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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [Ocitober, 
every part as H. triloba, and equally easy to grow. 
The flowers usually are a soft sky-blue tint, but 
there is a white variety, still rare. Good tufts of 
this plant in the rock garden in spring are highly 
attractive. It may be propagated by division like 
K. triloba, but may also be raised from seeds. In¬ 
deed, it is not uncommon for both kinds to sow 
themselves in light soil. 
— best time to plant Carnations 
AND PicoTEES is October, as they then become 
thoroughly established in the soil. The most 
suitable soil for them is a good marl, from which 
all wireworms should be removed. The plant is, 
however, very accommodating, and will grow in 
nearly any soil, only if light it should be pressed 
firmly around the plants, but if strong it should 
not be pressed so firmly. If the ground is poor, some 
well decomposed manure, such as that from an old 
hotbed, should be dug in and well mixed. Before 
planting, it is advisable to give a sprinkling of lime, 
which should be lightly forked in mixing it well 
with the surface soil. 
— SIInder the title of The Gardening 
World, Illustrated, Mr. Wynne, who was for 
many years associated with the Gardeners' 
Chronicle, has commenced a weekly penny horticul¬ 
tural newspaper. It is well done, so far, and we 
wish it the success which it deserves, and which the 
well-known energy of the editor will go far to secure 
for it. This makes the fourth penny gardening 
weekly, and truly the constituency is large enough 
to support them all, if they can but make themselves 
sufficiently widely known. 
— Che proper kind of Sulphur for 
Gardening purposes, is the Black Sulphur, 
sulphur vivum. This being unpurified has not 
lost thereby^ the properties which are necessary for 
the destruction of mildew and other pests. 
— IHr. J. B. Moore’s method of making 
Liquid Manure, as we learn from the American 
Gardeners' Monthly, is to get a large tub and 
place two strips of board across it, and on these to 
put a flower barrel filled with manure, and having 
holes bored in it. Water is then poured into the 
barrel, and leaches through into the tub. It must 
be diluted for use. 
21 NEW Iresine, to be called Iresine 
CoLEMANi, has been raised by Mr. W. Coleman, 
of Eastnor Castle gardens, and will, we think, 
be a great acquisition. It is of the I. Lindeni tjq)e, 
with the same ovate lanceolate leaves, but these of a 
deep blood red, traversed by a costa, and side veins 
of bright crimson. In the sunshine the colours 
—two shades of crimson—are intensely rich and 
velvety. The stem in every part is of the same 
bright crimson as the ribs of the leaves. The plant 
is of compact growth, hardier than I. Lindeni, look¬ 
ing fresh and bright when that variety has lost all 
its leaves. This bright colour is not exceptionally 
attributable to the present fine season, having been 
equally pronounced last year. Mr. Coleman states 
that from a distance his “bed of twenty feet by 
six looks like an immense mass of some giant Alter- 
nsnthera, but being so much hardier succeeds well 
where the other fails.” When grown in pots for 
spring furnishing, it takes on a vivid colour which is 
most thoroughly eflective. 
JEemoriam. 
— liflR. Charles Rylance died at his 
residence, Ormskirk, Lancashire, on August 
20, in his 73rd year. In early life he pur¬ 
chased a small piece of land, and commenced busi¬ 
ness as a nurseryman, growing Cucumbers in frames 
covered with oil paper made by himself. He was 
soon able to buy a small greenhouse, and commenced 
growing and exhibiting plants, especially show and 
fancy Pelargoniums; he was also a great lover of 
florists’ flowers, especially the Dahlia, for which he 
has obtained hundreds of prizes. It is statod that 
at the time of his death he had no less thaii 4,000 
prize cards, including 2,250 1st prizes, as well as a 
Silver Cup for a collection of flowers in 1870, a 
Bronze Medal for a collection of cut flowers otitained 
in 1874, and later on a Gold Medal for British Perns 
in 1879 at Manchester, not to mention other awards. 
He was a shrewd honest man of business, and highly 
respected by his professional brethren. 
— Jfc^ENRY G. Bohn, Esq., died at his 
residence at Twickenham, on August i *2, in 
his 89th year. He will be longest remem¬ 
bered as a publisher, to whose insight and e nergy 
students of almost all departments of literature and 
science owe a deep debt of gratitude. He was a 
Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society in its 
palmy days, and a staunch supporter of the Gardeners’ 
Royal Benevolent Institution. As a horticul mrist 
his garden was remarkable for its large colleotions 
of hardy deciduous shrubs and Conifers. 
— ^AMES Henry Mangles, Esq., dunl at 
his residence, Valewood, Haslemere, on August 
24, at the age of 52 years. Courteous 
and urbane, with extensive knowledge and full sym¬ 
pathy with all horticultural pursuits, Mr. Mangles 
was a few years ago elected a member of the Council 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, where he did 
useful work. As a horticulturist his speciality 
was the Rhododendron, and of these he cultis ated 
those species which require some slight protec bion, 
in long canvas houses with straight sides and rii Iged 
roof, which he called his cathedral houses, and 1 rom 
which the canvas blinds could be removed at will. 
The plan answered admirably, securing not only 
flowers but vigorous growth. 
— 0EORGE Bentham, Esq., the Nestor of 
English botanists, died on September 10 in 
his 84th year. As Secretary to the Ho rti- 
cultural Society many years ago, as President of the 
Linnean Society for several years, as an indefatigable 
observer and writer on botanical subjects, more 
especially as the author, in conjunction with Sir 
Joseph Hooker, of the “Genera Plantarum,” le 
will be long remembered not only as one of the fore¬ 
most botanists of his time, but as one who, during 
a long life, has most particularly helped on his fel¬ 
low-workers both by example and precept. 
— Mendel, Esq., died at Nightingale 
Lane, Clapham Common, on September 17, 
at the age of 70 years. He was one of the 
most influential and enterpris-ing of Manchester 
merchants, and his garden at Manley Hall was one 
of the most renowned in the di.'trict. Mr. Mendel 
retired from business some years since, but did not 
relinquish his liberal and discriminating patronage 
of gardening and of plant culture, 
