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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Mar 4, 1895, 
of plants in general, together with special sections 
devoted to the peculiarities of the several orders of 
flowering and soba ess plants, and to their geogra- 
2 distribut 
work is be well-planned; and, so far as 
judge, is well executed. It is based to a 
e. degree on Van Tieghem’s Traité de 
Botanique, and it is copiously illustrated with w si 
cuts from the works Decaisne & 
Duchartre & Baillon, together with others i 
familiar. The coloured illustrations are apparently 
intended for decorative purposes only, as they have 
little value from a botanical point of view, and must 
eedlessly to the expense of production. 
Iberian 
E is 
i zone, apinaa the Cantabrian coast and the 
Asturian Co apare 2, the Pyrenean zone; 3, the 
cosmprising Cataluna and Valencia; 
the southern zone; 6, 
frontier 
attractively got up, provided with ample indexes, 
and is altogether a noteworthy production. 
FITZGERALD'S AUSTRALIAN ORCHIDS. 
The appearance of another part of Fitzgerald's 
Australian Orchids was recently recorded in these 
pages, and a few more details concerning it may be 
interesting. It will be remembered that some time 
praiseworthy 
Wales Government not to allow the author's un- 
finished drawings to be lost to science through the 
lamentable event. a prefatory notice to the 
collected by the boldest speculator of the age, the 
late Charles Darwin, of whom he was a warm 
admirer, and in whose system he was a firm believer. 
keen ak and painstaking and conscientious 
investigator, he he soon accumulated a vast mass of in 
South Wales Government, who, fortunately, for the 
prestige of the colony, accepted it, and the first part 
was published in July, 1875. Since then up to 
March, 
888, one volume of seven parts, each con- 
Rai Bus ways, who has devoted 
study of Orchids, was induced to undertake the 
etterpress, with the help of Mr, 8 pps, as before. 
In this way it is hoped that all the 5 left 
unfinished Mr. Fitzgerald’s death may be 
utilised, 
The plants figured in the present part are Adeno- 
petalnm bracteatum, Fitzg., otherwise Bulbophyllum 
bracteatum, Biil., a small Balbophyllum without 
petala; Bulbophyllum exiguium, F. Muell, and B 
wers 
gerum, Fitzg., a species from Cape York, allied to C. 
Thonarsii C. pieturatum; Phaius grandifolius, 
along the river valleys of the 
Gescndand const; 2 i, with bright yellow 
flowers, which are often triandrous; Epipogon nutans, 
g t 
much leisure to the 
e. which ranges to India and Africa; derer e 
oides, R. Br., a light brown saprophyte ala- 
dan conjesta, ita, Fitzg., and C. 
i baet 
G. 
bigibbum, Lindl. Diuris abbreviata, F. Muell., and 
D. tricolor, Fitzg. „ which latter is said to be fertilised 
by small pollen-eating beetles (Hyparetrus bine 
which resort to the flowers to eat the polle and 
rostellum ; Osyricera purpurascens, Bail., —— 
Bulbophyllum eee Bail., a little gem with 
mossy habit and red- purple flowers, whose lateral 
sepals are united; and Bulbophyllum lichenastrum, 
F. Muell., a peculiar little plant, with fleshy ovoid- 
oblong leaves and solitary white flowers, whose lip 
is yellow with some red at the base. 
A curious fact connected with the work, which I 
have just stumbled across, deserves to be recorded. 
Corunastylis apostasioides, Fitzg., is a curious new 
described an 
v 
next part to Anticheirostylia apostasioides, Fitzg. 
As the new name, however, only appears on the back 
of the se it is liable not only * be overlooked, 
but to be t away when the work is bound. 
The part was Fre Kew in Bae, 1891, 
I had previously overlooked the name. This 
t 
wrapper should be bound in with the volume, R, 4. 
Rolfe, 
THE SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA, ETC. 
Charles Sprague Sargent. Vol. vii, sae 
Lauracess —Juglandacee. (Boston and New 
York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co 
We have had now many opportunities of calling 
attention to Professor Sargent’s excellent publica- 
tion. Not the least of the many virtues attaching 
illustrations are prepared. The present volume is 
dedicated to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, whose 
labours have largely increased knowledge in regard 
to trees of three continents, and 
this seventh volume of the Silva of North America 
gratefully dedicated,” 
The orders treated of are the Lauracez, Eaphor- 
biaceæ, Ulmaceæ, Moraces, Platanaces, 1 
and Juglandaces. This list is sufficient to indie 
he many points of interest to Eaglish eliras 
contained in this volume, We can only advert to 
few of them. — white or American Se Ulmus 
americana, is one of the largest moat 
graceful trees of the North-eastern Seat tes and 
8 ian this we are told that “the Elm 
greeted the English colonists as 
— landed _ on the shores of New England 
ow 
p 
to te Eim troen that had stod by thet cottages at 
home; and as the forest gave way to corn-fields, 
many Elm trees were allowed to escape the , and 
a home was made, a sapling Elm taken from 
the borders of a neighbouring swamp, was o 
guard the roof-tree, These Elm trees, remnants 
of the forests which covered New England when it 
was first inhabited by white men, or planted during 
the first century of their occupation, are now dead 
or ee, disappearing; they long remained the 
n ost imposing trees of the Northern 
— and no others planted by man in North 
America have equalled the largest of them in beauty 
and size.” In Earope einai Professor Sargent 
says, it does not grow to a great size or display much 
beauty. Never borage, one of the trees 
for pe age that 
to 
piii w 
are un —— unable to give, grew in the Exotic 
Nursery, Canterbury. It was planted by its pro- 
— 
prietor, and attained very large dimensions, till it 
over some few years before the i 
a ripe age, of him who planted it. It w 
tre ee, and Hed sections of the trunk now 
in the preceding quotation reminds ug of 
the extreme rarity with which our English Elm j 
met 8 woods. 
he unt of the epee Jaglans Ykes 
particularly interesting, fro he 
omic value of 2 troen. 
n aes are, as usual, 
reader will find himeelf i by the varied and 
interesting character of the information contained 
ul 
a), a magnificent tree, grows as well he: 
There, it has been prac- 
tically exterminated, at least for a time, owing to 
the large dem 
their beauty. bieten Juglans 
are also mentio 
The plan of söisin adopted T Professor 
m 
s hybrids i in the genus 
ive 
ha 
genus. particular neoteigitlk will not 
much inconvenience, for it reveals, rather than con- 
botanist would 
was the appellation of the tree universally known as 
Maclura aurantiaca, the Osage Orange. The adop- 
tion of Hicoria for Carya is not so objectionable to 
to those who know 8 a s Hiona is, The 
‘al 
8 
— 
5 
& 
8 
2 
E. 
2 
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7 
Rafinesque, which 
t 
> 
— 
ed to. : 
Professor Sargent may well be congratulated on 
the progress of this splendid work, and on u 
g 
a 
ostentation, this wo mos 
work has been added to the Lindley Library. 
. ̃ — 
„ PARADISE RETRIEVED.” 
I have been reading an sey 
title, written by Samuel Collins, Eiꝗ., and published i 
y *. John ween Seedsman, 0 x 
i.: i 
writing about, He demons ＋m2F 
tiful, g abont, and beneficial method of managing 2 
and improving fruit erste against w in 
Lawrence and others upon 
It is interesting p have an independent tres 
20 gives a list of the beat varie 
ties of fruit- ies, a as it is just 178 oe s 
gardener turn ed off for an 2 
fellow succeeded him, ees pru 
wood in one season, á dik n where r 
loves the products of a 1 2 2 i to be 
be removed (unless for reasons not 10 
withal), but to a ter disadvan 
any other tervant that attends 8 — 
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