May 21, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
599 
in the garden. If any one will walk through a wood 
where these sylvan Anemones are found in plenty, 
he will perceive they vary somewhat in colour, many 
being tinged with pink deepening to rosy lilac. Then 
some have sported to double forms, the white and 
the rose coloured, and it is these which are well 
worthy of cultivation in pots and in the border. I 
prefer them in pots, because the foliage dies down 
quickly on plants in the open border, and there is 
danger of the bulbs being dug up or injured. I 
winter my plants plunged in cocoa fibre up to their 
rims, and when they are just coming into flower they 
are brought into my cold greenhouse, and after they 
have gone out of bloom they are returned to the 
cocoa fibre beds. In autumn it is sometimes 
necessary to repot, or if not repotted, they are top- 
dressed, a process from which they derive consider¬ 
able benefit. By means of division of the roots, any 
variety can be increased. 
Then there is the chaste Snowdrop Anemone, A. 
sylvestris, which produces its solitary pure white 
flowers, which, when the plants are well grown, are 
as large as a crown piece when fully opened. It is a 
shade-loving plant, doing best in somewhat cool and 
moist spots, and it is well adapted for the half wild 
garden. A delightful subject ; it should be much 
more grown than it is. And w r ho can say too much 
in praise of that gem among 
THE bORGET-ME-NOTS, 
Mysosotis dissitiflora. It is just now in full bloom, 
studded freely with pale turquoise blue flowers. For 
bunching and bouquets we have no more beautiful 
Forget-me-not. It grows well, and blooms with re¬ 
markable freedom. Sometimes when wet and 
frost follow each other in rapid succession, it is 
apt to be injured during the winter months. Like 
the Aubretias it does well at Belvoir, and coupled 
with the Aubretia, they make Mr. Ingram’s favourite 
blue flowers. It is best to raise the Myosotis annu¬ 
ally from seeds, as young, vigorous seedling plants 
do remarkably well, much better than old ones which 
are divided. A large-flowered form of this delightful 
Forget-me-not, named Perfection, is a very fine sub¬ 
ject for pot culture at this season of the year.— R. D. 
Hardening ||iscellany. 
ACACIA GRAND1S. 
This by botanists is usually considered a variety of 
A. pulchella, but for gardening purposes is sufficiently 
distinct and certainly at all times highly ornamental, 
but particularly in the spring months when in bloom. 
The bulk of the Acacias under cultivation, and it 
may be said of Acacias generally, have no true leaves 
or merely the petioles of them flattened laterally with 
the whole of the lamina reduced. That under notice 
is one of the few which have retained the blade of 
their leaves. The latter in this case are bipinnate, 
but consist only of a pair of pinnae, bearing each 
about 8 or io pairs of linear-lanceolate leaflets of 
small size. The internodes of the stem are very 
short, so that the leaves are crowded together and 
closely cover the much branched stems. The plant 
ultimately attains a height of 6 ft., but being of slow 
growth it can be accommodated in houses of limited 
dimensions for many years before it occupies too 
much space. We noted a small plant recently in 
one of the conservatories at Falkland Park, South 
Norwood Hill, and which was only about 18 in. high 
or less, and well furnished with bloom. The latter 
consists of gobular heads of yellow flowers arising 
from the axils of the leaves. 
DENT ARIA PINNATA. 
The flowers of the species of Dentaria closely 
resemble those of Cardamine, or even of Hesperis, 
but the affinity is more with the former. They are 
popularly known under the name of Toothwort, but 
although several of the species are very old intro¬ 
ductions, they are very much neglected at the 
present day. D. pinnata grows about a foot in 
height, bearing a short raceme of pale lilac, almost 
white, flowers. The leaves very much resemble 
those of the Elder, but on a smaller scale. The 
species here noted was introduced from Switzerland 
as early as 1683, but does not seem to have had any 
great run of popularity at any time. As. an early- 
flowering and uncommon Crucifer it well deserves a 
corner in the garden. 
CHIONODOXA LUCILI/E TMOLUSSI. 
The Glory of the Snow, as it is popularly called, is 
now well known to be a very variable plant, and 
several very distinct forms have turned up and are 
more or less cultivated in gardens. That under 
notice has narrower segments, furnished with a 
greater amount of white on the lower half, while the 
blue on the upper portion is well defined. Although 
the flowers are not so large as those of the type yet 
they are very pretty and may get larger as the bulbs 
increase in size under cultivation in good soil 
There is a patch of it in Messrs. Barr & Son's 
Nursery, Long Ditton. 
CORYDALIS LEDEBOU RIAN A, 
The species of Corydalis are ornamental on account 
of their foliage as well as their flowers, and this one 
is noticeable on account of the deeply glaucous hue 
of the leaves, which are ternate with obovate or oval 
and broad segments. The flowers are produced in 
racemes terminating the spreading flower stems, and 
are pink with a dark purple blotch at the apex of the 
petals. It is a native of the Altai Mountains and 
was introduced as recently as 1879, but is as yet by 
no means common. The tuberous and perennial 
rootstock should be planted in a situation where it 
will be kept comparatively dry during the winter. 
A SPORTIVE AURICULA. 
The original wild form of Primula Auricula had 
yellow flowers, but relatively few yellow varieties 
are grown by' those who pride themselves in having 
the finer forms in their gardens. The great amount 
of cross breeding and selection that has gone on for 
many years has given the Auricula'a variable and 
unsettled character, but apparently not to the same 
extent as occurs in several other florist flowers. 
There is a variety of Auricula in Messrs. Barr & Sons’ 
Nursery, Long Ditton, and which has flowers of 
very variable character. The normal form seems to 
have purple flowers, but there are other individuals 
which have clear pale yellow flowers, while some of 
them on the contrary are variously striped with 
purple and yellow. The one or the other colour 
predominates on different plants and in different 
flowers on the same or different plants. In the 
sandy soil at Long Ditton there seems to be a 
tendency on the part of the flowers to revert whole¬ 
sale to the original yellow colour. On the whole the 
variety is a great curiosity. 
HENBANE SOLD AS CELERY SEEDS! 
A west-end correspondent of the Times writes:— 
" Last Friday night my wife and I began our dinner 
with some clear soup which the cook, as we after¬ 
wards ascertained, had flavoured with Celery seeds 
bought in a bottle from a greengrocer. About ten 
minutes afterwards I began to feel quite dizzy, and 
could hardly swallow the food I was eating, which 
tasted as if it was nothing but dust and ashes. At 
the same time, my wife became so faint that she 
asked me to help her up.to her room at once. This 
I did with some difficulty, having to hold on to the 
bannister with one hand while I supported her with 
the other. At the same time, also, our sight became 
blurred, our mouths and throats parched, and we 
both began to feel cold. I tried in vain to get warm 
by sitting over the drawing-room fire, but only felt 
intensely drowsy. I then rang for the parlourmaid 
to ask her to send for the doctor ; and it then appeared 
that both she and the cook had tasted the soup and 
been seized with the same symptoms as in the cases 
of my wife and myself. When Dr. Martin, of 
Somers Place, arrived shortly afterwards I had great 
difficulty not only in getting up to receive him, but in 
making him understand what had happened, so 
indistinct was my articulation. However, from the 
dilation of our eyes, the parched condition of our 
tongues, and the state of our pulse my wife's having- 
gone up to 140) he, of course, saw that we had been 
badly poisoned, and prescribed drastic remedies, 
which saved us probably from very serious con¬ 
sequences ; for even the next day cur sight was still 
defective, and my wife's hands were slightly paralysed. 
The bottle of Celery seed was then taken by Dr. 
Martin to Messrs. Hogg, of Southwick Street, who 
carefully analysed it and discovered that it was not 
Celery seed at all, but pure Henbane. Two other 
bottles were procured from the same greengrocer as 
before and analysed, with the result that one turned 
out to be pure Henbane and the other Henbane and 
Celery seed mixed. This deadly poison, which is 
being sold every day for household purposes, is 
obtained from a firm of seedsmen and herbalists, 
who, I believe, procure it from France wholesale and 
make it up into the bottles which they sell to the 
greengrocers. Henbane is about 50 per cent 
cheaper than real Celery seeds." 
SOCIETIES. 
Royal Horticultural, May 17th . — The meeting on 
Tuesday last was a very small one, exhibitors 
evidently keeping back their plants in anticipation 
of the more important exhibitions next week. 
Amongst Orchids were some Cattleyas, including C 
Schroderse rosea and C. S. Leyswoodiensis, exhibited 
by J. W. Temple, Esq. (gardener, Mr. E. Bristow), 
Leyswood, Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells. The 
last-named variety was notable for having a purple 
band surrounding the orange blotch, while the rest 
of the lip was white. A scape of C.ypripedium 
Caudatum was shown by Mr. J. Douglas, gardener 
to Mrs. Whitbourn, Great Gearies, Ilford. One of 
two flowers borne by it was inverted. Cut flowtrs 
of two varieties of Dendrobium superbiens were 
shown by Mr. H. A. Burberry, The Gardens, 
Highbury. Two varieties of Laelia majalis were 
shown by Reginald Young, Esq., Fringilla, 3. Linnet 
Lane, Liverpool. A plant of the sweetly-scented 
Cattleya iricolor was shown by Baron Schroder 
(gardener, Mr. Ballantine), The Dell, Egham. A 
small group of Orchids was exhibited by Messrs. J. 
Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, including Dendrobium 
lineale, from New Guinea, also Cypripedium Evenor 
and Masdevallia Cundata-Estradae, both hybrids. 
A collection of cut flowers of Orchids, consisting 
chiefly of Cattleya Mendelii in great variety, as 
well as C. Lawrenceana and Maxillaria Sanderiana, 
was shown by R. B. White, Esq. (gardener, Mr. J. 
Brown), Arddarroch, Gareloch Head, Dumbarton¬ 
shire. Dendrobium Leeanum atropurpureum was 
exhibited by F. Wigan, Esq. (grower, Mr. W. H 
Young), Clare Lawn, East Sheen. A species of 
Sarcopodium was shown by C. J. Lucas, Esq., 
Warnham Court, Horsham. Some Orchid flowers 
were also shown by Rev. E. Handley, Bath ; A. W. 
Wells, Esq., Claregate, Birmingham ; and by J. 
Charlton Parr, Esq., Grappenhall Heyes, Warring¬ 
ton. A flowering plant of Vanda teres alba was 
shown by the Right Hon. Lord Rothschild (gardener, 
Mr. E. Hill), Tring Park, Tring. Some flowering 
trees and shrubs were showm by Messrs. J. Veitch 
& Sons, Chelsea, including two forms of Double 
Cherry, Wistaria sinensis alba, and the spiny 
branched Orange (Citrus trifoliata). The firm also 
had some baskets of Pelargoniums and a broad-leaved 
Pandanus named P. pacificus. A group of Roses in 
pots was shown by Messrs.Wm Paul & Son,Waltham 
Cross. A stand of cut flowers of Mackayabella and 
Cantua dependens was exhibited by the Right Hon. 
P. C. Glyn (gardener, Mr. J. Friend). Rook’s Nest, 
Godstone. A fine bunch of flowers, in great variety, 
of Streptocarpus hybrids was shown by T. B. Hay¬ 
wood, Esq. (gardener, Mr. C. J. Salter), Woodhatch 
Lodge, Reigate, and which was much admired. A 
group of Calceolarias was shown by T. Nothard, 
Esq. 'gardener, Air. J. Slater), York House, Lower 
Sydenham. A collection of cut flowers of Himalayan 
and other Rhododendrons was brought up from the 
Royal Gardens, Kew ; amongst them were R. Grif- 
fithianum, R. arboreum album, and some fine 
Hybrids. A basket of the Polyantha Rose named 
Anna Maria de Montravel and some pots of Little 
Pet were shoum by Messrs. Lane & Son, Berkham- 
stead. A small group of varieties of Anthurium 
Scherzerianum was shown by Messrs. J. Peed & 
Sons, Norwood Road, London, S.E. A pan of the 
dwarf Richardia albo-maculata nana was shown by 
Mr. H. Elliot, Stour Vale, Christchurch, Hants. 
Cyrtanthus Tuckii and C. augustifolius aurantiacus 
were exhibited by Mr. James O'Brien, Harrow'-on : 
the-Hill. At a meeting of the Fruit Committee a 
Cultural Commendation was awarded to Mr. Geo. 
Wythes, gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, 
Syon House, Brentford, for a box of the brown Tur¬ 
key Fig. A box of a seedling Tomato was shown by 
F. Richard, Esq (gardener, Mr. F. Boote). Bure 
Homage, Christchurch. A seedling Melon was shown 
by R. Burrell, Esq. (gardener, Mr. A. Bishop), 
Westley Hall, Bury St. Edmunds. Four fruits of a 
Melon named Gunton Orange were exhibited by Mr. 
Wm. Allan (gardener to Lord Suffield), Gunton 
Park, Norwich. 
