804 FAL 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 25, 1875. 
for our supply of this very beautiful fruit, which 
is that of the Gladwyn, or Stinking lris (Iris 
Aeque тил have seen it advertised also 
* Tichborne’s,” from which it is evident that 
it owes its previously- -quoted name to some 
with *the vene eg 
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conspicuous, are no 
which will need no further introduction to our 
reiders. So familiar indeed are they, as,well 
as other legends and poetical allusions, that we 
shall make no apology for pássing the Mistleto 
by with this slight notice. Its absence in church 
decoration has often been remarked upon, and 
is no doubt owing to its former association with 
quem m 
is another е, = to е 
mas ALIDA, though, perhaps, ч 50 
on account of its “ berys ав black a 
rees, and few plants 
decorative 
are very effective asa contrast with the brighter 
- ad чы Holly, “ а = as any Rose;” and 
ey sometim endered more so by 
being dines in cited peers altho ough 
d principie.. involved in such a practice is not 
haps orrect one. These ee ack 
bus б the food of many a bird— 
t‘ Ther com the оше and ete hym as she goo ; ” 
and the blackcap is der € м them. 
They were not withou r “ vertues " in former 
Fd when every re and almost кет pat 
of a plant was ed wi with t , and w 
esteemed 
y. 
che. To cure this most trying and t 
common сардо уу be five p berries vith 
oile of Roses in therynde of 
put it into the eare of the contrary | ‘side to =ч 
which the toothach is: on ;” “ boyle the 
an ld it often in 
ic f the ache, or boyle Ivy 
niginger in wine, hold st. in тут mouth, 
ad l rub thy teeth with the " and many 
other modes of NAME are Ps into which 
it is unnecesary to 
Holly, Ivy, Milia плы are our chief 
Christm 
t they are no nera 
cognised as accómpaniments or he Chrisumaa 
B. M. 
Dewey: 
New Garden Plants. 
CYPRIPEDIUM MARSHALLIANUM, n. Ayb.* 
This has ; much the shape of Cypripedium concolor 
of the Rev. T. Parish. e leaves are very compar- 
to that are mottled with 
have a longer and are 
greater than those of C. concolor, rather like ide of of 
LE f., but mu uch rounder, thus re- 
ed species, The 
colour the flower, is | light yellowish green. The 
f the fifteen 
nerves -wine co ps hy This looks very odd, and 
ki vow to bea rather rare лән when de- 
such an abrupt manner. ead 
due lines a single, though far more 
comes mind—that of E Telipogon (semipic: 
tus), The inferior sepal is decidedly light 
yellow, but I am not well entitled to to speak Sout it, 
` Barrel Morello к, hyb.—C.- —. X par- 
| received a 
since the specimen at bapi has two oci: ae 
dium Lowei, Lindl., 
als are Фарыз ў ue d, ge 
ut it has the shar 
color. Its colour 
eing e 
like C. concolor. 'The keeled bract is much shorter 
t he hairy ovary. Outside the flower is simply 
greenish yellow. Itis a lovely flower, with prayed 
clear чи for а Cypripedium It was raised b by 
ү; зе; and has just flowered at the Royal Exotic 
Nursery of Messrs, Veitch. It comes from C 
Parish, and tege Rchb. f. 2. С. А, 
ТНЕ MISTLETO. 
ON the eve of his eighty-sixth t birthday Mr. Edward 
sse wrote a letter to the Editor of the Gentleman’ s 
Magazine, containing a list of the trees on which the 
tleto had n fo H 
Mistleto h é seh a specimen 
on an Oak near Godalming, and others the same 
in the sh of Gorke, pis alie at St. 
Dial's in the same county, and in the neighbourhood 
of Usk 
tree in Bushy Park, on a W 
ness of Hampton Court Palace, on a Mountain Ash 
in Hampton Court Park, on a Maple (Acer Opalus) in 
on the common Maple (Acer campestre) 
in Richmond Park, on the Red Swamp Maple (Acer 
house Grounds, Hampton Park ; on the Laburnu 
in Hampt ens, on the slopes of 
indsor Home Park, I 
Black Poplar at Sutton Place, 
Usk and Caerleon, Monmouthshire. Mr. 
Meno 
cub ‘Hazel at Godalming. It was found 
at Malverley, Т and " the White B Beam 
pre Aria) at Cobham, Kent, r the churchyard ; 
e. arge; leaved Sallow “Gate dai at Wood 
isin "4 ; att en of the Rev. A. 
Roberts, on i the Locust thee e (Robinia Pseud-Acacia) at 
Ampi Hampe * aa Stud 
Grounds, H mo es ; em e Larch at 
Weston, Shropshire s « » the Ash vM the мш: = 
де ervice (P J- E a pierre id Tar the 
Ил sink Pea ing to Dr. Hooper ; 
Horn СТЕ to Dr. Hooper ; on the 
Elm in Monmouthshire, and at Strensham Court, 
Wo ire; and on the common Laurel, o 
ur hich Mr. Jesse 
In 
could rely upon. 
the neighbourhood of Guildford, ony Жз I 
observed the Mistleto in great abundance 
trees at Losely Park and other places, an 
districts it grows more freely on that tree than on any 
th 
other. A gentleman who knows the Weald well 
informs me that the only specimen he seen on the 
Oak B ‘old Farm, d, Surrey. 
It has been said, on good rity, that this - 
site has been found on S Fir in France [we 
can confirm this so far as Swi is 
more rarely t England. 
in France on the Lombardy Poplar, the 
common Plum. Medlar, and ti it as 
growing on the Spruce Fir and Ash. Mr, Loudon 
observed it, in 1814, on the Scotch Fir, in the neigh- 
bourh f Magdeburg, in immense quantities, and 
says that it grows upon the Olive in Spain and near 
Jerusalem, but not in France. He had it on the 
herry i garden at Bayswater, observes, in 
his Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs, that it would 
Mes | 
Neither the Mistleto пог its foster - parent were 
thriving, and I fe i 
o 
—in dissecting ou the patience and 
pocket-knife of a school-boy would admit, the roo 
r feeding filaments of the Ire 
the seed, planted perhaps by 1 before 
the ранны. зң of gunpowder—sin 
to a great age— 
of the lim 
The Mistleto may be grafted as well as 5 propagated 
by seed. It has been ip m Hiec on the 
rom the ground, be 4 mea 
into which a scion of Mistleto, w ith a d leaf, 
should ferte The plant, graft parent 
stocks growing in pots, would be an object of interest, 
blended with the Holly-berry in wint 
It has not hitherto been used in churches, I believe, 
but it might be so, since every winter berry is precious, 
nd the Mis ed to be of n, 
and no longer excites prejudice as a plant devoted to 
superstitious observances. It oreover, a native 
evergreen, 77. Ever. 
ROSES IN ПЕРЕ 
THE photograph of the pot R 
ich 
previous to the p 
chester show last Whitsuntide. 
it formed part we considered the finest we had grown, 
ied in transit two large 
he this 
reaching its fullest perfection, not only of size, bat of 
h leaf: d fi -formed 
ater the highest points of excellence in judging pot 
It Tt should be stated that more than one of its com- 
plan 
cnt е € haped plants 
о become 
thoroughly with branches. Such. di is, wie ig 
ration 
effective 
the flowers 
come more regularly 
when a plant has a central or 
towering above the oth For 
Se per ns э d niae ol 
culture of pot Roses. We should only 
Boakas ya 
1-3 $E 
-— oe 
арс “ 
valie of which the best growers differ. 
MU ENS GARDEN AT 
HRIS AS 
To those who are in any way 1 with or 
fond of ga a visit to C ‚ Garden 
se (H.C.) Charles | 
flowers—the two - 
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