November 18, 1905. 
THE GARDENING 
WORLD 
881 
E. chcntalensis is a species introduced 
from Nicaragua in the year 1867. It is one 
of the most delightful members of the genus 
and deserving of extensive culture. The 
flowers are tubular, with a large five-looed, 
flat, spreading limb, being in colour white, 
tinged with lilac, and stained with pale yellow 
in the throat. The leaves have quite a vel¬ 
vety appearance, and are ovate or ovate 
oblong, being purple on the under side, and 
'a most pleasing pale green and coppery colour 
on the upper surface. 
E. fulvida is another species introduced 
from New Grenada in 1873. It has very 
bright flowers of an intense deep vermilion 
colour. The leaves are opposite, from 3 to 
5 inches long, of a deep olive green, the mid¬ 
rib being metallic white, bordered with 
emerald green. F. G. T. 
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Rose Blanche Double De Coubert. 
The above Rose is a hybrid between Rosa 
rugosa and probably Rosa gallica, judging 
from the delicious scent of the flowers. If 
the above name proves cumbersome, Cou- 
bert’s Double White may be used instead. 
The flowers are of large size, snow-white, and 
open in the centre when fully expanded. 
This is more than compensated for by their 
delicious fragance and continuity with which 
they are produced during the summer months. 
In fact, it might practically be described as 
a perpetual blooming Rose. A great number 
of these blossoms are never open at any one 
time, for the simple reason that Rosa rugosa 
does not lend itself to profuse blooming. Its 
branches are very stiff and sturdy, and well 
clothed with large, wrinkled, leathery leaves 
which make the Japanese Rose what it is and 
no other. 
Possibly owing to this leathery character 
of the leaves they never seem to get attacked 
with the Rose fly and other enemies, and for 
this reason the varieties, hybrids and other 
garden forms of rugosa deserve to be more 
widely represented in gardens, especially 
where large, free growing bushes are desired 
that are able to look after themselves and 
reward the cultivator for a minimum of care. 
Not very long ago some of our American 
cousins proposed rearing a new section of 
Roses from this species so that cultivators 
at home should be on the alert and be first 
in the field with a new race of garden 
Roses. 
IAk- Walter Dalgleish. 
It will be a great surprise to many gar¬ 
deners and friends in the AVest of Scotland to 
hear of the sudden death of AValter Dalgleish, 
who has been head gardener at Levernholme, 
Hurlet, for the long period of forty-three 
years. Fcr some time past he had been much 
troubled with his heart, and the end came 
with startling suddenness on Thursday, Octo¬ 
ber 26. By all who knew him and came in 
contact with him often he will be much missed, 
because of his genial and modest manner. 
Apart from his professional qualifications, 
which were of no mean order., he had the well- 
merited respect of all who knew him. 
Choisya Ternata. 
I see this plant is catalogued by nursery¬ 
men as far north as Scotland amongst then- 
hardy trees and shrubs. I should like to 
know it there are any plants half-a-dozen 
years old in existence outside, and if they 
have’flowered anywhere north of Manchester. 
Perhaps some of your northern correspon¬ 
dents will kindly inform me. 
AV, P. R. (Preston). 
OCCASIONAL 
-a I NTERVI EWS.e- 
MR. ERNEST POUPART, F.R.H.S. 
Hon. Secretary of the Twickenham Horticultural and Cottage Garden Society. 
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“ They say so ” is, as the proverb declares, 
half a lie. They said not so long since that 
Twickenham could not support a flower show, 
that there was no gardening enthusiasm in 
the district, and apparently no eager desire 
among the inhabitants for a public horticul¬ 
tural display. Possibly aristocratic Rich¬ 
mond, with a horticultural society and a 
flower show of which it has reason to be 
proud, first playfully whispered the little 
slander, and, like the snowball which grows 
bigger the farther you roll it, so with the 
I may observe, by the way, that the Pou- 
parts seem to “ possess the land ” hereabouts. 
I hat was how, in a sense, it struck me on my 
first visit to Twickenham, for there are shops 
and dairies and mai-ket gardens which are 
here being “ run ” by various members of this 
ubiquitous family. In trying to get at my 
particular Poupart I, of course—owing to 
the eternal contrariety of things — was 
directed to the exactly opposite end of the 
town to that which I required. Thus I saw 
more of Twickenham than I probably other- 
Frcm a Photo by] 
[Dawson <£; Sons, Twickenham., 
Mr. Ernest Poupart. 
small calumny, it grew with repetition, and 
at last, I suppose, assumed the guise of truth. 
For when a town has, during a considerable 
period, enjoyed the possession of an annual 
show and then gives it up altogether there is 
more probability in such an assertion than 
if no' society and no show had ever existed. 
Twickenham Flower Show was, until re¬ 
cently, as dead as George the Fourth, who, it 
may be recalled, was wont to come thus far 
up the river in his Royal barge to partake of 
the famous eel pies on the island of that 
name. But the local show, and the horticul¬ 
tural society which engineer it, have been 
recently revived, and so the slander has re¬ 
ceived its quietus in a very effectual manner. 
When, after some little trouble, I found 
the right Mr. Poupart—Mr. Poupart, the hon. 
secretary of what is styled the Twickenham 
Horticultural and Cottage Garden Society I 
asked him why the show was abandoned. 
wise should have done. The central busi¬ 
ness quarter wears a not unpicturesque and 
vaguely old-woidd air, but it is being encom¬ 
passed" about by large mushroom growths of 
new houses of that distressingly pretentious 
order of architecture which are run up for 
the delectation of an aspiring new bourgeois— 
of the great army of respecta'bly-railored City 
toilers who- seek a residence beyond the teem¬ 
ing metropolitan area (or as far out on its 
circumference as possible), now made possible 
by cheapened and quickened travelling facili¬ 
ties ; but the long rows of new shops, which 
are approaching completion will, I fear, prove 
the folly of some too sanguine speculator. 
The neighbourhood of Twickenham appears, 
however, to be quite engaging ; the soil is 
largely alluvial and very fertile, and well- 
cultivated gardens abound, while there are 
some charming demesnes not yet earmarked 
by the designing builder. 
