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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 
June U, 
cultivation, but is not commonly grown. 
It has grassy, green foliage, and lilac-mauve, 
whit^rested dowers of modest dimensions. 
A suitable plant for a favoured position in 
the rock garden. A.M., R.H.S., June 3. 
Wargrave Hardy Plant Nursery, Tlie Arcade, 
Liverpool Street, E.C. 
POTENTILLA BOULE DE FEU. 
A pretty plant, with an abundance of neat 
trifoliate leaves, clothed with silvery, silky 
hairs. The dowers are deep rich crimson, 
borne on slender branching stems, rather 
less tlian a foot high. The parentage is 
given as P. argy^rophylla and P. atrosan- 
guinea. A.M., R.H.S., June 3. Mr. A. Hem- 
sley, Crawley. 
DELPHINIUM MRS. F. BREWSTER. 
This is a noble variety^ producing very 
large spikes of widely-expanded semi-double 
with the market growers. The large heads 
of bloom are rich heliotrope, each dower hav¬ 
ing a white eye. A.M., R.H.S., May 14. Mr. 
Philip Ladds, Swanley Junction. 
ROSE MISS FLORA MITTEN. 
We have previously described this per¬ 
petual-dowering, strong-growing rambling 
rose, and now figure it. The dowers are a 
lovely shade of soft pink, and have a central 
cluster of golden stamens; they are three 
and a-half inches across, and borne in goodly 
clusters. Rose Brunoni and R. canina are 
the parents of this useful new rose. A.M., 
R.H.S., May 14. Mr. J. Elliott, Hassocks. 
MAGNOLIA SALICIFOLIA. 
The willow-leaved magnolia hails from 
Japan, has greenish-white dowers that have 
a close resemblance to those of M. stellata. 
-tir^DiUTKOPE THE SPEAKER. 
^^i^M^^R^H S heliotrope, white-centred dowers. 
A.M., K.H.S., May 14. Mr. Philip Ladds, Swanley Junction. 
dowers. The spikes are not so dense as ir 
some varieties, but this will be regarded b\ 
many as an added attraction. - The coloui 
IS soft lavender-blue, and the largest fiowerg 
^e two inch^ broad. A.M., R.H.S., June 3. 
Mr. R. C. Notcutt, Woodbridge. 
but in growth the species becomes a slender 
deciduous tree of elegant outline. It grows 
from 15ft. to 20ft. high, is quite hardy, and 
grows well in sandy peat and loam. Bot. 
Mag., t. 8483. 
STAOHYS CORSICA. 
Though in no sense a showy subject, this 
lowly and characteristic Corsican species of 
V\ound Wort will appeal strongly to lovers 
of alpine and rock gardening. Ihe growths 
are quite prostrate, clothed with roundish- 
ovate leaves, and studded freely with white, 
flesh-tinted flowers that are fairlv large for so 
small a plant. A.M., R.H.S., June 3. 
Messrs. R. Wallace and Co., Colchester. 
HELIOTROPE THE SPEAKER. 
This very fine heliotrope makes a grand 
pot plant, and is already becoming popular 
Arum Lilies. —When the flowering sea¬ 
son is past these plants may be placed out¬ 
doors in an exposed situation. There are 
two methods of treatment after flowering. 
One is to plant out in a well-prepared piece 
of ground in the garden, and the other is 
to give them a resting period by gradually 
withholding water from them, and keeping 
them dry for a few weeks during the sum¬ 
mer. I think the former method is most 
suitable for plants which are required to 
produce flowers very early in the season.— 
E. Harriss. 
WISTARIAS. 
The ordinary Wistaria chi,,,.,,- , 
been a familiar featuro of our Kmri 
dens for so long a period that : 
seem at first sight that notiduv . : 
need be said in its favour, but Vr " 
mitting 'the good value of W* chi ’ ' 
tor all purposes to which wistarias j-" 
put I wish especially to empha>C’ 
splendid eflPeot produced by the 
known forms which go to make . r" 
splendid family. 
W. multijuga is far in a<lvant.e ..r » 
^hinensis, and its long raceim> o* 
violetdiued blossoms are indeed ch.t: 
Avhen hanging from the open row • 
garden tea house. The drooping tra .. 
blossom are often a yard in length, an-i 
reader can well imagine the - i.r,... 
beauty of a series of such wistaria \>- 
when well flowered. 
There are several forms of \V. mti’ 
juga^ splendid varieties which are w. rr: 
of a place in any garden. W. m. alha 
fine white variety, a delightful coutra>: • 
the type, and an exceedingly good gron, 
W. m. fragrantissima is a more 
perfumed counterpart of tlie 
white, being practically identical, 
for its heavy, odorous, perfume of it 
bean fields, which makes it one ci 
grandest subjects for the fragrant gank 
W. m. rosea, the pale pink \’aricij • 
deserving of notice, and its rariu i 
Japan, added to the fact tliat it is 
unknown in Englisli gardens give's i: i 
special interest to those who are <.n 
look-out for novelties. With us it mts- 
as free in growth as tlie otilier forui>. 
we are hoping to make a notewortln 
ture of this fine wistaria. 
A double form of W. multi juga i.> 
made its appearance in our ooll<Kticii, 
both the spikes and the individual 
soms are extremely good. The 
are like large Parma violets, the form 
colouring being delightfully similar, 
double form of W. cliinensis is more 
men, but even this is little known by 
average horticulturist. 
In coiiolusion I must note o • •. 
botrys, a fine white wistaria oi 
merit. The blossoms of this form are 
large, but the spikes are much sno.- 
than in W. multijuga. ^^hat it lar^ 
length of the racemes, it J 
breadth and importance, 
may take it for granted that ' • ^ 
botrys is one of the most imposing 
wistarias for decorative ^ 
Of the wistarias witli vanegat 
there is, in my opinion, no , 
for the variegation does noj' n 
extra beauty. Spring 
successful, and in good, * 
one should experience little d • 
making the cult of the 
ARAUCARIA EXCELSA 
SILVER STAR. ^ 
This araucaria, which h^ *^ai¥, 
the public for two or t 
seems to have caught ^ 
It is an improved form of i 
excelsa alba spica, and is 
the young growths appea'f!. 
gives it a distinct and plas^' 
In a group of foliage greenhou- 
tone of colour is very \ who^ 
variety (elegantissima ^ not the 
shoots are yellowi^, but the 
ingly characteristic app^Ji’^ . ^^oelsa ^ 
Silver • Star. As ;^raucam 
native of Norfolk Island, 
of course, only fitted for t 
