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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
{Apri 2, 1887. 
FRITILLARIA SEWERZOWII 
Ж VAR. BICOLOR 
type of the plant represented in the annexed 
b 
name it was also described 
the Journal of the Linnean 
Society. ewerzowii, although not laying claim 
to the title " beautiful, is withal extremely 
eurious, and on this account is highly desirable 
for unique collections of bulbous plants. Being 
in the mountains 
in n 
orders. Forming few basal 
leaves it send a longish lax raceme with 
—€— or subopposite oblong blunt leaves, from 
wh flowers are duced 
п, fou а оп 
flowers ar ou inch long, funnel-shaped, 
lurid purple, with a glaucous dier he Mul 
side. The 
ummit are gen ded abortive, „and this wou 
seem ri be characteristic of the secti 
F. Sewerzo ee се 
r, figured i in à Gartenflora, 
t. 1181, 
md in da xed c o dou 
same as the plan distributed under he unpublished 
name of y xni disc ame e under which it 
ec rtificat from the 
Né rhet Society. It was 
1 
ty 
s addition to our collections 
of тт bulbs. D. 
THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 
GENERAL WORK. 
Any rs of ground-work that may still be in 
beyance s should be forthwith completed, a and espe- 
gin 
cleared off, and everything made clean and neat in 
Oen 
Toxaros. 
For outside planting the young stock should be 
shifted into 6-inch pots, and grown on so that at the 
beginning of 1 May they may be from 2 to 3 feet in 
d off "oni so that 
they may come quickly | tate beari 
Sowixa Pras, йы &с. 
Make successional sowings of main crop varieties 
of Peas on deeply trenched ground, or in p 
trenches, as for Celery ; also of Broad Be 
small one of French Beans may be tried on a warm 
sheltered border. John Austen, Witley Court, 
сек Kine or THE EanrrEs, 
This is really а “о gd Strawberry, it being 
ridit first in the n garden, but it is as a 
the first crop ‘Gat I would wish to recom- 
: i нр I grew a good many here, and introduced 
them for the first batch, and am quite delighted with 
: í every blossom set, and there is not one faulty 
the lot. I can recommend 
t will give 
a longer season than we now possess. 
curios to know its parentage — Black’s 
as it is known in the South, Black Prince, кы I 
hne. one of them. Will Mr, Laxton kindly 
s how he got this valuable new kind Р J 
Бон p i Castle, 
I am ver 
Seedling, 
a T VEXILLARIUM. 
E pretty C. Fairrieanum has now Savi 
всагсе An ы Orchid growers are content if they 
can only get one or сян = менн. V iil заг 
tiful hybrids red in for ar 
other босых they ithitaie their geek Sr 
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Ега. 87,—CYPRIPEDIUM VEXILLARIUM X. 
moreover, zn have а pops of oe h and flower 
whic Fai 
h C. 
dorsal sepal white, tinged with green and 
flushed with rose, the veins being broadly marked 
with dark scu. the lip i 
with green veining, and 
curiously deflexed, lik 
at “attention,” in the mature flower, are purple, 
tinged with green, es of the sepals and 
petals being beautifully decorated with dark hair-like 
fringe. A glance at our illustration, too, will give 
a good idea of the form o urianum (C 
Fai num x sign me 
colour a substitution of yellow instead of the rose 
and crimson in C. vexillarium will roughly describe 
it. Both these fine Мике Fs are of ne мөт л: апа, 
as is the case with hom ing Orchids 
generally, are much easier to она. на шапу оѓ 
the stouter species which h to be imported. Our 
us 
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fortunately too Керкем к аге, necs of gooni 
and 
FORESTRY. 
PLAN TING, &c. 
up all miscellaneous work as far as ргас- 
Өтү Љеб bark-stripping 
with 
may be i uM 
Laurels, Bays 
d 
moval. Staking plants of 5 feet and viia eh in 
height, cannot be performed too soon after planting. 
Nursery Work. 
This department w "A wid whe a A tes deal of 
0 to rights after 
ground. As s e 
a fair amount of soil N: 
fits planting is not injurious. 
e beds at which seedling Rhododendrons are 
taken s hould b levelled over an 
Rhododendrons should be well dug over, and, i 
posed of ordinary loam, a 4 inches thick тр of 
боваїые the freshly upturned dii 
Evirs or THICK PLANTING. 
s well known by foresters that if we wish а 
e nty of room must be 
Times with it, then all the p& 
are exposed to light and air equally, the roots ramify 
in all жете so fixing the plan nt firmly in the p 
тела tory manner 
Cemetery TREES. 
e idea of eT our churchyards places 
eae i aspect, instead of being, as they un- 
sadness, 
and 
is worthy our consider- 
AE better je brought а 
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