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THE GARDENERS’ 
raria, although quite different in other respects. 
Mr. Lynch was naturally much struck with 
these peculiarities, and knowing that the only 
allied plants in the house were some garden Cine- 
rarias, which flowered at the same time, he 
naturally concluded that the seedling was a 
chance hybrid, in which the garden Cineraria, 
or male parent, strongly predominated ; and this 
seems highly probable from an inspection of the 
specimens. It is, however, possible that the new 
comer may have been a seedling variation from 
a common Cineraria. 
The Cineraria is too well known to require 
description, and it will suffice to mention its 
stout herbaceons poi very large basal leaves, 
and auricled upper ones, in order to contrast it 
with those of the Senecio Heritieri, or supposed 
seed-parent, a figure of we will be found at 
plate 3987 of the Bot 1 Magazine. This 
latter is a half-shrubby plait dic slender white 
branches and cordate lobed leaves, ranging from 
to 3 inches in breadth, green above, 
densely white tomentose beneath, and the 
petioles without basal auricles. The corymbs 
are lax, the flower-heads over an inch across, and 
the ray-flotets white, tipped with light red- 
purple, and somewhat stellate. 
Heritieri in its white s 
seed-parent, and the area of the basal leaves 
is four times as great, Some of the upper leaves 
are also auricled at the base, and the tomentum 
of the under surface of all the leaves is strongly 
suffused with that peculiar shade of red-purple 
described. Thus, if this is, as seems to be the 
case, a seedling from Senecio Heritieri, a distinct 
advance has been made in the direction of the 
garden Cineraria, and a3 the circumstances are 
e latter—probably carried by 
bees, whose aei in this direction will be 
familiar to every gardener, 
Shortly after the receipt of Mr. Lynoh's spe- 
eimens, we were privileged to see another 
specimen, presumably also of hybrid origin, 
This came from 
rd 
Ireland, as in the Cambridge garden, a Cineraria 
came up fortuitously in a flower-pot in a house 
where С, Heritieri was growing, together with 
thinly clothed with white down. on the under 
with e ring are like mer s C. Heritieri, 
intermediate between those of that Species and 
those of a garden Cineraria, Here , then, is 
presumptive evidence of the existence of two 
visible in cruentus, 
The ge zi interesting and very in- 
structive, ey do not prove that our garde 
inertes are of hybrid o t 
events they show, as we have already suggested 
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oruen 
now in cultivation, we would suggest tha 
authorities at Kew, as well as Mr. Lynch or 
others should, another season, endeavour to cross 
it with S. Heritieri both ways, and xr 
note the characters of the resulting hybrids, if 
such were obtained. A note by Willdenow 
18 instructive in this connection. In 1809 
(Enum. 
stated was cultivated in the Berlin garden as 
Cineraria cruenta, but which differed abundantly 
in havin C. lanata (i.e., 
oss we have just 
suggested would probably yield this C. hybrida, 
and should certainly be attempted. We do not 
know if a dried speoimen of this plant exists at 
Berlin, but if so we hope our Berlin friends will 
let us know what it is like. 
Another important cross should be attempted, 
ely, one between S. cruentus and S. populi- 
folii ie latter species being also in cultiva- 
tion. This might demonstrate the origin of 
Cineraria lactea, other wise called Seneoio cruenta 
var. lactea (Jacg. Ecl. РІ. Rar., t. 105), which 
De Candolle believed was a hybrid between 
S. eruentus and S. populifolius. It originated 
in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, we believe, 
prior to 1813, We have had the good fortune 
to see a dried specimen of this plant, and having 
compared the plate cited with the two supposed 
species, we believe that De Candolle's judg- 
ment to be perfectly correct. The resemblance 
Senecio oruentus is unmistakable, yet it is 
evidently not a variety of that plant, for it is 
nearer to S. populifolius, and instead of the basal 
auricles of the former, has a few small appen- 
dages near the apex of the petiole, as in the 
latter. Two or three well-conducted experi- 
ments might prove the origin of these plants, 
which are believed to be in the direct — of 
descent of the garden Cineraria of to-da 
use the term in its ordinary sense, for, Eni: 
ad speaking, i the plant is not a Cineraria, but 
ecio, 
not, at present, trouble the reader with a detailed 
account of these differences, hoping eventually 
to be able to examine seedling plants of С, 
Hastie’ and other species. 
fo on we rther now into the 
vexed question of the origin of the garden 
plant; but in refere to a re m 
t p. 588, it is only justice to r co 
butor, Mr. Rolfe, to state that his article 
was not written with any special reference 
to the question of hybridity, and that the 
figures and notes respecting the garden-plants 
were added by us after the manuscript had left 
his hands, It was a matter of current opinion 
that the plant then flowering at Kew was the 
original of the garden Cineraria. Mr. Rolfe 
the current version, as we did ourselves, 
without examining the evidence in 
ly е 
support of it or otherwise 
rfi mparison of wild 
pore Fe plants is not ee oonolnsive of the 
matter, ho, for instance, ignorant 
history of the tubero ча Pogonias could trace in 
many of them any sign of B, boliviensis or other 
species, well known to have taken part in the 
genesis of the race ? 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jvrv 27, 1895, 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
ROSA WICHURAIANA, 
Аттносен this species was only introduced t; 
ords 
agazine, under the name 
yp 
the name to be reta n gardens, 
h on both surfaces, the leaflets 
of elliptical outline, serrated, from 4 to 3 in, long, and 
varying in number from five to nine on each leaf, 
The stipules are not fringed, as in R. multiflora, 
but slightly toothed, and a pair of short decurved 
spines guard the base of each leaf. The flowers are 
pure white, and stand up above the foliage, which 
forms a dense covering, completely hiding the 
ground. The species flowered at Kew for the first 
time in 1893, and has proved a free-flowering ani 
luxuriant grower. I measured a shoot made lait 
year which was more than 12 feet in length, In 
the United States (from which country it reached 
= it is highly spoken of, flowering so profusely s 
to give, at & distance, the effect of snow. It is well 
adapted for covering sunny slopes, mounds, &, - 
and may be commended to the notice of all who — 
take an interest in the original types of Rosa. V. . 
Bean, | 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 
CATTLEYA LABIATA MOSSLE. 
T kindly furnishes us with a flowet ~ 
t unfrequently happens, m floral 
parts are in io thus the two outer sepals ar 
by two inner — followed by four petals in a dia 
— two of the petals being of the form of the 
ral petals, — other two и lips. The йшй 
is gei but no ovary is 
From the Horticulture — Bre. 
comes а flower of the aame variety in which dn 4 i 
is inseparate from the column, and greatly rei 
size, 
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СүрвїркЕрїпм LEBAUDYANUM X. E 
A cross from C, levigatam by C. Нана й 1 
raised by Mr. Page, — to Robert Lebaady 
Bougival. The in ollen-parent is 
ptible, The description is given in the 
last nambet of the Journal de la Société Nationale 
Frane 
OponTocLossums AT BANKFIELD, BRADFORD. 
Henry Mason, Esq., in his pretty gardens in ide 
Maas: suburb of Bradford, does not attempt 1 d 
h 
span-roof of rather low pitch, & 
cultivated ів а 
of moisture-holding York stone runs up the 
and beneath the ing on each side rain- 
tanks occupy the greater m of the floor 
close, во as to hold w. aoe nding ИИЙ | 
above it is of trellis w to elevate 
water, and th | 
work, in order to 
the plants at the point farthest from the path, sti | 
