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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
FEBRUARY 19, 1887, 
low tubular bte each about 1} inch long, have a 
flat three-parted limb, and are massed in dense tufts 
in the axils of broad scarlet bracts. vida to 
the figure in the Revue Horticole for ary 1, this 
must be one of the most beautiful of a beantiful race. 
ICONOGRAPHY or IUe AUSTRALIAN. SPECIES 
illustrated history of the Australian species of 
Aca as just reached us. "There are, it appears, 
more dun 300 «i marked species, barely a third of 
which have yet been illustrated. The beauty of the 
aen wi Linien purposes, and their use as supply- 
ing tan m, timber, and other products, render 
it highly. e А that a good series 
should be akg This the ever ас 
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he plants are included would also be desirable. 
GARDENERS’ EDUCATION.— The Austrian Hor- 
ticultural Society has established a school of horti- 
culture, the session of which extends from October 
to February, eighteen hours weekly being devoted to 
lectures to gardeners, Horticulture, pomology, botany, 
roin Lbs and natural history, are taught. 
Certificates are granted to the most praiseworthy 
awarde а , to enable him to see 
something of practice in other localities, 
THE EGYPTIAN FLORA.—Professor А. AscHE 
son, of асн is engaged with his friend Pilate 
G. SCHWEINFURTH upon a catalogue of the Egyptian 
flora, whic ies is to be published this year by the 
JEgyptisches Institut. The number of hitherto 
known species of an plants is said to be ve 
In the middle of February Professor AscHERSON 
start upon а journey in Lower Egypt. His Med 
is to explore the less known parts of the Nile delta, 
and then 
d Вкбүзсн- о their гэ е. Тһе 
journey is undertaken at the cost of the Egyptian 
Government, по of that of Posi and vili probably 
last about three months. 
THE " BOTANICAL rue OM "Тһе plants 
in coarsely 
hairy plant, with deeply divided leaves whitish 
flower-heads in terminal clusters, each head 
about 3 inches across. & handsome hardy 
rennial, native of Texas, Winds it was introduced 
s & species dis- 
related to 
t thay, bd: quite different in 
“The plant flowered at Kew in 
1886, and was shown at one of the meetings of the 
Royal Horticultural Society. 
Hemipilia calophylla, t. 6920, is а very curious 
terrestrial Orchid from Tennase Its solitary 
ves are marked like that of the Dog Violet (Dode- 
T borne in а loose spike at 
stalk ; ep flower is » 
oblong outline, nearly an i nch long, wi h smal 
greenish ovate acute segments, and an а oblong iue 
violet-coloured жал Flowered at Ke 
i іса, t. 6921.—“ A 
beautiful” ы, "iri pinnate leaves, the pinne 
small, in about eight pairs; the yellow Pea-shaped 
' flowers are in loose racemes at the ends “ me 
whole pe has & balsamic 
It is a native of Chili, and was flowered э "Sir 
GEORGE MACLEAY. 
to follow the march of the children of- 
being . 
RES and very _ 
glabrous pei with ovate-lanceolate leaves, purplish 
on the er surface, and with erminal 
panicles a lilac- coloured, funnel-shaped она, 
with а five-lobed spreading limb, each flower being 
about 14 inch long and upwards. 
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE.— We are glad to 
announce the publication of the first number of a 
Mr PLUMB, of 
Geneva, . xi Paus is ала with 
та 
from the 
and the rf E of news bear 
agricultural research. The journal is established 
especially for “ scholars and investigators rather than 
mere readers." Unfortunately — and Perche 
are not “a paying class," and hence Mr. Prum 
efforts to introduce a high- -class эман of moe 
value should meet with the more sympathy and 
rt from those who are able to appreciate the 
necessities of the case, 
STROPHANTHUS SEEDS. — A good deal of 
interest has been attached for some years past to the 
im 
with Strophanthus so far back as 1870; the viec 
dropped for some time, but has been taken up agai 
and from widely conduc ted experim: ents the general 
hat 
powerful is the active idein of the seeds that а 
these have been obtained 
Occasionally small а: 
ties have found their эн кен the market, not, per- 
perhaps, as a regular commerce, but as the 
result of small iuam. colleeted by various 
travellers and collector. 
fora time, 
pound. Here, 
and so long as ы ОТ аге inii is a profitable 
article of i "e 
" ITALIA CENOLOGICA.”—-A new periodical dẹ- 
nd са г ulture and to тен jen 
actur wine e un 
the auspices of the imc rel, bud 
is presided over by Sig. “О.Т 
BULB OR EUCHARIS MITE.—Mr. 
Darley Abbey, writes to mee the 
artificial manures in the 
and se 
with mites, which he adduces evidence to prove were 
imported with the bulbs. We submitted the speci- 
mens to Mr. Micnazr, the authority on these mat- 
EETLEY, Of 
influence of 
roduction of these pests, 
ters, and who points out that the term Eucharis mite . 
is misleading, as leading to the inference that the 
creature is peculiar to the Ven whereas the same 
insect attacks bulbs of all kind 
“Tt is interesting," says Mr. MICHA *to ob- 
serve that Mr. KeETLEY's bulbs, which M nd been 
- ed, are even more abundantly 
zoglyphus, and even more destroyed than those 
an have been plan i 
were 
sig epee в at fau tirely agree with Mr. 
izoglyphus attacks sound, 
healthy bubs Y pid ые takes the trouble to dat 
ows. Of reri 
fungus 
ty of = attacks 
irrespectively of the reg a but I 
convinced that the process 
d by Mr, Ksrrar is а v cre feriens mode of 
nt us specimens of Hyacinth bulbs swarming · 
supplied with . 
жаа 
destruction. = is probably right in saying that 
there is not any real cure, but it might be worth 
tryi ing | — tlie нн lbs 
flowe 
intervals of a "e ortnight, 
not eggs n bulbs are en in a 
e worth keeping ^ бл e of camphor 
is possibly also 1 remembering 
mers & 
i 
88 twice at 
mites by gr 
re they are infected; probs 
ctical difficulties in doing this in 
cheeses befo 
there — e iry 
the case of 4 
Exposure x v: bulbs to the vapour of mre 
of earbon might be serviceable. 
VE MARMORATA.—From the Sydney Mail we. 
learn th That i in the far-famed Botanic Garden of that 
city the Agave marmorata is in bloom. The stalk 
of the plant mentioned is about 25 feet in height, 
and it is from the upper Joan of this that flowers 
of a bright orange colot seen in compact 
racemelets. It is believed ‘that ial is the only plant 
one which has blossomed. Afi 
fifteen or twenty years, 
where it is I the plant, which gra 
stalk above described, is seen to shriv el 
vri winds from the rhs 
HELIOPHILA SCANDENS. — Sixty-one _ species 
the Cape, and very few of which are ever seen in 
ns; but H. amplexicaulis with purple and Н. 
ge 
pilosa with blue flowers may be given as instances 
of b annuals. i 
very exceptional member, not only of the genus but 
of the ~~ family, to which it belongs, and ia 
he These rus Capensis, t. 166, but is not 
first volume of the Flora 
Capensis, published in 1860. The stems under 
natural conditions attain а length o of 6—8 feet, are 
penn em twinin ng, so that if it is desired to culti- 
8 
The flowers are com 
and pure white with straw-coloured veins, but some 
ans exhibit a rosy tint, and are prod ced in 
terminal, subumbellate racemes, rud of ten to 
t occurs in shady places amongst 
digerin in that res 
Eep i ich inhabit meth 
tion in stove temperature. | 
more than 
Соор WH ITEWAS ASH.—Gardeners 
^ use whitewash—in pits, 
h 
We. 
the Ж 
пагу 
freshly burned ps 
cover i$ during th diues to keep in 
Strain bw liquid through a fine sieve 
7 lb. well dissolved 
