Oct. 18th, 1884. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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should be increased until the lights can be left off 
altogether, except during long-continued rains when 
they will need protection to prevent them from being 
saturated. Well attend to them during the summer 
with water, both at the roots and over the foliage, and 
about the end of August they will commence to bloom, 
and will continue to do so till November, providing 
they are protected from frost. When they have 
finished blooming, some of them can be taken up and 
saved for supplying the cuttings for another season, 
and if not required can be thrown away, or if desired 
they can be cut down and planted in the same way 
the following summer, when they will also produce a 
quantity of flowers— E. M. S. 
Eucharis.-—I think it is an admitted fact that no 
stove-plant is so generally cultivated for its lovely 
flowers as E. amazonica, and I think it is acknow¬ 
ledged also that large established-plants and a high 
temperature are absolutely necessary to produce such 
a profusion of flowers as are constantly seen. I am sorry 
from my own experience, to be unable to endorse the 
very high opinion formed of E. Candida by Mr. Dumper, 
at p. 69; its flowers are certainly not equal to those 
of the former, nor do I find them produced in such 
profusion as one might be led to expect. E. pumila 
I have a still poorer opinion of, but I am fully con¬ 
vinced that in E. Sanderiana, we are likely to find 
a friend, the exquisite beauty of the flowers, their 
substance and the numbers generally borne on each 
stem, makes it one of the most attractive stove-plants 
yet introduced, and it has one point of merit for the 
amateur at least, that it will flower with the greatest 
ease from very poor bulbs grown in a very moderate 
temperature, in a 4-in. or 5-in. pot. This one circum¬ 
stance alone, in my judgment, places it at the head 
of the list, and I have no doubt when it is more 
generally grown, this will be the accepted verdict of 
all who require a large quantity of white cut-flowers. 
—if. P. G. 
PassifLora coerulea in fruits. —In an early 
number of The Gardening World this plant was 
mentioned as a deservedly popular hardy climber, and 
one which on a south or west aspect would amply 
repay for the trouble of training by the profusion of 
its flowers. This is indeed the ease, especially in a 
summer like the one just passed. In some localities 
near London it is very commonly met with, and has 
been flowering for months; indeed, a few stragglers 
yet remain. But its ornamental nature may be viewed 
from another standpoint, namely, that of its fruit. 
There are, within a hundred yards of the writer, two 
large plants which have been trained to the top of the 
windows of the second story, and these plants are 
literally full of fruit. They hang in strings like yellow 
egg-plums, but of a rich orange-colour instead of yellow, 
though some of them are still green. The effect is 
charming; in many parts of the plants they hang 
eight and nine to the square foot. There are at least 
a score trees within a radius of half a mile, most of 
them with a number of fruit on, though not in the 
profusion of the two afore-mentioned. I believe the 
long fine summer has much to do with it, and never 
saw the plant fruit with such profusion before.—A’. 
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Exacum affine. —This is a pretty Gentianaceous 
plant now flowering in the stove at Kew. It grows 
about a foot high, the habit is neat and erect, the 
leaves cordate-ovate and bright shining green, and the 
flowers, which are f in. in diameter with flat spreading 
lobes, are pale blue in colour, and the anthers deep 
yellow, making a pretty contrast. It is a native of 
Socotra, and is one of the plants collected in the recent 
exploration of that remarkable island. 
Siphocampylus Humholdtii. — This neat and 
showy little plant is also’ flowering in the stove at Kew. 
It is about 8 ins. high and as much through; the leaves 
are lanceolate, almost entire, and 2 ins. to 2^ins. long; 
the flowers are tubular, curved, 2 ins. long, and cinna¬ 
bar red with bright yellow throat. The stamens and 
stigma are very curious; the anthers are united in a 
ring round the stigma, furnished with hairs at the 
apex, and slaty-blue in colour, and when the flower 
first opens this alone is seen, but as the flower becomes 
older the white two-lobed stigma grows out a little 
beyond the ring of anthers. 
Potatos were in good form at “ The Healtheries” on 
Tuesday. What more fitting production of the garden 
could be invited to an exhibition than that represen¬ 
tative of the national food—the Potato? On this 
occasion Mr. B. Dean, Banelagh Boad, Ealing, was 
fortunate in securing four first prizes and one second 
in the classes in which he exhibited. He was first 
with twelve varieties for garden culture, staging 
excellent samples of Ashleaf, Woodstock Kidney, 
Cosmopolitan, Snowdrop, Snowflake, and Lapstone, 
white kidneys; Sunrise, white round; Beauty of 
Hebron, coloured kidney ; Beading Busset, Badstock 
Beauty, Matchless, and Vicar of Laleham, coloured 
rounds. We have put Matchless with the coloured 
rounds, but it may be included in the white group, so 
little colour has it in the skin. Mr. J. Hughes, The 
Gardens, Eydon Hall, Byfleet, was second with 
Edgcote Seedling, Snowdrop, Myatt’s Ashleaf, white 
kidneys; Favourite, Early Begent, Porter’s Excelsior, 
white rounds ; Bed Emperor, Beading Busset, The 
Dean, coloured rounds; Prizetaker, Early Purple, 
and Cardinal, coloured kidneys. Mr. Hughes did not 
show up to his full strength on this occasion, as he is 
reserving himself for Birmingham next month. Mr. 
C. W. Howard, Bridge, Canterbury, and Mr. W. Kerr, 
Dumfries, were placed equal, third. We think Mr. 
Howard should have been placed second, as he had a 
very fine lot, though in common with Mr. Hughes, 
staging varieties we could scarcely consider good 
enough for garden culture. 
In the class for twelve varieties for Field Culture, Mr. 
B. Dean was first with Woodstock Kidney. Chan¬ 
cellor (Dean), Cosmopolitan, Snowdrop and Magnum 
Bonum, white kidneys; Mr. Breesee and Beauty of 
Hebron, coloured kidneys ; Beading Hero and School¬ 
master, white rounds ; Beading Busset, The Dean, 
Vicar of Laleham and Adirondack, coloured rounds. 
Mr. Hughes was second with Snowdrop, Morna’s Bride, 
Edgcote Seedling, and Myatt’s Ashleaf, white kidneys ; 
Favourite, Porter’s Excelsior, and Early Begent, 
white rounds ; Early Purple, Prizetaker and Cardinal, 
coloured kidneys; The Dean, Bed Emperor and 
Beading Busset, coloured rounds. Mr. W. Kerr, third. 
In the class for twelve late varieties, Mr. B. Dean was 
also placed first, staging Magnum Bonum, White 
Giant (Lye), Chancellor (Dean), white kidneys; Mr. 
Breesee, coloured kidney ; Prime Minister (Dean), 
Schoolmaster, Beading Hero, white rounds; The 
Dean (Dean), Vicar of Laleham, Bedfont Bose (Dean), 
Beauty of Kent and Manhattan, coloured rounds. 
Second, Mr. C. W. Howard, Bridge, Canterbury, with 
Queen of the Valley, Beauty of Hebron, Earliest of 
All, Vicar of Laleham, Beauty of Kent, Magnum 
Bonum, Bed Fluke, Adriondack, Vermont Champion, 
Schoolmaster, Woodstock Kidney and Cosmopolitan. 
Third, Mr. W. Kerr. 
The most interesting classes were those for English 
and American varieties with pedigrees. Here Mr. 
Dean was first, with twenty-seven varieties. The 
following raised at his seed grounds, Bedfont, by his 
brother, Mr. A. Dean : Harvester, W. E.; The Dean, 
C. E.; President, W. B. ; Chancellor, W. K.; 
Standwell, W. B.; Becorder, W. K.; Bufus, C. B.; 
Alderman, W. K.; Cardinal, C. K.; Bedfont Bose, 
C. B. ; Prime Minister, W. B.; Sunrise, W. B.; 
Cosmopolitan, W. K.; Lord Mayor, W. B.; Lily- 
white, W. K. ; London Hero, W. B.; International 
(Fenn), W. K.; Perfection (Lye), W. B.; Vicar of 
Laleham (Peake), C. B.; Prizetaker (Fenn), C. K.; 
Beading Busset (Fenn), C. B.; Progress (Lye), C. K.; 
Pride of Clyffe (Lye), C. K.; Wiltshire Giant (Lye), 
C. K.; Woodstock Kidney (Fenn), W. K.; and 
Edgcote Purple (Wiles); and one other whose name we 
missed. Second, Mr. C. Boss, gardener to E. Eyre, 
Esq., Welford Park, Newbury, with varieties all of 
his own raising, and mainly from Woodstock Kidney, 
including Miss Fowler, M.P., Dux Magnet, Editor, 
Productive, Ficller’s Victory, Bobert Fenn, Sterling, 
Emulator, Ac. In the class for a collection of 
American varieties with pedigrees, Mr. Kerr was 
the only exhibitor, staging eleven dishes only, 
but without a single word of pedigree, indifferently 
named, and altogether unworthy of the handsome 
first prize which was awarded by the judges, 
and subsequently withdrawn. We believe it was 
considered by the authorities that as no pedi¬ 
grees were furnished, the conditions set forth in the 
Schedule had not been complied with. An extra 
prize was subsequently awarded. In comparison with 
the collection of English Pedigree varieties shown in 
the previous class this was a very poor one, and was 
altogether below it in value. There is great difficulty 
in getting the pedigrees of American varieties; still 
anything like a representative collection of American 
Potatos ought to have included at least eighteen or 
twenty varieties. 
In the class for fifty dishes, in which the prizes 
were absurdly small compared with those offered in 
the other classes, Mr. W. Kerr was first, with a very 
good lot, having of white kidneys, American Giant, 
Woodstock, Early King, Magnum Bonum, Ashleaf, 
International, King Offa, and Cosmopolitan; of white 
rounds : Mammoth Pearl, Brownell’s Best, and King 
Noble; coloured kidneys : Early Purple, Wiltshire 
Giant, Trophy, Bed Fluke, Mr. Breesee, and Prize- 
taker ; coloured rounds : Pink Don, Manhattan, 
Lord Bosebery, Beading Busset, Blanchard, Fifties 
Annie, Grampian, Vicar of Laleham, Purple King, 
and Peach Blow. The foregoing represented his best 
tubers. Second, Mr. B. Dean, with white kidneys, 
Wormleighton, Snowdrop, Pride of] America, Snow¬ 
flake, Edgcote Seedling, Magnum Bonum, Lady 
Truscott, International, Mona’s Pride, Early Border, 
and Chancellor; white rounds : Fillbasket, School¬ 
master, President, White Emperor, Beading Hero, 
Porter’s Excelsior, Clyffe Hall, and Bedfont Prolific; 
coloured kidneys : Millhill Giant, Scaromell’s Glory, 
Prizetaker, Progress, American Purple, Cardinal, and 
Bountiful; coloured rounds: Vicar of Laleham, 
Blanchard, Badstock Beauty, Beading Busset, The 
Dean, and Purple King. Third, Mr. C. Osman, South 
Metropolitan District Schools, Sutton. 
In addition, a very fine exhibition of some 135 
varieties was shown by Messrs. Sutton & Sons, of 
Beading, arranged in their usual excellent style, and 
deserving of a higher award than the Silver Medal 
of the Boyal Horticultural Society. Messrs. James 
Carter & Co. also had a collection for Field Culture, 
among them being Sukreta (Holme), awarded a First- 
Class Certificate of Merit at the Crystal Palace last 
week. 
Vegetables at South Kensington. —There was 
an excellent competition in a class for eight distinct 
sorts of vegetables at the Health Exhibition on 
Tuesday, and the first prize was again won by that 
redoubtable grower, Mr. Miles, of Wycombe Abbey. 
The sorts staged by him were Cave’s Pinesfield 
Improved Onion, Stamfordian Tomatos, James’ 
Intermediate Carrots, Canadian Wonder French 
Beans, Allan’s Champion Pea, a valuable late variety, 
Brussels Sprouts, Tender and True Cucumbers, and 
Lady Paget (Kidney) Potatos. Mr. S. Haines, gardener 
to Lord Badnor, Coleshill House, Highworth, took 
second honours, and the next best samples came from 
Mr. B. Phillips, gardener, The Deodars, Meopham. 
Nothing particularly new were shown in any of the 
collections, but Champion Bunner Beans, Veiteh’s 
Autumn Giant Cauliflowers, Ford’s White Celery, 
White Globe and Beading Onions, and Snowball 
Turnips were conspicuous as usual for then- fine 
quality. 
Potato Show Statistics. —We are informed that 
of the 1,032 dishes of Potatos shown last week at the 
Crystal Palace, 285 dishes, or more than one-fourth of 
the total exhibited, consisted of seventeen varieties, 
which were put into commerce by Messrs. Sutton & 
Sons, Beading ; and their Beading Busset was the 
most largely exhibited variety, being represented by 
no less than seventy-four samples, facts which speak 
volumes for the excellence and popularity of Messrs. 
Sutton’s introductions. 
Pomological Congress at Eouen. — From The 
Journal of Horticulture we learn that the Congress 
at Eouen awarded a Gold Medal to the collection 
exhibited on behalf of the Woolhope Club by Dr. Bull. 
Dr. Hogg was presented with the Gold Medal of the 
Society, in recognition of the sendees he has rendered 
to the study of Pomology. 
