6 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 4, 1874. 
have always failed in mastering Pampas 
feathers ; they are avy, and sink dood 
where they are not ropes i = F. F. Hope. 
(To 
New Garden Plants. 
Saar ea he Noe Rchb. f. in v. Mohl et. v. 
Schl. . 1867, p. 230, var. OLLANTA ‘es 
very Fre variety as to colour, since the disc 
of the lip lip is not merely yellows but a orange, 
the blotches are not blackish but bro The flow 
too, are a g arger than in the. genuine heat 
I have to thank, for this interesting variety, Mr. Bull, 
of Chelsea. Æ. G. Rchb, yx 
PHALÆNOPSIS FUSCATA, 7. spet 
ome more a new Phalzenopsis—now-a-days a very 
source of ceEnerice. It apes ars y have 
kss: large leaves, and I s 
escence m 
yellowish, mottled with brown, and very fles The 
lip is quite ee a the — sepals er not 
so much extended a u-cervi. I hay 
thank for it Mr. Bull, fs oma it boty. the 
ayan peninsula. H. G. Re Ab, J. 
Ba ay pega tage a, M, F. Smith, M.S. ; 
Kilo Lin, XX. 303. opted (GLAUCO- 
PHY! may Kunze, Schkuhr Supp. i. 2 03-2 
A eves, pon figure e this pretty crecping-stemmed 
ern is given by Kunze in his supplement to Schéuhy. 
. It was siaina sent by L’Herminier 
from Guadaloupe to Bory de St. V. wie i from nban 
it received the MS. aan of Polypodium glaucu 
as this was ‘occupied, Kunze substituted fat 6 of 
ie Ciena eae It is also a nativ. e of New Grenad 
and dor, and an son a istinguishable 
e plant is well adapted for gro growing in small 
ets, the rhizome being wi dely cr 
ind wd younger portions ecu ith I 
The fronds Aeara aen uniform irekira i 
riaceous, 
sket chi this i inte: addi 
our garden Ferns roars es I). ni si 
lapenes. T. To 
US RA , Baker, 
is species, s ne ch Belongs to to ste small news with 
fattened 
y 
is 
in which is figured in the first 
pait of the Refugium (tab. 21). Th d 
the plant is as agin (o j Tees EA 
A wide-climbing copiously- branched er shrub, 
ith very bis ced seat or ascendi 
stamens scarcely shorter than the pean, ie bone | 
filament ; style enen the 
— ppmias dies: apex, ¥ 
Flore „dimidio Majoris, labelli disco” aurantiaco, maculis 
F Aff. P. cornu-cervi. radicibus brevibus ; 
obtuse acutis (pedunculo certe P 
ibas: iilos illos dictæ 
not produced at the ‘A 
ps Sea 
cervi); | 
GARDENS AND GARDENERS. 
I LIKE a greenhouse, Some poet has tage a 
“ Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse, too.’ 
[Cow per. 
Both require labour, care, and money. But the green- 
A piece of land 50 feet by 
the proprietor almost fa I am always amaze 
when I go through the greenhouse o or m neighbour at 
a wonderful proti ion of the wers he cul- 
vates—beds of Petunias, of Helictropes, of Pinks of 
ery hue, aaa Roses, Heathers, and so forth and 
so on, I am amazed at the variety and the piera 
And when ks consider what an amount of patie 
plodding, omg and nightly | Jahon and non all that | I 
see has cost, I wonder and more ; Ti yet it 
should hot ik use ‘onde any one who considers 
ie Nature will yield her wonives to the jiasi of 
“My neighbour, Thomas Tapper, is a born Engli 
And a real native-born Englishman is, in m 
experience, the man w s 
Lam 
= 
oO 
5 
2 
AA 
5 
fa 
5 
‘ma 
e themselves famous uch purs 
write that it will re gos that in 
Englishman takes 
e b A ta ‘hier are native Yankee- 
urists, pomologists, bitin 
turists, horticulturists, agricul rists, and s 3 bu 
I ha will be rai that Mr, 
W well as others Ea a not now men- 
tion, living and dead, whose po s in these direc- 
tio ave enriched and utife |, and do daily 
enrich and beautify, this eset of oe on this Western 
> age can v e their descent 
o some anc a who more mgn wo centuries ago 
ba devotedly attached to these “delightfal rural pur- 
suits, and in whom the artificial pursuits of industry, 
of manufacture, of oririsiti br of any new financial 
industry, ye but se ry consideration. 
z have tò reproduce 
the things that our remote 
cestors = loved. a0 ‘Robert Herrick :— 
“I singo of b oe ossoms, birds and bowers ; 
May, of eas and July flowers; 
I pee of May- Pes hock-carts, wassails, wakes ; 
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes,” 
Whit nly bat t was Robert Herr i Auld 
ta climate, and a sete nate and a jolly 
_age, he lived and 
- Was a jolly country! - Aire wh ol 
` New England, under our skies, and. on our soil, se 
to vik the jollity which enlivened those days 
we imes Ta despair: How 
n the middie of the porta = 
pril, in New Titan hope to have any ade equa 
idea of the character of the Gemia of me Ane! 
a Merrie Old En te the same month! An 
I write that Wilder and Stone, and Lori ring Ae. Flint, 
and Davis and. Ne and alle the other lesser na tural- 
ists and agriculturists who amo: 
among us hay 
enbniy rural pursuits, and to make gardening a profit | 
as well as a pastime, deserve a most grateful remem- 
as patriots, is after 
of small co uence compared Mes th re ers 
the earth who have msc hoe two 
Eyes alte sued a Ate Ae lais but one 
ane 
to to make the desert to blossom as the R Re — Bele 
more th 
> an ‘eVidencs of the general inattention of the Puman 
tha 
ace to the wh ss e of the seasons that o ; 
sans compelled to listen to remar eau lie 
eenn at the ut Sema hans cold Sieis for April F 
spring ” 
eks | take. 
i and cover it 
circle of my neighbours influence as a floricy 
widens, and oo number of those who come to p 
and flowers, and shrubs and Vig 
dtikoitiy penne until from a modest 
fi o his g 
n 
the plea 
that of another’s, Omno (Bost Aea 
ITALIAN GARDENS AND 41 
FLo ge APT eh s.—Behind 
Pitti Palace, a building uty enough for London, 
contain f ; 
towers and spacious domes, its a chu 
its quaint bridges, and its fine quays view 
t it am mpensates for the slo 
neglected look which the garden has es, 
they are weeds here, and ma so 
not like to apply a 
weeds—well, 
ful that one does 
pgm er them. 
a 
< 
e point which has now been gained j 
dici 98 reaches the cen N 
p eis of great length, 
well proportioned as to width, escends the 
of one hill and AN the slope of the opposite 
ina PT T straight line. It is formed of fine 
of the pyramidal Cypress, whose formal ou 
are aore by age, and whose somewhat glo 
sombre aspect must be a pleas ant, relict a 
pth sun and the intense blue s h 
probably the case in summer, 
d 
England is in nine cases out of te 
We were hardly” to find that | 
rule held good in Italy ee sight of gardeners 
pails of water and beso t 
ing the sono 
gested one cause for the Frequent mutilation of t 
works of art. 
is large marble basin surrounded by 
thes, and with a huge and — must we say i 
ugly oy th of Neptune, or some worthy of 
description, H 
projecting portions o 
recesses by aena ap ror: ee oe 
os ae 
is some zrani 
k Dit it must be confi 
oo old and dry to be pictural. 
oss or yie would nels to clothe eo dry 
with a a garb uty ; 
all 
pide cia a weed, for the weeds here are in 
teamed treasured ornaments of our herbaceous b 
strange plants let 
Scr eam of the P 
3 Tree oor é 
ogee ‘Wild Tulips of several varieties y 
Bee Orchises, as well as 
e family, were in 
atl scores of new and 
st ped to illustrate the 
