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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jone 22, 1995, 
flower at the date of our great metropolitan show. 
In the North they are later flowering, but gene- 
ds of garden Roses are 
in n 0 
beginning to flower, and there 
that they will form a very attractive feature in our 
gardens of the future. 
The earlier blooms of our exhibition Roses, both 
Teas and H. P.'s seem to me to be small, and in some 
cases malformed; but, I have never seen T an 
Noisettes on w walls come better or in such en 
I have plants of rp oo Berard and Réve d'Or 
the east side of my house, and Longworth Rabe, 
Belle ee iir Climbing Devoniensis on the 
south side, and they are filled from bottom to top 
with good vell 8 blooms, On my garden wall 
I have Bouquet d'Or, Ma Capucine, and Comtesse 
de Nadaillac also full of bloome. These latter have 
been sorely crippled, and I feared were done for, but 
they have revived and promise to fill the space they 
before occupied; but, of co dee on walls will 
be over before our exhibitions c 
are 8 but I 
who, like myself, look forw: 
se i be far wide of the mark, I shall be 
glad if it be otherwise, but at present my fears pre- 
dominate over my hopes. Wild Rose. 
NEW oR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
ARM MOORCROFTIANUM.* 
HERE 2 doubt as to the correct 8 
of th yw Royle mentions it without any 
nine. e and Hooker speaks of ~ with 
The speci men exhibited under this name 
son at a recent meeting of the 
Roy at Horticultural Society (May 14), was also 
hardly adequate to be decisive. Nevertheless, the 
oblique nearly glabrous leaf, as contrasted with 
the cordate coarsely setose leaf of R. spiciforme, 
Wilson's plant 
Ae is a native of Kamaon 
is a decorative plant 
of a high. order of merit, really 
what it professes to be, 55 should be ee hardy, 
as it comes from an altitude of 12, he 
pyramidal inflorescence i is less than 2 feet in in “height, 
individually inconspicuous, but producing a fine effect 
in the m The upper portior of the 
ion (fig. 115, 
ae but a detached branch is ‘shown on the 
right of the iiri sizo, M. T, M, 
BAMBOOS EnA 8 PAST 
Tur interest a is Piesi in the culti- 
B 
introduced to this country. It is 3 okt 
that a spell of weather so injurious to these plants 
as that of last Fe occur oftener than 
once in twenty years, and it will be of some value 
to put on record the manner each species has passed 
through the ordeal, 
It has all along been recognized that the great 
defect of Bamboos as lies in their 
In ordinary not so 7 
because the old foliage remains su y green 
to prevent the ming un tly until re- 
sigh 
placed by the new, and this drawback is more than 
* Rheum Moorcroftianum, Royle, III., 315 (abrque ‘deserip- deserip- 
Leaves all radical, thickly c 8 s 
1838 or E ue puberulous beneath ; pubescent 
fruit Fal. Cat., frat, ia p in ee J. D. 
* fore oF British ‘India, v. (1890) 58 
> 
amaon, alt. 
compensated for by their kink and freshness 
during the autumn and early winter, when most 
other ee ee have become more or less dull and 
bre in hu ew Year’s Day the Bamboo 
Garden at Kew 7 dolled practically in the same state as 
it had done in the previous August. It must be admitted 
that, were it the rule rather than the rare excep- 
tion for Bamboos to be as badly affected as they have 
been this year, more than half of them ert not e 
worth cultivation. I think, however, some co 
solation is to be derived from the. fact shat such 
things as our native Gorse, the common Ling and 
other Heaths, have suffered more permanent injury 
than two-thirds of the Bamboos have done. Of the 
three dozen or so kinds w e 
fa ase Chronic 
more have suffered only a very tem- 
mainder, some 
ad killed to the ground, whilst the others have 
had the old stems so severely injured that it is un- 
likely those particular stems will ever regain their 
former luxuriant leafage, although new leaves are 
f them, however, are sending up 
except one or two the visible effects of the frost will 
have disappeared in a few months, 
In the following notes I have run through the 
species and varieties in the order of their comparative 
hardiness, mentioning those si that have come 
through the fight with least dam 
rundinaria g Mitford (A. “kn, Hort.). 
—In the Gardeners’ Chronicle for March 10, 1894, 
I mentioned this Rambo under t 
as 
Khasia Hills it is a native of China, It appears to 
have first been introduced to Europe four or five 
years ago through the Botanic Garden at St. 
ae Mr, . Hemsley has found it also 
mong the d Obi inese * sn Fs 
Haste in the Kew Herbarium. an- 
Mitford has given it the name written Tih poe 
which name no doubt a description will shortly be 
published, It bas not suffered in the slightest degree 
from the past 8 and its jus ann is now as a 
and abundant as The purple 
atems are now 8 — high, and ae * ae, 
is not likely to become so tall o as 
many of the J apanese species, it is, 1 think, 4 most 
beautiful, as it is the hardiest, of all t boos 
hitherto introduced 
aa foe wk Henonis, P. nigra var. Boryana, and 
P. ni var. punctata have not been damaged 
further Wi the browning of a few leaves, which 
might occur in any 3 
Bambusa pygmæa.— This, the smallest of hardy 
Bamboos, was nene, warhol * is now as per- 
fectly green ase 
Arundinaria Veitebii and Bambusa palmata.— 
The former of these invariably turns brown at Ti 
margins of the leaves in autumn, a 
is no worse than usual this spring. Both it and B. 
palmata are growing with great freed 
hyllostachys viridi-g and P. nigra.— 
These two species lost nearly all eke old leaves, but 
are now rapidly becoming furnished again, almost 
m twig on the old stems breaking —— 55 into 
eaf, 
Arundinaria i. r (the o Bambusa Metake), 
whilst suffering no perman damage, has, in 
osed e had most "a its foliage 0 E 
The old stems are growing again, but the appearan 
of the plants is made worse by the persistence of 
s has been rather more 
we Be 
— B. pumila, B. chrysantba, ap 
Phyllostachys Komasasa, are all rapidly regaining 
— ‘ 
E 7 
their normal ap 
Bamb 
distich: name given by Mr. Mit- 
ford to the dwarf — previously known in 
nd its appearance 
gardens and nurseries as S nana, It 
3 with the preceding "x9 
undinaria racemosa is an aide species new to 
ar, It is 
ticular example is e as “ is (now that the 
plant hitherto known as khas 
remainder are only breaking feebly; the young 
culms pushing from the base are, however, as strong 
as ever 
F, Qailioi 2 if anything, worse than the two 
preceding speci 
Arundinaria ‘Simoni and its var. albo-striata are 
at present the worst-looking of all the Bamboos, A 
good many of t 
remainder sorely injured 
seasons, a late starter, and this will make it amongst 
the last to get back its old appearance (see fig, 8 
p. 301, March 10, 1894). 
Bambusa heterocycla,—None of the plants of this 
curious Bamboo have been in cultivation long 
enough to have formed new stems, and the old ones 
have suffered severely, I am almost certain, how- 
ever, if once wud aes and furnished with 
stems other than “made in Japan,” it will 
prove to be quite We 
Phyllostachys sulphurea and Bambus a Castiltonis, 
both species with yellow stems, have had nearly all 
the old growths killed, but are pushing up new ones 
Arundi- 
from the base, e may be said ie 
naria Hindsii and its variety graminea, also A, ` 
armorea, a small dark-stemmed species imported 
as Kan-chiku 
u, and recently named and described by 
Mr. Mitford i int the Garden, J 
dinari talosta 
are almost —— killed to the ground each 
winter, and cannot be fairly termed Rage ‘The ; 
former is — in ara this season, b 
alconeri and A 
is not affected. A. falcata is almost killed, „ be i 
in collections it is pote needed, 
The injury don the differ 
ent species and 
varieties has, no — varied aue , 3 
ferent localities. I noticed in Sir Edmund oe 
garden at Leonardslee a few weeks ago . 
B 
amboos there had not suffered eo much as ab 
3 be not far wrong. V. 
NOTES FROM BURFORD paa 
PELIORHYNCUS. — This, the 
rved like a hood 
some greenhouse shrub when grown in this 
hanging plant. 
INCARVILLEA DELAVAYI. 
This plant, which is now represented by 
individuals i n bloom at Barford 
resemble 
Bignonia, and they are of a — row col 
