734 
THE GARDENERS’ 
but you need not come to France to see Roses, and 
way. MM. 
prettily ar- 
Pen per 
see with their "eem as in England, but rather 
incon, акчабы d the central bed of turf been 
raised, so that the Orchids might have formed 
a circlet around it, the effect would have been better. 
The finest collection, to which the prize of the Presi- 
f thirty: while 
"The 0 
study might have removed this impression, but I had 
not the pimus of a private view, and the Orchids 
ractive to the public as they are in 
I could see but little beyond the 
miniatum was remarkable for its bright 
orange colour, and Habenaria militaris was remark- 
able for its e EE leaves of a dull brownish- 
lilac spotted with w . Monten Olivet showed 
nice group of te Зас Orchids; and M. Cappe a 
ipediums. Bromeliads 
ut-of-doors in the market- 
tonii! !—yet I have seen them so 
shown in various parts of France. Tuberous Begonias 
were very finely shown by М. Brechet, gr. to M. 
but used for spring bedding in the public squares 
M. Falaise’s collection was 
excellent, MM. Vilmorin 
et Cie, and a still better lot by M. Zecaron, but 
though well done had a thin weedy appearance, 
inseparable from these plants. 
t flowers consisted mainly of Ponies, which 
was not as beautiful in its way as the flow 
Fruit was hardly to be expected, ‘severities there 
were some nice fresh bunches of Grapes, small in size, 
deliciously translucent, and comprising some sorts 
ae mim m ho; The e of showing was in 
ery effective and beautiful. This con- 
pem of a k Ujin or conical stand with tiers at 
intervals to which were attached bottles such as are 
: for keeping late Grapes. In the bottles were 
placed the bunches of Grapes, the metal stand being 
. concealed by intertwinin ee shoots and foliage of the 
le contained a separate bunch, 
the requirements 0: of the pre could be as well met 
as by our tasteless butchers’-block style of exhibiting. 
oe, were generally excellent, 
and Lettuces better n It is a puzzle to 
why 
actions ae certainly grow it as well, 
ch And why, O Covent Garden salesmen, 
marked 6 francs, while an almost equally good one at 
iflowers were 
were, by a 
excellent “ect looked—better than in our green- 
grocer’s shop style; Mushrooms also were abet, 
growing in mounds. 
ouque ha кү commendable, and the huge 
B wer 
enormities of dried and dyed grasses, marked dernière 
iere made one wish earnestly that they might 
remain so. Devices in fresh flowers, as hideous as 
saisis were also shown. We have outgrown these 
enormities, but they still linger on here, being used 
on occasions of ceremony 
The miscellaneous exhibits were as numerous and 
varied as ever; perhaps at another time I may send 
you a note of some of the things shown, but I cannot 
refrain from mentioning the models in linen or 
canvas of various wild and medicinal flowers, in- 
tended for use in schools. These were unpretending, 
but excellent, and were shown by MM. Hachette et 
Cie., the eminent publishers. 
The Ghent nurserymen were well represented, but 
saw no mention of either English or German 
exhibitors and jurors 
Such are some of the hurried impressions of a super- 
ficial survey made under disadvantageous circum- 
stances. Critical examination was out of the question, 
but such as it was, it con my impression—long 
ago formed—that if we have little to learn in the way 
of cultivation, we have much to gain in studying the 
i 
obvious, ‘even on this occasion, when nothing special 
was attempted. Correspondent, May 28. 
EUONYMUS WITH GorpEN-COLOURED SHOOTS. 
I wish to speak, not of the golden variegation, but 
of the keii with golden shoots. This variety 
appears to me tò be little grown, although of high 
merit. Two years ago the colour was magnificent ; 
last year it was very weak, and this year it has been 
very intense. Why this difference? 1% is to this 
point that I would call your auicm This с 
growing variety does not for some reason retai 
colour as the season advances ree leaves, ih 
were of a bright yellow, become more and more 
to do so already ; in _ Support 
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haracteristic: 
of it " iode Die ut I am not aware that any 
bee 
advan en taken of it. 
There zs some Mahonias with reddish-green 
growths, ung leaves of which possess the 
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most rta tints. All this rapidly vanishes after 
a few days. Horticulture 
effects of this nature ne frequently. 
hardy plants can supply 
This coloration is ephemeral 
doubtless, ber "y is sometimes of an extreme 
intensity; the young growths of herbaceous Pæonies 
show a very brilliant colour—bright carmine; many 
flowers are not even 
Is not the admission of foliage plants a great 
gain to the art of gardening? The colour given 
by flowers produces grand decorative effects, and 
many plants can give an unlooked for beauty at а 
season when floral decoration is poor and deficient. 
ш. 
EXHIBITION zas AT HAARLEM. 
The Tulip parade beds in the nursery of E. H. 
Kre & Son, чен our: eg, Haarlem, are now 
in full bloom. "There our beds of Tulips under 
two spacious tents, med together an area of more 
square Two beds, each of 700 bulbs, 
possible varieties of the best 
roses, and bizarres. Two 
contain each 840 dif- 
h varie- 
CHRONICLE. 
[June 4, 1887. 
ties, of the most brilliant colours, equalling those 
which were the models of the best 
revious centuries. 
opened for the third time, is this season later than 
usual, and may last till the middle of June if the 
weather be favourable. It is the most splendid show 
of this specialty which has ever been held in Holland, 
and жан scarcely have been equalled by any other, 
elsew 
ina кае Aa of late Tulips of ee description 
1 ннер 
and n n commerce. There is likewise an un- 
ties; but so long as this has not "Tulio = they 
will be merely valuable as bedding Tul 
colours range from pale ка to th 
as this colour can be found in the vegetable king- 
dom, so that it can be said that Apud Dumas 
ovel of the Тийре Noire has a sub- 
stantial fact, in that there is a black Tulip, whose 
existence was doubted until now, generally. X. 
LIVISTONA MARLE. 
new Palm was referred to in the Gardeners’ 
1 (p. 676), as being in cultivation at 
put on record 
ticulars concern it, 8 
introduction, a to leave no doubt as to what Palm 
is meant. Mari 
Ernest Giles, in euni т» near Macdonnell's 
Ranges in lat. 24°, 1 Here is what he 
says of the discovery in hh Bek; Geographic Explo- 
rations, p. 13 :—' Last night (August 31) was clear 
and cold ; hon thermometer went down to 24° by 
daylight, ‘but _ the —— of the sun the 
tem idl . We made but a late 
pers rapi 
start in th n чиш re was no other road than 
to continue following the windings of the creek 
t xh the mountain-b en. w 
ad the ee ificent 
п to discover a mag 
Palm [a 
v. Mueller, in footnote], growing i 
of the watercourse with the drift at floods washed 
t 
the Glen of Palms." In his entes Phytographie 
von Mueller yn 
extends the distribution of - Aena Livistona 
between L. Mariæ 
nectar of Liviitons d s u— 
epar tote eam he 
north-west coast of | 
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