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JOURNAL OF HOKTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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an orange ground prettily striped Tvith chocolate. It would 

 be much appreciated in our conservatories and room vases, or 

 wherever odoriferous flowers are in demand. — J. M. C. 



POKTEAITS OP PLANTS, FLOWERS, AND 

 FEUITS. 



Odontoglossum vexillakium. Nat. onl., Orchidacea;. Linn., 

 Gynandria Monaudria. — Native of New Grenada. We recently 

 pubUshed a portrait of the flowers of this grand Orchid. " The 

 plant was overlooked by Warscewicz, discovered by the late 

 lamented Bowman on the western slope of the Andes of New 

 Grenada, and sent home aUve, but in a dying state, first by 

 Mr. WaUis when collecting for Mr. Linden, and secondly by 

 Mr. Koezl, also dead, and lastly by Mr. Henry Chesterton, whose 

 plants flowered with Messrs. Veitch." — (Bot. Motj-, t. G0:!7.) 



L.V.I. lA JoNGiiiANA. Nat. ord., Orchidacea. Linn., Gynan- 

 dria Monandria. — Native of BrazU. Flowers bright crimson 

 ])uvple, the lips white, yeUow, and crimson. " According to 

 Professor Reichenbach this very distinct and beautiful plant 

 was discovered by M. Libon, an iU-fated young traveller, who 

 fell a victim to his zeal in the Brazils, and after whom the 

 pretty genus Libonia was named ; and the introduction is due 

 to Mr. de .Jonghe of Brussels, an eminent cultivator, after 

 wliom it was named in accordance with M. Libon's wishes. 

 Tlie specimen here figured was communicated by Messrs. 

 Veitch, with whom it flowered in March of the present year." 

 —{Ibid t. 60.38.) 



13EG0NIA HERBACEA. A'«(. or(7. , BegoniaceiB. L/nn., Monoecia 

 I'olyandria. — Flowers white. " This singular species of Be- 

 gonia belongs to a small and very little known Brazilian section 

 of the genus, of which there are three supposed species, all 

 very imperfectly described. They differ from their congeners 

 in the moncEcious inflorescence, on which the male flowers are 

 raised on long scapes, and the females are sessile in the axils 

 of the leaves. The species here figured is a native of Rio de 

 Janeiro."— (/ti(Z. t. 6039.) 



Grevia Sutherland:. Nat. ord., Sapindacea?. Linn., De- 

 candria Monogynia. — Native of Natal. Flowers scarlet. " This 

 singular and beautiful plant, which was raised by Dr. Moore 

 from seed introduced into the Glasnevin Gardens about the 

 year 185'J, has been so extensively distributed both by himself 

 and from Kew, that it is now one of the commonest plants in 

 European Botanic Gardens. Singularly enough, though grow- 

 ing very freely and even luxiuiantly in our greenhouses, it had 

 never flowered in Europe, except (I believe) in the south of 

 France, till March of the present year, when a small plant in a 

 6-inch pot, in the Chelsea Botanic Gardens, having been starved 

 for the purpose, threw off aU its leaves, and put forth instead 

 a raceme of coral-like buds, which the curator, Mr. Thomas 

 Moore, was good enough to communicate to me for figuring in 

 the " Botanical Magazine." This, though much inferior as to 

 its inflorescence to the wild specimens (which bear upwards 

 of one hundred flowers in racemes 2 to 3 inches in diameter) 

 is so characteristic, that I gladly take the opportunity of 

 figuring it. 



" Greyia Sutherland! forms a smaU tree at Port Natal, de- 

 scribed by its discoverer, Dr. Sutherland, the Surveyor-General 

 of the colony and an ardent naturalist, as gi-owing in clefts of 

 much-exposed headlands, at elevations of 2000 to 6000 feet, in 

 the Drakenburg mountains, and flowering in August and 

 September (early spring). It was named after Sir George 

 Grey, K.C.B., Governor-General of the Cape Colouy at the 

 time of its discovery." — [Ibid. t. 60i0.) 



Linaria iieterophylla. A'aJ.onZ., Scrophulariaceie. Linn., 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. — Flowers white with yellow blotch. 

 " L. paUidiflora was raised from seed brought by Mr. Maw and 

 myself from Marocco in 1871, and flowered in July of the fol- 

 lomng year. It is a native of Sicily and Cyprus, but was dis- 

 covered by besfontaines in North -\frica, and described and 

 figured by him as L. heterophyUa in 1798. WiUdenow in 

 IMOO, referring all Linarias to Antirrhinum, in which there was 

 already an A. heterophyllum, altered the trivial name to 

 apariuoides ; lastly, Chavin, in 1833, restored the plant to 

 Linaria, but carelessly adopted WLlldenow's trivial name, in 

 wliich he has been followed by subsequent authors. The 

 Ij. tingitana of Bossier and Heldreich is a more robust variety, 

 with broader leaves, which has been gathered by Mr. Ball and 

 myself at Cape Spartel. The Mount Atlas specimens are much 

 more slender than those found nearer the coast. The L. vis- 

 cosa, Dnin., of Spain, is probably another form." — (Ibid. 

 (.,0041.) 



Camellia — Princes.i Manj.—" In April, 186(), this very fine 

 variety of CameUia japonica was exhibited by Mr. Salter, of 

 Hammersmith, at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 Floral Committee, and was awarded a first-class certificate. 

 On the retirement of Mr. Salter the plant came into the hands 

 of Mr. Bull, of Chelsea. The plant is, we believe, of EngUsh 

 origin, and is remarkable for its bold and rich deep green foli- 

 age — a feature which adds very greatly to the value, as decora- 

 tive evergreen shrubs, of those varieties which possess it. The 

 flowers are of full average size, and furnished with broad, 

 smooth, stout petals, arranged with remarkable symmetrj-, and 

 of a bright crimson-red colour. It is a variety in every way 

 worthy of the most extended cultivation." — [Florist and Pomo- 

 loriitt, 3 s.,vi., 121.) 



Peach — Princss of Wales. — " Our figtn-e of this noble late 

 Peach was prepared from specimens kindly transmitted by the 

 Rev. W. F. Radclyile. It is one of the novelties for which we 

 are indebted to the successful efforts of Mr. Thomas Rivers, of 

 Sawbridgeworth, who raised it from Pavie de Pompone. Mr. 

 Radclyfle remarks concerning it : — ' Its season here, at Okeford 

 Kitzpaine, is from about the Pith to the 24th of October. The 

 specimens sent had not arrived at their full size, which is 

 about from 9 inches to 10 inches, as, owing to the mischief 

 done by insects, I could not let them stay longer. The skin 

 is cream-coloured, and the cheek towards the sun is either 

 blush or mottled hke those sent. The flesh is melting for so 

 late a season, and not wooUy ; it is of good flavour, and the 

 flesh is very red for some depth round the stone. Though 

 raised from a clingstone, its flesh separates freely from the 

 stone. The trees here, three in number, are very hardy and 

 robust. It sets its flowers better than most sorts. Its flowers 

 are very large and lovely. The glands are round.' 



" Our note of the fruit sent runs thus : — Fruit above medium 

 size, straw-coloured, with a greenish tint on the shaded side, 

 flushed with red where exposed, and there marked with ii-re- 

 gular spots and blotches of deeper purpUsh red. Flesh pale 

 yeUow, deeply tinted with red round the stone, which parts 

 freely. Dr. Hogg descrilies it as very large and terminated by 

 a nipple; the flesh melting, juicy, and very richly flavoured. 

 Very large ; one of the largest Peaches known, and one of the 

 most beautiful, its colour cream, with a rosy cheek ; melting, 

 rich, and excellent ; ripens just before Desse Tardive, and is 

 very valuable. Flowers very large and beantilaV— {Ibid.} 



GARDENING IN THE WEST. 



1.— BATH. 



The origin of the term " Go to Bath" is, we beUeve, in- 

 volved in obscurity, and we are not aware that even the pages 

 of our curious contemporary " Notes and Queries" have ever 

 been enlivened by a discussion on the subject. It is generally 

 employed in a denunciatory sense to those who vainly attempt 

 to impose on the creduUty of others who consider they know 

 better ; but how it originated has never been satisfactorily 

 explained. Probably — and we merely throw it out as a hint 

 to those learned in antiquarian lore — it may have been used 

 to King Bladud when he related the circumstance of the pigs 

 rushing into "the oozy bed," and being cured of their dis- 

 order. Whatever force or meaning the expression may now 

 have, it was good advice proft'ered to the Council of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society when they were told this year to "go to 

 Bath." 



This western city has for centuries been a centre of attrac- 

 tion. Here fashion has reigned and horticulture has flourished. 

 Its name has served as an adjunct to some of the commonest 

 and most valued of our commercial and domestic products. 

 Who has not heard of Bath buns and Bath bricks, Bath post 

 and Bath polonies, Bath cheese and Bath chaps? Some of 

 these, however, are only specialties in name, for the buns, the 

 post, and the polonies are now to be had elsewhere ; the bricks 

 always did come from Bridgewater, and the chaps are chiefly 

 manufactured at Cahie. But Bath horticulture, like its waters, 

 is especially cherished by its people. Though there are no 

 large gardens in or near the city, its inhabitants are a race of 

 gardeners. From the eai-Uest times there have been florists' 

 and horticultural societies in Bath. Bath Pinks and Picotees 

 have formed the subject of discussion at many a club, where 

 the members in long coats and bush wigs assembled round the 

 punch-bowl, relating their experiences while they whiSed their 

 yard of " Broseley." But here, as elsewhere, the modern hor- 

 ticultural society has supplanted the florists' club, and for 

 many years Bath has had one of the most important horti- 



