To 
| Арві, 12, 1919.] 
ал аз туо been dug: up on Mons 
specimens of the real Galanthus 
describi 
i Min that h a eg 
8 
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| Wit h his usual acc in 
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I 
d Clusius certain id represents a plant 
with remarkably Т leaves. His figure also 
has two stems of unequal len neth, and it would 
now ius this is al 
le i 
six of У а 
tha 
n by the 
ously suppos mea: 
10 Clusius’ Byzantine plant, but that 
sen by Imperatus, 
Б 
<q 
ы 
B.O 
4B 
B. 
E 
A 
8 ‚ the are only 
-third longer; ай, as vd Imperati 
attained b o i this : 
Its identity is, therefore, uncertain, and "T shall 
ry. grateful to pee tu who row any 
ht upon it. Ib is, without Sade, Dou 
wdrop, even the poor, light soil of my 
pen and it is Gta iR valuable for its early- 
Howering habits. W: R. Dykes 
(PH am UE MR паана o RR атар. 
WARM HOUSE RHODODENDRONS. 
n eg он 
case 
м een 
> 
Ieri vero aut magna ex parte viridia ae aut 
: reat чш imis unguibus secundum longitudinem 
xp von Bieberstein, Flora 
S55 (1810). Taurico-Caucasica 
G. ie differt a /nivale "foliis 
prope m: arginem plica longitudinali 
. THE GARDEN ERS’ 
Daventry. The parents of this were the coppery 
erange Boronia Bp _and the pure white 
В, Dregei, outh Africa s in 
both natives 
ШЕР case of the Rhododen Fenix the flowers of 
"Rhododendron Princess 
continually i 
Royal new varieties were put into 
commerce, with чары vary zing from white to 
deep crimson, through various intermediate shade: 
o low, orange, act nk, “йа carmine. Many of 
the more recent varieties were great improve 
ments on the Чах ones, which they in time 
superseded notable feature of these Rhodo- 
dendrons is that, unlike the Lm er шаи of 
the genus, they grow and flower all yea 
round. From this cH wn sh ‘thei n of 
Perpetualflowering is derived. whatever 
season one visited the eis at Chelsea the 
house dev ied к m. Rhodod sarge was sure 
to be well s h blosso 
Despite ae many desirable qualities there 
oen doubt that wi these 
ho 1 еу be the 
lane the flowers are not well ad apti for 
Lo lange purposes as cut eraat Mods they 
e been superseded by such s as the 
AK Cw 
coy Mente зй Še 
CHRONICLE. 
177 
poan liberal supplies of water 
weather, while frequent syringing is 
ficial. For large асе nens mix ch 
the potting compost. 
during warm 
very bene- 
narcoal with 
Weds 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
HOOKER'S ICONES PLANTARU. 
Тнк Bentham Trustees have issued from Kew 
a complete index to the plates and names of 
f this com 
plants figure е in the thirty volumes o 
paratively little-known publication, the 
volume of which, dedicated to Bentham, 
dated 1837. De illustrated work was founded 
by Sir William Jackson Hooker while he w 
8 
appointed the first Directo 
becoming a public institution, associated himself 
with Sir Ms Sete in founding the Kew Herbarium 
and Botanical Library. 
the боша ation o the Icones and botanical work 
аа by а le the fi 
this wo 
у. Е rom 
ork were Бал at very € intervals, 
Fic. 75.—cYTISUS KEWENSIS FLOWERING ON A DRY WALL. 
* (See p. 175.) 
are all natives 
ies from whence these garden 
р 
Sex forms of this 
the Hi 
a dec mis- 
as for bone’ pce SERE ОШ they 
require a minimum т temperature of about 
ә. 
55°: 
vida of ses Pear gem shoots wal if 
di pots and placed in a 
ан 
so 
other t. If the shoot i long to be used 
in M NP ety (say d 2 inches), ge base of 
the pis is best finished off with a long, 
slo ie 
А z сш itable compost for. these ed € 
i ith a liberal admixture 
f silver sand. In potting та adio "труні 
€ t be born if 
roots are surrounded by a end m al 
ооа ss ho for. e. should 
not ey should be clean and 
The} 
еа айе for these Rhododendrons 
- 
with several breaks of sometimes a number of 
years. 'Th l title, of thp later моштен а% 
a 
ne boo ae рр 
senting Sir олер Hook 
botanical science. 
figured in late es reral o 
ties - тану ely recent disco ery in ui al and 
rn China, ma them of general interest 
gardens. Plants o 
ы "almost asied to 
ume one hundred 
