May 6, 1905. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
361 
Plants Recently Certificated 
By the Royal Horticultural Society. 
April 25th, 1905. 
(Concluded from page 362.) 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee. 
Potato the Factor. 
The above kidney Potato lias received honours on several 
previous occasions. For instance, on October 1st, 1901, it was 
accorded an Award of Merit, and on this occasion the com¬ 
mittee, having since learned much concerning its qualities, 
agreed to give it a First-class Certificate, It is a heavy crop- 
ph,, r Potato, a good disease-resister, and of excellent table 
quality when cooked. It stood very high on the list of the 
National Potato Society’s trials and elsewhere. Messrs. Bobbie 
and Co,, Rothesay. _ 
By the National Auricula and Primula Society, April 25th. 
Auricula William Smith. 
The blooms of this alpine Auricula have a .golden-yellow 
centre, a maroon body colour, and a paler but brighter crimson 
edge. First-class Certificate to Messrs. Phillips and- Taylor, 
Bracknell, Berks. 
Auricula Richard Dean. 
Here again we have an alpine with a shining golden centre 
and maroon body colour, fading to a salmon-red edge. The 
pip i s flat and well defined. First-class Certificate to Messrs. 
Phillips and Taylor. 
Auricula Miss Winifred. 
Tliis also is an alpine Auricula with a golden centre, dark 
body colour and pale rosy-red edge. First-class Certificate to 
Mr. C. Blick, gardener to R. M. Smith, Esq., The Warren, 
Hayes Common. 
Auricula Mrs. H. 0. Crowther. 
The flowers of this alpine Auricula have also a golden centre, 
maroon body colour, apd a blight rosy-red edging, which 
shades gradually to a paler hue at the margin. First-class 
Certificate to Mr. C. Blick. 
On the Editor’s Table. 
Daffodils from Chester. 
From Messrs. Dicksons, The Nurseries, Chester, comes a 
nosegay of Daffodils, including varieties which have been in 
bloom about London for the past month, but still quite fresh 
from tlie high elevation and exposed nurseries of the well- 
known Chester firm. Amongst the trumpet Daffodils was that 
lovely variety, Mine, de Graaff, which may now be considered 
old as far as Daffodils are concerned, hut which is yet far from 
common in gardens. The beautifully revolute lemon trumpet 
will always be a striking feature of this choice and handsome 
Daffodil. Mrs. Camm is another white trumpet Daffodil of 
smaller size, but of good texture, with deeply cut. trumpet. 
Queen of Spain is still fresh and graceful. 
Amongst the incomparabilis or Nonsuch Daffodils was that 
splendid bedding variety, Gloria Mundi, with broad lemon seg¬ 
ments and wide orange crown. Commander is paler in every 
respect, and the chalice is more narrowly funnel-shaped but 
longer. Very handsome is Lulworth, with its creamy-yellow 
segments and short chalice, edged with orange. It is a very 
shapely and graceful flower. 
Next to these we should name the varieties belonging to the 
Leedsii section. A charming flower is White Lady, which has 
broad overlapping white segments and a short canary-yellow 
chalice. Elaine is a somewhat smaller flower, but similarly 
farmed, with a pale lemon chalice passing off to white. One 
of the most charming of all the medium-crowned Daffodils was 
that named Albatros, belonging to the Barri section. The 
broad, overlapping segments make a very large flower and 
form a beautiful setting to the charming chalice, which may 
be described as canary-yellow, with a well-defined deep orange 
rim, almost recalling some of the Burbidgei section. One would 
almost place it in that section, hut the shape of the segments 
is very similar to that of N. Band conspicuus. It may, indeed, 
be looked upon as a white variety of that type. 
Beauty in Wall Coverings. 
I he practice of covering house-fronts and garden walls and 
fences with creeping and climbing plants has now become so 
general that it is not surprising to- be- informed by those in the 
trade of an "increasing interest in climbing plants” by the 
public ; indeed, it would be strange were it otherwise, consider¬ 
ing how even the most informal-looking dwelling may be quite 
transformed and rendered very beautiful by the employment 
of climbing plants, valued either for their flowers or foliage. 
We have but to- think of Roses to find how many there are 
fitted for walls, from Crimson Rambler, with its many 
clusters; the creamy-white of Felicite Perpetue ; the crimson- 
red of the Waltham Climbers; the coppery-yellow of William 
Allen Richardson ; to that older favourite, Globe de Dijon—■ 
all of which will do- much towards making; a house, or garden 
specially attractive during the summer. In certain localities 
and sheltered positions, one- thinks of Wistarias, with their 
beautiful pendulous blossoms ; of the equally charming flowers 
of Solanum jasminoides; and the prolific-flowering Ccbaea 
scandens, which are grateful for the screen afforded by a warm 
wall or house-end having a. south aspect. 
In Clematises one may select not a few that are extremely 
beautiful, and may always be relied upon to bloom well if 
grown under right, conditions. Amongst those of the Jack- 
manni group, for example, there are those which, if planted, 
will give a blaze of beauty to a wall for weeks together, and 
one has only to instance such sorts as Lilacina floribunda, 
pale grey lilac ; Star of India, reddish violet purple, with red 
bars; Victoria, deep reddish-mauve; Jackmanni superba, dark 
violet-purple; Madame Edouard Andre, red; and Piince of 
Wales, pure purple. In the C. lanuginosa varieties there are 
some' excellent sorts for outside planting, such as Mrs. Hope, 
satiny-mauve; Robert Hanbury, bluish-lilac, flushed at the 
edge with red ; La France, deep violet-purple ; and Beauty 
of Worcester, bluish-violet, with white stamens. All Clema¬ 
tises should be given a. sunny situation, a liberal soil, in which 
lias been dug some good rotted manure, and proper drainage, 
the Jackmanni sorts being pruned each autumn, then a profu¬ 
sion of flowers will follow. To say that, the Clematises—apart 
from Roses—are the most popular of flowering climbers is but 
giving expression to- what so- many say of them. 
Jasmines also are very useful ; the old white Jasminum 
officinale is a general favourite; and J. nudieale, which shows 
its blossoms in the early year, should be planted wherever 
there is the shelter of a. wall to be found. For brightness in 
the early spring, the old Pyrus japoniea has claims upon us, its 
scarlet blossoms being often seen on cottage walls. So 1 , too, 
are the flowers of Kerria japoniea, w itli its deep orange-yellow. 
I venture to say that we do not make sufficient use of the 
common Mezereum (Daphne mezereum) as a wall climber, and 
it is questionable if those who have to. do with cold, bleak walls 
appreciate to the fullest extent the usefulness of Ivies, ranging 
from the large, leathery green leaved raegneriana to the 
narrow-leaved sagittaefolia, bronzed in autumn, and the 
blotched and finely marked gold and silver sorts. These, with 
the various forms of the Ampelopsis, will bring to a garden 
much colour in the autumn days, whilst Ivies will remain a per¬ 
manent covering the year round, simply needing the removal 
of the old foliage in March. 
Planting may be done within the next few weeks from pots, 
whenever possible, and then the losses by lemoval are reduced 
to a minimum. W. F. 
