July 9, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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expand. On the contrary, if the petals are thin they 
will always be refractory. We noted a splendid 
variety the other day in the gardens at Falkland 
Park, South Norwood Hill, the residence of J. 
McMeekin, Esq. The sepals were of great breadth 
and substance, deep chocolate with yellow tips and 
a few scattered bars of the same hue. The petals 
are marked with white and purple at the base, but 
are otherwise similar. The lip is of great size and 
the most striking feature of the flower; the side 
lobes and base of the flower are violet striated with 
branching white lines, while the terminal lobe is 
pure white ; the basal portion, including the curious 
fringes, is golden yellow inclined to orange at the 
very base. At certain times of the day, chiefly in 
the morning, the flowers emit a strong fragance. 
Mr Wright, the gardener, is proud of it as well he 
might be. 
WHAT TO DO IN THE GARDEN. 
Stove Plants in the Conservatory. —Pro¬ 
vided always the weather remains moderately warm, 
such things as Allamandas, Bougainvilleas, Dra¬ 
caenas, and similar things in pots, will require a con¬ 
siderable amount of water, but all delicate subjects 
should be watered carefully, especially in dull, cold, 
or wet weather. The best plan in such a case is to 
keep them on the dry side. 
Atmospheric Moisture in the Conservatory. 
—In some establishments it is necessary to do the 
watering in the conservatory at an early hour, so 
that the floor of the house may be kept perfectly 
dry. If the day previously has been wet, few of the 
plants may require water; but should the sun come 
out brightly, many plants viill suffer greatly before 
nightfall, and the flowering period of many things 
will be shortened. To counteract this it is a good 
plan to pour some water down the gratings over the 
hot-water pipes, and elsewhere out of sight. The 
pots and staging might also be damped down occa¬ 
sionally with the syringe. 
Climbers. —Now that these are in full growth, 
both in stoves, greenhouses, and conservatories, the 
soil of the borders in which they are grown must be 
kept moist, not necessarily by frequent waterings, but 
by giving a good soaking occasionally, so that all 
parts may be thoroughly moistened. Note also that 
the water is not running away by the sides of the 
border owing to a shrinkage of the soil. 
Camellias. — When large plants are grown, 
planted out in beds or borders, heavy supplies of 
water must be given from time to time during the 
summer months, but particularly in droughty 
times. A basin at least a yard wide should be made 
around the stems of the trees or bushes, and filled 
once or twice at each watering, according to the size 
of the plants, and the facilities the water has to 
drain away. 
Chrysanthemums. —Those intended for autumn 
flowering should now receive their final shift, so that 
the pots may get well filled with roots, and the 
growth matured in good time, without which they 
cannot be expected to produce fine flowers. Good 
fibrous loam, not heavily charged with animal 
manures should be used for potting purposes. 
Stimulants can be given later on when the buds are 
well set. 
Melons. —Where the plants have been in position 
for some time, and the mounds of soil thoroughly 
permeated with roots, it will now assist them greatly 
to have an addition of fresh material firmly pressed 
down over the old. Fresh impetus is thereby given, 
and greatly add to the weight of the crop. 
Peaches. —Succession houses will now be coming 
on rapidly. Lay in all the necessary young wood, 
stopping those shoots which are growing too ram¬ 
pantly. Get all fruits well elevated above the foliage 
by the time it commences to colour. The roots may 
require watering, and that should be given without 
stint. Cold spring water should not be used. Fire 
heat will not now be necessary, but if it is desirable 
to hasten maturity, close the house early, allowing 
the temperature to run up to 90° with sun heat. 
Strawberries. —It is acknowledged everywhere 
that the Strawberry season is all too short, and it is 
therefore worth while to risk getting a chance crop 
in the autumn by planting out in a well-exposed 
position a batch of plants that were forced. If 
planted much later than this, fruiting can hardly be 
expected. 
Figs on open walls.—In order to encourage tha 
ripening of the first crop of fruit, and also to favour 
the development and maturing of young wood for 
next year’s crop, the trees should be gone over now 
and the best placed shoots laid in, while the super¬ 
fluous ones are removed. This allows the walls to get 
heated up with the rays of the sun, and the beneficial 
effect of the heat thus reflected upon the trees and 
fruit is well known. Furthermore when the shoots 
are thus judiciously thinned out the winter pruning 
is reduced to a minimum. 
Sub-tropical Bedding.—Now that the ground in 
the southern portion of the country at least has 
recently received a thorough drenching by the recent 
thunderstorm, the labour of watering such plants as 
Wigandias, Cannas, Castor Oil plants, Eucalyptus, 
Solanums, and similar plants will be obviated for 
some time. It is a good plan to give them a top¬ 
dressing of horse droppings, which when neatly 
spread on the ground are not unsightly, and while pre¬ 
serving the moisture they feed the plants. 
Celery.—The main crop of Celery may be planted 
out as soon as the trenches can be got out and pre¬ 
pared. Give a good watering to settle the soil about 
the roots as soon as the planting is completed. 
When the earliest batch gets to a height of 12 in. or 
16 in. the first earthing up may be given. Remove 
the small outer leaves and suckers from the crown, 
and be careful to prevent soil from getting into the 
crowns of the plants. 
Shallots, Sec .—Lift the bulbs when the foliage 
begins to decay, and store them after having been 
thoroughly matured and dried by exposure to the 
sun. Garlic may be treated in the same way where 
that pot-herb is still grown. Weak liquid manure 
given to spring-sown Onions at this period assists 
them greatly. 
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or “ The Publisher,” and not to any person bv 
name, unless the correspondence is of a private 
character. Telegrams may be addressed “ Bambusa, 
London." 
Names of Plants. — Simplex: 1, Muscari como- 
sum monstrosum ; 2, Sisyrinchium Bermudianum, 
which seeds freely and comes up from self-sown 
seeds; 3, Phormium tenax.— R. N. N. : 1, Adian- 
tum trapeziforme; 2, A. tetraphyllum Hendersoni ; 
3, A. affine; 4, A. caudatum ; 5, Pteris cretica ; 6, 
Asplenium bulbiferum.— K. W. : The Bird-Cherry, 
Prunus Padus.— S. : /Enotbera Youngi.— Omega '. 
The orange-coloured flowers were the Orange Hawk- 
weed (Hieracium aurantiacum) ; the other is the 
Showy Erigeron (Erigeron speciosus), there does 
not seem to be a popular name for Erigeron.— J. W. : 
1, Spiraea Filipendula flore pleno; 2, Campanula 
garganica; 3, Veronica Teucrium var., but we 
cannot say which variety without good and character¬ 
istic foliage ; 4, Campanula garganica augusta: 5, 
Allium Moly ; 6, Ajuga genevensis : 7, Philadelphus 
coronarius ; 8, Thalictrum aquilegifolium. 
Books.— Saman : The Hr ipagation and Improvement 
of Cultivated Plants, by F. W. Burbidge (William 
Blackmore& Sons). 
Rowan Tree. — J. Scott : Pyrus aucuparia, 
commonly called the Mountain Ash in England. 
Twin Cucumber : D. Ladds : The growth of two 
Cucumbers together is not an uncommon occurrence. 
We have seen many of them, and also some Vegetable 
Marrows, which have grown in the same way. 
Osmunda regalis cristata. — helis : A British 
Fern certainly, and therefore eligible in a class for 
hardy Ferns. 
Wild Grasses — M. C. : .Miss Plue's British 
Grasses (Lovell, Reeve & Co.) would perhaps help 
you, but if you have any botanical knowledge 
Babington’s Manual of British Botany (Van Voorst), 
or Hooker's Students' Flora of the British Islands 
(Macmillan), would be better. 
Melon and Vegetable Marrow. — Young 
Gardener : Botanically both are fruits, but for 
ordinary purposes the former is classed as a fruit, and 
the latter, being cooked before being eaten, is con¬ 
sidered a vegetable. 
Bullock s Brains. — New Cross : We have not seen 
the name in books, but have heard of it as being 
applied by costermongers to flowering plants of 
Sedum spectabile. These gentry have a nomencla¬ 
ture of their own, which is not to be found in the 
books, and which would seem to be founded on the 
rules of contrariety, thus they call Gardenias 
” Stinks. ’ 
Tomato Leaves Injured.— J. C. : The leaves of 
your Tomatos have been greatly injured by Thrips, 
of which we could see numerous small yellow speci¬ 
mens. The appearance of the leaves themselves 
would also suggest Thrips, as they are spotted all 
over irregularly, and shining in some places as if 
covered with a layer of some greasy or oily sub¬ 
stance. You must close the house and fumigate 
lightly on two successive nights, as for green-fly, or 
else syringe them with soapy water or a solution of 
Gishurst Compound, being particularly careful 
to get at the under side of the leaves where 
the I hrips are mostly lodged. Ventilate freely after¬ 
wards in order to get rid of the superfluous moisture 
in the atmosphere, to avoid encouraging some of the 
fungoid diseases which delight in a humid and stag¬ 
nant atmosphere. 
Insects.— J. Wisden : Your Apple shoots have 
been bored by the young caterpillars of the wood 
Leopard Moth, Zeuzera aesculi Go over the tree 
carefully, and where you find one of its burrows work 
a piece of wire into it, and so kill the caterpillar if 
there is one inside. 
Pinks. — Laced Pink : None of the seedlings are 
true laced Pinks, having but the faintest trace of 
lacing on the petals. They are ordinary border 
varieties only and of no commercial value. To get 
good laced varieties you must save seeds from care¬ 
fully fertilised flowers of the best varieties, and even 
then you may grow some hundreds of plants before 
getting one really good one. Now is the time to pro¬ 
pagate them by means of cuttings commonly called 
pipings. 
Communications Received. — J. H. B. — C. H. P. 
-G. J. I— S. & S.—E. D. S.—R. S —W. R — 
F. H. K.—F. R. 
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TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
E. D. Shuttleworth, & Co., Lim., Albert 
Nurseries, Peckham Rye, S.E.—Trade List of Stove 
and Greenhouse Plants. 
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LONDON SEED TRADE. 
July 5th, 1892. 
Messrs. Hurst & Son, 152, Houndsditch, and 39, 
Seed Market, Mark Lane, report no demand ; few 
new samples of Trifolium incarnatum Mustard 
and Rape seed sell slowly on former terms. 
COVENT GARDEN MARKET. 
July 6tJi. 
Fruit.—Average Wholesale Prices 
s. d s. d. 
Grapes.per lb. 10 30 
Peaches... per dozen 4 o 12 0 
Pine apples. 
—St. Michael’s, each 26 60 
Vegetables.—Aver 
x. d. s. d. 
ArtichokesGlobe doz. 30 60 
Beans, French, perlb. 16 20 
Beet.per dozen 20 30 
Cabbages ... per doz. 16 26 
Carrots ... per bunch o 6 
Cauliflowers, Eng.dz. 30 60 
Celery.per bundle 2 6 
Cucumbers .each 06 10 
Endive. French, doz. 26 30 
Herbs .per bunch 02 06 
s. d. s. d 
Melons.each 1629 
Strawberries per lb. 03 09 
Tasmanian Apples 
per case... 26 50 
ge Retail Prices. 
x. d. s. d 
Horse Radish, bundle 20 40 
Lettuces ...per dozen 16 20 
Mushrooms, p. basket 13 20 
Onions.per bunch 04 06 
Parsley ... per bunch o 6 
Radishes... per dozen 1 6 
Smallsalading,punnet o 4 
Spinach, per strike ... 1 6 
Tomatos. per lb. o 9 13 
Turnips.per bun. o 6 
Potatjs. —Kent Regents, 80s. to 100s. per ton; Kent Kidneys 
80s. to ioos. per ton ; Champions, 70s. per ton. 
Plants in Pots.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
x. d. s. d. 
Arum Lilies, per doz. 60 90 
Begonias ...per doz. 6 o 12 o 
Crassula ...per doz. 12 o 24 o 
Cyperus .per doz. 4 o 12 o 
Dracaena term., doz. 24 o 36 0 
Dracaena viridis,doz. 9 o 18 o 
Echeveria Pyramid- 
alis. 90180 
Evergreens,invar.doz 6 o 24 o 
Ferns, invar..per doz. 4 0 18 o 
Ferns, small, per 100 8 o 12 o 
Foliage Plants, doz. 12 o 60 0 
Fuchsia,.per doz 40 9 0 
x. d. x. d. 
Heliotrope, per doz. 40 60 
Ivy Pelargoniums, per 
doz. pots 4. o 60 
Lilium Harrisii.doz. 15 o 30 o 
Lobelia, .per doz. 40 60 
Marguerites, perdoz. 6 o 12 o 
Mignonette, per doz. 40 80 
Musk,.per doz. 20 40 
Palms in variety,each 2 6 10 0 
Palms, Specimen ... 15 o 63 o 
Pelargoniums,perdoz. 8 o 15 o 
—scarlet.per doz. 30 60 
SpiraBas.ptr doz. 8 o 12 o 
Anemone various, 
doz. bu 
Arum Lilies, 12 blms. 20 40 
Bouvardias, per bun. 06 10 
Carnations, 12 blooms 10 30 
Carnations, doz. bun. 40 60 
Cornflower doz bnchs 20 30 
Eucharis ...per doz. 20 40 
Gardenias 12 blooms 16 40 
Gladioli...doz. buns. 6 o 12 o 
Heliotroipes,2 sprays 03 06 
Iris (various), dz. bn. 60 90 
Lilium Cand.dum, 
doz. bun. 12 0 24 0 
Lilium Harrisii, 
doz. blooms 20 40 
Liliums var., dz.blms. 06 16 
MaidennairFern,i2bs.4 060 
Margueiites, 12 bun. 20 40 
Myosotis or Forget- 
me-not, doz. bnchs. 20 40 
s.d. s.d 
Mignonette... 12 bun. 30 60 
Moss Roses, dz bchs 60120 
Pelargoniums, 12 sps. 06 09 
— scarlet.12 bchs. 30 40 
Primula, double, bun. 06 09 
Pinks.doz. buns. 20 40 
Pansies, doz. bchs ...10 20 
Pyrethrum doz bnchs 20 40 
Oi chid Bloom in var. 
per bloom, from 02 08 
Roses, doz bunches 20 60 
Roses, yellow, dozen 20 60 
— Red.doz. blms. 10 20 
— Saffrano...per doz. 10 16 
— Tea.per dozen 06 20 
Spiraeas...doz. bnchs 40 60 
Stephanotis, dz. sps. 10 20 
Stocks.doz. bun. 30 60 
Sweet Peas, dz. bns. 30 60 
Sweet Sultan, dz. bn. 20 40 
Tuberoses, per doz 04 06 
Cut Flowers.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
s. d. s. d. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Bea^e, Mr. F. J.705 
Cockscomb, Moir's Gi?nt 701 
Chrysanthemum Zawads- 
kii.710 
Cypripedium spectabile ...7 2 
Fab ana imbricata.710 
Farningham Rose Show ...712 
Ficus elastica .708 
Fruit Crops, the Season’s...703 
Frui s, on preserving .708 
Gardener s Calendar.713 
Gloxinias .709 
Grape Scare in New York 705 
Herbaceous Border, The ...710 
Horticultural Instructors ...704 
International Horticultural 
Exhibition .711 
Leuzea conifera .711 
PAGE. 
Linaria pilosa .710 
Linnean Society.705 
Mm riacoccinea .710 
Myosotis Recksteineri .710 
National Ro:e Show.706 
OdontoglossumHarryanum7i2 
Orchid Notes andGleanings7i2 
Pear Blight .707 
Pitlochry .707 
Philadelphus microphyllus7io 
Phormium tenax .710 
Poppy, the Peacock .710 
Redleaf .708 
Rhododendrons .704 
Roses, on packing . 708 
Spiraea aruncus .711 
Tulips, Select .707 
