Jone 25, 1864] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 603 | 
went in can into tl f the plants of the countries he | Selagi inellas, and flowering stove plants Climbers 
gavel g ite tributary te Imo to Terapoto a | visited; for sev uL doubtfal questions of origin as to looked freer, cleaner, and ES better m :anaged on the 
large and thriving town in the ancient pr ovince of Nenad genera and species which his this great stove n I had seen them elsewhere, 
Ma In the Meg T of Tarapoto, which like | have clea red up; and ja M number and scientific In the first division Hexa ceutris mysorensis and lutea, 
mel imilar ones the eastern roots of th e Ande ] t n the spot, T mien a d Thunbergia risi 
will one day be the site ot. a magni hen P the specimens prese eg all which spec s have | were trained on rud roof with other elit bers. Inthe 
e immense resources of the Amazon valley and its| been tra usmitted to this bounty, and pina ns second division were many good things in the Palm and 
| unrivalled fluvial system shall have been fally deposited in the national herbarium at Kew.] Cycad way, including Cycas intermedia, Zamia 
developed—he rompe nearly two ux. and collected Forsteri?, with hard corded and furrowed leaves; 
l n ides "Y B iety of other plants, no heer Plectocomia sportai very beautiful; Ceroxylon 
than 250 speci af an area o: only 50 miles NOTES ON GARDENS.—No. XI. piy eum, A Oreodoxas, Elæis, Astrocaryon, &c. 
in diameter. ROCKVILLE, DUBLIN.—(Continued vem 580). om the roof. of this division Hoya seri and 
omn. 1857, Mr. litus left Tarapoto f for| BEFORE mr the West Indian stad I should have grandifiora, with Stephanotis, were gracefully and 
Ecuador, descending the Huallaga to f Mango, | naturally depen HS à and not rigidly tied to the wires as 
ni the Merton, © me. st Indian | is [5d the 
ts the and Bombonasa to [ad ed 
Meal po de forest of a on foot to the 
f Bai 
e Ra 
house is i another sable: roofe "ge structu ure, jg f 
village o os, at the foot of the Yelena of ob Daa with some o lants of ly MU and nterest, 
ragua. In this disast: journey, whic pied a | and among them the curious scaly-spotted "* un nknown 
hundred days, he had to abandon all his Ei in the Lois H = mich Mr. ZI wei j^ exhibit at the 
forest, to perishing of hunger at the passage of ws a couple o f years ago, and which then 
swollen rivers. 
Maki ing Bafios his head quarters, he devoted above 
is very singular plant is 
said to 3*2 been found by M. Porte growing round the | 
1 t 
f the valley 
rr r 
ot tb AS 
In D" 1858, he removed to Ambato, which for 
ks of „trees on wiih he first met (2 the fine 
h plant, ct the 
n its 
ly full Ei pr specimens of fine- 
leaved plants the third eh ion, so healthy and 
See; that Shey might be taken promiseuously and 
staged for a London exhibition ith every pr 
a Schottii was very 
Success. On the roof Allaman 
as was H ; whi 
| free p 
completely obliterate "the usual conventional — 
mpartmen nt was ted to 
lth, d d in aidin s soin 
then ‘Aisi Maulii and A. petola cuprea ; good 
Rall 
gorous heal 
beautifal flowers, in the absence 
i a 
Hoy Not 
of whic 
o be E Ficus, others a singular form of 
Sp JOCIES 5 
arscewiczii, LA atum 
Musa vit Mar: and A 
h; with other very large 
and P d 
tata, ta Wa 
bored N est through 
t M. 
more than two years was his point of departure for 
excursions to Quito, Riobamba, &c., and to various 
points i tern and western cordilleras of the 
pe» E e although his movements h 
icte the revolutionary v 
the county, during neal the whole of that period, 
In one Spruce communicated a valuable 
paper he Reval Geographical Pooiaky, on uu moun- 
ins 2 Linnganai in the eastern cordillera of the 
Quitenian etel amor 1861, p. 1S9. He 
t ero 
i rtant 
s Line Societ; Ps Wen 
860 he Te Sem 
ads 8 for el 
‘or m 
occupied fc 
eeds an ws the "Qinchoüs parcirslirh, or 
died ot Bori pina planh, which | m 
tivation in In adia 
y Mr. Cl 
ex 
r some months in pro- 
Here was also a db in Md way of sin accom- 
modation—an ornamental'tank for the Ouvirandra, with 
plate-glass front, white polished marble columns, back, 
and ends, o havi ing also slabs of the purest white 
r under the leaves to fully dis splay | 
visit to Rockville I had | 
h dri 
u 
with leaves of a more direii. outline and 
da mir bronze than the normal form; Cr otons of 
mense size and rich co 
areatan A 
a 
not xt lene 80 with any other class of plan 
nen 2 +i and 
a meteorological jou 
vegetation of the Cinchona foreste 8), is by 
and 
has been invaluable as a guide to the pa. PR of 
these precious plants in India. It covers 112 printed 
Afterwards, his broken health seeming to require 
return to a warm climate, he removed to the plain of 
yw and his active labours as a botanist may be 
ave,closed with the picking up of a few plants 
R^ hat. neighbourhood during the pe ar 1861, an 
en 
his | with its variously formed fronds of uL most glossy 
green run ning over ang clinging to pieces of tufa. | r 
Lindsæas gr n as this plant was 
T plum | aoet Tn 
F 
Roxburghii 6 feet high, | 
a splendid and pr 
Vanda Batemanpi, a noble plant fi 
Lawrence's collection ; Vanda suavis in QUID: and 
some rare and beautifal weve of Vanda tricolor. 
Here too was Plat; Wollichii, a fine Fern from 
of ie characters 
anda 
obably a nete ene with | th 
bl TO e late M 
rs. | r 
pal in and very yan if indeed elsewhere in the | ten 
country, of P. Stem 
end o 18 
Round me iece of rockwork, 
sprang a of double arch crossing "ihe 
asin, and bearing Goniophlebium subauriculatum and 
edel with oth r Ferns and "Lyeopods; while 
d potting shed, where choice aud 
er plants T be attended to without bringing 
ith the open air. | TAE 
m i 
and P. reda, havin 
«| She acer Quir of dh ETT doped em Anu 
largely grown in a neat i of shallow pan suspended | ci osa, a hug e dur ov i — ; issus, 
from the roof, and were in vigorous health. Oft e true| Hoya, perpeti the ni Seine vigata, 
Gri ere ygodit , Marcgra a dubia, Paine ear 
which Es nd 
phyllum gon Turona, sid ve pelis | grace or sarai | to such an arran So humid 
e 
he stnostbee’ in 
and other 
ranges 
comin: and cong: those 
e an interval ess years, euabled him i ta ‘his as in ithe other Orchid ae the adv nd were | their ii ndo xh Xn. of Ficus 
" n p flakes, and w ith 
plants which under t t fairi A 
their Papel 
on the desert, a 3 n E Several curious trees ¢ and 
aclod imt the last. be was a oy to be "round in| 
ms had not for some y 
a forth even a 
dove loped at Rockville to Korp such an i 
tojt 
str uggle 
with the s sponges, which, by r the by, coe be shirt REG 
collec 
on in the cleanest possi 
"Wek 
r 
or adjoining the new Mec houses Ar a 
ped 
ter the 
house devoted do the Kilroy Pe» s ag before indi- 
ME EST tor passes un work and soon 
c proportion were entirel very n at greenhouse, w ith double span-roof, 30 feet windows, this interesting si 
especially among the it and other long an and 20 wide, the roof of Hartley’ s Suh y plate kt the orchard house as truly noble 
were also to be in many cases of glass, and the fittings most , convenient and tasteful. one, which I Shall URS to Seine A 
great value, Several new species m nst g pap f. Wm. Robins 
One entirely new of producing | and supported b y neat cast-iron columns. This house (To be continued.) 
best kind of caoutchouc, which is now extracted | Contained a collection of Orchids requiring cool tr 
them in quantities by the Brazilians, but| ment; large bushy specimens of t d dicarp 
Was not before, until Mr. Spruce pointed Me trees ont scandens, PNE semivestita, and o ; with Mere a 
Rio Negro and elsewhere. His & ens of all | Beaucarnea stricta and B. recurvat: ta about rr et high, Erh Seng Azaleas tici. 1—Vigorons 
plants are preserved in the pr ineipal public and gd the largest specimens of ed E cultivation, citm, sugested by practio ical experien r kno 
Private collections in the heey ‘and are, therefore. Lu neat house was also a well-arrang | ledge a subject, exerts a very beneficial 'nfience 
Sein for r the purposes of Bi suh, Àv very Aud nes radicans and Andrewsii, with t vague, 
llection of ae amie geeconun e ae epen nding 
SS emtin, bs n all 
Fem ps mon ire guae of 
UR MEE 
rivers which had eri pe been 
oi ae and 
countries, of Ply sa food, trade 
ci 
dig e his Sedit to 
collected, 
THE LIN-| 
for the EU and | oj 
Bin! also in t i 
ber lants distinguished by their or fine 
5 ards of Âmongs t them m was Baaien Vo la, Calam 
with kinds of Mn ium, | employer 
8 with this very radi The proportion which we aim at w 
aliona | Cheilanthes, 
g gr 
papa. o Ph pente 
In wha 
— 8 5 9 feet square, wi i 
which t 
a Te ips 
ibotium princeps, the rare 
Nothochlwna, es. mixed 
acefully Ta and contrasting vul with presto], and vaci ating manner in which. certain 
y some of 
t formerly was the great Orchid a 
ants having been removed to the /1 
whose nose is th 
containing heh stim to lead. 
579 0 
on, | tained that 
hor kiep liura] attari are commented upon b 
-a-days is cer! 
3 po 
evn bk ie bop ia aves to 
eairt he gro 
e s t 
M ind singe o of 
t societies 
jh 
a | Which & are so ugly. Now, Eies something of the 
cares and anxieties of an exhibition, I beg that you 
wil in turn 4 ow to criticise your critic, At 
me 
f last year’s Gardeners’ Chronicle it is main- 
ah d iret al outline is the sine Sood non of 
ak nts, 
page 
for 
