222 
and e г degree of freckling, there is nothing 
very Atal left for you to look at on Hpimaw 
Pas Ali over the open slopes it incredibly 
ab mong the grass, and even descends 
з and little cols on the 
“good il th: at 
re- 
pardanthina at home, and Pos no pe 
the other 1есо ocharis. "or all of 
th I forecast a y nf re on well-drained 
grassy banks in English gardens or wild gardens 
but I find it very har eve that any one of 
th will surpass N. „агур dm the- longest 
known and dest spread of.all. Scent is t 
only charm it lacks, "n has E бшен so abun- 
dant that hb: one lack er noticed. 
nald Fa 
TH E GA EDEN ERS j 
rai. FROM BLENHEIM. 
Mr. J. Barker, Orchid grower to the Duke 
of а Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 
= a grand flower of a showy new hybrid 
1amed Laelio- С аруа 
а гаіѕеа 
Blenheim by crossing L.-C. 
We ; 
at 
Purple Ст or 
arscewiczii x E^ -C. oo за) nd 
L.C. t. Gothard (C. apes L.- Got- 
toiana). e lower, hich “eight inches 
across, show, ня nce ot L.-C. Purple 
Emperor more e than the "oem parent. Its sepals 
and petals silver-whit pr jicately tinged 
with rose, E e juae ’ dark lip mulberry- 
red, the disc being sulphur-yellow and the 
narrow margin light rose. 
Mr. Barker also sends flowers other hy- 
brids prev EE recorded as Blenheim varieties, 
the showiest of which are паст. Veiris 
(Venus x Iris), a fine fabu -gold flower, with 
ruby-crimson lip, бе gold lines in de. centre; 
Brosso-Cs attleya Mana of fine form, röse 
coloured with ros y- crimson lip an 
tinct golden yellow blotches in 
id having а 
middle 
the 
Fic. 101.—BRASSO-LAELIO-CATTLEYA JOICEYI. 
‚ ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
BRASSO- LAELIO.CA CATTLEYA JOICEYI. 
ooksonii ( 
y ). 
ancestry it may be 
stance and 
anthin 
elop "the clear, Bos canary or 
w of the sepals 
asal portion of the 
lip, the front of which is 
tinged ai nd veined with cherry-red. The latter 
colour ided on the flower than is 
shown in the illustration, 
» the lighter shades 
were not caught by the 
Cattleya t DA s (Dowiana x Rex), sulphur- 
yellów, with rosy-mauve lip. almos st covered with 
bright yellow Jine an Cattley 
suom уы vith а white lip veined with light 
mauv 
E TONIA F A NENA 
From t t, now reported 
to be in pons ng o itm again, Messrs. Sanders 
ray ot this elegant hybrid betw 
Edwardii and Miltonia Warsce- 
flowers are most nedod i for indoor 
rall 
Салый. and florists’ work gene 
CHRONICLE. 
[ХоуЕмвЕв. 1, 1919. 
TREES AND SHRUBS, 
LIGUSTRUM NITIDUM. 
I was interested in the note on page 142 
concerning Ligustrum sinense and other fine, 
wer rivet I 
the Chinese Privet was a fin g 
r small tree, judging it by quantity of 
1 nd the leafy and twiggy, 
04 апо 
drooping branches. 
. lucidum і in bloom, but never so finely 
eeks 
as I saw it a 
er Medway seems 
hrub 
21 
cu 
The chalky AM of the Riv А, 
highly favourable to various evergreen shrubs 
id t ой of a i 
and tre pum side of a gateway in the 
PON tig stre a tree of L. nitidum 
asuring Mosi 15 ft. high апа аз much 
(тоц gh. J. Е. 
STRANVAESIA UNDULATA. 
I with interest ү note оп Pyrus 
Sar geni of whi ch we have seven or eight 
olani n 
Another weak point 
extremely early 
e 
s prolongation of the wig (i.e 
on the young pi) are Missis d d! But 
this Гө һу Ше IT = venture к write 
thos 
because I am an = a your 
resi who grow Stranvacsa andl their 
experience of its ber Some of those who 
read this m ira a tub-specimen which 
Mes J. Ve and Sons used to send to 
shows. This t has been i e garden here 
for some years and has thriven well. Measured 
to-day i 8ft. 5in. high and 8f g e 
tendency of another plant of the es 
in e wes) 
branches, but the plant in question throws up 
tall, Сов, upright branches. All the leaves 
on the o are now claret- Luque those [o 
the n eri n early su it 
is most beautiful, because then it has, pr 
all through it let-c n leaves, and th: 
with a low s e them, show like little 
of visitors; nor d wonder at this need 
no other hardy shrub, excepting, perha = 
hug s and blood-red stems of young shoots 
of Rosa sericea (spinosa?), which thé sun е 
off with quite the same transparent effect. 1 r 
while each year the old of this bus a; і 
mass of flower, the pl its very y- 
sy teh ar alae Sang ess 
ent when green that one cann fin 2 
oerries together, and I should doubt 3t there еч 
е erri axo on the v se bush. Is this - 
habit of th or are we only u ace ar 
the иге. holds off this, promises to be t 
most wonderful year for autumn co zs ouring — 
1912. The Барок. woods her ready the 
brilliant patches in the ga n it бе к 
ame. Aubyn Howes -Battye, Ashford Cha 
an 
Se = 
Petersfield. 
PYRUS TR. AN SITORL/ A daB TORINGOIDES 
as large as P. Мыш 
tree is the deeply lobed 1 eave: 
