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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



(September 29, 1888. 



Leaves Gold-variegated. 





Not 

 flowered. 



Flowered 



Flowered 





and not 

 berried. 



berried. 



92, aurea regina 





X 





93, aurearegina 









nigra ... 







X 



96, aureo - marginata 







X 



99, aurea angustifolia 





X 





107, aurea muricata. . . 





X 





103, aureo - marginata 









fructu luteo ... 







. X 



108, aurea augusti 





■■;. 





marginata 





m 





105, aurea marginata 









intermedia ... 







X 



112, aurea nana 



X 







120, aurea maculata... 



X 







131, Lawsoni 



X 







135, heterophylla 









aureo-marginata 





X 





138, aurea laurifolia 



X 







141, aurea longifolia 





X 



"7~ 



142, Watereriana ... 



X 







146, heterophylla 









aureo-picta . . . 







'. x 



147, aureo medio 









picta 







X 



151, aurea ferox 





X 





ROUPELLIA GRATA.— This rare store climber 

 (fig. 48) has lately flowered in the Palm-house at 

 Kew, where it is trained up against the glass on a 

 wire trellis. It may not be out of place to record a 

 description of it here, on account of the beauty and 

 fragrance of its flowers, and its free habit. It has a 

 woody, terete, and shining stem, sparsely covered 

 with small warts. The leave's are opposite, entire, 

 shortly petiolate, 5 or 6 inches long, oblong-elliptic- 

 acuminate in shape, and of a dark shining green 

 colour on the upper surface. The inflorescence is 

 borne on the ends of the branches in clusters of six 

 to eight shortly pedicellate flowers, which, .-scent the 

 atmosphere for some distance around ''With their 

 agreeable odour. The calyx is fleshy, and of a shining 

 crimson colour, while the tubular corolla is 2J inches 

 or more in diameter, and consists of five broadly 

 obovate recurved petals of a creamy-white, tinged 

 with rose from the margin inwards. The throat of 

 the corolla is surrounded by ten lanceolate-linear 

 ligules, the corona of a brownish-red colour. After 

 a couple of days the flowers become very much 

 crinkled, and do not then present such a handsome 

 appearance as when freshly expanded. This plant, 

 which is supposed to yield what is known as the 

 " Cream Fruit," is a native of Sierra Leone, whence 

 it was introduced to cultivation some forty or fifty 

 years ago — it is believed by a Mr. Whitfield — and 

 was exhibited at the Devon and Exeter Horticul- 

 tural Society's spring exhibition, where it obtained 

 a prize under the name of Strophanthus Stanley- 

 anus. It was afterwards named in honour of the 

 Koupell family, but especially Charles Roupell, 

 Esq., on account of the encouragement they gave to 

 botany. 



The National Conference on Apples and 

 Pears at Chiswick, October 16 to 20.— We 



would remind intending exhibitors and others in- 

 terested in the cultivation of Apples and Pears, that 

 the date of this important meeting is only three 

 weeks' distant. The late fine weather has so 

 materially improved the fruit crops, that we may 

 confidently look forward to a display of more 

 than ordinary merit. Arrangements are being 

 made for the Conference, which promises to be of a 

 thoroughly practical character. Any one intending 

 to take part in the same should at once communi- 

 cate with Mr. Barron at Chiswick. 



THE Linnean SOCIETY.— Mr. Datdon Jackson 

 lias earned the cordial thanks, not only of all Fellows 

 of the Society, but of all botanists, for his Index to the 

 first twenty volumes of the Journal (Botany) of the 

 Society, published between 1857 and 1884 inclusive, 



and incorporated with which is an Index to the 

 Proceedings from 1838 to June, 1886. The Index 

 occupies no fewer than 427 pages, double column, 

 and comprises a double record (though in one alpha- 

 betical sequence) of the names of authors and of the 

 titles of their papers. Every species described or 

 commented on is separately indexed. In some cases 

 an improvement might be suggested ; for instance, 

 we find three entries under the word " adventitious," 

 relatingtb Grape, Berberis, and Brassica respectively. 

 We do not think anyone would think of looking 

 under the word adventitious for these objects, while 

 if he looked under Brassicahe would notfindwhat he 

 required. The entry " Colletia, with" combined 

 characters," is probably not one which the author 

 himself would have used, but the compiler may have 

 found it as it stands in the Proceedings, a circum- 

 stance which shows- the advisability of submitting 

 the short records in 'the Proceedings, to the Fellows 

 concerned, as well as their longer papers. Far be it 

 from us, however, to be, even in appearance, captious;. 

 jWe'-are much too sensible of the magnitude of the 1 

 service rendered at the cost of so much disinterested j 

 self-devotion by Mr. Jackson to feel aught but 

 grateful to him, and we know that each week will 

 intensify the feeling. Fellows may procure their 

 copies on application at the Society's rooms. 



Agricultural Lectures.— The annual course 



of lectures on agriculture will be given at the City 

 of London College, Moorfields, on Tuesday evenings, 

 at 7 p.m., beginning on October 2, by Mr. Bernard 

 Dyer, B.Sc, F.C.S., F.L.S., Consulting Chemist to 

 the Essex, Leicester, and Devon Agricultural 

 Societies. The lectures will treat of soils, plant life, 

 manures, tillage operations, live stock, dairying, 

 food, &c. The course will be in connection with the - 

 Government Science and Art Department, and will 

 endinMay. In addition to the City of London College 

 and other prizes, the Saddlers' Guild otters, as in for- 

 mer years, a prize of £5 5s. to the student who passes 

 the best examination in chemistry and agriculture., 



Amaryllis reticulata.— It is seldom that 



cultivators succeed frith this Brazilian plant so well 

 as they may wish, and the reason may be found in 

 the fact of a positive rest period not being afforded 

 the plants, after having bloomed. On the occasion 

 of a recent visit paid to the garden of H. E. 

 Green, Esq., ,of Kingsford House, Colchester, 

 we saw several plants in fine bloom, two pf 

 which had as/.'- many as twenty spikes of beau- 

 tiful pink ^transversely veined flowers. Mr. 

 Kettle, the gardener there, described the simple 

 means he ,en>|ployed to obtain such good results ; and 

 these werA .infrequent re-potting — perhaps once in 

 -two or three years^-top-dressing annually with rich 

 sandy ldatn being sufficient in the intermediate 

 years ; grooving the plants in an intermediate-house 

 from the month of March till they flower in August 

 and September, and^then a rest in an ordinary green- 

 house from November till March, water being quite 

 withheld during thM season. The leaves remain on 

 the plants all the,; : winter, and although they may 

 shrivel somewhat ffpm the enforced drought, they 

 become again plunft on water being afforded the 



pfiwife. J M 



The United MJ>rticultural Benefit a'nd 

 PROVIDENT Soc'lMf. — The annual dinner of this 

 Society is announced for October 11 at the Cannon 

 Street Hotel, E.C., Dr. Hogg, F.L.S., in the chair ; 

 and Mr. H. J. Veitch in the vice-chair. At a 

 meeting of the committee held at the " Caledonian " 

 Hotel, Adelphi, on Monday last, special sub-com- 

 mittees were appointed to deal with the decoration 

 of the hall and tables, the arrangement of the 

 dessert, &c. It was reported that Messrs. B. S. 

 Williams, J. Laing & Co., and H. Cannell & Sons, 

 had promised to send plants for the purpose without 

 charge. Messrs. W. Thomson & Sons, Clovenfords, 

 had also promised a basket of Grapes. Mr. E. R. Cut- 

 ler offered, on behalf of Miss Marie Belval, to provide a 

 musical entertainment at a merely nominal cost, and 

 this offer was gratefully accepted. The committee 



of this useful Society make an appeal for support on; 

 this interesting occasion. The dinner will take 

 place at 530 p.m. 



The York Gala.— Mr. Charles Simmonds has- 

 succeeded Mr. Wilson as Secretary to this Society. 

 Mr. Wilson leaves shortly for London, and the 

 committee has voted him a handsome presentation- 

 as some recognition of his valuable services, andi 

 some of his old friends, exhibitors and others, con- 

 template a further presentation. 



The Botanical Garden at Baden Baden. 



— Mr. Paul SinteniS, who, on the inducement of Mr. 

 Max Leichtlin, had undertaken a botanical exploring 

 tour to Kurdistan and. East Armenia, has now safely 

 returned to Europe, carrying with him large and 

 very rich herbaria, and also several thousand rootss 

 of new bulbous plants to be cultivated at, and here- 

 after to be distributed from, Mr. Max Leichtlin's 

 private botanical garden. 



" The Orchidenne."— Under this name was 

 constituted at Brussels, on September 23, a Society 

 of Amateur Orchid Growers. The object of the 

 Society is exclusively to foster the taste for, and 

 promote the culture of, Orchids. This object is to be 

 effected by meetings or monthly exhibitions, frequent 

 lectures, and annual exhibitions. The Society con- 

 sists of seventy foundation members, but there is no- 

 limitation as to the number of members in the 

 fiirjufe. The Honorary Presidents are Baron de- 

 Bieichroder, H.B.M., Consul at Berlin, for Germany ;. 

 J. Linden, for Belgium; Count du Buysson, for 

 France; DeLansberge, ex-Governor-General of the 

 Dutch Indies, for Holland. Four other Honorary- 

 Presidents for other countries will be appointed at 

 the next general meeting. The Executive Com- 

 mittee is composed of three . members appointed for 

 four years. The gentlemen elected by the unani- 

 mous vote of fi fty-three members present or repre- 



1 sented, are the following: — Chairman : G.',Warocque, 

 Member of the " Chambre des Repi'esentants ; ' 

 Secretary : Lucien Linden, Editor of the Lindeuia, ; 

 Treasurer : J. du Trien de Terdonck. The members- 

 of the jury for the monthly meetings -are: — 

 MM. F. Kegeljan, D.. Massange de Louvrex, 3l Van 



. Volxem, E. Rodigas, G. Miteau, L. Lubbers, J. 

 Moens, A. Van Imschoot, E. Wallaert, A. Lalle- 

 mand, O. de Meulenbiere, Count A. de" Bousies. 

 The first monthly meeting will be held on October 14 

 next, in the great Exhibition Hall of the " Horticul- 

 ture Internationale," Rue Wiertz, Brussels. Among 

 the seventy fonndation members are MM. E. Berg- 

 man, Secretary of the National Horticultural 

 Society of France; J. E. de Puydtjllbf Mons ;. 

 Max Kolb, Munich ; Maxeme Cornu, Director of the 

 Jardin des Plantes, Paris ; Beaucarne, Avde Warelles, 

 Chevalier L. Modigliani, Dr. F. Miiller, of Graz ; 

 De la Devansaye, Count de Villeneuve, Brazilian 

 Minister in Brussels ; Prince Mestchersky, Baron de 

 Bethune, H. Gruson, Magdeburg ; De Franciosi, F. 

 de Cannaert d'Hamale, &c. The Society will organise 

 a great exhibition of Orchids in the spring of next 

 year. 



A LILY SHOW.— "Nothing to be seen in London 

 in September ! " Gardeners know better than that, 

 while plant-lovers will know that a visit to a nursery 

 at any season is sure to be one of interest. But recog- 

 nising all this as well as most people, we own we were 

 not prepared for so fine a show as that Mr. W. Bull 

 has prepared in succession to his Orchid exhibition. 

 His display of Lilies occupies the same long house 

 as that devoted to the Orchids, and we do not exag- 

 gerate when we say that the general effect is little, if 

 at all, inferior. Of course we do not expect orchido- 

 maniacs to coincide in this opinion, but those who 

 are not specialists will admit, that for delicacy, if not 

 variety of colouring.the Lilies equal the Orchids; while 

 as to perfume the latter — to use a cant phrase — are 

 " not in it." The display is made up chiefly of innumer- 

 able varieties of Lilium auratum and L. speciosum toge- 

 ther with L. tigrinum and others. Of L. auratum, 

 the finest examples belong to the type platyphyllum, 



