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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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[Srrrruszm 21, 1895. 
No doubt many of us, too, were 
ttle extra care and attention to 
our Roses Tn the severe ordeal they had gone 
through. 
Growth, especially that of the later breaks, was 
healthy and clean, there being less maggot and fly 
and Noisettes. 
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ground caused a very speedy change for the 
During this change, mildew, as usual, 
I have had many enquiries of late for a 
do thi 
are not naturally draughty; an 
other extreme, namely, a close and sultry atmosphere 
at midday, with a great change af night, as is expe- 
rienced in Rose gardens that are much enclosed. 
More especially is this extreme noticeable in the 
late summer and mn, when always more 
affected with mildew than at es. Then, 
again, we should not plant that victim of mildew 
and Souvenir de Paul Neyron are also very subject 
to attacks, and it seems a mistake to place them 
among & general collection, which in many cases 
would have got the better of а alight attack if such 
y wero поё Lar apiece 
latek $ 2 
We generally find one or more 
summ 
It won the medal as being the best Hybrid Perpetual 
in the whole exhibition at the Crystal Palace, taking 
this honour "ADS in the nurserymen's and amateurs 
had one more Rose take two of these 
While we have a few 
most persistent winners of this honour, such as 
the tesse, Horace Vernet, The Bride, Catherine 
Williams, 
variety and ps 
almost of the course of а few 
seasons, Last year we had i „this 
A new feature deserving mention is the giving of 
a gold medal to be held permanently as a memento 
previous | С =й 
won challenge trophies upon nine ; Mr. B. K. Gent 
nine; Rev. J. H. Pemberton, five; and Mr. E. В 
Lindsell чая occasions, These аге the most frequent 
uite half-a-dozen other growers have 
ore than ene se 
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Helen Keller at the Derby meeting, and here we 
certainly saw this variety in better form than at the 
Crystal Palace. 
growth; and som 
ample proof of this. New Roses were an exceptional 
feature at the metropolitan meeting, and probably 
the best twelve that have been seen were staged then. 
No fewer than ten out of the dozen were raised by 
the n a record 
must rem 
Silver Medal Teas of 1895), Margaret 
of Dafferin, and several more grand varieties raised 
by the same firm were not elegible in this stand. 
Of the new Roses, I like Helen Keller, Marchioness 
of Downshire, Marchioness of Londonderry, Avoca, 
Marquise Lita, and Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford, 
with a decided preference to the last-named Rose, 
A sport from Catherine Mermet, called Muriel 
Grahame, is not yet in commerce, but it will make a 
eed as if we are to judge from the blooms 
E uo leave the new Roses without once mor E 
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a similarity between some of the lighter shades іп 
this new class of Roses, but no complaint of that 
kind can Led attached to this very bright and semi- 
double va 
Retu ung d the garden, I would like to call 
attention to the freedom from -rust a 
Hybrid Perpetuals. The true Te 
are not troubled with this enemy, nor are several of 
the Hybrid Teas and the Ru жо» na varieties, By the 
way, Rosa рыр, calocarpa is most distinct, and I 
will be very popular. are 
more generally liked than these, when once they have 
been grown. Always gay from a time leaves are 
put forth until winter is with us,in bloom, berry, 
and foliage ; thoroughly hardy, good i in town or coun- 
try, and never attacked by mildew or — rust. 
should find it а difficult matter to choose a floweri ring 
shrub of more са and lasting боен value 
than these Japan oses, 
Although I Mire) headed this article the past Rose 
season, a plentiful supply of bloom is atill with us, and 
as time goes on and we get improved varieties, our 
seasons get considerably extended. Still, the Rose 
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ason proper is undoubtedly past. Teas and Noi- 
settes с among о te summer and 
autumnal R eed, I have the fourth distinct 
crop of William Allen Richardson upon an outside 
wall; and it is the same with many varieties in 
these classes, 
of f пси зма 
the ‚ and 
fore the risk of а small taking the bud, 
——— dispelled. Nor have I seen 
present. 
standard Briars did badly; but those set-in 
dating carly winie ОЧ Р, 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
MASDEVALLIA LAWRENGCEI, Krünzlin.* 
Tits plant is in foliage and size like а 
specimen of Masdevallia tovarensis, and A" flowers, 
which are 4 to 3 smaller, have also a slig 
blance to this species, They arise —4 the top 
of the flower-stalk зану and not at опе 
asdevallia Lawrence: —8саро triquetro ad 
alto alato, squamis cds scariosis 9 
ge ntibus; cupula floris brevi, repali 
dorsalis parte libera triangula in caudam qua B Hg di 
producta, sepalis lateralibus oblon — acuminatis 
basi tantum coalitis caudioulis MM cupula i 
— E 
time, as in M. tovarensis; and an 
shows that the resemblance is ee > 
The tube of the flower is covered Ы 
numerous and beautiful spottings, but with a lens и 
w 
the lip аге rather thick and % the latter 
thickened and serrated at the zd : believe this 
is the plant which Mr. Rolfe nam d Masdevallis | 
guttulata in Gard, Chron, Sept. 6, 18 890, ii, p. M. i 
The name has to be changed because е another 
under the name of M. guttulata, was published by 
Tena Reichenbach in 1877; the d is quita P 
a different plant, pe more in the way of M. i . lone 
is, Rchb i 
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this interesting species, «T. Kré 
STAPELIA LONGIDRNS, N. Z. Br, p. 8p.). 
This species is а native of Delagoa Bay in South- 
east Africa, where it was originally discovered by 
Mrs. Monteiro, who sent flowers of it to Kew in 
———— — HN 
Tillett, Esq., of Nor 
whom it first flowered in October, 1892, So far и 
the appearance of the stems is concerned, it is one 
of the most remarkable species of the genus knom 
me, on account of the very long teeth of the 
stem; the only other species that approaches it in 
this character is S, Woodii, to which it is the шой 
nearly allied, but the teeth are much longer than in 
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with long, ascending, stout teeth, 4 to 1 inch long, 
and about 3 на thick ж 2 terete, 
tapering to ne Cymes sessile, 
several - Ded Pedicela Pa p^ der. 1 line 
thick, glabrous. Sepals 4 lines б 14 lin 
broad, lanceolate acuminate; corolla 1} inch it 
diameter, quite glabrous, with a peal e 
24 lines deep (the bottom of it raised up s0 8 
orm a convex cushion supporting the corona), a 
horizontally spreading lobes 7— es lo ng, 4-5 
lines broad, ovate-lanceolate acute, fat; cor 
is pale greenish-yellow, spotted all over with dart 
purple-brown (cream colour spotted 
according to Mrs. Monteiro), y spote very small 
within the tube, increasing in the tip 
of the lobes, where they аге шо 
Oater corona of 5 short, , 
deflexed on the basal cushion of the үз puts 
brown with yellowish side margins; inner 
docente, acute lobes, inflexed ovet М 
gib 
cese 
ellowish, dusted with purple-brown. Follic™® 
7 inches long, 3 an inch thick, gradually ru 
a beak, glabrous, streaked with purple on à » 
ground; seeds 5 lines long,’ 3 lines broad, Per 
elliptic-ovate, crowned tuft of hairs, flat Bay, 
broadly-winged margins, — brown. Delagos 
RANDII (see fig. 62, p. 383). 
Prants and seeds of this new species 
nanthus were received at 
from M 
Shan States, Upper 
a high altitude in the forests, its short 
dense tufts upon the trunks of trees, 
clings by means of its roots, which crept 
crevices of the bark, finding nourishment © 
When in flower it had the appearance of & CT 
edes tota 2 interna pustulis orebris 
is brevibus T» linearibus er" 
ESCHYNANTHUS HILDM 1 
— з albidis; labello oblongo 
duis minute serrulato ibi incrassata albido min" 
Totus flos 2 cm. 
Rolfe ? 
