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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Fenrvary 12, 1887, 
planted at the foot of the wall on the south side 
of the house, but had for many years left that 
part and become the umbrageous covering of the 
red-tiled roof of the dwelling, being trained to a 
rough apait of inem 
erhaps owing to the difficulty of pruning, 
thinning, sies other deri; operations, the Grapes 
were never fine in either bunch or berry, bat 
still they got ripe and fit for table, and were 
much better eating than the Almeira Grapes of 
the shops of the present da 
It may be contended that. ; foreign Grapes being 
so cheap in price, there is no n rt to 
these old methods, but that is not the point. 
. There are many possessors of gardens who, hold- 
ing only short leases of their houses, would be 
pleased to take up the cultivation of Grapes for 
their own pleasure and profit, where it can he 
done without the expensive additions of glass- 
houses and the rest. With the exception of the 
need 
coolness, and. is difficult of ‘prevention or eradi- 
cation, but the danger may be averted in a large 
degree by not attempting Grape growing: in 
clayey districts, damp valleys, or in such sites 
as favour the development of the fungus, b 
reason of the moisture m in the air. Should 
n attack of mgri mild one remedies 
be used t eck its progress, the best 
of f which are pim of sulphur, but especially 
sulphide of potassium (see Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
p. 246, August 21, 1886). Of sorts to plant, the 
best are the common Sweetwater, and its variety, 
the natn or Parsley-leaved ; and Miller's 
Burgundy, $ he Chasselas, especially C. musque, 
and C. Gros Coulard, a large golden-yellow Grape. 
The kinds not commonly met with in 
near the кы, == f the Vine on the ssi 
nt, would mo $ likely prove the best s 
for out-of-doors sultivation; viz., Franc Riesling, 
early from Sahn; Blanc, fr rom Notre Dames 
decre froni Champagne; Orleans 
Rudesheim. The Burgundy, which is of a 
com bunch, bei 
n as the 
all Peas. 
e Vines, which should be 
sand above the: general level, should consist of 
the usual compone of a Vin 
drained, 
rega 
e long-rod system gives the 
best results, M. W. 
THE GEOGRAPHICAL 
| BUTION 
DISTRI- 
OF CORBULARIA. 
ConBULARIAS Hoop petticont Varcissi) of late 
years having be-ome popular decorative plants, 
the whole of the known forms being now in- 
troduced to cultivation, I think that a few e 
on their нне pe graphical distributi: 
derived fro observations, may ae 
acceptable to dio. Scent Committee. 
Although the greater number of the species of 
Narcissus have a wide Senta range, many 
of them spreading over the whole area occupied 
by the genus, acd Id Corbularia pre- 
vete а contrast in limited and compact area 
‚1% occupies compared wita uh the wide ranging of 
ihe entire genus Nar 
The Spanish peninsula is its metropolis, iis 
beyond this its extension is very limited. 
a range of about 10? in latitude, from 35? to i 
N., and 12° in longitude, from 9° W. to 3? east. 
Forms of Corbularia are to be found throughout 
almost the entire Spanish peninsula, and they ex- 
tend sparingly beyond the Spanish frontier into 
n coast, from 
st 
south of Algiers, where I gathered Corbularia 
monophylla in the spring of 1873. Corbularias 
do not occur in the Balearic Islan 
The general impression left by the careful study 
of all the cel is that they are merely connect- 
ing links of one variable species which is indivis- 
able by any well-marked boundary lines; and 
however different the extreme forms may appear, 
they are connected by insensible gradations ke- 
tween which there is no definite demarcation, 
FLOWER COLOURING 
very form of Corbularia is sitet and 
however much the forms and speci n shade, 
us, are never fou n Cor 
bularia. 'The filament i is also invariably ne ie same 
colour as the corona and segments. 
We find, etii two or three distinct sets of 
colouring, vi hite, primrose-yellow, and orange 
I say sets of хе етим eer ck oan the white, 
the other two colou , primrose-yellow an 
ge, run through, as Е were, іп du rem the 
entire series of forms, however variable they may 
in stature; e.g., we have large primrose-yellow 
and large orange forms, small p ellow 
ocn " small orange forms, and the same colour 
duplicates of every size. I mde felt elai. м = 
~ white reg +o monophylla from North Africa, 
rt of specific rank, from its invariable 
s ouring ofa a pee that I was not aware occurred in 
any other form; but I have gu кс shaken 
in this conviction by Mr. s discovery near 
Oporto of a white form of сола nivalis, the 
flowers of which are normally oran 
Ы 
Ф 
HABITATS, ALTITUDE, AND DISTRIBUTION. 
range in altitude is from near the sea-level to 
heights of from 6000 to 7000 feet, and my observa- 
tions show that there are no bed prevalent 
highland or lowland forms; many of them having 
The habitats are generally 
The several forms are never 
ed, each occupying a зет habitat ; 
deed I have only met with o in which ivi 
different forms grow in КАНЫ, e in this in- 
stance they were not associated, but pied sepa- 
a, mostly from my own observa- 
tions, ika successive o forms of Corbularia that would 
be met with in such a t 
Евехсн. 
Commencing at Bordeaux: soon after leaving 
Bordeaux station, the moist healthy places in the 
Landes are at frequent intervals bespang: led with aH 
large sulphur-yellow form, which is also seen 
sionally = "€ sides of the railway as Baylin’ 
is approached; and the same large pale form is 
frequent near SUA sea-level in the neighbourhood of 
Biarritz. 'The following = in France on the 
та of the western Pyrenees m ete enumer- 
:—Gradignan and Teste, near - Bord x, Agen, 
Dax, heathy places on Mount Olivet, me the 
alombiers above éres de Bigorre; 
between Bagnères de Bigorre : sandy Lone Tiplo, 
umel, Prades, Villefranche, Pau, 
+ 
TX 
and between Biarritz and Cambo. It is also 
зотни on Monte de la Науа, at altitudes of from 
2000 eet, and on v other mountains on 
the hinh frontier near Iru 
SPANISH, 
A small pale yellow form has recently been T 
Passing into Spain we find, о 
form somewhat different to that prevailing in 
western France, with small bright yellow flowers on 
go 
E be iem 4000 to 5000 feet on the pass o 
the 
menie the north side of the Asturias the 
same large pale yellow form which prevails on the 
north side of the Pyrenees in western France a pm 
iiri eed in moist meadows near Oviedo, ne 
Lugone 
Leon 
to Coruña small orange Corbularias were abundant 
between Leon and Astarga, and west of Astarga the 
1 range form voe to that at Gijon occurred 
ае جل‎ at interv: 
Passing E two forms, С, nivalis, with 
small orange flowers—the smallest known form, an 
C. Graellsii, with pale primrose-yellow flowers, occur 
abundantly on the Sierra Guadarrama at ae 
of from 2000 to 5000 feet: in a meadow near the 
naval penal station they were growin, g in proxi 
though not intermixed—nivalis occurring in a 
part of the field, and Graellsii on the drier ground 
nt an elevation of about 4000 fe 
Descending the ida side of the Sierra à 
the Escorial C. Graellsii spreto like Prim 
the moist pastures peste s of thousands of if its 
pretty pale yellow flowers. 
PORTUGUESE. 
i gather from Mr. A. W. Tait's Notes on the Nar- 
Corbularia. The following part 
meet from Mr. Tait’s notes, and partly from my 
wn observations.. 
In several parts of Portugal : the form obesa occurs: 
топа еа 
convex in a concave outline. 
in the тА of Cintra in 1871. 
at Coimbra, ee e with the ordinary C. bulbo- 
epi ium, and on the Berlengas Islands off the coast 
of A all the oe are of the obesa type. 
Mr. Tait's enumeration of the Portuguese Corbu- 
larias is as follo OWS.:— 
With short-stemmed rich orange flowers 
produced in February and March; found in the 
neighbourhood of Oporto within 100 feet of the se 
level. 
2. With a much longer scape and longer ж 
than No. 1, and an exceptionally large bulb, jones > 
marshes near the sea at Ovar, 20 78 вош 
ап чу 
Ко. к of the obesa 
type; "ae 40 "m. south of Oporto; 
flowering seat A April 18, at an elevation of 30 feet 
above the а. 
М Corbularia nivalis, +} 1 form. was 
found abundantly by Mr. хес at sd imer 
from 1500 to 4600 feet hills nir ver 
Lannozo and on the Geriz M. Ф 
the beginning of March tothe middle of ү; эры. ассо! 
ing to elevation, but much paler in colour, varying (0 
white, than the form I found on the Spanish Sierra 
1; 
чайына: afia 
5. A double variety, of a form op " 
та at Ovar, пота on April 1 5 
6. One of Mr. Tait’s most interesting discoveries, 
is a supposed hybrid j eni Corbularia nivalis 
a amm‏ ی 
