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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
January 2, 1897. 
realisation of the committee's idea,the committee will 
be happy to receive donations to be applied as the 
donor may wish, either for a specified purpose, or at 
the discretion of the committee, where help is 
needed. A detailed letter has been issued by the 
Joint Committee. The hon. secretaries are Basil 
Holmes, Esq., care of The Earl of Meath, 83, Lancas¬ 
ter Gate, London, W., and Lawrence W. Chubb, 
Esq., 1, Great College Street, London, S.W., to 
whom communications may be addressed. 
MESSRS. CARTERS’ CATALOGUE. 
There is no doubt that photography is effecting a 
revolution in plant illustrations and everything else 
pertaining to the garden. Messrs. J. Carter & Co.. 
High Holborn, London, have not been slow in 
availing themselves of the greatly improved condi¬ 
tions of photography which have been effected within 
the last few years, and there can be little doubt but 
that horticulture generally will profit by it. 
Coloured illustrations still enjoy a measure of 
popularity in several of the most sumptuously 
executed catalogues. In the instance under notice a 
full page plate representing Chinese Primulas is very 
well executed, and an improvement upon previous 
coloured illustrations of the kind, but at present this 
method cannot very largely compete with photo¬ 
graphy, whatever it may do in the future. The 
frontispiece of the catalogue consists of a vignette of 
Her Majesty the Queen, effected in colours and 
ornamented with representations of the national 
emblems, the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, together 
with Olive leaves and shoots. A letter referring to 
this illustration is also bordered with coloured 
designs. Photography is mostly responsible for the 
rest of the numerous illustrations. 
Amongst those well worthy of mention are various 
garden Peas, early, mid-season, and late, mostly of 
Messrs. Carter’s introductions, and including several 
novelties. Open pods show from seven to nine seeds, 
according to the variety. Broad Beans are also well 
represented ; but surely Carter’s Leviathan, accord¬ 
ing to the old style of classification, should be named 
a Long Pod Bean, since an open pod shows seven 
seeds. Various Runner Beans, Cabbages, Cauli¬ 
flowers, Cucumbers, Onions, Potatos, and other 
vegetables have been well displayed by the photo¬ 
graphic process. Vegetable Marrows and Melons 
look wonderfully natural, their markings and netting 
showing as plainly, apparently, as they could be re¬ 
presented in black and white. 
Floral illustrations are also numerous, but they do 
not always come up to the general excellence of the 
vegetable ones. Cinerarias, however, form an excep¬ 
tion, and the same may be said of Pansies, a view 
on a seed farm showing Carter’s Perfection Mig¬ 
nonette, cultivated Marsh Mallows, and several of 
the smaller illustrations. A considerable number 
of the pictures of flowers consist of wood block 
representations, which are generally very clearly 
brought out. Sevetal novelties, both amongst vege¬ 
tables and flowers, are offered amongst the standard 
varieties already in commerce. 
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PEOPLE WE HAVE MET. 
We have much pleasure in being able to present our 
readers with a portrait of Mr. P. Weathers, whose 
appointment to the curatorship of the Manchester 
Botanical Gardens, we recorded on p. 243. By 
virtue of his first appointment to Kew, he was one 
of our contemporaries ; but as he was too young then 
for the post he was supplanted for a time by his 
brother, Mr. John Weathers, but was re-instated to 
the position about r885. He commenced his career in 
the nursery department and continued at Kew till 
1889. He was brought into contact with a great 
variety of plants at Kew, independently of the trees 
and shrubs in his own particular department, and 
had the advantage of the several courses of lectures 
delivered by different professors for the benefit of 
Kew students. 
From Kew he went to Messrs. F. Sander & Co., 
St. Albans, in whose establishment he made an 
acquaintance with Orchids, to which he has given 
considerable attention since then. He then joined 
Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, in whose 
establishment he took charge of the Orchids. His 
next appointed was with Messrs. Linden, L’Horti- 
culture Internationale, Brussels, for whom he acted 
as traveller and representative in this country. 
More recently he started an Orchid Exchange at the 
Silverhall Nursery, Isleworth, on his own account, 
and had established a fair custom when he succeeded 
to the present appointment against a considerable 
amount of competition 
He proceeds to take charge of the Manchester 
Botanic Gardens at the present time, and we wish 
him every success in his new and responsible 
Mr. P. Weathers. 
position. No doubt many new and difficult problems 
will now and again confront our young friend, but a 
fairly wide experience, and a will to surmount them 
will stand him in good stead. 
ORCHID NOTES r & GLEANINGS. 
By The Editor. 
Cypripedium insigne Cannonae, Nov. vav.— 
A flower of a beautiful new variety of Cypripedium 
insigne has been sent me by William Handel 
Cannon, Esq., Avenue Lodge, Merton Park, Surrey, 
who has secured it from the nursery of Mr. J. Seeger, 
Bandon Hill, Croydon. The flower was a large one 
measuring within a fraction of 5 in. across the petals. 
The variety belongs to the same group of choice and 
handsome introductions as C. i. Sanderaefrom which 
it is abundantly distinct from a horticultural point 
of view. The dorsal sepal is oval-obovate, and 
yellow with strongly defined venation. Along the 
stronger and central veins are a few elevated knobs 
of a pale brown hue, all the rest of the sepal being 
soft yellow. The petals are of a brighter yellow, 
spotted with brown at the base for one-third of their 
length, and having a brush of purple hairs at the 
base. The lip is large, triangular in outline, of good 
substance, and with the exception of a faint brown 
marking at the very tip, of a rich, unclouded, and 
unspotted yellow, The staminode is also bright 
yellow with an orange knob in the centre, and partly 
covered with a purple pubescence. The variety will 
take rank as one of the choicest of this group of 
one of the most popular of Cypripediums. —J- 
Fraser. 
Cypripedium Henry Graves. Nov. hyb .— 
This may be described as a secondary hybrid, 
inasmuch as one of the parents was itself a hybrid. 
The seed bearer was C. lawrenceanum and the 
pollen parent C. marshallianum. The latter was the 
product of C. concolor, crossed with C. venustum. 
The resulting hybrid (Henry Graves) shows the 
influence of all three parents. The ground colour 
is that of C, concolor, the shape that of C. lawren¬ 
ceanum, and the overlying colour, the venation, and 
the shape of the leaf all take after C. venustum. 
The dorsal sepal is white, overlaid with rose and 
spotted with crimson. The petals show a similar 
arrangement, and the lip is yellow, suffused with 
brown. It was raised by Mr. H. Chapman in the 
establishment of R. I. Measures, Esq , Cambridge 
Lodge, Camberwell, where Cypripediums constitute 
one of the specialities of this valuable and extensive 
collection. 
Cypripedium Chapmani, Nov. hyb. —The seed 
parent of this beautiful hybrid was C. Curtisii, and 
the pollen bearer C. bellatulum. The upper sepal 
is white, and densely spotted with violet purple along 
the veins. The petals are broadly oblong, revolute 
at the tips, and densely spotted with violet purple. 
The lip is laterally compressed to a slight extent, and 
of a deep violet-purple, except at the apex, which is 
paler ; and this organ may be regarded as the most 
striking feature in the whole series of hybrids in 
which C. bellatulum has played apart, on account of 
its rich colour. This gives C. Chapmani a decidedly 
distinct appearance amongst its compeers. The 
staminode is also violet-purple. The foliage 
resembles that of the female parent (C. Curtisii) 
while the colour has been imparted by C. bellatu¬ 
lum; the green ground of C. Curtisii has been 
entirely replaced by the white ground of C. bellatu¬ 
lum. The hybrid is decidedly intermediate in 
character between the two parents as far as form is 
concerned ; but its beauty from a horticultural point 
of view is mostly due to the pollen bearer, a fact 
worthy of being kept in view by hybridists. That 
under notice was raised by Mr. Henry Chapman, 
gardener to R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, 
Flodden Road, Camberwell. 
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PRUNING GOOSEBERRIES. 
" Rex ” in his “ Hints for Amateurs ’’ in your issue 
of the 19th December, gives some excellent advice 
regarding pruning, and his remarks on the whole 
are thoroughly practical. I must, with all due 
deference to “ Rex,” however, take exception to his 
method of dealing with the Gooseberry. Like 
" Rex ” 1 have still a lively recollection of my first 
practice on the Gooseberry with the knife, and the 
lessons I then received from a master hand in the 
art. 
Form, I admit, is a most important point to keep 
in view, but not the most important ; abundance of 
fruit of good size, I think, of more importance to 
amateurs, aye, and professionals too. This I hold 
will not be obtained by shortening the young 
growths. We will presume the bushes are of a good 
size, if with a clean stem of several inches so much 
the better for most sorts. The Sulphur var., I find 
"heels"off very readily if on a single stem, and 
such shoots are not easily replaced when no growths 
are springing up from the base, and well furnished 
with growths. Proceed first to thin out all old 
growths that have done duty for two or more years; 
then, if still too thick (6in. at least should be allowed) 
thin out the weakest of the young shoots, and any 
shoots springing from the base not required. Leave 
the rest intact, and on no account shorten the youDg 
shoots, except a rush of several shoots are wanted in 
their place the following season, as it is well known 
that a shoot shortened—say half to one-third its 
length—produces a large number of shoots the 
following season. Now, if the shoot is left full length 
—the stronger the shoot the better—the result will 
be a perfect rope of Gooseberries bearing to the very 
point of the shoot. 
Let” Rex” or any other who does not already 
follow the practice, try the above system for one 
year and I am certain that the result will be such as 
will warrant their continuing the system. Of course 
in the case of young bushes, hard cutting must be 
practised till they are large enough. I have taken 
charge of healthy bushes pruned on the hard 
” cropped ” principle, and just simply thinned them 
and regulated any stragglers. The result was a crop 
of such weight that the bushes had to be propped 
up.— Brightspade. 
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LILIUM AURATUM. 
Amongst all Liliums this magnificent species is 
unquestionably one of the grandest. The chaste and 
elegant flowers of the popular Bermuda Lily are 
universally admired by all, and equally high in public 
favour stand the fragrant blooms of this magnificent 
species from the land of the "Jap.” The people 
have noticed the diversity of colour in the flowers, 
but in their conversation they convey the impression 
that it has never occurred to them that those dis¬ 
tinct forms can be procured separately. They are 
catalogued and described by our up-to-date seeds¬ 
men ; for instance, L. auratum pictum is described as 
a variety with massive pure white flowers, prettily 
tipped with red. L. auratum platyphyllum has 
immense flowers of great substance ; petals broad, 
