THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
JtAT 31, laiL 
NOTES FROM KEW. 
Though many of the bulbs and forced 
shrubs that have for some time formed a 
bright and attractive feature in the large 
greenhouse at Kew are now practically over 
there is no lack of flowers in that ever- 
popular structure. 
The practice generally prevails of arrang. 
ing ^e plants in groups or masses of one 
‘partioul^ kind, and in this way the beauty 
of the different subjects is seen to the best 
advantage. 
Calceolarias. 
One of the most striking things is a large 
small helmet-shaped flowers, in colour 
white or nearly so, and plentifully spotted 
with purple. 
Many subjects that one would naturally 
expect to see at this season are freely re¬ 
presented, namely, carnations, cinerarias, 
hippeastrums. Primula sinensis, Primula 
obconica, pelargoniums of different sec¬ 
tions, spiraeas, eupatoriums, stocks, and 
nemesias. 
Uncommon Plants. 
These include the comparatively new 
OI>ON1X>GLOSSUM GEORGIUS REX. 
section. Ground colour white, tinted 
rose, and heavily blotohed with deep red-hrown, almost crimson. A.M., R.H.S., May 20. 
Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Haywards Heath. See page 393. 
^mi-circulw bank of Oalceolaria Clibrani, Hehmaunia Kewensis, Hrlangea tomentosa 
Suworowi; Arct^is aspera and 
fjiinlv m M «alceolaria is cer- Arctotis aureola, shrubby composites with 
teinly most valuable for g^nhouse or oon- whitish and golden-yeUow flowers reepec- 
timely 5 the roLeoloured Oxalis floribuJda, 
plants be obtained, but they are light and valuable as a basket plant; the strange and 
elegant in contour compared with many of gorgeous Strelitzia Begin®; ImpatieL Oli. 
t^prdenfor^. A group of smaller ex- veri, a giant man4-eoloured balsam; 
r ^ structure several begonias, Coleus shirensis, with long 
serves to show its beauty when grown in spikes of purple flowers; Eupatorium ian- 
• f +1, V, u • tihinum, with large heads of lavender- 
Cal^olarias of the herbac^us section, coloured blossoms ; KaIancho6 Felthamen- 
wi«i flowers large in size and brilliant in sis, a hybrid kind of taller growth, and with 
COlOUiTiniff' arA alan TinmArAnie •ktIivI.q « ,1-1_ v n .v ® .. ’ v, v 
colouring, are also numerous, while „ 
pretty shrubby specif, C. violacea, is also 
flowering freely. This, which forms a fair- 
deeper-coloured flowers than the well-known 
Kalanchoe flammea; and a large batch of 
Primula malacoides, which shows this 
sized bnah with slender shoots, has rather charming species at i’ts 'best. 
Hard-wooddd Pia„t,. 
them being several heat^, namtlv *5? 
persoluta alba, white; E. vnir^^l’ *" 
E Wilmoreank, rosy-’red f 
white; and E. ventricosa a kin^i 
plish-red. This last-named speciee i ^ 
Its dense growth and profusion of L 
well suited for growing as small pU 
The sense of smell reveals the presto 
-a few belated flowers of Bor<mia n 
stigma, while other members of the ‘ 
genus still in flower are B. elatior' 
heterophylla, and B. fastigiata 
azaleas are now for the great part w 
but there is a fine batch of that pa-ett? I 
rich-coloured variety Hexe, grown, at ii 
generally is, in quite small pots. 
Another pretty hard-wooded plant k 
A ustralian Aotus gracillima, whose • 
slender arching shoots are densely pae^ 
for some distance with small pea-shM 
flowers, in colour red and yellow. 
Climbing: and Pillar Planti 
The roof of the greenho-use is always a 
or less gay with olinubiug plants, and 
now many of them are in a very attraa, 
condition. Abutilons are very bhowy. 
though Abutilon insigne, which has * 
in hioom for a long time, is nearly t; 
Others now in full flower are Boult < 
Neige, white; and Golden Fleece, yc"“ 
as well as the slender-growing A. nM|t 
p«3tamicum variegatum. There are t** 
quite distinct kinds of this grown at Kw 
one being apparently the type, and 
other a garden form. 
-Loose growing fuchsias are also ’ 
pretty, while two pillar plants stand ou. 
a conspicuous manner. They are fc>tr6|iit 
solen Jamesoni, which botanists tell 
really a Browaillia. In its w’arm, re^ 
orange colour it is, however, very disti«» 
from any of the generally grown kiiA^ 
Browallia. The other pillar plant is L 
tana salviaefolia, which is often bedded* 
in parks and gardens under the nans* 
Lantana delicatissima. It is, howi"* 
rarely seen as a pillar or roof plant, tho. 
it has been long grown in this way at hr* 
and has for years gained many admire** 
Despite the number of new roses, tfr- 
good old variety, Gloire de Dijon, 
no means out of the running, as a . 
plant secured to the roof and laden » 
blossom will testify. • #- 
An uncommon and beautiful olimber^ 
fully merits a note to itself is La^ 
pubescens, which is trained up one 
the greenhouse. Good examples ha^ ^ 
been shewn at Kew, hut it is decideai^ 
common in gardens. The flowers, 
borne in cluebers, are of a lavender ^ ^ 
a very pleasing tint. 
Prunus sinensis flore P'*"*',', 
This is usually seen grown ^s a s 1 ^ 
forcing, but given a 
roots and planted in a sheltered ^ 
forms a delightful little outdoor 
comparatively large, double 
the rather upright shoots nUiH 
It is often increased by grafting, 
on their own roots can be readily 
by layers.—W. « • 
Salsafy and Scor*onera 
properly cultivated, are very 
ditions to winter vegetables, and f ^ 
crops seeds may be sown at the p qj^ 
with the full assurance of j 
manured for a previous crop 
stirred will prove suitable. App 7 
dressing of burnt refuse and ' jf. 
should be well raked in; 
teen inches apart, and an m , 
thinly, and eventually thin the p* 
inches apart.—W. Messbngb®* 
