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NEW YELLOW PICOTEES.—STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA.—EARLY PEAS. 
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The old Wistaria at Chiswick made a grand 
display annually on an open wall, but as 
we come northwards these hardy greenhouse 
climbers require some slight protection. We 
have, however, only to look at what is done 
with the Clematis to learn how to make bushes 
out of climbers, as seen at the late exhibition 
at Manchester in Whitsun week. It is this 
difficulty that hinders many climbers, hardy 
and tender, from coming to the front, for where 
would such elegant plants as Tropceolum 
tricolorum find a place to run up a copper wire, 
or the like, in any modern greenhouse ? But 
when grown on a wire cage, it can be handled 
and moved about as easily as a Pelargonium. 
The lovely genus Passijlora, again—of which 
there are some hardy and others tender, but 
all of them interesting—and some other nearly 
allied genera, are of the easiest culture, in their 
respective places. The tender ones I trained 
on wires open in the middle, thus differing 
from Jackman’s training, his being a solid 
globe, as that form answered his purpose best, 
The Passijlora Jcermesina is really “ a thing of 
beauty.”— Alex. Forsyth. 
NEW YELLOW PICOTEES. 
[Plate 518.] 
HE history of the fine new Yellow 
Picotees here represented was given in 
Mr. Ball’s paper, printed at page 87, 
and need not be here repeated. Our plate will, 
however, serve to show, that in speaking of 
them as a remarkably fine lot, and as com¬ 
prising some of the greatest acquisitions in 
this class ever raised, Mr. Ball is in no way 
chargeable with exaggeration. Last summer 
they bloomed so late that they could not be 
produced at the Exhibition of the National 
Carnation and Picotee Society, but we may hope 
to 8ee some of them brought out and staged 
at the show of the present year :— 
Lady Rosebery (Fig. 1) is a pure yellow 
self, of large size, moderately full, and of extra 
fine quality. It was awarded a Floricultural 
Certificate on July 10th, 1878, by the censors 
of the Royal Botanic Society, and a First-class 
Certificate, on August 26th, 1879, by the 
Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. 
Princess Beatrice (Fig. 2) is an extra fine 
variety, with bright yellow flowers, the broad, 
smooth petals beautifully edged with bright 
crimson. 
Ne Plus Ultra (Fig. 3) is of a rather 
deeper shade of bright yellow, and more dis¬ 
tinctly edged with crimson ; it is a fine full 
flower, and was certificated, both by the Royal 
Botanic and the Royal Horticultural Societies, 
on the same occasions as those on which Lady 
Rosebery received these awards. 
The peculiar features of these three fine 
varieties are very well shown in Mr. Fitch’s 
characteristic figures.—T. Moore. 
STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA. 
GwOT may be interesting to record a few 
p particulars of a Stephanotis I had planted 
out in a brick box about eight years ago. 
The house is 40 feet long, and has a back light, 
the depth of which is six feet. The plant covers 
the whole of this space (40 ft. by 6 ft.), and is 
bearing just now 586 sprays of bloom in full 
flower, with an almost incalculable number 
more coming on. In addition to these, 350 
sprays have already been cut. The plant is 
trained along the roof in ropes, with from three 
to eight shoots in a rope. If the plant was 
spread out in single shoots, it would just about 
cover the whole of the roof of the house, front 
as well as back. The dimensions of the brick 
box are 2 ft. 3 in. by 2 ft., and 15 in. deep; and 
it is situate at the end of the house adjoining a 
water tank, from which it is deluged freely, 
with a liberal admixture of manure-water. The 
plant has flowered equally freely every year, and 
again bears a second crop of flowers in autumn. 
I am pleased to be able to say that no bug— 
the pest of the Stephanotis—has yet been able 
to effect a lodgment on my plant.— Wm. Miller, 
Combe Abbey Gardens. 
*** A very abundant-flowered variety of 
this plant raised at Elvaston Castle was shown 
recently at South Kensington. They were young 
plants from cuttings, small, but full of blos¬ 
som. The two parent plants cover about 45 
square yards of the roof of an ordinary stove ; 
from these last year were cut 13,000 bunches, 
or an average of over 300 to each square yard. 
The shoots seem to make few joints that do not 
produce a bunch. The leaves are much smaller 
than usual, a circumstance which points to the 
variety being distinct. The same floriferous 
habit is present in newly-struck cuttings. 
About the middle of September, a quantity of 
cuttings from the summer shoots, consisting 
of three joints each, are put in; these are 
placed in 3-inch pots filled with ordinary soil, 
and when rooted are kept on growing in the 
same pots through the winter. The result is 
to supply during the spring a quantity of plants 
full of flower, and equal to anything in the 
way of successful miniature plant-growing that 
has ever been accomplished. 
EARLY PEAS. 
GwO OBSERVE that a clever cultivator has 
written of his experience of the early sowing 
of Peas in the open ground, versus raising 
plants for early crops under glass ; and I can 
