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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 
[Avausr 24, 1895, 
But what soon attracted more exclusive atten- 
tion was a conspicuous yellow Lily growing abun- 
dantly on the 8 ground adjoining Мете. Rings 
ouse, and sharin 
TEAMS of aa undinpated possessors of the soil. 
other members of the 
Lily 1 family i in hi this Genial, ‘there 1 is а grace аа 
in its large drooping flowers, surmounting а slend 
atem beset with narrow scattered leaves, which are 
occasionally crowded at the base into a distinct 
whorl,’” 
Paaren 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
SAMBUCUS RACEMOSA, RED-BERRIED 
ELDER. 
Tuts plant stands out well at the present season 
ер ia some instances in exactly ideal 
mieng "For instance, we have several large speci- 
mene growing among trees, Box towering well 
above them, and I think that a better groundwork 
could not be found for the Elder than the Box. Our 
stock of plants is also increased by cuttings put in 
during the autumn. 
SAMBUCUS NIGRA FOLIIS AUREIS. 
This is another capital garden shrub, and well 
adapted also for planting near the margins of woods 
and at the sides of the approaches to the mansion. 
It should be severely cut back in the spring if it is 
to look its best. The plants at this place grow in 
peat beds * — Ghent Azaleas, and the foliage 
of these colours 
SAMBUCUS NIGRA VAR. FOLIIS LUTEO-MABGINATIS, 
This ie a variety of the common Elder, which I can 
or on 
edge o retains its variegation when 
ВЫ іп a para ыд in fact it grows satisfac- 
torily under the shade of trees, As does the type, Ep.] 
Herbert May, Markree Castle, Sligo. 
RUBUS LASIOSTYLUS, 
The number of Rubi known to botanists has been 
very porem increased by the explorations of 
Dr. A. Henry 
spec iscovered by Dr. Henry in 1888, in the pro- 
vince of Hupeh, China, is now in the living collec- 
tion at Kew, having been raised from seed, It 
flowered for m first time in Jane, 1894, and has 
recently been figured in the Botanical Magazine 
(t. 7426). The flowers are small, and the petals of 
& bright reddi 
and arly sen 
tiole armed with short 
Having stood the Vier of 1891-5 with no protection 
of any kind, and quite uninjared, it may definitely 
be included among perfectly hardy shrubs, W. J. B. 
and the mid - rid and pe ж 
CLERODENDRON TRICHOTOMUM, 
The only species of Clerodendron of trul 
" y shrubb 
habit that is hardy in in England is С. trichotom ч 
| id entitle 8 э : 
to irn 
most валуна аз a breede 
many of the Clerodendrons, emit а disagreeable 
odour when bruised. The flowers appear during the 
months of August and ere and are produced 
in loose terminal cymes. The corolla is white, the 
lower part being tubular, but a upper part divides 
red calyx, which is inflated, and traversed by five 
ridges. The species is easily increased by means 
of suckers and root cuttings. V. J. B. 
Maeno 
Whilst the American representatives of the genus 
possess sufficiently il nien to make them 
ion. he lat і 
grandiflora and its flowers, although much smaller, 
have а more exquisite, if less powerful, fragrance, 
suggesting at once a delicious fruit, and a bunch of 
Tea Roses. The flowers are never seen in great 
numbers at one time, but a single shrub will keep up 
a succession of them for ten or twelve weeks. Each 
flower is from 2 to З inches in diameter, and cup- 
shaped, the colour a soft creamy-white, In some 
localities in the United States this Magnolia attains 
the dimensions of a small tree, with a well-formed 
slender trunk, Britain it rarely gets 
beyond the shrubby state. It usually retains a large 
proportion of its foliage throughout the winter, but 
different plants vary а good deal in regard to the 
persistence of the leaves, some, even in mild seasons, 
becoming almost bare. The leaves are oblong, 
amooth, glossy-green above, but vividly glaucoua 
jen T n in cultivation in 
England over 200 years, There is a fine variety of 
it known both as major and as sonia, It has 
larger leaves and flowers than the type, and is 
equally fragrant. V. J. B. 
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 
CAKNATION. 
merest accidental circumstance a visit 
John 
d genial 
із a rare sight to be seen, cultivated on 
appears i 
ground ; but the r e is the case, though 
the blue,ragged limestone of the district projects 
above ground in every direction, and thus forms a 
— oe place for an immense collection of 
rare other Ferns. Bat Mr. fn ett figures 
r and raiser of Carna- 
tions, of which ста аге шапу ао c of different 
varieties the open in a light soil, which 
evidently overlies a к rocky | foundation. The richness 
and purity 
is w 
T AI in diameter, and sho 
soun illiancy of colour, in wh 
of the kas of pem. н е dis este Т, 
Garnett’ or some years i 
to produce а blue Carnation СА 8 
were pointed to аз possessin 
the oy tint on the fringe of the yeu: bnt ү 
is inside one of the glasshouses 
Renae ne Saa that the coming 
The СЕ difficulty, as Mr, Garnett e explains, was 
to obtain the proper combination of opposite colonrs 
for a foundation to work upon, which i 
different by 
L 
This plant differs cousiderably from the reit o 
the stock, апа has but а w 
appearance ; 
that if 
prolific seed, that 
ve 
tha Carnation. 
+ зе зи 
Many other 
dising h duced kabl 
and a short time previously he had despatched t di 
three single flowers to the Carnation and Picota 
not with a vier g 
competition, A letter jen) received from the secretary 
and treasurer, Mr. Arthur Medhurst, showed thy 
hese had attracted the 2 of the judges, as iy 
reference to them the following was embodied in th 
judges’ general report :— The seedlings show goi 
blood, and are decidedly promising; but as it is; 
rule to give certificates only in cases of two or mor 
blooms of one variety being shown, no award of 
certificate could be made on this occasion witho 
infringing the rules." J. W. 
3.2 1 
is tifa egy 
KNIPHOF'S BOTANICA IN 
ORIGINALI, 1758—1764, 
Tue name Kniphof, as commemorated in the genu 
Kaiphofia, is not unfamiliar, but comparatively fer 
persons will know anything of the history of th 
man who was the author of the work of which the 
above is the abbreviated title. Ап unent coppi 
this rare and curious p book has lately beet 
added to the Kew libra It is interesting histori 
cally, both on account f its being a record of plant 
cultivated at that date in Germany, and chiefiy, it 
all probability, at Erfurt, as it was there the author 
resided, and also on account of its being one of tt 
earliest, if not actually the first, work of consi 
employed to illustrate planta. 
. Brükmann, а contemporary of Kniphof, was real 
the inventor, if it may be so termed, of this 
of representing plants, as there is a published letit 
by him on the subject addressed to Kaiphof, ái 
1733; but this is not in the Kew library. The title 
is, Sendschreiben an J. Н. Kniphof, die Art ir 
nach dem Leben abzudrucken und also comp? 
baria picta zu machen, vorstellend, The full ied 
the work in question is, Botanica in m 
um Plantarum tam Indigent 
mento impressorio 1 
ad Met hodum Illustrium nostri aevi penne 
naei et Ludwigii Insignitarum elegant ö 
exhibentur, Opera et Studio емей "rt 
Trampe. 
There are two foolscap folio volames со | 
1202 figures, опе оп h leaf, besides 8 33 
introduced on the title pages of the twel 1 
which it was issued, for the purposes of е 
mention of coloured copies by any of the pee , 
phers. The colouring is is generally well i 5 
tively _ though in some n: 4 
extent neutralised e too in 
the 3 This сору ant 2 
M. D., Professor Publicus Primarius at 
ike Rove sired it in 1764, 
publication of the last part. S : 
ave passed into English hands, 88 somer i 
written, in a Mert neat hand, the English | 
many of the Lin 
The enda is alphabetical, with the ^, 
names of the first edition yen the o ee 
and references to the | 
the Systema, and reat $ Dene, i 
Plantarum. The D 
Plantarum are also penser 
