Nov. 22nd, 1884. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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respective groups, and even with all those having one 
vote only omitted, we still have of the Southern group 
not less than fifty-six Dessert kinds, and fifty-three 
Kitchen kinds. Still of Dessert kinds, Cox's Orange, 
King, Ribston, Blenheim, Kerry, and Cockle Pippins 
are the most favoured Dessert ; and Dumelows’ 
Seedling, Lord Suflield, Blenheim Pippin, Keswick 
Codlin, Warner’s King, and New Hawthornden seem 
to have the leading place amongst Kitchen kinds. 
With great labour Mr. Barron has compiled a list 
of the names of Apples shown at the Congress, giving 
evidently some 1,600 diverse appellations, which it 
has been a matter of extreme difficulty to reduce to 
free bearer, is classed with Norfolk Beefing, but that 
is obviously incorrect. It is possible some other 
errors might have been made. The list of synonyms 
under which Apples were shown in the Congress is 
interesting, especially to those who may wish to 
correct their too often bad nomenclature. Mr. Barron 
has also published with the Reiiort a new system of 
classification, of his own, which appears to us to be 
of considerable value, and to which we must direct 
attention on another occasion. Taken as a whole, the 
Report is a valuable product of the Congress, and should 
find a place in every gardener and nurseryman’s 
library. It is extremely well printed, the type is clear, 
and the paper good, and it is published by the well- 
known house of Macmillan & Co. 
EUCHARIS SANDERI, 
This very distinct and very fine new species has 
been several times mentioned in our columns in 
laudatory terms, as being a plant which when better 
known must become largely grown in gardens, and we 
are indebted to Mr. Bull for the opportunity of now 
publishing its portrait. The habit of the plant is well 
known, so that on that score we need only remark that 
the leaves are deep green, and the flowers pure white, 
with six yellow stripes on the shallow corona. It 
flowers with remarkable freedom, even from small 
bulbs, and seems to require very little heat to bring it 
to perfection,-by comparison with E. amazonica. 
ON GRAFTING CAMELLIAS. 
Camellias grafted this month will readily unite, 
and will, especially if the following treatment is 
adopted, grow into good plants by the spring of the 
following year. In the first place, three-year-old 
seedlings are by far the better stock for grafting upon, 
and it will be found that the grafts will grow with 
much greater vigour than if cuttings were used for 
stocks, as is sometimes done. Some preparation is 
necessary before grafting. The stocks should be 
removed to the intermediate house, the pots they are 
in should be washed, and the drainage attended to, 
well soaking each plant with water, and should any 
black or green fly be discovered, the plants must be 
smoked as well as syringed, for if these insects once 
get into the grafting frame, they are likely to prove 
a source of much trouble. After the stocks have 
been in the intermediate house about three or four 
days, they are ready to be grafted upon. 
In selecting the grafts, preference should be given to 
the tops of shoots which should be of firm wood, well 
finished up, of intermediate growth, and in length 
about 3 ins. Care should be taken to select these 
tops of shoots, because grafts having no leader, often 
take a very long time to form a growth. A piece 
should be cut from the side of the stock, as near the 
pot as possible, to receive the graft. For this purpose, 
a cut an inch long should be made down the side cf 
the stem and a little deeper than the bark, but the 
knife should be withdrawn without completing the 
cut, which should be done from the outside in a 
downward slanting direction, thus leaving a niche 
like the barb of a fish-hook, in which to rest the end 
of the graft, which should be cut to fit the stock. In 
binding the graft to the stock, care should be taken to 
make the bark of each meet as nearly as possible. 
The grafted plants must be placed in a grafting- 
case or frame, upon a very little bottom heat, and for 
at least five days the case must be kept quite close, 
but at the end of that time they should be looked 
through and any dry ones will require watering. 
Besides this it will, from time to time, be necessary 
to wipe the matting by which the grafts are secured 
with a piece of cloth, in order to prevent the inroads 
of a little blue fungus, which, if not removed, invari¬ 
ably destroys the graft. With regard to ventilation, 
the glasses of the case should be removed or the 
lights tilted, as the case may be, for an hour every 
morning, but as soon as the grafts have thoroughly 
united more air can gradually be given them, until at 
length they are strong enough to be stood outside 
the case. In about a fortnight after this the stock 
should be cut back to half its length for the piurpose 
of diverting the sa^ to the grafts, but they are not 
finally cut back until about ten days later. Great 
care must be exercised in conducting this operation, 
lest in cutting off the remaining portion of the stock 
above the graft the latter be cut also. They should 
be allowed to stand another ten days before potting 
them. 
The soil to be used should be composed of half 
peat, a quarter loam, and a quarter of river sand. The 
grafts can be potted into small 48-sized pots, they 
must be pressed firmly into the soil, and each plant 
should have a stick to which it should be tied in two 
places, once to the grafted part and once to the stock, 
that its liability to be knocked off by the watering- 
pot may be lessened. The plants should now be 
placed on a front platform in a house of intermediate 
temperature; they should not only be kept well 
watered, but should be syringed daily until their 
growth has been completed, and then they can be 
removed to the Camellia-house, or any other cold 
house.— T. H. 
sex it gets but one, whilst in Herts it secures two, 
showing that Apples have been selected pretty much 
as they are known or otherwise. If a dozen experts 
or reliable growers, say one from each chief Apple 
county, would now take all these county selections and 
re-select the best twelve of each section from these, 
we should be nearer an universal selection of a limited 
range than we now are. It is worthy of note that our 
best selections in the South remain the most popular- 
selections in the North. 
Finally, all the county returns have been collated 
and the selections from each totalled in their 
something like order and system. It would seem as 
if the greater portion of these appellations referred 
to distinct kinds, so that it is evident the list of sorts 
in cultivation is, apart from synonyms, an enormous 
one. Of course, many of these names are purely 
local, but the sorts are local also. It may be, perhaps, 
that this list is not so perfect as it might be, but its 
value is greatly helped by some descriptive notes of 
each kind, where found distinct, or reference to its 
synonym if not distinct. As evidence of possible 
error we may point out that Norfolk Bearer, a very 
distinct and pleasant eating dessert Apple, and a very 
EUCHARIS SANDERI. 
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