SEPTEMBER 27, 1919. | 
hardeners Chronicle : 
о. 1709.—SA TURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1919. 
CONTENTS. 
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" nente of the 
w Relating to ... 
ts, Notices of :— 
ps and stock 
ee 17) 
hool Gardens 164, gleanings ; 
tional  Afforesta- Cattleya S y mbil 162 
t 4 ek = Pardines Stock, lecture 
“ 166 
л e Em 
y SR, ^H. 5 "мань 5 166 
a jon prs i " 163 Potatos in Scotland ... 167 
ond exploration in in Societies :— M 
1681 Bridgend H .. 170 
Darks бщ British басан, ion ... 170 
f eropa, ren of the... 167] Ceres sais rg am 11 
Register: Royal Hort 19 
Laxton’s Gage 182 Scottish Hort...  ... 170 
United Hort. Ben, and 
168 Pri see -e. 170 
S188 Society of? the Four 
ifs Northern ute 
168 xd it Show, the 
i Trees and Shrubs: 
. 166 Trachelospermum di- 
onal and um .. 162 
iy igisthivuiton We Me ent the 164, 165 
166/Zoological Gardens, Re- 
ent's Park, pages 
a D. W. sie 2... 1272 Е at the 162 
ILLUSTRATION 
d Ensign 22 
t His Majesty 
ina sp., warren 8 No. 94a 161 
2 helosperinum не ene n flowering on a Е ee 
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* REGINALD FARRER'S SECOND 
E. IN ASIA 
No, 7.—Ovr VALLEYS 
| HODOĐEN DRONS d t love 
Б хан of the highland Rhododendrons 
is one of the best, a 
ut mite i or tall bush that tan the ы 
up) pice between 7,500—9, eet. 
Its faults are a n 
odd liarity in 
uch a i rond his) so acute a 
inat its lovely whiteness 
and freckles о 
А thinking, one of 
it remains, to my thinking. 
- finest. ot white Rhododendrons; and its 
.In£ime takes it out of reach of late 
"ish frosts, : 
Ae lowland w 
oods are oon a than the 
and Шеш. Indeed, even more 
D lant Paris ha gemina glooms, 
aer with Arisaemas hooded : cobras 
3 E marbled with rose and white a 
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‘issues for June 21, He 
33, and Bo dr bee - 28, July 12, August 9 
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on the 
171/Onion Fly on Leeks -. 168 
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THE GARDENERS’ 
A little higher, and there are braes 
x pine studded wet Bracken to cross, before the 
t as so 
and notice: but i little while 
I a new important Rhododendron, wit! 
many points of R. megacalyx, but no fan 
- It is a tall shrub, or smali spindly tree, 
е 
flushed with pink, orange-anthered, and lim 
in texture, so floppy, snow- 
whi wered ll this 
intense fragrance of clove, and you may imagine 
with at acclamations I gathered in beri. new 
ed 
recruit, which tego follows the moun 
геп ds some 8, feet, ненг: ки 
s эф ghylls. 
The vegetation хад is much more T and 
hopeful. Lilium giga nteum towers among the 
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161 
able is the клик des ыа of these parts 
which, almost alone of its race, seems to like 
to carry uch 
hull At least, its roothold is ni weak for its 
it is m seen flopping on the 
bullatum- 
ae up; 
enormous ma; 
oils dull little sim stars of brownish green 
while ‘the  handsom leachd 
species 
(see Fig. 75) is айн» a rarity. Another 
kindred rity is seen 
further on, in the deep gully, 
w veda m a mossy rock a little Liliaceous 
e Streptopus floats out with a flat deli: 
eate "ie of pet -pink bells, freckled minutely 
glory, Pectin 
and 
p ood], 
ieee Rhododendron. This, I think, be- 
Fic. 75.—SMILACINA SP: 
dells of the coppice, and the k-banks pro- 
duce a Philadelp "€ ie jm үс am inclined to 
think very well, as avish with upstand- 
ing honey-scent cemes d white flowers A 
on first glance, I thought I had. co: upon a 
new Калы ot but that the tropics still соп- 
tinue; bov: e stee land 
ravines chat the iude амач тЫ are hung 
t.with Primulas, as they uld be, _ but with 
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the “ММ. $ hi! trees 
trails a delightful white Jasmine with cr n 
uds and delicious scent t the heights are 
w d in a little while we leave the 
fac and emerge 
illage, a n 
comes into view in the coppiced folds of the 
i i i e to write hom 
rills. But this is nothing fo write e 
to you about—a k and oo. ке vts 
т ded Pe 
rascens and P. ollis, 
arge, rs ет foliage, dud 
ids MN: spikes carrying tiers of starry 
magenta flow More likely to be valu- 
* Rh, sp. F. 918. 
FARRER’S NO, 949. 
longs to the и group, and ғо 
far I have nothing to about the flowers, 
ual the  big-leaf Rhod: on of 
uman s (F. 8 which, in its best rose- 
red forms, ís really lovely sight ell as a 
tely plant. For its foliage alone, however, the 
Giant Rhododendron wou A 
ever the flower may prove. Iti se 
boled tree of some 5 Я of course, the 
foliage i 
f 
9 
e of torrent-gorges ginald Farrer. 
9. 
* Smilacina sp. F, 94! 
