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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
May 9,1903. 
Apple Edward VII. 
The parentage of the above new variety of Apple was Blen¬ 
heim Orange Pippin x Golden Noble, and the fruit of the pro¬ 
geny is fairly intermediate. To be particular, the Apple takes 
after the former in the matter of flavour, while the appearance 
is more in the way of Golden Noble. The fruit is generally 
oblate, with very small calyx segments, which makes the eye 
almost open. The latter is seated in a rather shallow cavity, 
and is surrounded by five little nobs or elevations. The cavity 
at the base is moderately deep, not very wide, and the stalk 
about § in. long (see illustration). At present the skin is 
yellow, finely mottled with brown specks, with a deep red cheek 
»n the sunny or exposed side. 
The photograph from which the illustration was pre¬ 
pared was taken from a specimen in our offices on the 
30th ult., which shows that the fruit agrees with what the 
-aisers represented it to be—namely, an Apple in season during 
April and May. Messrs. W. B. llowe and Son, Banbourne Nur¬ 
series, Droitwich Boad, Worcester, tell us that for the last 
three years since they first fruited the variety they have had 
a tart made from it on St. Swithin’s Day. 
The fruit is solid, heavy, and keeps well until June. The 
tree is a regular and great bearer, upright in growth, short 
jointed, and a very late bloomer, so that it misses the May 
frosts. It is excellent both for dessert and cooking purposes, 
and is evidently one of the best late keeping Apples in exist¬ 
ence. During April and May the best varieties of British- 
grown Apples are certainly all out of season, and in the market 
we have to depend upon Canadian and Tasmanian produce. 
■ We noted the fruit on March 24th last, when exhibited at 
the Drill Hall meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
when an Award of Merit was unanimously given it, but from 
the appearance of the fruit at that time we were afraid it would 
not keep. This impression has been dispelled by the fine con¬ 
dition of the specimen sent us on the above date. 
Cyrtostachys Renda duvivieriana. 
At least, three species of Cyrtostachys are known to science, 
and possibly two varieties, though some of them are not well 
known to cultivation. They are slender-stemmed Palms, grow¬ 
ing gregariously on the islands of the Malayan Archipelago. 
The stems are tall and furnished with rings, indicating the 
position of fallen leaves. The leaves are equally pinnate, and 
the segments bifid at the apex. The base is furnished with a 
long sheath, which covers all the younger portion of the stem, 
and both this sheath and the leaf-stalk itself are more or less 
a bright red. The typical C. Renda at Ivew has a sheath that 
is orange shaded with red, and the petiole is more or less of 
the latter colour. This species is a native of Sumatra. 
The variety under notice was exhibited at the Ghent Quin¬ 
quennial, April 18th to 26th, by M. L. de Smet-Duvivier, Mont 
St. Amand, Ghent, and was a neat specimen grown in a tub, as 
our illustration on another page will show. It stood 7 ft. or 
8 ft, high, and was noted for the bright red colour of the various 
parts above named. It is a character of all the species to be 
coloured in this way, but the variety differs in being much more 
highly coloured than usual. It won the Gold Medal offered by 
the Societe Royale d’Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand. 
Datura sanguinea. 
Grown in large pots or tubs, with a clean stem 5 ft. high, 
and a horizontally-spread head, this, as a specimen for the 
centre of a conservatory, is an excellent subject, which is well 
illustrated by the handsome specimen in the Temperate house. 
Native of Peru. 
Darwinia macicstegia (syn. D, tulipifera). 
As one of its names imply, the white crimson-flaked in¬ 
volucres resemble inverted Tulips. It is a desirable green¬ 
house plant, lasting in flower for months, possibly the best of 
the genus, It is distinguished from liookeriana by the colour 
and larger size of its involucres, its larger and fragrant leaves, 
and later-flowering period. Native of Australia. 
The Best Flowering Plants at Kew. 
‘ There are more plants in the garden than ye wot of.” 
Oncidium altissimum. 
Although this handsome species, which was one of the first 
introduced, has been superseded by the later-found forms in 
point of colour, yet, when plants such as those in the Orchid 
house are observed, with panicles from 4 ft. to 6 ft. long, each 
bearing fully 100 flowers, on scapes about 3 ft, long, it becomes 
apparent to the observer that its profusion of yellow flowers, 
marked with chestnut brown, gives it rank as most desirable 
for the embellishment of eveiy collection. Native of South 
America, 
Dendrobium thrysiflorum. 
One of the most desirable and beautiful of Dendrobes, be 
longing to the Calostachyae section, i.e., those possessing loose 
lateral racemes, and so closely allied to D. densiflorum as to 
have been classed as a form of that species. It. has a moderately 
robust habit, with a many-flowered raceme 9 in. to 12 in. long. 
In diameter each flower measures Tj in. to 2 in., having seem¬ 
ingly transparent white, orbicular petals, oblong sepals, and a 
downy yellow lip, with fimbriated margin. Native of Burmah. 
Clerodendron Thomsonae. 
A glabrous stove climber of well-known merit, bearing 
numerous axillary and terminal panicles of flowers in dichoto¬ 
mous cymes. The flower consists of a five-angled, inflated 
smooth white calyx, protruding from which is a. bright coral- 
red oblique flow r er. Though the flowers are somewhat ephe¬ 
meral, yet the calyces are very persistent, and useful for cut- 
flower purposes. Native of W. Tropical Africa. 
Antigonon leptopus. 
It. lias been asserted that, in Tropical America there does not 
exist a more beautiful or graceful climbing plant, rivalling the 
famed Bougainvilleas in distinctiveness of colour. A poly- 
gonaceous plant resembling in habit the; well-known Polygonum 
baldschuanicum, but requiring a, stove temperature, and pro¬ 
ducing bright rose-coloured flowers, which are borne on axillary 
or terminal racemes, whose peduncle forms hooked tendrils. 
The individual flowers are ^ in. across, of two calycine whorls, 
the outer of three cordate segments with pointed reflexed 
margins and the inner whorl of two smaller oblong ones, all 
coloured bright rose. 
Crinum Moorei, var. album. 
A handsome member of that section, having permanently 
curved tube and funnel-shaped perianth. Though this 
species, which is nearly hardy, can be flowered out of doors, 
at least, in borders running contiguous with a heated plant, 
house, yet it should be accorded a. position in the greenhouse, 
either in large pots or planted out, when its ten or twelve- 
flowered umbels of very large flowers will make a display 
sufficiently effective to repay with interest the care bestowed 
on them. Native of Natal. 
Arthropodium cirrhatum. 
Of the seven species contained in this genus, this is the only 
one met with in general cultivation, differing from the. others 
in the possession of a tail-like process at. the base of the filar 
meats. A liliaceous plant, with many_ oblong leaves nearly 
3 ft, long, and a lax panicle of whitish flowers, veiy suitable as 
specimen plants in 10-in. pots for greenhouse or conservatory 
decoration. Native of New Zealand. 
Tritonia hyalina. 
A distinct plant, associating well with Ixias, which it re¬ 
sembles, producing spikes of light rose-coloured or white 
flowers, having a hyaline blotch at the base of each segment. 
Native of S. Africa. 
Veronica hulkeana. 
One of the most distinct and beautiful of the large New 
Zealand section of this genus. The stems, are about 12 m. 
high, each terminating in a panicled raceme of small li ac 
flowers. A batch in 5-in. pots is a graceful adjunct to green¬ 
house stages. 
