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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ August, 
who in 1869 commenced hybridizing Peas, with the view of obtaining dwarf 
early marrowfat varieties, combining the quality of our richly-flavoured marrowfats with the 
precocity of our earliest round sorts. With this object in view, he took Ne Plus Ultra, one 
of our best but latest marrow Peas, as the female parent, and hybridized it with Laxton’s 
Supreme, an unquestionably fine second-early pea, but wanting in flavour. In 1870 the 
selection from the previous year was further crossed with Climax, an early dwarf marrowfat, 
but possessing the disadvantage of not filling the pods well, yet having the rich flavour of the 
marrowfats. A selection was again made, and in 1871 these were crossed with Laxton’s 
Alpha and Maclean’s Little Gem, and the race of seedling Peas growing this year at Ascot 
show that earliness, combined with flavour, has been obtained. There are, amongst those 
selected last year, and now on trial, some dwarf kinds of great promise, one in particular, 
which appears to be a very fine dwarf early marrowfat, not exceeding 2 ft. in height, a good 
cropper, with large, handsome, well-filled pods, and a decided Marrow Pea. Such a Pea is a 
desideratum. 
.— ^T Regent’s Park, where Messrs. John Waterer and Sons’ Rhododendron 
Exhibition has been held annually for the last 23 years, the gem of the season 
amongst the newer varieties was Marchioness of Salisbury , a delicate rose, with 
brighter edges, handsomely spotted with cinnamon-red, forming a fine compact truss of large 
pips backed up with good foliage. Frederick Waterer was also a striking new sort, the flowers 
being of a bright crimson shade, with rather long stamens; the truss very neat and compact. 
John Walter was smaller than the last-named, of the same shade of colour, but very pretty. 
■- itti:. Grieve, of Culford, has sent us examples of a Bronze Ivy-leaved 
Pelargonium , an entirely new strain, of singular beauty, which we regard as a 
great acquisition. It was obtained by fertilizing an Ivy-leaved variety by pollen 
•of a Bronze Zonal, and the result is a well-marked gold and bronze Ivy-leaved variety, of 
robust and compact habit, which promises to be equally useful as a bedding and as a pot and 
vase plant. The flowers are crimson ; and the leaf of a rich golden tint, with a bronze zone, 
the older leaves becoming tinted with red at the margin. 
- order to see the Poinsettia pulcherrima in its full beauty, observes a 
correspondent of the Gardeners’ Chronicle , it should be planted out and trained 
to the brick wall or trellis, in a stove. There is a plant thus grown at Moreton 
Hall which covers a space of nearly 40 square yards. As it begins to grow, tho young wood, 
which can be easily led in any direction, is so trained, that when the blooming season arrives 
the inflorescence is evenly displayed over the whole surface. It begins to bloom about Decem¬ 
ber, and was on March 1 last still showy with flower-heads like so many crimson stars. A 
few weeks later, the plant is cut back to within an eye or two of the old wood, and 
allowed to come away at its own proper time. There is a plant of Allamanda cathartica 
grown in conjunction with the Poinsettia, and as the latter, after being cut down, looks for a 
season rather naked, a few sprays of the Allamanda trained here and there amongst its branches 
help to hide its nakedness. There is also another plant trained to the same wall, but kept to 
itself, and that is Cereus grandiflorus. This plant has been a companion to the Poinsettia for 
nearly 30 years; it grows vigorously, and has had as many as 18 blooms expanded at one time. 
These three plants derive their root-nourishment from a narrow border of what may be termed 
friable loamy soil, which runs along the bottom of the wall; this border is encased with stone, 
and iB 18 inches broad, by the same in depth. There is no bottom-heat, but the border is 
kept dryish on that account, and the plants are stated to thrive under such treatment exceed¬ 
ingly well. 
- |^Tr. George Wyness, for many years gardener to Her Majesty at 
Buckingham Palace, died recently, at an advanced age. He was well known as 
a cultivator and raiser of florist’s flowers, especially of Dahlias and Verbenas. His 
unassuming, quiet demeanour gained for him the esteem of a wide circle of friends. 
- PtR. Joseph Saltmarsh, the senior partner in the firm of Saltmarsh 
and Son, Moulsham Nurseries, Chelmsford, died on June 14. 
