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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Arn 20, 1895, 
9 until 4 o'clock. The Lily-house is a unique 
feature, with its long oval pon on edged with Papyrus, 
and covered with Water-Lilies—the Nymphza zan- 
zibarensiz, the Lotus, and the splendid Victoria Regia. 
IGNATZ FORSTERMANN died at hia residence, 
n March 29, where he had carried 
atove p 
nouncement of the fact appeared in our last 
impression. Ep.] at Coblenz, in Raen 
he gardens of his native town, and passed 
haar jt of the chief establishments on the 
he disc many 
one event by which his memory will live is the re- 
discovery of Cypripedium Spicerianum; but the 
tiger, the beast being shot in the act of feeding on 
hie prey. Förstermann also visited the — 
Archipelago, — the Phillipines, — on arm 
pri 
pla: Cypripedium Sanderi- 
anum, Cwlogyne Gestermanni, 
Dendrobium eruentum, and D. aes — — 
collection of, in all, some 
se 
— 
San 
Férstermann made a 
sixty specimens of Orchids (au him un- 
known), and gave his materials to the late Professor 
Reichenbach; and they are now baried with the 
9 
represent Messers. F. — y 2 — soon started 
for himself, as already said. 
JOHN W. THOMSON —A veteran horticulturist 
passed away on March 25 at Hayward's Heath. 
Having previously been a school-fellow with Charles 
Darwin tered the 
that did not 
himself in the * of the Kew Guild, 1804, from 
particulare: — At 
were 12s, a week, 
ith, Joseph Kaight, 
proprietor of what af now Veitch’s ays 
ed for 10% a week and a quartern 
3 i was —— 
which was removed in 1892. Ia 1822, Thomson was 
again sent to Windsor, concerning his sojoarn ia 
which ph tells some stories in the 
n 1835, 2 set up in 
the nursery was sold, and the land built over. In 
later years, Thomson occupied himself in designing 
gardens and erecti He 
his ninetieth year 
ies, 
ayward'’s Heath, where, since 
1876, ureeryman, 
he had been in business as a n 
NURSERY NOTES, 
MESSRS. JOHN- LAING & SONS. 
Tus first display of bloom each season in the 
at Forest Hill, S. E, ie usually farniehed 
by the house of Cliveias, and at 
these plants are worth 
basists. as nurseryman at at 
pricey where he continued till 1860, when 
ouse plants in 
regard to t all 
seasons 
poorly ns, 
this may be due to the fact that, * differing 
— in form and in shade of colour, the gen 
t of one v ~ is not greatly different from 
thet Laing, however, has been 
patiently — with a view to inducing 
ee as possible in the seedlings, to which he 
@ dietinet name, and although in this plant 
it is —— extremely difficult to effec a change 
in the colour of the — — by hybridisation, it is 
that if it be possible to obtain a pure 
very materially reduced, and even approaching in 
some degree to white, but if thie is the desired 
seedlings is a variety 
Chamberlain, which was distinguished by the Floral 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society at 
N last meeting, when the plant was — apene 
Award of Merit. It is v n habit, and 
d of 4 of mach 
favourable a 
flower is pretty. Her Majesty, Lady Wolverton, and 
Patrick Davidson may be highly commended of 
ago; also 
Novelty, one of the plants above mentioned as exhi- 
biting a good share of white in ~ blossoms, Mra, 
J. Boom, though not large, we seen exhibiting 
very good form: and sach 1 ae Stanstead 
Boaaty, and John Laing are too well-known to 
require any farther bat it would 
be unfair to the qualities of Ambroise Verschaff ett. 
b variety, were it to be omitted entirely 
from this note. 2 the bones in which 
the Cliveias were arra which a 
nice lot of epring- flowering balbs and plante—it was 
evident that a large collection Caladiame will 
agaia be seen at Mesara, Lange. Taey are coming 
along quickly now, bat when these notes were 
only a few leaves had developed their normal cha- 
few plants of varieties of Begonia sem- 
were still in flower, 
oficial Report of his tour in Kashmir, 1893 :— 
Between Mataizan and Panda, the road crosess 
ae It is mach valaed by Kwhmiris as a fodder 
plant, and is cat for winter ase. Oa the Pir Pagial 
it ie called Kü g a. Tae valley adden! 
out before reaching 
scattered 
8 fort hore, „ 
ae ns alg e aga The 
are very bire 
mountains 
Tease are carn only s few Willows and Poplars 
to be seen near ths villages. I halted for one 
day and afs on Jaig 3, wih anew oet of ponies and 
nce; the white tabe of i 
FFF 
After crossing the valley in a north-weaterly 
— through felda of Buck-wheat, 
(Lene esculenta), &c., the road begins to : 8 
zig-zags along a very rocky valley almost 28 ; 
Tae village (Golteri) ia on the right bank of t 
river, and is situated oa a moraine débria, 
he elevation is about 11,000 — T stayed here 
— — — was 
oa the left baak to a place called Cham 
river is crossed bya emall rop» r 
— oiteri; close by here aad alongeide the 
lage polo-groand. Tae path keeps a 
— the way, and is very rocky in places, 
ty. 
P Badamı, sad Saxifrages. A 
plaat called Gugel ie aban 
of Sauwarea (S. obrallata 
are very envelope the 
Meade of flowers, which are strongly scented. 
stillness bigh 
atrikiog. Alter descending, however, for 
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