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Араш, 19, 1919. 
ТНЕ — ERS’ | 
CHRONI CLE. 
No. 1686.—SATURDAY, APRIL 19, n» 
_CONT CN 
Alpine garden. ; Pea linary ... 194, 196 
| a | Procantions em 
caterpillars ... . 193 
4 quercus coccifera 
yal per MA So- 
195 
s "Biu оа et oH IM lety’ relief 
Chiswick show | fu ne fa ‚ 192 
een tebe id Smallholders, guides to 192 
of the . 196 | Snowdrops - .. 187 
Dinease-zesistanoo in Societies— 
M on Mn d А -192| Chester Paxton 
Борош я ock Royal Hortioltural: : 196 
о, 19: 65000 ishHorticuitural 1 196 
Timber of the False a Dun Bid ed 
Acacia -.189|' flower show in aid of 192 
Sunflowers for seed 
Fuchsias, "hardy ... 189 
-Gardeners' hours and XM 
Tomatos, Phytophthora 
се ME I 196 rues of . 188 
хүн uri S: .194 Tre aes ROM 
rees and shrubs— 
Mac d settlement, state- Fig ae in London... 189 
. 192 Ve ege езы 
xadresteld E Court, ton idu Beans 189 
a "PN 
Narcissus “white village, organising the 192 
pa le 193 | Week's Work, the 190, 191 
Obituar; Western Hemlock, heart- 
Howard, ; Henry ..197| rot oo 193 
Thomson, ess 1197 | Women in horticulture 196 
LLusT RATIONS. 
. El А 
> 198 
OPS, 
of Galanthu us or Snow- 
appear to some ie garden ers to d 
tinctive names. tent to know only 
the specific КАЛ ini their plants, without giving 
varietal name to each one that shows p alipit 
ас the учу x Ш 
n reduction he number o 
Prey sev several ѕо-са! called species 
ch for рас НУМ by which 
species, we o aes nsider either 
Ё, or :the үй ip ы s r MAS 
er in and see 
forms, both i со also in the Police 
and extent of the green markings which usually 
occur er segments, although forms 
ore 1 ich the outer segments are 
: ге foliage is per- 
ia e jus in m пазна " 
rate, it provides us with a guide whic 
хо heidi peci to ч ca e 
first of these has the narrow, ost flat 
of G. nivalis; the second has 
green p 5545. and the third has leaves 
ie A olded back longitudinally, 
À © the first of these groups halo! G. ‘nivalis, 
which is the Snowdrop m ost ‘common d on 
ons ep and which 
es which are 
the 
naturalis aces, tho t x is косы 
Faro a а ative of ot ths СОЙОТ e 
ere is prong ger win ally о 
йә called’ C. sites’ (ef. Baker, 
1.2 Chron., 1887, March 5 5, par $13) This 
is perha а HE more than a. sub-species, in 
"which ger growth е to a more 
Раа епіа] Я Th e outer M reina of the 
Ower are Ju, convex, narrow 
P noticeab, the p and the plant sometimes 
E- Pas the Rabi, "which I | have never noticed in G. 
covi d by parallel, 
of 
acea icing a second stem у and flower 
of In the neighbourhood 
v Naples d possibly a also bs the caters side 
of the Adri iic, there g nother sub-species, 
which has nam ^os. Т erati (Bertoloni 
Flora laha IV., 75). As was recently shown 
n these col , there is perhaps some doubt 
as to whether the real С. Imperati is in cultiva 
ion, because th hat name 
os 
though Be 
the p that his pigs is Ыя es t nivalis 
s later flowering habit. The supposed G. 
o =” 
85.—(A) GALANTHUS 
Fic. 
Imperati of our gardens is a i dne early-flowering 
form, obviously с p allied to G. nivalis. 
s found, in the — 
n ‘fine Snowdrop (see 
horse- a е 
bend a. the lower part. 
suriace of the inner s 
n 
twelve of -— segment, while in G. nivalis 
are ach segment ony жу Ni owuplete 
187 
lines and two lines that merely begin and then 
fade away. Another рс of G. Elwesii 
i which the inner пре mts narrow 
7 thei eir apex, thus forming 
їп the "а раге 
is formed by the inne 
ES 
со 
— 
Gar apes flora, page 
t 
$ 
he M" meadows of Ossetia, a district in 
PLICATUS; (B) a. ELWESII. 
the central Caucasus to the north of Tiflis. The 
lea: d is 
ves are broad and glossy, but the flower 
disappointingly small and very si ilar to that 
of G. nivalis; that is to say, the in 
е ts have only the small shoe 
mark with its extremities extending into the 
notches at the ape d no n blotch on the 
lower part of the segments, 
n 1888, neighbour 
n G. Fosteri ‹ char 
G, Elwesii and G. qw for it has the 
