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THURSDAY, May 12 o Ri Exhibition сЕ 
Plants, at The Nurseri 
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May ES 
The Origin of 
the Auricula. 
other 
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xg Orchi New Plant 
and Bulb radi ба "iquidation), 
at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms, 
FRIDAY, 
THE true source of the garden 
Auricula continues to excite terae: 
tion. The history of the mat 
has been ved dealt with in our columns, and it 
formed the subject of no little discussion at the 
Primula Conference дай yek meeting whose 
issue le ressed wonder why 
it was oy repeated this en At that Mie Peres 
А anle 
. LYNC ould Olly 
be settled by practical experiments on 7 parts 
of the hybridiser and the gardener. Our fore- 
fathers fabricated Auriculas, but they have. not 
told us how they did it; but what man has done 
man can do, and so we hope our hybridisers will 
not allow the e season to pass without some attempt 
to retrace the steps their predecessors followed, 
nication sent us by Mr. DEWAR, which will be 
read with interest even by thots who are not 
og бети лы 
tion of the origin of the garden Auricula 
has song be teen before the lovers of these flowers, and 
en the n ар, put forth. from 
ne With-& 
Dou Y б. Bici! 
H and нен а аба forth 
subject, and, as 
So far aa чаре } 
а апа. зе! juae 
for the botanist ку for the gardener, and if the Mg 
question is ever to be cleared up, it must be done 
experiments vid diviüg plants, and under the eye a 
ower. In a case of this 
kind it is not 3 appearances, as 
many ere grim botanists seem to E eon regar 
to supposed h ed Brea Where a plant is 
und growing wit and it is found to 
é ela natural to 
conclude t they 
suppos m hy midi и hopes isolated or only in company 
with o eci ned و‎ tage is simply guessed at, 
and ihe onsequence is, we have peer diferent 
romain assigned for б айа the same pla No 
trouble whatever is taken to prove the accura иб th 
conjecture, ma ch aa? be done by crossing erg 
supposed par The garden Auricula, howeve 
which we are pel interested in at pr resent, те er 
its 
of perfec 
tion of paste, &c., and we shall not get at the origin 
of such a highly айе flower in а few weeks or 
ven in a few years. If we go the right way to work, 
it is hardly too much to hat it cannot be do 
in a lifetime ; we have, however, hopes that in a few 
years T о sport i t direction will be 
arrived at, and this itself will be a decided gain 
Botanists can and have done a great deal et ee 
the ner m Eras aks opinions 
n 
е gardener i is left to h 
i most fe cibi 
Whoever decides to take this most Interesting 
MUR up will, no do ы follow of the 
botanists mentioned, and go to work on T Ф диер һе 
i It will be nM. pes агу, he 
со ch у 
or the benefit of those ya have not followed 
closely what has already been written 
subject, it will, p aps, ma ar the 
to state bri iefly t the various epe nons. expressed by 
the bo eure indicate above. Prof 
ho, lie 
published hà f resu 
schrift de jain Ni o Verr 
vereins, Munich, 1875, vol. vi 
Mr. A. W. Br NNETT, 1875, vo 
re bats t 
ze to his 
pend. Vas hi DER Dirrr specimens of x P. Seas and 
Е 
+ с “Their cultivation re so rapidly that they 
жы most gardens in Belgium, Germany, 
rand, ind Holland: дс ‘ie middle of the seven- 
teenth d : ar 1664 se 
of 
gradually 
cula mes yielding varieties 
the other in- 
disappeared rom. cultivation, while 
parma rms ms were bm cultivati tion.” 
" Professor Krrner’s views will be жэне clear 
from th owt paragraphs. Mr. Влкев who has also 
p considerable attention - the mbjest, ran 
results м rdeners’ Chronicle for Jun 
1889, as follow еа the Mire otc and 
well-kno P ricula, L., P. pubescens 
differs in istis на shortly pubescent all dial 
surface, and especially o argin. Con- 
cis 
BE 
id. 
flowers, an —leaves, brac 
pedicels, аі граны entirely destitute of ds 
white meal. It s mposs 
alk 
Up 
s paper 
the whole subject. 
Lat Hal s 
litt le o 
P.pubescens, Jida. "(в super- “Ane > hirsuta, ind ), 
was sent by Mr. C. FORSTER, of Scl 
noted cultivator of these сй ai, and though 
the seedlings аге у a young stage many of them 
have flowered, and the curious results obtained have 
led m the insti 0 n, t rthe 
differences they alre апа cre- 
natures of the lea Mit ra iable siz E the bracts, 
d the colours of flowers, seem Pin go a long way 
in the adi oed s Professor rg s views. No.l 
has flowers a maroon with a whi e; No. 2, 
deep, ا‎ No. З, pale purple ; No. „Ж lilac; No. 5, 
white ES lilac ; No. 6, با‎ ; No. 7, pale yellow ; 
о. еки nced yellow. The calyx teeth also 
vary bots in ood ME €: and breadth; some few 
are quite quise the ty "others less 
ре, 
а few sparingly, p show ing the presence of a 
disti net fine MUS en Th 
entire, & argins similar to those cal 
P. Auricula. "Bom are ра ^ sg including the 
margins, others с so, while red with 
ne whi 1 әш m а de ided ten- 
enc 
tions if wou 
the aid of P. Palinuri altogether, a 
i almost twice 
the s n be at present 
fans from the above, and having seen some aon 
forms of P. pubescens at the Auricula show last 
week, I нан not ва саи doubt that the views 
essor Kerner are eminently 
mated above are no more like ез à e P. pubescens 
than the show Auricula is like lpine one, and 
when such а decided step is Meu hat 
call the 
one 
first generation the experiments, ^ 
carried out fully, will, we are КҮ ыш bring п 
much near a Ё solution of the real tru 
ith the above results in one's 
so hard do believe that the garden Auricula was 
evolved from no other than this P. pubescens, and this 
“ 
PCT it is not 
with —— ^ may be e grown in gardens as compared 
pe ihe siah Auricu { 
same Auricula (P, 
y 
пага purpose 
able ; did not тыл 
по аны of a white variety identical in 
ll respects with the other except colour. T 
hel am e to bear out the above statements, 
an e can be no doubt that forms both near and 
widely different from type were, and are even 
old gardens, both in this 
coun ntry and in Scotland. an IA that many 
f nivea or 
of the plants eges under the 
nivalis are forms of P. pubescens, id not, as sup- 
posed, allied to viscosa, VILL 
ALOES IN NATAL.—The two photographs from 
which our Supplement has been, „ре roduced (see 
G. T. FERNEY- 
HOUGH, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, to whom we are 
indebted for permission tocopy them. No details of 
localities have been given 
point in the colony, and is probably therefore some 
point in the Drakensberg range which attain а hig i 
f 10,000 feet. The branching Aloe on the left 
of the pietur is apparently that of Aloe phe. 
in 
the wealth o 
species are, at represented, and amongst them 
are probably A. chloroleuca, A. platylepis, and A. 
urascens, The general character of the vegeta- 
tion of Natal and the үлгү is given in the record 
Mr. Аргам” j journey at p. 610. 
. KEW.— The rockery shows the effect of this dull 
cold season, but it would be a dull day indeed when 
there was not something to see there. The most con- 
the Daffodils ; 
are over, but 
de 
k a brave. show; ; the 
and 
eibbs ‚ Austria, a. 
entleman writing - 
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Primula rosea — 
Bryanthus are gay; Symphytum | 
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