December 3, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD, 
975 
Notes on the Illustrations in this Issue. 
Apple Schoolmaster. 
We are now in, a. position to give an illustration of the above, 
variety, which we mentioned in our columns on page 929. The 
specimen represents a bush tree about 8-1- ft. high, which 
carried 220 fruits. The photograph was taken, on Oct. 29th 
last, in the nursery of Messrs. J. Oheal and 1 Sons, Lowfield Nur¬ 
series, Crawley, Sussex. As will be seen, the leaves have fallen 
from the tree, but the fruits were left hanging with the object 
of more fully attaining maturity. T'he fruits were of medium 
size', oblong, and) olf a. light shining green at this stage, but 
finally they become yellow as. they reach maturity in the fruit- 
room. The skin is more or less marked with small specks as 
in. the case of Dumelow’s Seedling, from which it is supposed 
to be a seedling. 
Although itTba® proved moist useful asi a, kitchen Apple, it 
may also be used for dessert purpose® after it. be¬ 
comes. 1 mellow, when it may he described a® of good 
quality. It is in season; during October and Novem¬ 
ber. The most important recommendation of the 
variety is that it is suitable for cold, heavy, wet 
soils, upon which it thrives and fruits regularly every 
year. The blossom is light in. colour and very hand¬ 
some, so that it might he appropriately used as a. 
tree upon the lawn by those who like to have Apples 
ini that position, for this one is ornamental both for 
flowers and fruit. 
Apple Peasgood’s Nonsuch. 
As an exhibition, Apple this ha,si been so much 
before the public during the past ten yeans that few 
gardeners are now unacquainted with it. It is char¬ 
acterised by the great size of the fruits and their 
high colour. We give an illustration of a pot-grown 
tree in thei orchard house of Messrs. ,T. Cheal and 
Sons, and 1 which carried fourteen of its large and 
showy fruits. The pot was of moderate size, and the 
stem of the treei was 3 ft. to the lowest, branch. 
We may say that this system of growing the fruits 
is not the only way to get either large fruits or rich 
colouring, but. owing to the uncertainty of our spring, 
a few trees in an orchard house will ensure a supply 
oif fruits even when the crop out of doors may have 
been destroyed in its initial stage®. After growing 
the fruits for some time und'er glass a, higher colour 
than usual can be obtained by placing the pots out 
of doors for a few weeks previous! to the fruits attain¬ 
ing maturity. This exposure tlo the sum and air has 
a wonderful effect ini developing the rich red colour 
which most people a,dmire in Apple®. 
Asparagus medeoloides uyrtifolia. 
The above is the name given toi a, new variety of 
the plant best known) in gardens under the name of 
Smilax, Myrsiphyllum and Medaola asparagoides, and which is 
so much grown on strings and stakes for decorative purposes. 
When, grown upon strings the whole length of the stem is 
usuallytout and used ini that, form for table decoration in a, great, 
variety of ways. The new variety is characterised by having 
leaves' very much smaller than those of the common form, and 
the varietal namei attached to it, means Myrtle-leaved, in refer¬ 
ence to the small size of the so- Bl ed leaves 1 . We give an illusi- 
tration of thei common form and the nlew small-leaved variety 
in juxtaposition, toi give am idea, of the relative size of the 
leaves of both plants and the graceful character of the- new¬ 
comer for decorative work. 
Our photograph was taken in the nursery of Messrs. Hugh, 
Low and Co., Bush Hill Park, Middlesex, who are putting it 
into- commercei and have shown it at several exhibitions during 
the autumn months. It, is scarcely necessary to add that the 
new variety will thrive under precisely the same conditions and 
treatment as the old one. The novelty turned up as a, sport 
in, a, batch of seedlings of the ordinary form some years ago. 
It i® usually propagated by careful division of the clusters of 
tuber's a,t the base, or crown of the plant. 
Dendrobium densiflorum albc-luteum. 
Thei above is the correct name of a variety of Dendrobium 
best known in gardens as D. thyrsiflorum. Our illustration 
represents a well-grown and flowered plant bearing eight of its 
handsome drooping spikes or racemes of flowers, which are 
white with a- rich orange lip, a® the above name is intended to 
indicate. The plant was grown, by Mr. J. Hazelhurst, gardener 
to Alderman Morris, Ashfield, Burtom-on-Trent, who writes as 
follows : “ Being greatly interested in The Gardening World, 
which I find most instructive, I wonder if the enclosed photo 
of Demdrobium thyrsiflorum (which was photographed here* 
early in May) would be of any interest to- your readers. I may 
say that this is only a, singlet-handed place, but I take a great 
interest in Orchids, and I find the Orchid notes in. The Garden¬ 
ing World m-o-st useful. I should very much like toi see the 
notes a, little longer; a whole page would he quite small 
enough.” 
Edinburgh ’Mum Show was, as usual, a fine display of what 
the art of the gardener can accomplish. Setting aside 
journalistic puffing, one who views the ’Mum exhibi¬ 
tion soberly must come to the conclusion that the de¬ 
velopment of the big ’Mum has reached its limits. It 
is difficult to see any difference in this direction for 
some years. Would it not be equally advantageous to the art 
and skill of the gardener if he were, for a change, to turn his 
attention to the perfection of the same varieties in miniature? 
There was a unanimous feeling amongst spectators once more 
that the adjudication in many cases ought to have been reversed. 
D. C. 
Afpie Schoolmaster at the end of October. 
