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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 611 
— of ventilation during the day so that this 
figure is maintained. 
MELONS IN Pits AND FRAMES. 
Make successional plantings, setting the plants on 
composed of rich oam, with a little 
dded e 
prevent the lodgment of be about the stems 
is a 
afterwards water mien S kia shading during the 
heat of the day roots have taken t o the 
soil, after «нс по er wil be required. 
Tue Best Varieties TO Grow. 
There are many sorts of Melons to be 
found in vr a p the present day that 
not wonder at being frequently asked by am 
which are the best varieties to grow, hence the ipe 
heim 
Gem, and Sutton's Hero of Lockinge; and fi r pits 
and frames, Golden Perfection, High Cross Hybrid, 
and Read's Scarlet-flesh. Н. W. Ward. Longford 
Castle, 
SOME NEW IRISES. 
N the following lines I desire to describe pro- 
оцу some new Irises which flowered with me 
during the past summer. I say “ provisionally,” 
because experience has taught me that the features 
exhibited by a plant during one year's flowering— 
especially when that flowering is the first flowering 
after introduction from a distant land—are not always 
ing made known and named, I should wish to defer 
the formal Mild age of them until my experience 
of them is lar, I have, therefore, on this occasion 
given no Latin. diagnoses, 
$ I. Остнієп, sp. n 
Rhizome knotty and gnarled rather than fleshy, the 
old bearing erg tufts - — the 
remains of old leaves, the new part sting of 
clusters of elongate oval эй, sheathed ч with the 
remains of leaves partly splitting up into fibres, 
and bearing new young buds at their bases. 
Flower solitary, sessile, appearing before the ait 
are mature, Leaves, when fully developed, lo 
on учаар about 2 feet by 4 inch, yellowish 
ur, five or six to a tuft 
Pahi- valos өө, about 14 inch by 4 inch, pale 
green, baane pointed, keeled, and somewhat 
ventricos 
Falls nealing almost аа at all events not 
eflexed, lanc with the claw 
А, expanding еен dw lamina; upper 
surface of elaw white with thick purple red- lilac 
under surface greenish-yellow, 
blotches shining through. On the claw oen 
on to the ve : & distinct compact 
di hairs. are white over the lamina, but 
a tipped i: м peces wish-brown colour over 
Standards about 1} inch ове е connivent, oblong- 
FE ipe. LEM TU а of a re , paler than the 
ke deeper 
Styles s light red- lilac. rather dope in MEA in ims 
ion; crests triangular, with cren 
Tue ш inches or more in length, green, with purple 
леч seen, 
Capsule 14 by 1 inch, trigonal, dehiscing along 
the sides; seeds oval, red 
with a distinct arillode or 
' ELLOS, the a 
reddish-brown, "е 
or strophiole, - 
Found by Mr, Duthie in кен бам valley in 
ans, North-east Kuma Gardeners 
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ronicl 
Flowered in a yma Mer 14, w zhile the leaves were 
as yet only nches long, the full develop- 
ment T the рө: not taking place until mid- 
me this lris after Mr. Duthie, 
e Superintendent of the Botanic 
Gardons, p to whom I am indebted for 
the 
I desire to sa 
I. КіхотАха, sp. n. 
ee knotty rather than nahy, the old part 
with scars of old lea 
mains of old leaves breaking up slightly into 
fibres, and bearing tooth-shaped new buds at their 
ases, 
Flower n sessile, е арт, eyer the re^ 
i.e., while the leaves are only 2 or 3 var spi 
Spathe- im pointed, narrow, not ventricose, Paie 
green, cl een g tube below but leaving it wipes ed 
above. Out ae ae inches long. 
Tube about 2 2} in in 
Fall 14 by & inch, покое ovt the claw, which 
gradually expands into the lamina, white, with 
thick purple veins ; da lamina, which is sharply 
eflex upper surface purple with a few 
Sta cur Le or slightly connivent, lamina ren, Д 
ovate, ł by 7-16th inch, of a ‘uniform purple 
о а more ыы 
Anthers equal to filaments. Pollen white. 
Leaves in summer after flowering, 2 feet or more, by 
about 4 i тті Aerei p rn Ж: erect; persist 
until early wi 
Found by Mr. Duthi i in British Garwhá 
Flowered in England in May, the foliage M 
its full reus, meli in mid or late su 
I have ventured to call this Iris after my friend Dr. 
King, the distinguished Director of the Botanic 
Gardens, Calcutta, 
I. HOOKERIANA, 8р. ñ. 
Rhizome less fleshy than that of the Pogoniris group, 
an ed with remnants of leaves, 
ing time, at most 8 inches 
inch, becomin qu ter 3 inch or more in 
Кай, 1 t€ or more in وا‎ yellowish-green, 
somewhat 
Scape about 5 inches, exclusive of flower; almost 
wholly hidden by — €: села i 
Fall n by +i inch at broadest, obovate lanceolate, the 
] ding into the lamina, which 
d IL ed; of claw white, 
purp atone 
x over “yt claw of т is a thick ym beard 
of ordinary long clavate hairs, white tipped with 
own the lamina. Besi 
а number of fine delicate twisted hairs. In some 
cases the hairs do ps ro to a crest, but 
е 
: lamina wire nae 3 by а ay inch, of a 
unifo: — narrowing suddenly —— a 
eli с - $ inch in length, mar 
red-purple vein 
siyle with nearly едат edges, very concave, cresta 
triangular, coarsely serrate, much  revolute 
stigma Pel poris ай, а white colour, in 
y narrowed at junction with other 
Anthers reaching мун stigma; pollen 
Tube about 
erras ed low down in tube; tube not constricted 
ary. 
7 “bright green, cylindrical, or obscurely tri- 
caps trigonal, with swollen sides, beaked, splitting 
eak; seed with small but conspicuous 
ori ode. 
Flowered in England in May, the foliage attaining 
its full үк anm some time afterwards. 
I owe this plant to the kindness of my friend, on 
Max Leichtlin, who obtained it from the Moray 
missionaries at Lahul. It is to be presumed, hae 
fore, that its native habitat is near that city. 
A specimen which I received. from Mr. Max 
Leichtlin i in the midsummer of 1884 flowered imper- 
fectly, with an undeveloped scape, in the E 
September; but I feel convinced that this w 
abnormal effort, due to the — wm. moved Tee 
then stimulated into growth at a time when it ought 
to have been passing quietly into bis winter rest, 
No species of the genus as yet described has, as 
ar as I know, been named after our great ө. 
botanist, the late Director of the Royal Garde 
€ and I trust Sir Joseph D. Hooker will Шон 
and which peux at home on the 
geographical area, the botany of which will for ever 
be associated vii his name. M. Fost 
(To be continued.) 
FRUIT REGISTER. 
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STRAWBERRY KING OF THE EARLIES, 
pibe obtained two years ago this variety from 
xton 
& south border) ten days кет жаи, ото 
anxious to try i it for early 
i h 
nted about the end of that month on finding that 
they were nearly all throwing up flower-spikes; 
however, riter were pee. on the shelves in а cool 
ai ut without success, the weat 
time bin very damp. "This see 
weakness in the plants, and the 
appear to ber node substance in pen to throw 
good They were thereupon set awa 
pits, antil в six weeks 
to have improved ard 
gentle heat, they а to 
although with very little leaf, тері аге deer ali 
bloom, the spikes being well up above the pots, and 
of a fine bright healthy colour. I am ve 
with the appearance of the sort, and think it will be 
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Th ion je Poem ноа early its ij rn are not 
long enough to а over oe pots, t ts there- 
22 eee ing. Perhaps if plants 
the dia Rares were É- quite so forward in 
de a it would prevent them nite natiuitate at 
present, and possess remarkably strong cro 
— is one of ou for d early, at 
the pre we have several shelves of fine ripe 
fruit. Л Vert, malig End Gardens, April 5, 
