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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
, [December, 1884. 
Henderson, delicate pink margined white; pretty 
and distinct. Magenta King, rich deep magenta; 
bright and showy. Mr. Wills, rosy-magenta, a 
little loose; large and showy. Sunset, reddish- 
bronze, with a slight golden tip; distinct and fine. 
Rev, A. II. Glennie, bright dark pucy-red, the edges 
of the florets shaded with dark; fine and distinct. 
Peter Henderson, the florets reddish-brown, with 
yellow reverse, slightly flaked with red. 
Chrysanthemum (Pompon), Anais, a little 
beauty, buff pink and yellow, small flowers compact; 
very fine form, and very free; Ist-class Certificate 
R.H.S., Nov. 12; J. Laing & Co. Star of Whyke 
(Teesdale), a charming variety with medium-sized 
reflexed flowers of the purest white ; an excellent 
variety for cutting from, because so very free and 
attractive ; Ist-class Certificate K.H.S., Nov. 12; H. 
Canned & Sous. 
CuPEESSUS Lawsoniana Pleeti, a very hand¬ 
some glaucous or silver variety, much more markedly 
coloured in this respect than is common to many 
Silvery Conifers; Ist-class Certificate ll.H.S., Nov. 
12, 1884; G. Fleet. 
Ipomcea Thomsoni, a pure white variety of the T. 
Horsfallise type, a great novelty and of high quality; 
good habit and very free ; Ist-class Certificate li.lI.S., 
Nov. 12 ; Veitch & Sons. 
Pelargonium {Zonal) La Cygne, a pure double 
white variety, bearing large finely formed flowers of 
great beauty, the young flowers tinted with delicate 
yellowish green, which quite passes away with age, 
a charming variety for pot culture ; Ist-class Certifi¬ 
cate R.H.S.,Nov. 11: H. Canned & Sons. 
Senecio pulcher, some very fine plants of this 
were shown by Mr. A. F. Barron, bearing large flowers 
of a fine clear bright purple hue ; very handsome and 
attractive; Ist-class Certificate R.H.S., Nov. 11; 
Chiswick Garden. 
Viburnum Tinus, aurea variegata, a variety of 
the Common Laurustinus, with the leaves margined 
with pale yellow ; Ist-class Certificate R.H.S., Nov. 
11; C. Lee & Son. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
— never hear now-a-days the name of 
Donald Beaton spoken of in connection with 
Cool Orchids. If, however, we are not mis¬ 
taken it was he who led the way, and to him in that 
case the credit is due of having seemed a wide¬ 
spread benefit for Orchid lovers. At least so earl}’- 
as 1841, he mentions the receipt, by Mr. Harris of 
Kingsbury, to whom he was gardener, of a col¬ 
lection of Orchids from the high mountain districts 
of Mexico, and he says “ they may be cultivated in 
the greenhouse.” He laid them, with a thin layer 
of damp moss beneath, on the shelves in a seed-room 
(temp. 35° to 45°) and they did far be*ter than the 
same species put into heat. The next winter he pro¬ 
posed to keep them in a temperature of 40° to 45°. In 
a subsequent letter to Sir W. J. Hooker, he writes, 
“ I am enabled to give a fuller list of the hardy 
Orchidese mentioned in my former letter. T believe 
this will be the first notice of plants of this tribe 
having been subjected to a cold temperature in this 
country; and I have ample proof that these and 
many others will not do so well if they are sub¬ 
jected to a heat above 50® or 55° in winter.” 
— In reference to Root-Pruning, Mr. 
Rivers argues that a fruit-tree requires the 
same treatment underground as the tree above 
ground. The roots, corresponding to the branches, 
are constantly pushing forward into fresh pastures to 
feed the rootlets, which, like the leaves, are annual. 
If these roots are pruned close to the stem, and 
compelled to produce rootlets in soil which has 
already been searched and exhausted, it can hardly 
be expected that they will flourish ; but if the root- 
pruned tree be annually supplied with new material 
or fresh soil, the roots or underground branches will 
produce rootlets ready to feed and to take up all 
the nutriment contained in the added soil. Some 
experimental trees, grown in perforated pots, were 
remarkable for the extraordinary rapidity with 
which roots were emitted into the soil outside the 
pots into a prepared border. It is probable, he 
observe;), that when annual root-pruning by means 
of perforated pots is well understood and intelli¬ 
gently worked out, a complete reformation will be 
effected in the production of fruit. 
— 'SThe Convolvulus Cupanianus of 
Todaro is a very pretty dwarf annual, which 
seems to be little known in cultivation, and 
yet it is one whose beauty should secure it a place 
in every garden where flowers of this class are grown. 
What its origin is we know not, but as it is some¬ 
thing like a small dwarf form of the Convolvulus 
tricolor (minor) it may possibly be an Italian 
hybrid, raised between that species and some of the 
smaller ones like C. cantabricus. It is a decumbent 
plant with small oblong blunt leaves, and flowers 
which are coloured in zones with blue yellow and 
white, and much enlivened by a series of black spots 
some distance within the margin. 
— ^IThe question of Gumming Roses has 
lately been a source of controversy, an exhibi¬ 
tor at Leek, having, it is stated, transgressed in 
this particular way, and his act, when the question 
was brought before them, being endorsed by the 
National Rose Society under the plea that the 
Society had no rule to the contrary. But honesty in 
exhibiting is always understood by unwritten law, 
even where there are no “ rules.” There is, how¬ 
ever, a rule in the Leek Society’s Schedule, which 
meets the case, unless perversely read, and this 
rule which was before the National Society is printed 
it seems in large type, and is to this effect—“ Roses 
to be shown as cut from the plant.” The sooner the 
National Society purges itself of this condonation of 
malpractice the better for its reputation. 
— SISIe find that the paragraph on Ivy 
Lawns, quoted at p. 176 from an Irish paper, 
forms part of an article on the subject, pub¬ 
lished originally in the Gardeners’ Magazine, where 
the subject is much more fully treated on. 
After rcgulaily appearing month by 
month under several modified forms since 
1848, the Florist and Pomologist will now 
be discontinued. Its 37 volumes, which re¬ 
present thirty-seven years of labour on the part 
of ourselves and our predecessors, furnish a 
record of the Floral w’ork of that period, and 
its 624 plate illustrations, for which a first- 
class character may fairly be claimed, will 
remain as evidence of the advances which 
have taken place in the popular Plants, 
Flowers, and Fruits, which have more especi¬ 
ally engaged the attention of cultivators. To 
those who have aided us in our efforts to keep 
up the cbaracter of the work our warmest 
thanks are due and are hereby tendered. 
