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January 22, 1898. 
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must be kept under glass and not allowed to suffer 
for water, though this must be gradually withheld as 
the growth matures and turns yellow, when they 
may be laid aside for a time. They should again be 
shaken out and repotted towards the end of July or 
early in August, discarding all offsets, unless 
required to increase the stock. Give the same 
treatment as before advocated. 
There are a score or so of species and varieties, 
but my experience is limited to the following ;—L. 
luteola, light golden yellow ; L Nelsoni, rich yellow ; 
L pendula, red,' tipped green and yellow, a very 
pretty variety and a strong grower ; and L. tricolor, 
very free flowering, yellow, margined with green and 
red. The last-named has its leaves spotted. There 
are some white, as well as rose sorts, the best of 
which I hope to add to our collection a little later. I 
have used them as cut flowers for vases, but to my 
idea they appear a bit shy for this purpose.— 
J. Mayne. 
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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Garden Annual Almanack and Address 
Book. Published by W. Robinson, London ; 
“The Garden," and “Gardening” Office, 37, 
Southampton Street, Strand, W.C. 1898. 
Price is. 
This annual publication maintains the principal 
features of former years, namely, the almanack for 
each month of the year 1898 ; an alphabetical list of 
nurserymen, seedsmen and florists in the United 
Kingdom ; foreign nurserymen, seedsmen and 
florists; horticultural builders, engineers and 
sundriesmen ; the principal gardens in the United 
Kingdom ; an alphabetical list of country seats; 
gardeners'names and addresses; the principal horti¬ 
cultural and botanical societies ; the new plants of 
1897; postal information, &c., all of which are more 
or less useful to various people throughout the horti¬ 
cultural world, but particularly in Britain and 
Greater Britain. 
Incidently we note that the inside title page 
announces that the book contains an 
almanack for 1897, but this must be an oversight. 
The weather warnings and kindred sta'istics of some 
former editions have been omitted and their place 
occupied by more up to-date requirements of the 
gardener and gardens. A list of the principal horti¬ 
cultural and botanical societies, acd a list of the 
staffs of botanical departments and establishments 
abroad, but in correspondence with the mother 
garden at Kew, are alsr useful additions. The 
volume has slightly increased during the past ten or 
fifteen years, the pages during that period rising 
from 319 to 411 ; and this is the case notwithstand¬ 
ing the fact that the new plants are now no longer 
described beyond a record of the award each has 
received, the society awarding it, the date of the 
same, and by whom exhibited. 
The leading and most essential feature of the 
“ Annual ” is the address list given under its several 
headings. Leaving out of account the horticultural 
and botanical societies at home and abroad, 
as well as the botanical gardeas abroad, the pages 
rise from 187 to 291 during the past fifteen years. 
This must bo largely due to the greater number of 
addr^-sces that have been got together, as well as to 
the new gardens that have been laid out since then, 
the increase of nurseries, and of establishments that 
supply the ever-increasing wants of the garden. We 
are amused to notice only one address given under 
the heading of Haddingtonshire, the rest being given 
under East Lothian, as if it were a separate county, 
which is not the case. Nevertheless the dessert has 
not yet wholly been brought in, as Kipling would 
say ; for many establishments now exist as deserving 
of being recorded as some of those that are. There 
is an increase of coumry seats in various parts of the 
British Isles, as well as the town or suburban 
residences of merchant princes, of which we fail to 
find record. Some of the most remote and seem¬ 
ingly isolated garden establishments are, moreover, 
in touch with the newest Rose, Chrysanthemum or 
Carnation, and therefore, deserving of recognition. 
The namss given are not, however, correct in all 
cases A perfect list would be almost impossible 
of accomplishment for any one year, owing to the 
incessant changes amongst gardens, gardeners, and 
even employers, all over the country. Establish¬ 
ments in some cases get completely broken up, some 
of them in fact, being built over, leaving no trace 
it may be of the erstwhile fine gardening establish¬ 
ment. This is entirely human ; but the address list 
will be found most useful all the same. 
Report of the Council of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society for the year 1897-98, with the 
List of Fellows, Associates, and Affiliated 
Societies; also Arrangements for the year 1898. 
117, Victoria Street, London, S.W. 
The Report of the Council gives a list of Fellows, of 
whom there are something between three and four 
thousand. It also contains the annual revenue and 
expenditure account, which the Fellows will peruse 
with interest. From it we note that the Temple 
Show was at ODce the most popular, most expensive, 
but most remunerative, of the shows held by the 
society during the past year. It may interest our 
readers to know that the expenses connected with 
the Victoria Medal of Honour amounted to 
£174 14s. 3d. The produce sold at Chiswick 
Gardens, admissions, and other miscellaneous items, 
brought a return of £357 3s. 3d., reducing by that 
amount the maintenance of that historic trial ground. 
The total expenditure of the society was 
^■5,481 6s. 3d., and the total revenue £6,303 13s. 7d. t 
thus leaving a balance of £822 7s. 4d. on the right 
side, which will be the most interesting item to 
many. 
The list of plants for distribution from the society’s 
gardens at Chiswick accompanies the report. Some 
of the plants offered are scarce, as is usually the 
case, but Ivies and Phloxes are numerous in variety, 
particularly the Phloxes, of which the trial has been 
extensive for some years past. 
The " Arrangements for the Year 1898,” besides 
the record of arrangements, gives some interesting 
items concerning the examination in horticulture to 
bs held on April 5th next. G. W. Burrows, Esq., 
F.R.H.S, a member of the Court of the Worshipful 
Company of Gardeners, offers a scholarship of £25 
a year for two years to the student who shall pass 
highest at the examination and comply with the 
conditions. A similar scholarship is offered by the 
Rt. Hon. the Lord Amherst for 1899. 
The English Tulip, and its History, with notes on 
its Culture and raising of new Seedlings. 
Barr & Sons, 12 & 13, King Street, Covent 
Garden, London, 1S97. Price is. 6d. 
The terms English Tulip apply to the varieties of 
the florist’s Tulip,which have long been cultivated by 
amateur specialists, more particularly in this coun¬ 
try, and which, presumably, have for the most part 
been raised in Britain. As our readers will remem¬ 
ber, a great Tulip Conference was held by the Royal 
National Tulip Society in the Royal Botanic 
Society’s Gardens, Regent's Park, on May I2tb, 
1897. We gave an account of the conference at the 
time, but permanence is also given to the papers 
read by their being embodied in pamphlet form. An 
illustration on the back cover shows the main 
characteristics of a feathered, flamed, and breeder 
English Tulip ; and the text of the lecture on " The 
History and the Properties of the Florist's Tulip,” 
by J. W Bentley, will enable the would be student 
to master the details that limit and hedge about a 
Tulip admissible within the pale of that select group 
of varieties orginating from Tulipa gesneriana,which 
the florist proper will condescend to recognise. As 
in the case of many other floral phenomena, the 
florist has never dreamed nor been able to imagine 
why his breeder Tulips should in course of time 
become variegated, that is, broken or rectified. 
The known and recorded history and other items 
of information will, however, constitute interesting 
information for those who desire to make an acquain¬ 
tance with the florist’s Tulip. There is also a chap¬ 
ter on " Seed and Seedlings of the Florist’s Tulip,” 
by the Rev. F. D. Horner, M.A., V.M.H. ; and 
another on " The Cultivation of the Florist’s 
Tulip,” by C. W. Needham, all of them being well 
worthy of perusal, because written by specialists of 
this particular culture. 
Practical Hints on the Culture of Cacti. 
By Geo. Bourne (Silver Medallist). Price 2d. 
Biggs & Son, 139-140, Salisbury Court, London, 
EC. 
This, a pamphlet of thirty pages, is No. 4 of Messrs. 
Biggs & Son's handy series of fruits, flowers, and 
vegetables. It contains a number of woodcut illus¬ 
trations of various genera belonging to the Cactus 
family. The author of it is himself a cultivator of 
what he considers an abused and neglected class of 
plants, capable of affording genuine pleasure to their 
devotees. Their culture is of the easiest descrip¬ 
tion, and they are consequently adapted for those 
who have little time to attend to the requirements of 
their plants. The stems are usually quaint and 
singular, but their flowers vary from the purest 
white to the most gorgeous carmine, crimson, and 
rich yellow. Many of them are well-adapted for 
window culture, including showy flowering kinds 
like Epiphyllum and Phyllocactus. The author 
says that in Belgium and Germany the peasants are 
very partial to the Rat’s-tail Cactus (Cereus flagelli- 
formis), of which he has seen specimens in their 
windows, 9 ft. in circumference, and covered with 
bloom. 
Some pages are devoted to the cultivation of 
Cacti, and the imformation supplied will prove most 
serviceable to beginners. Small pots are advocated, 
that is, small by comparison with those generally 
used for plaDts ; and established plants require re¬ 
potting only once in three or four years. The 
various requirements of the family are discussed, 
including syringing, watering, and compost. The 
only stimulant advocated is clear soot water once or 
twice a week during the growing season. Propaga¬ 
tion is dealt with, as well as insect pests. These 
instructions are followed by short descriptive lists 
of all the species, under their respective genera, 
which the author considers worthy of the attention 
of the amateur. We think the spines are more 
liable to cause inflammation, rather than that they 
are poisonous. The Hedgehog Cacti, including the 
Devil’s Pincushion, should not be sat upon. The 
booklet is unpretending, but well worth twopence. 
PLANTS RECENTLY CERTIFICATED. 
At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
on the nth inst., the undermentioned awards were 
made. 
Orchid Committee. 
Cattleya Trianaei Sanderae, Nov. var.— The 
sepals of this variety are of the faintest blush, 
almost white ; but the large, ovate acd crisped 
petals are a shade deeper in hue. The lip is by far 
the finest and most conspicuous feature of the 
flower, its rich colours being brought into promi¬ 
nence by the pale sepals and petals. The large 
lamina is much crisped and crimson purple with a 
white edge ; the tube is lilac externally, and stiiped 
with purple internally, while the blotch in the 
throat is lemon. The flower as a whole is large and 
handsome. Award of Merit. Messrs. F. Sander & 
Co., St. Albans. 
Laelia anceps amesiana Crawshay's VAR. Nov. 
var.— The sepals of this variety are of the palest 
lilac, but somewhat darker at the tips. The petals 
are ovate, being of the same broad form as L. a. 
DawsoDi, but of a soft lilac with deep purple tips. 
The lamina of the lip is dark crimson, the disc 
golden, and the side lobes dark purple. The flower 
is larger than that of the type. Award of Merit. De 
B. Crawshay, Esq. (gardener. Mr. S. Cooke), Rose- 
field, Sevenoaks. 
Cypripedium F. S. Roberts. Nov. Jtyb. —This 
beautiful hybrid was obtained from C. niveum, and 
some other unknown parent. The dorsal sepal is 
orbicular, acute, white and lined with rosy-purple 
along the course of the veins. The broadly oblong 
petals are declinate, blunt and rounded at the apex, 
lined and finely dotted with purple all over, thus, 
giving a rosy tint to the white ground. The large- 
and beautifully formed lip is lined with purple veins 
on a white ground and suffused with purple in front. 
It was well worth the Award of Merit it received. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Upper Clapton, London. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee.. 
Pear President Barabe. —On December 14th last 
this received an Award of Merit, and the Veitch 
first prize for flavour, as recorded by us on p. 263, 
thus testifying to its value as a late keeping variety 
of excellent quality. It was brought up again on 
the nth inst., when the committee considered it 
worthy of a First-class Certificate for flavour and 
keeping qualities, and made the award accordingly. 
Mr. W. Allan, gardener to Lord Suffield, Gunton 
Park, Norwich. 
