September 18, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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Barrington Peach —I have an old Barrington 
Peach which bears and ripens its fruit well, but the 
stones are split, and in some cases the kernel is bad. 
Would you advise root pruning.— A. B. 
If you will turn to the answer to Reader on p. 14 of 
the issue of The Gardening World for September 
4th, you will find something about Peach stones 
being bad. In your case we are certainly of opinion 
that it is the age of the tree that is the cause, and we 
gardens and nurseries as Chelone barbata, is the 
name of the plant you send, Old Boy. It is one of 
the prettiest hardy herbaceous perennials that we 
have. 
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POPULAR LILIES. 
All the true Lilies (Lilium) to the number of 45 
species are beautiful and in every respect worthy of 
L. Martagon, L. pardalinum, L. umbellatum, L. 
Hansoni, and many others hardly ever absent from 
good representative collections. 
L. longiflorum eximium is, perhaps, the most 
popular of all, because the most generally useful for 
cut flowers and other purposes ; and because it readily 
submits to gentle forcing it may be had in succession 
for a long period of time. It is best known as L. 
1 . Harrisii, and less often as L. 1 . floribundum ; 
know from experience that Barrington is very apt to 
behave in this manner when the tree is old. We do 
hot think root pruning would be of the slightest use, 
but you might try the dressing of loam and mortar 
rubbish recommended to R/ader. If the tree bears 
well you would naturally not care to root it out yet. 
Pentstemon barbaturo, commonly met with in 
cultivation ; but as in other genera the popular choice 
has fixed upon a few which may be considered the 
aristocrats of the genus. Judging of their popularity 
by the quantity grown we should place L longiflorum, 
L. auratum, L. speciosum, and L. candidum in the 
first rank, including of course the grand varieties be¬ 
longing to the first three of these. Other well known 
and highly valued species are L. tigrinum and its 
varieties, L. elegans, and its forms, L. davuricum, 
though L. 1 . eximium was first given it by the 
botanists. The variety is popularly known as the Ber¬ 
muda or Easter Lily (see illustration p. 38I, because, 
though a native of Japan, it is grown in the Bermudas 
by hundreds of thousands for supplying the wants of 
Europe and America The pure white flowers are 
deliciously fragrant, but not so overpowering as L. 
auratum when grown in quantity. Some other varie¬ 
ties of it enjoy a greater or less repute. 
