December 29, 1900. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
281 
BEGONIA GLOIRE DE LORRAINE. 
Some five photographs of this most popular plant 
have reached us from different growers in widely 
separated localities, showing that gardeners have 
now certainly mastered its cultivation, and are in- 
Ferry, as he has seen them. The growers in either 
case may be classed in the first order of cultivators. 
Mr. A. V. Main, The Gardens, Coltness, Wishaw, 
also sends a photograph representing a houseful of 
Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, which must have been 
Gloire de Lorraine, which were awarded first prize 
at the Dundee Chrysanthemum Show recently. 
The plants were grown by David Ireland, Esq., 2, 
Douglas Terrace, Broughty Ferry, and the photos 
were specially prepared by him for The Gardening 
World, that is to say, if you considered them 
worth reproducing on some of its pages The plants 
are grown in 6-in. pots, are about ft in height, 
and about the same in diameter, and are splendid 
examples of good cultivation. In fact, I have not 
seen finer specimens shown anywhere this season, 
and to see a house mostly filled with similar speci¬ 
mens during the dull month of December, as I did 
the other day, was a sight net easily forgotteo, and 
certainly reflected the greatest credit on the gar¬ 
dener, Mr. L. S. Reid.— J. M., C. 
F, T, Blackburn.] [Budletgh Salterton. 
Begonia Gloire de Lorraine ax Bicton. 
ON FRAGRANT TREES AND PLANTS. 
(Continued, from p. 266 ) 
In Modern Times. 
You may wonder what association the picture now 
exhibited has with our subject. I will explain why 
it seemed to me to be very appropriate. It repre¬ 
sents the scattering of sweet flowers in the procession 
of the Crowned Head on Coronation Day. The 
occasion is that of Kiog George IV. The figure in 
front is the king’s herb woman ; the others are the 
fair maidens of well-known families, whose names 
are duly recorded in the or.giDal painting. I am 
enabled to show yon this pretty illustration through 
the kindness of Mr. Welch, the librarian at the 
Guildhall. 
I will now show you a series of pictures, repre¬ 
senting the fragrant trees and flowers of to-day— 
some as cultivated in our glass-houses or gardens for 
ornament, others as grown in their natural habitats, 
either for their beauty or commercial value. 
You will notice the list is arranged in alphabetical 
order, according to botanical nomenclature ; but I 
shall not bore you more than can be helped with 
different to climate, seeing that they can pro¬ 
duce one to suit their requirements under glass at 
least. 
Mr. James Mayne, gardener to the Hon. Mark 
Rolle, Bicton, Budleigh Salterton, Devoo, kindly 
sends, at our request, some particulars of the plants 
grown by him, a group of six of which is repre¬ 
sented in the accompanying photograph. The 
single specimen, of which a photograph was seDt, 
measured 27 in. through, any way the rule might 
have been placed, and was grown in a 6 in. pot, as 
were all the others. One of the group measured 29 
in., but was not quite so well flowered as the single 
plant This'one was put in as a cutting on April 
17th of this year. He grew on a few plants of last 
year, but though a trifle larger, they bad not 
flowered so freely ; neither does the foliage present 
the same rich dark green hue. 
The plants should be cut down when past their 
best, putting in the cuttiDgs at intervals when ready. 
This will help to continue the floral display through 
the autumn and winter. Those at Bicton have been 
gay since the last week in October, when Mr. Mayne 
tcok half a dozen to the Chrysanthemum show at 
Exmouth. If the thrips, or sometimes so-called 
rust should attack them, dip the plants in a strong 
solution of sulphur and soft soap made fairly 
thick. 
Mr. Mayne also‘has a batch in 4f-in. pots, but 
they are not so fine as those, in 6-in. pots, here re¬ 
produced. The photographs from Bicton and 
Broughty Ferry, respectively, do not show the 
relative sizes of the plants, as the group is on a 
much smaller scale toan the single plant. A fair 
idea may be gleaned from the fact that the centre 
plant at the back of Mr. Mayne’s group stands 
against and nearly fills up the doorway, which is 
2 ft. 8 in. in the clear. The plants, too, are differ¬ 
ently trained, those from Bicton being bushy and 
round headed, the big plant just mentioned being 29 
in. either way. We believe this plant to be the 
champion of the lot, on account of its bulk, as it 
spreads in all directions. The specimen from 
Broughty Ferry is trained pyramidally, so that the 
measurements would refer to the height and the 
width at the base. We leave our correspondent to 
give his own description of the plants at Broughty 
Begonia Gloire de Lorraine at Broughty Ferry. 
Sue, but it gives no conception of single plants. It 
shows a great profusion of bloom, filling one side of 
a house. 
I have sent by this same post photos of Begonia 
these scientific names. The first that claims our 
attention is— 
Aesculus Hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut).— 
Everyone knows this handsome tree, so largely 
grown in our parks and gardens. Our illustration 
