Joxe 8 1895.) 
rigidus, under the name of Miss Mellish, is an 
a goodly band, all suitable for 
rockery, the chief being Phlox nivalis, procumbens, and 
setacea. The Polygonums are good back-row plants. 
We have now brought pro minently into notice the 
Polygonum 1 which is held up as one 
of the most use ie 
ia. a good many 
n lists, one very dwarf 
yellow flowering one, named Frederici Augusti, 
having obtained a First-class Certificate at the 
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The „ were bright with young Crotone, 
and no end of At thuriume, including the best forme 
of 
Associated with these were the bre looking Cyano- 
phyllum magnificum, the autifol cor E -thyrsed 
Medinilla magnifica, = ot Dielen bachias and 
hi 
a Smilax ar gy! wa, 
The flowering plants comprised Eremurus, Eacharis 
in quantity, none wt the forms of the latter equal 
se g other bulbes we 
Z 
* 
like bulb, and is a bybrid between that and t 
Euc e; it carries an umbel of about twelve 
Fie. 106.—RHODODENDRON FORMOSUM (GIBSONI), 
Flowers white: grown in the Gardens at Heath Hill, Stackstead, Manchester. 
-o The Thalictrums make fine border pa 
only because of their flowers, but because of 
— Fern-like foliage, so useful for 2 ‘hie 
Maidenhair Fern cannot be had. Trollius, particu- 
larly the double-flowering Fortunei, is Sen valuable. 
-houses are all in juxtaposition, yis have 
been ~ x r“ nothing being cut to 
in the ornamentation. The heating is yo 
s rie tronghont to meet the emergencies of 
d se ik h 
ts 
disappear as orders come in, p ed 
ts to ‘abs: their places, 
mon rsery 
training, and the difficalty re existing of getting 
even first-rate young men to fall into it. 
(See p. 717.) 
flowers, which are white when fully expanded, and, 
unlike the Urceolina, expand much i 
fact, mid-way between the two parents. is un- 
oubtedly an acquisition bs (see fig. i 
Gard, Dm p. 215, sagga oye here 
is a fine selected form n producing 
umbels, and 7 2 in ** * „ 
My attention was called to a novelty in Dipla- 
denias named D. sp sng which seems free and 
useful, One was glad to a nice collection of 
Cacti, and doing well too, * Pilocereus senilis 
not being the least notable, and bearded like Father 
eee and bits of other 
very fine set of seedling 
Roses, and particularly Tea * are grown in 
very large quantities, both on the roof for cutting, 
and in pots for general phat Chrysanthe- 
mums ere a big feature, the flowers im great 
demand for shop purposes—in fact, it seems where 
there is anything like a business done, an establish- 
ment of "m wg cannot be overstoc retocked. Pelargo- 
Fuchsias, and Dablias, a are grown on 
aa littl 
ze go. The 
to saleable ai 
1 
and with care he does not lose 5 
and 
iceana 
m zemas, alth 
make = 1 j 
of the — . , too, parti 
always ve when well grown, 
— — — various Pimeleas ar 
and evidently find a market, Among cl 
noted the two Lapagerias, the pretty Myraiphy im 
asparagol Passion-flowers, and Tac 
the dieti whitish-flowered Physisn thue 
albens, and — Bisai Smithii. Viator, 
Tun Lerps Orcutp Co., Rouwpmay, Lerps, 
a modest establishment, with moderate, 
although laudable 1 aes viz., the popalarising 
of Orchid culture, hed ing as many species as 
possible within 
any 
m plant, To this end, 
Mr. C. Aah , the manager, imports species 
likely to be suited to his clients, and the 8 
houses at — have an ac lation of su 
in the course of being established, as well as of piii 
established planta. 
In the first house entered we noted a number of 
peendobulbs ; gry yer crassin 
ost o 
along the roof, and its position 
vigour with — this, by no means a 
plant, — growin 
In the third “h house were noted a small lot of 
* Pı 
a samber of ya citrina and th 
of which seem to like t 4 position 
are placed; — 
A ahg en class, 
the Cypripedium-house, Cypripedium bellatu- 
ie thrives well, and a small lot of 
ge are voor, ka on; E- in i in the cool- house there 
were in bloom Mossi, C. Mendeli, 
Bpidend m 2 um, a fine Oneidiam 
, the and carious O. m 
beside it, ite nearest ally, O, serratum ; three par- 
ticularly bright scarlet Cochlioda Noezliana, a few 
Romii majan, , Cervantea O. CEA crispum, O. 
Rossii majus, i O. Œrstedii, and 
