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THE gardening world. 
January 10, 1903. 
IReu; or Interesting Plants. 
GLAUCIUM 
FLAVUM TRICOLOR. 
The above name is given to a variety of Horned Poppy, said 
to have been brought from Asia Minor. The ordinary or 
typical yellow form is a native of Europe. The species is 
liable to vary, as there is an old variety named G. flavuin 
fulvum, the description of which should be coppery-red. The 
dowers of the variety under notice are 3 in. to 4 in. in diameter, 
and brilliant orange-red, with black or yellow blotches on a 
deep orange ground at the base. The individual petals are 
1|- in. to 2J in. across. The dowers last for several days, and 
keep opening continuously for the greatest part of summer. 
When sown in the open ground in autumn the plants bloom 
continuously from June to August. If sown in spring they 
bloom front July to September. It may thus be treated as 
an annual or biennial. Several of the Continental seedsmen 
offer the variety. 
DIANTHUS PLUMARIUS 
SEMPERFLORENS FL. PL. ARGUS. 
The above name has been given to a double form of the 
Cyclop-Pink by the raiser, Roemer, of Quedlinburg but others 
label it Pink Double-dowering Argus. The old Cyclop-Pink 
is single and characterised by a tine zone of colour round the 
central eye. The variety under notice is double, with flat, 
imbricate petals that are nearly entire at the margin, not 
fringed as Pinks (Diantlius plumarius) usually are. The flowers 
are also sweet scented, and vary in colour, from white to 
delicate rose, rose, deep rose, salmon-rose, etc. Each dower 
is also characterised by a bright maroon blotch at the base 
of each petal, as in the single one 1 . If seeds are sown in gentle 
heat in March, the seedlings may be treated as annuals, which 
will commence flowering early in August, and continue un¬ 
interruptedly till late in autumn, and here comes in its per¬ 
petual flowering character, expressed in the name at the head¬ 
ing of this note. It has stood the winter in the open, and un¬ 
protected ‘with the raiser, so' that it may be considered hardy. 
This Pink may also be grown in pots for bedding, grouping, for 
cut flowers, and for market purposes. 
DECAISNEA FARGESII. 
The above is a member of the Berberis family, and was intro¬ 
duced from Su-tchuen. It flowered for the first time in Europe 
in 1898, at Barres, with M. Maurice L. de Vilmorin, who 
describes it as a graceful shrub which recommends itself for its 
beauty and hardiness. It is of upright habit, with compact, 
pinnate leaves, giving it the aspect of a young Ailantus or 
Tree of Heaven. It will be sought after for its curious and 
beautiful fruits, which are cylindrical, at first of a greenish- 
yellow, passing afterwards into a deep green lightly tinted with 
blue, and at last, at the period of maturity, becoming a very 
beautiful blue colour. It constitutes a beautiful decorative 
shrub, hardy in the centre of France. At Barres it is cultivated 
in good, friable soil, for the most part consisting of light 
material. 
The genus Decaisnea was founded by Hooker and Thomson 
upon a species which they found when travelling in the 
Himalayas, and which is figured in “ Hooker’s Illustrations of 
Himalayan Plants,” t. 10. The pinnate leaves and long fruits 
are peculiar features in the Barberry order, though not unique. 
The flowers of the. Himalayan species are male and female on 
the same plant and green, and in all essential particulars 
appear to agree genetically with those of the Su-tchuen plant. 
D. Fargesii is now listed by Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie., Paris, 
who rive a figure of it in their new Catalogue of Seeds of Trees 
and Shrubs. Should it prove as hardy in Britain is in Central 
France it will be an acquisition for shrubberies and lawns. 
CALLIOPSIS 
HYBRIDA SUPERBA. 
The above is one of the novelties of Mr. Franz Anton linage, 
Erfurt. About five years ago he found amongst his cultures of 
Calliopsis cardaminifolia hybrida a globe-shaped, small and 
very floriferous plant with yellow and red flowers on one stem, 
which he saved and perfected by after culture, and now intro¬ 
duces to commerce. Some other Continental seedsmen also 
list it. 
The plant attains a height of 12 in. to 16 in., and branches 
from the ground upwards till it forms a regular ball of dark 
green foliage, out of which the flowers finally develop, forming 
a mass of blossom. Only a small percentage of the seedlings 
revert to the original loose-habited and spreading plant, but 
these can be recognised at an early period of growth and 
removed from the group or seed bed and planted elsewhere. 
The individual blooms have a diameter of \ in. to f in., 
and are borne on stalks 4 in. to 6 in. long. The flowers vary 
in colour from light yellow to brown-purple velvet, including 
canary-yellow, golden-yellow, orange-yellow, with or without a 
dark centre, salmon-red, orange-scarlet, carmine, red-brown 
with terra-cotta shades and blood-red. 
The raiser sends out a coloured plate showing a plant in 
full bloom as well as cut flowers of other colour varieties, all 
of which are very beautiful. Sometimes different, colours occur 
on the same plant. It may be grown for grouping or bedding 
on lawns or elsewhere, as well as a pot plant. With care it 
may be lifted and potted up like China Asters when in full 
bloom. The name Calliopsis is now included under Coreopsis. 
PINK PERPETUAL CYCLOP 
EDMUND MAUTHNER. 
The plant of this Cyclop Pink barely grows 10 in. high, and 
is of stout, compact- habit. The flowers are sweetly scented 
and require no support. They are of a. bright red, rather unique 
colour, relieved by a dark zone in the centre. The foliage is 
of a grey or glaucous hue, forming a strong contrast to the 
flowers. The plant is perfectly hardy, and may be propagated 
by layers, cuttings, or seeds. About 65 per cent, of the seed¬ 
lings are said to come true to name. Cyclop Pinks are at their 
best in May and June, but continue to flower more or less freely 
till October, thus affording useful material for cut flowers, and 
justifying the term of perpetual. The variety is listed by Mr. 
Chr. Lorenz. 
HELIANTHU3 CUCUMERIFOLIUS 
ALBUS FLORE PLENO. 
This is an almost perfectly white double variety of the well- 
known Miniature Sunflower of gardens, and must be unique of 
its kind. There are pale lemon-yellow varieties amongst the 
garden forms of H. annuus. 
The above may be regarded as the name of a race rather 
than a variety, because, like other Sunflower’s, the colour is 
yet rather inconstant when raised from seeds. There is a 
double form named H. c. plenissimus, with fully double flowers, 
and another named H. c- semiplenus, with semi-double flowers, 
and in both cases they vary in colour. 
Nevertheless, the Miniature Sunflowers are enriched by a 
new colour and new forms. The plants make compact, well- 
branched bushes, covered with flowers gracefully borne on 
slender stems, and freely produced during summer and autumn. 
These novelties were raised, and now offered by M. Herb, Via 
Trivio, Naples, Italy. 
