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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, 



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is more than ever necessary that the members of 

 the committee, who devote so much valuable 



lished elsewhere, are re -described, and there are Park, Blackford Hill, Colinton Hospital and 



keys to all the genera and species enumerated. Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. In addition 



time in the able administration of the funds at The plates are from excellent drawings, including Mr. McHattie has rendered valuable services to 



their disposal, shall be loyally and generously dissections, engraved on copper, and represent various societies, both horticultural and arboricul- 



assisted, not only by those who may become mostly plants peculiar to Formosa. Although tural. He contributed articles to the "Week's 



entitled to the benefits of the Institution, but by the subjects are interesting, there is not one Work " pages of the Gardeners' Chronicle for 



all lovers of flowers and gardening. The growing striking plant in the whole series of 40 plates. some years, 

 popularity of horticulture in the present age has They are almost exclusively montane species of 

 been little short of phenomenal, and with it has genera of wide distribution and characteristic of 



come as a natural sequence the demand for a 

 much higher standard of gardening and gar- 

 deners, and an ever-increasing demand upon the 

 resources of the Institution. I invite with con- 



temperate floras, and a large proportion have 

 small flowers. With the exception of two or 

 three species of Clematis, none has flowers exceed- 

 ing an inch in diameter. The typography is 



fidence your sympathy and generous aid in sup- good, as well as the plates ; but the way in which 



port of an institution which is doing so bene- 

 ficent a work amongst those whose vigilance and 

 care in attending our gardens add so much to 



the sheets of letterpress and plates were riveted 

 together is beyond all comment. We say " were," 

 because it was necessary to unfasten them before 



the pleasures of our home life, and who are, I we could turn over the leaves, 

 think, thoroughly deserving of any help we can 

 secure. Your hearty co-operation and generous 



The Neill Prize in Horticulture. 



"The Botanical Magazine." — The issue 

 (No. 90, Fourth Series) for the present month 

 contains illustrations and descriptions of the 

 following plants : — 



Brachychiton acerifolius, tab. 8437. — An 

 Australian tree, which is known as the Flame 

 Tree in Queensland and New South Wales, where 

 it attains to a height of from 60 to 120 feet. A 

 plant was introduced to Kew in 1825, but Loudon 

 states that the species was brought to this coun- 

 try a year earlier. B. acerifolius thrives in the 

 open air at La Mortola, "Ventimiglia, Italy, bui 



It seems that abundant sunshine is required to 

 enable the tree to produce its pendulous panicles 



N I am, yours faithfully, 



" Jeremiah Colman. 



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support will be much valued, and any contribu- The Council of the Royal Caledonian Horticul- at Kew it requires to be grown in the temperate 



tion which you may be disposed to send me wxll tural Society has awarded the Neill Prize for house> where a tree 40 feet high ifJ now flowerijl „ 



be gratefully acknowledged by the secretary, Mr. the biennial period 1910 to 1912 to Mr. John W. 



G. J. Ingram, 92, Victoria Street, S.W., and it McHattie, Superintendent of the City Gardens, 



will be convenient if you will kindly address your Edinburgh. The prize is one which is in the gift ^"bright" pink "flowers"" As~ the "specific" name 

 reply to him. of that Society, and commemorates the late Dr. implieSj the large ]eaves are similar in shape to 



those of the Maple. 



Rupicola sprengelioides, tab. 8438. — This 

 plant is an Epacrid which, when given the cul- 

 tural treatment afforded to Epacris, forms a 

 shapely, free-flowering bush, growing not more 

 than 2^ feet high. The flowers are white and 

 have rosy-tipped anthers. This species Aras dis- 

 covered by Messrs. J. H. Malden and W. 

 Forsyth near the southern edge of the King's 

 Tableland in the Blue Mountains of New South 

 Wales in 1898. 



Ixora lutea, tab. 8439. — This is a very attrac- 

 tive Ixora, of garden origin, which is deserving 

 of culture in all gardens where tropical plants are 

 esteemed. It was sent to Kew from Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, more than 20 years ago, under the name 

 of I. coccinea var. lutea, which name is still 

 retained in many gardens. Ixora lutea differs 

 fr^m I. coccinea in having a looser inflorescence, 

 larger corolla lobes, and in the colour of the 

 flowers, which are pale-yellow occasionally tinted 

 with buff. 



Lycium pallidum, tab. 8440. — The form of 

 Lycium pallidum illustrated in tab. 8440 is that 

 from Colorado, which differs from the New 

 Mexico form in having the corolla -tube hairy in- 

 side below the insertion of the stamens. This 

 form has flowered freely early in summer every 

 year at Kew since 1886, but none of the 

 shrubs developed any fruit until last year, when 



Extension of Wandsworth Common. 



The Parks and Open Spaces Committee of the 

 London County Council has decided to recom- 

 mend a grant of £6,000 towards the acquisition 

 of an additional 20 acres of land for Wands- 

 worth Common. This, with various donations, 

 leaves only £500 to be raked. Those interested 

 in the extension have received a letter from Lord 

 Meath, saying that he will bring the matter 

 before the Metropolitan Gardens Association. 



Cape Wines. — Professor Hahn, a distinguished 

 South African scientist, has been dilating on the 

 qualities of Cape wines. He recently told a 

 Johannesburg audience that the light white 

 wines and the light red wines — that is, wines 

 of the hock and claret type — compared most 

 favourably with the wines of the same type pro- 

 duced in Southern Europe, Algeria and Califor- 

 nia. He was supported in this opinion by men 

 from Germany and other places, who thought 

 very highly of the wines. They are produced, 

 manipulated and matured under the provisions of 

 a very strict law against adulteration, in conse- 

 quence of which those wines to which he had 

 referred were pure natural wines, and that could 

 not be said of the greater portion of the wines 

 imported from foreign countries. Their South 

 African wines were produced without admixture 

 of preservatives. 





MR. JOHN W. MCHATTIE, 



Neill Prizeman, 1910-1912. 



Patrick Neill. It is awarded to distinguished 



the bushes were weighted down with red berries 

 which contrasted strangely with the small greyish- 

 green leaves. The flowers do not possess any indi- 



Illustrations of the Plants of For- Scottish botanists or cultivators. Mr McHattie is yidual b ' fa quan tity are moderately 



mosa.*— In 



of ano 



a native of Morayshire, and began his gardening 



mosa. 



flora of Formosa by the same author (Gardeners 9 

 Chronicle, January 6, 1912, p. 9) mention is made 

 that Dr. Hayata was engaged on a comprehen- 

 sive series of illustrations of the plants of For- 



The first part of this work has 

 now appeared, and it is announced therein 

 that the complete series will consist of 

 600 plates, to be issued in annual parts, 

 each part comprising letterpress and 40 plates; 

 hence the publication will extend over a period of 

 15 years. It is a pity that circumstances neces- 

 sitate so long a period. All the letterpress is in 

 fluent English, on which the author may be 

 justly complimented. No new species are de- 

 scribed here, but the author's new species, pub- 



• Icones Plantarum Formosanarum nee non Contributiones 

 ad Floram Formosanam; or Icoms of the Plants of Formosa, 

 &c, by B. Hayata. Fasciculus i, Ranunculaceas to Rosacea. 

 (Published by the Bureau of Productive Industry, Govern- 

 ment of Formosa, Taihoku, 1911.) Large 8vo., pp. 265 

 plates 40, 



in the gardens of the Mackintosh of Mac- 

 kintosh, at Moy Hall. He served at various 

 other places, including Altyre, Forres, Raith 

 House, and Oxenford Castle, and was afterwards 

 appointed to take charge of the gardens of the 

 Marquis of Lothian, and later those of the 

 Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye, Berks. 

 In 1901 he was appointed to take charge of the 

 City Gardens in Edinburgh. Mr. McHattie 

 has won the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 Gold Medal for a collection of fruit, the 

 Yeitch Memorial Medal twice for fruit, the 

 City of Edinburgh Cup three times for Chrysan- 

 themums, the National Chrysanthemum Society's 

 Gold Medal for Chrysanthemums, and many 

 other notable prizes at exhibitions held in London, 

 Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. 

 In landscape gardening Mr. McHattie has had 



attractive ; the garden value of the plant lies in 

 the bright berries, which persist for a long time. 

 This species thrives well when grown fully ex- 

 posed to the sun in a medium loam. Hitherto it 

 has, of necessity, been propagated by layering; 

 cuttings have proved difficult to strike, and until 

 last year there were no seeds available. 



Perovskia atriplicifolia, tab. 8441. — This 

 Labiate is a native of the mountains of Afghani- 

 stan, and it is found through the Western Hima- 

 layas to Western Tibet. The plant is described 

 as being singularly beautiful when in flower, but 

 the illustration gives no indication of any g* ea 

 beauty, though probably this is one of the many 

 plants which require to be grown in numbers m 

 order to show themselves to advantage. It is a 

 shrubby species, from 3 to 5 feet high, with sil- 

 very-grey stems and lavender-blue flowers. I* 



considerable experience, and examples of his work recommended that this species be grown in a deep* 

 may be seen at Strathfieldsaye; Tylney Hall, but not heavy, loam, and that the plants 

 Hampshire ; Lea Park, Surrey ; Saughton Hall pruned back to the woody portion every spring 













