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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[January 12, 1895. 
Messrs, F. Sanner & Co, 
from their recently-instituted new plant department, 
which d such remarkably large pro- 
following sterling novelties, besides exhibiting many 
the future will bear witness, Their 
Anthurium Scherzerianum var. Mundyanum 
the largest and richest-colowsed, of all the known 
— Bougainvillea glabra Sanderiana, — 
forms a dense bush covered with bright mauve 
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bunches 1 flowers and floral bracts, is no don bt a 
of the future; Browallia speciosa 
haros called by some West Indian Force na: -nof, is 
a distinct improvement, and a plant which will be 
appreciated, for it is of a rich blue colour, and may 
ad near om; Heliconia illustris 
and its variety rubricaulis, two noble foliage plants; 
Passi 
c 
lonias imported by them, | Messrs. Sander have, daring 
the year, brought int 
with great n in the foliage, and ER fine 
ose-pink flowers, which has been 
a, 8. Mrs 
3 and s. W. E Bound. Of another and equally 
pretty cl e S. venusta, S. Victorix, S. o 
8. er 8. Tiniti, aa S. Silver King, ‘all y 
handsome foliage and winter-blooming habit. 
Another set of handsome-foliaged, winter-flowering 
plants, which have been successfully worked by 
Messrs. Sander, by sonin Begonia socotrana with 
varieties of B. Rex, have been shown as Begonia 
Sander's Winter Q een, Sander’s Winter Perfection, 
-a-dozen other distinct varieties, bearing the 
same 3 appellation. The foliage of all is neat, 
and variously and handsomely decorated with silver 
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1. 
to make favourite anp — ? Of other 
worthy plants accredited to . Sander are 
Begonia Rajah, a very eff. =“ aad e 
plant; Eriocnema San a gem among dwarf 
foliage plants; and a fine * of new Coleus. 
Messrs. James VRH & Son 
successfully continued the intercrossing of the 
Tilt fine light varieties; and A, Rowena and A. 
deep crimson selfs; 
Of greenhouse Rhododendrons, a new race has 
been started in R. Mrs. John Heal, obtained by 
crossing dhe dwarf, bushy n. multicolor with R. 
he 
habit of the new hybrid is dwarf and ¢ compact, like 
aaa Indian Azalea, and with bunches of pure white 
Of the e same strain there is a prospect of 
site colours, Of the other class, the — novelties 
are us Ultra, a rich crimson rlet ; 
ear pale primrose, A set ‘of seven new 
with bronzy leaves, thickly dotted with silver 
Gloxinera x Brilliant, a curious hybrid between 
Gesnera pyramida alis and a Gloxinia; Nepenthes 
a splendid Pitcher-plant ; Sarra- 
arf hybrid; and Physalis 
Francheti, a noble plant or decorative purposes. 
Messrs, LINDEN, 
on the occasion of the Temple Show in May last 
ome gs aah 3 3 remarkable new plants, which 
setae 5 oder were new Ferns, which h will 
be e ae that head. Of the other species 
M. M. illustris, and M. M. Florentina, were the best; 
Begonia Lansbergii, a remarkable stately plant, and 
erea adamantinum, a pretty new Peruvian 
specie 
Messrs, J. Laine & Sons’ 
tuberous Begonias continue to supply —- 
although the differences showing improvemen 
over some of the older favourites are shen ea 
discoverable with difficulty. 
John Laing & Son, Messrs. Cannell, 
others, steadily pursue their search for Novelties, 
and have each succeeded in getting their best ones 
stamped with Awards of Merit. Messrs, Laing, too, 
have during the year shown a number of good new 
Caladiums, which they specially cultivate ; some im- 
provements in Cliveas, which they are working well; 
and Gloxinia Stanstead White, the best pure white 
variety; Nicotiana affi ais variegata, and Anthurium 
John Laing, a wonderfully fine form of the A. André - 
anum class, and with indescribably deep blood-red 
shining spathes, much darker than the type 
Messrs. B. S. Witttams & Son, 
from their fine collection of Amaryllis select as 
novelties, A. Holloway Belle, one of the moat ies 
tiful and distinct of its class; and some other good 
me of 
best for decorative purposes; and they advance three 
distinct Caladiums, viz, Bernard; Wagner, Donna 
Carmen Macedo, and Rio de Janeiro ; while they an- 
= sated e e for distributing i in Europe 
Philadel- 
phi which has secured so many high awards, and 
80 many admirers both in England and America. 
marioan 
FERNS, 
These, as usual of late, have been recruited oey 
by garden hybrids or sports, all more or less got 
by chance. The most remarkable and beautiful of 
these is certainly the Polypodium Schneideri of 
Messrs, Jas. Veitch & Son, and whose 7 pone- 
like, glaucous fronds tell plainly that it is a cros 
between the old Polypodium aureum — tho hardy 
. vulgare elegantissimum, Messrs. also have 
one of the neatest of new hardy e in ere 
scalariforme. 
May, by the nature of his extensive 
Mr. 
operations in raising market Ferns, must necessarily 
take lead in new things of t haracter, 
During the past year he has shown some fine novel- 
ties, the best of which were Adiantum tenellum, 
A. Schneideri, A, plumosum, and A. Hemsleyanum, 
all elegant and distinct; Asplenium Mayii, A. 
i, and A. ineisum, three singularly-fimbriated 
3 or hybrids of A. Baptistii, Pteris biaurita 
argentea, P. gracilis multiceps, and other Pteris, 
destined to de great market plants of the future; and 
Lygodium dichotomum polydactylon, one of t the 
same direction, and 
received Awards for Hymenophyllum chiloense, 
Pteris cretica pe ns and others; and the 
Pteris cretica se pote rancei of Messrs, Stroud 
CO — n 3 
Brothers is an equally pEr market Fern, but 
the name will never be admitted, : 
Messrs, Linden, Horticulture per ionale, 4 
Brussels, at the great Temple Show, : 
Gardeners’ Chronicle by Mr. G. S. Jenman during the 
past year, and the certainty that a vast number 
exist which have never been seen even by botaniats, 
it is a wonder that the importation of these favourite 
plants is so little worked. The best G7 „ ; 
Ferns (and which, if not new to science, : 
to gardens) sent out during 1894 by Messrs, Lind 
Mastersiana, C. pygmæa, and Hemitelia Lindeni, 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
Bulbous planta for g use culture received 
x Stricklandi (Fother- 
cine Natal botanist, Mr. J. Medley 
useful hardy plants are Rhododendron 
Schlippenbachi, R. Princess William of Wurtem- 
g, and i 
too much space to deal with. 
safe in the hands of Messrs. Cannell & Sov, 
and Keynes, Williams & Co., = the other firms 
make ä of auch plan 
wing are some of a ae 12 
eh eners’ Chronicle durin 
p. 2⁴53 agnolia eee August 18, 
Physalis Franchetii, October 13, p. 441; Ba 
dron Schlippenbachii, April 14, p. 469; ; Rhododen : 
dron Princess W rtemburg, May 12, p. 507 
Trochodendron aralioides, Jane 9, p. 725. 
ath of pe ies at Cliveden, bai 
again W this place into notice, a "e with 3 
0 
on Mr. Wadds, the gardener. 
have been made since Aing eee of the . 
by the „n W. W. A 8 Bron 
are concerned, perha — ers ee 
sidered psi — of two large sr 
gardens, one of about 2 acres on the site 
old buildings, situated to te left of the e 
near the gardener’s house, to be devoted sis 
the culture of choice fruits. The other is 1257 
‘on | 
of 
be devoted to vegetable culture. The outsi „ 
walls of this garden are to be covered with Ivy, „ 
n the inside. 7 
