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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
^ Ia Y 6, 1898. 
The necessity for planting large breadths of 
Curled Kale and Brussels Sprouts is exemplified this 
season. They were injured very slightly and sent 
out an abundance of tender sprouts. Three planta¬ 
tions (or at least two) should be made to give suc¬ 
cession crops. We do not remember getting 
vegetables under glass to succeed better than this 
season. French Beans, Cucumbers, Tomatos, and 
Potatos have forced remarkably well. Stirling 
PLANTS RECENTLY CERTIFICATED, 
The undermentioned plants and Potato were certi¬ 
ficated at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, on the 25th ult. 
Strobilanthes Dyerianus. —The foliage of this 
plant is highly ornamental, and even should the 
flowers be inconspicuous and worthless, the plant 
will be grown solely for the sake of its foliage. The 
leaves are oblong-elliptic, serrate, wavy at the edges 
when young and of a beautiful rosy-purple with green 
edges, midrib, and likewise the principal lateral and in¬ 
curved nerves. In short they have the delicacy of 
those of a Bertolonia The stems are hairy and 
grey. A First-class Certificate was awarded it when 
shown by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
Abutilon Souvenir de Bonn.— This again is 
meant for an ornamental-foliaged plant. The leaves 
are cordate, five-'obed, downy, on both surfaces, 
deep green, with a well defined white margin of 
irregular width. They are also long stalked and of 
good size when the plant has had time to grow to a 
fair and useful size. An Award of Merit was 
accorded it when shown by Messrs. B. S. Williams 
& Son, Upper Holloway. 
Azalea viscosa Raph.ei. de S.met.— The flowers 
of this variety are large for those of those of A. 
viscosa type, and perfectly double, although the 
supernumerary segments are not at all crowded. 
They are ovate crisped, of a delicate pink, and very 
pleasing, while the tube is creamy yellow externally. 
Azalea mollis Hilda. —The flowers of this 
variety are large, and very abundantly produced, 
orange-coloured, and having the three upper ones 
tipped with orange-red : the uppermost segment is 
spotted with a deeper hue. Both of the Azaleas 
were exhibited by Messrs. H. Lane & Son, who re¬ 
ceived an Award of Merit for each of them. 
Potato ShaApe's Victor.— A box of tubers of 
this variety received an Award of Merit from the Fruit 
and Vegetable Committee, probably on account of its 
suitability for forcing purposes. The tubers are 
pebble shaped, blunt at either end, smooth, shining 
and white, with dark specks thinly scattered over it, 
otherwise the skin is quite clear. The eyes are very 
shallow, and in every way the variety appears well 
adapted for early work. An Award of Merit was 
accorded it when shown by Mr. Geo. Wythes, gar¬ 
dener to the Duke of Northumberland, Syon House, 
Brentford. - 
The plants mentioned hereunder were exhibited at 
the second spring show of the Royal Botanic Society 
at Regent’s Park, on the 26th ult., and received certi¬ 
ficates according to their kind 
Iris Helen.-ea.— Ihis species belongs to the 
Oncocyclus group of Irises, and comes from Pales¬ 
tine and surrounding districts, as several others of 
the same class have recently. The leaves are linear, 
glaucous, and shorter than the stem which varies 
from 6 in. to 12 in. in height. The falls are oval, 
deep purple with black veins, and have a black 
blotch on the centre. The standards are very much 
broader, roundly obovate, arched over the top of the 
flower, and of a clear but deep rosy-purple with 
darker veins. The petaloid stigmas are reflexed or 
strongly arched over the falls, bifid and of a coppery 
brown, thus presenting a striking contrast to the rest 
of the flower. A Floricultural Certificate was 
awarded it when shown by Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale 
Farm Nurseries, Tottenham. 
Auricula Winifred.— This belongs to the Alpine 
class and has obovate, green, toothed leaves. The 
flowers are large with a pale yellow paste fading 
ultimately to creamy white. The body colour is 
maroon-crimson rather abruptly shading into a 
broad rose-coloured edge. A Floricultural Certifi¬ 
cate was awarded it when shown by Mr. C. Turner, 
Slough. 
Auricula Engineer.—I n this we have a self- 
coloured show variety. The leaves are obovate, 
almost entire at the edges and mealy, but particularly 
at the edges, which are quite white. The flowers are 
of medium size, intense blackish-maroon, with a well 
defined, circular white paste and a yellow tube. A 
Floricultural Certificate was awarded it when shown 
by Mr. A. J. Sanders, gardener to Viscountess 
Chewton, Bookham Lodge, Cobham 
Wistaria sinensis alba. —The flowers of this 
choice variety are produced in long racemes as in the 
case of the type. They are pure white with excep¬ 
tion of a small greenish-yellow spot at the base of 
the standard, and which can only be seen on close 
examination. The calyx is paler than in the type 
and cream-coloured A Floricultural Certificate was 
awarded it. 
Azalea mollis Anthony Roster.— For descrip¬ 
tion of this beautiful variety see p. 529. A Flcricul- 
tural Certificate was awarded it. 
Rhododendron Lord Wolseley.— The flowers 
of this hybrid greenhouse variety are of very large 
size for this type, campanulate, with revolute 
segments, and of a beautiful orange-salmon. The 
tube externally is yellow' and the filaments and styie 
are crimson. A Floricultural Certificate was 
awarded it. 
Strobilanthes Dyerianus.— For description see 
previous column. A Botanical Certificate was 
awarded it. 
Vriesia Morrenii. — The ligulate, entire leaves of 
this neat and showy plant are about 6 in. to 8 in. 
long and crowded in a dense tuft. The flower 
scape is 6 in. to 9 in long and furnished 
at the top with a flattened mass of bracts 
in two ranks, and which constitutes the most 
durable and most ornamental part of the inflor¬ 
escence. The lower half of each bract is deep red, 
and the upper half clear yellow. The flowers are 
produced in succession and singly from the axils of 
each bract, and they are clear yellow with a green 
tip to the sepals, in the early stage at least. A 
Botanical Certificate was awarded it, when shown 
by Messrs J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, who also 
exhibited the four previous subjects. 
Begonia Sunset. —This is one of the tuberous, 
summer flowering race of Begonias, and has large 
half-cordate, deep green leaves. The flowers are 
single, of very large size, perfectly orbicular, and of 
a bright warm scarlet. A Floricultural Certificate 
was awarded it. 
Begonia Lord Byron.— The flowers of this sort 
are of medium size, single, brilliant carmine with a 
white centre. It belongs to the same class as the 
last-named, and has large, obliquely cordate, lobed 
and deep green leaves. Floricultural Certificate. 
Begonia Miss Jeannie Fell.— Here also we have 
a tuberous Begonia, with small, perfectly double 
flowers, the sepals of which are of a deep crimson- 
scarlet or crimson-red and neatly arranged round a 
common centre like a Rose The plant is of dwarf 
habit, with half-cordate small deep green leaves. 
Floricultural Certificate. All the three Begonias 
were shown by Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm 
Nurseries, Tottenham. 
Caladium Louis Van Houtte.— The leaves of 
this new variety are of large size, heart-shaped, and 
of a beautiful soft red all over in the young stages, 
finely netted with darker veins. As they become 
older they assume a bronzy red hue, and ultimately 
become shaded with bronzy green. A Botanical 
Certificate was awarded it when shovm by Messrs. 
J. Laing & Sons, Forest Hill. 
Carnation Uriah Pike. —For description of this 
fragrant Clove Tree Carnation see p. 529. A Flori¬ 
cultural Certificate was awarded it when shown by 
Mr. J. Pike, 66, Park Road, South Acton. 
Azalea viscosa Raph.el de Smet. — For 
description of this variety see above. A Floricul¬ 
tural Certificate was awarded it when shown by 
Messrs. H. Lane &- Son, Berkhamstead. 
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DULWICH PARK. 
Lovers of hardy plants will appreciate the idea of 
their extensive cultivation in the London Parks 
This applies not merely to herbaceous subjects but 
also to the wealth of all kinds of ornamental trees 
and shrubs now at the command of the cultivator. 
Dulwich Park is quite a new one, and we may say 
decidedly distinct both in general aspect and in 
detail from any other of the London Parks. It con¬ 
sists of 72 acres in all, with four large entrances for 
the public, numerous wide and well kept carriage 
drives, a lake of some extent with islands, sunk 
garden, cricket grounds, to accommodate ten to 
eighteen teams, and lawn tennis courts where twenty 
to tw'enty-seven teams can play contemporaneously, 
and numerous pieces of rockwork, shrubberies, &c. 
Some fine old trees that occupied the grounds before 
being made into a park, give the place an aspect of 
some antiquity. From various points of view we get 
beautiful glimpses of the wooded and grassy slopes 
of Sydenham Hill capped by the Crystal Palace ; 
and the park actually appears continuous all the way 
to the last named place. 
Rockeries. 
Everything is in excellent order and speaks well for 
the superintendence of Mr. J. \V. Moorman, who 
appreciates and is earnestly in love with the various 
kinds of hardy plants he is called upon to cultivate. 
The collection has rapidly augmented within the 
last two years, and everything is now well established 
and perfectly at home. A walk round the place even 
at this early period of the year shows a wonderful 
variety and richness in spring flowers exclusive of 
Tulips, Hyacinths, Narcissi, and others of that type. 
At the Court Lane entrance the approaches are built 
up in the form of rockwork and planted with many 
choice things. Not far from the entrance the carriage 
way divides into two, and the triangular piece of 
ground between themis also occupied with rockwork. 
Here the masses of the deep rose-flowered Aubrietia 
deltoides Leichtlinii are most conspicuous, much 
more so than the patches of A. d. Campbelli along¬ 
side of it. Saxifraga Camposii and S. geranioides 
with their white flowers offer a fine contrast with 
the above as well as with Alyssum saxatile forming 
broad patches of golden yellow. Many pieces of 
Antennaria dioica rosea, with rose-coloured heads 
are very interesting. For a mass of white flowers 
nothing seems to surpass Iberis sempervirens cloth¬ 
ing the banks of the approaches in large patches, 
hanging over and lying between the masses of brick 
burrs of which the rockwork is built. Another 
showy white Saxifrage is Saxifraga coespitosa Stans- 
fieldi. Others coming on to take the place of those 
now in bloom are S. Hostii, S. serrata elegans, 5 . 
rotundifolia, and others. There too are Potentilla 
alba, Veronica gentianoides and the pigmy V. g. 
pumila, only 2 in. to 3 in. high. The large deep rose 
blooms of Lychnis diurna fiore pleno are now com¬ 
mencing to show themselves. On the lower grounds 
at the foot of the banks are fine masses of laced 
Polyanthus some of them but little inferior to the- 
named kinds. Here too are broad patches of the 
fasciated Forget-me-not (Myosotis alpestris Arictoriae), 
in a dwarf and most floriferous condition. 
Near the Rosebery .Gate we have similiarly 
designed pieces of rockwork gay with spring' 
flowering subjects. Upon the left of it is a lodge: 
with beds of Tulips, Wallflowers, etc. The early 
kinds of Tulip are over, but T. elegans, T. fulgens, 
and T. spathulata, considered the wild form of 
T. Gesneriana, were still in their prime at the end of 
April. On the rockery Erica carnea is over, but 
E. mediterranea and E. m. alba are still at their best. 
Other plants of he Heath family are Menziesia em- 
petrifolia, Ledum palustre, and Gaultheria procum- 
bens, the latter still in fruit with the calyx forming 
the larger part of the fruit opening like a flower. 
Epimedium Musschianum, Arabis lucida variegata, 
and the white-flowered Anemone narcissiflora are 
amongst the choice little bits to be seen here. Of 
course a great many of the more conspicuous 
subjects are repeated here from the other gate. 
At the Dulwich Common entrance, known also by 
the old familiar name of Snake’s Lane, there is some 
rockwork on one side and the wild garden upon the 
other, under some tall old trees. On a villa by the 
entrance the common Honeysuckle trained to the 
top of the wall is now a mass of bloom. Mixed with 
it is the yellow Banksian Rose also in bloom. At the 
inner end of the rockwork is a bold patch of seedling 
Auriculas, both show and Alpine, in full bloom and 
highly fragrant. Laced and other Polyanthuses ar& 
also fine. The patches of Saxifraga muscoides 
atropurpurea are also pretty. S. Guthrieana and S. 
Andrewsi, said to be synonymous, are here quite 
distinct. Tiarella cordifolia, with its creamy flowers, 
is most floriferous. Iberis corifolia just commencing 
to bloom will take the place of I. sempervirens 
presently. The Cushion Pink (Silene acaulis) is 
flowering, and apparently happy on the more elevated 
portion of the rockwork. The English Blue Bell in 
all its four colours of blue, rose, flesh, and white 
may be noted on the level ground. Some strong 
