December 5, 1903. 
THE a ARDEN 1 NO WORLD. 
1013 
Plants Recently Certificated 
By the National Chrysanthemum Society. 
November 23rd. 
Chrysanthemum Dorothy Pywell. 
For description see below. First-class Certificate to William 
Seward, Esq., The Firs, Hanwell. 
Chrysanthemum Lady Cranston. 
For description, see below. First-class Certificate' to Mr. W. 
J. Godfrey. 
Chrysanthemum Pink Pet. 
The blooms of this single variety are of large size and of a 
warm pink fading to a, white zone round the central bright, 
yellow disc. First-class Certificate to Messrs. J. Peed and 
Son, Norwood Hoad, West Norwood, London, S.E. 
rx./ a K/ « , 
By the Royal Horticultural Society. 
November 24th. 
ORCHID COMMITTEE. 
Laeliocattleya Cassiope Westonbirt var. 
The sepals and petals of this beautiful hybrid variety are 
warm rose. The lip, has a, veiy wavy margin, the undulations, 
being earned right round to the lateral lobes as well. The' 
whole of the portion so edged is of a rich crimson-purple, with 
two yellow blotches almost concealed in the throat and striated 
with crimson; the base of the tube is crimson. Award of 
Merit to Capri Holford, C.I.E., Westonbirt, T'etbury, Gloucester. 
Cypripedium leeanum staffordianum. 
The dorsal sepal is of huge size, being particularly broad 
at the top and revolute at the sides in the lower portion; 
most of it is white, the base only being green, spotted with, 
brown, while the mid-rib is claret. The wary petals are 
shaded with brown, and the lip- is of a, rich brown with a glossy 
lustre. Award of Merit to Capri Holford, C.I.E. 
Cypripedium Queen of Italy. 
In this we have a very handsome variety, which may be 
taken, for granted when, it is stated that the parentage was C. 
insignei Sanderae x Godefroyae leucochilum. The dorsal 
sepal is sulphur-yellow finely spotted with purple, while the 
petals are also marked with small specks. The whole of the 
flower has been very much modified or influenced by the yellow 
insigne Sanderae, and is certainly very handsome. Award of 
Merit to Messrs. Cbarlesworth and Co., Heaton, Bradford. 
FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
Chrysanthemum Mrs. James Dunn. 
For description of this variety see page 966. Award of 
Merit, to Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryeeroft Nursery, Hither Green, 
Lewisham. 
Chrysanthemum Dorothy Pywell. 
The above is a Japanese variety, with broad pure white and 
very much interlaced florets, more, or less incurved at the tips, 
especially in the earlier stages of development. Award of 
Merit to Wm.' Seward, Esq., The Firs,, Hanwell, Middlesex. 
Chrysanthemum Lady Cranston. 
The above is a beautiful sport from Mrs. Berkeley, and has 
all the good qualities of that popular variety and its char¬ 
acteristics except in the matter of colour. The florets are 
white, except in the centre, which are delicately tinted with, 
pink, giving the bloom a choice and refined appearance. 
Award of Merit to Mr. W. J. Godfrey, Exmouth, Devon, 
Death or Me. William Cossae.— We regret to announce that 
Mr. William Cossar, head gardener to Earl Mansfield, Kenwood, 
Hampstead, died at his residence on Saturday morning, Novem¬ 
ber 21st, at the age of 77 yeai’s. Mr. Cossar had been gardener 
at Kenwood, on the borders of Hampstead Heath. London, for 
the last 37 years, and was well known locally, though he did 
not mix much in public affairs. 
The Best Flowering Plants at Kew. 
“ There are more plants in the garden than ye wot of.” 
Cattleya bowringiana var. violacea. 
This variety closely resembles the type, which in, its turn 
is allied to 0. Skinneri, differing, however, by its slightly 
larger violet-tinted flowers, which lend to it an appreciated 
distinctness. Central America. 
Coelogyne (Pleione) praecox var. wallichiana. 
This is a large self-coloured variety, with a few longitudinal 
yellow lines on the interior of the lip. The frontal margin of 
the convolute lip is recurved and finely fimbriated. Masses of 
it in shallow pans are very showy, and have a distinct effect. 
Laelia autumnalis. 
The pseudo-bulbs are much wrinkled, ovate, and produce 
two somewhat linear, coriaceous leaves. Its rosy-purple 
flowers, nearly i in, across, having a pale-coloured or white lip, 
are borne on an erect long scape. This species somewhat 
closely resembles L. crispa, a Brazilian species, but is more 
slender in all its parts. Mexico 1 . 
Phaius chardwarense. 
A charming plant some 12 in. high , with two to three semi- 
erect leaves closely resembling those of Calanthe Veitchi. 
The stout erect scape is terminated by flowers having orange- 
yellow pointed segments and a maroon convolute lip, marked 
with lighter yellow markings. 
Aphelandra nitens. 
A stove plant, which, were it only for the intense claret 
colour of its elliptic-ovate leaves, is deserving of popularity; 
but in, addition to them the erect stem is terminated by a 
dense bracteate spike' of scarlet flowers. Grown annually from 
cuttings in small pots, it forms a. useful, highly decorative 
plant, very effective when intermingled with lighter coloured 
subjects as an edging for stages, E. Peru. 
Barleria flava. 
This plant in habit somewhat resembles the preceding, but 
possesses green leaves. Its 1 yellow flowers are borne in a 
bracteate erect spike, the bracts being green. Tropical Africa 
Hippeastrum aulicuui. 
Though one, of the progenitors of the florist’s varieties, yet 
it is still well worthy of a place as a decorative plant, more 
especially as it flowers earlier, when its funnel-shaped, deep 
crimson flowers are appreciated. Brazil. 
Erica grandiosa, 
A dwarf, slender-branolied plant about 12 in. high, of a, 
light, graceful habit. The stems are clothed with small linear 
leaves in whorls of three, and terminate by clusters of three 
to four small delicate drooping white flowers inflated at their 
base. South Africa. 
Clematis aristata. 
This is a profusely flowered climber whose flowers are 
intermediate between the New Zealand C. indivisa, and the 
Chinese C. meyeniana. Leaves of three lanceolate, petiolate 
leaflets, by which it attaches itself. The young stems produce 
at almost every node two long opposite-flowered racemes of 
many white flowers, which are highly decorative. Australia, 
Steong Banana Maeket at New Yoke, Oct 10th-—The 
Banana market, with little more than 40,000 bunches offered 
for sale, has been remarkably strong this week, and prices have 
ruled high and firm as a rock. All through the week the demand 
has more than kept apace with the supply-.—“ Fruitman’s 
Guide.” 
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Giant Potato. —The “ Belfast Evening Telegraph ” gives an 
illustration of two Potatos, each over 6 in. in length. One 
weighed 21, lb., but was an ungainly looking tuber with four 
protuberances upon it. The other was somewhat more shapely, 
and weighed 2 lb. They were grown on the farm of Sir. 
Thomas Gilmore, Ardmullan, Killinchy, Co. Down. 
