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ITE УААН МЕЗ CHRONICLE. 
- [DECEMBER 18, 1875. 
Tree of the colonists, the beautiful silver flower- 
heads of which are sometimes advertised as 
* silver capes 
The plant from which the small * everlasting 
flowers," which are those most generally em- 
ployed in decoration both here and abroad, are 
derived, is Helichrysum orientale, which is 
naturally of a pale yellow colour, and owes the 
various hues in which it appears in our 
shops to artificial preparation. This species is 
extensively cultivated for ornamental purposes 
up into small bunches, which are placed in the 
sun to dry. They аге sold either by weight or 
at so much—from 14d. to 34., according to size 
— per bundle, the price in the former case being 
from 125. to 16s. per hundredweight. A planta- 
tion will remain in good condition for eight or 
ten years, the larger tufts being divided for pur- 
of propagation, This species was culti- 
vated by Parkinson in 1629, but everlastings 
d into.this country at an earlier 
of the clerks of His Majesty's Counsell." 
The larger yellow everlastings are mainly 
yielded by des Ari imbricatum, an 
Australian species white ones are pro- 
` duced by another AER plant, H. macran- 
thum. South Africa is, however, the head- 
quarters of plants of this genus, and some very 
handsome forms are found among the nearly 
two hundred ies which are represented in 
the flora of that region. Of the nearly allied 
genus Helipterum, the handsomest species is 
probably H. eximium, w is a small shru 
with soft woolly leaves, and large tufts of Маек 
some ruby-coloured blossoms. This species is 
piel by the Kaffirs and brought into Cape 
Town, where it is much and deserved esteemed 
for use in winter nosegays. 
The small white everlasting which is common 
in old-fashioned oes gardens, and has estab- 
lished itself in 
um, 
very abundantly in many parts of North America. 
Kalm (the Swedish naturalist, from whom 
Kalmia takes its name), who travelled in that 
country in 1748, was much struck by the © asto- 
nishing quantity ” of it which grew about Phila- 
delphia, and speaks of its use in room decora- 
tion by * English дс. who are, he says, fi 
eral much i 
upon the ya cy * 
quantities of this life-everlasting rts he calls 
a plant], and pluck them with the stalks; 
into pots as an ornament in the 
i It is a pretty plant 
ases very rapidly by offsets, 
hi 
of Sta tatice, which ar 
room d 
Gemstones used i in winter 
ecoration. 2. "M. 
New Garden Plants. 
2i CYPRIPEDIUM EURYANDRUM, я. » hyd. , 
gather great 
; oblongis acutis inzequaliter ; 
he sepals come near those x 
The pet 
are ligulat er broad, much longer those 
. barbatum, much shorter — those of C. Stonei, 
let us ice as long er sepal, whitish, 
ith many great purplish dark apod ip comes 
near that of C. barbatum, but it ег. It isa pity 
at the graceful, quite unique lip of C. Stonei, really 
omparable to an el culum of an elegant 
lady's — did not r staminode is 
very broad, nearly square, with blun «УК heart- 
shaped at jer * bilobed. It is ny with g 
hairs, The leaf, rather 
C. barbat j 
чүт tessellate. Of course the plant was ra aised 
r. Séden in the Ron: Exotic Nurse 
Veitch & Sons. It is an interesting accession, since 
it touches rather near the giants of Cypripediums, C. 
Stonei eu Lowei, though it has Жез, чы leaves. Æ. 
С. Rchb. f. 
DENDROBIUM FLORIBUNDUM, 2. sf.* 
is is an team ^ introduction, coming hec 
nea calophyllum, Io 
my ауы Vern ночи. t Mr. J. Day. It be ы 
^ the Dendrobia with a 
he point, the Den 
nts thick, very symm ge 
9 inches high, yet are и e of fi hen 
but 3 to 4 inches high. The leaves are Moses acute, 
and unequally bilobed, 2 inches long by 12 w The 
inflorescences аррек n rather numero sige 
lateral, as- many as six-flowered. The flowers are 
equal to kc of a middle-sized menatum 
ey are yellowish Eon, with a dark lish brown 
is e mentum. Itis a native of the 
as recently sent me by hav 
ра a fresh raceme of flowers, All sehr remarks 
are taken from a ve accurate sketch pre- 
ared by Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Bull’s Orchid iene 
ind traveller, H. С. Rchb. e 
ARISTOTELIA  MACQUI. 
EXCLUDING the Limes, there are few hardy 
Eo in cultivation. . A noteworthy representative 
mily i is the evergreen Aristotelia Macqui, a 
introduced nearly 
in the South, at least, a 
"s year through than many more ‚ generally gr 
shrubs. In our gardens it is a shrub 4 to 6 Kei in 
height, with ctp ovate-lanceolate acuminate 
serrate leaves, c ng, and borne on pro- 
portionately у imi алсад petioles. The leaves are 
thin in textur: uite smooth on both surf. 
Th -growing variety in which the 
leaves are prettily variegated with yellow. Іа its 
native coun isto Macqui must attain a con- 
siderable size, as the wood is for m 
stru The tough fibre of the bark fur- 
nishes the stri instru 
small p es are reported to be edible, and em- 
ployed in the manufacture de a kind of wine, highly 
fever illus- 
esteemed as a remedy in of 
tration (fg. 157) was prepared from a spra y kindly 
sent by М ills, garden Miri Penrhyn, Corn- 
wall. It îs mo am cut Howe o the ground, even 
against a wall, in the climate of don, 
FAIRY RINGS. 
As large fairy rings seem to have been lately 
years or more, perhaps 
give my own ideas upon the subject, I do not 
believe that the chemical constitution of the soil has 
any influence on their appearance, as I have observed 
them on hill and meadow, within woods and groves, 
on the most barren heaths, in rocky places, on boggy 
ground, and on the margin of the sea. Though 
commonly called rings, yet completely perfect circles 
are rare, the great majority being ‘complet "e 
us lin 
distinction must also be made between rings ye 
by Aperi and grass rings without any Agarics in in 
* Dendrobium floribund: ue ok ee 
dobulbis crasso лотты diphyllis seu ). Dur 
ae 
them; the former increase in size as long a 
pera А of the Agarics maintain existence, but te 
ake no increase, and in time become im 
atter per- 
ceptible, Even the Agaric rings seldom continue many 
years in meadows or pastures that are mown, for after 
a longer or shorter time they bulge out at the circum- 
ference, become irregular, the lium dies or 
comes unproductive. Ih 
times, both in the vernal Agaricus (Tricholema) 
sus, and эз the autumnal Lepis rsonat 
ost conspicuous one year, have been 
. A ring lasting for many 
years will generally be on waste undisturbed land, and 
e 
old rn friend has assured me that he had 
known a or sixty years, and still in 
existence. "Mr. B erkeley, I see, speaks to his know- 
ledge of a ring for the space of forty years, but these 
are exceptiona 
do not Ie now to Bo into any theory as to the 
formation of t astures, though it must 
be observed Te in their Giok pauat by fungi a are 
n in their appearance, springing up 
sie ore ; which is the Зеус justi- 
of the old rustic idea that fairies caus 
them, , whic 
gris inated. But Agarics in 
circular fashion, unless some proces 
е or circular line which n them a fitting y perd 
for their nou only Agaric that I hav 
ing from. either end of the “Saal patch, 
tho in a br egular er. ut the idea 
hough often stated by authors, that a ring is produced 
fr e Aga scattering i aro 
uite 
i jperandi will account for 
fairy rings, w occupied by Agarics or not; 
and thougb, with incomplete rings, there 
y be obvious ci to a careful obse: E 
bright green rings that poe 
hes I suppose, common people, too) ни 
to a action, as Siapio intimates— 
“Апа poo meadow fairies, look you, sing 
Like eee rir compass in n a ring ; 
i The renga. ande bears green let it be, 
More fertile-fresh cn all the feld to see." 
Even vemm in our own time mentions— 
B ome flit 
е ibo i n fresh ;" 
eur er Agarics might accomplish dancing 
even of Ma Tehtaat feet ‘night have been thought to 
ve nodi е inar EI doubt À Mr. Berkeley's 
ming dead s 
without green ең in cont: 
with it, LEE S еу had killed 
all the grass beneath чр: анда and left the place 
totally bare! In su , perhaps, a very hot 
summer may have killed ee mycelia of the Agarics, 
= such a ring would remain without Einb in 
Usually, › however, the border line of the decayed 
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