November 5, 1892. 
i'HE GARDENING WORLD. 
as an outdoor Tomato, provided it had been larger. 
The fruits are small, globose, smooth, four to eight 
of usable size in a bunch, and the bunches are pro¬ 
duced freely to the top of the stems. Tennis Ball 
is an equally early and free setting kind with larger, 
globular fruits about the size of a tennis ball, but 
the quality is inferior, inasmuch as there is scarcely 
any characteristic flavour at all. The plants 
well laden with fruit have, however, a fine appear¬ 
ance. 
The leaves of Champion are much wrinkled but 
otherwise flat, deep green and very distinct. The 
fruits are of large size, smooth and of excellent 
flavour, with a solid and juicy flesh, including numer¬ 
ous but very small seed cavities. The colour not 
being of the popular scarlet or crimson red militates 
against it in the public favour, although we feel 
certain it is merely ignorance or prejudice that is the 
ruling motive in its disfavour. The stems are short 
jointed and bear with considerable freedom consider¬ 
ing the large size of the fruits. Italian Wonder 
might find a place amongst outdoor Tomatos on ac¬ 
count of its free fruiting nature and its earliness. 
The fruits are similar to those of the old Chiswick 
red, but their dull red hue is against them for com¬ 
mercial purposes. Earliest of All is evidently a 
selection or a seedling from the Large Red, and like 
that it crops fairly heavily, although the plants here 
showed nothing extra. That might be accidental as 
only a few plants were grown. The fruits begin to 
ripen moderately early. 
To the above may be added a number of varieties, 
some of them very old or even ancient, and which 
may be regarded as Tomatos of fancy on account of 
their small size, variation in shape and colour. The}' 
are also recommendable for outdoor culture on 
account of their earliness in ripening, and as a means 
of supplying variety on the table of private gentle¬ 
men, but for commercial purposes the most of them 
would be comparatively worthless on account of their 
diminutive size, and because they would fetch but a 
small price in consequence. One of the best of them 
is Golden Nugget, with small, globular, bright yellow 
fruits shaded with golden amber on the exposed side. 
It is certainly pretty, very early and fruits freely with 
six to sixteen fruits in a bunch. The flavour is un¬ 
impeachable, but the flesh is rather thin and of a 
clear yellow. The Yellow Pear-shaped is wrongly 
named as the fruits are oval or Plum-shaped, about 
the size of a pigeon’s egg, bright yellow, free and 
early. The Pear-shaped is a bright red or scarlet 
variety, free, early, and very ancient but small. The 
Cherry Red has small, globular red fruits, very 
freely and early produced. The peculiar livid colour 
of the Peach Tomato tells strongly against it with 
the public, but the quality does not altogether 
warrant this prejudice. The fruit is globular and 
downy on the surface like a Peach, hence the name. 
It produces a fair crop out of doors. The Yellow 
Plum has small, shortly oblong, smooth, clear 
golden-yellow fruits, tapering slightly upwards, and 
crops fairly well. 
Another series of varieties may be mentioned as 
more suitable for indoor culture than any of the 
above on account of their lateness. Some of them 
are widely recognised as of first-class importance 
under glass. Foremost amongst these may be placed 
Perfection. Out of doors it crops only moderately, 
producing a few huge fruits that are liable to spilt 
and decay before attaining maturity ; by the time 
they commence to ripen there our climate is too wet 
for them. Perfection Surpasse is a Continental 
variety similar to Perfection, but ripening rather 
earlier in the open ground, with a fairly good crop, 
and wonderfully free from splitting. In a fine season 
it might succeed in the open air, but not otherwise. 
A fair crop is produced by Gilbert’s Surpasse, but 
the fruits are liable to split. It resembles Ham 
Green Favourite both in fruit and foliage. The 
same might be said of Sensation, but the fruits are 
larger and the crop moderate. Indoors it would no 
doubt do better ; it a fine looking fruit. Closely 
allied also is Clibran’s Tomato, but the plants 
fruited better all along the stems. A heavy crop 
was produced by Challenger, but the deeply globose, 
bluntly angled, and crimson-red fruits are liable to 
split towards the end of September. Sutton's Ai is 
similar to Ham Green Favourite, but has larger 
fruits and crops well, but is too late for outdoor 
work. Regina may be placed in the same category 
as the last, but it ripens slightly earlier. 
Market Favourite is a variety which seems to be an 
improvement upon the old Large Red, and of the 
size of Ham Green Favourite, without the refine¬ 
ment or smoothness. It crops heavily but is rather 
late out of doors. As is well known the Mikado has 
the objectional soft pinkish red colour, and is thereby 
prejudiced with the public, but that is gradually 
being overcome. The huge fruits are, however, un¬ 
suited for outdoor work. That named Northern 
Beauty is much in the same style as McGregor’s 
Seedling, but the fruit is not quite so shapely and 
the crop last season was only moderate. The fruits 
of Volunteer are of great size, in fact too big for 
outdoor culture, and closely resemble those of Per¬ 
fection. It crops only fairly in the open ground. 
The larger fruiting yellow varieties do not as a rule 
give much satisfaction out of doors. Blenheim 
Orange has already been mentioned, but to obtain 
its desirable flavour we would recommend that it be 
grown against a wall, or, failing that, to be grown 
under glass. Of the yellow varieties at Chiswick 
this year the surest and safest yellow for outdoor 
work is the small fruiting Golden Nugget. The 
fruit of Large Yellow is of medium to small size, 
smooth and golden yellow, but the crop was only 
moderate. The fruit of that named A.B.C. is very 
large, ribbed and liable to decay by holding moisture 
at the base, and the crop was only fair. Golden 
Sunrise produces huge, flattened, nearly smooth, 
bright yellow fruits, but only a few of them with one 
to four fruits in a bunch, and variable in shape. 
Somewhat similar is Golden Queen, but the fruits 
are smaller, the medium sized ones being smooth and 
the large ones ribbed at the base. 
Two other varieties complete the list of those 
grown at Chiswick in the open air. One is High¬ 
bury Prolific, with medium sized, broadly oblong, 
smooth or slightly ribbed, bright scarlet fruits. The 
crop was fair and ripened moderately early, but as 
there was only a few plants it is hardly possible to 
speak definitely of its value at present. The other 
is Invicta, notable for the huge size of its flattened 
and slightly ribbed crimson-red fruits, but rarely 
more than three of them are produced in a bunch. 
We consider that all the large fruiting varieties 
should be grown under glass if they have qualities to 
recommend them. They are too liable to split 
during wet weather, and ripen too late in all but the 
most favourable seasons to ensure success or profit¬ 
able culture out of doors in our climate. 
LILIES AND THEIR 
CULTURE. 
(Concluded from p. 130 ) 
Culture in Pots. 
Though Lilies are comparatively easy to grow out¬ 
side, to do them well in pots requires some care in 
potting and unremitting attention during the growing 
season. A good compost that suits nearly all Lilies 
is composed as follows : three parts peat, two parts 
loam, one part leaf-soil, and one part of sand and 
small pieces of charcoal. These ingredients should 
be thoroughly well mixed and all worms carefully 
removed; the leaf-soil employed should not be 
too old. The use of small pots is not to be recom¬ 
mended. The 5-in. size is, except in the case of 
very small bulbs, the smallest permissible. 
Old cinders that will pass through a half-inch 
sieve, but will not pass through a quarter-inch 
sieve, form an efficient drainage. On this put about 
2 to 3 in. of compost, according to size of pot ; 
whiten with silver sand, press the bulb gently into 
it, and fill up with compost till the top of the bulb 
is only just visible ; but unless there is at least 1J in. 
clear space between the compost and the top of the 
pot start afresh with one of a larger size. Fill the 
pot up with cocoanut fibre, and stand in a cold 
frame on a hard bottom to exclude worms. When 
the frame is full put about 2 in. of fibre over all. 
Both compost and fibre should be used in a nice 
moist state. Do not water unless absolutely neces¬ 
sary, and ventilate freely. About March the fibre 
should be removed carefully, when, if the bulbs are 
doing well, the roots will be found running up into it. 
These roots should be carefully covered with a light 
top-dressing of loam, leaf-soil, and old Mushroom- 
bed manure in equal parts, with a little sand. 
As the stems appear and begin to throw out roots 
they should be encouraged by top-dressings of the 
same mixture. Lilies in pots should at all times be 
treated as hardily as possible, or the stems will draw 
up weakly, but at the same time frost must be care¬ 
fully guarded against. As soon as all danger from 
the latter is at an end the pots should be placed out¬ 
side on a hard bottom. The pots themselves and 
the first foot of the stems should be shaded from the 
sun, as Lilies are very liable to a disease generally 
known as sunstroke, for which there is no cure, but 
prevention. From May onwards the greatest care 
must be exercised in watering. If the soil is once 
allowed either to get dust dry or sodden with water, 
disaster is nearly sure to follow. 
As soon as the pots are full of roots, weak soot or 
guano water twice a week will benefit both the 
blooms and bulbs. Nitrate of soda, at the rate of 
1 oz. to the 4-gallor. can, once a fortnight will put 
splendid colour into the foliage. During hot, sunny 
weather a good shower with the syringe over and 
round the plants will keep the foliage clean and 
assist the buds to swell evenly. The use of liquid 
manure should be continued till the stem begins to 
turn colour, when the supply of water should be 
gradually diminished, but the soil should never be 
allowed to get dust dry nor must the pots be exposed 
to heavy rain. The longer the foliage can be 
kept green and healthy the better the new bulb will 
be. 
About October the bulbs should be shaken out 
carefully, care being taken not to break any new 
roots that have formed ; the old roots should be cut 
off, decaying scales and off-sets removed, and then 
re-potted as before. 
In gathering blooms, they should be cut separately, 
and not taken off with a foot or so of stem, as this 
weakens the bulb. 
The pests that generally attack Lilies are green¬ 
fly and slugs (thrip and spider rarely trouble them) ; 
tobacco powder and hand-picking will get rid of 
these. 
The following species and varieties may be briefly 
described as follows *— 
L. Auratum. —The finest common Lily we have. 
From 2 ft. to 7 ft. high, leaves irregular, flowers 
from three to 100, but average five to twenty, indi¬ 
vidual flowers large, measuring from yin. to 14 in. 
from tip to tip, colour white with reddish-brown 
spots, a deep yellow band running down the centre 
of each division of the perianth. Buyers of imported 
bulbs should not be in a hurry to purchase. The 
consignments arriving here about the middle of 
December generally give the best results. It does 
well in pots and can be easily forced. 
Cardiocrinum. 
L. giganteum.— Stems 6 ft. to 10 ft. high, large 
heart-shaped leaves; ten to twelve fragnant flowers 
5 in. to 6 in. long, white, tinged with pinkish-purple 
inside, and green on the outside. I have never seen 
it flowered in a pot. The flowers usually hang 
down. Slugs are particularly fond of this variety. 
The bulb is very large and takes four or five years 
to come to flowering size. It will stand more feeding 
than the generality. 
EuLIRION : FUNNEL SHAPED. 
L. longiflorum. — One foot to 3ft. high; leaves 
scattered ; fragrant, w’hite funnel-shaped flowers, one 
to eight in number and 5in. to 7m. in length. An 
early Lily excellent for forcing, but is liable to be 
cut by frost in open ground. 
L. Harisii. —The best Lily known for forcing 
purposes. It much resembles longiflorum, but 
grows taller, has more and larger flowers, and these 
have the divisions of the perianthe more turned 
back. Not for open. 
L. Wallichianum superbum. — A magnificent 
Lily, but little known, 4ft. to 6ft. high; flowers 
large, fragrant, creamy-white in colour, with a 
greenish-yellow tinge on the inside. It is a late 
bloomer and more suited for pots than the open 
ground. It produces bulbils in the axils of its 
leaves, all of which will become flowering bulbs in 
the third year if taken off and potted up in light, 
sandy soil. 
L. Krameri. —A very distinct Lily, stem very 
slender; flower solitary, of a delicate pale pink 
tinge. Quite hardy. 
L. candidum. —The -well-known white, .sweet- 
scented garden Lily. It differs from most others in 
that it should be planted in August as it sends up 
tuft of radical leaves which remain green all the 
winter. The flower stem not appearing till March 
it can be easily forced. 
