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THE GARDENING WORLD 
May 19, 1900. 
ticularly attractive Tulip, of fioe cup-sbaped form, 
good size, coloured lake shading to fawn, and 
bordered with a white edge. From Mr. H. J. Jones, 
and Messrs. Hogg and Robertson. 
Grand Due de Russe.— A very large flowering 
early Tulip, flower purplish-rose flaked with white. 
A stout grower and a good variety. From Messrs. 
Hogg and Robertson. 
Joost Van Vondel, White. —This is undoubt¬ 
edly one of the best whites. It simply is a white 
form of the much admired Joost Van Vondel. From 
Messrs. Jas. Veitch and Sons, Mr. Jones, and Messrs. 
Hogg and Robertson. 
Queen of thf Netherlands. —Herein we have 
a distinct Tulip It is, when mature, a pale soft 
blush colour, with large well-formed flowers of 
excellent oval shape. It grows eight inches tall. 
Award of Merit, Mr. H. J. Jones. 
David Ternier.— A white, cup-shaped variety, 
dwarfer than White Pottebakker but otherwise com¬ 
parable to it, except perhaps in its time of flowering. 
In fact so distinct are the flowering periods of While 
Joost Van Vondel, David Ternier, and Pottebakker, 
White, that by selecting these three, we can guaran¬ 
tee a succession of white Tulips. The Pottebakker 
is earliest. From Messrs. Hogg and Robertson. 
El Toreador. —A new double Tulip of an orange- 
scarlet and chestnut colour, and yellow base, a 
variety sure to become popular. Award of Merit, 
Mr. H. J. Jones. 
Pink Beauty. —This exceedingly fine Tulip re¬ 
ceived xxx at Chiswick and an Award of Merit at a 
recent Drill Hall meeting, and is described on 
page 602. 
Cottage Maid, which was sent by Messrs. Jas. 
Veitch and Sons, Ltd., and Mr. H. J. Jones, re¬ 
ceived the three marks. It is known in most 
gardens. 
Van der Ner is a prepossessing violet purple 
Tulip of sturdy habit and medium height. From 
Ms. H. J. Jones. 
La Reine is a good white Tulip; flowers of 
medium size and beautiful globular form. From 
Mr. H. J. Jones. 
Dussart. —The beauty of this Tulip is principally 
in its finely tapering form and the depth of its crim¬ 
son colouring. It should prove a splendid variety 
for massing in beds. From Mr. H. J. Jones. 
Mon Tresor is a bright canary yellow, very 
closely following upon Ophir d ’Or both in form and 
colour. It is suitable either for pots or beds. From 
Messrs. Hogg and Robertson. 
Admiral Reinier. —Here is a very beautiful, long, 
taperiog Tulip with rosy flowers, abundantly flaked 
with pure white. It grows nine or ten inches high, 
and is erect and robust. Messrs. Hogg and 
Robertson. 
Bacchus. —The finely shaped flowers are of a 
deep red colour, so that the name of the 
wine god is aptly applied. Mr. H. J. Jones and 
Messrs. Hogg and Robertson. 
Tournesol. —Messrs. Hogg and Robertson sent 
this fine old variety which has now the three 
marks. 
Vermilion Brilliant. —This vermilion coloured 
and well-known Tulip, so useful for bedding and for 
forcing, has also been noticed. Mr. H. J. Jones and 
Messrs. Hogg and Robertson. 
Pottebakker, White.— This sturdy and ex¬ 
tremely popular Tulip has been able to uphold its 
reputation. Mr. Jones and Messrs. Hogg and 
Robertson. 
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Hardening §|iscellany. 
AMORPHOPHALLUS CAMPANULATUS. 
Visitors to the Victoria Regia House at Kew, 
recently, have been confronted by a smell, or 
rather another word of five letters which expresses 
something that is less acceptable than a “ smell," 
and the cause of it has been a flower, the flower of 
the curious and seldom seen Amorphophallus 
campanulatus. The flower appears before the leaf, 
for the plant is also peculiar in this, that it only 
bears one leaf—if leaf it should be called. The 
flower consists of a hide-like spathe, which is cam- 
panulate in form, wide open at the mouth, green 
below and liver-coloured above. In the centre there 
is a stout axis bearing numerous staminate and 
pistillate organs just as in Richardia. The apex of 
this spadix is crowned by an irregular, leathery, 
blood-coloured cap which expands wider than the 
spadix, and protects the essential organs. Within 
this cap a very high temperature is generated. The 
flower in question had been registered for its internal 
temperature, which ran up to 97 p Fah , 14 0 higher 
than that of the house in which it is growing. The 
flower naturally created intense interest though few 
understood anything about it. Some of the species 
are effectively employed in sub-tropical bedding. 
They require plenty of pot room, a rich loamy soil, 
a warm moist atmosphere, though they must be 
kept dry and warm in winter. 
OPHIOGLOSSUMS RESTiNG. 
The question is raised in The Fern Bulletin for 
April, whether the Adder’s-tongue Ferns rest. A 
correspondent to the Bulletin records a number of 
visits made by himself and a friend to a site south of 
Oneida, N.Y., where O. vulgatum, the common 
Adder s-tongue, had been found in great plenty. On 
going to the same station a year after, the Ferns were 
by no means so plentiful as they had been. Again a 
year hence and they were more abundant than at the 
first visit, but during last year they had again re¬ 
lapsed, and though hundreds had been found before, 
scarcely a decent specimen could now be got. 
Whether the season had been too wet or too dry, or 
whether the plants had suffered from stinging of the 
young shoots by insects has yet to be ascertained. It 
would be interesting to know if any similar case has 
been noticed in Great Britain. 
IRIS PUMIL4. 
Herein we have a very dwarf but sweet flowering 
Iris, suitable for the rockery or other sunny 
position. The flowers are solitary, the limbs 
of the flower are bright lavender-blue, the 
standards quite erect, and the broad falls 
are coloured beautifully white along the claw and 
keel. The whole height of this Iris does not exceed 
8 in. or 9 in. This species is variously employed for 
ornamental purposes, that is, for edges to herbaceous 
beds, but in a good rockery pocket it is seen to the 
best advantage. 
CHEMICAL (POISON) COMPOUNDS 
FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES. 
When the Act of Parliment was framed giving the 
Pharmaceutical Society the sole control of selling 
chemical compounds through the agency of qualified 
chemists, the Act was no doubt a beneficial one in so 
far as it related to the compounding and dispensing 
of poisonous substances for medicinal purposes. A 
new development of the question in the use of poison 
and poisonous compounds for technical and trade 
purposes has since sprung up which the framers 
of the Act could not have foreseen; for instance, 
nicotine was not at that time generally available 
for commercial uses. It is to the advantage 
of the trade and country at large that there should 
be no monopoly in the sale of insecticides, fungi¬ 
cides, “ weed killers,’’ &c. We are pleased to see, 
therefore, that a society has been formed for the 
protection of traders in poison and poisonous com¬ 
pounds for technical and general trade purposes. The 
society has been formed and offices secured chiefly 
through the instrumentality of Mr. G. H. Richards, 
128, Southwark Street, London, S.E., with whose 
name gardeners and horticulturists generally are not 
unfamiliar. We hope the society will be an un¬ 
qualified success. Its aims and objects are fully 
set forth below :— 
No small amount of opposition.it appears, is being 
elicited by the recent action of the Council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in advanc¬ 
ing and enforcing, by means of legal proceedings, 
the claim of the registered chemist and druggist— 
previously more or less a stranger to this particular 
branch of commercial enterprise—to the sole right, 
under the Pharmacy Act, 1868, of retailing chemical 
compounds (even when in sealed packages) which, 
although containing a certain scheduled poison or 
poisons, are totally unconnected with pharmacy, 
being intended merely for technical, trade or indus¬ 
trial uses—such as, to take a notable example, for 
agricultural and horticultural purposes. 
No objection, it is explained, is offered to the 
pharmacist obtaining his fair share of patronage in 
this or in any other branch of industry opened up 
by the ever-growing over-lapping of trading ener¬ 
gies. It is contended, however, that the monopoly 
recently set up by the Council of the Pharmaceutical 
Society was never intended by the framers of the 
Act of Parliament in question, and that it can only 
be maintained at considerable public inconvenience, 
and in direct antagonism to the interest of commerce 
generally, inasmuch as it would confine to the 
counters of a few comparative strangers to the 
business the entire retailing of a large number of 
ready-prepared every-day chemical requirements 
hitherto easily and harmlessly procurable from a 
variety of responsible shopkeepers who, although 
admittedly not qualified to compound or dispense 
medicines, are surely quite as competent as any 
registered chemist and druggist to sell—subject to 
proper precautions—securely packed retail quanti¬ 
ties of chemical compounds intended solely for 
technical or commercial purposes—even although 
such compounds may contain a poisonous ingre¬ 
dient or ingredients. To continue to hold other¬ 
wise, as was recently remarked by Sir Richard 
Harington in the much discussed County Court 
action. The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society v. 
White (see below), would be to invite developments 
that " might bring the Act into ridicule.” The 
argument, added his honour, that it is unlawful for 
anyone save a pharmacist to sell (say) a particular 
Weed Killer which may contain a poison, and 
which he may have procured at the order of a cus¬ 
tomer, would apply equally to any retailer not 
registered as a chemist, selling paint containing 
arsenic. If pushed to its utmost limit, the principle, 
according to Sir Richard, would simply mean that 
a paint containing arsenic can only legally be sold 
by a properly qualified chemist—and “ it is scarcely 
probable that the Legislature intended such a thing." 
The same may be said with regard to fly papers, 
arsenical soap, and a thousand other household 
articles that are no more dangerous when sold from 
a general shop than by a pharmacist. 
This opinion of Sir Richard Harington seems to 
have been unambiguously supported by Mr. Gra¬ 
ham Murray, Q C , M.P., as Lord Advocate for 
Scotland, in January last, in an answer publicly 
given to Mr. Michael Cuthbertson, of Sunny Bank 
Nurseries, Rothesay. "Where poisonous sub¬ 
stances,” observed this gentleman, speaking with 
the responsibility of office upon his shoulders, “ are 
to be dealt with in the way of being dispensed 
pharmaceutically, it is quite right that the retailing 
should be done by properly qualified persons. In 
my view, however, preparations such as sheep dips, 
insecticides, weed killers, etc., which contain poisons 
do not need to be dispensed and are supplied by the 
manufacturer in the final form in which they are to 
be applied. I do not, therefore, see that any trade 
or profession should have a monopoly of selling 
them, provided proper regulations be made and 
precautions taken that they will not be supplied or 
used for any other purpose than those for which 
they are meant." 
The initiative of Mr. Cuthbertson with the Lord 
Advocate for Scotland has been and is being followed 
by several well-known manufacturers and traders 
interested in the question in various other import¬ 
ant commercial centres, with a view of interviewing 
and influencing other members of the Government 
and of Parliament generally. An organised associa¬ 
tion also, under the title : 
"The Traders in Poisons and Poisonous Com¬ 
pounds for Technical or Trade Purposes 
Protection Society,” 
with offices at sand 6, Clement’s Inn, Strand, Lon¬ 
don, W.C., has been formed to take prompt and * 
sustained action in the matter, and to make a 
strenuous and united effort to obtain legislative 
assistance to put an end to the monopoly now 
claimed for pharmacists, and to gain for the 
original and certainly the most generally recognised 
vendors of this particular class of specialities— inter 
alios agricultural agents, seedsmen, nurserymen, 
corn dealers, ironmongers and hardware merchants, 
oil and colourmen, etc.—permission to resume the 
sale and retailing of chemical compounds for tech¬ 
nical and commercial purposes notwithstanding that 
such articles may contain poisonous ingredients — 
providing always that such sale and retailing be 
subject to proper and well defined restrictions, and 
be limited to commodities “ in original sealed packages 
as received from the manufacturers or wholesale 
dealers." 
It may prove interesting at this stage to allude 
