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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcon 23, 1895, 
Rose Mapame Pierre Cocer, 
In the following manner a presumably ow 
minded geran “lets himself go” in th 
zeitu 282 cree the pretty new TSAN 
Madame Paai „ & tea-scented Noisette :— 
“I would borrow Eg to describe En e par 
cacy and tenderness, for mine, I are 
coarse and rough, She has so clothed “herself $ in 
the most glowing, purest golden-yellow tints, that 
one’s eyes are dazzled and one’s heart — 
atartled ; halice pours forth a flood 
bcs (the S 
mateur; mo 
he ataliad abundance 9 
and ou her c 
of the most delicious fragrance. 
in of oor 
her bloom . the intoxicated eyes of the 
beholder. But she is and remains an elf, and is no 
ffy-faced German darling,” and 80 0 
From what the writer says in his calmer moments, 
col 
variety, The colour is a little 
darker, more 50 distributed, without (th dis- 
figuring bleac appearance common that 
variety, The flower is also fuller, has more prain 
7 ve remains in the bud state for a longer space 
; it also has great fragrance, which is not to 
Th 
illustration of the 
variety, as well as Pernet’s hybrid Tea, Marquis of 
ury, is given in the osenzeitung above 
mentioned. 
BERLIN. 
— ——— 
ON THE HEREDITY OF ee eons 
PINUS SILVESTRIS 
In tb I of the vat ft German 
Dendrological „Mr. at Roe- 
mershof, near Riga ( Nen fives some o interning 
remarks on the heredity of malformations of Pin 
silyes estris, L., , which 2 unt it is eee e neces- 
yt eal t says 
that it is about twenty-five years since nkka hice 
of Pinus silvestris, L., were formed in the district. 
The seed mer 
Pinas, all grown from imported eds, were ae 
This led to a study of the ate ee and it w 
found that all plants 
i m 
ingo a 
n Livonia a 
seeds of i Nabe f for the Russian f 
fo * ta 1 x or a 
there is i 
o these remarks of Mr. von Sivers I add the fol- 
lowing :—First, he does not say N the os Plante 
m the German seeds alone j ose from 
seedsmen should ha 
from distorted pl ts only, Mr. von ov ts himself 
y od as regards 
germinating and purity. This * ‘te the 
German seedsmen spoke the truth. think that it 
was not the growth of 2 mother- plants 
which caused the crooked offe spring, but that it was 
the relatively mild climate in which the mother- 
Everyone who has grown plants 
from different in knows well that those seeds 
give the best * strongest plants which are from a 
e a, to grow 
oresters. 
severer climate than =. pr tenpe the young seed- 
lings are cultivated. nly there would have 
been better results A the hers had come from North- 
s knowledge of the weakness of 
lant in Northern or 
Eastern Germany plants from the West; whilst, on 
the contrary, plants of Northern and Eastern Ger- 
many are much in demand inthe West. It is also 
very curious that the malformation should have been 
f 
the soil has not had any influence upon the growth 
of the seedlings. U, 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM. 
Tun genus Odontoglossum having proved itself 
universally the most pre-eminently admired of all 
Orchid genera, and the above species the queen 
of the genus, it is high time that a Manual” 
that we may know 
ies in collections, 
he is which, and how different to these will be 
he new ones yet to bloom in so many cases, om = 
perder be doubted that “ there are as good fi 
the sea as were e’er ta’en out.“ 
With this end in Need I have determined to under- 
take the task, and with the generous 5 of all 
who grow this beautiful Orchid, it es possible. 
gs they con- 
sider worthy, to send me a bloom, choy if possible a 
een of the whole spike, showing the bloom 
This is a most important point. Also if 
— — wil kindly send me blooms and photographs 
f all ~*~ present finest varieties, I shall be then 
his te t series of faithful 
aket aye ine to illustrate the best of the 
various se Of course, there may be many of 
the well- saa varieties that are not allowed to 
bloom this year, but if I can have some representa- 
g of ene I shall be 3 a 
may interest readers to know ocess oa 
2 which I invariably follow it in in Odo 
glossums, so as to get a faithful re production, et ont 
of an absolute caricature, as t 
cut the ovary off, peg the sepals and petals down 
with pins, and trace round the absolute edge; then 
the filling in of all marks and details becomes a very 
easy matter; in this way all blooms are placed on an 
equal basis, 
The ser aspect of the monograph will, of 
course, need the support of all be and 
the more Da s pied i e less it will cost, The 
illustrations are the greatest expense, but without 
them the work would be a useless mass ‘of descriptive 
de 
Many to whom í have spoken cordially welcomed 
the idea, and are ing me with materials, and 
that may be in store for 
1 
Ts has been suggested that I add to the above th 
cies odoratum, luteo- -purpureum, — 2— 
Pescatorei, and all the resultant hybrids (a goodly 
sketch), but if I can 
get the material, I may be able to do so, de Barri 
Seu 
urpose 
accura of the kind mentioned. W. 
Mr. Crawshay will not limit himself to fine —— 
bat include as many as possible, so as to show 
and the direction of variation, Ep,] 
CATTLEYA SCHRODER Æ ALBA, TRENTON VAR, 
ie RE of this superb Cattleya, sent by — 
to C. G. Roe 
rry, gardener to 
E-q, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. A., shows it to “ 
—_ — 
the very best of the large- flowered White 
ere ede The pure silvery- white of its sepala 
petals contrasts well with the deep orange colour of 
the tube and front lobe of the lip, 
C. S. ROEBLINGIANA 
is equally good in size and form; its flowers have 
the tint of the Peach blossom; a 5 hue over. 
spreads the orange-coloured neti 
latter is veined with white, 
and colour much resemblance to D, Was 
with the exception of the absence of any yellow 
colouring on the lip, penne with the Cattleyas, but 
it had . SP in trans 
KEW AND OUR COLONIES. 
Ir or impossible to over estimate the value of 
he istance which our colonies receive from 
the anthorities at Kew Gardens, 
for their action in directing attention to the benefits 
to be deri ved from the establishment of 
stations, I doubt whether any of those stations would 
be in existence at all. Kew, moreover, not only 
lends her powerful aid in inducing Colonial E 
ments to introduce such stations, but s 
and 
le shape, The 
colonies themselves are fully alive to the value of the 
services that Kew renders to them in the develop- 
ment of their resources, but I doubt whether the 
important part that she Liew in such matters is 
fally known, or is appreciated as it ought to be. 
R. G. C. Hamilton, r on a the Island of Dominica, | 
ean STATIONS IN THE Leswarp ISLANDS, 
tanic stations ee established in the Leeward 
Islands in 1 the four stations, Antigua, 
Dominica, St. Kitts ei rrat, the most suc- 
cessful, so far, is undoubtedly that at Dominica. 
Particulars of this are given he Kew Bulletin, 
1893, pp. 148 and 359; 1894, p 405. 
a the Annual Report on 8 Loe ward Islands for 
1893, submitted by Sir William Haynes Smith to 
the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Colonial 
8, Annual, No. 112, 1894), the following par- 
secon are pa ee the work of the stations 
during that year 
ANTIGUA, 
The work of the hh botanical station was 
carried on actively during the past year. Besides 
the ordinary sale of ockery was 
added to the station and stocked preas valuable suc- 
culents from Kew. A series of ma plots were 
laid out with different kinds of vegetables, &c, The 
number of Sisal plants in the nurseries was 
increased, 
economic plants, and the station, 
now in its second year, is a assuming shape. 
Dominica, vod its 
The botanical station in ‘Desk has pro i 
usefulness by the very great n 
plants sold, over 22,000 havin 
the year, principally in small lots. This 
demand for plants has taxed pe aH 
station to the utmost, n extra grant 
been for the work of the current year. 
MONTSERRAT, 
The small botanic garden in Montserrat 
slightly enlarged, and new walks pepe 
a station was without a 
the year, and not much progress can 
Bulletin, 
