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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ёквиплвү 5, 1887, 
PURPLE, WHITE, AND YELLOW 
PRIMRO 
Tue plant in cultivation under the wrong name of 
Primula altaica is, without doubt, merely a colour 
variety of the common Primrose, and it is interesting 
to know that it came me originally from the Asiatic 
—— of the Bospho 
sia Minor, 
ind Ithink it is not aces known isa Primroses 
Primrose 
Olympus above Broussa, but is mainly mauv 
colour; here and there a pure white variety occurs, 
but none of the yellow type. 
The mauve задо 18 сеа ae B rosea of 
Boissier, and h entio: nce in the 
ood 
near бало abs » neighbonrh of 
in Pontus, Lazistan, Transcircassia and 
Russian Armenia, He also шене the white form 
under his var. В, which. is Primula a — iberica, 
dan nt i 
to n railway 
- Station ; but this is in us midst of the city, and may 
from cultivation. I noticed in Istria a 
tendency to vary to white, but there the white- 
flowered E were intermixed with the typical 
yellow form 
This passage in flower-colouring from west to east 
the Primrose it 
rms commence to replace 
it. I have noticed a somewhat similar passage of 
colour from west to east in more than one species 
of Crocus, George Maw, F.L.S., Benthall, Kenley, 
Surrey. 
YOUNG’S CYPRESS. 
from seed i 's Cypress 
(Cupressus Lawsoniana) Hs carried to a very remark 
able extent. Compare, for instance, the intertexta 
variety uias Waterer's PRA viridis. These are two 
form wn to have originated “from the 
neret pado ا‎ are more unlike one another it 
so-called species. Many species, moreov 
ed one nas another on iid, woe 
grounds than that by which the form now figured as 
ress is separated from the. M 
Cypress, as we propose to call it, is only a ae: "ee 
the Lawsoniana. Were we to speak of it as 
oungi we might mislead the, reader into 
xk rem that it was a distinct species, but by 
calling it ари Cypress we dida nothing as 
to its botanical sta 
In any case for god en purposes this Cypress is 
very distinct, in its elongated pyramidal habit, and 
its loosely arranged ascending branches, ie are 
more or less concave and twisted, like t 
of a screw-propeller. The colour is а dut apple- 
green, and the leading shoot turns, now to this side, 
now to that, in process of 
individual leaves is also larger than 
Me o dues of the Lawson C 
ROYAL cvm eo IETY.—The annual 
Soci 
; one on cbr eed will be held on Wednesday, 
ock precisely, when the M 
delivered by Rev. Dr. D 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA. 
ECHEVERIA RETUSA. 
HIs is a very useful free-flowering winter 
the bright orange pitcher-s flowers contrast 
effectively with the s y Li fleshy leaves. The 
plants will be benefited by having an occasional 
application of diluted liquid manure at the roots 
d 
plant, 
before giving water, otherw 
perish. The plant is inh increas 
the offsets, singly, in 35-inch pots filled with a mix- 
ture of three parts light loam and one of leaf-mould, 
with a surfacing of sand, in spring, and then pins 
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REAL SIZE. 
them on the staging over the pipes in а vinery or 
Peach-house. 
CARNATIONS. 
Now that the ground is liberated from the firm 
autumn, will show that the majority of the plants 
require the soil being made firm about their collars. 
Н, У. W. 
If the stems of a few ча jint of Dracænas of - 
varieties grown be cut into short pieces, and have 
little of the wood sliced off one side the indivi- 
dual pieces, and then be placed flatwise in pans filled 
with sandy soil, covered with a little of the same 
kind of mould and а piece of glass, and then placed 
over the hot-water pipes, or plunged to the rims in а 
hotbed, they will soon root and push into growth. 
They should then be potted off singly in 3-inch wem in 
а compost consisting of sandy loam and peat, an 
пелет glass in the den V ej c soe 
нч EE. о 
where they can be damped overhead morning and 
afternoon, and kept moist at the roots. Thus treated 
hey will make nice useful plants by the end of next 
autumn E 
GENISTA. 
There are several Moe re of this popular green- 
house plant, the most useful being Cytisus race- 
mosus. Plants of it which were put into a warm house 
a few weeks since will now be unfolding their 
acemes of agr оа yellow flowers, 
th du in 3-inch pots in 
in pe and €—— 
potted off singly, E in due e shifted in in 
loa: of coarse sand, will 
iih d nice Жш for «шейи the conservatory, 
&c., twelve months hence. H. W. W. 
ACACIA LOPHANTHA, 
The er green Fern-like foliage of this plant 
renders it very iren and useful for decorative 
purposes diio for mixing in grou а ће 
would otherwise do. The seedlings should be potted 
off singly into 3-inch pots as soon as they have made — 
vth, using an admixture of three parts — 
uld. After the roots — 
stopped once or twice to make them.branch. 
PANDANUS VEITCHII, 
This is one of the most ornamental bes — p 
contrasted with bright foliaged plants an 
It is easily кенеа by spi b if taken. d 
at once and potted into 60-siz sand, 
and peat in equal parts, and le on à ^a shelf inthe 
stove near the glass, will make useful 
plants by next Christmas. H. W. Ward. 
CAMELLIAS. 
Is growing these plants I have iie for some 
ghout the year with 
ny at the dae Here we have a number planted 
ош in sandy loam only, їп a bed occupying the cenê 
of a house ; the edis are Jubilee, reticulata, Cou 
tess of Orkney, Donckelaarii, он 7 -—— Cup 
of caer E 
Massen , Fra ol P 
Blush, ilta plena, eximia, Hudsoni, Monteroni, 
here are two fine old trees 
masses offl 
early in the Saari, after picti the trees а 
syringing ; they are not syringed in the early ail _ 
ing as the leaves are then liable to scald; andI 
use shade, no d v d the weather may 
but give air in the ing, increasing 
required throughout the ür ET closing time, 
supplying plenty of water at the roots when a 
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во thickly that it becomes necessary m 
де half the crop ds. The stimulant PA 
m while opening their flowers is soot-wateT, 
