660 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 20th, 1885. 
characterises her actions, first provided the 
feathered tribe with ample food. The reasoning 
is very absurd, and it is marvellous that persons 
claiming to be intelligent should give utterance 
to such nonsense. If Nature was so thoughtful 
for the wants of the feathered tribe when a hard 
winter is impending, she might, with entire con¬ 
sistency, be also as careful for the wants of beings 
not feathered in seasons of severe cold. 
The entire absence of ordinary logic in such 
reasoning shows the absurdity of the argument 
in all its nakedness. What we may safely assume 
is, that the abundance of Holly fruit will arise 
from seasons preceding, which have specially 
favoured its production in the same way that it 
has favoured the production of many other fruits 
that will not fall, as a rule, to the share of the 
birds, when the weather is severe at least. In a 
decorative sense wo shall rejoice when the full 
beauty of the abundant crop of Holly berries is 
seen, for not only do these help to decorate our 
habitations at a specially dull season, but they 
more effectually enliven and beautify our woods, 
hedgerows, and gardens all through the winter, 
and that is good service indeed. 
Hoses of ' Eecent Iuteoduction.— As our 
Hose lists are constantly receiving additions of 
new varieties, it is not surprising if some display 
qualities of the highest order, and our notebook 
furnishes us with the names of a few of a very 
hi°h. order of merit. One of these is Gloire 
O 
Lyonnaise, a Hose that is described by the raiser 
as a yellow hybrid perpetual, the flowers are 
chrome-yellow, the petals edged with white, 
large, full, and finely formed, and sweetly 
fragrant. There is no doubt a good deal of 
the Tea-scented blood in this fine variety, and 
we would advise our readers who plant it to give 
it a position where it can have some protec¬ 
tion, if necessary. Then there is the beautiful 
white Eose Merveille de Lyon, which is some¬ 
times pure white, tinted with the most delicate 
satin-rose, large, full, and finely cupped. One of 
the very best of the newer Tea-scented Eoses is 
Sunset, a sport from Perle des Jardins, having 
flowers of the same size and form as the latter, 
but of a deep Apricot-yellow colour. As it has 
been awarded a First-Class Certificate of Merit 
by the Floral Committee of the Eoyal Horticul¬ 
tural Society, its usefulness and value may be 
fairly assumed. 
Lady Mary Fitzwilliam is one of Mr. Henry 
Bennett’s new hybrid Teas, the flowers of a 
delicate flesh-colour, shaded with rosy-pink, very 
large, full, and globular, and equally charming 
in bud and when fully expanded. It is an excel¬ 
lent garden Eose, and is doing well planted out in 
the gardens of the Eoyal Horticultural Society 
at Chiswick. Mr. William Paul’s Queen of 
Queens is a very fine hybrid perpetual Eose, 
and may be set down as equally fine for 
garden and exhibition purposes. It is a true 
perpetual, and very free, the colour punk, with 
a tint of silvery-blush on the edges, and is one 
of the most useful Eoses of recent introduction. 
There are two other Eoses not so new as the 
varieties already named, but which well deserve 
attention. One is Eeine Marie Henriette, a 
variety that comes into the hybrid Tea-scented 
section, the flowers fine in the bud and of a deep 
carmine hue, just one of those Eoses that will 
delight anyone when cut from the tree. It is a 
fine Eose for a house ; it requires to be in good 
soil and to have plenty of head room where it can 
grow and flower abundantly. It is a very useful 
Eose indeed. Then, as a garden Eose, Noble’s 
Crimson Queen should be planted. It i3 a very 
fine late summer and autumn Eose, the flowers 
of a bright crimson colour, and produced with 
the greatest freedom. 
Flower Shows for Next Week.— Tuesday : Pelar¬ 
gonium Show of The Eoyal Horticultural Society; 
Meeting of Fruit and Floral Committee at 11 a.m. 
Saturday: Canterbury Horticultural Society’s Show. 
—Waverley Pansy Society’s Show at Galashiels. 
Messrs. William Paul & Sox, Waltham Cross, will 
hold a special exhibition of Eoses, plants, and cut- 
flowers, at the Crystal Palace, from Saturday, July 4th, 
to Saturday, July 11th inclusive. 
The Ehododendons in the Eoyal Botanic Society’s 
Garden, and Messrs. John Waterer & Son’s collection 
in Cadogan Square, Chelsea, are now at their best— 
splendid exhibitions both of them. 
We regret to hear of the recent death of the wife of 
Major Trevor Clarke, Welton Place, Daventry, one of 
the oldest members of the Council of the Eoyal Horti¬ 
cultural Society. 
We understand that the subscription list for the 
Cutler Testimonial Fund closes on Tuesday, the 
30th inst., and that it has been arranged that the 
presentation shall be made on the occasion of the 
Anniversary Dinner of the Institution on July 3rd. 
We are pleased to hear that the fund has already 
reached a good round sum. 
A large plant of Cattleya Wagneri, one of Mr. 
Edward Wallace’s importations, realized 90 gs. at 
Stevens’s Booms on Wednesday, and two small plants 
19 gs. and 12 gs., respectively. 
At the sale of Mr. Armitage’s Orchids by Messrs. 
Artingstall & Hind, at Manchester, on the same day, 
a nice plant of Cattleya exoniensis, with two breaks, 
was sold for £20, and a good specimen with twelve 
leads of Dendrobium Ainsworthii, realized £18. 
Plants of Dendrobium nobile Wallichianum, Odonto- 
glossum citrosmum roseum, Lrelia anceps Dawsoni, 
Ccelogyne Massangeana, and Cypripedium Domini- 
anum were sold for £5 each. 
A new Daisy - cutter has been invented by Mr. 
Eowland, of Cranleigh, Surrey. 
Mr. J. Vert, gardener at Audley End, won the first 
prize for two baskets of Strawberries, at the Bath and 
West of England Agricultural Society’s Show at 
Brighton last week, and the Silver Cup for the best 
collection of fruits went to Mr. Waterman, gardener 
to H. A. Brassey, Esq., M.P., Preston Hall. 
The very pretty Saxifraga Macnabiana, which has 
been exhibited at some of the recent exhibitions, is 
stated by Mr. Lindsey to have been raised ten years 
ago, in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, from seeds 
obtained from the form of S. pyramidalis, known in 
gardens as S nepalensis. 
The first exhibition of the Oxford Union Carnation 
and Picotee Society will be held at Mr. E. S. Dod- 
well’s, Stanley Eoad, Oxford, on August 4th. 
The Evening Fete at Eegent’s Park, on July 1st, 
promises to be of an unusually brilliant character. 
Table decorations and flowers for personal adorn¬ 
ment, and paintings of fioAvers and plants on glass, 
will form the leading features. 
Dr. Hogg and Mr. Thiselton Dyer have been 
appointed to represent the Eoyal Horticultural 
Society at the Horticultural and Botanical Congress 
to be held at Antwerp on August 10th. 
An exhibition of Chrysanthemums, Fruits, and 
Vegetables, will be held at York, on November 25th, 
26th, and 27th. Mr. G. Lazenby, Spurriergate, York, 
is the Secretary. 
The Annual Flower Show of the Chiswick Horti¬ 
cultural Society, held in the Chiswick Garden of the 
Eoyal Horticultural Society, will take place on July 
16th. Mr. John Fromow, Sutton Court Nursery, 
Turnham Green, is now Secretary, vice Mr. Musgrave, 
resigned. 
The Austrian Central Tourist Club has addressed 
a petition to the Assemblies of all Austrian alpine 
provinces, to pass a law prohibiting the wholesale 
uprooting of Edelweiss now carried on. The 
petitioners point out that hundreds of thousands of 
the plants are dug up and sent abroad, even to America, 
so that there is a fear that the favourite plant of all 
lovers of the Alps will be totally exterminated, except 
in a few remote places. In Switzerland, it is stated, 
for several years past there have been stringent laws 
in the several cantons against uprooting and selling 
the Edelweiss.— Nature. 
CONCERNING TULIPS. 
Of the large number of persons who last Tuesday 
week looked upon Mr. Samuel Barlow’s charm¬ 
ing collection of Lancashire Show Tulips which he 
had sent up from his Tulip gardens at Stakehill, 
Manchester, how very few probably knew aught 
of the singular physiology of this gorgeous and 
once popular flower. They saw flowers with golden 
and white grounds, some beautifully pencilled with 
colour on the edges of the petals only; others had 
the colour heavily distributed,over the petals, leaving 
patches of clear yellow or white here and there 
only. They saw others of a self colour, grey, rose, 
scarlet, or bronze, and probably wondered at the 
difference in appearance, and were ignorant as to what 
it meant. The last-named flowers are known as 
breeders ; and the Tulip generally flowers in four, or 
five, or six years, and then in a self, or what the 
growers term the “ breeder ” form, and in one, two, or 
even seven or eight years these break into character, 
and become what are termed “ rectified ” flowers, i.e., 
those that form our first group. Perhaps one flower 
in a thousand may come in the broken character the 
first time it flowers, that is to say, it is never seen in 
the breeder state at all. One flower shown by Mr. 
Barlow, viz., Feathered Bybloemen Mrs. Jackson, 
never took on the breeder character, but broke into 
its lovely black feathering the first time of flowering. 
Beautiful as Mr. Barlow’s Tulips were, they were 
not without their defects. One was that the flowers 
were what the Tulip-growers term, “ a full week short 
of bloom.” What that means any old Tulip-grower 
knows full well. Most of the flowers were little 
better than buds only partly developed, with cloudy 
or creamy bases for want of a few more days of growth 
and bleaching, the green in the outer petals not grown 
out, the outer petals shorter than the inner ones; 
indeed no flower other than the Tulip shows so 
markedly the difference in appearance between a well 
grown and perfectly developed flower and the same 
flower from five to seven days earlier. In reference 
to this the want of full development in the outer petals 
was one of the defects in the young flowers; time is 
required for the outer petals to grow up to the dimen¬ 
sions of the inner ones, and to become perfectly 
bleached from any green. If Mr. Barlow could have 
sent up a collection of Tulips last Tuesday instead of 
the Tuesday previous, the difference in development 
would have been strikingly manifest. 
The difference in the development of the outer as 
compared with the inner petals is well exemplified by 
a circumstance mentioned by Mr. Barlow. “ Nearly 
thirty years ago I won the premier prize for the best 
flamed flower in the whole exhibition at the Great 
South Lancashire Show with that old Dutch sort, La 
Yandikken. When this flower opened for the first 
time, the inner petals expanded, finely developed, and 
grandly flamed, the marking being perfect, while the 
outer ones looked ridiculous, being only half the height 
of the inner ones. I thought the outer petals had 
been half killed by the frost; but to my astonishment 
the outer petals grew and grew slowly day by day, 
until in about a week they were of equal height, and 
almost of equal quality to the inner, and the flower 
Avon the premier for the best flamed in any class. If 
that flower had been staged in any class in its early 
stage of groAvth, it Avould have disqualified any stand 
in Avhich it might have competed. 
“ Another very important matter I must mention : 
I find in many usually perfect flowers, that the 
pollen from the anthers has liquified, and run upon 
the stamens, thereby tinging them more or less. This 
is notably seen in Hardy’s Excelsior, both in the 
breeder and in the rectified state ; out of some forty 
blooms I have scarcely one in a pure state, although 
I have won AA’ith the breeder perfectly pure at least 
a score of times in stands and classes. This, I think, 
is owing to the sIoav groAvth and development of the 
flowers during the long cold May ; the anthers being 
protected have developed more rapidly than the 
petals, Avith the result that in very many cases the 
pollen from the anthers is ripe when the floAA’er first 
opens, and has stained the stamens. 
“ A very noticeable illustration of this is shoAvn in 
Mrs. Jackson, a flower which I send to show its 
Avonderful colour; black as the raven’s AA T ing, darker 
and more glossy than the once famed Louis XVI., 
the flower from this bulb Avas perfectly pure two 
