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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
{Apri 16, 1864, 
flattened bases of the buds — sometimes of | 
Robert Fortune is another of the first- class sorts, not 
| th the on series "E yes we may ins 
i stanc 
erlands x de peo ce Queen of 
erfe 
= ey a oe Wwithal, the spike being well furnished, 
and t a ki cy 
d 
| nent de: 
bec 
ectly ne new colour, and of more than 
fo ormer, but of ap 
1 j- 
ai pe a distant piden ce ree pur r v vid 
fine 
the finest qua ali x^ but while 
gb the 
nd of reddish pu 
atter D» the segmen 
centre. regard ei as 
a decided acquisition amongst the full deep clear blues, 
in which class there has long been room for some 
older in character | than Bar on Von 
of te ek a pius pinched- l id fl ": 
-up pe ed flo 
very epi be gros 2x at on And there 
another series, represented by Ser: rhea consisting 
narrow-petaled ineffective flowers, whi ch sho oe f old 
e have ; it is also a shade deeper 
that. t aitcauities forming a very 
— variety, which may be expected to take a Din, 
xpo hereafter. „Anot ther n ovelty, Thorwaldsen 
eap, for 
all for 
Ur list of 
Ped. 
they are not wo es growing in pots, E Teast a 
exhibition purposes. We must reform our 
Hyacinths, and the materials for doing so area 
eu understand that 
+h del 
in consequence of de 
"nt between 
expirat 
PETA 14 
ANDISH 
f | apike, "put th 
en the a Themselves "compensate dy 
r lack of numbers, and the 
yes quality for 
r azurean 
| varieties with Nay ei prepirtioned, pisdiaf bells 
— re g somewhat thinly, not scantily, on the stem 
gardens. Clematis Mortuni, the m fpecies 
T huge eic m NT fee 
ur last yea e, is to be one of más Clematis 
p 
diseased, showed no symptoms 
the first year, but ne year it is quite as bad as 
any tree in the g 
‘All this seems D indio ate ze something es a 
have been brou € the garden as ma 
h the rim rees, Should | this 
ot See iniiy 
crowded with showing "bells | v 
whi ch t 
e 
iüinsiy icu d doubtless the well-filled spike i is 
s of being affected of the o the | Th 
hav 
matter. 
ia os p^ Y sorts which 
udged w in the second 
rank, easly, | Henrieta E be J imei age The 
first is a decided the «colour being 
wee 
them 
a | great oblate red berries double the size of those of ona 
i ree w Mar with its profusion of d 
vio le purple flowers, Mr. UNE deseri! 22 
e other, is ve er of t "ind "a 
Ski 8, fine free 
hardy evergreen bushes, taller i in Y 
ample in foliage than the Skim E China with 
which we are now so familiar— meet with 
elicate a totally pum om any of t 
f 
d 
colours w h which we have re o long fi 
H xd 
that the health — e: trees 
of the 
sio fn mily the spike, 
» 
freer in habit ‘thong vite somewhat narrower rion 
is eim of aa size, and the 
e and bre: 
wall 
dth; _ but molitur ibi d 
genus being. polygamous) a male and i unmated, - Both 
cde 
€ 
hose rt the indem v erc seem to retain the 
greatest im of veris, and if t ye er ^g 
ack S, 
its ts colo our, S domphing too, is mai inly desirable for its 
colour, which is one of the rich crimsons with. which 
berries, which the first however produces freely. 
are, too, several: forms of Ogmanthus ilicifolius, Holly like 
ed 
we have of late years become familiar; only in this the 
tube has a brilliant orange glow, which makes it 
specially attractive. Its defect so far has been thin- 
the spi 
ike, but this may be from want of age and 
vigour. half dozen new flowers form decided 
acquisitions. 
Some few others which we have seen we regard as 
very satisfactory on i we red sie from the 
puel of Jof this flower which have taken place at the 
3 itan with a — Sa 
4 e 
champion growers pretty much on a par. 
The rouse varieties of the past fow seasons have 
kept up their character, and, as we have forn merly 
has | giving promise tha! at wp may improve on further ac- 
bushes ve prov 
hardy, and are freer to grow than most of the Hollies 
themselves. Two or three green- Forte forms kt = 
e! 
et 
BE $5.31 
Of thes 
| centre; 
Morgan, a glo ae sms DA a light lilac 
purple; Goertruida, mall flowered lilac ; E 
ar reddish lilac with. a bluish: lue tbe. We shall look 
her year. 
observed, show clearly tl 
quality and variety going on even in this 
slow-paced 
flower—for slow-paced we must 
take n 
call it, when novelties 
e observation of an aerials collection of 
Frou, a large bolio trean nae ven 
and Fanny, | Tb 
ea-green colou EI eio for pe 
its little pinnules themselves concave, while they exe 
A littl 
Hyacinths, such for instance as that of Mr. CurBUsH. 
sufficient 
and which — vi owned 
within 
the last week or two will show that there are two 
ranged, namely, 
Stak tha 
| of the fronds are quite convex. 
These then are a few of the treasures which the 
titu T 
orts at the exhibitions, x least in — maa 
restricted form, must be regarded as a failure, 80 far as 
e d and the ts more or less fat and those 
which 
that good 
choice varieties, yet bt’ are free to confess 
has, out of the evil, by the drawing 
as it were, com 
iis of 
Seed mel are pen in and ree eg 
pecially towards their t The quality X 
flat ies is not indeed always aa marked, cx 
such as might not ot cheino have been d cer- 
dition, we 
AV, UN 
hese pecu- 
metimes be Roy result of ee 
no doubt that 
— the smoother the ebene of their p 
= GM ts, the more effective de rin 
therefore, of ins 
at the recent shows the Floral | 
a € out of its ordinary |o 
this way upon 
oked 
h this of new 
that if thei fein plat EC, a tie oo 
ze bein the case of new IM ais very plentifol 
ars sa not quite up to t 
rei pag rti of the bulbs, there y 
al 
in respect to 
coe 
ah this consideration before us, we have to —MÀ 
£ 
most | done before, we sought a 
pect Mr. 
a éolléotiol with the object of. “Picking 
for commendation the newest sorts, 
dichten t and most telling colours, whi h 
ongst the legio 
in bloom wi 
referre 
tures 
strongly marked i in the following 
erefore 
| having th were to be p 
| others in which th the ue were vix. Such fea: 
found more or less s 
sorts, which we 
thos ned 
time yi os os oll no doubt be d 
New Plants. 
276. RHODODENDRON LINDLEYI, , Moore. 
A shrub apparently of « dwarfish habit, with stiff erect branches; 
leaves (33 by 14 in.) elliptic oblong, rebus minora 
what narrowed and decurrent at base, e and rug 
coriaceous, slightly E fem green opaque, atate with 
without hairs abov us te lepidoto-pun' a terminal 
the nerve: Lap 
oblong ob! 
Bend ‘be e i Tong) angled and deeply 
base, e, the imb (8 in ad) of five unded spr 
stamen: abou m tag cli s 
at the es the e dm z iong; ; gs 5-cell 
n. e tube, with a emispherical obso! 
which 
ie AI stigma. 
This very beautiful IPIE 
ing for the first time with Mr. Standish, of 
| raised by him from Bhotan seeds—a stra; 
| has all along been M = differ from, td 
now familiar to cultiva - is c 
nearly allied to R. Dalhous but di 
r 
amen ending IS 
style longe 
Jetely quit 
rd 
plant which 
other speci 
y most 
jn is 
y :—Von Schiller, € red, "wen. 
ed; Le Pro phéte, vith 
spit ES tine being ight 
white ; and Elfrida and Voltaire, 
an illustration of the difference iu 
altogether smaller habit, its 
are n ertheless 
and its smaller flowers, es beautifal on account 
ondro) 
character of their 
E of this ee h 
nemidophorum (p. 
ave been favoured with 
