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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
garden, either as a permanent plant, or as a portable 
pot specimen; and I have in my eye the bushes, 
pillars, pyramids, and round-headed standards of the 
future, giving new features just where they are 
wanted.” 
— 2Tiie most interesting of the Sarra- 
cenias at Glasnevin are the two remarkable 
hybrids raised by the late Dr. Moore. The 
first of these, probably the first hybrid Sarracenia 
raised [S. Mooreifl was the result of a cross 
between 8. flava and 8. Drummondii; partaking in 
a very remarkable manner of the aspect and pro¬ 
portions of both parents, it is in all respects superior 
to either. The more recent acquisition with which 
Glasnevin is to bo credited has for its parents 
8. flava and 8. rubra, the former being the female 
or seed-bearing parent, the latter the male or pollin- 
iferous parent. Here, too, as in the foregoing, the 
participation of the characters of the parents is 
very striking and interesting, whether we regard 
the size and form of the pitchers, the length of the 
scape, or the size and colour of the flowers. 
— ffctR. Anderson-Henry recommends the 
Propagation of Primulas by means of cut¬ 
tings of their roots. He writes :—“ I have 
observed means by which Primulas may be propa¬ 
gated to any extent, and it strikes mo that if it is 
unknown it might be worth communicating. I had 
raised from seeds sent me from Ladak and Kashmir 
a great many of the tribe, and as I could not accom¬ 
modate them under glass, I caused them to be 
planted out in beds. They were of the P. denti- 
culata type, and principally, I believe, the true P. 
purpurea. After having stood the winter, and 
having occasion for the beds last spring, I had them 
dug up and removed. I filled up their space with 
other plants more prized, and amongst these I now 
find the Primulas coming up like weeds. I find in 
digging them up that fibrous roots had been cut off, 
and from these sprung the numerous progeny I now 
have to remove as weeds.” 
■— S'he Ianipiiofia carnosa, M. Max Leit- 
cblin states, is a unique plant, different in 
shape and babit from the other species. It is 
a native of Abyssinia, and was sent to Europe by 
Schimper. It forms several low spreading leaf 
rosettes, from the midst of which rise the flower- 
stalks to the height of one foot, producing a com¬ 
pletely cylindrical flower-spike about 3 in. long 
and in. broad ; but the comparative smallness of 
the flowers is compensated for by their glowing 
apricot-colour, which is made still brighter by the 
protruding bright yellow anthers, laden with pollen. 
It is a lovely and striking autumn plant. 
— £It Cardiff Castle, as we learn from the 
Journal of Horticulture , Mr. Pettigrew has 
adopted a somewhat novel system of Melon- 
culture, the principal feature in which appears to 
be that of supplying the plants liberally with water 
at all stages of their growth, so as to keep them in 
a growing and bearing state as long as possible, 
instead of withholding water at the root and keep¬ 
ing a drier atmosphere as the earlier fruits approach 
maturity. The experience of the past eighteen 
years has, he says, proved that the dying-off system 
was a mistake. “ I never allow the plants to suffer 
for want of water at any time, nor withhold syringing, 
no matter what state of ripeness the fruit is in, and 
I have seldom had cracked or a badly flavoured 
fruit. With plants grown in a house, and trained on 
a trellis and treated liberally, I have no difficulty in 
obtaining fruit for a long season in succession in the 
same way, and with no more trouble than with 
cucumbers. As the plants grow older they pro¬ 
duce fruit more freely, so that I have generally to 
thin them out, and it is seldom that there are less 
than from six to eight fruits on a plant, in different 
stages of growth.” 
— i«R. George Eollisson died at Grove 
Villas, Balkam, on December 15th, in his 80th 
year. His death was a happy release from a 
state of paralysis, in which he had been lying un¬ 
conscious for the long period of fourteen years— 
long enough, fortunately, for him to have remained 
ignorant of the recent break-up of the establish¬ 
ment of which he had been one of the chiefs, and 
which at one time had a great reputation for the 
raising of new and valuable varieties of Heaths, for 
the introduction and cultivation of orchids, and the 
importation and dissemination of new plants. He 
was esteemed for his amiable, kind-hearted, and 
generous disposition, and his memory will be feel¬ 
ingly cherished by all those who knew him. 
— m - John Hally died at Arundel on 
December 21st, in liis 81st year. He carried 
on business for many years at tlie Blackkeatli 
Nursery, and was well known as a grower of 
Camellias, Pelargoniums, &c.; Monarch and Mrs. 
Hally amongst the former, and Aurora, Blackheath 
Beauty, Adonis, &c., amongst the latter, being 
some of his productions. Blackheath Beauty and 
Adonis were selected for First-class Certificates at 
the Chiswick trials in 1860-1. He was a member 
of the National Floricultural Society, an active 
floral body, which was the precursor of the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s Floral Committee. 
— $?Ir. John Grier, of Ambleside, West¬ 
moreland, died on December 20th, in his 73rd 
year. He was a well-known nurseryman in the 
Lake District. 
— fJTR. Thomas Stansfield, of-Tanshelf 
Nursery, Pontefract, died on December 30th, at 
the age of 53 years. He was long an active 
member of the firm of A. Stansfield and Sons, of 
Todmorden, one of the nursery establishments in 
which the cultivation of British and exotic Ferns 
was taken up many years ago in good earnest; and 
had a thorough knowledge of these plants, and a 
wide-spread acquaintance with fern-lovers. For 
many years he acted as Secretary to the Todmorden 
Botanical Society, and took an active part in its 
meetings. His extensive scientific and practical 
knowledge, and his happy and often humorous 
manner of communicating it, together with his 
genial disposition, endeared him to those who asso¬ 
ciated with him, and by whom his smiling, cheerful 
countenance will not soon be forgotten. 
— ftlR. E. Neal died on January 1st, at 
the age of 80 years. He was the founder of 
the Wandsworth Nurseries, and, as a large 
contractor for ground-work, had much to do with 
the formation of the West-End London squares. 
