December 31, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
281 
Syringe regularly to keep down red spider, and stake 
the plants at an early stage. After the first crop has 
been picked the plants should be thrown away (for it 
is waste of time to keep them), and a new batch 
brought in. You will thus find it necessary to make 
a fresh sowing about every ten days in order to keep 
up the succession. 
A Shelter Hedge.— Jno. Bates : You will do well to 
plant a row of Lombardy Poplars (Populus nigra 
pyramidalis). These grow rapidly and make a 
capital wind-break, whether for fruit trees or 
ornamental shrubs of tender constitutions. 
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MR. HEINENANN’S NOVELTIES. 
Every year brings with it some new introductions or 
new varieties of well-known plants, the subjects it 
may be of the gardener’s especial care. Many of 
those who merely cultivate one or more classes of 
Large-flowering Pansy Fairy Queen. 
Petunia hybrida Adonis. 
every petal. The back of the flowers is similarly 
coloured to the front, and owing to this remarkable 
feature, the variety is better adapted for bedding 
purposes than other Pansies which face in one 
direction only. 
Petunias that make vigorous growth, and produce 
very large flowers, do not bloom freely, whatever 
other merits they may possess. Those having 
flowers of moderate size usually bloom profusely in 
proportion to the suitability of the conditions under 
which they are placed. P. hybrida Adonis belongs 
to this type, as may be seen by reference to the illus¬ 
tration. The plant is a taller grower than Petunia 
Begonia hybrida marmorata The Butterfly. 
plants, are always on the outlook for novelties to 
extend or complete the collections that already em¬ 
bellish their gardens. While novelties are possible, 
however, it would hardly be correct to say that a 
collection of anything can be completed. Additional 
features can be made to those already existing ; and 
when many seedlings are annually being raised, 
Heinemann, Erfurt, Germany. Viola tricolor 
maxima Fairy Queen has rather a lengthy name 
when the botanical appellation is kept up, but 
gardeners will simply label it Fairy Queen. It be¬ 
longs to the same race or type of Pansy of which 
Peacock is a beautiful and well-known representative 
in this country. Ttie flowers of the new variety 
Snowball sent out by the same raiser, so that if both 
are used in bedding designs the dwarf white Snow¬ 
ball should be used as an outer edging to Adonis. 
The flowers are fiery carmine, giving off more or less 
decided blue shades or reflections on first expansion, 
and before they become toned down by the light. 
The throat is pure white, giving an eye-like appear- 
Large-flowering Pansy Freya. 
Begonia hybrida with Yellow Centre. 
there is always the chance that something strikingly 
novel will turn up, to the gratification of all con¬ 
cerned 
The accompanying illustrations represent some of 
the novelties now being sent out by Mr. F. C. 
under notice are pure sky-blue, with a distant white 
lacing to all of the broad, rounded petals. The 
lower left-hand figure represents the large-flowering 
Pansy Freya, which is characterised by having dark 
violet flowers, fading to a broad white margin lacing 
ance to the centre of the flower. The marked con¬ 
trast between the two principal colours renders this 
a conspicuous and beautiful single Petunia. 
It is evident from the accompanying figures of 
tuberous Begonias that the race has not yet become 
