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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
PARIS INTERNATIONAL 
EXHIBITION, 
ac OF THE More REMARKABLE Honricvrrunar. 
Ex 
3 and now under this head we ee note, in 
no speci quence, but a under our 
notice when passing pes the planta which, for 
Various reasons, seemed to us be the m 
pest of special mention. 
group of Payllocactus from M. Ch. Simon 
8 at least a hundred plants, bearing most 
beautiful flowers of the brightest, warmest, and 
most dazzling hues, but, alas, v We 
ention Miss Evans, flame-red, edged with 
lilac - purple; Rose unique, Blanc pur, Incomparable, 
Vogeli, pale rose; Rosa Bonheur, dark flesh pink; 
rtium, red; Triomphe de 
ragrant, carmine-rose, eentre 
violet; Rose Perfection, Madame Halphin, and 
arora borealis, &c, 
M. Boucher staged a Clematis coccinea from 
Texas, a well-known perennial, but worth mention 
p its value ; it shoots up like a climbing Asparagus, 
al 
or th e 
beautiful arietien is certainly Coloradensis, 
which bears tubular flow 
Truffaut, in 115 we magnificent collec- 
ou 
ate ate it arrived last April, 
a First-class Award 
e Socié:é Nationale ener de France. 
It differs much from othe own species, the habit 
is more spreading, the colouring dull red; the plant 
is free flowering, and bears from three to six flower- 
troduced by Messrs. Veitch Belmoreana 
elegans (1895), a pretty PRE sory oe: nthe : 
rion p a fimbria- 
tum (1895) i is 1 for the | first laei in France ; 
ished above and below with 
reddish-brown nis 2 centimètres long, Phceaix 
Roebelini, the very rare Anthurium dentatum (ayn. A, 
Kellermanni), As i 
Philodendron —— cultivated ; 
Costus maximus, very m seen of such a size, 
a splendid specimen of Davallia Fijensis plumosa, 
Rhapis Sieroteik, Anthuriam podophyllum, a re- 
markable specimen of Livistona rotundifolia, 
Asparagus Spre ngeri, Dracæna australis variegata, 
Hydrangea japonica, a well-cultivated 
m, Begonia 
—— Dracena Jamesii (1895), red in 2 
iantum macrophyllum albo - striatum (1895), 
— decora, a Croton Countess, over 6 feet 
(2 mères) in diameter, a very fine Cocoloba 
pubesce er plants. 
Among the oor Ari plants from Madame 
Vve. et Enfants A 38 the following 
i — hcenicophorium sechel- 
larem, Zamia Van i ni, w 
its white strea very marked; Wallichia 
ceroxylon a very sturdy Dasylirion reflexum, 
an equally strong Doryanthes Palmeri, S 
reginæ, with six blooms; 
dozamia McLeayi, a unique plant, because of its 
a tanik — 
uguste Chantin staged a new Rose, 3 
René Berger, of won nderful vigour, a seedlin 
Merveille de Lyon ; this Rose blooms until — end 
autumn, the very pretty flowers are ofa beautiful 
colour 
flesh-pink 
M. Bleu exhibited Coffea mocha and C. ara 
in t; and his Cattleya Parthenia pei 
and very worthy of note. Incomparably fine are 
the Bertolonias of that skilful hybridiser Baronne 
Adolphe de 5 koy very bright salmon 
foliage much er colouring very bright, warm, 
and vivid—quite a novelty; Ville de Paris, leaves 
attaining a length of from 61 to 74 inches by 44 
inches in width, the ground olive-green with a 
metallic, rainbow sheen upon it, and Ptr? large 
blotches of vivid red, and tinged hia 
The Sonerilas of M. Bleu un Parke iens isis * 
Hendersoni marmorata, have prettily-marked leaves ; 
The exhibits from the firm, Vilmorin-Andrieux, 
were as numerous as remarkable, and would require 
a special number to describe them. We pick out as 
specially noteworthy the various Japanese Primroses, 
* shades of crimson, red, pure white, and 
ttled are splendid and persistent; Digitalis with 
Campan — flowers, in which the clusters end 
erect flower, standing straight — 
l Statice N rmeria rosea, v 
pretty aer, glaucum, not new, but much to ta 
recommended; Iberis — with large umbels 
of — flowers; and Gilia dichotoma, which likes 
a sunny place. 
Among the very numerous alpines from Messrs, 
Vilmorin-Andrieux, we wou mmend to plant- 
lovers Corydalis tomentella, of Franchet, flowering 
for the first time in France; the fi f 
Edelweiss growing as og as Chick 
a very 
plant when massed; Dianthus cæsius, Alsine v 
Leiophyllum baxifoliam, Dianthus neglectus, isin 
the Alps, Saxifraga Wallacei and Haberlea Rhodo- 
pensis, from Greece 
ery pretty, o f distinct and delicate hues, are the 
Columbines ; hybrids of ccerulea. The novel colouring 
of Poppy-red, crimson-chestnut, red, acarlet, ver- 
milion and orange, wi 
n Turnip, white, 
which develops fully in from — 70 sixty days; the 
Radishes for forcing, with close, finely- cut, compact, 
puckered foliage, which will be wa ght out next 
autumn ; several varieties of Turn 
M. Parl Chapelier, a Paris 8 ee 
a curiously-grown Chinese Y 
sunk eats * inches into the soil; the pri aE 
root rises he pot, and is obliged to turn about in 
the — — favourable for its development, the 
other roots grow round the pot. Tae former grows 
in a more or less distinctly spiral form, according to 
the size which the Yam attains, 
n full beauty were the seedling Lilacs, from 
M. Lemoine et fils of Nancy, the colours white 
clear lilac, dark, Ko., and the flowers 
„Hugh Low & Co. showed, under a bell-glass, 
a superb hy Cypri „which we will describe 
more fully later. Ch, De B. 
A PLAN FOR LAYING-OUT A 
LONDON SQUARE. 
Most persons who happen to be ů— with 
the private squares in different parts of London, 
admit that the designs of the planting — laying- 
out seldom show much art. trees and shrubs 
are usually of very common species, disposed 
in the most — manner. We are inclined to 
former chiefly—and trees of no great height or sizo 
lack of varity y 
Of turf, ＋ is enough, the n. i 
p. 719), w in +a W 
few, and * skirt 
area as a 5 
ren. There is considerable y howa u 
decorations, as a refi 
= a reference to the — list vl . 
e. Gama apanta, a 
‘ Herbaceous border. 
d 9. Climbers on 
1 
2. Rhododendrons. 
3. — Hollies, &c. 
4. ara 8 Elm, * 
5. P walk of Planes 
7. i dard E i ; 
ndar vergreens in T 
tubs, Lar; ae 
here is one matter to which attention should 
directed, and that is the rather close pi H 
the large the i 
shrubs in the interior of the should pretr 
to use, instead of these, either: ale habited trea, 
such as the pyramidal Acacias, Poplars, Corle 
Colurna, Cupressus Lawsoniana and 
furnished by Hudson Gurney, Esq, Norwich, who 
contributed a short note on the subject at p. . 
HOME ie 
EARLY PEACHES. — Your 
Peaches, 
15 6d, to 2s, 6d 
Hoze, peas e good in n eolour 7 Bop 2 
ogg, Violette Hative, Early Yor. 
i in me h started Ja 
ELSA.—T here is a very fine 
1 Gunnersbury Park, f 5 
is a cluster of eight o 
are creamy, and tinted with rey 
view the appearance o berless bu 
burst into bloom, The tr oe stands upon 
subsoil, 
slope facing the south, and the 
it appears to suit it exactly. R. D. 
T is AN AMATEUR This is 
, devoting to th 
