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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
Jin? 13, 13) j. 
One of the earlier flowering species of Cytisus is C. elongata, 
with yellow flowers. C. Schipkaensis is grown both in bush 
form and as a standard, its white flowers being freely pro¬ 
duced. Raphiolepis ovata does well here, and might more 
often be planted on rockeries on account of its slow-growing 
habit and white flowers. Some new forms of Mock Orange 
have recently been added to the collection, including Phila- 
delphus Falconeri, with powerfully-scented pure white 
single flowers, and P. primulaeflora, which is also fragrant, and 
lias single white flowers, but differs in form. A useful plant 
for rockeries is Genista prostrata, with yellow flowers. Very 
handsome is Cytisus pallida, with flowers much larger than 
those of C. praecox, and more decided in colour. 
Cornus brachypoda forms a tree 20 ft. high or more. A 
handsome variety of it is C. b. variegata, with broad white 
edges to the leaves. Interesting blue flowers are Ceanothus 
papillosus and C. veitchianus, both of which make very hand¬ 
some wall plants, with evergreen foliage. Another plant 
grown as a standard is Cytisus grandiflorus, with yellow flowers 
like those of the common Broom, but the shoots are perfectly 
pendulous in habit. 
Maule’s Quince (Pyrus Maulei), in the form of a standard, is 
very handsome. Amongst Japanese Maples we might men¬ 
tion Acer palmatum dissectum, A. p. palmatifidum, and A. p. 
japonicum aureum, all of which do well here. Very fine forms 
of the common Laburnum are L. vulgare Alchingerii and L. v. 
Vossi, which have long racemes of yellow flowers. 
Messrs. Veitch’s Feltham Nursery. 
Within the last few years a large range of glass has been 
built in the Feltham .Nursery of Messrs'. J. Veitch and Sons, 
.Limited, and the soft-wooded plants are mostly grown here, 
with tire exception of Orchids. 'W hen on a recent, visit tflere 
we noted a tine batch of Hehmannia, angulata, which has droop¬ 
ing, irregular flowers somewhat in the style of the old-fash¬ 
ioned Gloxinia, though less distinctly cylindrical in the tube. 
The limb of tne flower is purple and spotted with deep red 
blotches on a yellow ground, running down the tube. The 
flowers are produced singly in the axils of the leaves, and are 
produced in succession as tne stem lengthens. A fine Kalanchoe 
ielthamensis, a new hybrid which recently received a First- 
class Certificate, has bright scarlet flowers, produced in cymose 
umbels. Streptocarpus achimeniflorus has been greatly im¬ 
proved, and several of the distinct varieties have had special 
names given them. There seems great promise of this variety, 
for the flowers are of large size and of various soft but pleas¬ 
ing colours. Veitch’s strain of hybrid Streptocarpus hasi been 
greatly improved by taking it to Feltham. The flowers are 
very much larger, the flower-stalks are produced in abundance 
on each plant, and each stalk carries two to six flowers. 
One of the most effective features of the establishment, was 
several batches of Schizanthus, particularly S. wisetonensis, of 
which one house was nearly filled with dwarf branching and 
very, freely-flowered plants. The illustration accompanying 
this article will show an average specimen of this beautiful 
rypei. The flowers are mostly light shades of colour, but 
several of them arei now furnished with a. rich dark blotch on 
the upper lip of the flowers, which may be detected in the 
illustration prepared from a photograph taken in the nursery. 
Other species grown in the nursery were S. pinna,tus, S. retusus, 
S. r. alb.us, and S. Graliami. S. pinnatus is the most fre¬ 
quently grown in gardens and best known to gardeners, but 
it is, a taller-growing variety than any of the others, above 
mentioned, and requires careful management to keep it bushy. 
Another type of Kalanchoe is K. kewensk, with subterets and 
sometimes three-lobed glaucous leaves of a fleshy character, 
like all the rest. The flowers are of a, beautiful rose colour, 
and, though the stems are somewhat tall, this difficulty may 
be got over in the near future by a.new method of treatfnent. 
Here also we noted a large batch of flowering plants of Rich- 
ardia ell loti ana, the earliest of which were just coming into 
bloom. Moscliosma riparium is naturally a winter flowering 
plant, but late-struck cuttings of it were in bloom at the end 
of May. The scented-leaved Pelargoniums are grown in great 
quantity at Feltham, and though their flowers are not par¬ 
ticularly showy nor of large size, the numerous species and 
varieties give off scents of a, varied character, and in all cases 
prove very agreeable. They might be much more generally 
used amongst cut flowers for this reason. A few plants should 
always be present in the conservatory. 
Cannas are grown in great variety, but, as the plants had 
not reached the flowering stage, we need not mention varieties 
at present. 
The Carnation house is well filled with a great varietv of 
tree Carnations, including all the best of the named Malinaison 
varieties in 6-in. pots. The old blush and pink varieties are 
grown in quantity, as they still find a large number of admirers 
amongst cultivators of Carnations. A quantity of two-year- 
old plants is grown in 24-size pots. Gloxinias have flowered 
very well this year, the large plants' being in 48 and 32 size 
pots. These were, of course, last year’s seedlings, and the first 
■batch to bloom. Some of the flowers measured 4f in. across. 
There' were also several batches of younger plants. 
In the trial grounds May-flowering Tulips were still in 
bloom on the occasion of our visit, and some of them were 
very fine, particularly Tulipa spathulata. The home-grown 
bulbs of this Tulip had distinctly taller stems than those grown 
in Holland, and some of the huge flowers we measured were 
3 in. to 3§ in. deep, showing a distinct advantage of home¬ 
grown Tulips, as compared with the Dutch productions. The 
dwarf T. persica was very pretty with its, bright yellow flowers, 
stained with chestnut-red on, the back. T. viridiflora, the green 
Tulip, was also in good condition. The same may be said of 
T. pla.tystigma and several varieties of Parrot Tulips. A con¬ 
spicuous late-flowering Tulip was that named Gala Beauty, 
which was barred with scarlet on a golden ground, and veiy 
effective. 
Tillandsia Glaziovii. 
The Revue de VHorticulture Beige for February gives an illus¬ 
tration of a flowering plant of this Bromeiiad. J he plant is also 
known as Vriesea gigantea and liilandsia Regina. The flowers 
are creamy white, exnalmg the odour of Jasmine. The plant has 
flowered ac the School of Horticulture of Vilvorde, m, the glass¬ 
houses there. 
The panicle is pyramidal, four or five feet high, with numerous 
spreading branches at the top, and furnished with large oval 
green bracts. The floral bracts are six or eight inches long, 
recurved at the tips, and resembling small leaves. The plant 
developed very rapidly, attaining a height of eight feet or more, 
counting the inflorescence. The leaves number thirty to fifty, 
each three and a-half to four feet long, three to four inches wide, 
grooved, and shaded with a glaucous green on botii surfaces. 
The plant came originally from South Brazil. It has a mag¬ 
nificent and majestic appearance,, and is one of the largest of the 
Bromeliads cultivated under glass. Numbers of plants may be 
seen with the florists in the city of Paris’. There is also a very 
good specimen in the Victoria House at Kew. 
Its culture is easy. It is propagated by seeds, or preferably 
by the separation of the suckers. It is necessary to wait until 
they have became fairly strong before detaching them from the, 
mother plant, then to pot them separately in pots, only having 
dimensions strictly necessary to hold them, and in potting theni 
to use a compost of fibrous loam, peat and leaf mould. If is 
not necessary to place the suckers in a propagating case, for fht 
purpose of rooting them, but simply to keep them in a propa¬ 
gating pit moderately humid and well shaded. The spring is the, 
best time to detach them from the mother plant. 
The most part of the Bromeliads live as epiphytes, and require 
a light fibrous soil in our cultures. Nevertheless the bulky 
species like T. Glaziovii do best in a mixture of loam, leaf mould 
and peat. The watering should be copious during the period oi 
vegetation, which is usually spring and summer, but mow 
sparing in winter on the contrary. As to temperature, T 
Glaziovii does well in an intermediate home. 
