Tal 21, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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herbaceous flowers, etc., on July 21st and 
22nd next in the Pit tone rieff Park, Dunferm¬ 
line. The co-operation of exhibitors and 
competitors is invited in making' the show as 
successful as possible. The management of 
the exhibition has been entrusted to the Dun¬ 
fermline and West of Fife Horticultural 
Society, acting in conjunction with the repre¬ 
sentatives of the trust. The prizes 'offered 
are open to competition free of charge. Alto¬ 
gether prizes are offered in forty-five classes, 
a large number of which are open to all, and 
the prizes are liberal by comparison with 
prizes offered by various other societies for 
similar classes of plants. Entries for this 
show close on July 14th. The secretary is 
Mr. John Hynd, Mid-Beveridgewell, Dun¬ 
fermline, to whom intending exhibitors 
should make applications for schedules. 
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Kcw Gardens List of Seeds. 
The list of seeds of liardy herbaceous 
plants, trees, and shrubs offered in exchange 
by the authorities of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, is now on our table. The 
liardy herbaceous plants are by far the most 
numerous, and contain seeds of the new 
Allium albo-pilosum, and the beautiful blue- 
flowered A. kansuense. Many of the species 
offered are very uncommon in gardens, and 
although a large number of them are chiefly 
suitable for botanic gardens, many of them 
are of a, highly ornamental character, and de- 
serve more extended cultivation. This would 
include species of Aconitum, Anemone, Aqui- 
legia, Amaranthus, Armeria, Aster, Campa,- 
nula, Delphinium, Crocus, Eryngium, Gen- 
tiana, Geranium, Lupinus, Lychnis, Linaria, 
Pentstemon, Papaver, Potentilla, Saxifraga, 
Scabiosa, Silene, Stipa, Verbascum, Veronica, 
etc., many of which are of undoubted value 
for garden decoration. The trees and shrubs 
include a few Conifers, together with a large 
number of Hawthorns, Clematis, Pyrus, Rosa, 
Spiraea, and many others. Those who are 
collecting plants, and who have anything to> 
exchange, will be sure to find something to 
interest them in this list. 
negie Dunfermline Trust. 
>e trustees, looking after the interests of 
Carnegie's munificent gift to Dunferm- 
liave made arrangements for holding 
first summer show of Roses, Pansies, 
National Fruit-Growers’ Federa¬ 
tion. 
From the annual report of the council we 
glean particulars of what this Federation has 
been doing during the past year. The Rail¬ 
way Vans Committee of the Federation stat e 
that the Great Western Railway Compary 
agreed to attach ventilated fruit vans to some 
of the goods trains for trial. These vans 
being covered in not. only save the necessary 
time and expense in covering them with 
sheets, but at the same time more room is 
allowed in the vans for fruit. By being able 
to take a heavier load, they think this will 
lead to a saving of mileage and prevent delay. 
The Midland Company have been asked to 
have torpedo ventilators put in the roofs of 
their passenger fruit vans in the same way 
as their goods vans are treated. It was 
pointed out that the heating of soft fruit, 
such as Strawberries, was detrimental to the 
next load. The question of late evening 
special trains for fruit only, to be picked up 
at the loading stations, has been followed up. 
This will enable the growers to pick Straw¬ 
berries, etc,, late in the afternoon to' be de¬ 
livered in, northern markets early next morn¬ 
ing, almost as good as morning picked. A 
strong feeling had arisen that vegetables 
grown on sewage farms by municipal bodies 
were a danger to the public health, but. the 
council has hitherto been unable to obtain 
evidence of actual cases of disease caused in 
this way. It seems, however, that the 
French Government are taking up the 
matter, and the case will bei watched on 
behalf of the Federation. Potato® affected 
by a disease appearing in Nottinghamshire 
and Wales, and these having been, sent to 
Kew, the disease was declared to be Oedo- 
myces leproides. The disease is a destruc¬ 
tive one., and the Board of Agriculture has 
been asked to take steps to prevent it 
spreading. 
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Proliferous Arabis albida. 
At a. meeting of the Scientific Committee 
of the R.H.S., on the 3rd inst., Mr. Chitten¬ 
den called attention to the fact that the 
double variety of Arabis albida was produced 
by the calyx and corolla being repeated on 
an elongated axis. It was mentioned that 
similar cases occurred in the double yellow 
Wallflower, Harpur-Crewe, Ranunculus am- 
plexicaulis, a species of Helianthemum, and 
Balchin’s Mignonette. We may say that 
something similar occurs in Garda,mine pra- 
tensis, another member of the Wallflower 
family. This frequently occurs ; n a wild 
state, and double varieties may occasionally 
be picked up. Indeed, in localities where 
doubling occurs, plants are frequently 
numerous, but the doubling does not always 
take place in the same way. We have met 
with double forms in three' counties—namely, 
Aberdeenshire', Kincardineshire, and Perth¬ 
shire. In the. first two instances the flowers 
were more or less double, but the seed-pod 
in the centre first formed as if it were going 
to produce seeds; then it became swollen in 
the middle, and, bursting open, disclosed 
little clusters of coloured petals instead of" 
seeds. The Perthshire form was more fully 
double, very pale', and almost white com¬ 
pared with the garden double variety. This 
would show that double varieties originate 
pretty frequently, and probably from the 
leaves, but possibly from seeds of the plant, 
though seeds are by no means 1 plentifully pro¬ 
duced. If the plant is kept in, a moist atmo¬ 
sphere, such as it would have in a, closed 
frame, a small plant develops at the base of 
the terminal leaflet,, and in a single season 
attains such a size that it flowers fairly 
strongly next spring. 
