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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Femrvany 96, 1887, 
I was travelling from Lisbon to Seville. The natives 
call it Campanilla 
et I had published The History of Plant. 
noticed by me in Spain, Doctor John Mou uton, of 
Tarbes, a very observant pe trustworthy man, and 
h 
ach e kinds, all of which 
grew well and flowered in the following February, 
as I ^v kept them in pots and attended to them 
ally. 
э No. 1 was very like that which I have 
described кез, in fact, am certain it was 
identical. No. 2 had slenderer upright leaves, and 
a yellow flower—that is, a cup slightly crimped at the 
edge, and six peria h at first, 
M 
d growing out of a me 
sheath at the top, а — flower weak in substanc 
and uniform white. these choice bulbs w зач 
killed by the severe nme of 1586." 
us n. Хы observed by this that Clusius never 
ulb of white Corbularia, 
"idt à волька опу once with him and was 
given to him out of the garden of a friend. The 
figure represents a small flower, borne at right 
possibly 
f C. nivalis, men- 
y Mr. Maw on p. 208, or more probably, 
considering what Parkinson says, a pale example 
of the small form of C. citrina. Still we do not 
doubt that the faithful and accurate Clusius 
descri figured what he saw. C. Wolley 
Do1, Edge Hall. 
Tue Warre Hoor-rerricoat NARCISSUS, 
It would be dificult to over-estimate the value of 
this Narcissus at this 
i v December, January, 
and February, and yet it is but seldom met with in 
t has so many good points in its favour 
that it should be known to every lover of plants. 
Not one of t 
with which it can be brought into bloom early in v 
home-grown bu 
, put them i in a cold pit till me 
growth is well advanced, then put them into a warm 
1 
in a cold И, 
m So free are they 
in blooming that to-day I pe ad some of the bulbs 
had two or three blooms from one bt ey take 
but little Pees a 48-pot easily holding six bulbs, 
ey are ot partioular as to soil, but well ri 
of the bulbs is main 
ings that require much more time and 
trouble to flower well. believe leta it is — 
known it will be grown extens teur 
growers should not fail to give it a udi nd al who 
require choice cut flowers for bouquet work. John 
Crook. 
CORBULARIAS AT CINTRA. 
Мг. Maw, in his paper on the ее ы Pe 
"section the genus 
fact of his having found the form rem vr ion 
Moorish castle above күле I: town 
is a favourite haunt — 
the view from the ruined ramparts extends right 
across country to Mafra and Torres Vedras, the 
eyes of nearly all our party were mostly riveted on the 
golden garniture which glistened close to our feet. 
No spot seemed too sterile or too stony for these 
tiny bulbs to establish and reproduce themselves. 
The very stone RR if only a scanty напаѓа 1 of soil 
chanced to lurk in any corner or the mortar to 
e h 
bouldery rocks left tenantless, but nearly all had their 
goldilocked inhabita more de elightfu ul place 
for a botanist же, iis plants already discovered 
than Cintra could not well be prayed for. Vagabond. 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTH Y, 
‚ Rchb. f. 
Tuts appears to be the finest member of the group 
to which A E ME grande, ween d and Schlie- 
peria , belong. Mr. B. S. Williams, the lucky 
cm ог x d an imus plant (represented with four 
ODON 
Count having in the meanwhile 
uch a collection as cannot be for man 
year Pen not at all, surpassed. 
d the plant was a hybrid between 
бело grande апа О. Schlieperianum. Mr. 
HS Sa amas states that it comes from Costa 
Rica, but whatever may be the knowledge of 
others, I have both species from Costa Rica. I т 
now І was mistaken. I have at hand five fine Am 
can inflorescences from a district in which, so fin 
es am "ier neither the one nor the v I 
med species grows. They чене agree with m 
Williamsian Соні. and with the ose و‎ 
е рез Album, The shorter, ақ ач — tals 
are to be seen in all the numerous flowe 
dun бы of column are соп 
Mr. B. S. Williams tells us, no doubt with no 
want of ааа оода, that he exhibited an 
inflorescence with twelve flowers, and I may say that I 
have at hand a Central American raceme md eleven 
flowers ; so that no doubt under favourable circum- 
stances, at the acme of development, we may even see 
ore flowers. 
I have little doubt that эзли excellent species will 
IE on the scene. mebody should say that 
t is a variety of O. iride, let him do so—say 
sind: H. G. Rchb. f. 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA. 
DEUTZIA GRACILIS. 
Tuts deciduous hardy shrub is the most gracefully 
rabo white flowering plant that adorns our 
uring the winter 
making of bouquets, ladies' sprays, & 
the young growths taken off this month and inserted 
in 3-inch pots filled with sandy mould, and having a 
рта of sand, watered, and then imum to ew 
ms in a hotbed, wil become rooted in 
when they should be potted off ioc into B 
pped, subsequently (after the plants 
had been hardened off), planting pen i in bie 
pared soil in a suitable part of the ga 
one foot apart, andat the same distance in гае rows, 
and afterwards attending to them in the way of 
watering an and ч € the shoots during their 
growing seas ated they will A nice 
little plants i: potting hs in 4-inch and 6-in iem 
towards Vis. end of Беруний ад Dey 12a 
— ÁTICO 
become established there by the fall of the leaf. 
H. W. W. 
FREESIA REFRACTA ALBA AND Е. LEICHTLINI. 
These beautiful fragrant bulbous plants are now in- 
bloom here, and are bed 
valuable for decorativ 
hese b 
se bulbs are sily cultivated, We put them, 
about Au 20 first week in September, 
into 6-їпсһ pots, six bulbs in e pot, ell- 
gradually dry 
m dry till wanted again for potting, 
зи hen alias y various sorts are now in full beauty 
d 
kiere as they trie and tone down their 
pde colours. Wm. Smythe, Basing Park, Alton, 
Han 
Por Roses. 
After the plants have made a few inches of 
se 
ooked after, will work 
When the leaves of the sla are v folded it is an 
indication. of the maggot being secreted therein, 
is not sufficient to keep the plants 
— 
them should be fumigate co-paper а 
conple of evenings in succession when the weather is 
calm. Н. У. У. 
NOTES FROM SWANLEY. 
Охе of the chief points of а — the 
бананов ган ction of “в tuff” here is the 
house full of zonal Pelargoniums. The colours of 
the flowers are so мига and refreshing to the eye 
after the barrenness without at this season of the 
year, that here beholder pw be pardoned if he indulge 
in any extravagance in lan 
Flowers are not grown at „ъс Ж to be looked at 
there only, but are cut and disposed of daily without 
the aid of that modern invention the middle-man, 
a largely benefiting the grower, who has 
ost right to the value of his labours; and d therefore 
we did not see the Pelargoniums in their first flush 
of beauty. We are nothing if not practical, and 50 
will proceed to mention just a few oe took the eye 
on “running thr ”:—Romulus 
deep lake, of о texture 
of the whites, with a salmony 
€ is semi-double, colour white, ® 
dwarf growe very free; Swanley Gem; Meteor, 
an excellent pene with a good truss ; Lady em 
field; Edith George, a beautiful large tre — of 
of warding off damp from the plants in Mer p 
when ample ventilation is incompati tible | 
herewith to en 
ts arrange well with Tulips hr 
sa fi i 
; Belle poesie the a 
centre; | 
liven dwelling 
