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THE GARDENING WORLD 
December 31,1898. 
judging by the shape of the leaves and the rusty 
character of the under surface, as well as by the 
short and bell-shaped formation of the flowers. The 
half open buds are of a deep rose, fading to pink 
when fully expanded, and finally white tinted with 
blush, the changes being comparable to those of 
Apple blossom. The base of the upper segments of 
the flower are also finely mottled with red. 
CRANBERRY JAM. 
To make Cranberry jam the Cranberries should 
should be gathered on a dry day. To 6 lbs. of the 
fruit add 6 lbs. of Dutch crushed sugar, and to this 
quantity of fruit, one pint of water with another pound 
of sugar may be added. Put the pint of water and the 
7 lbs, of sugar in a jelly pan, and let it boil for ten min¬ 
utes. Then put in the Cranberries, and after it has 
come to the boil allow it to simmer for fifteen 
minutes. By this time the jam should be made, but 
in order to make sure a little should be placed out to 
cool, to see if it will set. Before removing tbe pot 
from the fire remove all the scum, which would 
otherwise taint and spoil the preserve. 
RHODODENDRONS AT OAKLANDS. 
A box of Rhododendrons, hybrids from R. arboreum 
and R. ponticum, has been forwarded to us by Mr. F. 
G. Brewer, gardener to Graham Fish, Esq., Oak- 
lands, St. Albans. This is very early even for 
Rhododendrons of this class, which are naturally 
among the earliest to bloom in the open air that we 
have. The flowers in question were exceedingly 
handsome, deep rose in colour, fading to blush-pink 
in the tube, the two lower segments being dotted 
with spots of brown. The umbels were large, dense, 
and must present an exceedingly fine picture upon 
the bushes at this time of the year. Judging from 
the samples sent the plants must be in vigorous 
health, and have evidently been well looked after by 
Mr. Brewer. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM MRS. C. BOWN. 
Australian Chrysanthemums have had a grand 
season in this country in 1898, and have won honours 
all round. The Japanese variety Mrs. C. Bown 
has not been heard much of, but comes in at the 
finish. It was shown by Mr. W. Wells, of Earls- 
wood Nurseries, Redhill, Surrey, on December 13th, 
at the Drill Hall, where it was much admired. Mrs. 
C. Bown is the best late white Chrysanthemum in 
existence, judging from its behaviour this year, for 
not only are the flowers good in themselves but the 
plants are tough, wiry, and exceedingly floriferous, 
as many as thirty good blooms having been cut from 
a plant growing in a 24-sized pot. If Mrs. C. Bown 
fills up the measure of its promise it will prove in¬ 
valuable for cutting from at Christmas. 
PASSIFLORA EDULIS. 
This native of the West Indies we generally find 
under cultivation in this country, either in a stove or 
intermediate house; and when placed under these 
conditions there are comparatively few instances 
where it fruits in a very satisfactory manner. From 
what I have recently seen, it would appear that the 
back wall of a Peach house is par excellence the place 
for it. Not only do the five or six plants look the 
picture of health and vigour, but what is more they 
fruit most abundantly. The younger members of 
the family devour them most greedily.— W. B. G. 
SEEDLINGS FROM ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI. 
Mr. H. B. May, of Dyson’s Lane Nurseries, has 
succeeded in raising a batch of seedlings from the 
handsome trailing Asparagus Sprengeri. The plant 
certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society on 
December 13th was one of this batch, and seeing 
that it has obtained certificate honours so early in 
its career it augurs well for the others. There is a 
good deal of diversity apparent among the progeny, 
and the undertaking has so far proved very 
successful. 
S1BTHORPIA EUROPAEA. 
This in its normal, green state will ever be a most 
interesting object to lovers of rare and beautiful 
alpine plants. At the same time its silver variegated, 
and golden-leaved forms, having the additional 
charm of coloured foliage, will find more admirers. 
They are simply beautiful little gems, well deserving 
of the little extra care and attention which they 
require. The silver variegated form may well be 
compared to a miniature variegated Pelargonium, 
producing a dense carpet of white foliage. A 
Lilliputian Madame Sallery Pelargonium will convey 
a correct idea of the plant to those unacquainted 
with it. The foliage of this is margined with white. 
The golden one has the entire leaf coloured yellow, 
about the same shade as Pyrethrum Golden Feather. 
About London the safest place for them is under a 
bell or hand glass. Those in quest of charming 
little plants should secure these two beautiful forms. 
— W.B.G. 
ZONAL PELARGONIUM THE SIRDAR. 
Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, of Swanley, have 
added their quota of compliment to the Hero of 
Omdurman by bestowing the name Sirdar upon one 
of their grand, new, single, zonal Pelargoniums. 
This floral Sirdar carries a huge truss of bloom, the 
pips being of immense size. The colour is a rich 
crimson-scarlet, very bright, and a most effective 
colour in the gloom of a winter’s day. For 
winter flowering the variety should prove of the 
greatest value. The habit and constitution are all 
that can be desired. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM SUNSET. 
Good, yellow, late-flowering Japanese Chrysanth¬ 
emums are few, and therefore there is abundant 
room for Sunset, which fulfils all these conditions. 
The flowers are of good size, with long, rather droop¬ 
ing florets, and the colour is a rich bronzy-yellow. 
Mr. W. Wells, of Earlswood, has shown it several 
times in capital form, and it came up to the last 
show of the Royal Horticultural Society as fresh 
as could be desired. 
OBITUARY. 
Mr. Frank Roy. 
Canadian Horticulture has suffered a great loss in 
the death of Mr. Frank Roy, who died in the General 
Hospital, Montreal, on October 31st. 
Frank Roy was born at Houston, in Renfrewshire, 
in 1841, and served his apprenticeship to gardening 
at Barochan,one of the finest eslates in Renfrewshire. 
He subsequently acquired experience at Milliken 
House, at Corsall, and Gordon Castle. He then 
went as head gardener to Sir Wm. MacKenzie, Bart., 
Coul, Ross-shire. He was also for a time in some 
of the best nurseries in Scotland, and served for 
a period in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Edinburgh. 
Emigrating to Canada in i86g he was appointed 
manager of the Montreal Floral Nurseries, and later 
on he spent some years with the late Mr. Alfred 
Brown, Bel-Air, Dorval. Then he became manager 
for Mr. William Evans at his nurseries at Broad- 
lands, and from that he went in 1890 as superinten¬ 
dent of Mount Royal Cemetery. Mr. Roy's great 
intellectual abilities, his faculty of keen observation, 
and the interest he displayed in everything he took 
up, made him one of the best known horticulturists 
in Canada. Speaking of him, Mr. Wm. Ewing, of 
Messrs. Ewing & Co., Seed Merchants, of Montreal, 
says, 11 I know of no one gardener whom the old 
country has sent us who has left his mark on 
Canadian Horticulture like Frank Roy, or exemplified 
the motto of the Royal Agricultural Society, 
• Practice with Science,’ better than he did. Send 
us many more of the same stamp.” This is indeed 
high praise, and from a responsible source. 
As a landscape gardener Mr. Roy had few to 
equal him. The grounds of the Forest Stream Club, 
at Dorval, which were laid out by him, are to-day a 
tribute to his taste and skill. At horticultural ex¬ 
hibitions he was a leading personality, and the 
Montreal Horticultural Society especially has cause 
to hold his memory sacred for the many services he 
has rendered. The "Juvenile Section” of this 
society, which was started with the object of im¬ 
buing the youth of the city with a love for flowers 
and plants, and of giving them hints on their culti¬ 
vation, was Mr. Roy’s own idea, and he it was who 
by work and money aid was chiefly instrumental in 
inaugurating a scheme that has since met with a 
measure of success, full, pressed down, and running 
over. 
Mr. Roy was a Fellow of our Royal Horticultural 
Society, aod did much towards persuading other 
horticulturists to join. 
Owing to his natural modesty Mr. Roy did not 
trouble the photographer much. He had bad no 
photograph taken lor many years before his death. 
A copy of this photograph appeared in the Canadian 
Horticultural Magazine for November. 
QUSSCiOOS AOD AO$SJ6K$. 
*,• Will our friends who send us newspapers be so good 
as to mark the paragraphs or articles they wish us to see• 
We shall be greatly obliged by their so doing. 
[ Correspondents , please note that we cannot undertake to 
name florists' flowers such as Carnations, Pelargoniums, 
Chrysanthemums, Roses, nor such as are mere garden 
varieties, differing only in the colour of the flower. 
Florists' flowers, as a rule, can only be named by those who 
grow collections of them.] 
Black Thorn as a Hedge—IF. T.: If suckers of 
the Black Thorn are dug up and planted at once 
where the hedge is intended to be we are afraid that 
numbers of them would die in the event of a dry 
summer next year. Suckers dug up for the first 
time would not always be well rooted, so that a 
better plan would be to plant them in nursery lines 
for a year or so to develop a good root system. The 
ground where the hedge is to be should be deeply 
dug, or even trenched if necessary, to give the 
Thorns a good start. You must remember also that 
the Black Thorn is liable to throw up suckers year 
after year, and thereby cause some amount of extra 
work in keeping it tidy and within proper bounds. 
As to the appearance of such a hedge you would 
have to be guided by its proximity to well-kept 
grounds or otherwise. The White Thorns now in 
nursery lines would be more certain to give good 
results from the beginning, because they are better 
rooted. Good hedges might ultimately result from 
either species if you give them the regular attention 
which hedges should receive. The Black Thorn 
suckers you mention would be cheaper to begin 
with, but if the hedge has to be patched afterwards 
it might ultimately be the dearer. 
Raising and Fruiting Maize— G. Warder-. There 
is no difficulty in the matter. Sow the seeds in pots, 
pans, or boxes about the beginning of March, and 
pot the seedlings off singly after they have made two 
or three leaves. If placed in heat they germinate 
quickly and grow away rapidly. As soon as they 
have become established in small 60-size pots, into 
which they should be potted singly, you had better 
remove them to a greenhouse or pit with a similar 
temperature,and stand them near the glass,where they 
will come away slowly and make sturdy plants. 
Before they become too much root-bound in these 
small pots, you should give them a shift into a size 
larger, and repeat it as often as may be required till 
the plants can be transferred to a sunny, sheltered 
border or even an open situation in the garden, say 
about the end of May, when the bedding plants are 
being put out. Here they will grow away strongly ; 
and if you have secured an early kind suitable for 
open air culture in this country the cobs should be 
ready for use some time in July, or the beginning of 
August. 
Planting Native Heaths.— T. Wilson : Remove 
about half of the natural soil and replace it with peat 
similar to that in which Heaths and Azaleas are 
grown. It need not be of the same high quality,that is, 
as regards fibre, but it must not be of that material 
known as peat bog. Trench up the subsoil, then fill 
in the bed or beds with the peat, which may then be 
dug so as to incorporate it with the soil. If trodden 
firm you may commence planting at once. There 
are several colour varieties of Erica tetralix and E. 
cinerea, which are well worth growing. The 
varieties of the purple Heather (Calluna vulgaris) 
are much more numerous and several of them are 
very beautiful. They differ chiefly in the colour of 
the flowers, in habit and general contour. The 
taller ones are the most graceful and beautiful, 
including Calluna vulgaris Drummondi and C. v. 
Alportii, the latter having long, red spikes of bloom. 
There is also a golden foliaged one that is usually 
admired by lovers of hardy British Heaths, and you 
might get it, as it is fine during the period just after 
the youDg growths are made. The double variety is 
very pretty. 
Fruit to Name.— H. H. B. : Apple Besspool. 
Names of Plants — T. B .: Thuya gigantea— R. 
G. \ 1, Muehlenbeckia platyclada ; 2, Boussingaultia 
baselloides; 3, Fatsia japonica, better known as 
Aralia Sieboldii; 4, Coleonema album ; 5. Boronia 
heteropbylla ; 6, Senecio Kaempferi maculatum— 
A. C. : 1, Asplenium flaccidum; 2, Nephrodium 
patens; 3, Pteris straminea; 4, Cyrtomium For- 
tunei; 5, Selaginellauncinata.— W. B .: 1, Oncidium 
varicosuro ; 2, Oncidium Forbesii; 3> Phalaenopsis 
Aphrodite ; 4, Catasetum macrocarpum.— A. J. B .: 
1, Thymus vulgaris; 2, Satureja montana ; 3, Salvia 
officinalis.— R. H.: 1, Kadsura japonica ; 2, Came¬ 
llia Sasanquha; 3, Metrosideros flonbunda; 4, 
Fittonia argyroneura.— A. R.: 1, Abies nobilis 
glauca ; 2, Abies concolor. 
Communications Received —A. E—Sophie—G. 
Barnes—T. P. O—R. L—Jas. G. C—Menzies— 
Y. F. P—C. L—M—P. Garden.—Art—K. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
John Peed & Sons, Roupell Park Nurseries, West 
Norwood, London, S.E—Seed Catalogue. 
Toogood & Sons, Southampton. — Garden Seeds. 
W. J. Godfrey, The Nurseries, Exmouth, Devon. 
—Descriptive Catalogue of New and Select Chrys¬ 
anthemums. 
Webb & Sons, Wordsley, Stourbridge—Catalogue 
of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
