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THE GARDENING WORLD . 
August 20, 1904. 
watered with the garden-engine. You are not too late yet, pos¬ 
sibly, to be of service by applying the water m the way men¬ 
tioned, though it would have given you a much better chance 
by commencing earlier. 
Carnations Sporting. 
Tn a bed of seeding Carnations a variety having striped flowers 
has produced a purple bloom on one of the shoots. At first 
I thought that two plants had been placed close together when 
put out. but both kinds come from the same root. Is this an 
uncommon thing, and, if so, what is the cause of it (\V. A. is.) 
It is not very uncommon for varieties of Carnations to sport 
in this way. Indeed, many of the named varieties are more 
inclined to it than the cultivators desire. The usual explanation 
of the cause of it is that the sport is a reversion to some previous 
parent. Carnations, like many other florists’ flowers, have been 
so frequently crossed and recrossed that they are of a very 
mixed character, and unstable in constitution. The sport is 
usually a case of the unmixing of combined colours, or else 
merely a reversion to some parent, it may have been some 
generations ago. It is a problem that has never been solved 
to say what is the cause of such behaviour amongst plants, as 
the causes of such things are always obscure. 
Fruits to Name 
(J L. W.)—You sent too many fruits, unfortunately, tor the 
size of the box, so that you allowed no room for packing, with 
the result that no less than five of the labels were knocked off 
the fruits in passing through the post. Apples : Lady Henniker, 
Councillor, Wellington, and Norman’s Pippin were four out 
cf the five varieties which had lost their labels, so that, although 
we can furnish the names, we cannot now place them to then- 
numbers, which were lying loose in the box. The others, w i i 
the numbers still attached, were: 2, Cox’s Orange Pippin ; 3, 
Keswick Codlin ; 5, Queen Caroline ; 8, Summer Golden I ippm. 
Pears: 1, Beurre Clairgeau ; 2, too imperfect a specimen to 
name; 3, Brown Beurre. 
Names of Plants. 
(A. J. R.) 1, Centaurea dealbata; 2, Galega officinalis ; o, 
Althaea officinalis ; 4, Campanula lactiflora; 5, Lilium parda- 
linum ; 6, Veronica, spicata. alba.—(R. M. ) 1, Swainsonia coro- 
nillifolia ; 2, Celsia arc.turus ; 3, Campanula latifolia; 4, Con¬ 
volvulus mauritanicus; 5, Asplenium bulbiferum minus.— 
(F. R.) 1, Hibiscus syriacus ; 2, Spiraea Douglasn ; 3, Cotone- 
aster frigidus; 4, Cotoneaster nummularia; 5, Cistus lauri- 
folia; 6, Spartium junceum.—(J. Thompson.) 1, Lomana 
ciliata; 2, Litobrochia vespertilionis ; 3, Polypodium pectina- 
tum ; 4, Asplenium ebeneum ; 5, Doodia aspera; 6, Onoclea 
sensibilis ; 7, Asplenium Adiantum nigrum.—(T. B.) 1, Catt- 
leya Loddigesii; 2, Cattleya Eldorado ; 3, Hymenoeallis ovata 
(best known under the name of Pancratium fragrans) ; 4, Eccre- 
mocarpus. scaber ; 5, Echinacea purpurea ; 6, Senecio Petasitis. 
_(-\Y. R.) 1, Tritonia Pottsii (better known as Montbretia 
Pottsii); 2, Crinum longifolium.—(Ed. Wardley.) 1, Carduus 
nutans; 2, Erythraea Centaurium; 3, Eupatorium cannabi- 
num ; 4, Ononis repens ; 5, Gallium verum; 6, Gentiana 
Am ar ell a ; 7, Scabiosa arvensis.—(W. W.) 1, Verbascum phoeni- 
eeum ; 2, Veroniea virginiea; 3, Stachys coecinea; 4, Digitalis 
lutea. 
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Trade Catalogues Received. 
Sutton and Sons, Royal Seed Establishment, Reading. < 
Sutton’s Bulbs. . , 
James Veitch and Sons, Ltd., Royal Exotic Nursery, Kings 
Road, Chelsea.—Bulb Catalogue ; also a List of Select Straw¬ 
berries ; Novelties ; and Lilium Henryi and L. bakerianum. 
Llewellin’s Machine Company, King s Square, Bristol. 
Time Checkers and* Recorders, Watchmens Watches, Machine- 
cut Gears, etc. . 
Robert Sydenham, Tenby Street, Birmingham.—Unique 
Bulb List, with revised Pamphlet, “How I Came to Grow 
Bulbs.” . . 
Fisher, Son and Sibrat, Ltd., Royal Nurseries, Handsworth, 
near Sheffield.—Bulbs. 
William Bell and Sons, Chelsea, London.—Bull s Catalogue 
of Bulbs. t . . . 
Vilmorin-Andriettx et Cie., 4, Q.uai de la Megisserie, laris. 
—Catalogue of Bulbs and Strawberries. 
Hogg and Robertson, the King’s Seedsmen, 22, Mary Street, 
Dublin.—Robertson’s Irish-grown Bulbs. 
Samuel Dobie and Son. Heathfield Gardens, near Chester.— 
The Amateurs’. Garden Annual (Autumn Edition). 
Dickson, Brown and Tait, 43 and 45, Corporation Street, 
Manchester.—Autumn Catalogue of Flowering Bulbs, etc. 
Dicksons and Co., 1, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh.—Dicksons’ 
Flower Roots. 
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CONTENTS OF THIS WEEK. 
PAGE 
Aconitum Napellus album... 671 
Birds and fruit. 665 
Caltha elata . 666 
Campanulas, two. 664 
Cannas for winter blooming 667 
Century plant, another ...... 664 
Delphinium nudicaule. 665 
Deutzia scabra discolor pur¬ 
pura scens . 665 
Flower garden, the . 662 
Forestry, scientific . 661 
Fruit, hardy . 662 
Fruit, nuts and vegetables... 661 
Fruit trees, transplanting ... 667 
Fruits, British grown . 661 
Garden and some of its gems, 
our rock . 668 
Gooseberries at Oulton . 661 
Herbaceous border, hardy ... 663 
Herbaceous border, the . 671 
Lilies at Kew. 669 
Lilium testaceum. 665 
Lithospermum graminifolium 665 
News of the week.. 676 
Orchids, among the. 662 
Pliaius with parents, hybrid 670 
Plants recently certificated 672 
PAGE 
Phloxes, perennial .. 666 
Potatos all the year round... 668 
Primrose and Darwinism ... 663 
Questions and answers . 6/7 
Royal Agricultural Society 661 
Societies : 
Midland Carnation and 
Picotee.:. 673 
National Carnation and 
Picotee. 673 
Poyal Horticultural of 
Ireland. 673 
Society and association notes 675 
Stock for Bambler Roses, 
new . 664 
Vine culture . 663 
Weeding of ponds. 667 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Delphinium nudicaule. 671 
Deutzio scabra discolor pur- 
puiascens . 665 
Lilium testae urn.•••;• 667 
Lithospermum gramini¬ 
folium . 668 
Pliaius with parents, group 
of hybrid see Supplement). 
