March 18, 1905. 
THE GARDENING WORLD, 
227 
Round the Nurseries. 
Ware’s Nurseries, Feltham. 
Hardy plants are everywhere making their appearance in 
wardens around London, where the owners have taken the 
trouble to stock them with early or spring-flowering subjects. 
Knowing the reputation which Ware’s Nurseries have always 
had for hardy plants, we journeyed to inspect the collections 
in the new grounds of Messrs. T. S. Ware, Limited, Ware’s 
Nurseries, Feltham, Middlesex, at the end of last week. We 
laid, however, been observing their exhibits of hardy early 
flowering subjects at the Ii.H.S. meetings during the past 
weeks of the present year. A large number of flowers may be 
seen blooming in the open air, but as a large assortment is 
always kept in cold frames or unheated houses, a great variety 
of subjects may be seen in bloom from the new year onwards 
with a fewer number even during the last months of the year. 
Alpine plants and dwarf subjects. 
We here again had evidence of the ever-flowering character 
of Corydalis thalictrifolia, which may be had 
in flower throughout the year by supplement¬ 
ing the outdoor cultures with plants in pots 
under glass. Under cool treatment the pot 
plants here have been flowering for the last 
three months. A fine batch of Conandron 
ramondioides in pots is now preparing to 
flower splendidly. The plants have radical, 
elliptic, more or less oblique leaves with the 
general habit of Ramondia, to which this 
genus is closely allied. The blue-purple 
flowers are produced in cymes about 4 in. to 
(i in. high from the centre of the plant. Tire 
species comes from Japan, and serves to give 
variety to the European representatives of 
the same family. Another Japanese subject 
is Tanakeae radieans, belonging to the Saxi- 
fraga family, but differing entirely in habit 
from those with which we are familiar. The 
plant produces runners like a Strawberry, and 
small white flowers on stems 6 in. to' 9 in. 
high, not unlike the familiar Astilbe japonica 
of gardens. The leaves, however, are radical, 
obliquely ovate, serrulated, red on the under 
surface, and remind one of a Begonia. 
Incarvillea Delavayi in pots taken under' 
glass is now beginning to throw up its leaves 
and flower stems. Some writers complain 
that plants which flower one year lie dormant 
the next, but that is not the experience in this 
nursery. Potted plants for some reason or 
other - are liable to die away instead of coming 
up, otherwise the same roots continue to 
flower year after year as long as they live'. One of the neatest 
of the American Cowslips, Dodecatheon Hender soni, in small 
pots is now throwing up its flower scapes surrounded by a tuft 
of relatively small ovate’, blunt leaves. In America they are 
known as shooting stars owing to the shape and colour of the 
flowers. The leaves of Chamaelirion carolinianum assume a 
bronzy-purple hue in winter, though the leaves being pushed 
up now are of a beautiful light green. 
Blue Eyed Mary (Omphalode® vema) is already in bloom, 
together with alba, a pure white variety of it. Several 
Primulas are already in bloom, of which we would fain men¬ 
tion P. megaseaefolia, with purple flowers and five bright 
orange spots on the white eye. P. verticillata and P.jrbconica 
in many varieties of a fine strain are also flowering beautifully. 
We should specially mention a large reddish-purple flowered 
variety of the last, named P. o. purpurascens. 
The hardy Cypripediums where they have been taken under 
glass are now commencing to flower, including C. Calceolus, 
with its beautifully contrasted yellow lip and brown segments. 
The same treatment accorded to the Ramondias has brought 
some of them into bloom, including the well-known R. pyren- 
aica and P. serbica Nataliae, which we regarded a-> ifi- m-. 
charming of the lot on account of its dwarf habit, elii • l 
appearance, and free-flowering character. In one of the Imu 
we noted the^double blue form of Anemone Hepatiea, vhi< 
still remains a very scarce plant, although we cultivated it 
successfully in the open air thirty years ago. 
Some of the Himalayan Primulas are already flown mg 
freely, but particularly P. denieulata alba and P. d. alba 
grandiflora. The last-named is a veiy handsome white variety 
with large dense heads of bloom. Interesting was the Califor¬ 
nian P. suffiutescens, the so-called tree Primrose, because it 
produces a stem of some inches in length, crowned by a rosette 
of spathulate leaves, toothed a.t the apex. Much more useful 
are the double forms of the common Primrose, including P. 
acaulis lutea plena, with darker yellow flowers than the older 
double Sulphur-yellow. Even more handsome is the old 
velvety-crimson double Primrose here named P. a Pompadour. 
For many years past P. Sieboldii, in many beautiful garden 
forms, accompanied by the smaller-flowered P. cortusoides, has 
been grown in this country. Large plantations- of them may 
be seen under glass, and also in the open air, where they are 
now pushing up strongly. We are surprised that gardeners 
generally do not recognise the beauty and hardiness of these 
Primulas by planting them more freely on the rockery. In 
the south of England, where the climate is dry, they may be 
given positions slightly shaded from the hot sun during May 
and June. After that the leaves die down, and the plants go 
to rest. A fine importation of Schizocodon soklanelloides im¬ 
ported from Japan has been established in pots. 
Both in cold frames and in a greenhouse Lithospermum 
rosmarinifolium is flowering at present, and in a warmer place 
has been in flower since November. The bright blue flowers 
make a beautiful contrast with the dark green leaves, which 
resemble those of Rosemary. The pure white flowers of 
Primula viscosa nivalis are also now opening in cold frames. 
The same may be said of Cardamine trifoliate. a distinct 
habited rock plant with white flower’s. The double form of 
the British plant, C. pratensis fl. pi. will also expand its flowers 
very shortly. Several of the yellow-flowered species of Draba 
are now bright, including D. aizoides. The bright green leaves 
of D. bruniaefolia are more effective upon the rockery than 
