Jury 26, 1919.) 
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ENTS. 
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tion os m 
‘pinks, new "perpetual .. on 
4 Plant notes— 
aoe 0 Camp panua caespitosa 49 
ruit-gr owing Vero Colensoi 
y ex- а, зам in 49 glauca. m М . 49 
г nondsey, vegetables Privet Trees cs 6 
54 TRE Maa 
"ot Bir rmingham Horticul- 
tural . 57 
Formby Horticultural 58 
National Carnation 
... 50 and Picotee 56 
ы. 56| United Horticultur al 
Benefit ра Po ui 
. 5 
eyro oy usd D 
ts “and ` "mail: 
id ers, 
hrubs А rare 
54| flow EA. for South 
oke Devon aud pipi: . 48 
.. 54 Vagon 06 ra . 54 
ndon Plane, the 
52,58 
1 47 Wisiey. UE. of, 54^ 
es from Nectarin nes 54! trial of strawberries at 54 
ILLUSTRATIONS, 
umber fruits pecu leaves oe 
lk Queen Mary 
n в acerifovia, 48; P. acerifolia seedlings. 49: 
 acerifolia, var. hispanica, oz Р. асе: ы var. 
51 
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ramidalis 
ret Peas Doris and Gladys 
THE LONDON eon 
PLATANUS ACERIFOLIA.) 
е еер И the 
enry, 
P ^ E i ету Рг 
dn as ith Miss 
interesting article on the 
The mystery which has always 
of this tree— n 
Platanus acerifolia (see 
He has ne m 
having in a wild 
there only remained for the London Plane 
der cultivation, but whether it was 
edli zaria f the Oriental Plane 
j rid between that species 
American Plane (P. occidentalis) h 
2 E uestion- much di ob 
908 Prof. Henry hims ected 
ip in P Trees of Great pare 
Fen, vol. iii, p. 620, and I remember 
E TS ago, in jade de s Ta ae 
: seen that the London 
nd that he disa; е кым ч 
d i 
at any positive 
at this tree “is undou 
a hybrid, and must have origimated as a chance 
some botanic garden where an Occi- 
possible, strikes one as a very $ 
in 
sequence of events must hav 
t : 
reci 
some to accepi LI origin of ihe 
London Plane as a hybrid o 
But after reading Prof. apes s paper, an 
all the evidence he adduces, circumstan те 
ue it may gi few probably will fail to be 
his 
vinced by easonin One of th 
a. of hybridity is in the a of the 
eedlings the London Plane (see Fig. 24), a 
W aa EATE seedlings 
This variability is to be roted in 
the si size en eem x lobing in Lus Pe es, in the 
unber of f balls on a stem and in the 
«Бата ы tics at the individual fruits (achenes) 
that make up these balls, all more or less inter- 
mediate P those of Oriental Plane and 
American ne. 
OxrORD AND THE LONDON PLANE. 
Prof. nry makes 
attempt to bh the t the Lon mee! bui ee 
originated at the Botanic Garden p c ord 
about 1670. The younger Bobart, who bec 
cur dés of the garden in 1680, eo a 
manuscript ва; of the trees ма арн. there, 
Messrs. and Druce 
ard 
ns cimen (No. 4 
nosis, and labelled 
described i 
00, 
per ve old. Moreover, this is the earliest 
vidence of the ues of the 
Phhe 
are four trees of the Plan 
which jn their age and dimensions surpass all 
thers known. One is in the Palace Garden at 
Ely, one in the grounds of the Ranelagh Club 
at Barnes, one at Peamore, near Exeter, and the 
fo at Woolbeding, in . Of the 
ast three nothing certain ; eir history is 
available, although they are probably с 
with the tree at Ely this. fortunately, the 
history is known. I by Gunning, 
who was Bishop of Ely from 1674 684, and 
h ave liv r 
] or some time : 
before his appointment to the Ely dio- 
cese, there is, both in time and circumstance, à 
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clear probability zd a connection between the 
Ely and the Oxford t 
OGENY OF THE LONDON PLANE. 
hough usually propagated by 
of the ше e. Several 
i l The oldest of them, 
25), i: is mentioned a Spee 
nth edition of his 
stron 
origi = 
Р. hispanica sh Fig. 
the se 
ish i 
Di Li ee 
f London Plane the influe f P. occidentalis 
in its fruits he fruit balls, € occa- 
sionally two three on a sti 
quently "eH cee the solitary ps balls of 
P: identalis furnish the bes E c charac 
ter, distinguishing it from P. oi. шыра 
has many a stem. Al 
af 
cuneata a: 
ап ith the result that m ol 
the кыш that has M their peres 
has been removed. . J. Bea 
Tn 
THE CLEMATIS. 
any species and varieties of Clematis 
к. grower "choice dh a wide range of colour 
nd it will be 
Father is suitable for 
every : situation and posi 
D s judicious of id beautiful 
h may Si de to beautify un- 
the garden and fesso ышк 
mix га es ther ; this mixture provides a suitable 
medium for all s f the plant. 
трн» and ids,- blossom 
ode 
profusely during "the summer ‘and early autumn 
