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CHRONICLE. 
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a nthe mga Hooker — the 
in the. 
takes place, using & liberal quantity of fresh loamy 
ith the roots ; 
0 ed leaves on the 
top, and as nothing damages newly planted trees and 
shrubs so much as heavy douches of cold water at 
the roots when they are inactive, give them instead 
frequent sprinklings over the foliage and stems. 
The pruning of shrubs should be brought to a close 
e old evergreens fre- 
nure; forthe top, when deprived of the shelter of 
the branches, will bes perish, unless the roots are 
protected in = way. This dressing will also 
impart freshness si vigour to the young shoots. 
fuls 
oed strike root; an rial b 
handy a good sprinkling of i over the wis vill 
greatly improve its appearan 
DING PLANTS, 
These should not T allowed v remain under the 
shade of the heavy foliage of Vines and Peaches. 
Pelargoniums may be кч аА to cold pits now 
with safety, gradually inuring them to outside con- 
ditions; but it will be advisble to afford them sub- 
Be 
rimis the propagation of all 
an insufficienc 
stock of which on 
adl all other subjects, to keep 
there 
Dahlias, subtropicals, 
them growing freely. 
Passies, &c. 
Siege ar = planted out should be attended to 
ound is in 
M M 
goon. ч ү у Wm. M. Baillie, 
“THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.” 
(Continued from p. 479.) 
Retvrnina to the Botanical ical Magazine we find the 
first plant Шагай is Iris persica, followed by 
Echinacea purpurea,* Eranthis hyemalis, Cyclamen 
gratifying proof that his efforts 
were fully appreciated; and there is no doubt that 
they bore excellent fruit. t 
£s the Mexican Sprekelia for- 
er n Pu the Brazilian 
6,1 ted, was “cultivated 
m QAM Chelsea; and Mr. Marin 
“Plate 97 p iii.) represents Fuchsia magellanica 
um and that under the false name of F 
otoci ea, Curtis regarde a stove plant, 
ын a high price in 1789, but easily propagated, 
hence likely soon to be within the means of every 
lover of flowers.” Acacia verticillata (pl. 110), а 
native of South-eastern Australia, and one of the 
many species, with the leaves reduce d to flattened 
raising it from 
8 
e u ns 
lings of pinnately divided leave 
organs by which they are replaced in the adult plant. 
Plate 116 is a representation of the North American 
Calopogon pulchellus (Limodorum tuberosum), and 
is the first Orchid figured in the Botanical Magazine he 
introduced with 
striking orange and blue Strelitzia regina, two plates 
(119 and 120) are devoted. This plant was intro- 
duced by Sir Joseph Banks, from the Cape of Good 
Hope in 1773, and was first figured - described in 
the first edition of Aiton's Hortus Kew Passing 
to the fifth volume (1791), we note Zinnia multiflora 
Tagetes patula, and Epidendrum fragr pl. 
res e amed E. cochleatum 
curiosity ; 
and if not actually the first plant cultivated 
in England, it was one of the first two species; 
7. fragrans being the other. Aiton records 
oth as having been introduced in 1786; the 
form b xander Anders 
fr. Alexand 
latter by Hinton East, E 
instances of epiphytes flowering in Eng 
very rare; indeed, so accomplished м gardener 
as Philip Miller considered it futile to attempt to 
grow these epiphytal Orchids, as appears from the 
followi EI graph relatingto Epidend , extracted 
from the eighth edition of his Dictionary, 1768 :— 
“There are near meis d species of this genus, which 
grow naturally on trees in Africa n 
[As Ан constituted by endrum com- 
prised all the epiphytal Orchids then known], but as 
the plants — 2 any art yet касир be nt 
the und, ould be purpose 
сайд of viui here, though, e the n 
be brought to thrive by culture, many of 
ree species of them sent me from 
were stripped from the wes "a which they grew. 
These I planted with care s, Which were placed 
in a stove, where they came so T as ie show their 
flowers, but the plants soon after peris 
0 resented г бат 3! Epiden- 
caries Company in 1789, 
and these were successfully treated by Mr. Fairbairn 
pots of earth composed of rotten wood and decayed 
leaves,. plunging them into the tan bed of a pit of 
—— size." 'The true cochleatum is figured 
in where Sims corrected the error; and E. 
fragrans was again figured (pl. 1669) in н 
Brilliant among shrubs ге? агау only in the milde 
parts of these “islands is Sophora tetraptera qi 
167), one of the very few Leguminoss belongin 
the native flora of New Zealand, introduced ا‎ 
by Sir Joseph Banks in 1772. It is the subject of 
the first plate of J. Miller's Zcones Plantarum, in folio, 
alluded to above. Miller states that it ripened seeds 
in the на ground at Chelsea in 1779, as well as in 
Dr. Pitcairn’s garden at eese Curtis remarks 
roin a finer sight can scarcely be imagined than 
a tree of this sort, extending to а great breadth 
е аа 
апей by 
Mr. Forsyth about the year 1774, and ies at this 
* Тһе first tropical Orchid cultivated in England was 
‘tia verecunda (Helleborine ameri ), figured in Martyn's 
Historia Plantarum, pl. 48. It was sent from the W. 
ies by Houstoun (Ai | ed. m iii, 
tubers grew 
y ب‎ ЖАН a a specimen; but the tubers 
on being a tan bed. They were received by Collin- 
PORTO RE а. | the. 
moment (April 28, 1791) is thickly pide = large 
pendulous branches of yellow, ost said 
ticulars, i in order to direct attention to this beautiful 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
distinctive generic nam wardsia, founded by 
Salisbury in honour of Sydenham Edwards, with 
whom we are already aequai 
The next plate (168) is the e but evanescent 
fied: in plate 1247. ), 
originally introduced in 1690, though it did not long 
survive, was successfully cultivated by Thorburn & 
The singular 
Ibo (pl. 174), 
unique in its way, was introduced by Lee & Ken- 
nedy, of Hammersmith. The hardy Kalmia latifolia 
(pl. 175), and Azalea nudiflora (pl. 180) bring us to 
the end of the fifth volume. Specially noteworthy in 
the sixth volume is the handsome Erica grandiflora 
(pl. 189), one ver) 
from South Africa, which was drawn “ from a finely- 
blown plant in the jen collection of James Vere, 
Esq., of Kensington Gore.” E. cerinthoides (pl. 220) 
is another from the same source. Helianthus multi- 
taste of the present day. Plate 
tion of the T Pelargonium tricolor, here first 
described. ssing on to plate 260, rpm 
Pene: Cris E lanceolatus), we 
forerunner of numerous tered 
e ei shrubs, of which, according to Curtis, 
A 
hybrid Roses, and w 
of the most desirable wem in point of ornament 
ever introduced into this co It was obtained 
from India by Gilbert Blater, of Knots Green, mer 
Leytonstone, a gentleman w ho did much to prom 
ornamental gardening. The showy West Indian 
Portlandia а ora (pl. 286) is eed last we have 
marked for notice in the eighth volum 
We have now reached the year 1795, and Cape 
or South African plants still largely preponderate 
extra-Euro subjects illustrate ed. 
t 
rsons ina dried condition, an 
very Sagre d but I have never seen ч cultivated. 
Mes is 
hatin чм raised the plants from Boede — 
Captain William Paterson, author of a treet of 
four j journeys into the country of the Hottentots end 
atfi 
nterest, and 
certainly no enthusiasm, till about the date (1796) 
of Curtis’s figure. Miller (Dict, ed. 8) mu he 
received his plant from Nimpu— petes y N gom 
urtis 
but he has no special words of praise for it.. 
appears to have been unaware that he was dealing 
with a plant меру cultivated in this country, 
for he түт: rejoice in the opportunity 
afforded us of presenting er mad wh rod 
| ng of a introduced to this — 
Mri г: 
