-. NovEMBER 1, 1919.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
221 
 S- Chronic 
No. 1714.—SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1919. 
CONTENTS. 
American blight -x 220 Pollination as a chemical 
E les, scarcity of stimulus 226 
ber dessert .. 229 Raisers of new “plants, 
228 the ose e" 226 
223 | Rhododendro 
flower -. 926 
221 Roots, ше e resting stage 
227 of . 227 
258 | Societies :— 
22 Kent Commercial 
F 281 
229 National Sweet Pea 230 
TA Horticultural 
Jacobinias for winter ae ч uel - 
ing T 904 Royal Scottish 
_ flowerin, m Arboricultural 0 
may M. de la 232 Scottish Hort. 
Orchid Potes and gieaningy : Trees and shrubs :— 
.— Brasso-Laelio -Са attleya gustrum nit 222 
.. Joiceyi .. 222 transitoria var. 
Hybrids ro m Ble-, Toringoides 222 
heim Stransvaesia undulata 222 
Odontonia Farnesiana 222 Week's work, the 224. 295 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
pple”: pope Queen Mary, EM E^ m TE o] 
наво Laelio lio- Cattleya Joiceyi Be a> a v» 22 
Nowe ше. pardanthina . S js 2-228 
Pear Winter Peach .. 229 
Ras 227 
Rhod n 8р, Fuera No. 1 024 221 
- MR. REGINALD FARRER’S SECOND 
Я EXPLORATION IN ASIA.* 
о. 9.—JuxE on THE HEIGHTS. 
5 d goes on, Liliw 
reai 
8 п 
soli specimen, far do 
th out of the dis- 
lid mass of che: t caus 
me, remembering the tale of R. orbiculare, to 
take infinite trouble in securing spe Nor 
it. lour, indeed, d not 
answer my expectations, being of a rather chalky 
close at id, but the plant is 
ndsome, large-flowered, ample-trussed, 
iant effect, has the further 
lon to th oup in whic 
-5 are all bearded 
with long glandular sticky bristles.+ 
are bygo n Hpimaw b 
h е, and so is the han е tree with 
eads-of creamy white and long narrow foliag 
© 
d its efforts." The upper w 
* The 
by Mr. Farrer were published 
at issues. for eons 21, d uno: 98, July 12, August 9, 
PULS А September 97, and October 1 18. 
эр. Е. 872. 
has now erupted into a glory, with heavy 
lilac-flowered Azaleoid tree, very much r 
ling its ponticum-col predecessor, but 
ore regular in th 
e tiered 
eese brightly ME: on the re 
d young foliag But very 
n anotace лаца ана 
gapeti This 
e upon ы a flash ot fire, и as 
пы ze the marrow in my ‘bone I was expect- 
ng no new Rhododendron at te moment, when 
suddenly pad! dark woodland, at some 8,500 feet, 
es with кеч genes of blazi 
assaultei ey 
light sonet crimen, such as I have never yet 
beheld Rhododendron, perfectly clean and 
pure, buf wit] th ost heavy bloodiness 
of some of the arboreums and barbatums—a 
colour so lucent and intense that for two or three 
minutes гир» adea M an from the fl one's 
sight sees everything gr h 
d appearance ought 
value for English duri even as the 
plant's 
Fic. 100.—RHOoDODENDRON 
аиса and habits aem perfect apes 
wild state it does not w nor flow 
hite, but if such an associa- 
off at home, what a 
Д i 
solid tiered prr of bl that at their 
wcrst are of greenish pink, and at their pile of 
berry-ice A tall blue 
agio! banks, sd 
ink. Of C 
of yel above 
while the lower, a very tall, lax, frail grower 
* Rhodo. 
phyllum?)., 
sp. R. agapetum, F. 1,002 (R. argyro- 
n jungles of aspiring stems, coils over in E 
а pping flights of E sparks. A 
Viburr promises we d 
a is in de bloom and E bushes 
and Rosa а е * 
and trees are about with the white 
es of Jematis. montana тум is во often 
deluding one into taking from afar for a 
artling Rhodod th while, up al 
anothe ite Clematis is unfolding its stiffly 
acuminate segments, and th b of the 
Pass f there i d E a foot 
in height, with savage horn reverse 
to the leaves, and pale yellow тоя епа flower: 
like tiny r And the m the rai 
even yie dodendron (coo Fi 100), of a new 
far seen) is a small and 
rs pale and smooth, чет оп n the reverse ; 
which seems to differentia: Б, » Loa the group of 
R..floccigerum and R. to which I 
should jer б have uhr 2 belonged * 
ae ees, е kept to the 
last. For now, and Son d is irn heyday of 
P E 
i s 
е Я | 
SP. FARRER's NO. 1,024. 
Nomocharis pardanthina pue Fig. 102). And the 
first sight of Nomocharis pardanthina happy and 
ар home marks as of an hin the Lui 
dener's life as does that ks Primul bili 
Daphne ood t по] Pt н е ог 
Nerang Е 
in my quantities 2 
on the o un 
open, dark- pde faces, in iR shade of pale rose 
* R. sp. F. 1,024. 
t F. 1,081. 
