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JUNE 21, 1919.] 
THE 
Gardeners’ Chronicle 
No. 1695.—SA TURDA Y, JUNE 21, 1919. 
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Cherries and peers new 
.. 908 
1 pes зз Rosary, we 
Drought, t 06| asonable work with 
| Farrer's, Mr. Reg zinald, "овез. 303 
explorations in Asia 301 R.H.S. lorticul- 
Garden  Chafer, 1e tural Relief үа, ех- 
(Phyllop M. horti- Moos on in aid o 306 
pie" д) . 398/Royal Parks, war buit 
sitors to ТО Г vation | in . 306 
ile, price ot vegetable |\Societi 
eeds in, ee the | Linnean _ 
war nme . 308| National Sweet Pea 
Ro НОТІ 809 
bit 
ant е. Wray 
yal 
.. 918 ROTA al Horticultural 
Wallis, John ... 313 and: Mods iy EE Dune 
‘Onion smut in eat nd 311 
Britain ... 908| Royal Society” “of Arts 306 
Orchid ^ notes" nd | ork Gala $ 311 
gleanings ISt. Dunstan’s "Fund, 
dontoglos er show in ае 306 
platycheilum SHIRE sarden.: , let- 
Phaius grandifolius a | ters по, . 302 
the Botanic Gardens, Trade 
Hongkong . 307 Variability | in pla ints 
Plant notes ;— 
Veronica saxatilis 
Elaeocarpus "ш, а died ork, the 
oh Chinese Alp . 303 
Tris Tomtit . 909 
Odontoglossum platycheilum 304 
a E Д9 olius in the Botanic Gardens, E n 
7 
EO a. a new, “unnamed spe ecies of . ... 902 
Rhododendron indicum, the ere OL... 301 
Swi B ек "eur ted by Messrs, ‘Dobbie & Co., at € 
ar " ees, 
MR. REGINALD FARRER'S SECOND 
EXPLORATION IN ASIA, 
. THE BURMA: стари ALPS. 
On 
NOE more ғ am off on track for the hills. 
unknown land among un- 
known те rap! инн and ide 
the ro 
no Purdom an Mafu 
and pro ny ignorance p let us Me: 
‘good will com is: and now for the start. 
This time, thov my whe t hard 
to tell: but few maps will give its details, and 
in some of its parts there are all 
er 3 
for describing its imperial purple glory in 
ful 
the Tibetan hayfields. 
fore 
uti) the Alps that 
rsel wi 
that leaves the 
try pre tty well alone, ano 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
рдагы мы itself is 
» lying along 
China does not try to occupy 
ied tropical—a (d.e nit үш 
beneath the олке nt of 
vir But ael 
= not far-distant snows, » e result that 
gives an impression homely, 
sis with sustine миы embower ed in 
verdure 1 familiar garden-flower 
green 
y ШО i so 
1 с-н 
е trail finds itse 
once in the wild ene wW. Mie tigers prowl; Ae 
for a week or so pursues its course through the 
heavy opulence йэ that uncharted tangle. А 
first the bigger trees are curtained with Petrea 
volubilis, now gone out of b б 
velvety plum-co f its ОЙЫ ЫДЫ eae 
calyces, producing as beautiful an effect as when 
301 
with masses of giant Honeysuckle-heads, not a 
bit more brilliant than its meek Peri nm at 
home; and an yw nen with little orange trum- 
86 TAA s in curtains, with bunches f- 
whit ak 
rea 
Bauhin x jusb now. 
so » unanimously flowered pov 
ngle -it sta out ‘ike 
some kasd. ain-side i 1 é 
›ссирїев, too, a very rigidly defined 
zone, between two and three thousand feet. 
From such an altitude I dare not hope it will 
prove h h sandy, ры it е go badly with me but 
it must have its chance, for it is a most lovely 
thing, intensely падан like а hyacinth-scen 
Cattleya, and not unlike a reversed Cattleya, 
'ižinotograpbh, Kyi H. М. Сох. 
Fic. 149. —THE HOME OF RHODODENDRON INDICUM ON THE NGAW CHA 
they are lavender-blue, and contrast so finely 
with the violet-velvet -of its flower-stars. (My 
i all cases, of course be 
І 
comes down from’ the mountains bordering оп 
Tib For some days the r continues up a 
а Ore in and out above it through the 
jungle, circumnavigating the countless spur 
ravin at descend to the river; and occasion- 
ally, on ty suspension-bridges, crossing the 
ibuta: tokent that now; at the en 
March, ] pths of their 
ofoun rges, une 
to ravening furies. Though still chiefly tropical, 
ith vari хив and an n 
е jun a fe 
фе gle now has w 
familiar things. Buddleia asiatica is the mopt 
welcome, Lonicera. таана drapes tall trees 
too, in its 
s great t flowers (see fig. 2 od — 
imson flame o upper 
is now орет 
Scottish- locking lengths of d fis 
and reefs and islets that make the huge Nmai 
H o li ed versi cote 
