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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGHST. 
[December, 1880. 
bedding plant, a dense busb, three feet high, having 
had on it within a few days of the October frost no 
fewer than fifty of its bright yellow blossoms. 
— 2£he Rev. 0. Wolley Dod, writing con¬ 
cerning Hardy Lilies, from Edge Hill, Malpas, 
Cheshire, remarks:—In the Midland and 
Northern counties; lilies which flower in June and 
July have a better chance than those which flower 
in September and October, and there are many 
which do fairly well here. Besides L. croceum, L. 
bulliferum and their varieties, and the old-fashioned 
Turk’s Cap, L. Martagon, yellow, purple, and 
scarlet, there are the many forms of L. elegans; 
there are L. carniolicum, L. pomponium, L. Szovitz- 
ianum, and L. testaceum, or excelsum, a fine and 
vigorous Lily. The American L. Humboldtii, too, 
flowers from year to year without deteriorating, 
and L. pardalium and its varieties flower freely and 
increase rapidly. Others, as L. candidum, L. 
superbum, and L. canadense, are more uncertain, 
being hard to please in the matter of soil. L. 
tigrinum, of which the double form is very beauti¬ 
ful, requires a warm summer to develope its full 
growth. 
— learn from Nature that the most 
remarkable Camoensia maxima, the most 
striking of the leguminous plants known, has 
flowered for the first time in cultivation, in the 
Botanic Gardens, Trinidad, to which it was sent two 
years ago from Kew. Welwitsch found it abundantly 
in the forests of Angola. The flowers are nearly 1 ft. 
long, with a reddish calyx and cream-coloured petals, 
bordered with gold. The standard is 3 in. or 4 in. 
broad, •which gives some idea of the scale of the 
other parts. There are living plants also at Kew, 
but it has not yet flowered there. 
— £The American Tuberose, The Pearl, 
is described as a most desirable variety, which 
may be grown in small pots, one bulb in a 
pot, and, by this method of culture, attains the 
height of about 2 ft., with from 20 to 24 flowers on a 
spike. The flowers are double, of a beautiful waxy 
white, and very fragrant. They are most useful for 
button-holes and bouquets, or for grouping with 
other plants for decorative purposes. Mr. Verte- 
gans, of Birmingham, is growing this variety rather 
extensively. 
— SEnder the name of New Dwarf Golden 
Feather, Pyrethrum aureurn compactumselagin- 
oides, Mr. B. S. Williams has introduced a 
very handsome dwarf form of this popular bedding- 
plant, that is likely to supersede the varieties now 
in cultivation. It is quite dw r arf, with a singularly 
dense and compact habit; while the elegantly-cut 
leaves have, as indicated by the name, something the 
effect of a Selaginella. This is decidedly the best 
of the dwarf forms. 
— ^ new bedding plant, now being sent 
out by Messrs. Yeitch and Sons, the Alter- 
nanthera paronychioides major aurea, 
has been a special feature during the past season in 
the brilliant “ carpet ” bedding in Battersea Park. 
The plant has the dwarf, dense habit and robust 
constitution of the well-known A. paronychioides 
major, with foliage of a bright golden yellow, which 
colour it retains throughout the season. Our corre¬ 
spondent, Mr. Westland, gardener to Earl Dudley, 
at Witley Court, having thoroughly tested it, and 
finding that its brilliant yellow colouring—a kind of 
reddish or golden yellow—is sustained throughout 
the season, recommends it as the most splendid 
variety in the section of decorative plants to •which 
it belongs. The habit of the plant is compact and 
pleasing, and in every respect it is most satisfactory. 
— Leoart, a French explorer on the 
banks of the Niger, has discovered a New Vine, 
wliicb promises to be of great economical value. 
According to the Times, the roots of this plant are 
tuberous and perennial, its branches annual, its fruit 
excellent and abundant, and its cultivation as easy 
as that of the Dahlia. He had found the large 
Grapes produced by it to be excellent, and suggests 
that its culture ought to be attempted in all Yine- 
growing countries, as a possible remedy against the 
Phylloxera. M. Lecart is sending home seeds for 
experiment both in France and Algeria, and will 
bring home specimens of the plant at all stages. 
— 53r. Ernst mentions the case of a 
Fasciated Pompon Rose, in which the stem, 
which was two inches broad, produced 156 
blossom’s, which were gradually developed. 
£« fUcmomw. 
— f£lR. James Cocker, Sen., of the Morn- 
ingfield Nursery, Aberdeen, died on October 22, 
at the age of 74. He was the senior partner 
in the firm of Messrs. James Cocker and Sons, of 
Aberdeen, and commenced his gardening career by 
serving an apprenticeship at Castle Forbes. In 1835 
he came to Aberdeen, and commenced business as 
a market gardener at Porthill, removing after a few 
years to Sunny Park, and entering on the more ex¬ 
tensive occupation of a nurseryman. For the past 
twenty years Mr. Cocker’s name has been intimately 
associated with all matters relating to horticulture, 
and he always took a leading position among ex¬ 
hibitors at the shows held not only in Aberdeen, 
but throughout Scotland. Mr. Cocker was a thorough 
florist, and was the first to introduce into Aberdeen, 
on a large scale, Dahlias, Pansies, and other objects 
of the florist’s care. 
— f^lR, H. May, of the Hope Nurseries, 
Bedale, Yorkshire, died suddenly on November 
3rd, at the age of 53. He was driving to 
Bedale Market on the previous day, and from some 
cause or other either fell or was thrown from his 
vehicle, and was so seriously injured that death en¬ 
sued. He was known as a keen and successful ex¬ 
hibitor of Roses, Pelargoniums, and Dahlias at the 
principal Northern shows ; indeed, with Roses and 
Dahlias he not unfrequently came South, and gener¬ 
ally won a good position on the prize lists. 
— ®he Rev. T. C. Brehaut, of Richmond 
House, Guernsey, died on November 4th, in 
his 61st year. Mr. Brehaut, who was chaplain 
to the prison of the island, was an ardent horticul¬ 
turist, and did good service in bringing under the 
notice of English gardeners the French system of 
pruning the Peach, as described in his Modern Peach 
Pruner. He was a frequent contributor to the hor¬ 
ticultural journals, and was, in private life, a man 
of culture, amiable, and sympathetic. Latterly, his 
name has been connected with some seedling show 
Pelargoniums of high merit. 
