OCTOBER 18, 1919.] 
THE 
Barbenerg Chronicle - 
No. 1712.—8A TURDA Y, OCTOBER 18, 1919. 
CONTENTS. 
nold Arboretum | Cymbidium Norma: 198 
thet = Mns rom No. Hybrids . 198 
ы | nee ock in 
Mor o pad ... 202 
| Poplar leaves 1 200 
XI eriments 
t perennial 199 
s and sto 
ck | Potatos, skin spot 
m 207 елле of wee 204 
ng "hours з stay- at-home 203 
d 2034 Bä i by. JOBS uu 203 
'arrer's, Mr, Re ginald, dendro ihe 
explorations 0 Asia 197 | pee „= 201 
seber rry nildew, Hothamsted Experi- 
i A 203 | pc E . 202 
203 | вз] 
| ù false a d tru „. 202 
Arborettin 205 | е esce 
ў n : 208 | Genera Tw rowers 
E ug of Haarlem ... 07 
GEM 0 204 | Sugar, home-grown ... 202 
wdenii inthe Trees and ener 
- .. 203 L 
ЯЗ leanings ; Week’s work, the E 201 
į gnbidium - — Women’s produce 
- foru 198 hibition, abandonen £02 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
€ Miller's Seedling D — 
nbiuium MUT D 
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gibraltarica hee 
баша latifolia at the Arnold Arboretum. 
Mr. REGINALD FARRER’S SECOND 
_ EXPLORATION IN ASIA 
No. 8.—On. Sasrya-Kav 
Р. 
E ont is УО with Skimmia and 
phne and a small Holly: small wood- 
emo; lest blue. е as does also 
ut th 
orest, after all, is its trees : these 
nds promise sev eral of great value 
and perfect нс ina they do, from 
Over 9,000 feet, in n where the iake is 
th Alpine and En; lish. p» s not common ; 
Hpi gion ve seen none 
the Sabiya-Kaw only three specimen 
And the ere not conspicuously 
dinary though, of course 
looked for now that 
y differentiated into species 
of these high woods 
ruce. ,in its young stages 
her dark and dull, develops a nge pid 
d specimens, for it forms, at las 
ened head of a few yep ido fo 
e top, serrie almost 
‚ so that the P, айс tree 
ook like some ol "ОУ in а 
Exactly similar, too, habit 
© me a tree-Juniper, over on 
e Chinese side of the w Pass, ascend- 
eet, and at 10, bearing 
ands of a dazzling white Coclogyne. But 
Ae finest, tree of all is a Hemlock Spruce, w which 
comparatively rare оп Sabiy = i it 
in the Hpimaw region. This all 
egant and amply furnistied, bin as 
* "The previous articles by Mr. Farrer were agria 
Sur issues for June 91, June 98, July 12, August 9, 
"SUst 23, September 6 and September 27. 
THE GARDENERS _CHRONICLE, | 
а, seen dutiful and 
waa over for E cofin planks t to these alpine 
of Ian's and 
197 _ 
E while P. bella in sheeted masses twinkles 
as you climb the break-leg stairway. 
The. Primula will be seen at home higher up, 
m the зш contains other treasures in its re- 
esses on walls hang metallic-looking 
tise nay T sock a Diapensia (see Fi, i 
set v 
th > меан гак wi al that I cann attribute 
to an ial acuteness of = co. * the 
lant is a beauty, and should give mu 
at ho least all who have facilities fox 
or 
à PY 
the garden. The other treasure also hugs these 
cool granite vock-crevices—a Lloydia, precisely 
repeating tastes and charms « alpina 
at Tien Tang and Wolvesden, save that here 
delicate bells are of golden yellow, astonishingly 
li ads of Nar issus Feri codium у 
open, and light up the cold walls with 
heir gleam most fret: bly, as their bright 
arks seem to hover and twinkle up the sheer 
granite, 
A little higher, and e climb coils among 
Bamboo-scrub. And here there is a new Rhodo- 
dendron, of which I have the highest opinion. 
Down by the beck-sides of the valley A E 
happily беш, but this eal home 
occasional drifts down some Bamboo -clad rib ot 
the fell. n is a loose bush e five f 
with dark oval foliage h ah ges purple, 
and smoothly primrose on the reverse. Аз for 
the аена they are large, waxy trumpets, and 
no two plants bear them of the same coloar, 
but they pa from pure white and pale sulphur 
through every shade e blush and flush 
saimon and coral, to a rich, warm bibat 
And each ein is ashe fons down with blossom, 
so that the e of a flowering Colony i - 
i at. It e 
— 
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soft, w smod china blue, often varying to white, 
Sabiya-Kaw await e sit At ert m 
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vie e Blue g iuc entis Primula here ventur- 
b 
the promi e red-purple Nivalid for 
later on. Reginald Farrer. 
* Diapensia sp. F. 932 
