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CHRONICLE. 
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Fatsia japonica, err. lurida, A. 1. aey 
excelsa all grown well, ph 
he 
produced for several yan past, that note is scarcely 
s a much more difficult plant 
bers; but plants are always 
at hand for fulfilling orders, though the time and 
t a good-sized plant make it 
agus plumosus, 
e area, 
interested in foliage iaai generally, or in 8 
flowers, would enjoy a visit to“ Icetons’, Putney 
THE GOLDEN GEM 
MIGNONETTE, 
Tus novelty, offered by Mr. C. Lorenz for the first 
), is, we surmise, of English origin. It 
u 
dwarf compact habit, and is quite distinet from 
another yellow-flowered variety known in the trade 
as Golden Queen, which is a tall- 2 be It 
is well suited for culture, or as an edging plant if 
the seedlings be thinned out to a dist tance of 
6 inches apart, 
LA MORTOLA. 
We have frequently had occasion to speak of this 
fine garden near Mentone, so liberally andj ego 
managed by Mr. Hanbury. To him ofte 
been — for — pee and feb — 
The following memoranda record the passing impres- 
sions — a asr Apa rE visitor, Mr. Pope, of Birming- 
h are, of course, not to be considered as 
an — more than casual and very incomplete 
impressions. 
The visitor is struck with the large seu and 
immense quantity of Cacti and succulents planted 
out, the various ere of Epiphyllam speciosum 
lso eely in 
mass of downy white, measurin yard across, is 
very remarkable. Close by are examples of Pilo- 
cereus senilis (the Old Man Cactus), 2 to 3 feet in 
bling a wig, an 
le quantity of Palms, many of considerable size, 
grow freely here, especially species of Phoenix, and 
there are grand specimens of Pritchardia filamen- 
tosa and P. filifera, if not identical. 
Solanum ciliatum has the habit of S. capsi- 
plenty, but the blooming season was over; but the 
lants were in robust health, and had an abund- 
ance of seed . There is a specimen of C 
striking plant, with compound leaves 2 feet 
long, of a rich deep crimson colour, Specimens of 
Agave Salmiana 12 feet wide, 8 feet high, with leaves 
20 inches wide; a grand plant of Agave ferox of the 
and e a mass o leiantha, in 
fall bloom, surrounded by a large collection of 
Abutilons. At the of onster 
20 feet high, with hundreds of blooms upon it. 
Polygala myrtifolia 8 to 9 feet high, and blooming 
pro ofasely. One of the most gorgeous-coloured plants 
in the gardens was Salvia frutescens, 12 to 14 feet 
high, ee spikes of flowers xe æra long, and 
8 inches wide at the base, and these plants were so 
conspicuous as to be seen a loug ais a 
Lotus peliorhynchus, with its trailing habit, and 
glaucous, denne N ant scarlet Pea- shaped 
ssoms, on the top of the rockeries, 
The single yellow Bankaian Rose growing over som 
arches leadin to o the rock- -garder Was in 
8 0 nia asiatica in — 
and forming a small casita: manele regarded a 
reat variety, and is certainly nich attractive or 
Asparagus decumbens was used as a 
vase-plant, its graceful, drooping shoots falling 
Arches of various climbing plants are used, and give 
areas + 
aoe 
FIG. 23.—THE GOLDEN GEM MIGNONETTE. 
partial shade to other plants, such as Tillandsia 
— r * the Mexican Air - plant) hanging 
fro ellis, and in some instances Hoya 
carnosa is Ne g freely over the trellis. Suapelia 
grandiflora and others were flourishing planted out ; 
and a very fine Cycas revoluta 2 — 
Sele from 12 to 14 feet high, and as much in 
diameter, and this was growing out og one of the 
rockeries. The handsome Ilex cornuta was bright 
with large red berries; andthe pretty small-growing 
plant Gerbera Jamesoni, with its scarlet Anemone- 
like flowers, was very effective in sheltered corners of 
the rockeries. 
CANNES 
The climatic conditions of the Riviera being so 
different to ours, visitors to ose districts are struck 
arborescens forms large trees, = large panicles of 
lilac-coloured flowers; and e 
variety, and a few beds of these were very effective. 
n the gardens at Monte Carlo there is a very fine 
collection of Palms, and one of the most striking 
. of the place is the collection of specimens of 
a Roezlii, one of th 
war lis á 
They range from 
through, and in 
scale, the Chinese Primula being used in very large 
quantities. W. D. 
FLORISTS’ 8. FLOWERS, 
THE HIPPRASTRUM. 
Ir is now quite time that these handsome e 
flowering bulbs were repotted, Plunge th 
to the rims in some spent bark from the tan Ta isa 
use a moderate bottom- heat. They require a house that 
heated. The soil for potting should consist of 
one-third fibrous peat and two-thirds good yellow 
loam, to which is added some decayed manure and 
leaf-mould, with some sharp white sand. Good drain- 
age is a necessity. When the bulbs are turned out of 
ts, the old dry soil will easily crumble away, 
decaying ekin, 
but it is seldom that decaying bulbs recover. Scarce 
be kept alive 
and valuable varieties until 
offsets form which will produce ock, 
It will be founa, 2 r the base of a 
ing down its sides; place the soil about the roðið, 
h 
one-third of its depth below 
ing to its size—the larger ones to about one-third of 
their depth, Plunge them in a moist bottom heat of 
about 80° to 85° in a house having not more 
about 50° as a minimum temperature, The potting 
material being in a moderately moist condition at 
the time of 
t 
in the development of spikes and leaves, Sometimes 
the spikes will e come before the leaves, and sometimes 
and 
it is much mo 5 if they do 80. 
J. Douglas, Ilford. 
Tue Snow Pixx. 
Those o wish to have well-marked flowers 
should not 3 to obtain them from plants win- 
tered under glass either in bones or i Romer eee, 2 No 
lanm 
cere ne "a under glass culture chiefiy. At ‘Cannes 
there magnificent avenue two miles long of speci- 
men Pritchardiasand Date- Palme, planted alternately ; 
Hoya carnosa flourishes ou 
of a small country inn was covered with it. Fuchsia 
h 
way. The plante must be well r in good 
soil in the open ground before wintry weather sets in. 
they m Ti in 
truth — are generally all loosened so much that it 
is better to go over the entire coll ection. J, Doug 
