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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 8, 1901. 
Bom was also shown. It is one of the prettiest of 
the Oak family, having small, deeply-cut foliage of a 
bright yellow shade. Ulmus Damperii aurea was 
another beautifully coloured, foliaged tree. Quercus 
foliis purpureis was also to be seen in this exhibit; 
for producing a highly-coloured effect on a lawn 
there is no tree to surpass it. 
Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, Kent, staged 
a large number of vases of their beautiful hybrid 
Aquilegias, showing the great diversity of colour 
which may be obtained by carefully hybridising 
these old-fashioned plants. 
Messrs. J. Laing & Sons, Forest Hill, London, 
exhibited Streptocarpi and Gloxinias, also a unique 
salmon-coloured Begonia named Attractive, and 
attractive it really is, for it is a graceful plant and 
has very pretty flowers, the petals varying in shape 
from ligulate to broadly ovate. 
Mr. M. Pritchard exhibited an excellent collection 
of herbaceous bloom, including Hyacinthus amethyst- 
inus, Trollius japonicus plenus.Kniphofia.Heuchera, 
Campanulas, Incarvilleas, Lychnis, Iris, &c. (Silver 
Flora Medal.) 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, En¬ 
field, put up a pretty little group of well grown 
Carnations, including some beautiful varieties of 
Malmaisons. 
Messrs. J. Peed & Sons, Norwood, London, ex¬ 
hibited a group of Hydrangea hortensis. 
Messrs. J. Carter & Co., High Holborn, London, 
had a large exhibit of Sweet Peas shown with the 
foliage ; also their invincible prize strain of Gloxinias, 
on which the flowers were borne in abundance, some 
of the plants carrying fifty blooms. (Bronze Flora 
Medal.) 
Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons made a blaze of colour 
with a group of Cannas, many of which received an 
Award of Merit. The exhibit showed what a re¬ 
markable range of colours these plants can produce. 
(Gold Medal.) 
Messrs. Barr & Sons, Covent Garden, London, 
exhibited a large number of Iris, Papavers, and 
other beautiful herbaceous flowers : also a number 
of dwarf Japanese trees. A dish of new hybrid 
Nympbeas was also stown, in which we noticed N. 
sanguinea, a rich crimson variety. (Silver Banksian 
Medal.) 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Ltd., Chelsea, also ex¬ 
hibited a group of hardy flowering shrubs, including 
such beautiful plants as Hydrangea hortensis mand- 
shurica, Viburnum tomentosum, Chionanthus retu- 
sus, Styrax obassia, and many other beautiful 
families of hard wooded plants. 
Mr. Anthony Waterer, Knap Hill Nursery, ex¬ 
hibited four show cases of seedling Rhododendrons 
and Azaleas, in which we noticed many exception¬ 
ally good varieties. 
Messrs Paul & Sons, Cheshunt Old Nurseries, 
staged some very pretty vases of Brier Roses and 
double Lilac. 
Mr. G. Prince, Rose grower, Oxford, exhibited 
Roses of excellent quality, especially the pretty, little 
single forms and the Yellow Banksian. (Silver Gilt 
Banksian Medal.) 
Messrs. W. Newport & Co., Uxbridge, showed a 
batch of their new dwarf Lobelia, Newport’s 
Model. 
Messrs. Frank Cant & Co., Colchester, exhibited a 
collection of their beautiful Rose blooms amongst 
which we noticed Laurette, Messimy, Papillon, 
Climbing Devoniensis, Gustave Regis, D. Grill, 
Papa Gontier, and Mrs W. J. Grant, all good 
varieties for button-hole and bouquet work. (Silver 
Floral Medal.) 
Mr. H B. May, Upper Edmonton, made a perfect 
rainbow of colour with an exhibit of Pelargoniums 
which filled the whole length of a table. Leopard 
and Mrs. W. H. Martin, both Ivy-leaves, were very 
good, and both received an Award of Merit. (Silver 
Gilt Flora Medal.) 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, 
again exhibited a batch of Schizanthus wisetonensis, 
in equally fine condition as on former occasions. 
Messrs. G. Boyes & Co., Leicester, exhibited a 
few well flowered plants of their new Carnation, 
Earl Roberts ; it is a deep yellow, the flowers have 
a good form and a whole calyx. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee. 
Mr. S. Mortimer, Rowledge, Farnham, exhibited 
fifteen Melons, for which he received a Silver 
Banksian Medal. 
Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., Gunnersbury House, 
Acton (gardener, Mr. J. Hudson), exhibited a box of 
Plums, Jefferson and Early Transparent Gage. 
(Silver Banksian Medal.) 
Messrs. T. Rivers & Son, Sawbridgeworth, ex¬ 
hibited a dish of Peaches. 
Earl of Darnley, Cobham Hall, Gravesend (gar¬ 
dener, Mr. T. R. Cuckney), exhibited a box of weli 
grown Royal Sovereign Strawberries. 
J. L. Bucknall, Esq., was awarded a Silver 
Banksian Medal for a box of Royal Sovereign 
Strawberries. 
Lord Suffield, Gunton Park, Norwich (gardener, 
Mr. Allan), exhibited twenty well fruited plants of 
Strawberry Lady Suffield. (Silver Banksian 
Medal.) 
Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading, made a very 
tempting exhibit with Tomatos and Melons. They 
were staged in a very effective manner with Ferns 
and Panicum. There were also some very fine pots 
of very prolific Peas. (Silver Knightian Medal) 
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Treatment of Cuttings sent from Italy.— Clydes¬ 
dale'. The specimen you sent was Mesembryanthe- 
mum edule, known in this country as the Hottentot 
Fig. The Italian one of Moonshine does not appear 
to be known in this country. Their cultivation is 
simple. Let the cuttings dry at the ends a little be¬ 
fore inserting them in sand under a bell-glass. When 
rooted pot them off singly in fibrous loam and peat, 
with some leaf mould, a little well-rotted cow dung, 
some small pieces of broken bricks or crocks 
and plenty of sand to make the whole porous to per¬ 
mit the passage of water freely. You may omit the 
cow dung for the first potting, but can use it for sub¬ 
sequent potting as the plants get larger. Stand the 
pots on a shelf against the glass, or in a sunny posi¬ 
tion at all times, as the plant comes from the Cape of 
Good Hope and requires all the sun it can get in this 
country to harden the tissues and make the plants 
flower. You cannot expect this species to flower till 
it gets to some size, as the shoots, if planted out, 
attain a length of 3 ft or 4 ft. In pots or pans they 
would be shorter, but you should allow them to hang 
down over the sides of the vessels in which they are 
grown. Round seed pans, about 4 in. in depth, 
would be more suitable than pots, if you have them. 
During the warmer part of summer you may stand 
the pans on a board or pieces of slate in a sunny 
sheltered position out of doors. This will bring them 
into flowering condition much sooner than under 
glass. In the Channel Islands people plant them on 
banks and on elevated gardens where the shoots can 
hang down over the retaining walls, and in Italy they 
probably do the same. 
Constituent Parts of Basic Slag.— H. L. Hirst : 
Basic slag, basic cinder, or Thomas phosphate powder 
as it is variously called, is a bi-product obtained in 
the process of smelting iron by the Thomas- 
Gilchrist process. It contains phosphorus as its 
most important manurial constituent. The slag is 
ground down finely until it assumes the form of a 
powder. Good basic slag contains 14 to 18 per cent, 
of phosphoric acid, which is more readily soluble 
than that of coprolites prepared in the same way. 
It is not essentially a quick acting manure, however, 
so that you might apply it to land in March where 
you intend planting vegetables in April or May. In 
tbe case of fruit trees, you should also apply it 
early, say in February or March, to get the full 
benefit during the ensumg season. It has been 
found in practice that basic slag is not the most 
economical form of a phosphatic manure to apply to 
limestone soils or those that are generally rich in 
lime. It may give you fairly good results all the 
same, but it is more efficacious when applied to 
moorlands, heaths, and sandy soils. If you can get 
it cheaply and conveniently, it might be worth your 
while to use it. On the other hand, more economi¬ 
cal and effective manures for a limestone soil (all 
things being equal) would be dissolved bones and 
other superphosphates which have been acted upon 
by sulphuric acid in their preparation, and which 
are also known as acid phosphatic manures. 
Propagating Aralia Chabrieri.— R. M. : You can¬ 
not make good plants by propagating merely from 
side shoots. Plants so raised take a long time to 
assume the upright and graceful habit which this 
plant should bear, if ever it may make a proper 
leader at all. The only way to succeed with this 
plant is to take off the top of the plant and treat it as 
a cutting in sandy peat in a propagating case. Keep 
the old plant and encourage it to grow. Upright 
shoots will arise at or near the top where it had 
been cut. When these shoots are properly firmed 
take them off and treat them as cuttings. Other 
shoots will arise in the same way upon the old plants, 
so that in course of time you will have all the young 
plants you can desire. They will assume the erect 
habit straight away, and shortly make useful table 
plants. 
Raising Young Plants of the Musk Tree. — A. 
B. J. : Your best plan will be to take cuttings of 
young side shoots when beginning to get firm and 
insert them in sand or light sandy soil, with a fourth 
part of leaf mould. Give good drainage and place 
the cuttings under a bell-glass or in a case in gentle 
heat, and exercise a little patience till roots are 
emitted. As a rule, the cuttings root freely if not 
very quickly. We understand that you mean the 
shrubby plant with Musk-scented leaves. It is also 
known as Muskwood (Olearia argopbylla). Young 
plants are the best, for the sake of the scented 
foliage; but only old plants will flower, though the 
blossom is not very showy. 
Planting the White Water Lily in a Lake.— H. 
Jameson : Where the water is three feet or four 
feet deep the usual method of establishing the White 
Water Lily is to put some rhizomes in a basket con¬ 
taining some loam. Fasten the rootstock into the 
basket to keep it in position till it gets established. If 
you can dry the pond,that is, empty it, you could then 
manage the operation more easily by placing mounds 
of soil where you wish the plants to grow, making 
them sufficiently high so that the crown of the 
Lilies will be 18 ins. to 2 ft. under the surface 
of the water, 18 in. being a good depth. Place 
some stones round the lower parts of the mounds of 
soil to help keep it together, and the Lilies will 
soon take a complete hold of the soil, and require 
no more attention. 
Boronia Megastigma after Flowering — R. M. : 
Prune back the last year’s shoot to within a few 
buds of the base, and encourage the plants to make 
fresh growth in an intermediate house. Syringe 
the plants at least twice a day, but do not give very 
much water till the shoots are again growing freely. 
If you think that the plants require repotting, give 
a slightly larger shift immediately the buds have 
made a fresh start to grow. For compost use loam 
and peat in equal proportions with plenty of sand to 
keep it porous, for the free passage of superfluous 
water. Pot firmly as you would do with Heaths. 
Propagating Exacum affine.— A. W. M. A good 
plan would be to set aside a few plants and fertilise 
the flowers artificially to make sure the flowers will 
set. About this period you should keep them in 
some airy, well-lighted house, kept like a warm 
greenhouse. This will favour the setting of the 
flowers. As a rule, it is not difficult to save seeds 
from this species. You might try a few cuttings if 
you can get them on the plants, but as a rule they 
are not much given to producing them after they 
are allowed to ruo to flower. 
Names of Plants.— E. S .: 1, Dendrobium formo- 
sum giganteum ; 2, Cattleya Mendelii; 3, Oncidium 
marshallianum; 4, Oncidium pulvinatum.— A. C .: 
1, Lychnis dioica flore pleno; 2, Heuchera san¬ 
guinea; 3, Saxifraga rotundifolia; 4, Daphne pon- 
tica; 5, Daphne Cneorum; 6, Kerria japonica flore 
