn, 
have in cultivation, i-inder the name of Chou 
DU Eussie, a very pretty Kale, which appears 
to be not only distinct but desirable as a novelty. The 
leaf is very much cut into small segments, the habit 
of the plant being well shown in the small subjoined 
woodcut borrowed from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
which is one-sixth its natural size. Messrs. Carter 
state that this Kale, besides being ornamental, is 
very hardy, not a single plant having been lost 
during the past severe winter. 
- fttP. F. Townsend has recently pub¬ 
lished a tabular list of the plants composing the 
Floea of Hampshire, together with compara¬ 
tive lists, showing the prcsoncc’or absence of Hamii- 
shire plants in the adjacent counties. Excluding 
maritime or coast plants, it is shown that Hants 
possesses 77 species not found in Sussex, ISO absent 
from Surrey, 91 from Dorset, 193 from Wilts, 153 
from the Isle of Wight, and 203 from Berkshire. 
Hampshire, says the author, would seem to have 
been one of the great battlefields of floras, which 
wended their slow stops from east and v'ost, north 
and south, and such plants as Ehynchospora fusca, 
Dianthus prolifer, &c., may be looked on and held in 
reverence as great warriors of those days when the 
strife was hottest—who Imve outlived their weaker 
brethren, but are destined soon to lay down their 
arms and lives, and find their graves beside them. 
— 2(mongst tbe Lilies at Weybriclge, Mr. G. 
F. WiLsou informs us in tbe Gardeners’ Chronicle 
that be bad on tbe 9tb ult. a large pot of 
Linujr Kkameei, with sixteen flowers out and two 
buds, three of the stems having three flowers each. 
The tallest stem is 4 ft. from the top of the pot. 
There are several shades of colour in the flowers. 
“ This is by far the finest pot of the Lily I have yet 
seen ; but probably as the bulbs get bigger, we shall 
have still stronger growth -with more flowers to a 
stem.” 
— ®HE Eev. F. D. Horner thus succinctly 
sets forth tbe distinguishing characteristics 
between tbe Alpine and Show Aueiculas. 
“Alpines” is a loose term hero, some alpines being- 
in themselves show sorts, while others are mere 
common border flowers. Show Alpines differ from 
the countless border varieties in being flat, circular, 
bright, substantial, richly shaded flowers of medium 
.size, inclining to large, with roi-ind centres of rich 
gold or lemon to cream-yellow, and utterly free 
from the slightest de|30sit of meal thereon. The 
tube is generally of the same colour as the yellow 
centre ; and the anthers are round the mouth, with 
pistil at the bottom, constituting the legitimate 
“thrum-eye,” the contraiy of the “pin-eye,” where 
the pistil is awkwai'dly uppermost. It is impossible 
to define what are not sho-w alpines, for they vary 
in every conceivable manner and degree from the 
standard properties; generally in being rough and 
flimsy and coarsely large, not so often failing in bril¬ 
liancy of tints, and very often indeed in being dashed 
and dewed with sprinkled white meal upon their 
centres (desperate mongrels these), and, of course, 
also in being often pin-eyed. The show alpine is 
distinct enough from the green-edged, grey-edged, 
and white-edged Auricula, and only a very undis- 
cci'ning eye could confound it with the one remain¬ 
ing class, the show seifs, that, like the alpines, 
]jossess no edge of pure or powdered green. Tho 
alpine proper is a shaded flower, the self has but one 
rich colour. The centre of the alpine is a zone of 
gold or lemon, and that of the self is densely over¬ 
laid with pure white meal. Tho foliage of the self 
is green, or half or fully mealed; but, he adds, I 
do not know any show alpines of other tlian a green 
habit, though, in common border sorts, I have seen 
attempts at alpines with their grass mealed. 
— ^ COEEESPONDENT of tbe Garden speci¬ 
ally commends tbe use of Lime-Water as a 
means of destroying slugs. Tbe plan is to 
mix hot lime and water, and after well stirring it, to 
let it stand until all the lime has settled at tho 
bottom, and then to use the -water in the evening with 
a -watering-pot fitted -with a good rose. The follow¬ 
ing morning hundreds, if not thousands, of dead 
slugs will bo found, some of them as small as tho 
top of a pin, which the lime-water thus applied has 
killed on the leaves and about the plants where tho 
powdered lime would never have reached them. Dry 
lime only does halt the work. The watering should 
be applied the last thing, wherever thei’o is danger 
of the sun striking on the plants. 
©bttttnvs. 
— UTe. Thomas Hubbeestey, gardener to 
0. 0. Wrigley, Esq., of Bridge Hall, Bury, 
Lancasbire, died on June 23rd, after a painful 
and protracted illness. He was for some fourteen 
years with Mr. Wrigley, whose far-famed collection 
of plants, especially Orchids, Pitcher-plants, and 
Ferns, reared under his care, has had few equals, 
and have never been surpassed. He was a thorough 
enthusiast, who w-ent heart and soul into the culti¬ 
vation of whatever he took iu hand ; a close observer 
of tho nature and requirements of cultivated plants, 
ever trying the effects of anything new in the way 
of treatment that occurred to him as likely to bo 
beneficial, and always ready to impart to others the 
result of his success or failure. How he succeeded 
is well known to many of those who own or cultivate 
tho leading collections of these plants in this country. 
