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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
ting them five to seven in an 8-inch pot, in soil con¬ 
sisting chiefly of loam, with a little leaf-soil, decom¬ 
posed manure, and sand added. The pots are plunged, 
with the plants well up to the glass, in a bed of 
leaves and fermenting manure, with hot-water pipes 
underneath, in a pit destined for Melons later on. 
In a few weeks, when pretty full of roots, they arc 
lifted out into a warm greenhouse for about a fort¬ 
night, then placed in a warm, moist stove, in a light 
position, where the flower-spikes soon appear. After 
flowering, the plants arc grown on for a time with 
occasional doses of manure-water; again removed 
to the greenhouse and back again, with the same re¬ 
sults. Mr. Rentown, of Roehampton, has been most 
successful with Eucharis in comparatively small 
pots, having had some in flower nearly the whole 
year through, under much the same conditions of 
culture. 
— ®iie name of Cotoneaster acutifolia 
appears to be that which belongs to the plant 
known as C. Simonsii (often incorrectly written 
Simmondsii), and which is also known in some 
gardens as C. Mmalaiensis. This is certainly one of 
the best and most ornamental species of a decidedly 
ornamental genus, and affords during the dull winter 
months a fine show of its handsome, glossy, orange- 
scarlet fruits, in places where the birds will allow 
them to remain on the bushes. 
— ®iie East Anglian Eose Society is 
a new Society, consisting of Eose growers 
(amateur and professional) in the counties of 
Norfolk, Suffolk, and Esses, the object of which is 
to improve and encourage the culture and love of 
the Rose in these three counties, by holding annual 
shows in some one of them. The Rev. P. Roberts, 
Scole Rectory, Diss; the Rev. II. A. Berners, Hark- 
stead Rectory, Ipswich; and Mr. B. R. Cant, 
Colchester, arc the hon. secretaries pro ten i.; and 
it is proposed that the first show be held at Ipswich. 
— f«R. Laxton offers a New Pea, John 
Bull, which he considers the best of his intro¬ 
ductions. It is a main-crop pea, 3 ft. high, a 
blue wrinkled marrow of the first size and quality, 
of the same parentage as Marvel, and “ uuapproached 
in size and beauty of pod, quality, fertility, and 
regularity of growth, by any other variety of the 
same class.” The pods bear as thickly as those of 
Fillbasket, and each coutain from nine to thirteen 
compressed peas; they are larger than those of 
Marvel, deeper in colour, and somewhat less curved. 
Sown on the lltli of March, the crop was fit to gather 
on the lltli of July. 
— Amongst some new hybrid Amaryllids 
raised by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, one called 
Amaryllis lilacina, a cross between A. reti¬ 
culata (<J) and one of the fine varieties of the Leo- 
poldii(y) section, is quite an acquisition. The leaves 
are marked with the characteristic white longitudinal 
stripe of A. reticulata, and the flowers also have the 
beautiful venation and deep lake colour suffused 
into the brilliant hue of the Leopoldii parent. The 
growth of the plant is freer than is usual in A. 
reticulata, and the number of flowers in each umbel 
is greater, six or more being produced in one truss. 
It flowers at the same time as A. reticulata. 
— ®HE Lantanas are very useful plants, 
either as stove or greenhouse decorative pot- 
plants, or for the outdoor summer garden. 
We are, therefore, pleased to note in Lantana Yic- 
toire an exceedingly pretty new white, which 
should find a place wherever these plants are used. 
The flowers are pure white, with a lemon eye, and 
have a very chaste appearance, especially when ex¬ 
panded under glass in early spring. The Lantanas 
are of the easiest cultivation, and are in all cases 
very pleasing when in flower, the changes which 
often take place in their colouring as they advance 
in age being very interesting and attractive. 
— En the Eose Annual of Mr. W. Paul we 
find the following New Eoses of 1879-80 
noted as those which have most commended 
themselves to Mr. Paul’s good opinion, and his 
experience may be pretty safely followed in this 
respect :—II.P.—Catherine Soupert, Comte do 
Mortemarte, Ennemond Boule, Gloire de Bourg-la- 
Reine, Henriette Pettit, Julius Finger, Madame 
Ducher, Madame Oswald de Kerchove. Bourbon 
—Jules Jurgensen. Tea-scented —Jean Lorthois, 
distinct and good ; Jules Finger, Madame Angele 
Jacquier, promising, in the way of Rubens; Madame 
Barthelemy Levet, Pierre Guillot, good and distinct. 
Of the English-raised roses of that period, Countess 
Rosebery and the Duchess of Bedford are pre¬ 
eminently the best. 
- Lemoine’s new double-flowered 
Lilac, Syringa vulgaris rubella plena, 
appears to be a beautiful and most desirable 
addition to the list of hardy shrubs. The blossoms 
are perfectly double, of a reddish-purple colour, and 
produced in large dense panicles. 
— HJessrs. Carter and Co.’s New Pea 
Pride of the Market, which has hitherto 
been known under the provisional name of 
Strength, is a selection from Stratagem—a blue 
wrinkled marrow, of very superior character, dwarf 
(2 ft.), and prolific, with largo well-filled pods. Like 
it, Pride of the Market is a prodigious bearer, but 
has indented instead of wrinkled seeds. It is likely 
to prove a most useful pea for market purposes, on 
account of its cropping qualities, which are pro¬ 
digious. 
— REMARKABLE cluster of GrOS GuiL- 
laume Grapes was shown by Mr. Eoberts, 
gardener to the Countess of Charleville, 
Charleville Forest, King’s Co., at the last winter 
show of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. 
This mammoth bunch, which was well coloured for 
such a monster, fairly finished, and symmetrical 
withal, which turned the scale to the tune of 21 lb. 
—one and a half stone—was highly commended by 
the judges, and awarded the Society’s Large Silver 
Medal by the Council. 
— 2The recommendation to tie the mats 
down, given recently by Mr. Duffield in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle , is good advice, now that 
wintry storms have reached us. Ho writes :—One 
prediction may, I think, be safely made, viz., that 
in some gardens a considerable quantity of glass 
will be broken during the next six months, not so 
much by the frost, as by the means used for keep¬ 
ing it out. There are at least two methods of 
securing mats, &c., in position when used as covering 
for glass erections. One is loading them with any¬ 
thing that can be laid hands ou, such as planks, 
ladders, old iron, bricks, &c. This, from a glazier’s 
point of view, is a good enough plan. A better one, 
in my opinion, however, is to stretch two lengths of 
stout tarred twine over the mats from end to end of 
