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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ June, 
Society has ever held. The show was also of good 
quality and well filled. The specimen stove and green¬ 
house plants from J. F. G. Williams, Esq., Ilenwick 
Grange, (Mr. Tudgey, gardener,) and from Mr. 
Cypher, Cheltenham, were of very high quality; as 
were the Orchids of G. Hardy, Esq., Tiinperley (Mr. 
Hill, gardener) ; B. B. Dodgson, Esq., Blackburn 
(Mr. Osman, gardener), F. Yates, Esq., Blackburn 
(Mr. Thompson, gardener) ; Dr. Ainsworth, Brough¬ 
ton (Mr. Mitchell, gardener); J. Broome, Esq., 
Didsbury (Mr. Williams, gardener) ; and also those 
of Mr. B. S. Williams, Holloway, and Mr. .Tames, 
Norwood. The Orchids are always a strong feature 
at this show. The most novel feature, however, 
was the grand display of Clematises from Messrs. 
G. Jackman and Son, Woking, who sent 100 speci¬ 
mens in a highly cultivated form ; and from Mr. G. 
Smith, Worcester, who had a fine group of 30. 
These Clematises made up for the want of large 
pot Boses. Another feature of much interest and 
beauty was to be seen in the fancy Pansies and 
Violas shown in 8-in. pots, of which there were 
numerous collections, which made a most pleasing 
and attractive display. There was a nice show of 
Fruit, the best collection of which came from the 
garden of J. W. Pease, Esq., Hutton Hall, Guis- 
borough. The attendance on Whit-Monday was 
17,000, and on the two first days 5,000 and 6,000 
respectively. 
— ®he advances wliich have been made 
amongst the varieties of Coleus since the ad- 
vent of the Chiswick hybrids is marvellous, and 
the last year or two have witnessed great progress, 
through the introduction of fresh blood. We noted 
at the Boyal Botanic Society’s Show, ou May 
19th, an interesting group of novelties of this genus 
shown by Messrs. Carter and Co., who have, we be¬ 
lieve, made a large collection ; and some of these 
novelties were of a very pleasing character. Amongst 
them we specially noted Canary Bird, a deep canary- 
yellow, with pale-green edge ; Allen Chandler, ver¬ 
milion, shading off to purplish-crimson; Mrs. Shar- 
man, robust, with splendidly marked leaves of 
crimson-purple, brightened up with yellow and 
green ; Trissy Appleford, also robust, brilliant crim¬ 
son, with purple centre,and yellow and green edge; 
Miss Florence, rich crimson, shaded with purple, 
and marked with yellow and green; and Mrs. Edwin 
Beer, a very handsome notched-leaved sort, with 
yellow ground, tinted with green at the edge, and 
richly blotched and splashed with magenta-crimson. 
These and many others were exceedingly attractive, 
and may be strongly recommended, wherever these 
very useful and highly decorative plants are grown. 
— Besides tbe Show Polyanthus Sunrise, 
described in our notice of tbe Southern Auri¬ 
cula Show, we understand that S. Barlow, 
Esq., Stakehill House, Castleton, has subsequently 
flowered one of equal, if not of superior merit, which 
has been named Criterion. It has an intensely 
black ground-colour, and very correct and perfect 
lacing, the other properties being all that can be 
desired, and placing it, as we are told, without 
exception in the very forefront of the dark-ground 
varieties. Mr. Barlow’s systematic crossing has 
thus been rewarded by the addition of at least two 
first-class novelties to our list of varieties, and we 
have no doubt we shall have the pleasure to wel¬ 
come other equally fine acquisitions. 
— It is gratifying to learn that the two 
Fine plants of Ciiamairopr Fortunei which are 
growing in the pleasure-grounds at IieckFeld 
have again passed through the winter without any 
material injury, and more, that new leaves are push¬ 
ing through the mass of natural protection—hairy 
fibre on the trunks—which the plants seem to de- 
velope in greater profusion than do the same kinds 
of plants growing in-doors. The soil in which they 
are growing is a sandy loam, on a gravelly bottom, 
and the position is well sheltered from the north and 
east. The only artificial protection they have had 
was a few hay-bands twisted round the stems, and 
these were not put on till the last severe frost set 
in, on January 15tli. The lowest temperature regis¬ 
tered at Heckfield, 8°, or 24° of frost, occurred on 
December lltli, and at that time the plants were 
not protected. 
— ®he newty-introduced Corydalis Lede- 
bouriana is a pretty, thick-stalked, dwarf 
plant, with ternately divided glaucous leaves, 
and a leafy raceme of pinkish flowers. It will, doubt¬ 
less, prove a valuable addition to our list of herba¬ 
ceous plants, since it is a native of the south-east 
districts of Altai, aud is no doubt perfectly hardy 
in this country. C. Kolpakowskyi, discovered by 
Albert Begel in Kuldscha, is an allied species 
of similar habit ; it has dark purple-red flowers, 
with a paler spur; and as this has withstood the 
St. Petersburg winters without any protection, its 
hardiness in England cannot be called in question. 
—• JFar too little use is made of some of 
the better class of Annuals as decorative pot- 
plants. One of those which are too seldom 
seen is the Schizanthus pi NX ATI's, and its strikingly 
coloured varieties, a plant worthy of every attention. 
Mr. Findlay grows it in admirable style in ilie 
Botanic Garden at Manchester, where a number of 
specimens serve to decorate the show-houses during 
the early summer months. The seeds are sown in 
September, tin 1 plants being grown through the 
winter in small pots, and transferred in spring into 
6-in. ones, a good rich compost being made use of. 
When thus grown into bushy plants four or five feet 
high, their handsomely spotted lilac flowers are very 
ornamental and effective. 
In fHcmon'cim. 
— J0R. Nils Johann Andersson died at 
Stockholm on March 27th, at the age of 59, 
after long suffering. This celebrated Swedish 
botanist and traveller was born on Febru'ary 20th, 
1821. He studied at Upsal, graduated as Doctor of 
Philosophy in 1845, and resided at the University, as 
Assistant-Professor of Botany. Afterwards he took 
part in the expedition of the frigate Eugenie round 
the world, 1851-1853. In 1855 he became Demon¬ 
strator of Botany at Lund, and in the following year 
was appointed permanent Professor of Botany, Di¬ 
rector of the Bergianska’schen Garten, and Super¬ 
intendent of the botanical division of the Boyal 
Museum, where he worked with great success till 
the beginning of 1879. 
— iiKiss Frances Jane Hope, of Wardie 
Lodge, near Edinburgh, died suddenly on 
April 26th. The deceased lady inherited a 
love of botany from her uncle, the celebrated Dr. 
Hope ; yet she was not so much a botanist as a gar¬ 
dener, for it was a greater pleasure to her to culti¬ 
vate her flowers and make them happy, than to 
classify and dissect them. Her garden was the 
great interest of her life. She worked early and 
late in it, sparing no pains to add to her collection, 
which was open to flowers of all sorts, for she loved 
even those which others thought unattractive. 
