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THE GARDENING WORLD 
December 23, 1893. 
particularly to call attention to is their extreme 
beauty when among mixed shrubs, and also as 
standards upon a lawn. Very rich crimson and 
scarlet forms may be had, and with both single 
and double flowers. Pink, rose, and white are also 
found. A few plants in the mixed shrubbery, or on 
the outskirts of a lawn, have a wonderfully pretty 
appearance, and are one of the easiest and quickest 
ways of breaking up any unpleasing formality which 
a predecessor may have cultivated. They give a com¬ 
plete change to the whole aspect, do not look too 
rough, and are reasonable in price. 
In the autumn their berries are showy, and the 
foliage often takes very high tints of red, orange, and 
deep yellow. The variety, both in fruit, bloom and 
foliage, is far too great to allow of any names being 
given. Among them we find the C. Pyracantha, and 
its grand garden variety C. P. Lelandi. These are 
well known berry-bearing plants, and are often 
spoken of as scarlet Fire Thorns. Berries are borne 
in the greatest profusion, and form one of the most 
showy features we have in the autumn. They are 
far more frequently grown against a house or other 
building, but are also very showy in bush or standard 
form upon the lawn. The chief drawback to the 
latter is their attraction for birds—blackbirds and 
thrushes eat them with such avidity that a couple of 
days will often see the bushes completely cleared.— 
Experience. 
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GARDENING |[lSCELLANY. 
SEEDLING ORANGE, EDITH. 
Some fruits of a seedling Orange, under the above 
name, were exhibited at the meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society on the i2th inst., by D. C. A. 
Cave, Esq, (gardener, Mr. J. H. Stevens), Sidbury 
Manor, Sidmouth, Devon. They were of large size, 
globular, and lemon-coloured, were scarcely ripe, 
but of a rich orange hue, where maturity was per¬ 
fect, and highly fragrant. Oranges are not very ex¬ 
tensively cultivated in this country, and we presume, 
not often raised with the view of obtaining new 
varieties. It is a favourite amusement with amateurs, 
however, to raise Orange trees from pips; but few 
bring them to the fruiting stage. A First-class 
Certificate was awarded the subject of this note. 
CHRISTMAS DRUMHEAD CABBAGE. 
Mostly all of the varieties of the Drumhead race of 
Cabbages are very hardy, and therefore suitable for 
winter culture. Many of them are of large size, 
and therefore more suitable for cattle food than for the 
table, although the quality no doubt is good enough. 
The Christmas Drumhead Cabbage is very moderate 
in size, flat on the top as usual to the race, and very 
firmly compacted. The leaves are of a dark 
glaucous green, very moderate in size, and densely 
arranged round the head on a short stem. The 
variety is therefore suitable for culture in gardens 
even of moderate dimensions. An Award of Merit 
was accorded it when exhibited at the meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, on the izth inst., by 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
PANSIES IN WINTER. 
By striking cuttings about midsummer, or a little 
later, and growing these on in a partially shaded 
place in pots. Pansies, at least some sorts, may be 
had in bloom in late autumn and winter. To be 
successful it is necessary to pot firmly and to nip off 
any flowers that appear, till they are wanted ; also 
to cut away all small growths bearing two to four 
shoots. The best place to grow them is a cold 
frame, well aired, after which they may be removed 
to a cool greenhouse to bloom, where they must be 
kept near the glass. I have had them flowering for 
some time, some of the blooms being very beautiful. 
I send you one of David Rennie, which measures 
about 3 in. in diameter. Its black-brown blotches 
and rich golden belting are quite as lovely and per¬ 
fect as many flowers cut in May, and is a welcome 
sight in the middle of December .—Michael Cuthbeit- 
son, Public Park Nursety, Rothesay. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM J. S, DIBBENS. 
The habit of sporting amongst Chrysanthemums is 
now well known to cultivators, and also the fact that 
some varieties are more liable to this peculiarity 
than others. Two forms of J. Stanborough Dibbens 
turned up in the collection of Mr. Toynbee, East 
Acton, and were exhibited by his gardener, Mr. T. 
Butcher, at a meeting of the Ealing Gardeners’ 
Mutual Improvement Society. Neither of the 
forms exactly correspond to the variety as figured in 
The Gardening World, Jan. i6th, 1892. In that 
case the bloom was globular, with broad, incurved, 
and more or less interlacing florets of a clear, bright 
yellow on the upper surface, and sulphur-yellow on 
the reverse or most exposed face. One of the 
sports in question formed a dense mass of narrow, 
clear yellow florets. The other more resembled the 
illustration above quoted as far as form was con¬ 
cerned, but the broad florets were of a clear yellow 
on the inner and hidden face, while the exposed one 
was closely striped with pale chestnut or rosy-fawn 
lines, giving the flower the appearance of belonging 
to another variety altogether. 
HIPPEASTRUM MRS. W. LEE. 
This is a great improvement upon the typical H. 
reticulatum from which it was raised. The latter 
was introduced from Brazil in 1677, and has there¬ 
fore long been an occupant of the stoves and other 
houses of this country, where it has more often been 
neglected than looked after. When the plant is well 
treated so as to get a good development of foliage, 
the latter is by no means destitute of ornament. 
The leaves are broadly strap-shaped and deep green 
with a pure white midrib along the centre. In this 
condition the plant may be seen year after year 
without flowering by keeping it in too cool a house. 
With treatment similar to that accorded the highly 
improved forms that are usually flowered in spring, 
it makes a cheerful plant for autumn and winter 
flowering, bearing from four to six flowers on a 
scape. The comparatively new Mrs. W. Lee differs 
from the type in having more highly-coloured 
flowers. The latter are funnel-shaped, heavily lined 
and netted with a lively shade of rose on a white 
ground, and likewise more or less suffused, so that 
the ground colour is more or less obscured. As the 
plant naturally flowers at this time of the year a 
display can be produced with it, without having 
recourse to the forcing of the spring-flowering kinds. 
The number of flowers produced on a scape and 
their pleasing colour is very effective amongst a 
collection of stove plants. A number of plants have 
been flowering for some time past in the nursery of 
Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway. 
ANTHURIUM LONDINENSE. 
There is a large plant of this garden-raised variety 
in the nursery of Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, 
Upper Holloway. The great heart-shaped leaves 
measure about 18 in. long by 10 in. wide, and the 
spaihe is similar in shape, and measures about 8 in. 
long by 6 in. wide. It is flat, not corrugated on the 
surface, as in the case of A. Andreanum, and of a 
shining red shade of colour. The stout spadix is 
yellow, and not very long. It would no doubt be 
possible to surpass the above given dimensions, both 
in the case of the leaves and spathe, by cultivators 
who have time at command to attend to the cultural 
requirements of the plants, and space for their 
accommodation as they attain to size. They are greatly 
benefited by feeding, and those who care to do them 
justice would be surprised at the difference it makes 
in the size and general appearance of the plants. 
EUONYMUS JAPONICUS COMPACTUS. 
The above name is given to one of the smaller- 
leaved forms of the well-known Japanese Euonymus, 
but at the same time it does not express the fact that 
the leaves are variegated. They are lanceolate, and 
deep green, with a silvery-white edge. The name 
compactus applies to the dwarf and freely-branched 
habit of the plant. All parts, including the leaves, 
are greatly reduced in size, so that the plant comes 
in useful for pot work when anything of a pleasing 
and hardy, or nearly hardy nature is required for cool 
greenhouse, or for some of the numerous purposes 
to which it may be applied in towns during winter. 
We noted a batch of it in one of the cool houses of 
Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway. 
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Birmingham.—This session of the above Associa¬ 
tion was brought to a close on the evening of the 
6th inst. at the Temperance Institute, when Mr. 
Alderman Wm. White, J.P., gave his presidential 
address. There was a good attendance of members, 
but not nearly the number there should have been 
to welcome such an enthusiast in gardening as Mr. 
White, who, by his position as Chairman of the 
Parks Committee, is Birmingham’s head gardener. 
His address was on " Gardens, Gardeners, and 
Gardening,” and he said the first thing he remem¬ 
bered in connection with the garden took him back 
fifty years ago, when in his father’s garden he saw 
the beautiful old-fashioned florists’ Tulips then so 
largely cultivated. He well remembered the intro¬ 
duction of summer bedding now practised by 
amateurs as well as in the large public and private 
gardens ; this system of bedding, he thought, would 
never die out, especially now we had such vast 
improvements in the variety and type of plants 
used. The first plants he saw used were the Tom 
Thumb Pelargonium and the Punch andjudy varieties. 
What vast strides had floriculture made since then ! 
What a grand addition had we received in the 
introduction of the Japanese Evergreens, Thuyas, 
Cupressus, and Retinosporas ! All amateurs should 
grow some of these plants in their gardens; they 
take up very little room, and how charming they are 
in the depth of winter when all other signs of plant 
life outside are invisible. He contrasted the different 
forms of gardening in vogue in various parts of the 
Continent and in this country, and said that when 
the foreigners introduced the winding and undulating 
walks into their gardens they acknowledged its origin 
by naming that part the ‘‘Jardin Anglaise,” or 
” Englische Garten,” meaning the English garden. 
There was one thing he wished to see a good 
deal altered, and that was the arrangement of 
rockeries. Amateurs were not the only 
ones to blame; he had seen some of the large 
private gardens at fault. Where in nature did we 
find all kinds of rock—from black slag to limestone— 
in the same spot, and the plants all exposed to a fierce 
blazing sun from sunrise to sunset—no nooks or 
corners for them to send down their roots in ? 
When would people learn that their greatest aim 
is to follow nature ; to place the stones half way in 
the soil or even more ; not to make a wall; to give 
a small growing plant a small space, a larger growing 
one more space, and so on ? He contrasted the 
public parks on the Continent and in England, and 
said that throughout the whole of his travels he 
had not seen any parks to equal those in London ; 
the Jardin des Plantes at Paris was a good second, 
but it seemed to lack that informality which we get 
in the woodlands and shrubberies of the London 
parks. At the termination of his address Mr. W. B. 
Griffin proposed, and IMr. Arthur Roe seconded,a very 
hearty vote of thanks to the president for his ad¬ 
dress, and he briefly replied. Messrs. E. D. 
Clarke, Gosling, W. B. Griffin, and R. F. Rees 
exhibited plants and flowers, the Chrysanthemums of 
the two former being exceptionally good. The Silver 
Medal awarded to the exhibitor gaining the 
highest number of points during the year has been 
won by Mr. Gosling, the Bronze Medal for the 
second highest by j\Ir. W. B. Griffin. The Associa¬ 
tion has been able to secure a very central room for 
their future meetings at 116, Colmore Row, Bir¬ 
mingham, where the Annual General Meeting will 
be held on January lytb. 
Ealing District. —The usual w^eekly meeting of 
this Society was held at the Victoria Buildings, 
Ealing, on the 12th inst, and resulted in a great deal 
of information being imparted. The evening was 
set aside for discuss.on pure and simple—five 
questions, of which notice had been previously 
given, being on the agenda. So much interest, 
however, was displayed in the discussion, that only 
three could be disposed of. They were, " Clubbing 
in Cabbages, and the best means to prevent it”; 
” Gooseberries : How to Prune them ” ; and ” Leaf 
Soil: Its Nature and Time requirerl to Produce it 
for Potting Purposes.” It will be conceded that, 
speaking generally, there is enough food for reflection 
here to occupy years of patient inquiry ; but, for all 
practical purposes, a couple of hours was deemed 
sufficient. As an experiment it turned out a great 
success ; and. therefore, it is a method of disposing 
