May  30,  1901 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER . 
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NEW  CRIMSON  BEDDING 
TEA  ROSE, 
CORALLINA 
(WM.  PAUL  &  SON). 
This  variety  has  proved  to  be  the  finest  and  most 
effective  bedding1  and  massing  Rose  of  its  colour. 
The  buds  are  deep  rosy  crimson  shaded  with  beautiful 
coral  red,  the  latter  shade  becoming  more  pronounced 
as  the  flowers  expand.  The  habit  of  the  plant  is 
•excellent,  the  growth  being  vigorous,  and  every  shoot 
crowned  with  flowers.  It  is  a  splendid  autumnal 
foloomer,  the  flowers  being  produced  in  glorious  pro¬ 
fusion  until  cut  off  by  the  frost.  It  has  received  an 
Award  of  Merit  from  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society. 
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coloured  flowers,  and  its  richly  coloured  and  very  long 
buds.” — The  Garden. 
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Journal  fit  ^artaltam 
THURSDAY,  MAY  30,  190L 
Wild  Flowers  of  Old  English 
Gardens. 
E  light  upon  several  handsome  and 
showy  Columbines  in  gardens, 
though  this  group  does  not  enjoy 
a  very  large  popularity.  A  high- 
class  garden  may  admit  Aquilegia 
fragrans,  from  the  Himalayas,  with 
scented  flowers  of  pale  lilac,  or  the 
taller  A.  truncita,  of  California,  displaying 
rich  scarlet  bloom  ;  and  in  humbler 
gardens  we  see  our  native  species  or  its  varieties. 
The  common  Columbine  they  called  it,  A.  vulgaris, 
scarcely  common  anywhere  as  a  wild  plant  now ; 
some  doubt  if  it  ever  was.  It  formerly  occurred 
on  meadows  near  London,  and  was  early  introduced 
to  gardens.  One  of  the  old  writers  named  it 
Llerba  leonis,  because  it  was  the  lion’s  favourite 
plant ;  we  wonder  how  he  picked  up  such  a 
strange  idea.  That  our  ancestors  were  observant 
of  this  singular  flower  is  shown  by  its  appearance 
in  heraldry  ;  one  old  crest  exhibits  a  hand  holding 
a  stalk,  and  another  shows  a  black  chevron  next  to 
three  Columbines.  That  name,  no  doubt,  was 
suggested  by  a  resemblance  between  the  flower  and 
the  heads  of  young  pigeons  in  a  rouid  dish,  but 
Twamley,  in  a  poem,  compares  it  to  a  fool’s  cap. 
Early  last  century  London  gardeners  had  produced 
varieties  having  double  flowers  of  white,  pink,  and 
dark  crimson,  also  a  reddish  form  with  the  nectaries 
obliterated. 
About  a  dozen  species  of  Anemone  are  known 
to  gardeners.  I  think  of  these  the  Poppy  Anemone, 
A.  coronaria,  is  the  most  popular  and  varied; 
several  of  them  are  natives,  somewhat  changed  by 
culture.  Windflowers  some  have  been  called  for 
a  long  while,  and  certainly  the  winds  of  spring  are 
often  seen  treating  their  blossoms  roughly.  But 
one  old  botanist,  referring  to  the  familiar  woodland 
species,  declares  this  species  likes  the  March  wind, 
and  refuses  to  open  till  it  blows  briskly.  *  mrarde, 
commenting  on  the  dispute  whether  the  Anemone, 
the  Adonis,  or  some  other  plant,  sprung  from 
READERS  are  requested  to  send  Notices  of  Gardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
Intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  "  THE  EDITOR,  ’  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
address. 
No.  1092.— Vol  XLII.,  Third  Series. 
