Marcu 16, 1895 
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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 329 
thought of as obj-cts of os a few F i 3 
——ůů and in ha 4 icia ais equal 2.0, PHE PL ORAB OF THE 
small houses are devo 
reasons for Oc chid — being a favourite pur- 
suit, and one of the weightiest is, that some of the 
lants are in flower at most seasons, and that, too, 
without forcing. One of the more interesting of the 
e Gr range, 
dO 
For the last- 
0 i 
length, isin course of construction, 
afford space for the present collection of these plants 
thick, like the dwarf 
eburneu 
obium Wardi orem. some 
fine masses of Cymbidium Lo wianu , Casto 
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Lycast 
r 
space devoted to the plants 
affords an excellent return for the attention paid to 
the plants by the gardener, Mr. Whiffen. Among 
FRENCH COLONIES.” 
A rarer by M. E l. Bareau, published i in y Com 
Rendus de l Académie neces, 1 1886. 
speaks of investigations proposed or f 
the floras 
The S of such 
š au's anno cement concerning it: 
present extension of the French colonies is a in 
f gre portan t to realise the peared 
of it to the fall, the nataral productions of the co 
tries must be thoroughly and scientifically investi- 
gated, The studies in botanical geography made 
Fig, 44.—CaTASETUM MIRABILE; C. LINDENI; C. IMPERIALE. 
and engen new comer Ta re ere at present 
"i 
ras 
me and o other species, Ficus rebar: Ferns, 98 
gin el at al 24 aoas T ga Interv 
= and of filling up an ungainly space beneath 
e stage, 
n 
tad at tha 
Perry May 3 83 A inna 
some of th haw. Is S 
ass e features of all of its class, ane to be ike 
hiss a 18 res ts large snow-white flowers 
act e base of the Tip veined with ar a 
Orange-red, as in D. Jamesianum. In for 
the cool-house species, O ontoglossums, which here 
chiefly represent the class, are in a marvellously good 
iti w in flower, and a 
great number of strong spikes in all stages were 1 
ome of the opening flowers are being wW watched 
with much curiosity, especially one example, w hose 
eal grea! er blotches. Among 
ering at present in W are £0 O. crispum 
od yellow-tinted O. Ander- 
— * maj hs O. maculatum, &e. Along with these 
me handsome Amaryllis, the bright 
. and white is mm flowers have a good effect 
by contrast, and a ber of hanging-baskets, filled 
with Lachenalia =. 2 which are now sending 
their towers 1 the m irecti 
Bg would be improved 
the best Ga vee at L. aurea were e 
nstan the commoner L. tricolor, and also in 
the sho 
severe winter we 
fone r. 323.) 
Algeria by M. Cosson have guided expenditure and 
minimised losses, and similar inv yastigations should 
cench colonies ; their floras 
especially should receive attention. It is only in 
the great herbaria at the Masenm that tha necessary 
researches can be e ctorily made, and the direc- 
tion of these studies has been entruste me. I 
have thet the 3 between -e een 
and it is our intention to publish vo 
French, keri 5 ee ere ean pape se 
sulted by all, and serve later 01 epi each of our 
colonies the seme purpose that t the 
n for that —.— Tae Aca ſ nie 
* work. Flora of 
des Sciences fi 
French Polynesia. 1 , Marquesas, 1 
Gambier, and Wallis, was ee in 1893. e 
d 
tote his studies on the ee te of Dapetit — 
others, A Hora e Réunion the press, bat 
untortaiauely the author had — — use of the 
herbaria which are at the Museum 
M. Pierre, B ytanie Garden 
Director © 
Saigon, issued the Flore fore lid e de le a S tramita 
