For June, 1920 



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Departments of Foreign Exchange and Book Reviews 



A New Lily. 



Within comparatively recent times, witliout taking into ac- 

 count tile latest treasure here to be described, China has added 

 live bne species, eacli representing one of the sections into whicli 

 the genus is divided, to the none too lengthy list of lilies that 

 make no considerable draft upon the cultivator's skill. All 

 live — L. Hcnyri, L. tnirahUc, L. regale, L. Thaycri and L. ll'ill- 

 iiutlliic — are good garden plants, with strong constitutions, and 

 all except the mirabilc, a Cardiocriiium, naturally a leisurely lily, 

 possess the inestimable advantage of coming rapidly to maturity 

 from seed. 



Xow to this noble quintet is added one that in England has 

 quickly attained the stature of six feet, one found by Mr. Farrer 

 in the course of his hrst expedition to western China and known 

 as L. Farrcri, though christened by him the "Marble Alartagon." 

 It is easy to manage, has the priceless virtue of a tough con- 

 stitution and sends up line spikes laden with gigantic flowers 

 and ultimately each rearing aloft a candelabrum of seed-pods. 

 The iokage appears to be riner and more abundant than in inost 

 types of L. longMonim and it approaches more in its whole 

 style that of L. regale. Fortunately it produces seed in abun- 

 dance. — The Gardeners' Chronicle of London. 



\ Few of the Newer Clem.vtises. 



Clematis Meyeniana, a new hardy plant, valuable because of its 

 early flowering is a sub-alpine evergreen from seed sent by Mr. 

 Wilson from western China to Messrs. Veitch. Its white flow- 

 ers are borne in profusion in axillary clusters. Its growth is 

 said to be as much as 10 to 12 feet in one season and its flower- 

 ing more profuse than that of CI. monlana. The Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society of England has conferred upon it an .\ward 

 of Merit. — Garden Illustrated. 



CI. Pavoliniana is a northern representative of the afore-men- 

 tioned, with its chief merits ; but it has few-flowered inflores- 

 cences, often only three, and rarely more than seven flowers to 

 each, whilst the sepals are distinctly longer than the stamens. — 

 The Gardeners' Chronicle of London. 



Cl.hyhrida "J'llle de Lyon," not an altogether new variety 

 and in fact listed as long as five years ago by at least one 

 .\inerican nurserj' firm, is now regarded by the writer here 

 quoted as a possible point of deiiarture for a new race, like the 

 deservedly- popular CI. Jack)na}n. The two have one parent in 

 common, CI. viticella, the sinall-flowering Italian forest vine, 

 which is unattractive in spite of its very profuse blooming and 

 yet has the virtue ot hardiness and of thri\ing where the large- 

 flowering fail. But it seems to be the natural bond between 

 the small-flowering spectes and those of large lilooms. Nor does 

 CI. Viile de Lyon resemble at all its other parent CI. coccinea 

 with its small pitcher-shaped flowers and its slender stems that 

 do not make really hard wood and which generally die down to 

 the ground in winter. It surpasses even Jaelnnani in vigor, at- 

 tains a height of 18 feet or more and bears dark carmine blos- 

 soiTis, of pleasing shade and symmetrical form and that stand 

 forth handsomely from the green foliage, through the Summer 

 and well into the .Autumn. It makes pretty pictures growing up 

 birches, firs or other small trees and shrubs and is inost satis- 

 factory for trellises. It is sure to do well and to grow luxur- 

 iantly if given the conditions favorable to all clematises, heavy 

 soil, but not so.ggy, and with roots protected from the hot sun- 

 shine. — Zeitschrift fuer Gaerten-und Obstbau. 



[Tlie last one should lie pruned, rntl'.er severely, very late in the autumn. 

 Will some one advise how the other two are best managed?] 



B.SRBERRIES. 



Berheris rnhroslilla (The Red-Orop Barberry) is of graceful 

 and very beautiful form and well deserves the honor of the 

 First-Class Certificate awarded it. by the Royal Horticuliural 

 Society. Of more or less erecl carriage and freely branclied 

 in its upper parts it is of exceptional beauty late in the year 

 when fu'l of coral-red fruits which dangle on short foot-stalks 

 from the under side of the branches. There is no over-crowding 

 of the fruil clusters, but. instead, an easy distribution of them 

 throughout the greater portion of the archin.g branches. It is 

 a shapely, well-branched bush. The branches arc thickly set 

 with s'ender spines nearly an inch long. The yellow flowers 

 of the Spring are followed by small clusters of rich red fruits, 

 about four being borne together. The individual fruits are 

 about half an inch long and similar in shaiie to those of B. coci)i- 



nea, which it is thought united with B. U'ilsotii to produce 

 it. — Garden Illustrated. 



B. U'ilsoni was discovered in western China in 19U4 by E. H. 

 Wilson, of the .\rnoId -Arboretum. It is an elegant snrub of 

 foliage semi-persistent, hardly ever more than a meter in height. 

 The branches, more or less erect, are relatively slender, angular, 

 of yellowish-brown color on the new shoots, grayish-lirown 

 when older, carrying spines always In threes, very pointed, from 



1 to I'/i centimeters long. ' The leaves are fasciculated in groups 

 of 4 to 6, obovate, almost linear, pointed at each end, not dentate, 

 from 10 to 15 milbmeters long and 3 or 4 broad, dark green 

 above, somewhat glaucous beneath and somewhat hairy, " The 

 flowers are bright yellow, small, arranged in groups of from 



2 to 6, abundant and appearing in May. The fruits are nearly 

 globular or ovoid of 5 to 7 mm. by 4 to 5, of beautiful coral 

 red, clinging from the end of October till severe Winter weather. 

 It is hardy. — Revue Hortieole. 



B. subcauliata. raised by Alons. Maurice de Vilmorin from 

 seed coming from Thiiiet in 1904. is more vigorous than the 

 I'.receding. easily attaining IK' nim, in height, with larger branches 

 and generally upright and of bright red color that turns into 

 brown'ish-yellow, angular and almost fluted. The spines, meas- 

 uring 1 to 2 mm. in length, are very pointed. The foliage is 

 scmipersistent, with leaves arranged in groups of 4 to 8, oblan- 

 ceolate, terininating at the base in a point forming a petiole, 

 entirely dentate or slightly dentated toward the summit, 2 to 3 

 cm. long and 5 to 8 mm. broad, clear green above and whitish 

 beneath. The flowers, of pale yellow and in groups of 4 to 7, 

 are very abundant in May. The fruits are generally globular, 

 a little smaller than those of B. U'ilsoni. and of bright red. — 

 I\efiie Hortieole. 



B. japonica var. Bealei, referred to by \V. R. Dj'kes, Secre- 

 tary of the Royal Horticultural Society, in narrating a visit to 

 a rock garden, as a "giant," is by hiin reported as having "per- 

 l^aps the best scent of all," a fragrance like that of the little 

 Scotch Briar, Rosa spinosissiina. — The Garden. 



[Will any reader of the Chronicle give more information ci.ncernin.i! 

 the plant last named; tell where can he obtained B. .Sargcntiaiia, describee! 

 in the Cornell Bulletin J61 on page 374, describe and tell where can be 

 obtained B. NcKbcrti, inform concerning the tiltiinate growth and size of 

 B. brevifaniciilata, B. Gtignefainii and B. Jnliaim. and add anything he 

 may know abjiit B. Hal-odatc' This last is by some nuiservmen said to 

 be similar to B. Sichnldi. and even identical with it. which is of the 

 hahit o^f B. vulgaris. But a letter just received frcm Professor Sargent 

 states. "B, Hakodate was one of the plants sent in the '60's to .S. B, Parsons 

 at Hushing. Long Island. Its name. Iiowever, was never published and 

 the correct name for the species is B. Regeliana, It has nothing to do 

 with B. Sifltiildi, but belongs to the B. -eiilgaris section. In foliage! tlowers 

 and Autumn coloring it i.= the handsomest Barberrv of this section and 

 one of the handsomest of all Barberries in cultivatio'n. It does r t rt all 

 look like B. Tlnniltergi or any forms of this siiccies." Participation in a 

 symposium with this serviceable genus as the topic, is invited. 1 



XoVELTtKS OF L'nisI-.M, ProMI.SE. 



Torch Lily Primula {P. Littonia), which has received a First 

 Class Certificate at the Holland House Show, was found grow- 

 ing 11 open mountain meadows in the Yunnan at an altitude of 

 lO.GOO feet. It prefers good loamy soil and partial shade. It 

 dies down after flowering, but ripens plenty of seeds which 

 siierminate freely. It makes a bcautiftil tuft of grayish green 

 leaves from wliich arises a scape 1 to 2 feet long. The bracts 

 and calices are almost scarlet in color while the corolla is pur- 

 I'le or pale lilac. .\ striking contrast is produced between the 

 lilac purple of the open flower and the cap of scarlet or blood- 

 red unopened buds at the top. — The Garden. 



The Titteuhurst rhododendrons are extremely beautiful hy- 

 brids raised by Mr. T. H. Lowinsky of Titteuhurst. .Sunningskill, 

 Berks, b'.ngland, Thev all were exhibited in pots recently at 

 tltc exhibition of the Royal Horticuliural Society which gave to 

 one. Mrs. Tom Lowinsky, a unanimous award of merit. Its 

 blossoins arc large and wide-open, S inches across, with buds 

 beautifully tinted pink and opening white. Others that received 

 similar honor are R. Anita, shell-pink, R. Donna Florenca, rich 

 decD rose. R. "The Don," intense rosy scarlet that is very telling, 

 A'. Don Ernesta. extrctrcly handsome rich rosy-scarlet, lighter 

 than the last. — The Garden. 



Cornus Xnltalli. "the nolilest of the cornels,"' is another plant 

 thai has just received the rare First Class Certificate. It is a 

 very handsotne tree or shrub, that is particularly attractive, 



