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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 16, 1900. 
collection, the latter had representatives of 500 
species and varieties. 
The bunch-Narcissi are obtained from the south¬ 
western parts of Europe and along the Mediterranean 
coast, while along the Atlantic side of Spain the 
trumpet Daffodils are obtained. To get the N. 
poeticus types, the Pyrenean mountains, those of 
Italy, and some parts of the Austrian Tyrol, are 
searched. Mr. Barr mentioned that he had travelled 
nearly all over Europe hunting specially for Daffo¬ 
dils, and he has also visited the United States and 
California. 
He lately spent six months in Japan, seeing a large 
number of nurseries. Mr. Barr has little faith in the 
commercial morality of the Japs. They are smart,but 
they are unreliable. The Chinese on the other hand 
are, according to the Daffodil King, dependable. 
Speaking of the dwarf Japanese trees, he detailed 
how, by periodical cutting away of the roots, nipping- 
off the foliage buds and methods of tying-in, they 
obtain their remarkable monstrosities. It is rather 
disappointing to read Mr. Barr’s expressions on 
the outcome of the Japanese reforms, which we 
lately heard so much of. They did a great deal for 
a while, but we learn that they are not maintaining 
£he colleges and experimental institutions which they 
so enthusiastically inaugurated.He instanced the case 
of an exceedingly clever professor in charge of a 
botanical garden in the northern island. He is a 
man who has studied all over the world, and is 
capable of doing good work, but he is not called 
upon to do any, and so things are drifting. Mr. 
Barr does not think there is capital in the country to 
maintain it, and cannot see where Japan's resources 
are to come from. 
At Hong Kong the Jap’s are starting an industry 
for growing Camphor. Twenty miles of the English 
hinterland has been planted with Camphor trees, 
and the monopoly being in the hands of the Japs, 
prices are high. They expressed surprise that the 
Australians do not take up this industry. Camphor 
being in strong demand. Mr. Charles Ford, 
Public Gardens, Hong Kong, promised to supply all 
necessary information to those who may desire 
particulars of the industry. 
Speaking of Sydney, the veteran refers to good 
work being done there. At Rotorua in Auckland, the 
Gcvernment is doing splendid work in raising forest 
trees with a view to afforesting and reforesting in 
that district. The richest evergreens in the world 
are at Tokaanu and Pipiriki — far richer than any¬ 
thing in the Buffer or Otira Gorges. 
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PLANTS RECENTLY CERTIFICATED. 
Awards made by the Royal Horticultural Society, 
at its meeting in the Drill Hall, on June 5th. 
Orchid Committee. 
Dendrobium dalhou-nobile. —The flowers of this 
remarkable hybrid are large and showy, and are 
borne in huge inflorescences after the form of a 
raceme. The plant comes truly between the forms 
of both parents (D. dalhousianum x D. nobile), 
though in colour it mostly favours D. nobile. The 
sepals are white at the base, tinged at the edge with 
rosy-mauve. The lip has a white block and a crim¬ 
son disc in the throat, with a white front and rose- 
edge. The cross was raised by R. Brooman-White, 
Esq. (Award of Merit.) Exhibited by Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart, (gardener, Mr. W. H. White), 
Burford Lodge. 
Cypripedium Godefroyae, Wigan's var. —A 
handsome variety, of large size and good form, pure 
white, slightly speckled on sepals and petals with 
purplish spots. (Award of Merit,) Sir Frederick 
Wigan, Bart, (grower, Mr. W. H. Young), Clare 
Lawn, East Sheen. 
Dendrobium stuposum, with white flowers and 
slender stalks. (Botanical Certificate.) Sir F. Wigan, 
Bart. 
Oncidium nanum. —A species with brownish 
flowers, variously margined with yellow. (Botanical 
Certificate.) Mr. E. Kromer, West Croydon. 
Phalaenopsis Manni. —A beautiful and peculiar 
variety ; flowers yellow, profusely marked with 
cinnamon or chestnut-brown. (Botanical Certificate.) 
Sir F. Wigan, Bart. 
Brassia maculata. —This has white and choco¬ 
late-marked flowers. (Botanical Certificate.) Sir F. 
Wigan, Bart. 
Floral Committee. 
Rhododendron Pink Pearl. —This beautiful hardy 
variety had received an Award of Merit on a previous 
occasion when sent by Messrs. Jno. Waterer & Sons, 
Bagshot. It bears very long trusses of large, wide 
open, deep pink blooms having a wavy edge. It is 
altogether massive and lovely. (First-class Certifi¬ 
cate.) Sir T. Lawrence, Bart, (gardener, Mr. 
Bain). 
Begonia Gladys Hemsley — A double tuberous 
Begonia, having Lilac-pink flowers, with deeper 
coloured outer petals and fine form. It is strong, 
well held up, and altogether pleasiDg. (Award of 
Merit.) Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft, Lewisham, 
S.E. 
Streptocarpus aciiimeniflorus. —These were 
exhibited “for the strain,” a new and decidedly 
valuable type secured by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, 
Ltd, from a cross between one of the hybrid 
Streptocarpi and S. polyanthus. Nothing more 
beautiful could be imagined than this new inter¬ 
mediate strain. The flowers are borne in branching 
cymes, and some are violet-blue, others are white. 
(Award of Merit.) Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, Ltd., 
Chelsea, S.W. 
Tree Paeony Cream Perfection. —This has 
large, strong, single flowers with a fimbriated edge. 
They are pale cream or straw coloured, the base of 
the petals being magenta. (Award of Merit.) 
Messrs. R. Wallace & Co., Kilnfield Gardens, 
Colchester. 
Paeony Lady Curzon. —A large, fuff, “fluffy” 
flowered form, white with a tint of blush in the 
petals, the basal or outer petals being broad and 
strong. (Award of Merit.) Messrs. Jas. Kelway & 
Son, Langport, Somerset. 
Lilac Mdme. Abel Chateney. —A splendid 
double-flowered white variety. (Award of Merit.) 
W. Marshall, Esq., Auchinraith, Bexley. 
Paeony Lord Roberts. —A large single white 
variety with a blush centre. (Award of Merit.) 
Messrs. Jas. Kelway & Son. 
Rose Pink Roamer. — A climbing, single- 
flowered, rich rosy variety. (Award of Merit.) 
Messrs. W. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross. 
Rosa Tennyson.— A splendid new hybrid Tea, 
with large, fuff, blush-pink blooms, and a capital 
habit of growth. (Award of Merit.) Messrs. W. 
Paul & Son. 
Rosa Sinica Anemone.—A large, single, deep 
red-flowered form, with habit of growth like the 
species. (Award of Merit.) Messrs. Paul & Son, 
The Old Nurseries, Cheshunt. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee. 
Strawberry Trafalgar. —In this new variety 
we have one of the finest flavoured Strawberries in 
existence. The fruits are of good size, wedge-shaped 
with nicely rounded shoulders. The colour is rather 
light, and the texture is soft, but as a first-rate late- 
fruiting Strawberry it is to be recommended. It is 
a cross between Latest of All and Frogmore Late 
Pine. (Award of Merit.) Messrs. Laxton Bros., 
Bedford. 
MAPLES (ACER). 
Writing to the Irish Farming World, the under, 
signed says:—These rank amongst the finest of hardy 
trees. Words fail to give an idea of the beauty 
of these lovely plants ; the young leaves of some are 
gorgeous,in others the brilliancy of colour in autumn 
is grand ; the beauty in others lying iD the delicacy 
of the lacinated leaves. They are invaluable for 
shrubberies, and as dot plants in a lawn lend colour 
and variety which always attract admiration. Some 
days ago in driving through Scotland's longest glen 
—Glenlyon—I noticed a fine collection of Acers, 
planted along the roadside at twenty feet apart. 
These extended a long distance, and were in the 
fuff beauty of young leafage. Most of them were 
about to feet high, and in course of years will make 
a feature of interest that passers by cannot fail to 
admire. They are worthy of more extensive plant¬ 
ing than one generally sees, and there need be no 
question of their hardiness as those I refer to were 
growing quite healthily on a mountain side, in soil 
anything but rich, and exposed to every wind and 
frost incidental to the Scotch Highlands.— J. H. 
Camming. 
T. Y. Munson gave a complate survey of American 
Grapes in recent numbers of American Gardening. 
FLORAL DEMONSTRATION. 
At the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting of 
June 5th, at the Drill Hall, Westminster, the Rev. 
Prof. Geo. Henslow gave another of his floral de¬ 
monstrations. The method of Orchid fertilisation 
was reviewed, the adaptation of all the parts—the 
pollina, their elasticity, &c., and the stigmatic sur¬ 
face-explained. The fact of the Orchid seeds 
having no real embryo was remarked, and its 
absence was explained for by the presence of a 
nuclear mass, “ a mere blob of cells," having con¬ 
centrated protoplasmic contents. From this fact 
arose the difficulty often experienced in raising 
Orchids from seeds. Recent discoveries by fungo- 
logists have gone far to prove that all Orchids, and 
probably plants of all orders, are peculiarly invested 
with a fungus, whose purpose is to aid the special 
plant from which it obtains its own nourishment. 
This mutual give and take partnership, or “joint 
life," is termed symbiosis. According to Prof. Hen- 
slow “ it is now known that all plants are more or 
loss dependent on fungi.” Heaths have the tips of 
their roots sheathed with a fungoid element, whose 
purpose, presumably, is to absorb free nitrogen, the 
best known examples of this process being shown by 
leguminous plants. As the old Orchid plants are 
already invested with the species of fungi peculiar to 
them, it was always advisable to sow the seeds in 
the pots of the parent plant, and thus truly assure 
germination. 
Ornithogalum arabicum, which one sometimes 
finds so troublesome to grow in our British gardens, 
had been gathered in chalky stretches of Malta by 
the lecturer in years gone past. So common is it 
in that Mediterranean island that some nurserymen 
in this country try to secure the bulbs at 2s. per 
hundred. 
Campanula Mariesii was shown for the sake of 
referring to the collector named Maries, who is at 
present in India. Pie sat as a scholar under Rev. Prof. 
Henslow, when the latter was a curate in Warwick¬ 
shire, and in the botany class he all along proved 
himself remarkably clever with the subject. His 
name is now well known. We believe he is in the 
employ of Messrs. Veitch. The yellow Helianthe- 
mum, with its sensitive stamens, received a notice. 
In reference to Paeonia corallina Prof. Henslcw 
remarked that Sheppy Island was the only part in 
which it had been found growing wild, and he 
brought in the theory of its having belonged to the 
ancient South European range of plants, of which a 
small group of about twenty species are now found 
in various parts of the country on this side of the 
Channel. 
Anemone Pulsatilla, with its “ heads " of silky 
hairs, was stated to be found in quantity in chalk 
hills down about Oxford. 
A passing word was given to the Javanico-Jasmini- 
florum Rhododendrons in relation to their propaga¬ 
tion. The original varieties with distinct, yet 
related colours, or combination of colours, used to 
be grafted together, one say an orange variety, beiDg 
used as a stock, and another, a red, being taken for 
the scion. But it was found that when two varie¬ 
ties with colours so nearly related were thus grafted 
the pink variety in crossing with this variety reduced 
the orange colouring, and infused its own pink shade 
in place thereof, so that this proocess is not now 
practised. A concluding notice was given to the 
Californian Tulips (Calochorti), and a type of the 
original yellow Calochortus sent home by Douglas, 
and now bearing his name, was shown. 
Gardening miscellany. 
TIMELY HINTS. 
Gardenias in flower may be removed to the conser¬ 
vatory ; Gesneras, Achimenes, and Gloxinias which 
are being grown on for next season's flowering, must 
be potted on as they require it. Train out Achimenes 
to neat stakes, and do this so as the stakes are hidden. 
Attention must be given to the tying out and training 
of Stephanotis, Mandevilla, Passiflora, Ipomaea, and 
Allamandas. Azaleas and Camellias out of flower, 
ought to be cleaned, pruned back if they need pruning, 
and be placed in a warm house with a moist tempera¬ 
ture to make their growth. When they have set 
their buds they should be exposed to fuff light and 
air. 
