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TWO SHOWY-FLOWERED BROMELIADS. 
TILLANDSIA LINDENII is a ыт Bromeliad 
which 4 Peso at athe seasons, but usually 
during the autumn. well pets growing 
for the sake of " Е alone, and a Tape imen 
in. bloom is handsoi This 
диш; xt 
THE GARDEN. ERS' 
brachystachys. 'The plant is easy of culture and 
may be depended upon to Шош. The leaves аге 
di ас ed in а vasiform mann and are of a 
pleasing shada of light green. “The blosso; 
arranged in two rows on the 
bright crimson d with purple, which 
gradually merges into jr DA on the -upper part. 
The flowers e of a clear yellow, but they do 
wer 
not protrude Чат beyond the bracts, fo last ppt 
a short time. The showi of 
СЯ 
Раоа e namely the 
r two or three yes he 
X Hand List of, Tender Monertyldone, this 
LANDSIA LINDENH VAR. REGELIANA, i кей 
w 
.186.— 
Flower аъ "blue. purple; bracts” pink or rose. 
From the exe Í these bracts ithe: flowers are 
produced. j^ about an across, and 
of a rich, blue че еы colour. 
flowers do not long r 
867, bu 
with Bromeli: Рон ass х іп general, 
it dione not now cultivated to any extent in British 
ga 
T. Lindenii has several varietal forms, and the 
one named nn PSS in Fig. 136, is a 
very distinct form green 
it to be aisi of specific rank, but 
x who had found many transitional forms 
Pen ved varietal rank. 
r1 same arder, which 
ay psou, шеш about December, is Vriesi 
Vriesia is of eaten Es the parents bein 
Vriesia Morrenii arilletii, З 
th of i Ds ips here referred to will 
grow in a lonas having an intermediate a 
ек ‘They should be potted in a 
good, 
compost, sting principdlly of fibrous. peat 
: consi 
b pulled to pieces by hand, with the heri Xx 
little sand, chopped Sphagnum-moss and 
nodules of charcoal. Good drainage is cumin 
as the rum need a liberal amoünt of water when 
grow 
C Mese ct ering that Bromeliaceous Plante mere 
long favourites on the со 
prising have 
. popular in this country; even in the time 
stove ges ic were largely grown, these Pica 
were but seldom cultivated. W. "т. 
CHRONICLE. 
(DecemsBer 6, 1919. 
FLORAIRE. 
IN Gard. Chron., 
udin) 25 
t ат of 
was a little late for the pl of his ps ud Ч 
hea t and drought had bie very irying, though 
we sat at c in shady arbour and ate 
дейил Mirabelle Plums one forgot the ie 
As we passe tai а saw 
Campanula excisa Питу апа Рыс. опе ог 
two drooping g flowers «hi is ) 
difficult, said 2r i 
РУ 
А 
was nett admired, and “then I noticed two 
Eryngiums, one the d E. serbicum 
(which grows just ly all over 
Roumania), a ту Ыы “species with small 
flowers and 2 T.E. 
creticum, very. бта florairens, 
a cross between E. alpinium and E erianum, 
was not in bloom at the time of visit. 
Cyclamen europeaum, with its fascinat- - 
ing scent of iria and Lily-of-the- valley, e À 
there in all s of odd corners, which 1 
founded ae Pet 
and 
ants, 
the world, Solarium Sinclair ace Я 
ане t Potato known, with ыы the size of 
all Pea; also. Rosa кеен ИК; a minu ute 
with tiny. о ow 1 
“thet and that Fi Bs 
ris hads at Floraire must be w 
R 3 for they are poit with.186 — 
s doronicoidé, es is a fine perennial for E 
cating. the ` ct. 2 Yd Jam. TEPI ED 1 
ari 
considerable Фоа in. "urn агн i 
y i Ae to. seni 5 "from 3 
e 
Mo) ie bom. ph being one of the 
rarest floweri is to be regrett 
t. itsel rather тр with big, rough 
leaves and large whiti owers. ‘Achill 
Philip р is Л deli htful grey-foliaged plant 
brought from а Ж it takes 
юрвїз m phyla was noi 
very stro oh 
o fs grows S or ш, c hie d 
dy evelops its e and mauve blossom a 
: ess io ын a: handso shrub ; 
vile тагда. е fruits, is a very greah | 
improvem el a alium pur 
aenea plant. ‘Anagallis 
[шон a A. ‘hardy, perennial with brilliant p 3 
flow ос шее it can 
be Ev "yr x ir i MEA, tun 1 
Saturei, sa is a C legge Т for a 
rock g . The n rs are pure ү white and а 
unlike e of the varieties offered in АН 
ost оран ЖАМИ: the foliage and scen 
stro m e, E 
Carl 2 a, a han e Thistle, was 
UNE M, vigour not far from Vitex 
Agnus cast hich, at Tiai. is a's 
bf 
. 10 feet hi covered with тапу, 
` what like тыш aha Eu 
