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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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Gardeners 
No, 1710.—8A TURDA Y, OCTOBER 4, 1919. 
4 CONTENTS. 
Aconite, a climbing 181 Orchid notes 
Acorns for feeding gleanings 
stock .. 179| Sophro - Cattleya 
_ Agricultural returns 1 Suzanne 174 
Кшт, Mr, G Sophro - Laelio - Cat 
honour for 178 tleya Pallas 174 
Bonne, disease of æ 179 E Us - Laelio-Cat 
Books, Notices of tleya Vivid 174 
_ Firewoods, their o- Perennials and old age 178 
. duction and Food Potatos, dry rot of 178 
values . 6|Railway sare the 178 
Botany and the Empire 175 wc de drons, new 
Я к. m cinalis 175 of t 
Bulb Gar: Ro ева he 
Lilium Wallichianum 176| Ro se ‘Una Wallace: 174 
Farm, Crops a pd eum R.H,S, fruit show post- 
| on the hom 184| poned E n 
Florists ан e.. Scabiosa caucasica ... 179 
E The Dahlia ... je UK peata E as à war 
Foreign а) 8 
E Correspondence ; — ee. Scott ‚ Memorial 
Improvement ot атте 178 
Егееѕіаѕ 181 |зосі 
The flora ofa single Chester ‘Paxton 183 
tree 181} Coventry Viola 183 
Fs crops, remarks Manchester and 
п the condition of North of England . 
the 180 Orchid © — ABB 
Grapes at the n- North of Scotla 
burgh Show 181 Horticultural 183 
H Memorial medal, à verlena Hort 182 
rd of the ace: APU Коуз pe 152 
'Horticultural educa- Trade 185 
tion in Canada .. 180/Trees ndi Shrubs :- 
Iutchinson, Mr, J 178| Dipteronia sinensis 174 
ew, ppointments Vegetables, maximum 
from КЕ - 180| prices for 179 
_ Kew r Women’s exhibition of 
„Memorial T country produce 179 
. Peas, a second crop of 178 itid work, the I 
Р а Si aged an 
шеш Y cdm rr ME A gar e 
Rosé Una Wallac PES ee © tune s TI 
Seabiosa заса, Pride ol Exmouth cs scu. 
. Temple of Arethusa at Kew Gardens... 1 
ITH the passing of A years Башы! 
m 
No pers of place to the Yunnan-Tibetan 
tual matrix of the Asiatic species is 
still A ys but Geo Tue Forrest holds that 
it is to be found at som e. oint north-east of 
the district © Tsarong inS.E. Tibet. Thence, 
as he tells u Lr genus spreads out lin a 
n-shape li sout! n A vant, 
ning off in numbers as low 
f Delav y hovers over 
the sce e, and Mom. id niet have м оуег 
the con nd sin the fam Fre ex- 
Plorer’s day, it is to an ‘that dr pex 
ledge ы the ое Агы, of the Lcd ie in 
N.W. Yunnan The remark- 
m nature of his ork e 
t generally appre- 
ciated, but some indication of the exten 
ered f the fact that a 
рН 
numbers 
sent home had ‘all but reached ш saw | 
total of 18,000. Some of these dupli- 
thon үө 
n on e, "e 
Mc aut hapter 
indeed, “owin ng ito the inhospitable atti е of 
the Tibetan tribesmen, the particular ret has 
only been MERE 
It has often been remarked, and with кип, 
material 
ar 
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E 
Hi 
ae 
о 
ite р Керр ушл. 5 
Del uber his death lay untouched and 
una i ended the herbarium of the Jardin 
d р for years be mim Franchet com- 
menced the enumeration of the s e em 
1 ompl 
k he was never able to c 
Of t terial collected jw Wilson 
during ge E two expeditions, the 
tion that has found its way to gardens 
is comparatively small, and for all horticul- 
ture has benefited Forrest" 5 initial рр 
though rich in interest ee overy, 
might ta well have to 
the North Pole. So that, for e "i are 
interested s Rhod 
a for 
e collector, 
enthu ti the botanist into 
friendly colla 
t fr 
om Ше mate gain to garden 
Ps such a happy ferae, as that of m 
eorge Forre iliams of 
Caerhays and Pro 1 alfour, we лы 
making of a chapt anical aded 
used to rank wit het Prid by Hooke 
the Sikkim Rhododendron, 
instalment of it has lately come to 
hand in Part III. of = enc c. of 
Chinese Rhododendrons which Prof. 
PI Balfour has a а for some 
time. 
ae forty-five new species now described, 
ut e form part of Forrest's collection, А 
that 
gwr-pu (Lat. 
wealth of flora 
north, furnishing n no less aoe xteen. 
The mapan of the species come from the 
,000-14,000 evel, n b so very far from 
mit of ligneous vegetation At thes 
altitudes one does no for gia ants and 
e- 5 
Ф 
large-leaved ies, 
grande and num, e the less we 
read of a Rhodod on forest at 14,000 ft., 
and in f of the fact that all the species ar 
not dwarfed, К. leptopeplum—one of the irro- 
ratum series—a shrub 20-30 ft. high, with 
long, narrow leaves, finds a place on the list; 
we are ced, к» s С w f 
As sp in ce © 
grow ing pa ind poeta ns, the majority 
the species are of sei nd ecd birds 
and small of leaf, while the , com- 
ы to regard t 
e Alps with a jaundiced 
on cultura 
га 
ose flow: by is "described as as 
the dwarf Ipine 
i rivalling in claims its ally R. 
R. ens, a diminutive 
** one of the best 
A di d 
Forrestii, > that ser 
Tibeta platt of prostrate growt is 
** another beautiful species." These two new- 
comers, along wit o more, porphyrophyl- 
lum and repens, are ranged ДЕЛ етед round 
peed estii to form a sub-section ‘‘ of every on 
ich we may say that it has just claims 
to be con sidered а a а. іп n en ty oo first- 
colour of the peso 
Sme a ааста 
* Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
Vol. XI, om. LILLII. New Species of Rhododendron, 
IH. By Prof. Bayley Balfour, F.R.S, 
haemaleum, too—‘ one of the vae striking 
species of the many new odendr ons 
obtained ру Forrest during his ener 
5 
makes it assured of a wel 
E: r obvious reasons, t 
yellow-flowered Rhododendron invariably ex. 
ites interest, and thoug! e particular 
speci oes not seem to have made up its 
mind ther lour of its flowers 
is be  yello or curiosity 
will be о А ipti 
ing 
niflorum, shrub grow 
about Mes pee of whi n we read that *' it 
mountains in S.V 
was breaking new v ground in the spring of 
last year, is another species with yellow 
owers. 
Students of the genus will 
Coil interest to the description p R. b 
letum only because it is a welcome addi- 
tion to pe small but 
R. 
c 
group, „апа places in our hands a k 
ә ы + УЭ 
stand the test of time, it m 
ss obvious characteris 
mining ific name is recor R 
comisteum, for instance— xojua'eós, 
taken care of, as a most charming plant for 
garden—is no less happily na 
eudoxum-— evoo£os, of g 
allusion to its attractiveness. 
One suspects t any of plants 
enumerated the pages of this modest but 
deeply interesting p let are cousins; 
indeed, the majority of them grow in a 
P 
another луы er, his conclusions are set 
n those critical but lucid ee his 
his pen has 
which s ma с че fam Ther 
s an example o is radite diagnostic 
analysis in the сойз ан of plants form- 
g the R. sangui ries, which com- 
ises, ides R. s ineum, eudoxum, 
leucopetalum, | haemal roseotinctum, 
all dwarf 
oe um and citriniflorum, 
alpin 
n the analysis in question the student will 
find, inter alia, a brilliant exposition of the 
the indument 
R. ha 
structure y mentum e leaf 
underside aematodes san- 
uineum $ п сазе е; = le ter * the in- 
dumentum i series of shortly- 
stalked hairs, m ‘alk relatively stout т 
rom the top giving off тапу horizontally 
formed talks, us am- 
r of still air, so importa contrivance 
for chec cking г rapidity o of абса, is pro- 
vi na f pine forest, in fact, 
with no undergrowt 
