68 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
October 1, 1892. 
(9HE 
Some Novelties in Ornamental and Pictorial 
Trees and Hardy Shrubs. 
The genus Acer supplies several of these which may 
properly be termed novelties. There is A. colchi- 
cum, probably a sport from A. colchicum rubrum, 
the leaves of the sport being handsomely variegated 
with red, green, and rose. There is also a golden 
variegated form of the well-known A negundo, but 
with the margins gold instead of cream, a very fine 
variegated variety of the Ashleaf Maple. Then 
there are two sports from the old purple Sycamore. 
One named Atropurpureus has the leaves purple 
below as well as on the upper surface ; another has 
them parti-coloured, being marbled with rose, 
white, and yellow; another has golden variegated 
foliage, but fine specimens of this, or a near resem¬ 
blance to it,can be seen in various parts of thecountry. 
A variety of the common Sycamore, named Simon 
Louis Freres, is regarded as the finest of all the 
variegated types, the leaves being edged with rose 
and white, and it is highly effective. Another named 
Woolleii is a fine golden form of Acer platanus. 
Cornus brachypoda variegata is a handsome type of 
the Dogwood, the leaves being well margined with 
white, are very effective. C. elegans tricolor aurea 
is a rapid grower of a semi-weeping character, the 
foliage edged with red and yellow. C. Spathii aureus 
variegatus is a fine variegated shrub of rapid growth, 
the leaves broadly margined with pale yellow, while 
some are entirely yellow. Sorbus majesticus is a 
fine ornamental tree with very large silvery leaves ; 
and S. lutescens has large leaves of a yellow tint, 
and is very handsome when well coloured. Veronica 
buxifolia is a box-leaved form likely to make a use¬ 
ful plant in shrubbery borders if perfectly hardy, a 
quality which is claimed for it. 
Of flowering- plants I place at the head a new 
continental Clematis which comes to England with 
a great reputation. It is named Madame Baron 
Veillard, of the Jackmanni type, of vigorous growth, 
very free, a continuous summer and autumn 
bloomer; the colour rosy-lilac. Of Cytissus 
(Genista) scoparius andreanus it is scarcely 
necessary to speak. Its bright golden flowers with 
velvety-purple centre command admiration. Hyperi¬ 
cum Moserianum is a handsome shrub of low, 
spreading habits, of vigorous growth, bearing from 
June until September a profusion of arge golden- 
yellow flovvers. Lemoine’s hybrid of Philadelphus 
microphyllus is a fine new form bearing large white 
flowers which are very fragrant, and produced in 
great abundance. Spirea astilboides is a delightful 
subject for pot culture, graceful and elegant in the 
extreme, and worthy of a place in every garden. 
Here then is a few subjects challenging attention. 
They are by no means new in all cases, but they are 
novelties, and as such can be recommended for their 
obvious good qualities.— R. D. 
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TUFTED PANSIES FROM 
CHIRNSIDE. 
It is now pretty well known that Dr. Stuart, of 
Chirnside, has been instrumental in raising a new 
type of rayless Violas, although there are now 
several others working in the same field. The 
principal seed parents he has been using are Violetta 
and Countess of Hopetoun. Others have been used 
as pollen parents in order to get colour, amongst 
which Viola cornuta Perfection, Ardwell Gem, and 
probably others might be mentioned. The leading 
colours as yet are white, yellow, various shades of 
sulphur, light blue and lilac, either separately or in 
various combinations. The name " Tufted Pansies ” 
has been applied to them by Dr. Stuart himself, 
doubtless to indicate that they have the procumbent 
habit of Ardwell Gem, Duchess of Fife, and Gold¬ 
finch, which are the best of the old types to which 
that name should be applied. A boxful of flowers 
sent to us by Dr. Stuart a few days ago included 
both the large and miniature type of this new race, 
represented by Countess of Hopetoun and Violetta 
respectively. 
The most interesting and handsome of the named 
sorts of this year is Lady in White, more happily 
named than White Lady, for it is pure white with a 
few yellow rays hardly extending beyond the golden 
yellow eye. It is moreover deliciously fragrant, and 
although not so large as Countess of Hopetoun, yet 
approaches it, and would therefore be useful for 
bedding purposes if a free bloomer, which we should 
suspect it is. Another distinct and beautiful variety 
of this year is Buttercup, of the palest sulphur with 
a large golden yellow blotch nearly covering the lip. 
Picturata is as large as Countess of Hopetoun, with 
the upper petals splashed and clouded with bluish- 
lilac, the others white and margined with a blue line 
and having a small golden yellow eye. It is also 
fragrant. We hope it will be re-christened, as there 
is already a variety under that name, but greatly 
inferior and would create confusion. An older sort 
is Bridal Wreath with large pale sulphur flowers. 
Of the miniature type Old Gold is the best yellow, 
considerably superior to Golden Gage and Ophir by 
the same raiser ; a seedling from it was devoid of the 
white margin. Blush Pet is much in the same way 
as Blush Queen but has darker upper petals; 
both are delicately suffused with the palest blue-lilac 
on a white ground with the customary yellow blotch 
on the lip. Another very choice minature variety is 
Snowdrift, but it seems nearly identical with Sister 
Frances figured by us last week. 
Besides the above-named varieties Dr. Stuart 
sends us a selection of blooms gathered from his 
seed beds. One of the bunches, however, contained 
flowers of familiar colours, namely, those represented 
by Picotee, Rothes, or something near it as far as 
the flowers are concerned, and a lilac-blue one, 
possibly Blue Gown, which we have not seen. The 
others were mostly of large types, seedlings of 
Countess of Hopetoun crossed with Violetta. One 
of them was in the way of Sylvia’s Rival, but was 
clouded on the edges of the upper petals. Others 
were of various shades of sulphur and pale yellow, 
large and in some cases fragrant. Some of them 
closely resembled Mr. W. Dean’s Bridesmaid, but 
probably the habit is different, with more of the 
Viola blood (so to speak) in them. 
-- 
The World's Fair: A Tall Order.— Mr. John 
Thorpe is reported to have stated at the recent con¬ 
vention of American Florists that it was the inten¬ 
tion of his department to have a specimen of every 
plant and flower enumerated in Nicholson’s “ Dic¬ 
tionary of Gardening ” shown at the F'air. 
WINTER KALES. 
All descriptions of “winter stuff,” to use the com¬ 
mon appellation, are now looking exceptionally 
strong and luxuriant in growth. Naturally the 
growers are wondering how this sort of vegetation 
that is brought to such a condition of luxuriance by 
such frequent heavy rains is calculated to stand a 
hard winter. It is a sad result of the long labours 
of a season in sowing, planting out, and cultivating 
hundreds of acres of this class of vegetable to find 
that perhaps a week of unusual severity in the 
winter suffices to cripple and very largely destroy it. 
Naturally it is of the first importance that only very 
hardy sorts should be grown where this danger is 
threatened. 
Cole worts, which just now are unusually strong in 
leafage, will have largely been pulled perhaps before 
very severe weather ensues, because these are 
ordinarily cleared off before the depth of winter 
comes. The Hardy Green not planted too early is 
the best, because its firm conical heads do not offer 
so much area for the collection of hoar frost as the 
broad heads of the Rosette Colewort does. Large 
full-hearted Cabbages suffer most in frost as they 
soon split, or because too full of moisture are soon 
brought to decay. Savoys are generally very hardy, 
but there are none after all so good for winter work 
as the dwarf green curled, because being dwarf they 
are less exposed to injury. 
Purple Sprouting Brocoli stands well as a rule, 
because that is not only hardy but the open leafage 
enables plenty of air to circulate through it, and 
thus keep it drier. White Brocolis suffer most just 
as they are of gross growth, whilst the harder the 
stems the better will they endure frost. In the case 
of Kales, of which the chief grown are the old tall 
Scotch and dwarf curled, these suffer more or less 
just as they are more or less coarse, or if specially 
exposed to snowstorms, which breaks down the 
leafage. To avoid that evil there are none like those 
which have very compact solid heads, and stout 
hard stems of medium hei'ght. 
I was much taken with a very handsome green 
curled Kale of this description I recently saw in the 
Messrs. Sutton & Sons’ trial grounds, at Reading, 
