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pods, is a great cropper, and excellent for field 
ten m Sutton’s Royal Jubilee isa vigorous grower 
and heavy cropper under field culture. Critic and 
Censor were also very good 
That it m = be fairly said we have too many Peas, 
о doubt. Messrs, Hurst & Sons’ cata- 
all, for their gue 
forty-nine varieties. It is perhaps well to have an 
ample choice to meet — tastes, and wim 
Perhaps 
too "an ot & good thing, may be acc 
case of Peas; and it does iene: tt ean а 
likely to be extended rather than онай Certain 
ens as а cooked 
y claimants to his favour, R. D. 
BERLIN. 
vPRIPEDIUM Charlesworthii is one of the b 
Cypripediums of its class, as was shown here at the 
Jast meeting of the пае Society, by 2 
Lackner, of Steglitz, r Berlin, Young plan 
in 1894 were beret a with flowers; a 
bor: о flowers upon one 
ere were two Pea one with the upper 
sepal folded backwards, thus resembling C. Spiceri- 
апош ; the other one with this petal quite flat, 
In the large collection exhibited there were dif- 
A very fine new Dahlia of the Juarezi group, the 
colour of“ La Reine Rose,” won a First-class Се 
ficate from the Horticultural Society. The grower 
was Mr. Schwiglewski, of Carow, near Ber lin 
= flower-stalk of 4 s на 35 centimètres a 
dee was exhibited at the last meeting. 
A large 3 diete Exhibition 
will be held at Berlin in the spring of 1897, when the 
Horticultural Society will celebrate its саси 
birthday. Тһе Society has granted 50,000 marks 
medals, &с. A new feature at this exhibition will on 
& section for amateurs, It is proposed that only 
auch amateurs as grow their plants without any help 
from a gardener shall be allowed to exhibit in this 
section. 
plants shall obtain & prize as have been cultivated 
by the exhibitor for at one year. Of late years 
it has been observed more and re, that the 
в are taken not such eners as 
cultivate the best plants, but by who have the 
money, and can th up the most 
plants. amateur section of the Horti- 
an The 
eultural Society thinks th that this is wrong, and there- 
fore has framed the above clause, which will bring 
the prizes within the — of the best growers, 
Patms IN Livina-Rooms, 
Some good и» for ааба are the follow- 
ing, tt 55 my co 
guineensis, th 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
accommodate itself to the dry air of a living-room, as 
the older leaves are apt to turn rer but once 2 
matised, it grows rapidly, ery fine Pal 
is quite hardy, is Martinezia Ah; it ate 
very well. One of the most rapid growers i s Wal- 
lichia caryotoidea, of which I have young plants 
about a year old and a foot high; they have from 
five to six leaves, My Phcenix humilis is a most 
delicate plant; it is like Cocos plumosa in habit, 
but of as graceful form as Cocos Wedelliana. 
This latter gave me much trouble at first, until I 
earned that the plant disliked much beard It 
became yellow when I watered it too m is 
now turning darkgreen, since it has айне as € 
water as possible. The Cocos Datil, on the contrary, 
enough; indeed, it is a plant 
^s 
у pecimen, 
one and a half year old, is about 1 тёге 3 feet) 
high. A somewhat more difficult plant to grow is 
Areca rubra. I had two lar 
в doing very well, 
ophorbe Vers- 
chaffeltii, Very variable plants are the Chamzrops 
humilis, I have three large specimens, but all three 
are so different one from the other, that they might 
well belong to three distinct тарь My collection of 
Palms, containing some thirty species, and eh out 
sixty or seventy specimens, dd me much pleasur 
the plants from seed. The i pmi are 
dd from the first to the dry air 
nd man ene TES in the hot. Манат ш 
OMM grows oms without any 
other attention & k eca pot containing 
w-dust—for, as I have found, the roots are the 
weakest organs of the Palms. 
atum mexicanum flore roseo: this long- 
desired variety, with pure rose-coloured flowers, 
-€ exhibited by F. C. — at Erfurt; the new 
ety will certainly е popular in gardens, 
РТА ТЕСЕ isa ^ legumiaons climber from 
ong, straight spikes, which appear on the outmost 
apex of the plant. The plant, is perennial, quite 
hardy here at Berlin. 
ee the seeds guy Japan, measures now about 
not an 
must be protected 
during the winter each year, sad which, notwithstand- 
wn as nder: 
ing, often is best gro n rub, 
If the plant is cut down yearly in the autumn to 
t high, and t protected, it sends up in t 
в many shoots, the talleat of which 
pring a h 
pre em na of more than 4 métres (13 feet), 
orm bushes of unrivalled 
beauty. U, D ^ 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 
ack Анина 
^ EPIDENDRUM GODSEFFIANUM, 
Tuts is perhaps the most ee of its section, 
and well away from the merely botanical class of 
Epidendrum, its tall Мечи thes of large yellow- 
ground coloured flowers, veined with purplish-brown, 
and with ample white lip veined with bright parple, 
making it a really handsome snecies, As its flower 
and It was imported by Messrs. F. 
Sen er & Co., of St. Albam, with the true Cattleya 
named i in hon f th 
St. Albans Orchid п ur of the manager of the 
A very fine нуе, of it is flowering with C. J. 
Horsham (gr, ) | 
CYMBIDIUM — 
Although one of the eg 
one which has b 
Lucas, Esq, Warnham Court, 
Duncan). 
although it E much gra 
and beay 
v having — еи: a — 
yellowish, closely striped with purple dui "i 
bright үзен lip spotted at the base with : vit 
a x 
The plant iy 
a small seep brought by Mr, Joicey, j 
the Himalay i 
абай Linpent, 
his name a few fr 
basal half, but the front portion is of a їйї 
crimson-purple, shading off into a nearly blue tin 
towards the margin. This finely-coloured TN 
traversed by well-defined branching white h 
— make it a very distinct am Май 
е the 3 resembles a light form of AH 
— na. 
THE PUBLIC PARK AT DA. 
LINGTON. d 
Mosr large towns are now in — ШШ 
has so many ch 
situation and surroundings. 
from the centre of this fin | 
other things, is celebrated for its connection wi 
Geo eorge Stephenson, of railway fame, ^ , 
d 
the public gym m; 0 
villas, having om pom. front gardens. 
together with the lak n area of 46 8076 
gates of iron, having lodges at the sides, anise 
road with an avenue of promising Ia 
were planted fifteen years ago when Since l 
enclosed by the corporation of the town. A 
time, much work in 1 ың seei been carie 
otherwise i — the park, 
by Mr, James Morrison, the arre 
The nat — кайы. of the 11d belli 1 
er well to the methods of wor dit i 
pavilion and superintendent’s house 
situated on the terrace; on the 
the terrace and in front of the 
five designs in carpet bedding ; 
of the five being a large — ү 
0 ull; on the 
the words Ta Bu ; 
and below is the motto on & scroll, " 
dustri 
tomentosa ; 
га with the dark-leaved Ajag Р тешиш | 
woolpacks with volden-leaved uis | 
a brdu of a dark blue Lobelia 
