34 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(Jury 13, 1895, 
south are the Mendips. These two ranges of hills 
do much to shelter us from the winds, both from the 
cold north and easterly winds and from the south- 
west winds, which in this part of England are some- 
imes very violent, I attach great importance to 
this kindly shelter from the great strength of the 
than they can bear a less cold if accompanied with a 
high wind. The garden, then, has this advantage of 
shelter. It has also the advantage of a good aspect, 
for though the undulations are very slight, the 
general slope faces the south ; and it has the further 
advantage of a rich and deep alluvial soil, whicb, 
however, i is во impregnated with. lime and magnesia, 
yes 
It has 
Kalmias, and a host of other things, 
whole, the garden | is favourable for the cultivation of 
flowers, and especially for the cultivation of shrubs, 
except those which dislike the lime.” 
This preliminary account is defective ; the scene 
of operations is brought before us with more or less 
fidelity, but the warm oolite wall їз not mentioned, 
nor is the water supply alluded to, and nothing is 
said as to the history of the garden, although its 
present condition can hardly be fully understood 
ortie: their skill, their thankful apprecia- 
on Ellacombe in this volume tak 
ce his garden, chatting pleasantly the while on 
plants and their ways and apparent caprices, on soils 
and seasons, on the endless literary suggestions 
afforded by the subject. 
e go on our way with the author, there is n 
and the noble trees, and the long series of planta of 
never-ending interest—there, too, is the genial and 
—— — at your elbow, full of garden-lore, 
owledge, and apt allusion. by is 
the cac library, where is ample means of 
“verifying references.” Close at band is the noble 
sixteenth-century church, but of this we must not 
speak further than to say that it adds additional 
beauty and interest to the scene. Citation from such 
& book is & difficult matter, but to show how obser- 
vant " author is we may adduce the following 
“ Аа soon as it (the ечат - the fem is fer- 
tilised a curious thing happens, of which I 
know no other instance. The i flower is таа 
it were 
itself а thin branch 4 or 5 inches long, at the end of 
which it ripens into a nut; and as it so travels it 
carries with it the bract in which the flower was 
formed, and which at last, becomes the pretty cup in 
which the nut lies.” 
fact must be familiar to many, but we do not 
remember to have seen any record of it. The course 
of proceedings is susceptible of a different interpre- 
tation, but the fact remains, “Uplifting” and 
“concrescence” are, of common phenomena іп 
plants. The fertilisation of the Hazel is in man 
ways precocious, The two red styles are con- 
spicuous enough at the time when the pollen 
da MA bot the observer may look in vain at gx 
time for the ovules, or even for the o ма 
not formed till dre afterwards. The point is 5 
curious, as n the question whether or 
the pollen eei ever ый an influence on the various 
coverings of tlie seed, as well as on the embryo germ 
enclosed within them. 
The 
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temptation i ia great to dilate on other s 
tive ences ite Ellacombe's book, on the 
germination the forces called i 
eurirg Pee the аай e “ mysteries ” that 
attract the attention of the observer, and incite him 
to attempt to explain them. The sources of interest 
are indeed endless, and their practical application 
not to be overlooked either. From another habit 
of many plants I get,” 
object-lesson, from wh 
knows no rest.” With the requisite limitations, this 
is a true — = fact, but one generally over- 
looked by the g 
ы gardener will and in the present volume 
erous hints as to the cultivation of various 
plants whilst the dhe don r turning over its pages, 
ges which will keenly excite 
is and judge whether it 
g uth, Alluding to an 
unweeded garden, wherein "things rank and gross 
in Nature possess it merely," the author—a gardener, 
be it remembered, whose competence is above testi- 
mony, says :—“ But I have almost an affection for 
weeds, a decided affection for some of them, and I 
have not much sympathy with those who say that & 
garden is not worth looking at unless it is as clean 
as а newly-swept floor; it is a counsel of perfection 
wish to reach, А weedi 
wrong place; I say a good 
plant advisedly, having a full faith that ‘where Nature 
plants it, it fills a right place," Oh, the lessons to 
be got from weeds, if we would but turn them to 
p 
assage above cited 1 an illustration 
of the strengthening faith and cheery optimism 
учен pervades the book, and renders it so delightful 
to read, The author finds always something in the 
garden to “lift him higher; he owns he is not fond 
of frost and snow, but he recognises that they have 
their uses, and that we might be the worse without 
them, and with а thankful spirit he makes the beat 
n is calle 
the ground and gather the flowers and fruit, might be 
very pleasant from one point of view, but it would 
take away al that to me constitutes the real interest 
of gardening in its наш, and even its dis- 
appointments," . 
— — —— aea 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
DORYPHORA SASSAFRAS.* 
Tas is a plant (tig. 6, p. 35) that finds no place in 
Nicholson’s Dictionary, nor in any garden-liat that we 
h 1 d d hich ther 
efore. concluda 
to be rare in cultivation. It was sent to us with a 
request that we would name it, from Mr. Thompson, 
т to Е. А, Newdegate, Esq., M.P., Weston- 
in-Arden, Naneaton, Mr. Thomson also obligingly 
furnished us with the specimens from which our 
figure was taken. It forms a highly aromatic shrub, 
with opposite, shortly-stalked, coriaceous, elliptic- 
acute, remotely-serrate glabrous leaves, The flowers 
are shortly-stalked, solitary, or in groups of three, the 
buds surrounded by deciduous аир ed bracts, 
The perianth is about 30 mill. (say, 11 ? inch) across, 
spreading, with six leathery, Whitin, hirsute, 
oblong-acute segments, The stamens are nine in 
number, each with a short filament, id о small 
— pes at the base of the anther. Anther 
awn, 
numerous, free at the bottom of а cup-like receptacle, 
Each carpel has a long style, and its single cell 
contains a si le, 
The plant, which would require warm-greenhouse 
y no means unattractive when in 
flower, but its chief value consists in its ver 
fragrance. 
* Doryphora Satsafras. Endlicher, Jo., t. 10 (1838) ; 
Bentham, Fl. — v. (1870) 283; Bailey, : 
м m ), Cat. Plants 
DDr 
onah! Papy KRäNzLIN (R R 
„part xii., p. 111, t. 95).* 
„This new species is very similar to Dendrobium 
Augustæ Victoriæ, Känzlin, and is one of the most 
stately in growth of all Deudrobtemt The stem 
reach to а height of 6 or 7 feet. The lava Ж 
comparatively small, although in other Den 
leaf of 6 to 7 inches in length by 24 or 3 inches in 
breadth would be considered as а rather considerably 
m. the axils of the 
and very often 
exceed 24 feet in length, carrying ge thirty to 
forty flowers. 
It is impossible to do full justice to such plante in 
the space at our command, but still the plate illus 
trates the —ͤ— delicaey of its blossoms better 
than a long description. ә 
briefly described as follow 
folium, А. Rich, has shorter and broader leaves, it 
is much smaller, and its racemes very seldom exceed 
18 inches in length; the petals are larger, and th 
side-lobes of the labellum smaller, endrobium 
Mirbelianum, Gaudich, is also а smaller apecies, bui 
very closely allied; it has a larger lip, the middle 
lobe of which is strictly lanceolate and acuminate, 
and the little spur is sharply incurved, Dendrobium 
Augustse Victoris, Kränzlin, the most showy of the 
whole section, h ta 
side-lobes of the li 
crests are frilled and denticulated not only in fron, 
but on the upper side, The rest 9 the pe и 
of the question for compariso 
exceed the sepals by twice pu post pe also " 
oier essential characteristic 
his fine plant was NESANS in German Net 
* at Finchhafen, by Dr. Holirung, and later ot 
was collected by Mr. Wm. Micholitz, who found it, 
to use his own words, mostly on not overhanging - 
the beach. Inland it is only seldom to be * 
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should be grown in sharp heat, with plenty of su 
light, and after flowering receive a long, dry reit“ 
ORCHID NOTES AND T 
THE ORCHID HOUSES AT RAMBOUILLEL | 
Үнем visiting the fine establishment of M. Aug 
Dallemagne, we were remiaded that at that tim? 
more than 150 groups of Orchids had uec 
ferred to the Bordeaux Exhibition, where 9*7 
were very generally admired. The arrangement vi 
the houses at Rambouillet — 8 р. 
garden in the fore-part, а large central h 2 
on both aides, and opening into it, four houses 
similar size, This, in fact, is the plan of the estabe 
ed in Brussels by the Hau 
which various plants are growing. The central 
is full of Cattleya Warocqueana, Lelia рар ОШ " 
fine plants of unusual vigour; Angræc cum zend, 
pedale, and Vanda suavis showed equally. "X 
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is Dendrobium imperat ix G Antennata), ewe 
altis ad 2 5 cent. di ametro: — — corn 
axi * 
5 em, longia vel i манн ; — bn minutis 
multo Jongioribus t 6 ош, 
lateralibus e basi paulo latiore triangulis acutis in 
чүт» жуг. нү te pilosula. Nov. Guinea Orient. 
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