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put In the place thereof; and thu 
Marcu 19, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONI GER: 
381 
with six bristles and two n ligulate keels at 
the base. O. purum, € imported by Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons, has few hy triangular keels, 
sepals and petals, yellow with a narrow brown line, 
petals with a few brown spots at the base, and a 
curions lip, the anterior blade of which is narrow 
uminate. Four or two lanceolate keels, 
О. puru mir era I had it жы from 
Mr. F. Sander. H. G. Reh 
“THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.” 
(Continued from p. 346.) 
Parxinson.—In 1629 appeared the first edition of 
good old John Parkinson's Paradisus in sole Paradisus 
Terrestris, and in 1656 * the second impression, much 
corrected and enlarged.” This genial and well in- 
formed author was an “apothecary of London, € 
the King's ruined й and the second or English tit 
of his book is Choice Garden of all Sorts of pis e" 
Flowers, with fk Native Place, Birth, Time of Flower- 
ing, Names and Vertue to each Plant Useful in Physic 
or Admired for Beauty ; and in it he figures and 
describes a great variety of Lilies, Fritillaries, Tulips, 
е, n Germany, ог 
such other like place ; for neither house nor cellar 
will preserve it for want of heat 
m the foregoing passage i it appears that heated 
plant- Eiss were unknown in En ngland in Parkin- 
tions in raising the Tobacco plant, “which was 
cherished’ in gardens, as well as for the medicinable 
qualities as for the beau 
Nasturtiums he speaks in high praise 
with Carnations or Gilliflowers “they make a deli- 
d manner 
rder a to plant and replant all 
sorts of outlandish flowers." = 
It runs th 
“And I do wish all the 
Women, whom nn and gentle- 
it may concern for 
have been 
lved of their dai aintiest lovers, penn 
out true 
knowledge or remedy of the defec 
ESTABLISHMENT or BOTANIC GARDENS. 
the Botanic 
H 
>т aaaea I may mention here that 
. Maga. 
was leased by еч — of Wales, son к. enan IL, 
about 1730, an e garden y Sir W. 
Chambers; and [Секе HI. мын 16 eee the 
year 1789. In1788a КЛИ, 110 feet long, was 
built for Cape plants; and in 1792 the en 
r New Holland plan 
was demoliahed within the ban 
knowledge of K 
Pulteney informs e that after the revolution 
the Royal, Gard 
plants, “and mt at p James’s эур consider 
able note, if we may guess by # Pu plants 
Р, 
lunkenet received from it. The »eaufort 
had a garden richly stored at Bad » Henry 
Compton, Bishop ondon, ano E, “чш; 
and many private gentlemen vied w nea ^ in 
hese elegant and useful amusements. ens 
of Dr. Uvedale, of Enfield; of Mr. Du Bois, an 
East India merchant; of Mr. Courten, and others, 
afforded much a S to the labours of Ray, 
Plunkenet, and Pet 
I shall again iria P Ray, who did so much to 
elevate botanical science by introducing a system of 
classification o в. Other noted English writers 
on botany of the seventeenth century were Plunkenet, 
Petiver, and 81 oane, whose colle ctions kid dried spe- 
ant British Museum; 
an institution founded upon the кыы of Sloane, 
who was also largely er iam in —Ü 
the Chelsea Botanic Gard Plunkenet was 
intendent of the garden d Hampton Court бийде 
the latter part of Һај, a!’ these writers were 
more active with dr. . than living plants.. 
JF . к 
My object being to give an idea of the st € = 
flower-gardening immediately before the Botan 
zine came into existence, I must not e pe so 
long on this theme as I am tempted to. Therefore 
I make a leap of a century, and take a look at John 
Martyn’s "acque Historia Plantarum Rariorum, 
dated ri 
this book - i 
it was discontinued on account of its costliness, 
after the publication of fifty plates. It was designed 
to contain coloured ging Т the natural size of such 
curious plants as had not been figured before, 
„ together with эк reris and culture. The 
semp and were | paite ted by Van 
i most of the 
Botanic Garden, and many of them 
а, leri sto 
himself, who met with an untimely death in the 
ntl ese 
Miller. published ыш Pha the title of Reliquie 
oustoniane, with Houston's names and the Lin- 
nean names I may mention, EI often 
been overlooked, that s the Linnean 
of отта on an unpaged leaf 
or ori à after the preface. Three or four of them 
were, however, first named by Philip е Five 
en the shit from the Ameri 
or four Pelargoniums, including P. eei den 
too, among the figures is that of Bletia ve 
(Helleborine americana), w hich I believe was the 
first tro Orchi MÀ in те бозо. once and the 
manner in which it was int ry remarkable. 
А dried specimen was sent to Pr бакаа (who 
had a fine garden of hardy plants at Mill Hill, 
Hendon), from Providence Island, er ca but 
the tuber appearing to have life in it, he sent it to 
the garden of a gentleman named Wager, reet it was 
* Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England, ii., р. 104, 
placed in a M and grew and flowered the fol. 
lowing sum 
BRADLEY. 
Another book meriting notice here is Bradley’s 
Historia Pla ntarum Succulentarum, originally pub- 
lished in decades between the years 1716 
have himself introduced many of the lan fi figured 
from Amsterdam into English garden 
In 1725 Dr. J. Douglas Gon heii in a special 
pamphlet еа ا‎ in Guernsey of the beauti- 
ful Japanese Neri 
and established themselves `“ to surprise of the 
inhabitants and the delight of the kaas and bota- 
nists.” БН, 
TE.—At p. 346, top of col. 3, for Tusser’s Five 
Hundred Pointes, read Tusser s Five Hundredth, &c. 
(To be continued.) 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
BEDS OF HARDY PERENNIALS. i 
ocks may now be planted in the beds or 
back of the borders Dna for their reception. A 
spadeful or two of sharp light compost about their 
roots will greatly assist them in starting. Beds of 
Phloxes and Pentstemons should nii be looked to. 
The old stools of Phloxes ire division ; it 
is best to have those so that they will throw from 
six to eight good shoots rather than a vl of 
a ones. 
may now be put out-of-doors, the beds for their 
reception having been well enriched and the soil 
нас over two or three times. Plantations which 
autumn should also be gone over and 
ата асау t wil probably be necessa. у 
to replace some of the plants, and make a ll firm 
tainly not be so but the number will be 
ater. Give any such a go ing with 
decayed manure and fresh soil in equal proportions: 
the crop of bl will amply repay the trouble 
Pansies and Violas may also be transferred from the 
shelter pits to the open beds. : 
Bors Bens, 
Ibs now making rapid progress towards 
owering. 
and 
ness, во that some ram, of mats or canvas can 
be placed over when requi 
SPRING FLOWERS. 
All beds of spring-blooming plants жул receive 
every attention, to keep th 
Plant all hardy edgi 
lines of Dactylis glomerata or Ribbon-grass. This 
last is not suitable for edgings unless for large beds, 
Where the taller subjects are grown, remove cover- 
ings by degrees from the more tender plants ere 
they start to grow, else the young shoots will blanch 
and become spindly, 
