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[DzcgwszR 14, 1895, 
form of it is flattened, resembling an expanded 
Cattleya [Or a Japanese Iris. Ер. 
The meos to ee is increased by one of 
rn-shaped, like a lip, Here is 
the br of Carna Italia (see fig. 114), taken 
— ем specimens 
„tufted bust 
froi | 1 50 to 2matres (43 to 64 feet), to the summit of 
the spikes, stems dark green, strong, erect, leaves uni- 
form dark bluish-green, erect or а little spreading, in 
texture very firm and vellum-like, the petiole deeply 
channelled, amplexicaul prolonged into a very stout 
oval, pointed at the 
a i ущ | S 
n 0 inches; deeply cbannelled in 
middle, veins ' acutangular, slightly raised and 
cf in colour, trusses 1 m. (34 feet) » 
height, often — angular, triquetrous at the to 
standing erect in the middle of smaller floral ie 
and very long convolute sheaths ; spike е rect, a foot 
г longer. Om. O15 (half 
an inch), oval, дона; obtuse, erect, violet, 
wrinkled, green and violet, with three 
erect concave sepale, separated as far as the base, 
— новее obtuse, in colouring red-brown, 
her plum-coloured, in length Om. 020 (three- 
fen rs of an inch), and От, 010 (three-eighths of 
an ineh) in width,  Perianth very large, erect, 
to Om. 025 (three-tenths of an inch), 
т dull yellowish-red, streaked with much 
The 
narro wer, 0 m. 014 to 0 m. 015 (half an inch to five- 
nithe of of. an incb), more pointed, and yellower at the 
rior lobes nearly equal, 
О т. 045 to 0 m. 060 (three-twentieths of an inch to 
a quarter of an inch); two are folded one over the 
other, and opposed to the third, The surface of all 
three is flat, and the upper part widely expanded, so 
that it somewhat resembles a Cattleya flower.* The 
olour is а beautiful orange-red, heightened 
with vermilion over three-fourtha of the surface, and 
prolonged into ova on a wide 
golden-yellow margin. The гози lobe is elliptic, of 
the same width, twisted, t ges approximate 
as in the lip of a Cattleya, deeply bilobed at the top, 
waved, sometimes somewhat laci of a beautiful 
orange-vermilion colour, —— with юш, with a 
purp 
on & dark ground; parsing p^. a little 
smaller, hatchet - aba; „ dark vermilion, the 
edge gilded and streaked ит, stamen linear, 
arch i s the middle 
arrow, 
ly 
of the right side, yellow at . нент 0 m. 0.15 (half 
an lobe narrow, at the 
1 а scimitar-like oad 
с vermilion-red, 
Ec was in the summer = 1898 that among а 
‚ Italia, with 
another bearing yellow flowers shaded with purple, 
and named Austri. his latter variety may be 
likened to a large Tulip or yellow Lily placed on the 
rge from beautifal green 
foliage. M. Sprenger continued to raise seedlings, 
and the results will not be long in appearing. For 
example,in the summer of 1894, he succeeded in 
flowering some splendid varieties, among which we 
l cete диде flowers, or blood-coloured with 
ee RCRUM — beck RE 
: ree iI 
For this tà Day 
ce рү. — 
Burgundia.— Leaves g , small, with brown 
margins, large — — — interior petals 
scarlet, the others red, spotted. 
llemania Leaves very sor like ae of a 
Masa. Fiowers, the largest of the class, carmine- 
red, with a wide golden- oe border, "eund with 
scarlet beneath, 
Twelve other varieties raised from seed in 1894 
to 1895 gave still other new varieties and colours not 
hitherto seen. are not yet named, We are 
glad to give our readers these descriptions thus early, 
with illustrations taken from aphs of а 
plant of Canna Italia which I flowered this year at 
Lacroix, and which are exact 
dimensions, Ed, — [We are indebted to the 
publisher of the Revue Horticole for the use of the 
woodcuts illastrating t this article by the accomplished 
Editor of that journal.] 
of December 22, The havoc it wrought about Brad- 
ford will cause it to be remembered a long time. 
Mr. Charles gms in а paper describing the phe- 
nomenon, ва f exceptional 
severity, es fco Ат over the northern portions of 
England and Ireland, and in the south of Scotland. 
Isles, The Board of 
a day or 
two of the close of the dir 1894, temperature for 
the preceding three months had been much above 
average, and farmers profited by the mildness, for 
the after-grass was plentiful, and the cattle could be 
turned out almost every day, But after that, right 
away into March, more than two months, the tem- 
Fia, 114.—CANNA ITALIA: TO SHOW HABIT, 
(One-twentieth of the natural size.) 
A eS 2 THE WEATHER 
= 8 
b. ng o pce. ons were commenced at 
ox 
ero Bradford, The weather ot the oa er part 
of September and all Octo in 1894 was unre- 
en е trees sh pin leaves naturally 
through decay, and not from violence of the weather. 
эы first frost October n November - 
meter was very low, * as the weather 8 
scarcely so lows pep 
d the 
Bogland the ie fell in torrents, causing шә rivera 
rapidly to rise, and flood th 
өү» da to property 
he consequence. For some days after, atorms and 
at onal 
matter, The next event was the great wind-storm 
Lene. was much below ие Perhaps the 
anuary, would only be rightly 
— in saying it was about the worst and most 
trying to man and beast that ever was, ere were 
heavy falls of snow, which were drifted and piled up 
in all sorts of objectionable places, making 16 neces- 
sary for much labour with the shovel, in order that 
patsengers could get about at all. During the day- 
became alushy and wet, Frost as frequently fol- 
lowed at night, when the roads became as slippery аа 
glass, an dangerous to travel. With all this, 
and the intense cold, besides hardly any sunshine, 
i been sai 
longed, the suffering amongst the people became 
acute, On February 8, temperature fell to about 
zero all round . From the middle of 
February there was a condition of things somewhst 
rond oa er 
