June 15, 1907. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
397 
Treatment of Calceolarias. 
The seeds may be sown in June or July 
in light, rich sandy soil, in pots or pans 
half filled with crocks to give drainage, 
over which should be placed some rough 
soil, and then filled with fine soil and 
pressed down. The seeds should be sown 
as thinly as possible, and when this is 
done cover with a very slight sprinkling of 
silver sand. The pots or pans can then 
be placed on a shady shelf in a green¬ 
house, placing a piece of glass over the 
pots and shading from the sun. As soon 
as the plants are up, which will be in a 
short time, a little air should be given. 
When large enough to handle, it is best 
to prick them off into other well drained 
pots of fine soil, as this not only encour¬ 
ages the transplanted plants to increase 
in size, but it gives more room for the 
remainder to grow. When large enough 
they should be potted singly into small 
pot's, placed in a cold frame, shaded from 
the sun, kept moist and growing, and 
have plenty of air, being finally shifted 
into larger pots as required. The tem¬ 
perature for the plants in the winter 
should be from 50 to 55 degrees. Give 
air freely, but not when cold frosty winds 
are blowing. When the flower stems 
appear a few slight stakes may be wanted 
to keep them upright. When pots are 
full of roots, the plants must be kept 
well watered, and a little weak manure 
water given once or twice a week. 
E. Relf. 
Maidstone. 
Prunus serrulata. 
This is, without doubt, one of the most 
interesting and ornamental of all spring 
flowering trees, and in the few gardens 
where well-developed specimens exist, they 
are always a source of interest to the 
owner and visitors. Introduced so long 
ago as 1822, it is a great wonder that so 
few mature trees are met with, and it is 
curious that it is only within quite recent 
years that it has been met with in com¬ 
mercial establishments. It is a native of 
both China and Japan, and forms a low, 
wide-spreading tree of very curious habit. 
The trunk is usually short, and the main 
branches are sent out to a great distance, 
the side ones being almost horizontal. 
These main branches, instead of forming 
numerous branchlets, as in the case of 
most Prunuses, bear short spurs of flower 
buds, which are denselv ‘ crowded on the 
branches throughout their whole length. 
The flowers are double white, 1% to 2 
inches across, and quite cover the tree. 
Thev commence to open early in May, 
and last in good condition for two or three 
weeks. At Kew, several fine specimens 
may be seen, one near the Temperate 
House being nearly 40 feet across, and of 
unique appearance. 
W. D. 
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Begonia Mrs. J. C. Gwiliim. 
Improvement continues to be made 
amongst tuberous Begonias, and the 
above is a handsome form with its broad 
orange-salmon petals arranged around a 
single centre. Award of - Merit when 
shown by Mr. A. LI. Gwiliim at the 
Temple Show. 
New Trumpet Daffodil 
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Queen Christina. 
New seedling .Daffodils continue to ar¬ 
rive or be raised rather in large numbers, 
and many of them are so great improve¬ 
ments upon those in general cultivation 
that one regrets they multiply so slowly, 
so that everyone with a love for flowers 
can possess them. That under notice is 
notable for the robust character of its 
trumpet, which is widely revolute at the 
mouth and more or less deeply fringed. 
The colour is lemon-yellow. The seg¬ 
ments, on the contrary, are creamy white, 
and owing to this contrast of colours, the 
variety is describable as a new creamy 
white bicolor Daffodil. 
The whole bloom stands out horizontally 
from its stem, and looks at one just as it 
is represented in the accompanying photo¬ 
graph, which was taken in the nursery of 
Messrs. Barr and Sons, Long Ditton, 
Surrey, on April 29th. It was, indeed, 
raised at this nursery, where it has been 
tried for a number of years, so that there 
can be little doubt about its behaviour. 
It received an Award of Merit and the 
Special Medal for the best trumpet Daffo¬ 
dil at the Birmingham Show in 1902. 
The points about this Daffodil are its 
distinctness in form and the fact that it 
holds up its flowers horizontally. It 
should, therefore, prove a useful variety 
for bedding purposes when the bulbs have 
multiplied sufficiently to enable it to be 
used in that way. 
Daffodil Queen Christina. 
\Mac 2 aren and Sons. 
Little Mistakes of Big Artists. 
In a picture of_ the “ Merry Wives of 
Windsor,” exhibited at the Royal Acade¬ 
my thirty years or so ago, the landscape 
was adorned with, among other flowers, 
the red Geranium, not known in England 
until 1710; the Camellia, 1739; and the 
Chinese Primrose, 1820. There was also 
at the same exhibition a picture of Her- 
mione (" Winter’s Tale ”) posing between 
a Lemon and Orange tree, neither of 
which was known to the’ Greeks or the 
Romans, and Shakespeare probably never 
saw one, as the first Orange tree was in¬ 
troduced into England in 1595, and it 
took a century to become general; while 
the Lemon tfee was not introduced until 
1648. 
Rubber Trees in Italy. 
The India-rubber tree grows freely as an 
ornamental shrub in southern Italy, and 
steps are being taken to make an indus¬ 
trial business of growing it. 
