June 28, 1919.] 
Gardeners’ Chronicle 
Хо. 1696.—SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1919. 
ENTS. 
al ine garden, the— Kew атайн» апа и 
“mee Harroviana 316 wa . 919 
3 arden, the— inei эшеме» at 319 
| Pond нн Born muel- 17 Orchid and 
мы 7 m 
Burnley, new PERS баса togloss um 
| superintendent at .. . 319 ratedil — ... — 81 
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Eelworm р qoem: зу U.S.A. . - 0 819 
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1 n festival dinner 323 Rhododend 
зма Counties com- oleifolium . SL 
эзер f uit show 319 
rops and stock 
"on the home: hay- 
J. making 
: md Mr, Reg 
secon dexpiora 
. 824 1 ‘Horticultural 321 
PLE Ens 
Asiatic Crab - apple 
с PBio, 317 
819 
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.. 320 Week. s work, "the 
‘TRATIONS. 
mula Harro 
dodendron c ie. 
22 m zar 
Versailles, view in the park of the ‘Little Trianon - 
MR REGINALD FARRER’S SECOND 
EXPLORATION IN ASIA, 
. No. 2.—Тнк Vattey оғ тне Noaw CHANG. 
wooded that cut 
ndeed, a the sala of ‘kills 
usly envelop us чү adn courses о! 
; but the whole ecene is one 
ure of forest, except where a 
in coppice 
n But, though 
ven e subsist, in 
begin to appear of homelier things 
iloba spr to hght, charmin 
n its young ч h ultimately 
е of alpine Asia ; all t 
bles wave riotously about in every 
truly ; 
that i one anew with 
tl had to 
e saleable uty in 
Some, indeed, do have a single point of attractive- 
n 
to foot in 
So far one only, the hugest and 
i gene shown me signs of fruit. 
ing a giganti 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. — 
not 
apra 
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br id be tween ees and Rubus Idaeus or 
. fruticosus, might well produce something of 
ео Mor if the size н the fruit can be thus 
improved, өд 
But who can e me if is particular Wilso 
ireasure has even condescended to fru it with u us 
case ose rested b 
quantity of eac 
ny gardener wit! 
Afar, in a bend and junction of rivers, the 
military post of Htawgaw rears its proud head 
to something over 4, feet, n this eminence, 
accordingly, two new Rh ndrons at о 
appear, rsely id the sun-baked coppice 
beneath an їс са f in, tesse - 
. maritima. 
o half shady Pe ces up the wooded banks 
of the Nga ng, as fa e foot of 
Hpimaw Hill. Though its sd scentless flowers 
'e so pale as almos н with minute 
the other side of 
da; i 
there are 
E 
down th 
before the rai 
decd, ‘ese зк ek rather 
thei 
gem "iki Ngaw Chang flows very deep in 
егей bed, under a heavy tangle of dense 
i the places 
vivi 
juts from some чэр ice in ei bà sey 
But in the close sheltered atmosphere of tha 
gorge the warmth must be suc I can have 
hope iness for the iful of 
the Ngaw "s y rons—a 
ificert green — white-trumpet, which 
overhangs only the darkest, y and most 
d i and diffienlt chines 
omc NM 
particularly likely to bring their blossores to 
perfection in an English March or April, even 
thou e. plant- itself may very well b rdy. 
Ia both respects I have my doubts of the Ngaw 
Chang genie with its lovely big white blossoms, 
flus bud with rose, and at the base 
beauty 
of that particular gorge was a pais fine Iris of the 
ectorum type; = ths: urred ред 
z the scrub at the ‚з, and wi mag- 
ig ih three-foot dde of 
ith p 
ember ever m 
as having such fi 
torum, a bine for 
number; b i 
like another ы same 
and н of the same Вибо uus 
much greater 
But now, piama the vegetation in the valley 
shows little change, the high alps are heading 
i t the top of the di in 
into s top d e, in a grea 
rrier of austere brown-and-black. pyramids 
ose dumpy lines reveal, alas, absence ot 
limestone whose forested flanks are riven 
corrugated by innumerable es that lobk 
mere wrinkles, but are, in f. rifts dis- 
i in w i i 
(that ce 
wW 
a gate into Burma. Begin ald 
Farrer. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM OERSTEDI 
n rarer in gardens un 
ears past, and threatens to become lost 
yd oia unless again. ng a No use 
has been made of th е hybridist, 
alba in Costa Rica, ranging from 7,000 to 9, 
ieet elevation. It was described by Reichen 
bach in Gard. Chron., March 10, 1877, p. 302. 
Odontoglossum Oerstedii is one of the dwarfest, 
most compact and st-floweri pecies. 
The pure white flowers gg — base to the 
lip, "e borne generally ree on a 
lose arising very есе, above {һе 
A d em with " rounded pseudo- 
rnished with elliptic- 
anm o p "ы уегу Тһе 
plant t - the 
fine specimen, shown by Mr. Lee at the 
meeting of the Royal Horticultaral Society € 
March 25, 1884, was awarded a First-class C 
tificate, 
