THE GARDENING WORLD 
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considered the finest example of the section 
of ■which N. flexuosa is typical. Judging 
from a plate of it in " Flora and Svlva,” for 
May, tlie flowers are almost as large as any 
in the genus, and of very pleasing colour. 
They are rosy-pink, with a darker midrib 
to each segment, which has a glossy or 
satiny lustre, peculiar to most of the Nerines 
coining under our observation. They are 
produced in umbels of half a dozen or more 
on stout stems about the same time that 
leaves begin to push up. For garden pur¬ 
poses the presence of leaves with the flowers 
is an additional recommendation. It was 
flowered by Messrs. IT Veitch and Son, of 
Exeter, who exhibited it at a meeting of the 
1TH.S. on October 22nd last, when an 
Award of Merit was accorded it. We learn, 
also, that : t flowered at Kew, and at Bel- 
grove, Queenstown, in the garden of that 
enthusiastic plantsman, Mr. Gumbleton. 
The bulbs were discovered in almost in¬ 
accessible spots amongst the mountains of 
Cape Colony, near King \\ illiamstown, and 
in this country bloomed at the time the plant 
was exhibited at the abovei-naimed meeting. 
It was sent home to Mrs. Cornish-Bowden, of 
Newton Abbot, by her son, a Government 
surveyor in South Africa. The name has 
been given in compliment to this lady, whose 
son was instrumental in placing it at the 
y«al of British gardeners. 
1 line Bowdeni. 
aboy e bulbous plant from South Africa 
■ > n gs to the same genus as the Guernsev 
• JUt t0 another section of it. It is 
Colours of Northern Flowers. 
Mr. Jolin Id. Lovell lias evidently given 
attention to the colours of flowers for a long 
time past. His most recent article on the 
subject appears in the “ American Botanist ’’ 
for March. In this he states that 4,020 
flowering plants have been described as 
natives of North-eastern America, north of 
lenuessee, and east of the Rocky Mountains. 
Of this number 1,244 are green, 956 white, 
801 yellow, 260 red, 434 purple, and 325 
blue flowers. Most of the plants with green 
flowers have the pollen conveyed by wind, 
and are therefore independent of the agency 
r, f insects. The writer reckons that 1,048 of 
these green flowers are actually wind-pol¬ 
linated plants, and include Grasses, Sedges, 
Rushes, Spurges, Plantains and suchlike 
subjects with inconspicuous flowers. About 
223 green flowers are attractive to flies and 
the smaller bees. As a rule, the yellow 
flowers are simply open and less specialised 
than red or blue-flowers. Many of the 956 
white flowers are trees or shrubs, but 
amongst these lie includes the Apple, which 
is merely flecked with rose. Many of these 
white flowers are nocturnal, and they owe 
their colour to the fact that they contain no 
pigments. The absence of pigment from 
white flowers is an item of economy on the 
part of the plants producing them; lienee, 
perhaps, the reason why many white- 
flowered plants are so profuse in blossom. 
Red flowers are very abundant in the Pink 
family, and the term covers all those which 
vary from rose or pink to scarlet and 
crimson. Purple flowers include those with 
red-purple, blue-pin pie, green and yellow- 
purple flowers. Blue flowers are most 
common in the Pea, Violet, Gentian, Mint 
and Figwort families. They are usually 
irregular in form, and adapted to long- 
tongued insects, which is evidence of their 
highly specialised character. He finds only 
a single blue-flowered species among Orchids, 
but he does not name it. Speaking of color¬ 
ation in the upper leaves or bracts of plants, 
he says that blue leaves are more rare than 
red ones, but he will find both of these 
colours in Salvia Horminurn. 
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The British Gardeners’ Association. 
A public meeting of the British Gardeners’ 
Association will be held in the Memorial 
Hall, Farringdon Street, E.C., on Thursday, 
June 1st, at 8 p.m. Members of the associa¬ 
tion are expected to- be present in large 
numbers, and it is hoped that other gar¬ 
deners interested will attend to hear the 
report of the- present acting committee, 
vliich will, we believe, be very encouraging 
to the movement. The voting papers for the 
election of the- Executive Council have been 
distributed, and the result will be announced 
at the meeting. The chair will be taken by 
Dr. M. T. Masters, F.R.S., Editor of the 
“ Gardeners’ Chronicle." 
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Photographs of Gardening Subjects. 
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offers a Prize of £1 ls. Od. for the best 
original photograph showing a view of the 
interior of a Conservatory. The photograph 
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vatory, and should not be smaller than half¬ 
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