THE GARDENING WORLD 
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December 1,1900. 
degrees of frost will not depreciate their worth A 
thoroughly ripened late Apple will keep for months. 
Selection of Lilacs .—Arthur Biggs : The following 
are the best in our experience:—Marie Lagray, 
single white; La Tour d’Auvergne, semi-double, 
lilac-mauve; Souvenir de Louis Spath, heavy 
inflorescences of deep mauve flowers; Mdme. 
Lemoine, double white; Pres. Grevy, semi-double, 
pale lilac-mauve; and the old Syringa persica itself. 
These are all splendid sorts and can be got from the 
leading nurseryman. Plant at the present time in a 
free, warm soil. Prune just after flowering, by 
thinning out weak, and shortening strong shoots. 
Roses for Pillars, Archways, &c.— A. D. : 
Turner’s Crimson Rambler, Paul's Carmine Pillar, 
Polyantha grandlflora, Pclyantha Simplex, Psyche, 
White Pet, Allister Stella Gray, Thalia, Manda’s 
Triumph, Belle Lyonnaise, Aimee Vibert, Flora, 
Felicite-Perpetue, Dundee Rambler, The Garland 
and Gloire de Dijon. A good few others might be 
added, but these are amongst the very best. The 
prices vary from one shilling to half a crown each. 
Plant in rich, good soil. 
Coal Dust.— A.: Coal dust is a splendid addition 
to most soils, especially those inclining to be heavy. 
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COELOGYNE DAYANA GRANDIS. 
The accompanying illustration of this grand variety 
was prepared from a photograph sent us by Mr. John 
Proctor, gardener to Sir William Henderson, 
Devanha House, Aberdeen. When photographed, 
the specimen carried twelve of its long and gracefully 
suspended racemes, bearing in the aggregate 287 
blooms, or an average of almost twenty-four to each 
raceme. Two of the finest racemes carried thirty- 
one blooms each, and Mr. Proctor would like to 
know, through the medium of The Gardening 
World, wtat is the greatest number of blooms on a 
raceme that has been produced by this variety. The 
plant was bought at a sale in Edinburgh, quite a 
small piece, just imported, about six years ago. We 
may add that Mr. Proctor grows a good many 
Orchids of different kinds, Cattleyas, Dendrobiums, 
and Laelias being favourites. Another photograph 
accompanying that reproduced showed grandly 
grown and flowered specimens of Oncidium sphacela 
turn and Dendrobium thyrsiflorum walkerianum, for 
which he received the first prize, and was highly 
commended at the annual show of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society of Aberdeen in August last. 
NOTES FROM NEWQUAY. 
[Concluded from p. 154.) 
Having touched on some of the more prominent 
plants on the sea coast and cliffs about Newquay, I 
propose to ramble away from the coast through this 
" fabled land of giants,” note a few of the more in¬ 
teresting things, and then to bring these desultory 
papers to a close. 
The subject of Cornish botany, however, could be 
made most fascinating in competent hands, for there 
are, perhaps, few parts of England where the local 
flora is more interesting or of greater extent as 
regards the number of rare species within its limits. 
Cornwall is not mountainous, hence no Alpine plants 
are to be found, but it is extremely hilly and undu¬ 
lating, so much so that a coach ride across the 
country involves nearly as much walking as riding. 
Where, then, there are hills there must be vales, 
and where much humidity there will be found 
trickling streams, turfy bogs, and salt marshes. And 
so the open and exposed character of the country, 
joined to its mild climate, its rock-bound coasts, its 
varied elevation, its maritime position, and other 
features, must necessarily exert a considerable in¬ 
fluence on the character of its flora. Thus there are 
several British plants peculiar to Cornwall. But it 
is said that there is a great similiarity between the 
flora of West Cornwall and that of Ireland. This 
points to a time when a great continent stretched 
across the Atlantic, say, from Spain to Ireland. But 
enough of preface. 
One of the interesting British plants referred to I 
picked up near Newquay in a moist situation, and 
sheltered from the strong south-westers. This is the 
Balm-leaved Figwort (Scrophularia Scorodonia) 
found only in the extreme south west of England 
and south of Ireland, according to a local authority. 
That being so, and having a great respect for- rare 
plants, I merely resorted to the expedient of a 
" twig " or two of its downy, wrinkled leaves, as a 
souvenir of a pleasant ramble, and as a memento of 
a visit to a land where— 
" Nature’s woods are mixed and many.” 
Overlooking the spot where this plant was found, 
and on the breezy heights, the fragile flowers of the 
narrow-leaved Flax (Linum angustifolium) were 
quivering in the sun. The elegant, soft blue, silk-like 
petals of this delicate looking flower are so 
fugacious that it is a lesson in fragility to watch how 
soon these tender floral appendages dissociate them- 
themselves from the grosser parts of the flower. A 
little further inland, on an elevate I ridge, the great 
purple flowers of the Orpine or Live-Long (Sedum 
Telephium) were easily distinguishable. Locally, 
this plant is known as “ Cock's Comb,” a not in¬ 
appropriate designation in certain stages of the 
flower. This is the largest and showiest of the 
British Stonecrops, and is, therefore, well worth a 
position in the garden where size is a desideratum. 
Cochlearia angllca.or the English Scurvy Grass, is 
a crucifer that delights in sea air ; Verbena officinalis 
or the Common Vervain,affects waste ground, but as a 
Verbena no gardener would give it room. Rosa 
spinosissima is a different plant, and would 
naturally recommend itself to an all-round Rosarian ; 
Reseda Luteola, or the Yellow-weed, is a poor rela¬ 
tion of the garden Mignonette; Lycopsis arvensis, 
the small Bugloss, is a rough looking but interesting 
plant on account of the curve in the tube of its 
bright blue flowers ; Anchusa sempervirens, the 
evergreen Alkanet.is another blue-flowered member of 
the Borage tribe, which, although not considered to 
be a native, takes on native, airs; Ly simachia vulgaris, 
the Great Yellow Loosestrife, is a “ Primrose ” of a 
robust character ; Melampyrum sylvaticum, one of 
the Cow Wheats, implies woods, which are not com¬ 
mon on the west coast of this county; Bidens 
cernua, the Bur-Marigold, nods its drooping, button¬ 
like, brownish-yellow heads of florets and leafy 
bracts; Saponaria officinalis, the large and showy 
Soapwort, is a plant of handsome proportions, with 
flesh-coloured flowers, and if not " after the manner 
born,” is, nevertheless, a wilding in these parts. It 
is well worth notice and cultivation. Dozens of 
other wild plants are admissible here, but space pro¬ 
hibits mention. Still, there are a few of sterling 
merit which will not be gainsaid. Such, for instance, 
is the Cornish Moneywort (Sibthorpia europaea), 
which elsewhere in England is a rare species. It is 
a charmiDg little trailing plant of the first water 
DAYANA GRANDIS. 
hence I was delighted to come across it in its native 
wilds. It is always associated with water—it trails 
over the mossy stones of the purling brook, or de¬ 
pends in graceful, thread-like, tangled masses from 
the banks of the rocky rivulets. Its leaves are small, 
round, and silver-penny-like, and of a delicate green 
colour, while its flowers are very minute, and of a 
pale flesh tint. In a word it is a little gem, and Dr. 
Stbthorp’s connection with the plant is one of which 
any botanist might be proud. Another interesting 
plant, and one which occupies similar positions to 
the Moneywort, is Campanula hederacea, the pretty 
little Ivy-leaved Bell-flower ; in fact, in looking for 
one the other is sure to be found, at least in the 
Luxulyan Valley,where, although the waters are dis¬ 
coloured from the China clay washings, it does not 
seem to affect the luxuriance of the vegetation. In 
some parts, however, the streams are so white and 
CoeloGyne 
