204 



THE GARDENERS 9 CHRONICLE. 



[March 50, 1912. 



I 



with a clean, smooth trunk 8 feet or 9 feet 



in girth ; Ficus variegata, a tree about 



70 feet by 6 feet, which bears its fruit in 



small clusters all down the trunk on the 



old wood; Celtis sinensis, a large tree; ___ 



Quercus bambusefolia, with acorns just ^ til *** calhstoglossa Oattleya Fabia alba, C. 



Laelio-Cattleya Whiteleggei in very fine form, 

 the large flowers being of fine substance; 

 also L.-C. Lily with very dark and large lip, 

 Brasso-Cattleya Wo tan, B.C. Maronae, a fine 

 plant with three large flowers ; Lselio- 



ripe ; Rhododendron Champion®, which 

 Mr. Tutcher considers the finest native 



labiata alba; a good batch of C. Dowiana aurea, 

 several good specimens of the beautiful C. 

 Pittiae and Minucia; the new C. Walkiire (C. 



species ; Musa coccinea, with ornamental Greavesi* x C. gigas), and large masses of Den- 

 red inflorescence, which might be grown drobium superbiens and the beautiful D. Goldiei. 



Grants to Wye College.— The Board of 

 Agriculture has again made an increased grant 

 of £1,300 to the South-Eastern Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Wye, and has promised a grant of £262 (for 

 six months) for the cost of investigations on H us 

 on the life history of the parasitic stomach worms 

 (Strongyli) of sheep, and the disease of 

 11 Struck " of sheep, whilst the institution of a 

 fresh grant of £1,000 towards the expense of an 

 advisory staff in entomology and mycology— more 

 particularly for fruit-growers— has also been offi- 



with good effect in our conservatories ; Mr. Beyrodt has his plants arranged more sye- cially intimated to the College authorities. 

 Spathodea Cauda-felina, Fordia cauliflora, tematically. The most prominent features included 



Symplocos decora, and many other rare 

 and curious plants, whose names would 



probably be unknown to most readers. 

 Mr. Tutcher was also good enough to 



guide us to the only place on the main- 

 land, in British territory, where he has 

 found the rare Taxodium heterophyllum 

 (Glyptostrobus heterophyllus), known in 

 Chinese as cl "Water 



Pine/ 



in the neighbourhood 



a 



of 



tree 

 Can- 



grown 



ton, but which, I believe, has never been 



seen wild by any botanist. 



of its close 



It is very 



interesting on account oi its ciose re- 

 B<rnbliknce in leaves and fruit to Taxodium 



distichum, with which it has been some- 

 times confused in Europe. The only two 



trees I saw grew close to the railway, on 



a group of Vanda coerulea and its varieties, in- 

 cluding a plant of V. c. magnifica with 24 flowers, 

 each 4 inches in diameter ; Dendrobium Phalse- 

 nopsis Schroderae and its varieties, amongst 

 which were fine examples of D. P. hololeucum 

 and D. P. Rothschildianum. Very interesting also 

 were his two large groups of Cattleya, the one 

 containing only natural forms and varieties, the 

 other hybrids. One of the most interesting 

 plants was a specimen of Epidendrum floribun- 

 dum, with a very large inflorescence. But the 

 most striking group was the large " primeval 

 forest " (see fig. 89). It contained besides 

 many tropical plants 325 flowering Orchids ar- 

 ranged as in their natural habitats. The plants 

 were natives of different parts of the world. 

 These Orchid shows are always instructive, and 

 designed to advance the knowledge of Orchids 



the outside of a village between Taipo and amon gst amateurs. Specimens of exhibited 



Fanling. The largest was only about 40 0rc ' llds of the principal genera were arranged 



feet by 5 feet, though apparently very old !^^_^*f . ***** in order that visitors 

 and beginning to decay. The trunk was 

 buttressed, like that of Taxodium, with 



thin, smooth bark The flower-buds 

 were just showing, but (hough my com- 

 panion, Mr. Price, climbed the tree, he 

 could find nc mature fruit of last year, 



and the leaves were att; ked by a fun- 

 goid disease. I tried in vain to procure 

 specimens of the timber, but the tree is 

 so rare that 1 did not like to cut a speci- 

 men. From what I could gather, it ap- 

 pears to grow best on alluvial or marshy 

 soil, but does not attain anything like the 

 size of its American relative. 



might learn something about the classification of 

 Orchids. To each cf these plants was affixed a 

 large label containing notes on the number of the 

 sp ies in the genus, the geographical distribu- 

 tion, &c. It is intended to extend this arrange- 

 ment at future shows. 



The Perpetual - flowering Carnation 



Society.— This society has arranged to hold a 

 banquet at the Holborn Restaurant on Thursday, 

 Hay 23, in order to entertain American and Con- 

 tinental Carnation growers visiting the Royal 

 International Horticultural Exhibition. 



Flowers in Season. Messrs. Ed. Webb & 

 Sons, Wordsley, Stourbridge, have forwarded a 



Londons Open Spaces. — Excellent progresj 

 is being made with the proposal to utilise a Bite 

 at Shadwell as a park in memory of King 

 Edward. At a recent meeting of the Memorial 

 Committee, Sir Vezey Strong said that at 

 present they had about £67,000 for the 

 Shadwell scheme after deducting £20,000 for the 

 West End memorial. In addition he had re- 

 ceived a letter from a lady, who desired to re- 

 main anonymous, offering to subscribe £25,000 

 on condition that a sum not less than this amount 

 was obtained by appeal to the public through 

 the Mansion House, and on condition that the 

 Shadwell site was suitably laid out as a public 

 park, including the construction of a quay from 

 or embankment to the river. On the proposition 

 of the Lord Mayor the offer was gratefully ac- 

 cepted, and the whole matter was referred 

 to the Executive Committee. The Local Govern- 

 ment Board has issued an order approving the 

 London County Council's scheme for clearing the 

 Tabard Street insanitary area in South wark. A 

 feature of the scheme is that a portion of the 

 site, which is not to be less than five acres, ia 

 to be laid out as a public open space. 



L.C.C. Park Employees. — Reference has 

 on various occasions been made in these 

 pages to the London County Council's new 

 scheme of selecting boy labourers in the park 

 service. In November last the County Council 

 authorised the Education Committee to nominate 

 not fewer than four boys each year for appoint- 

 ment as boy labourers in the parks service. 

 Twenty candidates applied, and the Education 

 Committee have nominated four. If the appoint- 



In conclusion, I wish to record my known M Webb?s Superb 



box of flowpr/nf thoi, ft~f * • > « ments ^ confirmed bv the Parks and Open Spaces 

 box of flowers of their fine strain of Cineraria, « U4« a. u * _:n i~ _„wi ♦„ mm- 



thanks to Mr. Tutcher for his most valu- 

 able guidance and assistance, and to con- 



41 Geo. Monro Ltd.- Concert Committee. a week. 



Committee, the boys will be required to com- 

 mence work next month at a rate of pay of 10s. 



gratulate both him and Mr. Dunn on the — This committee has been enabled, as the result 

 admirable work they have accomplished of the °° n cert held on February 15, to contribute 

 alike in garden, herbarium and forest. the followin g sums to gardening and other in- 



Potato Importations into Germany.— 

 The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have re- 

 ceived information that the German Imperial 



Orchid Show at Berlin (aee fig. 89). — 

 Twice a year, writes Dr. Udo Dammer, 

 Orchid shows are held in the house of 

 the Prussian Parliament in Berlin : one in 

 November, the other in May. The last 

 show was a remarkable success. Beside the mem- 

 bers of the German Horticultural Society, who 

 have free entrance, more than 7,000 people paid 

 for admission to the show during three days. The 

 exhibitors included amateurs and professionals. 

 Amongst the amateurs the most successful were 

 the president of the Orchid Committee, Dr. 

 Alfred Berliner, Prof. Dr. Otto N. Witt, and 

 Mr. Kuthe. A very fine show was also that of 

 Mr. C. F. von Siemens. The professional 

 growers were represented by Messrs. Beyrodt, 

 Marienf elde ; Karthaus, Potsdam ; Hennis, 

 Hildesheim; and Gaveau, Liehterirade. The 

 show was accommodated in six large rooms, but 

 the exhibits were so numerous that there was not 

 snace enough to display the plants to their best 

 effect. Two of the collections, shown by Mr. 



Karthaus and Mr. Beyrodt respectively, were 

 of outstanding merit. Mr. Karthaus is a suc- 

 cessful hybridist. I noticed in his collection 



stitutions :— Gardeners' Roval Benevolent Insti- celved lnf °r m ation that the German unpen*, 

 tutions, £15 15s. : Roval Gardeners' Oriohan Government have decided to postpone until the 



Royal Gardeners' Orphan 

 Fund, £2 2s.; Wholesale Fruit and Potato 

 Trade Benevolent Society, £8 8s. ; Surgical Aid 

 Society, £5 5s. ; Charing Cross Hospital, £5 5s. ; 

 Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, £2 2s. ; "Geo. Monro 

 Ltd." Pension Fund, £3 3s.; and "Geo. 

 Monro Ltd." Outing Fund, £3 3s. 



Sir Joseph Hookers Estate. -Sir Joseph 

 Dalton Hooker, who died on December 10, 

 age 94, left estate of the gross value of 

 £36,861, of which £32 ; 390 is net personalty. 

 The testator left £100 each to the Linnean 



Chinese Roses. 



London 



London 



Rl 



Poisoning with Virginian Creeper Ber- 



Aecording to The Pharmaceutical Journal 



and Pharmacist, a catse is recorded in which a 

 child was fatally poisoned by eating the berries 

 of the Virginian creeper (Parthenocissus quin- 

 quefolia) better known as Ampelopsis quinque- 

 folia. So far as published records show, the 



30th prox. the application of the import duty on 

 Potatos of last year's crop which is usually levied 

 on February 15 every year. 



No. 23 of Notes from the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, contain an 

 enumeration and description of Species of Rosei 

 Jby Dr. W. O. Focke, based on the plants dis- 

 covered and collected by Mr. George Fobbi 

 during his first exploration of Yunnan and Thibet 

 (1904-6). 



What to Plant Under Trees.— Mr. P- 



Hanschitz (in a note in Die Garten*^ 

 March 2, 1912) on the subject of plants sUlta ^ 

 for growing under trees, recommends the 

 lowing :— Iris foetidissima, which is evergree ^ 

 grows to a height of about 2 feet, and bears bin 

 to lilac flowers and bright scarlet seeds; Hell 



borus foetidus ; H. lividue and H. viridis ; spec** 

 of Geranium, such as G. phaeum (flowers a^ 



^, A „ t „« ^u^xu^v, x^wx^o oxxviyy, txxc velvety-red) ; G. pratense (with P urp * e ^ lfc 



only toxic substance present is calcium oxalate flowers) ; G. album ; G. ibericum (flowers W£ 

 or oxalic acid: no glucoside, alkaloid, or other blue); G. malv^florum (with rose A ^ 1 *,^ 

 toxic substance has as yet been isolated from evergreen and agreeably scented leaves); a 110 



this plant. shrub Hypericum calycinum. 





