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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[December, 1882. 
upright, not handsome, and very crumpled about the 
eye. Lord Suffield needs no descriptive mention, 
neither does Warner’s King, nor Cellini Pippin. 
Mere de Menage comes very fine on the dwarfing 
stock, and its deep red stripe on a ground of coppery- 
red renders the fruits specially striking. Waltham 
Abbey Seedling is a really good conical Apple, hand¬ 
some, and a very reliable cropper. Grenadier, shown 
by the Messrs. Lane, is large, flatfish, prominently 
ribbed, streaked with russet. Lady Grosvenor is a 
true Codlin-shaped fruit, but having a crumpled top. 
Cox’s Pomona is not unlike the Emperor Alexander, 
but more ribbed. Lord Derby is another conical 
shaped fruit. Last not least. Lane’s Prince Albert, 
a handsome smooth conical Apple, much striped with 
red. These are all kinds more or less known, but 
well worthy a place in any good collection of kitchen 
varieties. 
— UThe varieties of Double-flowered 
Tuberous Begonias have now reached a high 
pitch of excellence. Mr. Bealby, of Roe- 
hampton, who makes them a speciality, has sent 
some very grand blooms to the Garden , all of them, 
without exception, being remarkably fine sorts. They 
are described as follows: — M. Langlois , flowers 
34- inches across the petals, forming a compact 
rosette of vivid orange scarlet ; Rosa Mundi, 3 
inches across, of a very beautiful clear rose pink; 
Blanche Jeanpierre, blush white, large and full ; 
Mad. Comesse, very large, somewhat coarse, salmon 
pink; Mad. Dumast, large pale pink; Kugene Leguin, 
very fine, a full rosette of brilliant vermilion petals ; 
Mad. Leon Simon, a very compact rosette of flesh 
pink petals; Agnes Sorel, delicate pink. Compared 
with the ordinary kinds of double begonias, these 
huge flowers are said to be more like pseonies. 
— Colwyn Bay, in the garden of 
Mr. A. 0. Walker, the Trop^eolum speciosum 
grows freely against a wall, the flowers being 
unusually large. As the fruit ripens, the persistent 
calyx becomes of the deepest purple colour, and on 
this the fruits, of the richest cobalt-blue, are set. 
Such a combination of colours—the pale green 
leaves, the orange-scarlet flowers, the cobalt-blue 
fruits ripening into dark purple—is not only rare 
but gorgeous. 
— Respecting the new Japanese Primula 
obconica alias poculiformis, the Gardeners' 
Chronicle remarks :—“ This pretty Primrose 
has the habit of P. cortusoides, a Siberian species. 
The same type is represented in China by P. Sieboldii, 
a perfectly disrinct species, but often considered as a 
variety of P. coriusoides. P. m His, a species from the 
Bhotan Mountains, also shows its affinity to a con¬ 
siderable degree in the leaves, but the inflorescence 
is very different. From P. cortusoides, its nearest 
relation perhaps with which we are acquainted, P. 
obconica is at once distinguished by the obconic, 
wide-mouthed calyx, and shortly stalked spreading 
leaves, which are roundly cordate, sharply but sparsely 
toothed, pale green, and of much greater substance 
than any of the allied species above mentioned. The 
flowers are pinkish-white, borne well above the foliage 
on a many-flowered erect umbel. Under certain 
conditions perhaps the flowers would be white, or 
could be made so by sowing seed and always selecting 
the whitest, if it prove hardy in this country it will 
undoubtedly be a valuable addition to the hardy 
tin wo- garden, and ought to become as popular as P. 
Sieboldii, of which we have now a great many distinct 
and extremely beautiful varieties. Coming as it 
does from Japan it is remarkably distinct from P. 
japonica, and adds one more to the many fine plants 
from that country.” 
— ®1he Populus alba Bolleana is one of 
a class of trees to which too little attention is 
paid—the ornamental and picturesque class, of 
which there is an almost endless store in cultivation. 
This pyramidal Poplar from Taschkend, in Turkes¬ 
tan, was introduced into Germany in 1875. Its pyra¬ 
midal habit and its foliage render it a most desirable 
tree in the landscape. The upper surface of the leaf 
is of a richer deeper green, and the white under¬ 
surface clearer and purer than in P. alba; the leaves 
also are more deeply lohed. Por effect P. Bolleana is 
to be preferred. A representation of the foliage for 
samples grown in Messrs. Paul & Son’s Nursery at 
Cheshunt, is given in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, N. s., 
xviii., 557, tig. 96. 
if it JHctnoriam. 
— J3Hr. F. Faulkner, gardener to F. B. 
Leyland, Esq., Woolton Hall, Liverpool, died 
on November 7, somewhat suddenly, in the 
prime of life. He was the winner of the 25 guinea 
Challenge Cup at the Kingston Chrysanthemum 
Show, last year, and was one of the three competitors 
who were to have finally contested the possession of 
it at the show of the present year. 
— JSHr. James Clarke, one of the oldest 
members of the Bury and West Suffolk Horti¬ 
cultural Society, died at Bury St. Edmunds on 
November 14. From early boyhood he had an ardent 
love for flowers and horticultural pursuits, and he 
was a very successful amateur cultivator of various 
families of decorative plants, more especially the 
Pink, of which lie succeeded in originating many 
beautiful and well-known varieties, including Lord 
Lyons, Derby Bay, Duchess, and many others. He 
was a genial and kind-hearted man, who delighted in 
the society of horticulturists, and was greatly 
esteemed and respected by his fellow-townsmen. 
— JRr. Edward Meehan, for more than 
half a century gardener at St. Clare’s, Ryde, 
Isle of Wight, died recently, at the advanced 
age of 84 years. Mr. Meehan was a man of a 
scientific turn of mind, and was much esteemed by 
all who knew him. He was one of the earlier im¬ 
provers of the Fuchsia and other garden flowers. 
His son, Professor Thomas Meehan, Professor of 
Botany in the Academy of Natural Sciences at 
Philadelphia, is a well-known nurseryman of Phila¬ 
delphia and Editor of the American Gardeners’ 
Monthly. 
— JSiflR. Thomas Frost, of the Bower 
Nursery, Maidstone, died on November 11, 
under painful circumstances, at the age of 
59 years. He had, it appears, for some time past 
been ailing, but on that day accompanied his wife to 
London on business ; while there he was seized with 
an apoplectic fit, and expired before he could be got 
back to Maidstone. Mr. Frost commenced business 
as a nurseryman in 1863, having previously been 
gardener at Preston Hall, Aylesford. Por many 
years he had been selected as one of the judges of 
fruit at the Royal Botanic Society’s great summer 
shows. 
