January 18, 1919.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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К Hoi plant is eiim 12-15 inches high, 
symmetrical tufts o f finely ipee md 
numerous 
consoli 
Rocke’ Larkspur, occurs in ES (5-4 feet) тапа 
dwarf * 18-041 ti ) forms, and shows a wide 
range of colou 
lida. branching Larkspur, is no 
less valuable and late-flowering. Now that bor 
ders are REA replanted ample provision sho еў 
be e for rms к the best of the perennial 
and annual Lii 
FRUIT REGISTER. 
THE “ HIMALAYA ” BERRY. 
SINCE he the note on this fruit which w 
ublished on p. 205 I have t р пег 
теїегепсе 1 ө Deutsche Obstbauzeitung for 
1910, , by Paul Dapp-Opplingen, which 
throws a valuable light e 
eonfirms the origin which I p 
e seeds 
маста е Вг К eed- 
ling reproduced Ss mother-plant ‘exactly. The 
San { ок? is described and ed in 
Illustrirtes Handbuch der Obstkunde, Vol. 2, 
age 301. It is there stated that the plant is 
extraordinarily vigorous, making often 20 feet 
f growth in a year. The figure of the fruits 
shows a smaller truss than in 
* Himalaya ” Berry, д this is probably due 
h y limi 
space at disposal ; the description of AD and 
other ri тт agree е act 
I s proba 
ME 
t 5-2 that ** arenari 
tended. dor the Rubus Arr i om Tange, : 
if our Rubi кауза can rm this we shall 
have run the “ Himal a Вет Lo rom nd a 
last. E. А. Bany 
origi amd bo: status of this pro- 
tanical 
life Б Blackberry have long been in doubt. In 
August, 1915, 0 the Fruit Committe ee of the Royal 
Hortic cultural First- 
e presumably cage ac 
origin of th the 04, but it was ond tha 
erry kn: 
Gamble, who has lost no oppor- 
f collecting and studying the Rubi of 
dis. ка in questi 
Since then two important works have ap- 
eared, Focke’s Species NEP s Sudre's 
Tubi Europaei, — a re tory a he - Hima- 
laya be given by Erwin in 
ae Cyclopaedia of 3 a оной The. date 
the record is 
of the plant was 
investigation from fresh materia's when Mr. 
E. A. Bunyard’s ‘interesting note (page 205) 
© 
c 
toe 
& 
into 
way, is it possible to secure Ke copy of the аря 
cited for the Kew Library? 
ere now rema he question " the 
botanical status of the plant. Focke his 
ent work, says that Rubus villica lis x a 
ulis 
collective species, fluctuating between R. rhamni- 
folius and R. gratus, and that it is scarcely dis- 
name of R. incarnatus, Muell W y there- 
fore conclude that the Blackberry md dis- 
cussion is a hybrid derivative of R. rnatus, 
a bush which was by inspector 
heodore Reimers in a neighbour’s garden, in 
1889, and was considered so promising that he 
tained ew seeds, from one of which this 
Blackberry was deriv pos as an improved 
ace. It might, of course, have been a hybrid 
direct, but he bush ben nply gratus 
R. bifrons it fine probably not have at- 
tracted cms or the iference in the re- 
sulting s "a mig v have been commented 
upon. Hos this may be, it is highly pro- 
hi 
bable that ‘this. ES ackberry is a hybrid, "in 
opens up a wide field of possibilities. R. 
Rolfe. 
Fic. 10.—cyPRIPEDIUM JOHN HARTLEY. 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
tinguishable к e ed from an artificial 
b cien R. gratus is ssed 
with the "Y ot ae ms. The last I 
but from "the description Т. sus 
vith R. villicaulis var 
hite 
laya be Bob d 
In a prev vious accoun 
hybrid gave perfect fruits, Mad that 
к oe ые disting uish it Paus 
ask 
that Wi ou uld not h co 
The lakes must. therefore Т жоп its original 
CYERIEEDIUM JOHN HARTLEY. 
