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ote: OF OF BOOKS. 
THE ENGLISH ROCK GARDEN. 
dipp into the b 
an мыйк book it might "hare been if on 
Mr iy could have нету» for а ere hiis 
to be have become instead 
cates of writing plain 
e should not had o 
ыт wher oul 
With this preliminary grumble one may set about 
an examination of much the most elaborate and 
| appe duction. I rst 
main mission is to provide “ guidance across the 
uncharted seas of catalogues," that is, to supply 
or RE e EDEN of plants ofte 
for sale, so ma; rn their characters 
hat all rock 
r articu- 
s cient to identify. the plant. But as 
regards the first part of this programme, the 
ut uc re ambitious; it sets out to 
everything we should not; it does not confine 
tself to the m 
neyclopaedia Britannica. The result is a 
collection of some 10,000 names, in which species 
in ee are wedged, without any dis- 
tinguishi among hundreds of others 
unknown, in "hoec countries, save in the national 
herbaria at Kew or the British Museum; the 
most important plants of the alpine garden bein 
айе ы (sometimes vi fully елый but 
crowds of others d C wil da is way on p. 
137 :—' A, lilacinus, from the base of Demavend, 
is all ho: Jia close silver, very dwarf, not 
more than 1 2 inches, with the stems of 
the flow tiim six or twelve" An absolutely 
useless e 
All + this Б ampi ea: P view of the fact 
that the author (а aims have taken much 
trouble i par of ` his Tab 
[end Жы greatly 
He Е Ж his Introduction, ho eat], 
venturing, he ӨХ о 
Boissier апа those m- 
ions of student of the Asiatic b - 
huge cargo of niente ат 
though “* this book does make а. rim and a duo uous 
. change in the progress towards ectness of 
name” zit must м some that "dei botánicai 
de. of . the weak. Tf the 
Sed dn. "Hr Reginald E 
“+ 502, 8 + 524. 
.'C. Jack, Ltd. Price £3 
THE GARDENERS’ 
s not only every Yd we should grow, but _ 
Farrer. ` cation of thos { 
102 pue i. T zn 
. cultivation are difficult enough already—and 
CHRONICLE. 
[December 20, 1919. 
MEM and. immediately refers 
Tri or his list of species. He — 
w toe T means үм any a family "' 
ТА, һе mean: ee Are 
tal," gen and speci 
beyond we ca A thése bright did uis p 
istance he spells aizoides ‘‘ aeizoeides "? 
Me uice er very properly condemns the use of 
* English ? names а those that are really 
old and native, and then proceeds to bestow 
upon г аео а outrageous appellations 
—' the Crowned King of the Alps, the Herald oí 
Чеч Woolly-hair the Юхагї”! 
you to 
‘ray ^ 
* race ' 
seal Р ‘and 
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ы. 
a 
S 10 e wW. EA imer "el 
anathema. Instan: of flippancy 
abound—*' Hx Зон. petes for other 
a atia саа that br eaki ing jaws"; 
“ Ну renens is lled it h no 
ber ta y to creep (or repe).” yen these sentences 
examples of “the Мойт апы регзопа1 тою ei Ms 
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y years’ experience of Mr. : Farrer s horti- 
cu ^em. АКЫ ought to have inured us to his 
mn X then, what was eudurahle in гаса 
uk а Yorkshire Sarao Е out of placé 
ae Po roclaimed as uthoritative aa 
descriptive handbook.” 
To the book at its best we turn to some 
а, 
i 
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i 
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E 
running es, ought - 
RENERT useful їз growers © of ge 
group, and the 
many. treasures lick "Md йн їп Че high- 
lands of China and Tibet. ‘Of the gr t Neng 
garden genera, such as " Campanu 
Androsace, рн Toim m, H we 
find very full accounts; and when the ры Ө {5 
unknown in Ban cipe cim and those that sn WOME: 
less or unsuitable a күш Шеге 
with СОГЫ, ез ‘and 
But all genere. are not equally 
ne. Take, for instance, Sedum. 
Farrer has bis es y told us that he does no ot 
like Sedums. Also, like most, people, ne does not 
know them. If he had been wise he would have 
oa them by on the other side. But ki could 
not resist the temptation of collecting here, too, 
a vast arr rray of n , to the number of over 170, 
and of iom Е information concerning them. Th 
е sult Boost fn aus 
saei: bonn: and are solemn]: ribed as 
Gistinet and separate ‘species ы * ante 
at the Index Kewensis would have kept things 
right; well-marked deetlune are aired up, and 
we are told that the well- known S. spectabile is 
a Rhodiola; in at lea. n the 
colour of the flowers—that elementary character 
—is given M pe. UE the Eras Sedum cs peces 
tion, S. Kirilo with its unique 
colouration, is 'evidentiy шлу, to oe au БОР. 
““ No, no, no!" is Mr, Farr introduction +o 
some of his Mur it ought "do have ен the 
beginning and end of his essay оп Sedum: 
$ Gentiana 
and 
es eve 
ach por is, 
as been said, ered very full, and the 
ini wili find hard to point out " omissions 
e seem to see a ski bya 
endency to 
at- са as ^ al e, 
meni "d the thoug 
e most delightful Кадыры of the 
eyes d 
in bio Frodo y leave out "te tiny 
ор С. Рента ^ wm Jooks so well over a 
flat slab? Indeed, dwarf shrubs of all so 
indispensable for helping ш Be. avoidance of 
monotony in the зоб еп for 
shelter, séem ре wey represented ‘among 
the hordes of b of dwarf 
Ole nied such as = the а е suit- 
able f Teri a EM corner. ae how "ES T 
Juni r upright 
genus re appear з? all in the 
. The in 
deal at present—and. many of the groups in. 
rorem her. 
rock garden of e future i probably 
remain unknown culti and ` 
° 
the Merano ов ‘lauded Chinvse treasures, 
Sufficient unto the “wy are’ the’ rock ‘plants’ 
thereof. 
For the produc of - the — book 
has по x but аео E is excellently pride, 
and the clear headin КА paragraphs and to 
es asing. The type is 
Th 
n 
еа own stories, free from у gym 
Ove тшге plates, еу ГЕЯ pss 
the work. is e half- 
ough the prim 
brilliant as those we ‘often see 
Continental 2 s they are mostly. quite satis- 
factory and w 
and habit. о s МАЕ plants—features 
most difficult to describe adequa itely in words. P, 
ORCHID NOTES AN AND GLEANINGS. 
THE ORCHIDS OF iry YEARS AGO. 
HERE A oer ecently come into my 
copy of the Catalogue of the Tnternatona 
Horticultural Faso og of 1866. It tains 
schedule of t with the adea of M 
competitors e index to the 
E d АКАЙ» a and a list of awards 
What is especially interesting is that 
very few ions the of the pla 
shown | exhibitor зе competitive 
groupe are perp re n. one to compa 
species 
hibition, "with ene poe ee grown 
‘day. 
The list t Orchids is ш. айлу, 
B erre g to show the great adva nce made 
уол the last ves o. : 
Odont ere very sparingly repre- 
sented, геру АМ not y all, while VOR 
hi orm the bulk modern collections, 
Е, 
3 
he 
B 
Orchids with tne 
um E A. i Me Sa a) A. virens (2), A. 
rens superl (1), eri (1) 
Anoectochilus allosurus pict D A grandis (1), 
intermedius (2), 7 Lowii (2), А. marantaceus 
0, А. Petola (DA T ics aper (i), A. setaceus 
Turner: Veitchii (1), A 
aecum citratum 
A. C uniflora (1), Ansellia 
(5), 
сеа (2), A Us sg eared 
yetina (2, С: elegane. b 
xanthophyllus NON 
Anguloa a), А 
africana 
Brassia verrucosa major 
fragrans (2). 
Danis 
Burlingtonia. 
tum grandiflorum (1), a igru 
(1), C. barbatum superb ), С. caudatum e 
C. hirsutissinr ookerae (5), c 
igatum (3), i ici C. Stonei m è 
superbiens (2), C. Veitchii (1), C. villosum nie 
drobium clavatum (п), chrysoto: H; 
D. crepidatum (1), Ф. Dalhousieanum (Ту ы 
‘Dayanum (2), D. densiflorum (3), D. densiflorum 
album (8), : aes a a ae иф D У 
giganteum . .(3), anteum С 
AN з ) 3, Da 7 Mobile (8, D nob 
legans (1), D. Pari isis (2),. -Paxtonii (2), -D p? 
pulchellum (1), tortile roseum , [1, „2251 
Wardianum Ini We 
Epidendrum a '(), E. édoratam (1)... 
Е. vitellinum majus. (1), Eriopsis ru tibulbon .(D- 
Goodye ibesceris (1 
Laelia eirio исар ai fe дана "Тагпегіі (1), 
