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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 28, 1890. 
first year it paid the judges, but the second and third 
years found the society in such very low water that it 
could give the same gentlemen only thanks for their 
labours. Still, those services were generously given 
without complaint. In the fourth year, when the 
finances improved, the judges were again paid ; but in 
the present year, prosperity having made the committee 
ungenerous and unjust, the judges (gentlemen of the 
best reputation) are thrown over in favour of other 
men—judges, be it said, of high repute. That the 
committee have full power to do as they like is certain ; 
but still it is obvious, morally, that having regard to 
the obligation under which they laid to their old 
judges, they were bound to remember them in 
prosperity, as the judges had helped them in adversity. 
It was in connection with this society that one of the 
judges was summoned unto the Brentford County 
Court last year by a disappointed exhibitor, who 
claimed the value of the prize he thought he was 
entitled to. Clearly the locality enjoys an odd 
reputation.— Z. 
Rose Harrisonii. 
A bed of this, the finest of the Austrian Briar Boses, 
is just now a pleasing feature in the grounds of 
Gunnersbury House. Carrying out a practice which 
the late Mr. C. J. Perry, of Birmingham, popularised 
so much—that of pegging down Boses—Mr. Hudson 
has pegged down the shoots of his specimens, which 
occupy the centre of a circular bed, so that they cover 
it, the result being a mass of glorious yellow. 
Harrisonii has semi-double flowers of moderate size, 
and rich in colour ; it is a free grower, an abundant 
bloomer, and admirably adapted for making a weeping 
Bose. Probably no other Bose shows such a deep hue 
of gold.— It. D. 
Fruit Prospects at Enville. 
The season has so far advanced that a reliable estimate 
can be formed as to the probable yield of the fruit crop 
this season. Commenting on them collectively, the 
outlook is satisfactory. Apples show a falling off this 
year, notwithstanding a good show of bloom ; the crop 
is confined to about one-third of the trees, chiefly late 
sorts. Pears promise well—rather to be wondered at, 
seeing that there was such an immense crop last year. 
Wall-trained and those on espaliers are noticeably good. 
Sorts having, a good crop are, among others, the 
following:—-Marie Louise, Louise Bonne.de Jersey, He 
Plus Meuris, Pitmaston Duchess, Glou Morceau, 
Beurre Diel, and Williams’ Bon Chretien. Plums 
are almost a failure, and the same must be said of 
Damsons, only to add that there are even less of them. 
Cherries are a good crop, Morellos especially so ; but 
there is only a sprinkling of the White Hart variety. 
Peaches and Nectarines are an average crop, while of 
Apricots there are not many, the Moor Park variety 
being best cropped. Coming now to bush fruits, a good 
yield of Currants is expected. Gooseberries are below the 
average. Baspberries will be tolerably plentiful. Straw¬ 
berries have an immense profusion of bloom, and all 
future conditions being favourable, good fruit and an 
abundance of it maybe reasonably expected.— F.R. S., 
Enville Gardens, Stourbridge, June 21 st, 1890. 
New Roses. 
Mrs. Paul. —The flowers of this seedling Bourbon 
Bose are large, pink, with broad petals, the outer of 
which are recurved. The inner ones form a compact 
rosette, while the flowers are yet in their prime. The 
variety is distinctly fragrant. John' D. Pawle. —This 
belongs to the H. P. class, and has large spreading 
flowers of a deep crimson, with a velvety appearance 
when quite young. The outer petals, after a time at 
least, get distinctly tinted with rose. Both were shown 
by Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, at the Drill Hall, 
on the 24th inst., and received Awards of Merit. 
Marchioness of Lorne. —The foliage of this variety 
is of a dark green, and the flowers of great size. It 
belongs to the H. P. section. The outer petals are 
much recurved and rose coloured, while the inner ones 
are red when at their best. Blooms were exhibited by 
Messrs. Wm. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross, at the Drill 
Hall, on the 24th inst., and an Award of Merit was 
granted. 
Philadelphus microphyllus. 
The leaves of this very distinct species are smaller than 
those of any other in cultivation, ovate, acute, three- 
nerved, and deep green. The small flowers have 
generally four petals, and are produced singly at the 
apex of short side twigs all along the stronger branches. 
They are produced in great profusion, giving the bushy 
shrub a pretty and snowy appearance. Cut sprays 
were shown both by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, 
and Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, at the Drill Hall 
on the 24th inst., when a First Class Certificate was 
awarded. 
Pelargonium, Midsummer. 
The Pelargonium here named belongs to the zonal 
class, and has moderate sized deep green leaves with a 
bronzy zone. The flowers are of great size, orbicular, 
pink with a salmon-red zone towards the centre, and a 
small white eye. The petals are regularly recurved at 
the ends. A plant was shown by Messrs. J. B. Pearson 
& Sons, Chilwell, Notts, at the last meeting of the 
Boyal Horticultural Society, when an Award of Merit 
was accorded it. 
New Varieties of Paeonia albiflora. 
Daubenton. —The outer petals of this variety are 
broad, flat, rose-coloured, and form a sort of guard to 
the inner petals, which are much smaller, very numer¬ 
ous, and rose coloured with white tips. The flower 
itself is of good size. Madame Bertioz. —This is 
evidently a very vigorous variety, for the flowers may 
be described as of huge size, even for a double of P. 
albiflora. The petals are of a uniform deep red, very 
numerous, and the inner ones are of moderate width, 
and slightly cut. Both were shown by Messrs. Paul 
& Son, Cheshunt, at the Drill Hall, on the 24th inst., 
and received Awards of Merit. 
Begonia, Miss Eastwood. 
The flowers of this tuberous variety are of great size, 
double, made up of numerous small rosettes, and of a 
beautiful rosy pink. The leaves are broad, slightly 
lobed, half cordate, and of a dark olive-green colour. 
A plant was shown by Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, 
Swauley, at the Drill Hall, on the 24th inst., when an 
Award of Merit was accorded. 
Carnation, Pride of Great Britain. 
Tiie stems of this variety, as shown by Mr. H. J. Jones, 
Byecroft Nursery, Lewisham, at the Drill Hall on the 
24th inst., were about a yard high. The leaves are long, 
of moderate width, and ot a deep glaucous green. The 
flowers are large, bright yellow, with somewhat in¬ 
curved petals, shallowly toothed at the ends. It 
appears to be of vigorous constitution, and an Award of 
Merit was accorded it. 
Rhododendron Ajax. 
This is one of the hybrid greenhouse Bhododendrons. 
The flowers are of great size for this class, deep salmon- 
red with a white throat, and a pale purple line where 
the two colours join. The filaments are crimson, and 
the broad petals are strongly recurved, giving the flower 
a regular and rounded outline. Cut flowers were shown 
by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, at the Drill Hall 
on the 24th, and received an Award of Merit. 
The Purple Orach. 
For garden decoration, the beauty of Atriplex hoitensis 
atrosanguinea is altogether overlooked, even by those 
who are ever on the outlook for something of telling 
appearance and easy cultivation. Being an annual, it 
requires to be raised afresh every year from seeds. 
These it ripens freely, and if not collected, they drop 
and give rise to a plentiful crop of seedlings the fol¬ 
lowing spring. It would, therefore be well adapted for 
cultivating in the open spaces of shrubbery borders, 
where its dark.purple or crimson foliage would be seen 
to advantage against the green leafage. In sub-tropical 
gardening it might also be used to advantage in large 
beds, grown as a relief to other more sober-tinted 
foliage. In rich soil it grows to a height of 3 ft. or 
4 ft., but it could be kept down to any desired height 
by pinching out the flowering tips. 
Nymphaea tuberosa flavescens. 
The sepals of this beautiful variety are tinted with 
pink externally, on a pale, sulphur-yellow ground. 
The petals are much paler, and of a creamy white, but 
their colour appears greatly intensified by the mass of 
bright yellow stamens occupying the centre. The 
variety, like the type, is readily propagated by means 
of tubers, which are freely produced upon the rhizomes. 
It first reached this country in 1887, and ivas spoken of 
for a time under the name of N. Marilacea chromatella. 
It has been flowering for some time past in the Water- 
Lily house at Ivew, where also N. odorata sulphurea 
may be seen, and which hardly differs from the above, 
except that the flowers are smaller, with more 
numerous petals, and the sepals are tinted with green 
externally. 
Fruit Prospects in Inverness-shire. 
The fruit crops in this district will not, we fear, be 
such as were anticipated in the early part of the summer, 
but still, fair crops are expected. There has not been 
such a profusion of blossom on fruit trees for a number 
of years back as there has been this year. Late frosts, 
however, have played sad havoc among the trees, 
especially Plums and Pears. Apples have the appearance 
of being a fair crop. Gooseberries are to be good, and 
as yet their old enemy, the caterpillar, has done very 
little leaf dismantling, probably owing to the cold and 
dull weather experienced here for the last month. 
Currants, black and red, look well. Strawberries to 
all appearance are to be excellent, but owing to the late 
season, will be fully a fortnight behind last year in 
ripening. Baspberries, apparently, will be about the 
average.— A. MacKintosh, Erchless Gardens, Beauly. 
Early Strawberries. 
The Rev. Mr. Fraser, M.A., Erchless, pulled the first 
ripe Strawberry in the open air on Friday, the 20th. 
The variety is President Delacour, and is planted in a 
sunny and very warm spot in the manse garden.— A. 
MacKintosh, 21 st June, 1890. 
Lathyrus rotundifolius. 
The plants under this name in gardens exhibit some 
variability as to the colour of the flowers and other 
particulars. There are some specimens in the herb¬ 
aceous border in the gardens of the Boyal Horticultural 
Society at Chiswick. The foliage is of a light green 
colour, and the individual leaves consist of a single 
pair of roundly elliptic, relatively short leaflets. The 
stipules are ovate, each bearing a basal lobe, or auricle, 
as large as the stipule itself, a character which is 
strikingly distinct from that seen in L. Sibthorpii, 
described by us a short time ago (p. 649). The flowers 
are moderate in size, numerously produced on short 
peduncles, and at a short distance appear of a brick- 
red colour. On closer examination, however, they 
are seen to be suffused with a considerable amount of 
rose or rosy purple. The stems are winged, and vary 
from 2 ft. to 3 ft. in height according to the vigour of 
the plant, and in rich soils and wet seasons it may con¬ 
siderably exceed this. It commences flowering about 
the middle of June and continues well into July. 
Solanum Wendlandii. 
This fine stove species is said not to flower till August, 
but a large plant has been blooming magnificently in 
the Water Lily house at Kew for many weeks past. 
The stems are climbing, and attain a great length, so 
that a house with a considerable amount of roof area is 
necessary for its perfect development. The stems and 
branches are sparingly furnished with hooked spines, 
and the leaves are variously divided, the terminal lobe 
being the largest. The flowers are lilac-blue, of great 
size, and produced in large handsome cymes that give 
a well-flowered plant a gorgeous appearance. The 
plant is a native of Costa Bica, from whence it was 
introduced as recently as 1882. The temperature of a 
stove is necessary for its -well-being, and where large 
stoves exist, this Solanum well merits a place. 
Theropogon pallidus. 
The habit of this plant is similar to that of Lily of the 
Valley, but the leaves are very much narrower, linear 
in fact, deep green and rather more leathery in character. 
The racemes of flowers are rather shorter than the 
leaves, and the individual blooms are bell-shaped, and 
white tinted with pink or red. They therefore resemble 
those of a coloured Lily of the Valley, and are about 
the same size. It should be grown in pots and kept in 
a cool greenhouse, where its flowers will form a 
pleasing contrast with other and more common subjects. 
In its native home in the Himalayas it is of frequent 
occurrence, and this would account for its turning up 
at Clare Lawn, East Sheen, on a piece of Pleione, also 
from the same locality. 
Veronica Traversii. 
A LARGE bush of this in full bloom is a beautiful object; 
but even as an evergreen shrub it is beautiful at all 
seasons of the year, with small, oblong, leathery leaves 
of a pleasing dark green colour. The flowers are small, 
white, and produced on racemes that are longer than 
the leaves, and towards the end of the branches. 
