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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 19, 1887. 
gardeners and writers about gardening have said, 
* Oh, but there are many beautiful sorts sent out 
pagate very riesen 
genera -Let n 
the old man's word. 
as the brood is gend 
o man say it again. We h 
There are 1600 varieties grown here, and twenty 
e old man complains of 
the soil on the corms, so as not to disturb the little 
spa Then place them in a shed in boxes. In 
ipei knock off the dirt, and ii out the spawn, 
which is separately treated. Here they tear off the 
old skin of the old corm, and the young corm is fresh 
and silvery. It is amusing to watch s of 
rogueing. Owing to the impossibility of keeping the 
labelling perfect suc giganti 
These 
he boy $ charge soon learns to fov a rogue (or 
and trenched 2 feet deep, "rw quantities of fresh 
Then in spring the 
haye rather falling ice Any position will do, 
no e iid s too much. 
hurt яй: or great 
; but great wet in the vedo and blooming 
for them. "Turnips or Cabbages are 
m affected by bad seasons, and the Gladiolus 
avoided if it fails, and new loam or turf to be brought 
in by the cartload. 
It may surprise many people, 
find that this firm did not tak cross- 
fertilisation of many lovely species of са with 
the gandavensis section. I understand it now. Mr. 
Kelway i is that almost extinct personage—a florist. 
as it = me, to 
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whole glory of Nature is, that she is just a little j imper- 
fect, and in nothing is she more emphatic in this 
point than in flowers. George Macdonald somewhere 
says of a lawn, “It was not immaculate of the sweet 
ink of this ye machine-minded 
man; nooneelse. What are the most perfect flowers? 
White Lilies, none with the same curve; white 
Homneya, lying like a flag on the air; white Ne- 
, heavy on one фер with their own rloveltheis ? 
er me The artist chooses a P. with 
petals turned down; a Japanese Iris, kee all 
‘its form, but its edge диз; эйе re branch, 
novel in every blossom; or a single white Camellia, _ 
every petal modulated with variety. 
an 
filling the space, not like the peeping bloom on the 
starry Asphodel. The Kiss-me-Quick blossoms: they 
must hold their heads up (not droop like Saun- 
dersi) ; their colours. must be distinct v imd 
ot 
d : 
haps without such a они no good results could 
be attai old gentleman would consider all 
andard. 
йу hail the 
splendid si raised by Lemoine from purpureo- 
atu the enormous- hybrids- of -Saundersi 
raised by “Мах Leichtlin, and now in America, after 
un rejected by the English growers. The rule, 
that the flower is to be of one shape or another is no 
doubt а good rule for hybridists, but it has caused to 
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e а source of delight to the educated plant. grower, 
who is just as good a judge ten of 
whether a flower is beautiful or not (not of whether 
it touches certain ме and standards) as the pro- 
fessional florist not sure whether I would not 
submit the judgment 1 to a боку child. 
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and blobs. In colour, form, and size his Aii- 
Mr. Ke!- 
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f Shepperton, why we want single flowers besides 
the doubles. He groans when he ing of all the 
lovely single Dahlias he has thrown away in times 
past, and there was one in mm “called ден 
verian, he was lamenting g over this morning. “ Тһе 
same,” he says, “ with Pyrethrums. The public will 
have singles ;” and here in his nursery is the glorious 
new scarlet-crimson Lord Lansdowne, the desired 
of all gardeners, a single crimson Daisy. 
If Mr. Bennett would raise a semi-double —— 
be astonished a 
duplicity of petal were not attendant on perfection 
ure 
y to train a single 
Dahlia , was to put it grid- 
iron of sticks and tie out every blossom all in one 
direction. I said you might as well try to see both 
ny monstrosities, and I ho 
the Jabberwocky. Frank Miles, Shirehampton, Bristol, 
(To be continued.) 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY. 
ANTHURIUM BREVILOBUM, N. E. Br., n. sp. 
this novelty I had specimens sent me 
mber, 1882, by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, from the 
Trinity College Botanic Garden, Dublin; and now 
r. F. M he director of the Botanic Gardens, 
cha Dublin, wies me the same pla ап. It 
comes near rdatu hott, but is at once 
reap necem Ms that эрлей x: its somewhat 
id minate leaves. Of its history or native 
мач І сап glean no information. Its horticultural 
value may be gathered from the following quotation 
from Mr. idge's letter :— "Its glossy leaves and 
graceful habit render it a neat, effective, and distinct 
decorative plant." 
Stem — g, but with the erasa scarcely 
r not eveloped, rooting.  Petioles 
15 cm ee including the $-inch lon 
down the face, with the edges of the channel obtusely 
rounded, green or brownish-purple. 
leaf 8-—10 inches long, 4—4{ inches broad 
ment-like in sace 
e ке MN into an acuminate point $ inch 
x sigas corte at the base, tke 
Les hee oa 4— inch deep, a 
minent and rounded on both sides; from the very 
base of the midrib эр ie я A each side three 
slender nerves, T roft e runs out to the 
the dad d Pu insertion of the 
veins, which are nearly str: night or on pS E ghtly 
curved; all the veins and nerves are Tested 
above, slightly prominent beneath. Peduncle 12— 
16 inches long, terete, brownish-pu Spathe 
amplexicaul at the base, ‘not decurrent, 2 inches long, 
jinch broad, narrow ges cage n spreading, 
purplish. stipitate, 3 — 4 inches long 
(including the ğ—ğ inc 
thick, inde and slightly taperi 
brown; flowers about $ line in diameter. N. 
Brown 
Oponroctossum nETUSUM, Lindl. 
This lovely y Odontoglossum flowered nearly twenty 
years ago in England, the first introduction having 
been made by Messrs. Backhouse &. Sons, the "r 
by Mr. F. Sander. Messrs. Backhouse & Sons h 
it from their collector, my late countryman © 
Krause. He stated there had been infloresences with 
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are the nicest, I do not doubt. this. The typ! 
r. Lindley’ s herbarium, gathered by 
inal discoverer of the plant, is 
an 
entire plant on to one sheet 
herbaria give no full evidence of the beauty of a 
pes 
was likewise collected by Wallis, and imported 
M Розна mtus n, nearly, if not quite, at the 
same time. was a kind ofi race between the 
two collectors, avari a very a accident 
for the employers. Mr. pr had it from his 
To پا‎ Mr. Hü 
ese Sanderian nts I had lately received 
d specimen flowered last 
year, at Peckau, with Бабій von Hruby. , What a 
fine companion to Odontoglossum Edwardi. — 
much alike in growth and quine dimensions 
he o ore or 
in masses. 4 ron 
Hruby's plant had mauve ovaries and pedicels, and а 
mauve line at the is of each sepal and tal on 
each side. Lip light 
d now I have чечан me а branch of an inflor- 
‚ H. Smee, the 
house & Sons. "They are orange-re 
theline where mauve is to be seen ы Baron von 
Hruby's flowers. Lip orange. H. G. Rchb.f. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM RHYNCHANTHUM X- 
Odontoglossu ossum Wallisii = O. purum por 
be connected by interm ules. 0 i bie 
first introduced by Director ree is тн xd ine 
far larger flowers, with triangular r serrate Wi 
column, a large pandurate anterior 
