1930 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. лока 
represent а group of Herbaceous Delphiniums, con-|l consider most charming, and have ordered two extra | 
| voi, writ ba calis m,a regn blue, Hermann | bulbs - or next season from my good friend Mr. Dean, of 
ple, and two ordinary single blues, | Ship This flower attracts the бее of ladies at 
Mad к Guichard. And Madame Bedinghaus; Roella | once, "ther in the garden or in the show box, And is is | 
Sida tui ahd Abies Nordmanniana, a sketch of a young certai nly quite rani from any other sorts I 
t Apti "-w-— 
Тнк Christmas season is usu 
[ all 
certain class of people, as a time К аен шы, 
саге and labour, and it a matter о Кы 
е 
frd, The plates give a low idea o£, the tiful thing the ladies, аз а m ae are | wonderment io some that we d fn A 
of Dutch art.—La Belgique Horticole (liv. 10) figures | no ыа} udges у about bees at this р ojo a Y ting ц 
Disemma coccinea, a w Holland climber with red am list t, and nothing of antenak cin! hen шу 
starry flowers, related to Passiflorà; and JHypostes eh arein yu opinion dp cious. To mdi of. iem T when no care ог attentio! ші 
sanguinolenta, the Eranthemum sanguinolentum of | propose to make a few additions of s two or "i "months о dd i 
gardens.—In касие Francais (Nos. 10, 11) are well in this country, and which wil omne assist | But аге aee s at rest? - No, not e Y 
ilostration of: Реіипіа ad é fils, Beauté des| youug growers in making their selection; and I УЙШ Christmas m. in the south of Devon, a mi 
Par and La Reno e; they are striped kinds,|add a third Mir list of Wen a dozen of what quantities of "pollen, ves 
е t id i ll star in the m and consider to be tl e very best soris extant, either d our little favourites choose to avail themsely, Ej 
five velgeshapok lila blotches on the edges of tl for the exhibition table. I would | favourabležopportunity for adding to th rip fray 
segments; the second white with five Nr bilobed | e call 8? Ч ) 
wedge- shaped ине bars; the third crimson with а | list of soria v m beauty some five or six come from 
white border, and a white star in the centre; they аге | a source of which he seems to be as yet una ; 
ware; Ij Januar 
riou What is called R. allude to the splendid collection of Mr. John Standisb,| 
t 
Майа стат to be rather R. calophyllum. Саѓсео- formerly of Bagshot, and now of the Royal Nursery, 
e X E mel is a yellow-flowered sirmbhy variety, | Ascot, a very enthusiastic and most; successful raiser of! 
crimson blotch.. Pelargonium Martial de | Gladioli, ranki second only to Me; GEN het, of Fon- 
or three past 
a v 
may be observed throughout any dd ot ащ 
Соо, еш ibed as the first of the full double | tainebleau. Mr. Standish's flowers are well } 
searlet-flow sorts ; it was raised А ајы Martial de most, justly valued in England, E e in this 
f'spflourd y, where . the ladiolus immense 
obtained the semi-double Auguste Ferrier, Nun and attains. to great Pm wing, |n 
The For e des Serres, which for some time wo had|doubtless, in à great measure to ihe richness, of 
has lately | our soil, and the softness. and hum idity of our climate ; | 
d with us I 
appeared more frequentiy. The numbers which have | and wi may add tha 
been sent out during the present year (liv. 172 to Ml complete whi ch does not piis a [inde infusion " 
tat Б терм, 
18 ime, 
о reas wne rue rat - 
ahead in 
те tim e to o go through thea 
what Ж кыга may be for the TM 
Now is the fitting period Tor aue What addition 
tati 
which the more striking are the following : For several years РН "have ordered v 
achyum Verschaffe € changed to Fittonia Р етей. considered the **cream" of the "Continental. ^ 
eu in а subsequen ces mber. ате рая English. novelties, and. have. amused myself i in crossi ng 
th 
, Or any o! of the ai urtenan 
of а well- ordered зрізу, If Sa udi D i 
ni 
A: o: diga y M ios Ж: 
-Eranthemum ŝa БОТЕН, now  referr to|the sor 
Hypæst es. Co spe gracilis, a Е dites the finest shapes and the richest colouring; 
with blue авв «Werk, not yet introduced from |І shall bloom воте. 800 to 1200 well-bred tollis 
India. Malus floribunda, dE Japanese tree of|annually, and have be - rewar ra — яу ыч w fine 
thor 
set the aforesai: work. 
great beauty, repr esented 1 hree states—a tree in | moveltics alréady, БА m sanguin 
d a treei in full bloom, and a | үз of the, ДҮЙ from my labours, Seed generally на, br us from 
the 156 to the 20th of September. ^ sow it as Nis 
ав ready in pans in M ge greenhouse, and the grea 
ihe effect о tie very gorgeous. M was А iv majority of the bulbs will bloom. in wer two сата 
М. уоп Siebold. Aplotaxis gos: sypina, а dwarf woolly- and wiiltake up fine and large, fully as good as are 
headed Carlina-like Thistle from India, not yet intro- | generally offered for sale by our leading nurserymen. 
duced. Dischidia Ra Ле ana, а epi ious Asclepiadaceous|. The Gladiolus seems to become hardier every year. 
E plant from Malac a, recently introduced I left one bed of seediings out- undisturbed all last 
ma : 
Houtte's "establis Mont. inter, merely top dreang to. the extent of about 
chinensis, "the Kadsura chin ensis of some botanists, à 2 inches with fich 1 and leaf. puce. и m таги 
and in April they E Ж well and b 
carpen 
co ompleted and ачы ж-ы i imuiedisiet t ws 
you may actuall eed them. Aw every 
possibility of the bees getting ahead of | you, and of е 
desired drap not being at hand. Much "xs 
accrue from а departure from this rule, А тау siot 
ac x ДИЗЕ needfol- accommiodalion in 
da A eie the entire loss of 
yis a stipe may be fatal to the successful 
of a much wished- for super. Therefore decide jn улг 
d, and 
Tant nf 4Ha* 
bees in winter. They never mires 
diceious flowers, and "]oosely-spicate а |161 ity we cannot discover some means "e ie Li 
cinnabar-red berriés attached to an р ^y torus, | *the E rM ? which sometimes strikes our choicest 
Phænicophorium sechellarum, the beautiful Seychellés ig | flowers so suddenly, often when the › spikes. are in their 
a visit, believing that. ; are a right and eim 
reqnire any ed A: is frequently a 
mis take. Hi ives may me depo with n 
ор. hi m, 
Valm, otherwise called Stevensonia Graadifolia ; and Per- | full glory , mostly 
a splendida, the Regelia majestica of gardens. | worthless; but аъ the disease (whate t be) 
Abutilon megapotamicum, the pretty red-sepaled yellow- | pne е bulb first and the PRAES: erar Ec hile 
or otherwise; wl of protracted ойі 
the ‘entrances may be Dartially d entirely choked ip 
еу doad bees. In som e districts a - but déstrucire 
ye 
bod m LU plant, called Abut ilon vexillarium on this branch of the subject I may add, ra 
constantly at Ww 
by Morr Cereus giganteus, one of the éolumn-like splendid spikes of bloom have us I d m 
“Cacti w Mexico. Hii, oder the | the bulbs (m Syst of which I fara ap ау, and ы їп уы 
name SEE Vased, Amorphophallus campanu- | sun), now hen tur o are. 809 od for 
W 1 
ay be OT ying П 
апа This ету. is ; the tomtit, тїй 
is often véry  déstructive among the bees in Winter, I 
ів little that is likely to' be necessary EN 
an occasional visit tf 
Tatws, with а most remarkable inflorescence, | Vanda | доу affer reor or four Зк о exceptiona 
"Suavis Hrubjana, a gR handsomely spotted variety, and I may a ith me |i 
distinguished by i за a and — "айа short|aboutone in 40 or 50; Y though Va s did not 
li КЕС": Маа, Т. Van Houtte, one оЁ|8 ug 99 d for wintering out last year, I find the 
eries, with pets на heads of flowers, | b ce with my general sto ck is to take them up | Exeter 
h 
whic №" ^ni white edged with flesh-colour. mer rid n |. e mn the stalk às still quite green, and dry the 
mong the яч n s, and an 
thi that may be v oing wrong. 
а bees ‹ of. som ATEM in бе — 
ёге observed to be carry 
qum of pollen on Christmas Day. 
теде élioide es, а large-flowered dwarf plant Gloxinia-like ularly ү noticeable in aei. to ‘soi анаа 
as to flower and habit, but with the colours of X ydza, |, b" regards the position which ther nte ia mim. 
rose spotte n. It іза very beautiful hybrid | take "Y qu autumn exhibitions, al [x lenti "| Weheartily їагїапа, КАЕ their Бевз ds el — 
production ucuba japonica, the female piens with sugesta as already been fully carried out in I and. | s for йин; а pis еу New Year” ; 
Derris, es, Four double en Howie establi dm esof Hip- | At our metropolitan shows. ha Ed =з ; 
rom outte' lishment. "Three AX. offered in the various classes, which usuall еби к tlie last 
град plates of Azalea indica ad ata consist of stands of 36, 24, 12, and 8, w ee prizes | was art Pire e: "ad en a * T 
variegata, and punctulata o minicolor, the two latter | in each class, and the sums given are much more liberal | "поў what to do with a hive W 
being sports from the fir st, which is a red-striped sort, | than those of the great Lond. ieties. sure and |'On proceeding to the spot, I'foun 
the second superior;in shape. and white-edged like "^3 result of this wise liberality is a magnificent | hive, which had béen tenanted wit 
Tariegato, and the third producing, besides flowers like | display, delightful to a  beholders, and likely toexercise|to be the в bject of the misfort 
7 last, others which. are self-coloured and, iue а powerful influence on incipient floricultural exhibitors. | Was broken down, ind very m 
[ рон, Presa -Rose соз сны ^a Er may be id мао" Rambler's" list | been pickéd up E placed anyhow insi 
Ji t, a deep crimson, . ampieri be 
Jftore-aibo rubro-marginato, in cwn the Аюны are | Ка tt (Standish) Ке күс à proe È 
represented as white, with a red edge and esr hoss, gio fo ta (ааа); Ext (Standish) orice that еве ood could: 
vu eife ia Golohel Stahdi ў Res PRI oi паар) e combs iu frames bow н 
р arminata m s mie o 
Clematis ooi and 0. Peces ien . Pardam ааз JW, pata (bandiet) phos tandish) л. ун n tng That on the alighting р 
Loco De Miei Jon sum giganteum. Camellia X tandish) Eg (Sangis E ЖИШП populóus colony, е beé 
lobe white, ороноо quit бш euppotalod | йш portr idi ne. Пб prata унь ahd wére received without eni 
Sapalla оиса р ТЯ чыш WR T worta «ет M д со UN be 
бега Шоп fiowdts : калеа 1 i veh: bi Madame. Eit Verdier Prince "Impe Or left бп tlie ground., Wha f 
Sorel: Wi p^ ы ow, and ric bronzy- Walter Scott (Souchet) М or Peth (Stándish) More vexing was, that to this Jive, Ое 
acquisition. кк ы slow Roses. X * Fin айу, a [Re ne TM Med ande). — |winitér store, занту pounds of food had been 
глад cado JR Y ly», 3 | Cuvier r M Monbeay Mode (ааа) |! féw weeks previously. Much of this tas 
No, 178, the last which has reached us. A Те followi wing round dozen I would consider tlie v 
l с . е 
pets xor e the хадзе, of all е, воой Gladioli at TE 
v 
His ы кы uter базёз to thei 
Florists Flowers, — ^" adama Rabonrdin.. 
IT is refreshing to sée even 'а passing notice of pae cotenigué muel Weymouth (Standish) 
florists’ отет in these degenérate (foral) diys, AnA I| Meyerbeer | oA 
read with real pleasure a few practical notes on tho| James Veitch я Norman (беш) 
LADIOLUSin your issue of the16th by **Rümylér,"copied Pim Pastadb - W. Lane (Standish) н) 
from the © West of Scotland Horticltural Magazine," | eere 07 Wales 
Rambler's” experiences relative to the most ашаа Му list of “ discarded ” is just the same as *'Rambler's," | 
жып eiit dir or four additioris, = ей ече з. 1 fud 
one variety, Roi Leopold,* which he proposes to discard, че that iA Tt. Of real genuine good. sorte, many of them 
———————— very 
* Perhaps “ Rambler” has not got the true sort, | varieties, Autis, Dublin, Dec, 1 
ce, pow pe of over 150 
qoem 
a'condition for it to be made available. AS. 
have been prevented it the precautión 
Number of tlie Chronicle, of securely fasten 
ir gis ; 
den M i 
fe аре Bank, Grasaow, THE PER - 
DAWSON, за Whien this place е 
vy 1111) 1 »promised to o allude to ne 
f Orcliids, which їз Kept Hot si 
кар by your correspondent Mr. Д s р 
grower of this charming tri 
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