October 14, 1893. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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pleasure grounds, planting open spaces and the 
public streets, and so gaining a considerable local 
reputation, among Ealing people especialy, and in the 
trade generally. Mr. Cannon is highly popular and 
greatly respected, and many good wishes will follow 
him in his new undertaking. 
A Giant Camellia.— The garden of acclimatisation 
in the Bois de Boulogne, that M. A. Geoffroy 
St. Hilaire directs with so much talent, says the 
Illustration Horticole, acquires a growing importance 
from a horticultural point of view. It has been en¬ 
riched recently with a vast winter garden which is 
made the subject of the greatest praise. In the 
month of March last the superb flowering of the 
Camellias was specially remarked. One of the 
specimens of the variety carried, according to the 
information of the Revue Horticole, 3,000 flowers and 
buds. Its height is five yards and a half, and its cir¬ 
cumference twelve yards. That enormous example 
weighed on its arrival 3,850 kilogrammes, or over 
3I tons. 
National Chrysanthemum Society.—At the meeting 
of the General Committee on Monday evening, the 
principal business was the reading of a paper by 
Mr. C. E. Pearson on 
“ How to Improve our 
Chrysanthemum Shows.” 
Mr. Pearson very neatly 
hit off the defects of 
modern shows, and offered 
some suggestions with a 
view to the treatment of 
groups in a more artistic 
and pleasing manner, and 
to introduce some desir¬ 
able change in the method 
of showing cut blooms, 
now so monotonous and 
uninteresting to all but 
the thorough-going Chry¬ 
santhemum expert. A 
capital discussion follow¬ 
ed, in which Messrs. 
Bevan,Rowbcttom,Witty, 
Cox, Newell, C. Gibson, 
when brought face to face with science. The Glas¬ 
tonbury Thorn has been named Crataegus Oxya- 
cantha praecox, the latter name distinguishing the 
variety, and merely signifying early. Further, its 
earliness is greatly dependent upon the nature of the 
weather, a fact that has now been known and re¬ 
corded for many years past. It comes into leaf in 
January or February, and even in autumn, 
so that it occasionally happens to be in bloom on 
Christmas Day. Its flowering on that day is there¬ 
fore exceptional and not the rule. The record has, 
however, been beaten by the common Horse Chest¬ 
nut, which flowered for a second time in August last 
in one of the London parks. That is very unusual 
for the climate of Britain, but in the streets of Paris, 
where the heat is frequently greater, and the climate 
drier than in this country, the Horse Chestnut may 
occasionally be seen blooming for the second time in 
September. 
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THE “CHAMPION” HORIZONTAL 
TUBULAR BOILER. 
Everybody must be ” up to date ” now, including the 
builders of glasses houses and those who make boilers 
may be, before reaching the chimney. In fact, as 
near as possible, we get in this boiler the advantage 
of the flue arrangement in what is known as the 
Gold Medal Saddle boiler, in conjunction with the 
well-known advantages of the tubular form, about 
which there is now no question. The improvement 
is a decided gain in increasing the effective power of 
the boiler, and as a consequence rendering it more 
economical. The smaller of the two boilers illus¬ 
trated is made specially to meet the requirements of 
those who cannot have deep stokeholes, from 2 ft. to 
3 ft. being quite sufficient for this one. 
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THE ROSERY. 
A Few of the best Striped Roses. 
Some of these are pretty enough, and all are of 
interest in the garden. The present aim among 
florists’ flowers seems to be self colours rather than 
fancy mixtures. A short list may be of service to those 
who like these ” fancy ” Roses. They belong to 
various classes, but probably two of the best are the 
first on my list, and are taken from the hybrid per¬ 
petual class. Pride cf Reigate is a sport from one 
of the best garden Roses 
grown, viz.. Countess of 
Oxford. This originated 
in the garden of a noted 
rosarian at Reigate, hence 
its name. It is striped 
with white, and a soft 
rosy-white ; sometimes 
pure white and the original 
colour are blended in the 
stripes and splashes. It is 
the only striped Rose I 
have ever seen good 
enough to be exhibited 
among first-class show 
Roses, and if my memory 
does not deceive me, Mr. 
Frank Cant of Colchester 
has had it in his champion 
trophy collection at the 
National Rose Society's 
Kendall, Stevens, Wynne, Harman Payne, Taylor, 
Davy, Gordon, Thompson, Crane, Langdon, and 
the chairman, Mr. R. Ballantine, took part. A 
most cordial vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. 
Pearson for his suggestive and useful paper, and it 
was referred to the schedule Sub-Committee to con¬ 
sider and report as to how the Society can best pro¬ 
mote the object in view. Seventeen new members 
and one Fellow were elected. This brings the 
number elected since the commencement of the 
present year up to 108, and the honorary secretary, 
Mr. R. Dean, reported also that the finances were 
in quite as satisfactory a position as at the corres¬ 
ponding period last year. 
The Glastonbury Thorn—Already we hear rumours 
that this early flowering variety of the common 
Hawthorn, and well known in story and fable, 
is in full bloom. This will hardly accord with its 
reputed flowering season on Christmas Day. But 
botanists are a hard-hearted race, and care little 
about the marvellous, particularly when the plant in 
question fails to keep its record. Even should it do 
so regularly, if that were possible in the fickle and 
uncertain weather of our winter, then the phe¬ 
nomenon would cease to be a marvel. The fierce 
light of modern science is thoroughly inimical to 
everything that savours of the marvellous, so that 
fabled stories in our day have a very short existence 
to heat them ; but while we are not quite certain as 
to who may claim to be the maker of the ” up-to 
date” greenhouse, we have no such difficulty in 
connection with the "up-to-date” boiler, because 
the "Champion” horizontal tubular is the very 
latest form of boiler that has come within our ken. 
Needless to say that it is introduced by the Thames 
Bank Iron Co., Upper Ground Street, S.E., because 
this particular firm have made the horizontal tubular 
form of boiler a specialty for some years, and have 
introduced many improvements into the apparatus 
since they made the first one of the type that we re¬ 
member for the late Mr. John Standish, to burn peat 
in at Ascot. 
The special feature of the "Champion” will be 
readily detected in the accompanying illustrations. It 
consists of thecasting of wings or webs on the outer 
side of the pipes, so that when the boiler is built 
up, as shown in the section, the power of the boiler 
is greatly increased by preventing the heated gasses 
from escaping into the chimney before the heat has 
been well extracted. In the case of the larger boilers 
of this form, which have two or more rows of pipes 
above the fire box, by stopping the wings or webs on 
the pipes at opposite ends of each section the heated 
gasses are made to pass from the furnace along the 
pipes in zig-zag fashion, and thus traverse the whole 
length of the boiler three or more times, as the case 
exhibitions more than once. Certain it is that it 
comes wonderfully good with him. It has been 
grand too with me this year. 
Merrie England is a sport from Heinrich Schul- 
theis ; also a good garden Rose. It is striped and 
splashed with an almost indescribable soft fleshy rose. 
The same colour is found in a new variety called 
Mrs. Harkness. The champion Rose grower of the 
season was its introducer, and I understood Mr. 
Harkness to say, both new varieties originated from 
the same plant. Merrie England is a striped com¬ 
bination of the two shades found in Mrs. Harkness 
and Heinrich Schultheis, and is a wonderfully taking 
Rose to those who like a complete novelty. 
The next four Roses on my list are often confused 
with one another. Beauty of Glazenwcod is really 
the old Fortune’s Yellow under another name, and is 
becoming generally recognised as such. This is a 
Noisette, and is often most superb. It is rather 
tender and very early. Sometimes it comes a pure 
self-coloured orange-yellow ; but in its striped form 
is very prettily splashed with carmine. Two Roses 
often confused with the above are Village Maid and 
York and Lancaster. The first of these is the larger 
flower, and has stripes of a rosy-purple. The other 
variety has a pure white instead of pale yellow 
ground, and is striped with deep clear red. American 
Banner and the old Rosa Mundi are also some- 
