THE GARDENING WORLD. May 25, 1907. 
11 Carnations and Pinks.” 
Under the above title, Mr. E. T. Cook 
edits a book on Carnations, Picotees, and 
the wild and garden Pinks. The Carna¬ 
tions and Picotees, of course, are the pro¬ 
geny of one species, while garden Pinks 
are the modern descendants of Dianthus 
plumarius. Wild Pinks are also species 
of Dianthus, and include those which have 
been more or less cultivated in gardens 
during the past two centuries at least, and 
.are still cultivated on rockeries, though 
they have not been taken in hand by the 
florist and improved in the same way as 
the Carnation and garden Pink. The 
book is illustrated with photographic re¬ 
productions of groups of flowers, single 
flowers, a houseful of flowers, Pinks as 
garden edgings, flowers in the cut state, 
etc. The wild Pinks are dealt with in 
short paragraphs, descriptive of the species 
which find favour on the rockery. An¬ 
other series of species is dealt with by Mr. 
Henry Correvon, who is noted for his ex¬ 
tensive experiments with alpine plants 
generally. The book is published by 
“Country Life,” 20, Tavistock Street, and 
George Newnes, Ltd., Southampton Street, 
Covent Garden, London, at 3s. 6d., with 
postage extra. 
Double Cuckoo Pint (Cardamine pratensis flore pleno). 
DOUBLE . . . 
Cuckoo Pint, 
(Cardamine pratensis flore pleno.) 
The Cuckoo flower or Lady smock is 
said to frequently become double under 
cultivation. Of that I have no experience. 
The one here represented, however, was 
found wild in a wood near Bucklebury, 
Berks, in May, 1901, by Mr. Alex Wright, 
and shown to me the same season. As 
there were many plants, specimens were 
duly appropriated and planted in the gar¬ 
den, but not until this year has the floral 
effect been remarkable. This may be 
due, and probably is, to the sandy nature 
of the medium. The excessive rainfall 
of last year evidently stimulated propaga¬ 
tion and growth—hence the result. The 
flowers being abnormal, that is, quite 
double, the spread of this little clump is 
due to other causes than the usual one of 
scattering seed or splitting up by division. 
This is due to the formation of bulbils— 
as in some Lilies—these bulbils dropping 
about and becoming independent plants. 
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Bdifoffial. 
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■yfestmuisUs. 
The annual show of the National Auri¬ 
cula and Primula Society was somewhat 
smaller than usual, but this might have 
been due to the late season. Those who 
love these old-fashioned flowers are still 
able to grow them, apparently, whatever 
the character of the spring may be. No 
donbt those who have a few cold frames 
can do much to forward these flowers, 
even during a cold spring. 
We presume it will never Impossible 
to grow 7 the real show varieties with any 
degree of satisfaction in the open air ow¬ 
ing to the dainty character of the farina 
covering the centre. The aipme section 
does not possess this meal, and we think 
it quite possible to grow them in the open 
border in the same way as Polyanthuses. 
Primula auricula and its allies are really 
hardy, seeing that they come from great 
elevations on the Alps, and if the pre¬ 
sent varieties would not give satisfaction 
in the open border, it still remains for 
some enterprising nurseryman to raise 
varieties more adapted to our climate. 
Then, we presume, they would have a 
larger public, and many a garden would 
be beautified with these old-fashioned, 
sweet scented spring flowers. 
Mr. Douglas, of Great Bookham, was 
the champion, both in the alpine and 
show section, while Mr. S. Mortimer, of 
Rowfledge, Farnham, took the lead for 
a group of Primroses and Polyanthuses, 
and also for Polyanthuses in pots. There 
was a great crowd of the visiting public, 
notwithstanding the wet character of the 
day. 
Kew Guild Dinner. 
We are requested to remind our readers 
who are Old Kewites that the annual 
dinner will take place at the Holborn Res¬ 
taurant on the 27th inst., at 7.30 p.m., and 
that the Secretary, Mr. W. N. Winn 
(Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), would be 
glad to hear before the 20th inst. from all 
who intend to be present. 
Freesia Tubergeni Amethyst. 
This was produced bv crossing F. re- 
fracta alba with F. Tubergeni. A num¬ 
ber of seedlings vary slightly in colour 
with shades of mauve, rose, and nearly 
white, sometimes with lines in the throat. 
Award of Merit to Heer C. G. van Tuber- 
gen, Haarlem, when shown at the meet¬ 
ing of the R.H.S. 16th April. 
Thus these pretty little pale lilac double 
flowers have wandered away from the 
identical place where they were first 
stationed, and have encroached somewhat 
on other vegetation. This struggle for 
survival seems to be a wonderful adapta¬ 
tion of nature’s methods to the perpetua¬ 
tion of abnormalities. The double 
flowering form of the “ Lady smock all 
silver-white” is an acquisition for damp 
places in the garden. It lasts longer in 
bloom than the species which now adorns 
our water meadows; and, moreover, it 
cannot in any way be relegated to the cate¬ 
gory of “weeds.” 
The foliage, too, being of a pinnate 
character, is also interesting. The colour 
of the flowers ranges from lilac to pure 
white, and although, at one time, I was 
