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THE GARDENING- WORLD. 
Sept. 27th, 1884. 
will give myriads of plants in a short time, and 
once a good stock is secured an abundant supply 
of seed is also obtained if growers will but care¬ 
fully save it. 
The House Chestnut Flowering a Second 
Time. —Last week, in the article on the Horse 
Chestnut (p. 41), mention was made that this 
tree sometimes flowers again in the autumn (by 
a slip the word April was inadvertently used), 
and this peculiar phenomenon may now be seen 
at Hew. The tree in question stands just inside 
the wall, exactly opposite the Lichfield Load, and 
is about SO ft. high. Nearly all the leaves have 
fallen, owing, perhaps, to the unusually hot and 
dry summer, and a second growth is the result. 
All the buds which should have remained dormant 
until next spring have burst, producing two or 
three new leaves, and the flowering panicle, thus 
giving a very singular effect. Both leaves and 
panicles are abnormally small, the latter measuring 
2 or 8 in., but the flowers are quite perfect, 
measuring £ in. in diameter, and the colours are 
as brilliant as in the spring. Second growth is 
always the result of some check before the 
growing season is normally over, followed by a 
renewed activity of the sap, and in support of 
the theory that in this case the abnormally hot 
and dry summer was the cause, we may mention 
that a second tree which had shed most of its 
leaves has again begun to grow, though no flowers 
have been observed. The fall of the leaf generally 
i s this autumn unusually early. 
“ The Revue Hobticole.” —The number for 
September 1st of this work, just to hand, contains 
a coloured plate, representing Prunus triloba 
and P. Pissardi, with an article from the pen of 
M. Ed. Morren. The former species has ovate, 
irregularly toothed, bright green leaves, with red 
and yellow globose fruit of the size of a small 
cherry. P. Pissardi is represented with purple, 
ovate, crenate leaves, and depressed-globose red 
fruit of the size of a large cherry. It has 
produced fruit this season for the first time, it is 
believed, in Europe. We also notice a paper on 
the “ Formation of fruits without flowers,” by 
M. Carriere, with five woodcuts, showing some 
curious abnormal growths of this nature on the 
Apple and Pear. Also a notice of Sambucus 
pyramidalis and Anoplophytum amcenum, the 
latter a Bromeliaceous plant from Brazil, sent by 
M. Glaziou. 
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The Weather and the Fruit Crops. —What 
a glorious time for late Peaches and Plums! We 
are having quite a second summer, and the solar 
heat coming in just after the heavy rain, has 
caused a rapid swelling of the fruit. That it 
may have as much of the sun’s influence as 
possible, every leaf covering any of the Peaches 
should be pushed aside or shortened, for without 
full light, it is impossible to have either high 
colour or flavour, as it is the solar rays that paints 
the cheeks and converts the crude juices under 
the skin into sugar or saccharine matter. (Not 
only are Peaches and Plums benefiting by the 
beautiful weather, but it is just as favourable for 
Apples and Pears, which, within the past month, 
have quite doubled their size, and besides this, 
they, like the Peaches, will be greatly improved 
in their quality. 
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MussiENDA pubescens. —This pretty little plant is 
now flowering in the stove. It is a compact little 
bush, 6 in. high, with bright green leaves and 
terminal flower-heads. The tubular flowers with 
spreading segments are bright-yellow in oolour, and 
each head is surrounded by a few pure white leaf-like 
braots, altogether giving a very pretty effect. It is a 
native of Hong Kong and South China, and as it is of 
dwarf habit, it should prove serviceable as a decora¬ 
tive plant. 
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Apples being unusually plentiful in Devon this 
season, it is proposed to hold an Apple Fair, shortly, 
in Exeter, to encourage the growers and to promote 
the development of one of the principal horticultural 
specialities of the district. 
Mr. J. Weight, gardener to the Hon. Society of 
the Middle Temple, states that, in consequence of the 
Long Vacation ending so much earlier this year, the 
annual show of Chrysanthemums at the Middle 
Temple Gardens will be opened to the public about 
the middle of October, instead of, as formerly, at the 
end of the month. 
Public attention having been drawn to the cleaning 
operations now going on at the Albert Memorial in 
Kensington Gardens, Mr. John Wills has revived the 
scheme proposed by him in 1877 for covering the 
National Memorial with an immense glass structure. 
The subject is ably treated in the columns of The 
Citizen of Saturday last. 
The opening meeting of the session, 1884-85, of the 
Manchester Horticultural Improvement Society, will 
be held on the first Thursday in November. 
At the meeting of the Essex Field Club, to be held 
on Saturday, October 4th, Mr. Worthington G. Smith 
has undertaken to read a paper on “ The politics of 
the Potato Fungus and Dr. M. C. Cooke will report 
on “ The objects of interest found during the two 
days’ Foray.” 
Mb. G. Goldsmith, gardener, Hollander, Tonbridge, 
exhibited at South Kensington, on Tuesday, a couple 
of tubers of the White Elephant Potato, which 
together weighed 6 lb. 1 oz. Both were grown at one 
root, and the largest turned the scale at 3 lb. 10 oz. 
A Committee has been formed, with F. B. Thomas, 
Esq., Bond Street, as chairman, and Mr. E. B. Cutler 
as secretary, to organize a complimentary dinner, to 
be given at the Holborn Restaurant on November 21st, 
in honour of George Lambert, Esq., F.S.A., who it 
will be remembered ably filled the chair at the last 
festival of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution. 
Mr. Alderman Savory will preside. 
The sale of new Masdevallias at Messrs. Protheroe 
and Morris’ rooms on the 16th was a great success, 
the competition for most of the lots being exceptionally 
keen. 
The trade sales of winter flowering plants held last 
week were well attended by nurserymen from all parts 
of the country, and the gross amount realized was 
nearly £3,000. 
We regret to record the death, at Trinity, Edin¬ 
burgh, on the 21st inst., of Mr. Isaac Anderson- 
Henry, F.L.S., F.R.S.E. Mr. Anderson-Henry’s 
fame as an experimental horticulturist and s kilf ul 
hybridist was made many years ago, while he was 
practising as a solicitor in Edinburgh. Since that 
time he has been the means of introducing many 
valuable plants to the country, and has also con¬ 
tributed many singularly interesting papers on his 
favourite subject, hybridization, to the Linnean and 
other learned Societies. 
Messrs. James Carter & Co. have been awarded a 
Gold Medal at the Amsterdam Exhibition for their 
Grass Seeds in growth. 
The awards of the jurors at the Forestry Exhibition 
as published having given great dissatisfaction to most 
of the Exhibitors, a meeting was held on Monday 
afternoon, at which about fifty gentlemen were pre¬ 
sent. The following resolutions were passed, and a 
committee appointed to carry them out:_(1) That, 
seeing the glaring inconsistencies of the awards as 
published, we, as inactical men, consider that such 
adjudications cannot have emanated from competent 
jurors, who should have been appointed under rule 11 
of the regulations ; or otherwise their original decision 
must have been altered, after being submitted to the 
Executive Committee. We therefore demand that 
the committee appointed from this meeting have 
access to the original reports of the jurors. (2) That 
this meeting considers that the Exhibition has not 
been satisfactorily managed by the Executive Com¬ 
mittee, and that the interests of the Exhibitors have 
been habitually and superciliously ignored by the 
officials ; we hereby resolve to remove our exhibits by 
the 1st October unless such explanations and con¬ 
cessions are made as are deemed satisfactory to the 
committee appointed by this meeting. 
FUCHSIA TRIPHYLLA. 
We recently saw a flowering specimen of this 
charming plant. It is at once new and old, paradoxi¬ 
cal as that statement may appear. And, gentle reader, 
do not turn away at the sight of one more addition 
to our already too numerous army of Fuchsias, for 
this one is, par excellence, the Fuchsia, as it is the 
one on which Father Plumier, as long ago as 1703, 
founded the genus. This illustrious botanist travelled 
in the French West Indies, principally in San 
Domingo, about the end of the seventeenth century. 
In 1703, three years before his death, his Novantm 
Plantarum. Americanarum Genera was published, con¬ 
taining descriptions of about 100 new genera, the 
present species appearing as “ Fuchsia tripihylla flore 
coccines” (p. 14, tab. 14). In 1753, in accordance 
with the system of binomial nomenclature, this was 
changed_by Linnaeus to F. triphylla (Species Planta¬ 
rum, ed. 1, p. 1191). 
The species is interesting as the only one known to 
be indigenous to the West Indies, nor is it certainly 
known from any other island except San Domingo, 
where Plumier found it, and from whence it was sent 
to Messrs. Henderson & Son’s establishment a few 
years ago by Mr. Thomas Hogg. It is somewhat 
remarkable that a species discovered so long ago 
should only so recently have been introduced to 
cultivation, but here it is, and we append a brief 
description. It is 1 to lj ft. high, and of pyramidal 
habit. The leaves are petioled, obovate, with atten¬ 
uate bases, the midrib and numerous parallel veins 
being dull crimson-purple, especially beneath. The 
flowers, which are borne in pendulous bunches at the 
ends of the branches are 1£ in. long, and of a uniform 
brilliant orange-scarlet, perhaps better expressed as 
cinnabar-red. The tube is proportionately long, the 
sepals not spreading, and the petals and stamens not 
exserted. 
In conclusion we may say that F. racemosa of 
Lamarck is the same plant, but that a New Granadan 
plant which was erroneously called F. triphylla by 
Kurith must not in any way be confounded with it. 
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PLANT CULTURE IN MOSS. 
That plants will do well in moss I have had constant 
proof for more than a quarter of a century, as during 
the whole of that time we have constantly had them 
with it about their roots, and I have always found them 
do well. Why we use the moss, which we do largely, is 
that we have many vases in our conservatory to fill, and 
as we have to knock most of the plants out of then- pots 
to get them in, we are compelled to place some fight 
clean material around them. After trying leaf soil and 
cocoanut fibre refuse, we found moss by far the best, and 
the roots lay hold of it freely, so much so that after 
the moss has been in a few weeks, and the plants are 
lifted, it comes out the shape of the vase it was in, 
and matted all over. Although the roots will permeate 
and cling to living moss, they prefer that which is 
dead, or has been raked up and laid by for a time, or 
used for top dressing. This they lay hold of at once, 
and if the pots are plunged or buried in it they will 
leave the soil, and find then - way out above and below. 
This I have seen again and again ; and not only will 
plants take hold of the moss in the way referred to, 
but they improve greatly through it, and carry , out 
their bloom much more satisfactorily or make far 
stronger growth. Why plants like moss so well is 
that it is loose and open, thus letting in plenty of air 
while at the same tune it is a good medium for con¬ 
ducting water, as it is spongy and absorbent, without 
being or remaining actually wet. I once tried it for 
Azaleas by chopping it up and mixing it with the 
peat, but in that case it did not answer, as the balls 
seemed too elastic, and after a time it was almos 
impossible to get water to penetrate. Incorporated 
with loam for Pelargoniums, or other soft-wooded 
subjects, it might do better, and such things as 
Achimenes and Gesneras are actually fond of it, and 
only v ant it and leaf-soil to do really well. Window 
gardeners will find it a great boon, and should make 
free use of it for bulbs, or as we do, around plants 
in their ^ ases, as it may be obtained in towns, or 
ought to be there supplied, at much less cost than 
loam.— Alpha. 
