December 18, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
249 
iu a ball room, as the heat will remain in the room a 
long time after the proceedings have terminated. 
Oloriosa superba is a stove plant, J. Deene, and 
your house would be far too cool for it. Try some¬ 
thing else. 
have been put upon the market, including a strain 
with flowers of enormous size, produced on plants of 
strong and rampant growth. We think that size is 
overdone, inasmuch as the number of flowers is re¬ 
duced in proportion to the size of them. Petunia 
hybrida Snowball (see illustration) is altogether 
Myosotis alpestfis stricta 
COELESXINA. 
MR. HEINEMANN’S NOVELTIES, 
Well-known flowers of good quality will always 
find a place in the garden, no matter what their age 
may be. The reason for this is simply that they can 
be relied upon to produce any desired effect. On 
the contrary there will always be a desire for 
novelties amongst flowers, on account of the interest 
and charm to the grower and all concerned when a 
really fresh acquaintance turns up to greet the eye 
of the beholder. The more unusual forms, and 
the least expected, coupled with real beauty, will 
always command the greatest number of admirers. 
From a considerable number of novelties raised, 
and being put into commerce by Mr. F. C. Heine- 
mann, Erfurt, Germany, we select several of the 
more striking for comment. The accompanying 
illustrations of three of them have been placed at 
our disposal by Mr. Heicemann. As far as habit is 
concerned we give the palm to Myosotis alpestr s 
stricta coelestina (see figure) for decided novelty. 
The compact and columnar form of the plant, like 
an Irish or Swedish Juniper in habit, is very 
singular. All the branches are upright, so that the 
top of the plant is scarcely wider than the base. 
For this reason it should prove a useful subject in 
pots for market purposes, being strikingly distmct 
from any form of Lobelia we have ever seen. The 
flowers are blue and freely produced, over the 
greater portion of the exposed surface of the 
plant. It should also prove a distinct novelty 
for flower-beds of certain patterns, or for edgings to 
others. The flowers are also bright blue as in the 
typical form of the species, although, strange to say, 
a pink variety (M. a. stricta rosea) was the first to 
appear, being put into commerce last year. 
Of late years a great number of varieties of Petunia 
different in character, being of dwarf and compact 
habit, producing a profusion of satiny-white flowers 
of moderate size. Mr. Heinemann assures us that 
it comes true from seed, and may be used for bed¬ 
ding purposes or pot culture. Like all other garden 
Petunias it is well adapted for resisting drought, and, 
therefore, likely to prove valuable in this country 
during droughty seasons. 
French Marigo'ds are liable to produce c arse, 
rampant growth during wet reasons, and in northern 
districts where the climate is always cooler and 
moister than in the southern counties of Britain. 
Dry seasons keep them more within due bounds. 
There are, however, several dwarf varieties that 
never get rampant even in wet summers. Legion of 
Honour is one of them, and already well known and 
appreciated in this country, being about a foot high, 
and coming very true from seed, as we have fre¬ 
quently noted in the parks and gardens of this 
country. Tagetes patula nana Gold Ring (see 
figure) also belongs to the same species as the French 
Marigold in its various forms, and is described as 
possessing the same dwarf habit and free-flowering 
character as Legion of Honour, to which, therefore, 
it should prove a suitable companion. Like the last- 
named, it is single, and possesses broad, overlapping 
ray florets of a rich velvety-brown, edged or laced 
with a golden line or ring round the margin. It is 
as constant from seed as Legion of Honour. 
The garden race of Salpiglossis has attained well 
merited repute amongst gardeners and lovers of 
flowers generally duiing the last few years, on ac¬ 
count of their profuse and continuous flowering 
character, their great variety of gorgeous colours 
and their faculty for resisting drought. Mr. Heine¬ 
mann offers a new type producing a bouquet of very 
large flowers on the top of a solitary and very stout 
stem. The flowers have a short tube ; and widely 
expanded lamina, veined with reddish-gold cn a 
yellow ground. 
Viola tricolor maxima Fairy Queen, belongs to the 
same race as that type known in this country by the 
name of Peacock. The flowers of Fairy Queen 
(Feenkonigin in German) are of large size, nearly 
uniform sky-blue shaded with violet and margined 
with a pure white band round every petal. 
Annual Viscarias in various colours have been in¬ 
mates ol our gardens for many years past. A new 
vari.ty is announced having flowers of a blood- 
brown colour, and named Viscaria oculata brunea. 
Marguerite Carnations still meet with a great 
amount of favour on account of their continuous 
flowering habit and beautiful colours. A yellow 
Petunia hybrida Snowball 
ground strain has now been put into commerce, and 
it is claimed for them that 70 per cent, come true to 
colour from seed. 
A large flowered, true Forget-me-not is that named 
Myosotis palustris grandiflora Nixenauge. A trans¬ 
lation of the latter name would be rather cumbrous 
as it means Water-nymph’s-eye. The flowers are 
as large as those of M. dissitiflcra Perfection, but 
more continuously produced all through the 
summer. 
Pansy President Carnot is a large variety of the 
Odier type, having a large blotch on each of the 
five petals. In this case the blotches are dark violet, 
and cover the petals with the exception of a broad 
pure white border. 
A coloured illustration of Salipiglossis variabilis 
superbissima, Mycsotis alpestris stricta coelestina, 
Pansy Fairy Quet n, and other varieties accompanied 
the list of novelties, all of v hich have been raised 
by Mr. F. C. Heinema'n. 
Tagetes patula nan \ Gold Ring. 
EUPHORBIA POINSETTIA. 
POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA. 
Those of us who live within the radius of the fog 
demon—whose oft recurring visitations leave behind 
most disastrous results amongst flowering plants— 
doubly appreciate anything capable of withstanding 
this autumn and winter scourge. Amongst decora¬ 
tive plants able to resist the ill effects of the fogs 
prominently stands the Poinsettia pulcherrima. 
Those w ho saw the splendid group of plants exhibited 
by Messrs. Cripps & Son, showing evidence of 
highest culture, being dwarf plants, well furnished 
with foliage, and terminating in handsome, well- 
developed brae s, intense in colour, and all in small 
pots, could not fail to admire such a serviceable and 
creditable exhibit. 
It is evident there are several varieties of this 
Poinsettia in cultivation as they differ consider¬ 
ably in character. Amongst a batch I have grown 
this year are several with bracts of a distinctly pink 
or rose vermillion colour, and have several of the 
bracts green or nearly so, intermixed with the rest. 
My attention was called in summer time to the 
difference in the foliage, which, in the scarlet-ver- 
million variety is broader and of a lighter green than 
the other. Williams in his “ Stove and Greenhouse 
Plints,” mentions six varieties. P. Ignescens and 
P. Mirabilis, he says, are garden hybrids; the latter, 
he says, has an exquisite soft rose shade. P. 
pulcherrima, P. pulcherrima alba, P. pulcherrima 
Plenissima, and P. variabilis makeup the six. I was 
informed by one, well known as a cultivator and ex¬ 
hibitor, that the variety exhibited by Messrs. Cripps 
& Son, was an early flowering variety, and was sent 
out some years ago by Mr. Bull, of King’s Road, 
who raised several seedlings. 
