July 28, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
759 
with Favourite, Ester, Little Phil, Amy, Robsart, 
Isabel Lakin, and Thomas William. Second Mr. 
C. Harden, Ash; third, Mr. A. Jordan; fourth; 
Mr. J. Rebbeck, Southampton ; fifth, Mr. W. L. 
Walker; sixth, Mr. J. W. Ffoulkes, Chester; and 
seventh, the Rev. L. R. Flood. 
Picotees, single blooms—Heavy red-edged : First, 
• Mr. Douglas, with Gannymede ; second, Mr. Rowan, 
with Brunette; third. Brunette; fourth, Mr. C. 
Phillips, with Brunette; fifth, Mr. Douglas, with 
Ne Plus Ultra. Light-edged red: First and third, 
Mr. Douglas, and second, Mr. Rowan, with Mrs. 
Gorton; fourth, Mr. Rowan, with Thomas William ; 
fifth, Mr. Phillips, with Mrs. Gorton. Heavy-edged 
purple; First, Mr. Rowan; second, Mr. Turner; 
and third, Mr. Douglas, with Muriel; fourth, Mr. 
Turner, with Beauty of Cheltenham; fifth, Mr. 
Douglas, with Muriel. Light purple-edged: First, 
Mr. Douglas, with Pride of Leyton ; second, third, 
and fourth, Mr. Douglas, with Ann Lord ; fifth, Mr. 
Rowan, with Mary. Heavy scarlet-edged: First 
and third, Mr. Turner, with Madame Richer ; 
second, Mr. Hooper, with Norman Carr ; fourth, 
Mr. Sanders; and fifth, Mr. Rowan, with Mrs. 
Sharpe. Light scarlet-edged: First and second, 
Mr. Turner; and third, Mr. Nutt, with Favourite. 
Heavy rose-edged : First, Mr. Walker ; and second, 
Mr. Turner, with Madeleine ; third and fourth, Mr. 
Douglas and Mr. Sanders, with Little Phil. 
The seifs and fancies were exceedingly attractive 
and claimed the most attention from the majority of 
the visitors. Mr. Martin R. Smith, who has done 
so much for the Carnation during the past few 
years, was an easy first for twenty-four blooms with 
a grand lot comprising nearly all seifs, amongst 
which King Arthur, crimson ; Mrs, Erick Hambro, 
white; Rose Unique, rose; Euodoxia, rose; Ger¬ 
mania, yellow; Mr. Audrey Campbell, yellow; and 
Fiery Cross, crimson, were strikingly conspicuous. 
Mr. Turner was second; Mr. Douglas, third; Mr. 
Rowan, fourth ; and Mr. Hooper, fifth. For twelve 
seifs or fancies Mr. A. Jordan was first with 
Esmarch, Alice Ayres, The Hunter, King of Scarlets, 
The Burn, Germania, Artimus, Van Dyke, Primrose 
League, Niphetos, and Ketton Rose. Mr. C. 
Phillips came in second. Mr. J. F. Kew, Southend, 
secured the premier award for six, having fine 
blooms of Mrs. L. Jameson, Niphetos, Dodwell’s 
943, Sunset, and two seedlings. The second award 
went to Mr. Nutt, and the third to Mr. C. Harding. 
The best dozen yellow ground Picotees came from 
Mr. Douglas, who had Harlequin, Ladas, Mrs. 
Douglas, Mrs. Dranfield, Mrs. Sydenham, and 
seedlings. Mr. Henwood was second, and Mr. A. 
Medhurst third. Mr. C. Phillips had the best six. 
There was a large display in response to Mr. 
Martin R. Smith's prizes for bunches of border 
Carnations, and Mr. H. W. Weguelin took the 
leading awards for flowers that had been wholly 
grown in the open air. 
Mr. Rowan had the premier Carnation in J. S. 
Hedderley, S.B., and the premier Picotee in Muriel, 
heavy-edged purple. 
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SWEET PEAS. 
Where cut flowers are in great and constant demand, 
there is nothing more serviceable in the garden at 
this season than a good row of Sweet Peas. At 
Buxted Park, Mr. Prinsep has a fine lot from which, 
literally, bushels of flowers might have been cut. 
Grown like the edible Peas in a deeply cultivated, 
well enriched, holding loam, and thinly sown it is 
surprising what a quantity of bloom they will yield, 
and what a variety there is in a good mixed collec¬ 
tion. Mr. Prinsep also has a number of named sorts 
growing separately, and they are all very fine. 
Emily Henderson, the new American variety, is the 
grandest white in the garden, and we know of nothing 
better in its way. Dorothy Tennant is a beautiful 
rosy purple; and Stanley, a deep maroon, almost 
black, and very fine, both of them. Princess May, 
pale lilac or mauve; Mrs. Gladstone, blush white, 
Mrs. Sankey, white ; Her Majesty, rosy purple; 
Countess of Radnor, pale lavender; Splendour^ 
scarlet; and Captain of the Blues, a deep blue 
purple ; are all exceedingly good. Apple Blossom, 
white, flushed with rosy pink, is a most charming 
variety, and a long row of it at Buxted Park a week 
or two ago was a sight to be remembered. 
MARKET GARDENING IN THE WEST. 
The heavy and almost continuous rains of the last 
few days has done much to destroy the Cabbage and 
other green vegetables in the West. With the 
success, however, which has characterised the 
season hitherto, it would take a lot of downpour to 
bring about a calamity amongst the market gar¬ 
deners such as has been experienced in some former 
years. The fruit this year greatly varies in different 
districts. For instance, at the Lizard, which is not 
always noted for Grapes, is this year showing some 
fine specimens grown under glass, and those Vines 
which were last year full of the red spider are at the 
present time free and clean. Another peculiarity of 
the year is that in the Lizard district Mushrooms 
are not to be seen, whereas at this season they are 
generally more plentiful than anywhere in Cornwall. 
It may be taken as a general rule that throughout 
the county Strawberries have suffered much from 
the unusual coldness of the nights, and bush and 
cane fruits from the ravages of the green fly. 
Perhaps it is a fair computation to assert that only 
about one half of the usual crop of Strawberries will 
be forthcoming. In consequence of the failure of 
the Potato crop in many parts of England, buyers 
are readily paying 15s. per bushel for Cornwall's 
supplies. Apples and Pears are decidedly at a 
discount. Mangolds and Turnips are very promising. 
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|aRDEN1NG ^ISCELLANY. 
SAINTPAULIA lONANTHA. 
The subject of this notice is quite new, yet has been 
sufficiently long in this country to show what it s 
like, although there is no telling what cultivators in 
the near future may do with it by close attention to 
its requirements. As it comes from tropical Africa, 
stove temperature will be necesary to its requirements 
until someone can prove that it will give greater 
satisfaction in a greenhouse. The leaves are heart- 
shaped, soft green, hairy and produced in dense tufts 
covering the soil in which the plant is grown. The 
flower stalks bear several blooms but only rise a few 
inches above the pot so as to be well clear of the 
leaves. Flowering specimens may be seen in the rock 
house at Chelsea, in the nursery of Messrs. J. Veitch 
& Sons. - 
RHODODENDRON MRS. HEAL. 
Here we have a variety of R. multicolor, but a 
great improvement upon the wild original which has 
small flowers. Hitherto, only small flowered kinds 
could be obtained from it, so that Mrs. Heal is quite 
a new break and an acquisition, on account of its 
dwarf habit and relatively large, funnel-shaped, pure 
white flowers. The stems usually grow about a foot 
in height, but are often under that, yet they flower 
freely; and by means of a batch of plants a suc¬ 
cession may be kept up all the year round. The 
variety belongs to the section known as hybrid green¬ 
house Rhododendrons, and originated in the nursery 
of Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
FUCHSIA BALLET GIRL. 
Double Fuchsias when they attain any size are 
usually very lumpy and anything but elegant. In 
the present instance, the flowers are large but beauti¬ 
ful and shapely on account of the neat arrangement 
of the petals which are regularly and smoothly 
arranged round one another, not crumpled and dis¬ 
torted as is often the case. The sepals are scarlet- 
red and regularly reflexed, while the petals are white 
with the veins at the base tinted with carmine. The 
protruded stamens are red. The plant is pyramidal 
and of gracefully drooping habit, producing its 
handsome, light-coloured flowers in great abundance. 
It may safely be considered as one of the best double 
sorts, and the best of its class. We noticed a con¬ 
siderable number of plants the other day in the 
nursery of Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. They 
were growing in a cool airy greenhouse, and showed 
to what excellent purpose they might be used in a 
conservatory. - 
PROPAGATING HOLLYHOCKS. 
Will some grower of Hollyhocks kindly inform me 
how best to strike cuttings and eyes at this time of 
the year, and say how they should be prepared. 
Having a few extra good sorts, I am anxious to 
increase them, and shall be glad of any useful hints. 
DIERVILLA ROSEA VARIEGATA. 
To be seen in their best form, shrubs of various kinds 
should be allowed to attain something of their 
natural dimensions. The evil with large shrubs is 
that they are planted too thickly when young, and 
when they grow to any size they get crowded and 
are left to struggle with one another as best as they 
may, and that is often bad indeed. As they grow in 
size they should be thinned out and planted else¬ 
where to allow of a proper and even development of 
the remainder. The flowers of the variety under 
notice are of the ordinary type, and they are fully 
developed in succession for many months together. 
he leaves are the chief features however, as they 
are heavily variegated with creamy white, giving a 
lightness of tint to the whole plant. A large speci¬ 
men about eight ft. high, may be seen in the Botanic 
Gardens, Oxford, growing close to a wall, yet un¬ 
trained and not crowded nor overshaddowed by 
other subjects. 
ACROCLINIUM ROSEUM. 
The beauty of this plant when grown under suitable 
conditions, can hardly be recognised, otherwise it 
would be grown in every garden where hardy annuals 
are appreciated. The growth is slender, twigy, and 
amply furnished with linear, glaucous leaves' Each 
stem and branch is terminated by a large flower head 
consisting of pink, rose white bracts with a clear or 
soft yellow disc. The showy part of the head 
does not consist of rays as is usually the case 
amongst Composites, but of scarious or dry bracts, 
which give the flowers great durability when cut 
and dried like Helichrysums and Antennarias which 
are popularly known as Everlastings or Immortelles. 
A bed of the plant has been a sheet of colour for 
weeks past, by the side of the Palm-house at Kew, 
and should act as an incentive for many to grow the 
plant. 
ANCANTHOLIMON GLUMACEUM. 
The Prickly Thrift is an admirable plant for rock, 
work, on account of its slow and compact growth, 
and though a long lived plant, yet is not liable to 
overrun its neighbours. It is closely allied to the 
Statices of our herbaceous borders and greenhouses, 
yet is very different in general appearance on account 
of the small size of the leaves which are sharp and 
prickly at the tips and arranged in dense rosettes 
or crowns forming a matted cushion, from which the 
flower stems rise to a height of three in. to six in. 
bearing a terminal cluster of rosy flowers. It is 
evidently adapted to live in dry situations, but on the 
artificial rockery at least must be planted where 
there is sufficient depth of soil for its roots to strike 
downwards. The species is a native of Armenia 
from whence it was introduced in 1851. Doubtless 
it grows upon Mount Ararat, for it is sometimes 
named Statici Ararati. We noted it the other week 
flourishing upon the rookery in the garden of J. C. 
Stogdon, Esq., Inglenook, Bellaggio. 
COTONEASTER HORIZONTALIS. 
Several of the smaller leaved species of Cotone- 
aster are admirably adapted for training against 
walls ; the branches naturally grow in regular order 
with a flat side to the wall, and the leaves and 
flowers turned towards the onlooker. That is partic¬ 
ularly the case with C. horizontalis whichis inclined 
to grow in that fashion whether in contact with a 
wall or not; in fact it grows horizontally with the 
flat side towards the earth, although not necessarily 
in contact with it. The leaves are small, ovate, 
dark green, and amongst them nestle the white 
flowers which are pink in bud. A young plant three 
ft. high, may be seen on the walls of the Botanic 
Garden, Oxford. 
CHEIRANTHUS MDTABILIS. 
This shrubby species is a native of Maderia from 
whence it was introduced in 1777, and has always 
been regarded as a half hardy plant. In any case it 
is so nearly hardy as to withstand many of our 
winters in the south of England at least. It would 
be a desirable species for planting on the warm or 
equable southern or western coasts. Planted out in 
a good holding soil at Inglenook, Bellaggio, Mr. 
Stogdon. tells us that it has flourished for two years 
unprotected. It forms good sized bushes with a close 
and branching habit of growth, and has already been 
in bloom for many weeks past. The interesting 
