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informed of them a проп — who do not 
make a e parks for which 
they are rac eria paying — u 
е great breadth of beautiful greenery 
undwork here shows up the designs to great 
н. It might be as well to give the names of 
a few plants and varieties that were doing superbly : 
—Crystal Palace Gem Pelargonium was particularly 
effective and free in habit ; — . ranks high 
among bedding scarlets; Mrs, Fenn is of a fine 
Fıs, 46.—PANDANUS 
roseate hue; and Henri Jacoby is a large bril- 
liant truus; Master Caristine, а palling pink; уон 
Hill, alao, is a fine nosegay nium 
Golden Bronz» there was "ui arl Bep 
£0 effective as Mes. Q iilter ; the habit is dense, and 
the ] 
others, * these were the cream of the group. 
mong Violas, the best standing of the violet 
с mi ia p as м Blue [ngog Most 
Violas in dry her curl r flowers ; 
up 
this one is least aff very in that way, d “ite colcur 
is — M" other subjects, Lobelias in wet 
unless seasons, are apt to run to growth without 
9 3 The selected one here, named 
Royal Blue, is a gem for its ere — and for its pro- 
fusion of flowers, this mixed with and surrounded * 
Centaurea ragusina, kept the € on it—the softne 
of the grey and the brilliancy of the blue being dite 
сасе А moat effective combination here is 
usual Calceolaria and Pelargonium, then a great 
— band in front of Gageana splendens variegata 
VANDERMEERSCHII, 
mixed with the prolific- €— blue t and 
ange in 
lue & 
told exceedingly well without being out of colcur 
and in bad taste. Yellow is an everpleasing colour, 
and should be sparingly used in all flower garden 
odi the designer here had evidently his 
e upon that point in planning his arrangements. A 
few beds of Harrison’s Musk se pena purple leaf- 
age was highly 3 would have been more #0 
but the Iresine was not up in sacs neither were the 
Alternantheras, whieh are less even than when 
planted out, TM shows what a labour proper flower- 
леч pes requi 
But carpet bedding, to do it well, requires ten 
more work, althoug 
е, of this sort of work, and the weaving of it 
together ag aips "m to begin. i ps „баа to 
finish. The 
prettiest bit of 145 was where ie thistle- Чо; 
Chamspeuce diacantha was dotted dow 
groundwork of golden Lysimachia, d. — 
Sedums, with dot plants of Echeveria Peacockii, 
The Gnaphalium lanatum, the deep olive-green Her- 
0 
en е 500 ong, but 
fortunately the beds were broken in "their outline, 
relieving geometrical- outline formality. 
The bowling-green is largely taken advantage of, 
and is nicely adorned with sloping banks, their tips 
filled with miscellaneous flowering plants, and there 
are suitable band-stands and shelters, and gymnastic- 
grounds for boys and girls apart, the whole under 
the superintendence ae т, олан Cross, and іп first- 
rate order of keep. Viat 
PANDANUS VANDERMEERSCHII. 
HE accompanying illustration (fig. 46) €—— 
& plant of the Screw Pine, 
growing in the l'alm ive 
fe et high, with two side- branches, 
each extending to about 8 feet from th 
stem. The fruits are borne on 
trigon 
ts appearance in Jaly, — 
as yet shows no signs of ripening. As I am to 
believe that the fruiting of the dicun in "this 
country is very rare, perhaps this note may prove of 
interest to your readers. Thos, Wilson, Glamis Castle 
Gardens 
WISTARIAS. 
Tun genus Wistaria ne of a great number 
showing the "os relationship that exists between 
ye ku: * North Amerie үт that of Northern 
f the на known, опе comes from the 
Tens States, and the rest ral China and Jolie 
r in their estimates of the nu of 
peci the genus, but there are at least three— 
быш sep and A M. fee identity 
ie well established, although Mr. Hemsley places 
multijaga under chinen i Two others—brachy- 
botrys and japonica—are figured by Siebold in his 
of Japan, but they are scarcely known in 
gardens, and the latter is now looked upon as a 
Milletia. 
W. chinensis,—This fne species was introduced 
from China about the year 1816. There is no hardy 
climber in English gardens that attains to so large 
а size as this, specimens being not uncommon whose 
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