low, turning slightly reddish in fading ; petals about 
a and 40 broad, not distinctly emarginate, 
38 mm, long 
though appearing во fror folding in the opening 
flowers; total length of pistil 78 mm., extending about 
13 mm beyond the stamens and about 7 mm. beyond 
the petal The tube of the ealyx is of the same length 
as that of O. rubrinervis, but the sepals are about 
6 mm, longer 
Abbott кашей, Rito de los Frijole xico, 
growing grove of Abas ay angustifolia, eren 
1912 (Cookerell) Described from living plan garden 
at Boul Colorado. Named after Dr. W. L. 7 wett, 
the Dir f the Archaeological work at the Rito 
los Frijoles, It is evidently close to O. irrigua 
but differs 
from 2 description, 
" Standley 
very "di merase from the 
t is no doubt an “ elemen- 
de 
Wooton & Standley, 
especially к to the 
; info 
typical 
My species," and it may either be placed as a sub- 
species of O. Hookeri or given a binomial as Oenothera 
Hewe 
ERELLI (Britton). 
living plants a few miles 
now have them flowering 
ters * petals š 
anthers 
y recol- 
petals ha a trànsvers 
he piant is iare pus 
A lea arrower 
endis 
Stems 
base than beyond, an 
HELIOTROPIUM 
mid T 
seurfy. Sight green ; $ 
d not 
XER ке 
irata Flora and 
. spathy Rydber aee as а NUN species 
ranging to Ohibuala,. it їз, a am confider xero- 
р 1 си it "is certain 
In the Жем 
ү опе urassavicum 
Mexico and Chihu ah s 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINCS. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM VICTORY. 
variety has 
калы inflorescence. 
The flow round, 43 
ote on * Blue Or ae > (p. 1), Sir 
confined himself to plants that 
sfully arden 
y these Disas are 
1 be that after flowering the 
E ants fail to appear again the following season, 
иң игү how се this is due to natural causes, 
th rstood, and how far to ignorance of 
x ties dpe of treatment, remain to be 
discovered. 
Town in 1887 I 
n I was at oe heard 
a Ошо of Table Mountain. 
hem gro 
d g there, but this o d be abando: E 
эш the few days at my disposal, the “ table 
Bart a dense white fog which spreads 
op of the mountain when the w is in 
Dis 
al'ed z 
of he. Wt e erschelia pos wc 
d oce essed, could i = А London, blue 
has 1 uld be in dem species named 
Ong, grass-like Save, gender stems 18 
È HE GARDENERS 
C CHRONICLE. 
inches to 2 feet long, and flowers in racemes 
y sh: as th in the 
G entiana sino-ornata. “Bolu us, in T'he 
Peni ien states that it is one of the 
period, afd attracts »niversal observation by 
its beauty з ау Dr. ‹ 
it as ‘ spe pulcherrima, 
australis intens coer eruleo superbiens. I 
mv other finds ° but only one de 
oped a beset КЕ, ü à poor on Je have 
received )ers severa; times since t have had 
no success with them. Should this meet th 
ve of anyone in Cape Town interested in send 
lants to England, I hope he will send 
ers this Dis: r 
Park, Reigate, where Orchids more or 
refractory are conjured into putting forth 
South 
Other Disa that grow in 
species of 
Fic. ld4.—PENTSIEMON SCOUL 
Africa and have blue flowers are D. longicornu, 
D. maculata, D. purpurascens, nd D. venusta. 
hese also are wo introducing into this 
country. They flower in our Paces ‘months 
which are кре of summer in Cape Town, a 
it may be owing to ies fact that they do not 
thrive here. Many , as we know, flower 
у the Ten and cannot. be induced to 
chan nge to sons. Orchi = as particu- 
larly dicc in this respect. 
HARDY FLOWER BORDER. 
m SCOULERI 
has been mad r the 
fruticosus, ji a species 
the name 
and var. Douglas 
ot P: аса. 
39 
are justified їп view of the ої 
variation met with in the different plants fon 
ение under the name of P. Menziesii 
this species is a small, prost 
stems, 
th 
with sub- shrubby | 
e nodes 
ou rs, 
i free gr owing, shrubby 
"pushe s2 3 fe et across 
to 2 feet high. The t wis sey à inches 
lanceol: ^ leav about 
is x rocky 
anc e - рет ; cutting 
autumn, while the species i: 
planted in sunny, well- drained situations. W 
[Photograph by W. Irving. 
ERI: FLOWERS VIOLET-PURPLE. 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA. 
MULCHING NEWLY PLANTED FRUIT 
TREES. : 
s the custom of many planters to apply 
man at 
mulching of well ure 
3 inches thick, around етл planted f trees, 
as though the trees e tender subjects and 
eded protection. as once an advocate of 
this practice, but now see how use and in- 
demnation of the custom of mulching newly 
planted trees in November ill in 
soil under re, especially «i 
heavy and naturally MY ture, 
March, they "wil find it a cold, sticky, uninvit- 
ing mediu Soil cov 
ment of surface r 
least 
d 
ts. mulching should 
be ha vd * са А horse manure spread 3 inches 
These alterations deep. М 
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