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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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culous. What outdoor flowers will not rain and wind 
damage ? Those who grow Camellias as hardy 
shrubs never make such complaints.” 
— “ ff or years,” writes Mrs. E. Stephens, 
“ I have obtained two, sometimes three heads 
of Broccoli from the same stalk, simply by 
just cutting out the head, and leaving on either 
side a small lump of the flower, and bending the 
leaves over; I often lay a tiny stone to keep the 
leaves in place. I have sometimes had quite a nice 
head again. Of course, the crop well last much 
longer, if so treated.” 
— JTrom some notes on the garden of James 
McIntosh, Esq., Duneevan, Weybridge, pub¬ 
lished in the Journal of Horticulture , it appears 
that the Tulip beds were remarkably fine this spring. 
Mr. McIntosh has proved La Belle Alliance to be the 
richest and best scarlet bedder of all, quite super¬ 
seding Vermilion Brilliant; the blooms are very 
large, the colour intense, and the foliage fine. Chryso- 
lora has proved the best yellow for beds, the flowers 
being singularly clean and without spot or blemish. 
Moliere, a fine purplish flower with orange base, 
makes a striking bed, the more so as the orauge 
colour shines through the base of each flower like 
the reflection from an enclosed lamp. Wouver- 
mans, a glowing plum-colour, forms a mass of great 
richness. The bulbs were planted six inches apart, 
and as there were practically no blanks, the effect pro¬ 
duced was as satisfactory as could be desired. The 
varieties named may well be kept in mind by those 
contemplating having fine beds of Tulips another 
year. 
®he novel and showy Sedum semper- 
vivoides has recently been figured in the 
Garden. The plant, which is a biennial, is of 
dwarf branching habit, with blunt, fleshy leaves, 
the flowers, which are borne in profuse cymose 
panicles, being not unlike those of the well-known 
Rochea falcata ; they are quite as brilliant, and are 
said to be very lasting. It will probably prove to 
be a very useful subject for summer bedding, or 
for sheltered rockwork. It comes from Asia Minor 
and the Caucasus. 
— En raising plants of Seakale from Seeds, 
in order to secure healthy, thriving plants, a 
correspondent of the Garden informs us that 
as these seeds sown in the open ground, in the 
place where the crop is desired, seldom germinate 
freely or evenly, he has given up sowing them in 
the open ground, and raises them under glass. Two 
or three seeds are placed in a 3-in. pot amongst some 
rich soil, and afterwards put into a gentle heat; the 
plants appear in ten or twelve days, and may be 
grown on to a good size in the pots, and gradually 
hardened off. In planting out, they can be put at 
the desired distances apart, and every plant may be 
depended on to grow. About 200 plants will make 
a good plantation, and the labour required to raise 
them in pots is trifling, compared with the advan¬ 
tages of the system, which secures a full plantation 
of early, strong, and healthy plants. 
— ©ne of tbe most interesting of Japanese 
sbrubs is the Hydrangea Mariesii, recently 
exhibited by Messrs. Yeitch, and certificated 
by the R.H.S. It is a distinct-looking plant, of free- 
growing habit, with grayish-green cordate-ovate 
deeply-toothed leaves, and large terminal roundish 
close-set cymes of lavender-blue sterile flowers, quite 
different in aspect from the blue form of Hydrangea 
Hortensia. The plant was introduced three years 
since by Mr. Maries, to Messrs. Veitchs’ collection, 
but was on this occasion exhibited for the first time. 
En iftwortam* 
- m- j. Lane, one of the best practical 
gardeners in Ireland, died on May 8tli, at an 
advanced age. He was for many years gar¬ 
dener to Mr. Barlow, Sibyl Hill, Raheny, and some 
seven or eight years since was appointed gardener 
at Kilcroney House, the beautiful residence of Mr. 
D’Arcy, near Bray. In the cultivation of fruit and 
vegetables Mr. Lane had few equals. 
— iftftR. John Grigor, of the Forres 
Nurseries, died on May 19th, at the age of 75. 
He was brought up to his father’s occupation, 
that of a nurseryman ; and, after some experience at 
the Fulham Nurseries, he returned to Morayshire, 
where, in 1826, when only twenty years of age, he 
started the Forres Nurseries on his own account. 
He became an enthusiast in arboriculture, and wrote 
freely for many years in the “ Transactions ” of the 
Highland Society, obtaining its highest premiums 
and medals. These essays were summed up in a 
volume entitled Arboriculture, which appeared in 
1868, and has been looked upon as one of the best 
works on the subject. 
— John Sangster died at Romford, 
on May 27th, at an advanced age. He was a 
member of the old seed firm of Hay, Ander¬ 
son, and Sangster, of Newington, and was the raiser 
of the early Pea “ Sangster’s No. 1,” which for 
many years has been a household word amongst 
gardeners. He w r as also one of the three or four 
first life subscribers to the Gardeners’ Royal Bene¬ 
volent Institution, and for many years served as a 
member of the committee of management. Some 
twenty years ago the firm died out, and Mr. Sangster 
unfortunately met with a reverse of fortune, which 
left him in such reduced circumstances, that he was 
placed on the pension-list of the institution which 
he had helped to found. 
— $£Ir. S. M. Carson died at Gatehouse- 
of-Fleet, on May 22nd, in liis 67th year. Mr. 
Carson was one of the foremost plant-growers 
of his day, and the records of horticultural exhi¬ 
bitions testify to his great success. He was con¬ 
spicuously successful as a cultivator of Azaleas and 
Orchids, also of stove and greenhouse plants gener¬ 
ally ; and for a length of time was a neighbour and 
rival of the late Mr. John Green, and the late Mr. 
James Falconer. He was a native of Gatehouse-of- 
Fleet, in Kirkcudbrightshire, and served his appren¬ 
ticeship in the gardens of Cally House, whence he 
went to the nurseries of Dicksons and Co., and after¬ 
wards as a journeyman gardener to Elderslie, Ren¬ 
frewshire. After being for three years in Ireland, 
he was employed by the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hack¬ 
ney, where he had the charge of the Orchids and 
plant stove. Thence, after about two years, he was 
engaged by the late Thomas Farmer, Esq., of Non¬ 
such Park, Cheam ; and here, under Mr. Farmer 
and his son, W. R. G. Farmer, Esq., Mr. Carson 
remained for thirty years, discharging his duties 
with great fidelity and credit to himself, and enjoy¬ 
ing the fullest confidence and trust of his employers 
In 1872 he retired from the management of the 
gardens at Nonsuch Park, to the great regret of his 
employer, who allowed him a liberal annuity. 
