"Aveust 25, 1919.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CH RONICLE. 
101 
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ТНЕ 
Bardeners’ 
No. 1704—SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919. 
с ENTS. 
gricultural waning Nursery Notes 
for officers . 107 | Tomatos at Ена) 102 
llotment. a see, Orchid notes and 
E ondon 106 leanings— 
g g 
Disas in leaf-mould... 101 
ена horticola 109 
possession of. - 107 |poiato trials at Orms- 
pem paniculata. 110 к - 
} = stock | Rats, the destr uction 
i of 106, 108 
otm eat hóiders, dis- 
ae” Rosary. "the— 
exploration Н.Т, Rose Mrs. Henry 
< 103 Morse a 102 
‘lo Dwers inseas . 107 Shadwell, King "Edward 
sias, the PG Memorial Park at ... 107 
me Ent of. . 109 |Societies :— 
ru tcrops "remarks on Eod Horticu MM 
t 10: 
pere of dorus 3 Royal н а" 115 
iculi 
Souibons | Floral Fete 110 
U 
Error dies nited Horticultural 
pes from the Hamp- 
Benefit and Pr opens 110 
oom vine — - 107 lock, the doublin ng of. 110 
пе 108 Trade No 
. 110|Trees and shrubs— 
8 Japanese Hornbeams 108 
lSociety, catalogue Natural Eee oration 
rom the library o "us 109 mlock 
fyrtus Luma 110 108 
ew President of the Week's. poc PB the 104, 105 
- Boar d of Agriculture 1¢g|Worm, a new garden .,, 109 
3 LLUSTRATIONS. 
E pinus Boonies sé .. . 107 
ya прис. fruiting branch o GP du = .. 108 
T. Rose Mrs y Mor: o . 102 
ula Bella ve тода 101 
mato, Early Market, 103: Tomato, Sutton's a d 
1 1ч: гон No, Sutton's Dessert .. 105 
v garden ose 1109 
Кн ALD FARRER’S SECOND 
XPLORATION IN ap * 
о. 5.—May on THE HEIGHT 
a sad fact. That — ** Blue 
MAPS on which I had imagined my eyes 
een the Saad delight, 
are said to 
ermination, ind this 
i However, I 
no pains. а 
от success with a pla nt of en 
ss and tl growt 
P 
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СА 
‚ rich woodlands, 
ing membr rane ет 
ЕТ: is I m r browning, on the 
isk, from which it seems ph me to have an 
пі nous жр of falling unri 
At the beginning of May the high a th 
п the 
va with thickets of dwa 
hose flowers only the future 
е ar cent species still mone 
the picture—the great fleshy pink-and- 
e blood-scarlet, the  blosso: 
nk e smaller kinds 
ur jeder ous articles by Mr. Farrer were published 
— for June 21, Ns. peres pid 
foliage smooth and white on n- 
hancing the beauty of its he d li tile dupes 
of rich scarlet. ‘This also seems to have a twin 
or counterpart in another sm sh: al 
ounding in ri arlet flowers. t here they 
re larger, and the pointed leaves ar 9 
their reverse, in a shag of white or tawny wool 
I cont even more struck than 
i had expected r and variety of 
E in n ranges, where any little 
pen slope may yield a distinct 
species. 
A pale- mE Fritillary is now appeari 
a o of the Blue Fraud. 
that here and ther 
occur in the universal Bamboo brake. ГЕ 
wise there is nothing 
pt a Ribes of A s КЕЎ wai, with 
long tails of dull open 
ranite cliffs alo е келд pan pute ir pen- 
dent moss-cushions, abounds a Primula which 
ertainly none other than P. bella (s ig. 46) 
It is indeed rming, dainty thing, with big, 
blur-eyed flowers of lavender-lilac г 
е у 
over the massed, tiny rosettes of ere 
in a reguiar, yd constellation 
Yet, eI 
уге т. 
Етс. 46.—PRIMULA BELLA AT HOME. 
nt anew, I nk I should soar 
naming the pa thi 
Delicately rey т 
10, 
to reco; 
ning at some il, ‘ft. is 
whieh loves ease dam 
the hady cli 
dam fis. o or mossy tuss among 
е liche interlaci ems oj e dwarf 
ie regn Here it grows in clumps of two 
thre crowns, sen din up stems three 
TL ô 
© 
TES 
e 
p x eig ae tha 
margir 
as even of Tea-Rose з 
Bui these heights yield yet another Primul 
and one есосі mper as already to 
have alm out m. Deep in the 
ж of оо and Rhododendron forest, 
the Bambi 
p and damp little rocky gullies sink steeply 
+ Primula sp. Е. 881. 
down ipe end aréte on both the pecca and the 
nk 
Burm sides e iw in the d. 
usd чайы. Primula of d 
ppearance eer bis Readers may picture 
it roughly a miniat: of P. sinensis, with 
$-inch s s els of fringed, pure white 
flowers, very rarely indeed tinged o k ith 
palest lilac-pink. It markably pretty 
plant, and strangely enough ha look, me, 
of being quite likely to a d garden 
plant, it ў out- 
standing peculiarity lies in its foliage habit. The 
scape г thed calyx, fattening towards s 
suggest md aet a ut the foliage is 
uite distin At ering time seer деа, s 
the gans are X sala e and d 
he base i i 
variance with 
e foliage of P. mollis with 
aulis 
NS the SH: there i is still only ri imd 
the high ridges. Pleiones and Coelo 
cliffs and in the ash irees at 10,500 be yiera 
give an almost, certai g hardy. 
Diapensias, Meg: y Gexiteigin an сана 
ait further inspection; and does the 
Meconopsis cf the grassy strips, which is clearly 
oing to othing but P. Wallichii. One 
more Primula, howe remains to puzzle me. 
f rare occurrence on Hpimaw Hill itself, 
appearing in solitary specimens among the 
Bracken and down in the gullies, there is a 
rich r rple, yellow-r: 1 ca a which I 
myself am completely unable to nguish from 
ja iem ould 
ck the long rci that are its Uwe; gi ng 
otherw P. mallophylla ould be the 
e occurrence 
са seems very unlikely that 
for some time I considéfed "that plant must be 
am de i igi 
“ great gardeners,” and whose zeal is still evi- 
denced by many an alien happily persisting 
However, one wh w them well, and th 
Primula Е tains confidently that they 
ever intr du сей Р. „јај іса, апа this 
rely-occurring speciés is сиг of theirs at all, 
but belongs to the hill; mim leave the 
mot d hà the plant io bè settled by higher 
Of seed, unfortunately, there is no 
чеге аз eu the scapes I knew of have bee 
plucked by the local poultry: Reginald Farrer. 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
DISAS IN LEAF-MOULD 
AFTER reading your note on this subject 
an Flory snd 
Black’s well-grown specimens at the 
the 1st ult., I should like, bip oe Rene iban 
to follow this advice, to kno w long they 
ve bee ure leaf-mould ; some 
ears ago, s was growing Disa: y suc- 
cessfully in the compost which seems most 
suitable them—a mixture of peat 
surfaced with Sphagnum—my garden s in- 
duced to try them in Oak leaf-mould, which 
at that ag was very much advocated for 
Orchids ertain growers who had been very 
hi 
ае with it. The result was the loss of 
i er ich 
all my seedlings, together with a number whic 
fan y the Kew au g 
ad them usos forty years' experience of 
i ial Orchids, am ing seen 
rowing rial 
Disas Heec grown in several places under 
ery varied conditions and in various com- 
