Max 28, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
711 
quick and ready returns the cultivation of Bananas 
ives, For instance, forest la nd, 200 acres 
can be cleared, sown, and be yielding a fair crop in 
eighteen m months, whilst Coffee, Cocoa, and rubber 
n four to five years before any return can be 
ade, 
AMERICAN APPLES IN ENGLAND.—The value 
of the Apples sent from America to England last year 
is give s £700,000, of which Canada furnished 
200. 
‘PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.— pem of itm ri 
se Cou 
Paleomorphe and Urostigma у d. ea ri ; 
LL.D, F.L.S. (Lond L. Reeve & Co., 5, Hen- 
rietta Street, Covent Garden; Calcutta ga 
сези Press).—Die Erzie 
s ЈАвев and E. Benary (Erfurt, Ger 
теңи ary).—Gleanings in Old Өй 
Literature. By W. глтт (London: Етлотт 
Srock).—Jack of 8 y Jounson (Lon- 
don: 153, Fleet Street, E.C.) — Fungus Hunter 
Guide, By W. Dxgriste Hay (London: Sw N- 
NSCHEIN, Lowry Co., Paternoster Square).— 
Philanthropy and Five per Cent. (London: Wicut- 
MAN „ 104, Regency Street, S.W.)— Place Names 
cose Une чм s n ighbourhood of Bath) 
к, М.А. (Bath: Herald 
for Agriculture, no- Scotia, for 1888. (Halifax, N.S.) 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
CONIFERS IN BOGGY SOILS. 
Ir is perhaps less generally known ope it ought 
cularly T 
timber of this kind I have ever seen, and destitute 
entirely of the disease to which of m years the tree 
has soils, was that 
nr are peche on peat, one 
w days ago being fully 
90 feet high (20 feet of the leader Tes v broken 
dh y girthed at a yard up 13 feet odd. The 
ecimen was nearly as eet vii trunks at 
90 feet high being but of little less girth than at 
3 feet, straight as arrows, and with a very gradual 
rupace 
pers d hosts of other pier. id 
EY put on a richness of “foliage that is quite sur- 
ng. 
чана JASMINIFLO: 
blooms freely in ie Ate tile at r hp rent 
; and continues in bloom for a long time. It is 
ele border raised 2 feet or so above the ground 
чао andit appears to like a moderate amount of 
т Cem In such a position it is a charming plant. 
von LaDy Атлск FITZWILLIAM. 
This is one of the very best of the early-flower- 
Mey sweet scene ted greenhouse Rhododendrons ; the 
formed, OY borne in "bold 
oma in ie Tei amd 
A ma irure аме. t x & 
Perfect picture in Mos uni and April treated to 
' pone plant. 
ppn enon 
bury Park, and has several fine specimens, which, 
having bloomed, are now making their young growth 
in а vinery, R. D. 
HELIONOPSIS UMBELLATA 
Isa seni = Liliaceous plant, closely allied to the 
well known Helonias, which, indeed, it Hien Bi muc ress 
ынча ioe th in habit and appeara 
introduced from Formosa a d years e by ean essrs. 
voee & Sons, of mie v oe it eran 
ter known it is sure appre as 
In ge чобы ret of this нз аге 
not the easiest to cultivate, though the present one 
e been havi ng 
seems e: suit rx best, and 
а compost of peat, leaf-soil, and sand, made free with 
small qms it likes exposur pde: Nus = € it 
should be placed out of the drip f , &с. 
The leaves am in rosettes ا‎ а. Helonias bul- 
lata, lanceolate, abruptly mu 
ase, and d towards x 
Mec thin and greenish-white. di carries from 
o to three flo owers on petiole pee half an inch 
ong; 
deep rose colo ured, graduall y ае paler to- 
h the seg- 
, te 
& pretty contrast; style exs 
flowers March and April 
iniri! df division of the roo 
u 
and ed be oeiy 
NOTICES OF Books. 
THROUGH hag FIELDS WITH LINN4US: A 
Florence ‘Caddy. (8vo. 2 vols, Longmans.) 
In these volumes, dedicated to Dr. Trimen, we 
d more 
facts of Linnzus' life are so well known that it was 
hardly necessary to repeat them, but it is EN ды! 
to visit, a century after Linnseus' aps the scenes of 
his early life, to travel over the same se nd, to 
explore the academic halls ыа. famous by his 
e quiet homes where so 
s. Caddy's diary would have been better com- 
Her enthusiasm is 
out rhapsodies where conciser prose would have been 
more suitable, and i many matters that 
have little or no o referen? re the subject in qme 
when we are wen 
and seldom tacles, W 
blind r hn with horrible uncivilised print ;" 
b 
As y interesti шеш апа 
affording айй illustrations it the Sir 3 style, wê 
append two quotations h 
* Hortus Cliffortianus,” near Haarlem :— 
berg and эмии br this new 
er had he met with a of life so 
curta su i sumptuous 
equipage and well- laid table, ап 
ban d бита these iig 
alone would never си m ad there not 
к» vorn fe epis "ч — and 
wers ane din to use both to th 
advantage. He could here cultivate eg iih without 
restriction, He was truly happy. Hea self :— 
wit 
rocure all the plants that were wanting in the gar- 
en, and such s as were not to ound in the 
ibrary; and of course enjoyed all the advantages he 
could wish for in his botanical labours, to which he 
evoted himself day t is energy had 
tremendous infin now that he settled and at 
le He ПУ, ы wr ip? t companion too. He 
‘had an immen of articulate gaiety in his 
compo: sition, beantifal light pnis, never flying off 
into folly, *yet full of tacit ahs which spontan neously 
illuminated all his best hours.’ h in his 
Map 
tus Cliffortianus—a complete cata- 
logus pita illustrated, of the garden at Harte- 
if Palips do not seem to have been of nach accoun 
at Hartecamp, though I dare say the Admiral 
Enkhuizen, valued at 4000 florins, the 5000 fl 
iral d t amous Sem aydi 
enshoek, an e 
ug 13,000 е сена their 
dour in the conservatory ; the of a 
one before (1636), when "Tulip Lon bebo from 
hand o hand like bank notes, could never be 
revi 
T The Jacobea ane (Amaryllis i now 
first blossoming in Europe, was a gem of the cool 
trsm: and ‘ ‘Natur herself favoured Lim nsus 
time, which was bx ner upon throug! 
N! as ve 
ractical knovled e. 
ed 
tation. 
CE in saying it is a 
h the glory of 
Hartecamp 
still, with alleys and avenues 
sea-shell-sanded paths by the ornamental 
an d by a fanciful. 
He 
else he visited Hartecamp th 
the res i ouse is shut up during 
half te yiri "while its owner lives at H 
* In the pleasant deep bay-window of the central 
und-floor , at the back of the house, n 
is green, being able to suck in 
teris from being exposed. The windows comman 
t In 1 vol. 8vo. This book is very rare. 
dd 
Linnzeus on Palms. 
moth: 
tree, for ghe js your 
er,"—Mahomet's Commandmen ** Diary. 
