PL. CLXXIX. 



TILLANDSIA (VKIESIA) TESSELLATA. 



CHEQUERED TILLANDSIA. 



NAT. ow>. BROMELIAGEAE. 



ETYMOLOGY : named after Tillands a physician at Abo. in Finland. 



GENERIC CHARACTER: vide Lindley, Botanical Beg 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER : folia in cyathum regularem con: 

 apice mucronata decurvata, nitida, integerrima , atrotiridia i 

 superne pallidiorilms iufenu' riit>rc\ i- i.!-'.i< sul»rpid< ■ ri ] i i < 1 • ■ ron-picui- •; 



Vriesea tessellata, Linden et Andre (loc. praes.). 



Tillandsia tessellata, Linden Catal. — Illustr., hort., 1873, p. 78. 



This charming species, already known and favourably recei- tram 



vedat the Exhibitions where M. Lindenhas sent it. lias not y.-t hav. s. Tin v an- p 



flowered with us. When we announced it in the Illustration The regular, vav- 



Horticole last year, we expected that it would soon throw plant before t!«.w< 



up flower-spikes; but we have waited all this time in vain, in a temperate fa 

 This species is a native of the province of St. Catherine, i plant one of the 

 Brasil. It is easily distinguished at the first glance by the 



THE PARK AND PLEASURE GROUNDS. 

 THE ARAUCAIUAS AT UK TON. 



has already attained such a deve- 

 lopment in Great Britain as to entitle it to be considered 

 as fully naturalized. It fruits regularly and produces fertile 

 seeds, which is held to be proof of naturalization. The 

 Gardeners' Chronicle and other English horticultural jour- 

 nals have frequently called attteiltion to the fine specimens 

 at Dunse-Castle, Berwickshire, and Castle Wigg , Wigton- 

 shire. We have very much admired those at Eaton Hall, the 

 residence of the Marquis of Westminster, and especially 

 those at Dropmore, as well as in other places. We have 

 also stated before that the handsomest specimen existing in 

 Europe is at M. De Kersauson's, near Quimper in Brittany, 

 where it fruits every year. 



But the following details by M. Begbie , in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, respecting the Araucarias at Bicton, where there 

 is a fine avenue of this noble tree , may interest some of our 

 readers : The conception of an Araucaria avenue appears 

 to have originated about forty years ago. Since then several 

 avenues of the same kind of tree have been planted in other 

 parts of England , and may have attained greater heights. 

 Those at Bicton, however, have exceeded all others in fertility. 

 In the Autumn of 1872 , from 8 to 10 bushels of good seed 

 was gathered from 16 trees Avhich showed their cones in 1871. 

 One tree proved to be monoecious (') and produced thirty 

 catkins and twenty-five cones. Seeds from these cones sown 

 in the spring of 1873 gave birth to over 100 healthy plants. 

 The seed from the dioecious trees gave about 2000 seedlings 

 last year. 



