June 29, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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W. Titt, Mr. Titt, Junr., Mr. William Sherwood, 
Mr. L. Sutton, &c. 
Sutton & Sons. 
ist Innings. 
Allum c & b Main . o 
Shorter c Thake b Swinfen 2 
Grant b Main . 2 
Bennett c Sampson b Main 1 
Hawes (Capt.) b Main . 7 
Barrette Cochrane b Swin¬ 
fen . 25 
Bartlett c Sampson b Swin¬ 
fen . 1 
May c Cochrane b Swinfen 2 
Austin c Swinfen b Samp¬ 
son. o 
Bowsher b Sampson. o 
Curtis not out . 3 
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b Swinten. 6 
run out . o 
c Portch b Main. 6 
b Swinfen. o 
b Swinfen. 10 
b Main . o 
b Swinfen. ir 
b Swinfen. g 
not out. r 
b Portch. 4 
b Portch. ] 6 
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ist Innings. 
S. N. Sampson (Capt.) c 
Barrett b Austin. 19 
W. J. Portch b Austin . 0 
F. Swinfen b Bennett . 9 
W. J. Cochrane b Austin... 7 
J. B. Squire b Austin. o 
C. Veitch b Bennett. 10 
C. Addiscott b Austin. 9 
W. Bruce b Bennett. 13 
W. Main b Austin . 8 
J. Day not out. 3 
J. Thake b Austin . o 
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& Son. 
2nd Innings. 
c Barrett b Bennett . ir 
b Austin. 14 
c Bartlett b Austin. 20 
c Curtis b Austin. 0 
b Austin. 7 
b Austin. 5 
b Austin. 13 
b Austin. 9 
b Austin. 14 
b Austin. o 
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dwarf variety is Phoenna with scarlet flowers shaded 
magenta. Madame Jules Chretien is of the Souvenir 
de Mirande type and the best of its class, throwing 
huge trusses of flowers out of doors and under glass. 
The flowers have a white centre, shaded rose and 
broadly edged with scarlet. The large flowers of 
Duchess of Portland are rosy-pink with a white 
blotch. There are several orange-flowered varieties 
including Sunbeam and Golden Rain, but Sunray is 
the best of its class with brilliant orange flowers 
tending to yellow. Maud of Wales is a purplish 
pink variety of great size and quite distinct from 
other shades of this class. The scat la flowers of 
Enid are of large size and borne in great trusses. 
Mr. Owen Thomas is crimson-scarlet with a white 
eye in the way of Dazzler and Jean Sisley which 
were the best of their day but now long superseded. 
The soft rosy-salmon flowers of Galatea are of a 
very pleasing shade. Cannell’s Favourite and 
Brilliant are fine varieties the best of their class. 
New Star is a distinct looking variety of a rosy 
salmon with a white centre and flowers as round as 
a full moon. A fine type is King of the Purples with 
rich purple blooms. 
For bedding and other purposes, Henry Jacoby 
has long been popular, but it has been superseded 
by Lord Salisbury, which has larger flowers. The 
orange-scarlet flowers of Oliver Wendel Holmes are 
even in remote corners of the land. The flowers of 
Gustav Emich are only semi-double, but of huge 
size and bright orange. Similar in form are those of 
Girome, but they are cerise, shaded with purple. 
Hermine is the best double white in cultivation, 
either for summer or winter work. The plant is 
dwarf, but healthy in constitution, with green foliage 
and flowers well carried above it. Californie, with 
its orange flowers of huge size, no doubt is intended 
to recall the gold of that country. The large and 
brilliant, glowing scarlet, Raspail Improved, is one of 
llie most popular of the whole range of double 
varieties. The great size and glowing hue of the 
flowers is doubtless responsible for the high estima¬ 
tion in which it is held. The medium-sized orange 
flowers of Lady Candahar are borne in compact 
trusses. Beaute de Poitevine is a semi-double with 
salmon flowers of huge size. For want of a better 
term we may describe Madame Charlotte as mottled 
salmon ; the dark zone of the leaves makes a fine 
contrast with the flowers. Violet Daniels produces 
huge trusses of salmon flowers tinted with pink. 
A very distinct sort is Cardinal Lavigerie, whose 
magenta-purple flowers are borne in huge trusses. 
As amongst single kinds, so amongst doubles, there 
are some of extremely delicate tints of colour. Leon 
Xandrof is one of these, for the blush-white flowers 
are suffused with pink, and the plants are dwarf with 
POPULAR FLOWERS AT SWANLEY. 
No matter at what season of the year we visit the 
nursery of Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, at Swanley, 
the zonal Pelargoniums, single and double, arrest the 
eye as soon as we walk in the direction of the houses. 
They are by no means the only feature of the place 
at the present time, but one is unable to get away 
from them until a thorough inspection has been 
made. Notwithstanding the severity of the past 
winter the sky overhead was clear and the Pelargo¬ 
niums produced a blaze of colour the whole time. If 
this class of plants is less popular now for bedding 
purposes than they were twelve to twenty years ago, 
their use and popularity as pot plants has increased 
in an equal ratio, and for conservatory work in 
summer and winter they are becoming more and 
more indispensable. The improvements that have 
been effected amongst them during the past ten 
years is simply marvellous. 
Single Zonals. 
The individual pips of many varieties make the face 
of an English lever watch look small. Mrs. Hall is 
a large salmon flower shaded with scarlet, and the 
trusses are borne on stalks 10 in. to 12 in. long, being 
thereby highly suitable for cut flower purposes. W. 
P. Wright is equally large and bright scarlet. A 
Range of lean-to Peach Houses, (See p. 696,) 
produced in massive-looking trusses, as are those of 
the dark rosy-magenta Sherlock Holmes. The pure 
white flowers of Swanley Single White display their 
orange anthers for a time in the centre, but these in 
the course of time drop, leaving the flower in 
unsullied puiity. Madame Melba, on the contrary, 
is white with a pink centre. The brilliant crimson- 
scarlet flowers of Lord Rosebery are set off with a 
white eye. The soft blush flow'ers of H. de Perceval 
are delicately pretty, and notable for their great size. 
The upper petals of Marquis of Dufferin are brilliant 
scarlet, while the three lower ones are deep crimson- 
magenta. A handsome variety is Ethel Lewis, with 
warm pink flowers, and a white blotch at the base 
ot the upper petals. With such short descriptions 
as the above it is difficult to convey anything like an 
exact impression of the endless tints and hues and 
the subtlety of their blending, which language is 
scarcely capable of conveying. A large number of 
varieties must also remain unnoticed. 
Double Zonals. 
The tendency of the improvements amongst double 
sorts is to obtain much larger flowers with broader 
petals than has ever been seen until recent years. 
The original doubles, which were so much prized in 
their day, had small crowded flowers with crowded 
petals, and are fast disappearing from cultivation 
dark green foliage. Very full are the whitejflowers 
of Boule de Neige, and the trusses are large. The 
reddish-scarlet flowers of M. A. Ricard are large and 
semi-double. Delicate and pleasing in colour are 
the large, soft pink flowers of M. Caro, borne in 
compact trusses that form a fine contrast with the 
green foliage. The flowers of Madame Jonas are 
white, with a soft scarlet zone in the centre, and 
altogether distinct. Bright clear scarlet are the 
flowers of Althea ; and those of Le Contable are 
deep rosy-pink and of large size. A variety that 
will doubtless attain great popularity in private 
establishments, at least, is a new sort named Double 
Jacoby, with the dark maroon-crimson hue of its 
single namesake. The flowers are borne in large 
trusses well above the foliage on scapes 10 in. to 
14 in. long. It is certainly a bold and handsome 
sort that must find numerous admirers. 
French and Regal Pelargoniums. 
The collection of this class of Pelargoniums is pretty 
extensive, and besides the races named it includes 
those known as show, fancy and decorative varieties. 
Gold Mine is a smooth flower of large size, and 
orange with two small crimson blotches, and, like 
Radiant, would be classed amongst the show kinds ; 
the latter is rose, shaded with purple, and has two 
crimson blotches. W. C. Boyes is large and soft 
