Marca 1, 1919.] 
deteriorate in autumn or cold weather, as does 
that of many an otherwise promising yellow Rose 
this decorative type hink I mu regard 
Mrs. Wemyss Quin as t most generally satis- 
factory garden plant that has had any trial 
Good foliage, good constituti g or 
good colour, anc e and constant supply of 
flowers. All these merits it has in greater or less 
dcgree. Christine should prove a grace rival 
if it is found 
4 S ] 
s Lemon rw was a Maréchal Niel cross, 
an nd TIE its shade of creamy-yellow excludes 
it from: my list di it shows that a hardy and 
well shaped Rose of the old strain is not beyon 
he powers of achievement. I can as yet беби 
no КОШЫ. in the new aioe White Rose. 
NOTES FROM | WARLEY PLACE. 
ROCUS VI VERN 
‘A South dibus an a ot ушу 
Flora. Boos ola in the Botanist’s 
Pocket Book, give к vernus as V.R. (very 
rare) in phetaries. i in Suffolk. 
looker, in Students’ Flora, states : ** Natural- 
ised in meadows.” 
Sowerby, in English Botany, thus refers to 
Crocus vernus :—* Com pee пика їп 
meadows ' in several plac England 
Very abundan oe оњ оа meadows, 
where it has ng known ccur ; 
also at Mur hod. on the co of Nor- 
folk and Suffolk, and at Hornsey, Middlesex. In 
many other places it has been noticed, but only 
he oute С of gardens. In Ireland Es is 
plentiful „деа Ње Old Castle, Dunganstow: 
Wicklow 
1 will t hus be seen that Crocus vernus is onl 
allowed a place eint ше. Es tish flora о 
as it we папу botanists have wished it m might 
he fo omally admitted, ‘but it is still relegated to 
o refer arlier MN to the Croc 
find that according x Turner (1551) and Gen 
7 Crocus were in 
the 
any record of its 
n the days b for 
countryside тесте ore modern ideas invaded the 
> tions of a much Seaton nature 
p a Ee illagers, and an event of the yea: 
Was in do 0 tley Place when Crocus vernus 
Wagon, ir di Ma farmer. would lend his 
party of = Mus ay to convey a happy little 
fields of Tus ers and children to see the purple 
Lilies loves du Tha oticed that the Lent 
Comparativel., years of beauty followed by a 
the Wealth > dull season, but vith the Crocus 
Propitious v of colour never lessens, although 
shor the рә weather will mar the blossoms and 
n i riod of flowering g: 
phical forms of Crocus vernus show 
EAS size and colour. І: have 
255 ш» of these forms оп the 
Even at Wa tley I have chserved 
TH E GARDENERS 
minor variations, and occasionally a flower 
where N M. Жү өң Albinos are fre- 
quent. In The Garden of February 8, 1919, were 
some Aes llent views of the Crocus fiel t 
Jarley Place, which give a very good idea, but 
А tricte one, H н 
very limited impression of the beauteous scene 
2 ne g shadows of E 
trees stretch 
purple glistening in the 
Willmo 
undulating sheen of 
spring suushi E. 
—_—_—_—_—_—_— 
ORCHID NOTES AN AND GLEANINGS. 
ACODES ' BOLLISSONII. 
For many years, fifty or more, an Orchid 
has been in cultivation under the name of 
Fic 34.—MACODES ROLLISSONI). 
It was said to have been 
this name: by Messrs. 
in whose nursery 
Goodyera Rollissonii. 
rst “distrib uted under 
it ppeared as a chance introduction, a 
kind of stowaway among other imports. The 
late Mr. Henry Boyle о was а ke llec- 
tor cultivator of  Anaectochiluses - and 
alli hids, v of opin that it was a 
hybrid, “probably between Goodyera discolor 
nd Anaectochilus Petol enty years ago 
pl of it flowered in Л Elwes’ collection 
and Mr. Rolfe then identified it as a species of 
Macodes, distinct from all others known, and 
he renamed it Macodes Rollissonii. Such is the 
history of the plant, a good Sead s which, 
grown a ‘ew, is illustrated fig. »34. 
sp al 
AN a pres of coe Ue ades being 
CHRONICLE. 
93 
M. Sanderiana. These orchids are re narkable in 
having fleshy leaves prettily marked with re- 
ticulating lines, their ers in ‘ 
tively insignific ant. Before th g 
destroyed arly the whole collection of these 
pretty-le af! Orchids which fo: many year 
had been a feature at Kew, t ere cultivated 
there with conspicuous success pans covered 
with large bell glasses. A few kinds gei but 
they only serve to remind us of the 
as 1 ed t >. It may be оой that all 
the Orchids of this group appear to be mono- 
pic, as they invariably die after they flower. 
CYPRIPEDIUM HERA EURYADES NEW 
HALL HEY VARIETY 
VARI this cross betw >. Boxallii 
and C. Leeanum are numerous, ond be e aem ed 
Y 
[Photograph by Е. J. Wallis. 
satisfactory part in the hands of the 
ybridist. The New Hall Hey Мыне а is опе 
rmal form, but ery 
Wilderspool, 
€ рене develop T opa pals 
the centre jd each si 
si eg of M вера!, ‚ represents it ae ew light 
The plant produ ced similar Сечи before. 
The = pond sepals are exactly alike, their 
bases аге sap-green, and the other two-thirds 
ré white. The greenish bas s dark maroor 
lotches, the white upper part but smaller rose- 
spots. The broad petals are spo and 
lined with dark purple on a y ellow ish ground, the 
li ng е. 
Is not u ents in 
oe flowers, M ndis io E. mel 
tors] 
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