June 29, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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A T o. 1,331.— SATUBDAY, June 29, 1912. 



large standard which gets but little prun- house plant, 

 ing, the first crop of flowers is already 



buds 



But the fine colour of its 



CONTENTS. 



Alexandra Day 



Aloe dichotoma and 



A. Ba.nesii 



Benevolent Institution, 



Gardeners' Royal 429. 

 Birds in fruit nets 

 Board of Agriculture, 



Horticultural Branch 



of the 



Broome Botanical Gar- 

 den, Bath 

 Calceolaria Clibranii ... 



Conifers excluded from 

 America 



Ewing, Mr. James 



Institute of gardeners, a 

 national, and horticul- 

 tural education 



Insurance Act, the 



International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition and 

 theR.H.S 



Law note ... 



Market prices for 

 Peaches 



Nesting-place, a curious 



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Obituary — 



Fyfe, William... 



Haycraft, John 



Hillier, W. H. 



Wood, Elijah A. 

 Orchid notes and glean- 

 ings— 



Dendrobium spurium 



Paulown a imperialis... 



Publications received ... 

 Ranunculus Lyallii 



Rhaphiolepis japcnica 

 and Polygonum Balds- 

 chuanicum 



Roses, some early 

 Sojieties — 



Horticultural Club ... 



Richmond Hort. 



Royal Meteorological 

 Stirling Hort 



Strawberries, record 



Tomato, a giant 



Week's work, the ...426-7 

 Williams, Mr. Richard 429 

 York Show, herbaceous 



flowers at the ... — 429 



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and flowers this June makes me 

 over but the dwarf plants in the beds, think that I was mistaken and that it is 

 which are cut right down in the spring, are really to be regarded as a cool-weather 

 just coming into flower (I am writing on Rose. Its lovely and striking colour ought 

 June 16), and their dark foliage is looking to make it a useful decorative Rose, but its 

 very healthy and promising. For general crinkled petals and confused centre, as well 

 garden purposes, as a bedding Rose or a as the small size of the flower, will prevent 

 standard, Mme. Ravary is hard to beat, its being of much use in the exhibition box, 

 and we have as yet no yellow Rose likely though no doubt, like Bettv, a flower maj 

 to supersede it. As a Rose for cutting for 

 the house it is also very useful, but it has 

 one drawback for this purpose, and that is 

 that the flowers are carried on rather 

 short stalks, and so are not suitable for 



use in tall vases. 



occasionally find its way there. Lina 

 Schmidt Michel is a Rose that is not yet 

 much grown, but is well \\orth considera- 

 tion by those on the look out for perpetual- 

 flowering pillar Roses. It seems to have 

 the useful habit of adapting itself readily 



unless many precautions are taken to 

 check this habit. Its flowers are only 



ILLUSTRATIO 



Aloe Bainesii in the Cape Town Botanic Gardens 

 Aloe dichotoma in the Cape Town Botanic Gardens ... 



Fyfe, William, portrait of the late 



Paulownia imperialis flowering in the Cambridge 

 Botanic Gardens, 430 ; inflorescence of ... -. 



Ranunculus Lyallii (Supplementary Illustration) 



SOME EARLY ROSES. 



Mme. Melanie Soupert has given us some to a pillar 8 to 10 feet high, and does not, 



splendid large flowers already, particu- like climbing Mrs. W. J. Grant and so 



larly from standards, of very fine colour, many of the autumnal pillar Roses, be- 



with that slight tinge of pink which often come leggy and flower only at the top 

 comes in its early flowers, but the pink 

 tinge has not been nearly so noticeable in 



Mme. Melanie Soupert this year as it was semi-double, but are of a beautiful colour, 



in the early summer of 1911. I think that the petals being a soft pink with a deep 



to get the colour of this lovely Rose at its pink reverse. Curiously enough, it is said 



best the flowers ought to be picked as the to be a seedling from Mme. Abel Chateney 



*3i buds are opening and allowed to develop and Kleiner Alfred. In its double colour- 



_ indoors in a cool position shaded from ing it no doubt resembles the former, but 



direct sunlight. If allowed to open fully whether its extreme vigour is derived 



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on the plant a sudden burst of sunshine from the 



rpHE early part of June, nowadays, is apt to bring them on too quickly before 



generally brings us some beautiful the colour has fully developed. 



source is hard to say. The 



carrie 



and interesting flowers, a gift we 



Gustave Regis is now nearly at its best 



should be delightful for decoration. 



On pegged-down plants J. B. Clark and 



owe chiefly to the introduction of the Hy- wittl us - We alwa y s S et this Rose rather Hugh Dickson have produced masses of 

 brid Teas. The early flowers of the Hybrid early as we find ifc does best . when treated flowers, looking bright in the distance, 

 Perpetuals are seldom of much value, rath er like a Noisette, that is, by pruning but the blossoms are all very rough and 

 usually coming malformed or small and out son \ e of the w °} d wood but leaving the win not stand close inspection, 

 flat, while the early buds of the Teas often 

 suffer from the effects of late frosts or 

 other inclemency of the weather; but 

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young shoots of the previous year nearly 

 their full length. 



Down to the present time Lena has not 



The best red Roses I have had have 

 come from Avoca on plants grown a^ 

 pillars or pegged down. Good in form 



difflcalties'the Hybrid Tea Roses TZ/L^J^J ^^'^LT^l delightful in perfume, this bundoubtedlj 



seem at least in many cases able to sur- 



yellow flowers, most of them having come 

 rather washed out and uninteresting. 



a useful Rose, and it would be more so if 



mount, and for the past four weeks I have This i itt i e R ose pr0 ved so very useful in 

 been able to pick some flowers of interest the hot summer of last year that I am 



run 



for the house and dinner table. 



inclined to think that, unlike most of the 



than it is. 



Perhaps I may be allowed to refer again 



Perhaps at no time of the year do we yellows, it may be best in really hot to the S reat advantage of growing Roses in 



get a deeper or finer colouring than is weather. 



as many different ways as possible in order 



exhibited by some of these early Roses, The charming little yellow China to P roIon S their season. Frau Karl 



and this is particularly the case with cer- Arethusa has already produced a few of its Jruschki, for instance^ and Caroline 

 tain of the yellow and orange flowers. 

 Many of these are naturally early in 

 flowering, and the mild spring and cool, 



perfectly-shaped little flowers, but its full Testout > grown as pillar Roses and hardly 



period of flowering is only just beginning. 

 Turning to the pinks, I think some of my 



pruned, have been giving me flowers for a 



grown 



moist weather of early June have proved earliest finely-shaped Roses came from a ** b f ds as cut-backs will not be out for 



v ery favourable to their development, little batch of Mrs. Fred Straker. This 

 Seldom do I remember to have seen little Rose makes an 



:eu DT>raKer. xnis ° — > — 



attractive button- be & reatl y prolonged. White Hose. 



ill 



such deep and brilliant orange in the 



flowers 

 ha 



of Billard et Rarre, nor 

 ve had them so well shaped as we 

 have found them this year. I have always 

 been fond of this Rose, and now that we 

 have discovered its requirements — south 

 aspect with overhead protection — it has 



hole Rose, and possesses a very pleasant 

 to Tea scent. The colour is a pale salmon 



pink with a full pink centre and a yellow 

 base to the petals, of which the outer have 

 a creamy appearance and are reflexed 

 somewhat after the style of Mme. Antoine 

 Marie. Altogether it seems a delightful 



become a very useful garden Rose, for it little Rose, and may perhaps prove useful 

 !s very fairly free flowering, and it con- for decorative work. Standards of Lady 



tmues to produce new growth and fresh 

 flowers the 



Ashtown and Mme. Abel Chateney have 



summer through, 

 weather, however, the flowers open rather 

 quietly and are apt to be thin and 

 flat-centred, while the colour of the 



In hot already given some good flowers, but the 



dwarfs in my garden will be another fort- 

 night before they are fully out. 

 Of Lady Pirrie I have had two or three 

 summer blossoms, though generally a fine flowers of a lovely colour, decidedly deeper 

 yellow, lacks the deep rich and glowing in tint than those we have seen at the 

 grange of the flowers we have recently shows from plants grown under glass 



during the past spring. Last year this 



Rose was somewhat disappointing, and 



was at times inclined to think we 



been gathering. 

 Mme. Ravary is another Rose that has 



greatly benefited by the cool and moist I 



leather of the past three weeks. On a should have to regard it as a green- for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, also 



ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



DENDROBIUM SPURIUM J. J. SMITH. 



A specimen of a very interesting Dendrobium 

 received from Borneo is sent by the Hon. N. 

 Charles Rothschild, Ashton Wold, Oundle (gr. 

 Mr. C. Wright). It is illustrated and described 

 in Orchideen von Java, vol. i., 343, fig. 260, as 

 Dendrobium spurium. The author, for the 

 specific name, goes back to the first reference as 

 Dendrocolla spuria, Bl. Bydragen, vol. i. Lind- 

 ley, in The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous 

 Plants, recorded it as Aerides spurium, and later 

 Rchb. f., in " Orchidese," in Walper's Annales, 

 vi., 500, as Sarcochilus spurius. Lindley, how- 

 ever, in the Journal of the Linnean Society, III. 

 p. 7, recognised it as a Dendrobium, and recorded 

 it as D. euphlebium, a name which Rchb. f. 

 follows when describing it in Xenia Orchidacea , 

 where it is also figured under that name. H. N. 

 Ridley, in his clever and useful Materials 



