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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
that there are various well marked races or types, 
each of which has its full and independent range of 
colours. The Comet type, now the most deserving 
of the China Asters, illustrates wen. statements 
ве open flower 
th 
out after the flower =. leaving the colour an 
r 5 , series of colours. 
t yet been attained in 
annual Phloxes, aid many other plants which 
affect the blues and reds, Yet the Chrysanthemum 
and various other plants combine the two, and I 
confidently expect that the China, Aster will event- 
ually d e same, We already have distinct 
approaches to the yellow in the Lemon Gem, in 
which the flowers are suffased with a lemon-yellow 
tint, and in a yellow ghe variety introduced this 
year by Burpee as the Yellow Aster. This latter 
Aster is one of the id type, having а good 
yellow centre, and а е. of whitish га idm 
n the immense range of colour, fo: 
season in the China Aster, fe ps loe на? сап 
m any ideal which an 
habit, and 
n find 
has been a distinct advance in recent years in the 
introduction of the excellent French variety, Reine 
des Halles, which is known in this country as Quee 
ket. This early in A 
at Ithaca, even when the seed wn o 
forms of this type of 
Burpee's Qaeen of Spring, which will bloom "ap the 
middle of July if started in a frame by the middle 
of April. This Reine des Halles type of Aster was 
introduced in 1885 or 1886 by Vilmorin, although 
it had long been known in the Paris markets, but 
stock was controlled by a few persons, This 
iety also has the freest and most wide spreading 
habit of growth, and the atems are зо long that the 
on is very useful for cut flowers. The Cande- 
labra Asters are very like the Queen of the Market 
in habit, but are later. 
In auch a range of type, it is impossible to recom- 
mend any one o superior to all others, If 
one wants deep glowing igi I should recom- 
other Aster, 
аш parti- 
white Qe. 
sanre-blus, MA = 
the third place, I should — ән the Wash- 
red types. 
behaved so well with me, They see 
and mixed in type, and last year many of them ex 
flat, open eyes, or centres. Yet I should place 
the Victorias fonrth or fifth in my list, Beyond 
these types, it would be difficult to single out one 
strain as superior to others for purposes of general 
apio cip All of them have particular merits, 
n of the Market is desirable for earliness, 
long ind and graceful habit, and it is рори аст ith 
florists. The Qailled Asters are now so out- 
numbered by the flat-rayed Warn that oa may 
be almost classed with the curiosities. They are 
always useful for variety, and many persons admire 
ir prim form. Опе of the best of these is the 
Victoria Needle, a variety which distinguished itself 
on our grounds last year by giving the latest blooms 
of any Aster, Тае Lilliput,—a cm -growing sort, 
with small stiff-petalled flowers—is also one of the 
favourites of the (uilled ection Heading Beauty 
is also an excellent Q iilled Aste 
Another type of Qailled Жа, is represented by 
the button-headed German Quilled, with its scant 
fringe of short rays. The best form of this is the 
Betteridge, an improved strain with large flowers, 
Amongst the curious Asters are the Crown or 
Cocardeau, with a rim of dark colour, and а centre 
of A or light shades, the Harlequin or к 
coloure many miniature or tufted sorts, 
some of ‘which grow only 3 or 4 inches high, and 
bear a close bunch of amall dense flowers, The very 
dwarf types are atiff and bunchy, but they are often 
for borders, and the plants can be lifted on the 
approach of frost, and put in pots, where ed will 
continue to hold their flowers for three o 
It is impossible to construct a satis sfactory 
fication of the China Asters, It is no eme 
assify the varieties by colour, 
Neither is it feasible to classify them upon habit or 
stature of plant, for several of the best marked types 
run into both tall and dwarf forms. Vilmorin, how- 
ever, - divides the varieties into two groups, the 
rami owers, an 
The moat e . — чел + жене у 
sections, but they are not co-ordinate, 
really little more than an enumeration a 
or classes, After considerable study of the 
varieties in the field and herbarium, I find the 
pit scheme to be the most serviceable for my 
purpose :— 
I. Flat-rayed Asters, in which all, or at least 
more than five or six rows of Tays, are more or less 
12 and the florets open, 
acurved or ball-shaped Globe А 
В. Spreading or reflexed. e 
II. Tabular or 
or Qiilled Asters, in 
all but the two or three onter rows, ic Reni ine 
promi tubalar corollas, е ы 
ensed 
Bulletin - ae pty vers 99 
Experiment Station, Е йу Agricultural 
А. 
i NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 
CATTLEYA SCHILLERIANA DULCOTENSIS, 
A BEAUTIFUL and distinct form 
f 
leriana is now in flower in the sh re ak 
Esq., Dal she 
., Dalcote, Tunbridge Wells, The flowers are 
, and bave sepals and and petals of a rose- rose-tinted 
Vern y e ro Sh бм 
Но 
* * Part i. 15 (1880); xii, 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avavsr 10, 1895. 
brown, with darker purplish-brown Spots, and i 
these jm it resembles other forms; byt * 
road reniform front part of the lip is of & rich 
BLETIA SuEPnBERDI, Hooker, 
he four species of Bletia recorded by Grise- 
2 this is probably the prettiest and at the same 
one most suitable for 1 4 
Th e Orchid is a purely terrestrial one, hri 
the ordinary soil of th 
be aining some hundreds of this P" which is 
now (April 18) in full flower, 
It is probably а somewhat unique feature to sees 
bed of Orchids in bloom in the open sir, with overa 
tion, Bulletin, Trinidad Botanic Garden, 
CoRYANTHES LEUCOCORYS, , 
A few years ago the members of the genus Cory- 
anthes were thought to be difficult ke, under 
on gt but latterly, however, they are to be seen 
thrivi 
Orchid-houses in recent times having probably some - 
thing to do with the success attending the cultiva- 
tion of these plants, Coryanthes € a 
Peru species, is one of the han | 
richest coloured of the genus, the large white helmet | 
above the rich rosy-purple pae of the lip being 
very remarkable, The yellowish " 
are tinted with purple, and curiously folded. It has 
flowered with John Moore, Esq., Chardwar, Bo 
on-the- Water, еқ sends it for identification, sa 
several specimens of it have bloomed with Mes 
F. Sander & Co., at St. Albans. J. OB. 
Cyprirepium KIMBALLIANUM, 
A note under the above heading in the Orchid 
Review, ANN p. 238, demands some notice. 
—"A fine Cypripedium i is Gian 
the above name in a recent issue of th 
Chronicle (June 29, pp. 800, 801, fig. 15 al 
i sed 
T 
natural hybrid being intended, It wi a 
be interesting to complete the history of the plast B 
It is in reality C. præstans, Rchb. f. (Garden? E 
Chronicle, = ii, р. 776), a New Guinea eco 
introduced by Messrs, Linden, It was a after 
figuredin Lale (vi., t. 249) аа variety Kimball i 
and ultimately became C. Kimballianum, throught® : 
omission of the specific name. When Cree | 
schildianum was introduced by Messrs. d 
it was recorded as a native of New G e 
esrs. Linden immediately stated that it к 
identical with C, Neoguineense, "Ме M 13 
m a c 
previously introduced, А flower fro i m | 
се sad T 
chased as one of the latter was afte. 
to us, and was certainly C. р: езќапе, as wat 
Kimballi source, It 
bee 
confused with C. апаш бетов, B Blame, 
cultivation. The 
Guinea at all, but from Borneo. 1 Е 
curious that a New Guinea species ornest 
duty as a natural hybrid between tie B prepare. 
but after the above confusion one M is to P 
almost anything, and the least we we can 
сен F eee rs straight.” ol 
he writer bas failed in his länder e v. 
ai only —— in introducing further 
