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THE GARDENING WORLD 
July 16, 1898. 
them duting its three centuries of cultivation. 
Dittany, Fraxinella, and Burning Bush are some of 
them that will probably be familiar to my readers. 
Propagation may easily be conducted by means of 
root division, but seed is very expeditious, and 
possesses the advantage that a number of shades of 
colour in the flowers is thus obtained. 
Lupinus arboreus luteus. —As the specific name 
signifies this is of an arboreal or shrubby habit, and 
not a herbaceous plant, strictly speaking. I am 
induced to speak of it amongst the herbaceous 
plants, however, because it is such a grand thing for 
association with the other plants in the border. It 
forms large clumps, which are swathed right down 
to the ground with foliage, and the sub erect racemes 
of bright yellow flowers. The latter are like those 
of an ordinary Lupin and hence do not call for 
special comment. They come in very handy for 
cutting, as they last well in water. Seed germinates 
readily enough, and plants in abundance can soon 
be obtained in this way. 
Lupinua polyphyllus Foxii. —This is one of the 
handsomest of the varieties of the truly herbaceous 
L. polyphyllus. The spikes are very tall and 
imposing, the colour of the flowers being blue, 
striped with white, and hence distinct from anything 
else. It may be as easily grown as the type, L. 
polyphyllus, which is well known as a tractable 
border plant .—Plant Lover. 
TRIALS AT CHISWICK. 
YIOLAS. 
No fewer than 203 entries of Violas were received 
from various sources last spring for trial at the 
Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick. 
These were all planted on March 26th in a border 
running round one of the fruit tree quarters on the 
north-eastern side of the garden. Despite the tryirg 
season the plants have grown well and flowered 
freely, and the foliage is remarkably clean and free 
from red spider and other insect pests. The plants 
were examined by the committee on July 5th, when 
the award of XXX was made to the following fifteen 
varieties :— 
Miniature Wrajment. —This is a large creamy- 
white variety with a small, yellow eye. The flowers 
are of good form, and the plant a strong grower. 
Mr. John Forbes, Hawick, Scotland 
Diana. —A light, lavender-blue flower of medium 
size with a small, yellow eye, and heavy, black rays 
running nearly to the margins of the segments. 
The leaves are rather larger than usual and very 
deep green. It commenced to flower on May 9th. 
Mr. John Forbes. 
Jackanapes. —This is a very showy and somewhat 
curious flower. It is not of the best form, but is a 
good bedding variety, a sturdy grower, a free 
bloomer, and totally distinct from everything else. 
The upper segments exhibit a rich chestnut-maroon 
hue, whilst the lower ones, i.e., the lip and wings, are 
bright yellow. Mr. John Forbes. 
J. B. Riding is well known as a fine variety of 
excellent form. The rich crimson-magenta hue 
which we find here is not approached by anything 
else. It has done fairly well at Chiswick, and the 
plauts look healthy enough, but they are not nearly 
so strorg as many of the other varieties. There are 
a few black rays in the fl >wer. Mr. John Forbes. 
Sir Robert Puller is a grand bedding variety, 
free and vigorous. The flowers are large, bright 
purple-blue in colour. The eye is unusually large, 
and next to it comes a zone of very light blue, from 
which the black rays stand out prominently. Mr. 
John Forbes. 
Countess of Hopetown. —A large creamy-white 
rayless variety of great merit It is a free flowerer, 
and a strong grower, with rather large leaves. Its 
great value lies in its earliness, for at Chiswick it 
was one of the first to bloom, commencing to open 
its flowers on May 7th. Messrs. Dobbie & Co., 
Rothesay, N.B., and Orpington, Kent. 
Bullion. —This fine yellow variety is well known 
as one of the best bedders we have. At Chisw ck it 
has fully sustained its reputation both for earliness 
and continuity of flowering. Messrs. Dobbie & Co. 
Marchioness. —A truly grand flower, large and 
pure white, save for the small yellow eye, and a few 
narrow rays. The blooms are of exceptionally good 
form, and open until quite flat. It is a strong 
grower and a fairly free bloomer. Messrs. Dobbie 
& Co. 
Mrs. H. Bellamy.— A deep violet-purple form 
shading to lavender-blue along the margins of the 
upper segments. The yellow eye is very small, and 
the white ridge or eyebrow is very prominent. The 
habit is very satisfactory. Messrs. Dobbie & Co. 
Iona. —This showy flower may best be described 
as bright blue with four heavy radial blotches of 
black purple and regular outline running to the 
margin of the segments. The flowers are of medium 
size and capital form. Messrs. Dobbie & Co. 
Mrs. C. F. Gordon. —This is much like Iona in 
style, but is not nearly such a good variety, the 
flower being inferior in form, size, and distinctness of 
colouring. Messrs. Dobbie & Co. 
Duchess of Fife —This shares with one or two 
other forms the quality of being earliest to bloom at 
Chiswick this year. The yellow flowers, shading to 
white towards the margins, and with their irregular 
borderings and blotchings of lavender, are exception¬ 
ally showy and distinct. Habit and constitution 
alike are good at Chiswick as well as in the thou¬ 
sands of other places that the variety has been 
grown. Messrs. Dobbie & Co. 
Hamish —Here we have an exceedingly fine 
flower. The colour is deep purple-magenta, passing 
to violet-purple in the centre. The form is good, 
and the plant a strong grower. Messrs. Dobbie & 
Co. 
Blue Gown.—A n early, dwarf, free flowering sort 
of great merit. The colour is light purple blue with 
a pretty white eye. At Chiswick the earliness of the 
variety was well maintained. Messrs. Dobbie & Co. 
Princess Louise —This is a fine self yellow sort 
with a deep orange e>e, and a few faint rays. The 
flowers are of medium size, capital form, and are 
produced with great freedom. Messrs. Dobbie & 
Co. 
VEGETABLES. 
On July 5th the fruit and vegetable committee pro¬ 
nounced upon the respective merits of the varieties 
of Peas grown to test. The seed was sown on 
March 15th Awards of Merit were granted to 
three varieties. They were :— 
Thomas Laxton. —A large, wrinkled Marrowfat 
Pea, averaging seven seeds to a pod; pods green, 
slightly curved, produced singly ; haulm, dark green ; 
height, 3 ft; a capital cropper. Messrs. Laxton 
Bros.. Bedford. 
Drummond’s New Pea. -A fine Marrow variety, 
averaging seven to nine seeds in a pod ; pods pro¬ 
duced in pairs, curved, acutely pointed; haulm and 
pods dark green ; evidently a first-rate cropper ; 
height, 4 ft. to 5 ft. Messrs. Drummond & Sons, 
Dublin. 
Veitch’s Acme.— The result of a cross between 
Stratagem and Veitch’s Extra Early ; pods rather 
small but exceptionally well filled, slightly curved, 
a little pointed, light green ; seeds from five to seven 
in a pod, relatively large, and closely packed; a 
heavy cropper ; Height, 3 ft. Messrs. Jas. Veitch& 
Sons, Ltd., Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea. 
Lettuce Crystal Palace also received an 
Award of Merit from the committee. It is an ex¬ 
ceedingly fine Cabbage variety, of great size and 
weight, and very suitable for dry soils. The heads 
last a long time in condition, and the flavour is ex¬ 
cellent. The leaves are much crisped at the mar¬ 
gins, and thus are very ornamental in appearance. 
The colour is green, flushed a little with brown. 
Messrs. Watkins & Simpson, Exeter Street, Strand. 
Strawberry Reward.— This is a new Strawberry, 
with very rich Pine flavour. The bright scarlet 
fruits are conical in shape, and very long relative to 
their width. The habit is dwarf, and the plants 
have done fairly well at Chiswick, although the 
season has been a very trying one for them. Award 
of Merit. Messrs. Laxton Bros. 
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tub orcRld Brower’s calendar. 
East India House. —In this division the various 
species of Phalaenopsis are just now making good 
headway as regards growth, &c., and should, of 
course, receive every attention at the hands of the 
cultivator. Coming as they do from the East, it is 
easy to see that to do them well they must receive a 
great amount of heat. We are told that they are 
found growing on bare rocks, and on branches of 
trees, and where a great quantity of water falls during 
the gro ving season, and at no time we may reason¬ 
ably suppose are they subjected to a long season of 
drought, as are most Orchids, for not being pro¬ 
vided with pseudobulbs they could not stand it for 
long. At the same time, the leathery leaves which 
we find on imported pieces tells us pretty plainly 
that at times they have something to put up with, 
which is unknown to them under cultivation. How¬ 
ever, I am not going even to suggest that we coddle 
them too much over here, for experience teaches us 
that they are more susceptible to injury by fluctua¬ 
tion in temperature and exposure to the sun’s rays 
than any other Orchid. 
Under cultivation the leaves become thick and 
fleshy, but would soon become scorched if exposed. 
As mentioned, they are great lovers of moisture, so 
that attention should be duly paid to their require¬ 
ments in this direction. 
A friend < 5 f mine, who does them well, grows 
them for the most part in teak wood baskets, using 
as small quantity of moss as is convenient. Some 
there are who fill in all the available spaces with live 
moss, sometimes covering up the roots, which would 
otherwise be exposed. This a mistake, as it some¬ 
times causes the roots to go black at the points, and 
die off altogether. 
A temperature of about 8o° should be maintained 
by day with sun heat, and the shading down; and a 
night temperature of about 70°. Only on rare 
occasions can fire heat be dispensed with in this 
division; for we get very cold nights, so that it is 
always best to be on the safe side by keeping a little 
heat running through the pipes. 
Thrips are very partial to these plants and must 
be kept under by fumigation. Sponging the leaves, 
too, keeps them down, besides having a beneficial 
effect on the plants. 
Cattleya House. —Here the beautiful C. gigas 
sanderiana is making a good show, and is much 
admired. So are most Orchids; but you have to 
keep them up to concert pitch or they would not 
respond by showing their beauty. This then can 
only be done by giving them the necesary food. It 
has been my practical duty, set forth from time to 
time in these notes, to do the potting of these species 
as soon as the flowers fade, as we find at this season 
the roots are most active. Some there are that have 
missed flowering and are now ready for a new pot or 
pan as the case may be. Good peat and moss in 
equal parts are what they require. Be careful to 
drain the pots well; very little water will be 
required until they are well rooted. —C. 
CYPRIPEDIUM I’ANSONI AND MRS. 
REGINALD YOUNG. 
To succeed in obtaining two first-class Certificates 
for Cypripediums at one meeting of the Orchid 
Committee of the R.H.S. is a feat that is seldom 
attained, and, when it does happen, is worthy of 
special mention. This Messrs. H. Low & Co. 
succeeded in doing at the meeting on the 28th ult., 
with the two hybrids mentioned, and it must be 
admitted they were of exceptional interest and 
beauty. The former is a hybrid having C. Mor- 
ganiae and C. rothschildianum as its parents, and is 
in every respect intermediate, the best characters of 
each being fully developed. Of Mrs. Reginald 
Young, to say that it was the product of a cross be¬ 
tween C. Lowi and C. sanderianum will give a good 
idea of the beauty and distinctness of this one also. 
The flowers of this latter one were better in form 
and general appearance to either of its parents, 
whilst the colours of each were intensified and most 
pleasing. They are sat fairly closely, each bloom 
measuring about 2J in. to 3 in. across. The under 
colour is a yellow, but the major part of the bloom 
is densely covered with small, dark brown spots, 
giving the flower an almost sooty appearance. It, 
nevertheless, is a showy thing, and its successful 
blooming must give satisfaction. 
Grammatophyllum rumphianum is grown at Kew 
in a basket, full of roots, and has evidently been 
treated in a manner suitable to it. The spike on 
this is just 6 ft. in length, the flowers appearing on 
two-thirds of the length, and set somewhat sparsely 
on the spike. The two basal flowers develop only 
four segments instead of the usual six ; that is, there 
is an upper sepal and a lower one instead of two. 
There are two petals and no labellum. The colour 
of the flowers is a bright yellow, with heavy spots 
and mottlings on the whole, which are of a dark 
