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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[March 16. 1912. 





live without Bamboo," a proverb which plainly 

 illustrates the truth of the more familiar adage 

 that " East is East, and West is West." 



A carved granite elephant stands docilely at 

 either side of the door, and at either end of the 

 verandah there is a beautiful bronze lantern, 

 7 feet high, with mellow-toned bells hanging 

 around the upper portion, w T hilst just outside 

 is perched a peregrine falcon, bright and keen 

 of eye, poised ready for flight. Away to the 

 right a monster bronze Buddha, 2,000 years 

 old, squats benign beneath the shade of, 

 not a M Bo-tree," but an old Oak. The pair of 

 deer, which tradition says were always in 

 attendance when the Buddha preached, are 

 standing close at hand on the greensward. 

 The buck scents danger from afar, whilst 

 the hind, secure in his presence, placidly browses 

 behind a small thicket of Berberis Aquifolium. 

 Fine examples of Trachycarpus ex lsus (the 

 Chusan Palm) and the typical Japanese Metake 

 (Arundinaria japonica) are in keeping with 

 the scene. A large group of iEgle 

 sepiaria, better known as Citrus trifolia, 

 has delicately-beautiful autumn colouring, which 

 rivals that of the young leaves of many 

 a tropical tree. A long leaved Pinus attracts 

 attention, and a closer scrutiny proves it to be 

 a promising example of the Mexican P. Monte- 

 se, fully 28 feet high, and growing vigorously. 

 On lower ground the rare and interesting Christ 

 Thorn (Paliurus australis) (see p. 376) was bear- 

 ing numbers of its curious salver-like fruits and 

 in- onspicuous yellowish flowers, and in M Her 

 Ladyship's Walk" there were the finest Aralia 

 ■ iiinensis (Dimorphanthus mandschuricus) I hav< 

 seen. These enormous-leaved trees were well 

 set off by huge, rounded bushes of Berberis 

 stenophylla. The many other interesting hardy 

 shrubs include immense clumps of Hippophse 

 rhamnoides, bearing dense clusters of bright 

 fruits, tall examples of Genista sethnensis, and 

 several pendulous Cherries, which have all the 

 appearance of miniature stag-leaved Beeches. 

 Some of the commoner shrubs have been u*ed as 

 supports for climbing speeies, and the effect of 

 :h combinations as a purple Clematis rambling 

 over a Liquidambar, Vitis Coignetue covering a 

 large Berberis or an old scarlet-fruited Thorn. 

 must be seen to be realised. The silver-foliaged 

 conifers thrive, too, in the pure air and good 

 soil ; the tall, spreading Cedrus atlantica glauca, 

 and a fine Picea pungens argentea, planted to 

 celebrate the silver wedding of Lord and Lady 

 Redesdale, are almost too dazzling in their 

 ffeets. Such trees must have perfectly-appro- 

 priate neighbours or the contrast is too great to 

 be pleasing. 



(To be continued.) 



ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM VULCAN 



CPwAWSHAYANUM. 



This handsome Odontoglossum (0. crispum x 

 O. Vuylekei, raised and shown by de Barri 

 Crawshay, Esq., Kosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. 

 Stables), at the Royal Horticultural Society 

 February 20 last, obtained an Award of Merit, 

 and brought up an interesting question. 

 The course which the On hid Committee 

 has generally adopted is to consider the first 

 form of any hybrid which secures an Award 

 from the Committee to be the type, and if shown 

 with a varietal name the latter is, as a rule, not 

 recorded. That course was adopted with Odon- 

 toglossum Vulcan Crawshay anum, and it was 

 reported as O. Vulcan (Gardeners 9 Chronicle, 

 February 24, 1912). At the meeting of Hhe 

 Orchid Committee, March 5, Mr. Crawshay 

 brought up the question, stating the case as it 

 applied to these variable hybrids generally, and 

 pointing out the desirability of preserving the 

 individuality of certificated varieties as distinct 

 from the many inferior forms which may have 

 been raised from the same parentage. The Com- 



mittee decided to admit the varietal names in 

 future when deemed necessary, and hence the 

 necessity of recording this showy hybrid under 

 its full title. The flowers are 4 inches across, 

 the fringed petals being 1£ inch wade, and the 

 sepals proportionately broad. The ground 

 colour is primrose-yellow, but that colour is 

 chiefly confined to the margins and tips of the 

 sepals and petals, the inner two-thirds being 

 heavily blotched with red-brown. The lip is 

 white with a bright yellow crest, in front of 

 which are some reddish blotches. 



DENDROBIUM GOLDEN RAY SUPERBUM. 

 This pretty Dendrobium, for which Sir 

 Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (gr. Mr. Collier) 

 received an Award of Merit on March 5, was 

 reported as Golden King superbum in the list of 

 Awards (March 9, p. 161), although it was 

 correctly named in the column enumerating the 

 plants shown. J. 0. B. 



L^ELIO- CATTLE Y A NORMA AND 



CATTLE ¥ A GUDRUN. 

 L^lio-Cattleya Norma (L.-C. armainvillier- 

 ensis x C. Mossise) is somewhat in the way of 

 L.-C. Pallas Veitch (Leelia crispa t X Cat- 

 tleya Dowiana * ), the flowers being of the 

 same size, 15 inches across, and nearly of the 

 same pale-purplish colour, the lip only showing 

 some difference. The great mauve-purple blotch 

 of L.-C. Pallas is a little paler and dissolved 

 into an elegant network of darker, radiating lines 

 on a pale background. Cattleya Gudrun is 

 derived from C. labiata alba x C. Mendelii. In 

 size it resembles its first-named parent, but the 

 petals are much larger. The segments are nearly 

 white (especially when seen by artificial light), 

 with a very faint rosy hue. The lip has a golden 

 throat lined with purplish stripes, an area of 

 deeper mauve-purple with still darker reticulated 

 veins, and a rather broad, elegantly-fringed 

 border. Both hybrids were raised in the nursery 

 of Mr. C. F. Karthaus, Potsdam. The young 

 plants produced spikes having only two flow r ers, 

 but when they are established they will, no 

 doubt, develop much finer inflorescences. F* 

 Krdnzlin, Berlin. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



BERBERIS BEALEI. 



Botanists are no doubt correct in describing 

 this beautiful Barberry as a form of Berberis 

 japonica ; but, from the cultivator's point of 

 view, B. Bealei and B. japonica are distinct 

 plants. Thus the habits of the two bushes 

 are so dissimilar that, when of any size, they 

 may be distinguished at a glance. B. japonica 

 has a stiff, erect habit, w T hilst the disposi- 

 tion of the branches of B. Bealei is that of a 

 spreading, rounded bush. Both plants have long, 

 handsome leaves, but there are considerable 

 differences in the texture and arrangement of 

 the foliage, the leaves of B. Bealei being longer 

 and more graceful. The leaflets of B. japonica 

 are stouter, set much closer together (they fre- 

 quently overlap), more coarsely-toothed, and 

 occupy the whole length of the leaf -stalk ; whilst 

 in the case of B. Bealei the pairs of leaflets are 

 set well apart, and, except for a small pair of 

 stipule like leaves close to the shoot, the base of 

 the leaf-stalk is free from leaflets for a space of 

 about 3 inches. The individual leaflets of B. 

 japonica are so stout and curled that they might 

 well be mistaken for the leaves of a robust, com- 

 mon Holly ; those of B. Bealei are very like the 

 larger-foliaged forms of the Mahonia (B. 

 aquifolium maerophylla) in texture, as well as 

 in size. Not only are the leaves of B. Bealei 

 longer than those of B. japonica, but the flower- 

 spikes also are decidedly longer, and the 

 fiWers are much more fragrant. B. Bealei, 

 as I recently saw it in Messrs. Charles 

 Smith and Son's Guernsey nursery, is a most de- 

 sirable, early -flowering shrub. The large, 

 spreading bush, 8 feet high and almost 12 feet 



across, had every branch terminated with long 

 spikes of rich-yellow flowers, which scented the 

 air pleasantly with their characteristic per- 

 fume, so strongly suggestive of the Lily of the 

 Valley. Already (the beginning of February) 

 the earliest flowers had given place to quantities 

 of purple-tinted, drupe-shaped fruits. The 

 leaves were fully 18 inches long, and many of 

 the flower-heads were 30 inches across. Unfor- 

 tunately, there are not many gardens with the 

 climate of the Channel Islands; but in the 

 scuthern counties of England there must be 

 many warm, gently-sloping, sheltered banks 

 where this delightful, early -flowering Berberis 

 might be grown. Even though the flowers were 

 occasionally cut by frosts, the handsome foliage 

 would alone be sufficient compensation for any 

 care lavished upon the plant. B. Bealei 

 is said to have originated in the nursery of the 

 late Mr. Anthony Waterer as a seedling of B. 

 japonica. It is not a true species, for only a 

 small proportion of seedlings possess the merits 

 of the parent, although they mostly hover 

 around it, with a few snowing decided leanings 

 towards B. japonica. Both the parent and the 

 improved variety are admirable shrubs for the 

 early spring decoration of cool conservatories. 

 Even the hardier of the two kinds cannot be 

 recommended as an out-door flowering shrub for 

 cold situations, though, as already suggested, it 

 has great value as an ornamental -foliaged 

 species. A. C. Bartlctt. 



THE BULB GARDEN. 



ORIENTAL AND CALIFORNIAN LILIES. 

 The description of Lilium sulphureum (also 

 called L. Wallichianum superbum) by Mr. Nor- 

 man in the " Home Correspondence," on p. 77, 

 reminds me that this exquisitely beautiful native 

 of Upper Burmah is one of the latest additions to 

 my now somewhat extensive collection of Oriental 

 and American Lilies. I am much gratified to find 

 that my treatment of this Indian Lily harmon- 

 ises with that stated by Mr. Norman in his ex- 

 tremely interesting communication. Some years 

 since Lilium sulphureum was planted in Logan 

 Gardens in this parish, in a comparatively warm 

 and sheltered situation, but it did not succeed^ 

 I should imagine, however, that since that period 

 it has been rendered much hardier a-nd easier cf 

 successful culture by*English cultivation. I some- 

 times wonder if Sir Herbert Maxwell has ever 

 had L. sulphureum in flower at Monreith, tha 

 horticultural paradise, whose environing woods 

 I can discern from this manse, across the lumin- 

 ous waters of the spacious Bay of Luce. Other 

 rare Lilies which I have recently acquired are 

 L. longiflorum Wilsonii, L. Washingtomanum 

 rubescens, and L. Humboldtii magnificum; W 

 which the two last-mentioned are entirely new 

 to my garden. I understand that the Lily ot 

 Humboldt, which is splendidly distinctive, takes, 

 like its Californian rival, L. pardalinum, a con- 

 siderable period for its adequate establishment. 

 Most of the American Lilies succeed well in gar- 

 den loam, enriched with leaf-mould. L. mona- 

 delphum var. Szovitzianum (from the Caucasian 

 regions and Northern Persia), which occasional! 

 reaches here a height of nearly 8 feet, suc- 

 ceeds admirably in clay, and has flowered I 

 the same position for at least 12 years. Anion* 

 the most fascinating of the other Lilies in rny 

 collection are L. giganteum, L. auratum plat>- 

 phyllum, L. Hansonii, a lovely, golden-coloureo 

 Martagon ; L. speciosum rubrum, L. roseino* • 

 Kraetzeri excelsum, an exquisite hybrid 

 tween the Madonna Lily and the Scarlet Mar^- 

 gon j L. pardalinum, whose most prolific derlv 

 tive is Burbankii; L. Henryi, a vigorous nati 

 of Western China, of distinctive aspect and pe 



tendency; L. Krameri, a P^P 1 ^ 

 Japanese species, with slender ^ stems; • 

 davuricum, L. longiflorum Harrisii, and 

 radiant L. chalcedonicum. David B. Wu^ a 

 son, Manse of Kirlmaiden, Wigtownshire. 



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