356 ГЕРЕ 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 18, 1875, 
members of the Society, and which is now pre- 
served in the Royal Botanic Garden. From 
the time of Dr. Neill’s death till the iing- 
up of the Society and garden, the secretaryship 
was held by Dr. Balfour, while the secretary- 
ship of the present Society is entrusted to John 
Stewart, Esq., W.S., . William Young, 
a stanch and indefatigable horticulturist. 
New Garden Plants. 
к REICHENBACHIANA, Endres* 
mass of spatulate oblong broad 
in, on 
in the lip, two such lines on base of the superior sepal, 
and one such line on base: of each petal. It must be well 
e opinio: 
of the late Harvey, who dedicated qus Vies siriking 
things to those he liked and appreciated, and the m 
i ‚ plants to those whom he did not dak 
flowers 
ed Мәсе 
am afraid no amateur in the 
in his ho 
t 1868 by Endres in 
Costa Rica, and flowe wed derent times in Ham- 
burgh Botanic Garden 
SACCOLADIUM кты асе ичп n. sp.t 
is is a a 2: curious d beautiful 
we 
sepals and petals is just that of 
› esospinidium vulcanicum. 
is on the IEEE lateral sepal a dark 
i ite ; one should better 
side auricule, and middle lobe 
not пану developed, but only represented bya call 
eos defined ` plan 
ird. 
ings as 
Missi Regard: 
which is reduced 
es. 1 hig 
sese of the Wellington N 
n, N. W., to whom it is inscribed. Z. 
vaginis tis. 
obovatis apice minute altis, 
RARE CONIFERS. 
Pinus flexilis, James.—This has been figured in 
Nuttall's Sylva, in one pe the Oregon Bo каас Asso- 
ciation’s circulars, and under the erroneous name o 
Pinus cembroides in Newberry's Report on x Bodas 
of Williamson s Expedition for the Pacific Railroad 
Explorations. As the first of these works is costly, 
the second out of print, and probably only pre- 
served bya fem—althongh the drawing in it is by Dr. 
e good, and the third is not very 
асбону figured, a fresh and thoroughly 
accurate representation, by Mr. Worthington Smith, 
taken from Roezl’s new specimen, will be acceptable, 
a 
ave grown i will tell us how it has thriven. 
It is an Дра: species, growing higher upin the Rocky 
Mountains and a Nevada, looking like a dark 
and ar Scotch Fir, but not hs ‘ag in my ae 
although, perhaps, even deeper in its colouring, a 
characterised by fine gnarled й twisted ‘limbs that 
к to strive against the mountain blasts, 
between 9000 feet above the 
level oft the sea in this bold and defiant attitude, but 
further to the north, or higher up at the extreme limit 
of vegetation, where, more exposed to the blast, it 
an rm 
SS 
FIG, 75.—PINUS MEME: FLEXILIS, 
rain and snow, and for 
oa and drought, -The latter condition may ces 
hich we 
the remaining four t b bid 
that 
w! pply. 
It is a Cembra, and, as the shows, the cone 
is aneii that of the common Swiss Costin: but the 
bene exsertis apice 
unifloris ; bractea o icellato поп «equali ; qe 
о oblongo triangulo PU, p inferiori di posee 
apice bidentato 5-nervi, nervis duobus extus minute 
me cari ai lager ligulato-falcatis seu ligulatis acutis 
divaricatis xiu ix iu uali; labell 
е scita posi abe 25 
о 
n nte, basi utrinque auricula fal 
a; callo triangulo u indie. i ntus adjecto; columna graci 
pec коли: [эй син vix 8 lineas longus u 
late apice atrop 
dix ten 
vacuo; columna nana 
; calcari 
сыр: tertio antico solide, ceterum 
postello lineari subulato bifido ; caudicula recta. Æ. С. RAR A 
habit of the sons as already said, is very different, 
Andrew Murra 
PEACH alae чо WITH FRUIT 
UDS 
For now nearly 
and im roving on on trials 
success, we of obtained itin 
. CONE AND FOLIAGE NAT. SIZE; FRUIT ENLARGED. /. | 
: with the base of the reserved branch 
remo 
NES '"UÉ— 
rdinary results with ‘the Peach. Several Precautions 
о 
being ed for this process, we deem it fit to men. 
` боп them at E. E 
I. The RE hould be chosen from small frait ; 
spurs, bearing seit closely set flower- buds aem E 
de Mae The terminal bud should be саг carefully 1 
re 
: » "The bud i: ps cut in = shape of eo 
A Vm. bud) an pm 
separated as possible, consistent with the insertion of 
the bu x 
4. The bud should be tied in and immedia iately 
са by. a leaf, so as to c the d action 
the sun’s rays. his souls n removed 
before winter, when , the 
gate being cut in ае d the ps begins to | 
e bud should be inserted at the 
wit aa 
possible to utilis ilise e the f ower-buds me ced ^ the ens | 
of the long fruit shoots by uniting them by inarching | 
4 
d gra n 
tree, in the manner above descri 
of the present year we gathered splendid and very 
АА fruits of Baron Dufour, а week e 
oo of a ibe © re 
bec 
in the M t Pea 
variety ripening here at the end of August. 
i f Murray 
