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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 14, 1887. 
Cook’s second voyage, who also made considerable 
eollections in South Africa, and introduced the shru 
in question into the Royal Garden at Kew. Phlox 
ovata (pl. 528) is one of the 7 of bom — 
race of garden varieties of this genus. e 532 re- 
р ts the gorgeously brilliant, though see evanes- 
cent, Tigridia Pavonia, a Mexican plant, which had 
been known to Euro 150 years 
through the descriptions and figures in the works of 
Franeisco Hernandez, but flowered for the first time, 
in this country at least, in = ун of Ellis Hodg- 
son at Everton, near Liverpool, about 1796. It pro- 
duced ripe seeds, and s perdes widely dispersed 
Epidendrum 'cueullatum (Brassavola), pl. 543, 
flowered in the stove of Edward Woodford, of 
cart of ы алыб successfully cultivated in this 
try. We аге told that Mr. Watson, the gar- 
мен * who paid great калава to the natural 
pensities of plants," recommended protecting the 
of Epidendrums with knobs of old tan, giving 
them shits and hot, damp ae but not mmn water 
to the roots." From the e gar e the sin- 
gular Massonia muric 559), nsus by the 
lants whose name 
(pl. 
very successful collector of living p 
it ed, two thirds of the 
figures in the sixteenth volume are of bulbous plants. 
In the four succeeding volumes they peaa about 
а half, and after this date (1804) their numerical 
proportion is smaller. Again Mr. w oodford contri- 
butes a novelty in Spathiphyllum cannæfolium 
ndrum elongatum (pl. 611). Nd & 
me, nurserymen, of Brompton, contribute Ptero- 
rmum acerifolium (pl. 620), and Woodford the 
beautiful Petrea volubilis (pl. 628). How little was 
odendrons at the beginning of the 
Pyrus E introduced by Sir J 
изо, flowered in Woodford's garden i 
- The twentieth volume (1804) contains several Aus- 
tralian plants 
and the Banksia ericæfolia (pl. 738). A very poor 
single variety о Dahlia coccinea (pl. 762) was 
im | from France and cultivated by Mr. Fraser, 
of Sloane Square. Knowltonia vesicatoria (pl. 775) 
reminds us of Sherard's successful lener. 
the first 
present in Sarraceni 
The first Epacris бобосо by Colvill, of Kings 
Road, Chelsea, ЖИ at € 844. W. B. Hemsley. 
(To be continued.) 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
SOWING. 
SuccsssroNAL sowings of Sweet Peas, Mignonette, 
of kind may be mad 
8) soi 
where they will speedily emit roots. Let all четти 
i time, and keep t 
shoots and stems loosely ipee as growth Vm 
ceeds, 
Lawns AND WALES. 
inas "- med of grass will now require 
constant atten ion, for if the grass be allowed to 
be seen to, either hand-picking them or dressing 
with Smith's weed-killer. This material does all 
that is elaimed for it, destroving weeds, and their 
seeds, and rendering the gravel unsuited for their 
future growth e must be taken in applying 
it not to go near the Ten or edgings when these 
persons must avoid 
this wil prevent the surface from baki 
the moisture in the soil. W. M. Baillie, dite Hoo. 
A NEW AROID. 
HxpnoswE LEOPOLDIANA, Mast., sp. n.*— There is 
a whole group of renti remarkable for producing 
= a thick tuber о e one or more leaves, 
at a different season the flowers, which are 
foi on а fleshy spadix оаа һуа conspicuous 
spathe. The leaves are very generally of large size 
апа noble aspect, the spathe and spadix aptam 
rather than beautiful, but having a char: and 
individuality which commend them to de. они 
and real plant-lover far more than the mere eerie 
and formalities in which others delight. One draw- 
back they have—they emit an atrocious odour; but 
then this is not persistent, and it serves to heighten 
the interest attaching н d flower when one learns 
that this is simply a device to attract мена. thé said 
insects being, all | unconseionsly to themselves as we 
presume, made t о рау ап а part at the 
nuptials of the plan at various times 
illustrated ncn ot ahha the gigantic 
tubers of which contain an abundance of starch, used 
food in India, and some years since we gave wood- 
cuts of a genus Corynophallus, nearly allied to that of 
which we are now to speak drosme Leopoldiana 
was sent to us by M. Linden, of the “ Horticulture In- 
ternationale," with the intimation that it came from 
the Congo. As His Majesty the King of the Belgians 
has taken so noble a part in the civilisation of this 
region and in the development of its resources, and 
d a patron of horticulture, we 
5 
have ventured the new speci s name 
The ral habit of the plant is, as is befo 
stated. The petiole is about 2 feet in length, some- 
beige flattened, green, with minute purple spots near 
e base. The blade spreads horizontally, as shown 
= our figure (fig. 122), and measures nearly 3 feet 
across. It is palmately divided into three main seg- 
ments, each dividing into two oblong partitions. The 
partitions are themselves irregularly and pinnately 
branched (bi-tri-pinnatisect), the ultimate segments 
narrow lanceolate-acumin nate, continuous at the base 
ч 0А поз (figs 
tn above, 
мабно limb prolonged into a long acumen, wavy 
at the margin, and of à velvetty texture and rich 
port-wine colour. The spathe surrounds a spadix 
'ydrosme Leopoldiana, Mast., sp. nov. Fees unico e tu- 
bere volue; petiolo eirca 50 cm compressius- 
culo glabro viridi impresso-punc ctulato maculis minimis viola- 
90 em. trifariam palmatimque divisa, | divisionibus — оона 
pinna. 
tisoctis, segmentis ultimis 3—6 em. longis anguste Tanceolti 
acuminatis, basi dec 
tam utrinsecus uis seu nti- 
; 5 iter peduneulata, basi convoluta ve ioni, 
ersus medium in laminam ovali-lanceolatam longe acumi- 
natam, margine undulatam, rubro-violaceam expansam ; 
spadice 60— 70 long., ultra spatham longe producto, cylin- 
drato, e basi spathe li superne nudo basi tio 3—4 em. 
floribus femineis obsito, floribus masculis, femineis super- 
positis spatium, 5—6 obtegentibus; antheris bilocularibus 
loeulis а poro tibus; ovariis stigmate i 
maj ' superatis, 1-1 ribus; solitario e basi erecto 
ana ; floribus tibus, Ex diti Cong 
summá cum observantia dita, м. T. M. 
sagaci, horticulture patrono subtili, 
: feet long and more, as thick as the thumb at the 
ase, ечи itis covered with flowers, but gradually 
narrow off into & v 
p wig This tail is so long t as 
ingeniously contrived to coil it ы out of the way in 
kindly consideration of our s 
female flowers are Silos. the males above, 
are €— shaped, two-celled, equ b 
very large ‘elliptical pollen grains. 
rounded with a cushion-like stigma. Each is one- 
celled or imperfectly two-celled, with a solitary 
erect anatropal ovule springing from the base of the 
cavity. M. T. M. 
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FORESTRY. 
à — 
DEATH OF TREES. 
Ix my last paper on this subject I endeavoured to 
show that the dead time of winter (that is to say, 
December and January) was the worst time of the 
year for planting forest trees, е in clayey 
In sandy or gravelly so case i 
are decidedly on z side of autumn, and next to 
that spring plantin 
The t piti evil arising from planting in 
cold, not to say wet soils (for nobody would think of 
planting wet ground) is that of planting the trees 
too deep. There is a fixed and determined depth at 
which all trees should be placed in replanting, and 
plant is put so „еер into the ground 
sap circulate freely disease and 
f 
deep planting arises from У 
planting is done. In the operation of making a pit 
for large trees, the soil at bottom is—or at least 
ed, and rendered loose and open, 
to the desired height ions the level of "the ell 
should be adopt ted. All ornamental trees especially 
bove ground, and show themselves pro- 
Besides cold soils, winter »'anting, t 
иза too deep, which are the principal causes O 
i are 
sho 
эт Cleat 
killed by applying Turnip-tops 
them for plant food, but which 
