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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[Januaht, 
teen or seventeen weeks, which is much longer than 
the majority of carnations will continue flowering. 
It is not easily damaged hy wet or injured by cold 
nights, and it will bear any frost or severe weather 
in winter. If left undisturbed for years it will grow 
into a large mass many feet or yards in diameter, or 
it may be layered and rooted like any other carna¬ 
tion and planted out in beds or borders in spring. 
Young plants like these generally produce the finest 
blooms; but for a grand, old-fashioned mass the un¬ 
disturbed plants are unsurpassed. 
— 515Eriting in the Garden of the Eose 
Madame 0. de Keechove, Mr. Frettingham 
says that a more thoroughly perpetual white 
rose we have not, blooming as it does at every point. 
It is much freer than the well-known La France, to 
which it is similar in growth, not more than 2 feet 
in height, and literally a sheet of snow, owing to the 
freedom with which its lovely white blooms are 
produced. 
— JThe Belgian Moniteiir announces that 
by a decree dated Oct. 7, M. Lavallee, 
President of the National and Central Hor¬ 
ticultural Society of France, has been appointed 
Officer of the Order of Leopold, and that the follow¬ 
ing gentlemen have been named Chevaliers of the 
same Order :—M. Wagner, of Riga; M. Aug. Van 
Geert, President of the Syndical Chamber of 
Belgian Nurserymen ; M. DE Ghellinck, Member 
of the Council of the Society of Agriculture and 
Botany of Ghent; M. d’Huytetter, Treasurer of 
the Society, and MM. Louis Van Houtte and 
Lucien Linden, nurserymen of Ghent. 
— Jn reference to Trees and Shrubs for 
Seaside Planting, Mr. Webster, the clever 
forester at Penryhn Castle, states [Garden) 
that the following succeed well along the Welsh 
coasts, and will, no doubt, do equally well under 
similar conditions in almost any part of the king¬ 
dom :— Shrubs: Escallonia macrantha and rubra, 
Tamarix, Laurustinus, Myrtle, Aucuba japonica. 
Arbutus TJnedo, Garrya elliptica. Hydrangea hor- 
tensis. Fuchsia Riccartoni, and Hippophiie rhara- 
noide®. Trees: Pinus Laricio, P. austriaca, P. 
insignis, and P. Pinaster, Norway Maple, Syca¬ 
more, Alder, Turkey Oak, Evergreen Oak, and 
Poplar. 
— tJTHE new Eose Perle d’Oe, is according 
to M. Jean Sisley, a very remarkable one. It 
is a dwarf perpetual Polyantha. The flowers 
are relatively large, i^roduced in great abundance, 
and in form like tho=e of the Polyantha rose named 
Cecile Brunner ; they are pale yellow, with a deeper 
centre and slightly edged with white. It will make 
an exceedingly fine pot plant, and the blooms will be 
very serviceable for bouquets when mixed with the 
white Paquerette and the pink Mignonette. Perle 
d’Or at the last Lyons exhibition, held on September 
20, obtained a first-class medal as a seedling Rose. 
— new Sweet Pea Adonis is a 
charming and distinct variety, included among 
Messrs. Carter & Co.’s floral novelties for 
1884. It is a self-coloured flower, of a bright rosy- 
carmine, or deep pink hue; very pleasing indeed, 
and forming an excellent contrast to the Invincible 
Scarlet, pure white, and other self-coloured flowers. 
At the St. O.syth Seed Farm this fine Pea was seen 
to great advantage during the past summer, and it 
may be considered as one of the most interesting and 
valuable floral introductions of the year. 
— 21 newly discovered form of Asplenium 
Adiantum-NIGRUM VARiEGATUM was brought 
under notice of the Botanical Society of Edin¬ 
burgh at its la't meeting, by Mr. Lindsay, Curator 
of the Royal Botanic Garden. It was presented to 
the garden by Peter H. Rooke, Esq., Weybridge, who 
obtained it near Pitlochrie in the autumn. The 
variegation was better marked than is usually found 
in this species. 
— ®^HE finest of all the Crimson Cyclamens 
is that named Mrs. Henry Little, a variety 
raised along with several others of sterling 
merit hy H. Little, Esq., Hillingdon, Uxbridge. Tbe 
flowers of this splendid variety are very large and 
broad petalled, in colour bright crimson-maroon, the 
very dark eye seeming to run through the whole of 
the flower, so that there is no defined limit between 
the colour of the eye and that of the petals. 
— 21 s regards the Fertility of the 
Orange Tree, Mr. Saunders, in an ofl&cial 
report to the United States Department of 
Agriculture at Washington, mentions having seen a 
large tree in Florida from which as many as 10,000 
oranges had been picked in one season; the crop for 
this year, which had recently been taken from it, 
amounted to 7,800 oranges. 
JEemoriam. 
— JIHr. William Youell, of Yarmouth, died 
on November 21. Many years ago he carried 
on a good business as nurseryman and florist at 
Great Yarmouth, his speciality being Gladioli and 
hardy florists’ flowers; but late in life misfortunes 
came upon him, and in 1881 he was elected a pen¬ 
sioner on the funds of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevo¬ 
lent Institution. 
— ^OHN Eliot Howard, Esq., F.E.S., 
F.L.S., the well-known manufacturer of 
quinine, died on November 22, aged 76 
years. Mr. Howard’s researches in the history 
of febrifuge alkaloids led, in 1858, to his purchase 
at Madrid of a manuscript by Pavon, and of a large 
collection of specimens of Peruvian Bark collected 
by that botanist in Peru. He also employed Mr. 
Fitch to proceed to Madrid and execute careful 
drawings from Pavon’s specimens. The result was 
the publicition, in 1862, of Mr. Howard’s magnifi¬ 
cent illustra''ed work, ILhistrations of the “ Nueva 
Quinologia” of Pavon. MTien the cultivation of 
Cinchona plants was commenced in India, Mr. 
How'ard rendered most valuable advice and assist¬ 
ance, and undertook the laborious analysis of barks 
grown on the plantations in India, on which he 
furnished a series of reports, which have been invalu¬ 
able as guides. In 1869 he embodied the results of 
his investigations in another costly work, entitled, 
Quinologt/ of the Past India Plantations, which has 
also been of essential use to all who are engaged in 
Cinchona cultivation. For these disinterested ser¬ 
vices he received the thanks of H. M. Government. 
He took a deep interest and pride in his garden, 
where a separate house was devoted to the growth of 
various Cinchonas, of which he had probably the 
largest collection anywhere in cultivation. 
