Jone 11, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
767 
e very finest of our Natal terrestrial Orchids, 
stately white Satyrium is тене 3—31 feet high. 
_ I had heard of a so- -called “wild Tuberose ” in € 
` parts, but could find n icem like it. An An 
E A. Robles grows here and there; itis 
` fruit is like that of A. reticulata, but smaller. Near 
Fd 
E. метш reef had 4 very fine effect. 
E 20, we ihe wt Barberton, a pie geo 
Š e 5000 p on, eem eighteen months 
F old, э! тэк iu. T piens about 25?— nearly 
the the во uthern ve of Madagas car. 
3 in English to town. Itis growing very rapidly, and oving 
` of things will soon right itself, since there is a good 
E p del of land being brought under cultivation near 
: Water, wood, and stone are abundant, and 
E vith ordinary. care the climate is good enough. To 
[шу regret time did not allow me to ascend the vast 
L p mountains which lie behind Barberton, and 
À obtained. The plants at 
E consist RU of Acacia, 
| Aloe, Euphorbia, Cissus, and Bau 
= Ihave now briefly pode ue Whe as I met 
| with, but a glance at the map will show how small 
nd yet 
bloomed. trust, however, that these rough note 
оп а little known c will serve their purpose. 
. W. Adlam, Pietermaritzburg, Natal. 
1 CULTIVATION OF RAMIE, OR 
RASS, IN SPAI 
In a E asi issued Consul ar report on the trade 
and industry о па during the 
ists i v 
t cehme nivea, H. and 
е years past, in cótiequbmks of the аби: 
E tive inroads of the Phylloxera and other pests among 
ү the ug ia and of the increasing importations of 
. cereals from America and elsewhere, the cultivation 
the n and cereals ds eased to be as pro cen 
been made 
actory for de 
the plantation, its inauguration, although created 
d carried out u 
TE 
а 
u 
^ extending over 3000 
price of Ramie is 10 pesetas (8s.) the 100 ussite 
There are three pedir cae machines at w 
e each machine—one to intro- 
Ramie Française, founded in 1882, with a capital of 
3,360,000 frances. 
The advantage of the Ramie over н aga 
great resistance to wear, three 
greater than uer of Hemp, and rame its Eae 
ength is more flexible, and has the property of 
colour, assimilating —€— to silk. 
The thread produce can be manufactured into 
blinds, ec cloth, mixed cloths for curtains and 
hangings, the punto cloth, the finest blankets and 
flannels equal to those manufactured from Sariss 
wool. J. R. J. 
rests in its 
"THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE." 
(Continued from p. 611.) 
5 appeared Sir J. E. Smith's Erotic 
an 
superior to 
only isla ней volumes of sixty plates each. The 
very int белтн та 
plants figured form a 
largely repeti a with an infusion of Scitaminez, 
monandrous plants, they were commo 
lled. Most p^ the plan were in cultivation at 
pt. 
species of Epacris has yet been raised in England; 
but surely the annexed plate will excite cultivators 
ain some of the seeds.” Two 
tralian Drosera peltata, wh he author says there 
was scarcely any hope of seeing cultivated, though 
he would not despair, for twenty years before there 
was as little hope of seeing a flourishing Epidendrum 
in the gardens of I hough at the time of 
nn many of the tribe had become familiar. 
1805 the first vi of the Paradisus Londinensis 
didit and it was continued until cese reaching 
117 plate William Hooker, a pupil of Francis 
Bauer, was the artist, and R. A. Salisbury wrote the 
descriptions. т was а cle artist, an 
was subsequ ween the Horticultural 
Society. 
interesting Pe we 
drawings in the Her 
drawing of a bra 
um. It i 
Sars Sack toe ea ing both 
Gilpin, at East Sheen. The ge 
кле Sag is attested by the signatures of two witnesses, 
and the circumstance is alluded to by rei in 
the first volume of the Transactions of the Hort 
1813 was edi d т 
portion of the € matter was contributed by 
Dryander and Robert 
rown. 
In 1812, while still nee with the Botanical 
Magazine, Sydenham Edwards gave the world his 
New Botanic Garden—a quarto containing sixty 
coloured plates, each illustrating two plants. This 
was followed in 1815 by the Botanical Register, in 
the foundation of which Edwards had the assistance 
Шо алый Rua 
of English Gardeni: 284) attri- 
E wie Pians dr inensis to William Jackson 
Hooker. 
е: Pas who had also been a valuable contributor to 
e Magazine ; and for the remainder of this period 
ul rival excelled the older publication. 
died in 18 
the titlepage till 1829. With the powerful Ens 
9 а уй ih success of the Botanical Hegister was 
red, and it was continued by the same pon 
until 1847, when it ceased altogether. Lindley him- 
self was a good draughtsman, and occasionally con- 
tributed drawings; but after 1831 Miss Drake, who 
illustrated so many o vind s rar was the chief 
artist, Here and pris det find the name of Mrs 
ith accomplished ar riist. Alto- 
gether 2702 icem быы їп the Register, n. 
volume Jd 1837. 
Loddiges, the renowned nurserymen of Hackney— 
vestiges of whom still exist at the Crystal Palace— 
started their Botanical aar in 1818; and it ex- 
tended to twenty na s and ates. The 
figures are usually ne 
has not the ебед claim to the t 
“botanical.” The letterpress is exceedingly meagr 
and pe тее with pious ejaculations Jets 
admon 
In 1819. our Samuel Curtis published a Monog: apk 
of the Genus Camellia, There are five very lirge 
folio plates, each к several varieties, drawn 
by Clara Maria Po m this wor’ we learn that 
Lee and Kennedy bad потта rentre varieties 
of Camellia. Bound 
(from the library of thie Nike Bir Willian, Hooker), 
F 2 
Woodhall, Lanark, the seat of Е. Campbell, Esq. 
Lindley's activity in horticultural literature began 
in 1820, with а monograph of the species ta Ae 
i was followed in 1821 by the geris 
rising forty-one coloured plates 
i chiefly note- 
a sinensis, an introduction of the Horti- 
cultural Society, is here first made known to the 
publ 
Борда Sweet, many res manager for таме 
ings Road, Che 
Meier еке commencing with Hortus nus 
Londinensis, 1818; an coins catalogue. giving 
sag н сез dates ntroduction, reference s 
, &c., of [2^ ealtivated in the neigh- 
bourhood of Lond -— = ork w was the 
plates. - Mu ch m con cerning this, but I 
must limit "dem ss the statement, sw it is an 
garden 
varieties. 
r раа through 
five editions from 182 started 
he series of his British Flower Garden. This 
consists of three volumes, containing 300 coloured 
cond series (1831-1838) of four 
was а reissue of 
copy of the 
ieee which is very badly co aper pon the last 
had now ‘is ила running, 
which consist of one 
All these erba were рыбу fed from Colvill's 
extensive nurseri 
ackson Hooker's rd Sir William J. 
Hooker) first independent book was his Tour in Kee- 
land, 1813. Ten years later he citi the periodi- 
cal, Exotic Flora, and continued it until he undertook 
