February 17, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



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Mr. George Forrest.-TMs intrepid land bogs. The illustration in the Botanical 470 pitches ; 1,120 of croquet on 32 lawns ; 13,395 



traveller has just left England by the s.s. Magazine shows the flowers to be something of football on 317 pitches ; 2,086 of hockey on 48 



" Martaban " for China in search of new and like a mauve-tinted, single -flowered, Chinese pitches; 77 of lacrosse on 7 pitches; 134,405 of 



rare plants; on this occasion in the interests of Aster, with a dark centre. A specimen grown lawn te.inis on 493 courts; and 3.114 of quoits 



Mr. P. D. Williams, an enthusiastic amateur, 

 whose beautiful garden in Cornwall is well known 



at Ludgvan Rectory, near Marazion, Cornwall, 

 has so far proved hardy. Olearia chat- 

 hamica forms a shrub 3 to 7 feet high. The 



on 38 pitches. These pastimes, however, by no 

 means exhaust the list for which the Council 



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to our readers. It has been our privilege to re- hamica forms a shrub 3 to 7 feet high. The provides facilities. There is a golf course at 



produce many beautiful photographs of Chinese serrated, bright-green leaves have a white, Hainault Forest, and facilities for playing golf 



plants taken by Mr. Forrest during his pre- woolly reverse. are provided free of charge at Blackheath, Clap- 

 vious travels. In wishing Mr. Forrest a suc- 



Crassula Barklyi, tab. 8421.— This is an old ham Common, Streatham Common, and Tooting 

 cessful trip, we may in the interests of our readers but uncommon garden plant, specimens having Common. Games of Rugby, net ball, Badminton, 

 express the hope that he will be able to send us 

 further contributions illustrative of the rich 



been received at Kew, in 1875, from Little basket ball, hurling, and shinty are also per 

 Namaqualand. The plants which furnished the mitted at a few places under the Council's con- 



s 



flora of Western China. 



Continental Visitors ro the London 

 International Show.— At the request of our 

 contemporary, La Tribune Horticole, of Brus- 

 els, the Belgian State Railway and the South- 

 Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies have 

 determined to issue cheap tickets (50 per cent, 

 under the usual price) to Belgian visitors to the 

 London show in May. These tickets will be 

 issued from all the leading towns of Belgium 

 direct to London, via Ostend or Calais, from 

 May 18 up to May 26, and will be available for 

 days. We congratulate our colleague, 

 Monsieur L. Gentil, editor of La Tribune 

 Ilorticole, on the success of the negotiations on 

 behalf of visitors to the International Exhibition. 



material for the Botanical Magazine illustration ^rol. 

 were sent by Professor Pearson from Cape 



Town, having been collected during the Percy 

 Sladen expedition (see Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 vol. 1., p. 61). The stems are only 1 or 2 inches 

 in height, and the white flowers are produced in 

 terminal heads. The plant appears to have but 

 little value from a garden point of view. 



Small Holdings (Cheaper Buildings) 

 Committee. — The lit. Hon. Walter Runciman, 

 M.P., President of the Board of Agriculture 



Cleistogamic Flowers. — As is well known, 

 not a few plants produce, in addition to their 

 ordinary flowers, others which do not open, 

 though they may bear seed. Experiments made 

 by M. Molliard (C. R. Ac. Sc, Paris C.L.I. , 

 p. 990) indicate that the formation of such cleis- 

 togamic flowers is due to the insufficiency of 

 sugar manufactured by the leaves. In his experi- 

 ments with plants grown in mineral solutions only 

 and others grown in mineral solutions to which 

 glucose was added and all exposed to feeble 



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•'The Botanical Magazine." 



The following 



the 



plants are described and illustrated in 

 February number : 



Stanhopea peruviana, tab. 8417.— We are in- of the reduction of cost by the use of materials 



and Fisheries, has appointed a Departmental light> t]lose with mincra i fia its only produced 



Committee : (1) To enquire and report as to the cleistogamic flowers, whereas those supplied with 



nature and character of the buildings which g i uco , e produced normal flowers, 

 should be provided for use in connection with 



small agricultural holdings in England and Expedition to Formosa. Mr. H. J. Elwes, 



Wales, regard being had : (a) to the convenience p.R S.. of Colesbourne, Gloucestershire, has just 



and requirements of the occupiers; (b) to con- started on an expedition to the Island of For- 



siderations of economy, and also the possibility mosa> f or the purpose of studying the trees for 



which the island is famous. Mr. Elwes 



debted to Mesc^s. Sander & Sons for the in- and methods of construction different from lately presented a large part of his mag- 



tioduction of this beautiful Orchid to cultiva- those ordinarily employed at present ; (c) to the n ifi ce nt collection of poise-arctic butterflies to 



special agricultural and building conditions of the \ a tural History Museum. His present expe- 



the different parts of the country ; and (d) to the djtion will probably extend over the best part of 



tion, their 

 discovered 



collector, Mr. Forget, 



the plant in Peru. 



The 



having 

 flowers 



are a golden-yellow colour, with a few purple various requirements of the Public Health Acts ^j ie vear> an( j the result should be of considerable 

 spots; the basal portion of the lip is suffused and any Orders or Regulations made thereunder. interest for botanists and zoologists. 



with dark purple, the terminal portion of the (2) To submit a series of plans and specifications 

 column being spotted with that colour. A speci- likely to be of assistance to local authorities and 

 men presented by Messrs. Sander & Sons to landowners for the purpose. 



Kew was grown in the Cattleya house, where 

 it flowered in January, 1910. The blossoms are 

 fragrant, but somewhat fugitive. 



UNDULATA, 



C linese Stranvsesias, though differing in certain 

 characters, appear to be mainly forms of S. un- 

 dulata, which now includes S. Davidiana and S. 



Stranv.esia 



tab. 8418.— The 



Henryi. The plant figured 



the Botanical 



in 



Magazine, is an intermediate form, having 

 leaves like the typical S. undulata, but an in- 

 florescence resembling that of S. Davidiana. 



Dresden Botanical and Horticultural 



Society. — We have received from the secretary 

 cf this Society a list of the rules and particulars 

 of the administration. The scope of the society 

 is an extremely wide one, and covers every 

 aspect of horticulture. Special committees 

 are appointed to deal with the different 

 branches ; one is concerned entirely with re- 

 search ; another with higher education ; a third Q f agriculture generally. Mr. Ridley gives 

 with the interests of market gardeners; while a credit to the Bulletin, which is not a Govern- 



» Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits 

 and Federated Malay States." — With the 

 retirement cf Mr. H. N. Ridley, F.R.S., from 

 the Directorship of the Botanic Gardens, Singa- 

 pore, the publication of the Agricultural 

 Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay 

 States ceases. The announcement is made by 

 Mr. Ridley in the last issue of the journal, 

 where he gives an account of the excellent work 

 done by the periodical in informing planters in 

 those remote parts what is going on in the world 



long. 



The plant forms a tree or shrub with lanceolate fourth makes all arrangements for the monthly ment publication, as having made the first re- 



or oblanceolate leaves, each from 1£ to 4 inches shows, and for the excursions which are a feature cords and observations on Terines gestroi, Fomes 



The flowers, which only last for a day of the Society. The secretary is Herr Friedrich Diplodia, Hymenochctte, Eutype, the Coffee 



or two, are developed in corymbs, being sue- Bouche, Grosser Garten, Dresden-A, Germany. locust, the Coffee caterpillar, and many of the 



ceeded bv berries of orange -searlot colour. Sugar pests. It is to be regretted that the 



Complaint from Rhubarb Growers. — Malay planters will lose this useful medium of 



Growers of forced Rhubarb in the Leeds district knowledge for the value of the correlation of 



ideas and practices in agriculture and horticul- 



The species is hardy, and may provide a pleasing 

 substitute 



for 



Crataegus Pyracantha, so 



wall plant for its 



corn- 

 red 



as a wall plant 

 Stranvsesia undulata is one of 



monly employed 

 berries in winter. 

 Mr. Wilson's introductions whilst plant-collect- 

 ing for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. 



are complaining of the damage to their produce 

 in transit by the railway companies. It is the 

 custom to send the Rhubarb by passenger trains 

 in Orange boxes or large hampers, and the 





But the 



Leptospermum scoparium var. Nichollii, growers say that, instead of these being carried, of the periodical, 

 tab. 8419.— An account of this plant was given they are rolled end over end, with the result that 



ture is more and more recognised. 



planters are not to blame, for they have made 



a handsome grant annually towards the expenses 



the stems become broken. 



Games in the L.C.C. PARKS.-The Parks 



in Gardener 9 Chronicle, June 20, 1908, p. 398, 

 by Capt. A. A. Dorrien-Smith, who brought 

 specimens from New Zealand in that year. L. 

 scoparium is a tender shrub, but it has survived Committee of the London County Council has 



the winters at Kew planted against a south wall, 

 and the variety may be expected to succeed in 

 warm districts out-of-doors. 



prepared a return showing the extent to which 

 advantage has been taken during the year ended 



Olearia chathamtca, tab. 8420.— In a list of 

 New Zealand plants brought to Tresco in May, 

 1908, by Capt. A. A. Dorrien-Smith, published 

 in Gardeners' Chronicle, January 2, 1909, p. 2, 

 Olearia chathamica is mentioned with 13 other 



September 30 last of the facilities afforded for 

 the playing of games in the parks and open 

 spaces under the control of the Council. A com- 

 plete record is kept of the number of games 

 played on reserved pitches, and there are as 

 many games of cricket and football played on un- 



species of Olearia. O. chathamica is endemic to reserved pitches that are necessarily unrecorded, 

 the Chatham Islands, where it grows in masses The statistics show that 15,558 games of bowls 

 on the edges of cliffs, or scattered amongst up- were played on 100 greens ; 24,728 cf cricket on 



Publications Received. — Everyday Uses 

 of Portland Cement. (London : The Associated 

 Portland Cement Manufacturers, Ltd.) Price 

 Is. Gd. and 2s. 6d. - Present -Da y Garcening 

 Series, by R. Hooper Pearson : irises, by \\\ 

 Rickatson Dykes. (London and Edinburgh : T. C. 

 and E. C. Jack.) Price Is. 6d t — Perpetual Carna- 

 tions, bv Laurence J. Cook. (London : Cassell & 

 Co.) Price Is. and Is. 6d— One & All Gardening, 

 1912, by Edwd. Owen Greening. (Lonaon : The 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Association, Ltd.) 

 Piice 2d. — lYyths and Legends of Flowers, 

 Trees, Ft uits, and Plants, by Charles M. Skinner. 

 ( London : J. B. Lipnincott Company.) Price 6s. — 



7 he Agricultural Journal of the Union of South 

 Africa for January. (Pretoria: The Government 

 Printing and Stationery Office.) Price 2s. per 

 annum. 



