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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[July, 
powdered lime will be sufficient for a moderate-sized 
garden, and they can be sprinkled over it in about 
half an hour. If the operation is repeated two or 
three times, the ravages of the insects will be put an 
end to for several weeks ; and if applied twice, once 
in the morning and once in the evening, a seed plot 
may be preserved which but for this would be com¬ 
pletely destroyed. The lime will only kill the slugs, 
&c., whilst it is fresh. 
— remarkably fine specimen of An- 
guloa Clowesii, says the Irish Farmers’ 
Gazette , has been flowering at Mount Anville 
Park, Dundrum, the residence of H. Poe, Esq., D.L. 
The plant, which is growing in a large pan, is fully 
four feet through and twelve feet round. It is in the 
highest health, and showing thirteen or more fresh 
growths, while round the circumference of the leafy 
centre appear no fewer than 65 flower scapes, each 
capped with its great cymbiform cup of golden or 
most pronounced aesthetic yellow, the whole forming 
a picture the plantsman who has seen it is not likely 
soon to forget. Certainly we have never seen any 
example of its kind to come near it. 
— JJSessrs. Low & Co., of Clapton, have 
bloomed during the past spring a new pure 
white Phalaenopsis — Phal^nopsis Schil- 
leriana alba —the first which has been observed, 
and altogether a very fine acquisition. The sepals, 
petals, and labellum are pure white, the crest of the 
lip yellow, and the side lobes white, with yellow spots 
on the upper portion. It is a very pretty novelty. 
— ®he principle on which Dwarf Hy¬ 
drangeas are grown is to strike the tips of 
the shoots, to ripen the terminal bud, and to 
keep it from starting till the plants are required to 
blossom. The practice is very simple. The cuttings 
are put in in June, or early in July, in a sharp open 
compost and placed in a gentle warmth until they 
are rooted ; they are then hardened off immediately 
before they have time to elongate, hut the leaves are 
kept fresh and healthy so as to plump up and ripen 
the terminal bud. This is accomplished by plunging 
the young plants out-of-doors in the full blaze of the 
sun in a bed of coal ashes. If they are kept in 4- or 
5-inch pots they do not grow much, and the wood 
becomes thoroughly ripened by the early autumn. 
In a few weeks after being introduced into a gentle 
heat the following spring a fine flower-truss will he 
produced upon a stem not much over a foot high. 
— Che species of Brownea are stove trees 
of very great beauty. The gorgeous flowering 
Brownea Ariza was, we learn, during some 
weeks of the past spring the glory of the stove 
conservatory at Glasnevin, being well furnished with 
its great pendent heads of crimson blossoms. This 
particular plant has this season been flowering be¬ 
yond its usual degree. The appearance of the young 
foliage of the Browneas is, moreover, as curious and 
interesting as the ; r flowers are magnificent. In the 
same house is a remarkably fine specimen of the 
more familiar species, B. grandiceps, which has been 
displaying some of its still larger but less brilliant 
flower-heads, which also was an object of interest to 
visitors for some weeks after B. Ariza had gone out 
of blossom. The gigantic tassels of flowers in both 
these plants were produced so abundantly that the 
branches are heavily weighed down with them. 
— 3The handsomely variegated Trades- 
cantia multicolor is largely used at Ashton 
Court, Clifton, Bristol, as an edging plant. 
Planted in good soil it grows like a w'eed, and is a 
conspicuous feature in the flower garden. It appears 
to prefer a warm sunny position. The plants need a 
little pegging to get them into position, and then, if 
needs be, pinching-back can be performed to keep 
the line perfect. The old T. zebrina ( Cyanotis 
vittata) is also used for the same purpose, but T. mul¬ 
ticolor more so because of its handsome and striking 
variegation. _ 
in Jftemoriam. 
— JHr. Anthony Oliver, late gardener 
to the Earl of Ravensworth, died at Eslington 
Park on May 8, at the age of 80 years. 
He entered the Ravensworth family in the year 
1824 as head gardener, a position he held up to the 
day of his death. Mr. Oliver made the culture of 
vegetables a special study, and cultivated them well; 
a stock of white Celery, that often bears his name, 
has been grown by him for fifty-six years; the Early 
Monarch Cabbage has also been associated with hi3 
name for thirty years. His son, Mr. Joseph Oliver, 
succeeds him. 
— HSr. James Yick, of Rochester, U. S., 
died of pneumonia on May 16, in his 64th 
year. He was born at Portsmouth, and in his 
time had been printer, editor, author, publisher, and 
merchant. He went to America in 1833. He com¬ 
menced his great seed business practically in 1860, 
and his success is said to have been marvellous. 
3,000 letters per day was not an unusual occurrence; 
he has paid more than 30,000 dollars per year for 
postage, and his Floral Guide has a circulation of 
over 200,000 copies. All this has been accomplished, 
writes the editor of the Gardener's Monthly , by hard 
work and faithful interest to his customers. No man 
in his day has so endeared himself to the people; he 
was, in the fullest sense of the word, a Christian 
gentleman; his daily life was a record of good works 
and kind deeds. 
— JSSr. James N. Wilson, of the firm of 
Wilson & Co., fruit merchants, Covent Garden, 
London, died at Lisbon on May 24. He has 
for many years successfully carried out in Portugal 
the cultivation of fruits and vegetables on English 
principles. 
— iffilR. George Wemyss, gardener to Sir 
G. H. Scott Douglas, Bart., at Springwood 
Park, Kelso, in whose service he had been for 
thirty years, died on May 25, aged 62 years. He 
was a prominent worker of the Kelso Horticultural 
Society, and was the founder and moving spirit of 
a useful club, whose object was to induce gardeners 
to meet together, and bring such of their produce as 
they thought fit to show to their fellow-workers. 
-- AU Robert A. Osborn, of the Fulham 
Nursery, died on June 25, at Tunbridge 
Wells, at the age of 27 years. He was the 
only surviving son of the late Mr. Thomas Osborn, 
and representative of the well known and highly 
respected firm of Osborn & Sons, which has for many 
years held a foremost position among the nursery 
establishments of the metropolis. 
