ea eee ee veer, 
of a eek of water; 
he roots 
_ sthe B 
= lections, brought home three Pa ago by = y 
~ dition to E aoo of Dr ooker, Mess 
SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.] 
THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
329 
suficient character by which it can be distinguished 
abo It has a wide geographical distribu- 
ristan d’Acunha, and on the Andes from Cape Horn 
da, 
to iNew Grena 
fine specimen of the Mexican ATR ION 
agg is now flowering in the ord Botanic 
Garde e flower-stem is from I0 to 3 feet high, 
the s upper jit being crowded with greenish white 
produced in the axils of the scales. The 
foes. x Fath grows very rapidly, the present one 
making oet, ns one time, at the rate of 6 inches in 
twenty-four hou 
e Ez x been Mtb with the sight of 
some grand examples of LILIUM AURATUM in the 
l ae of tines McIntosh, Esq., of Oatlands Park, 
eybridge, via cvidentiy show that they are in 
the right place, and may furnish a p to others in 
the alti tivation a this finest of Lilie re 
lanted at intervals near the maigi of mt ihai 
ng ground 
~ MeIntosh’s 
soil. 
years, 
and u 
iameter. Being selected: bulbs, With finely: 
d richly WETS, — idea may b 
an 
formed of their  magnifeent a iiptiaean 
— Those in quest of brilliant autmn flowering 
plants for hó- araoa border, should make 
a note of DAHLIA COCCINEA. 
ing single ipida of moderate 
habit, the single row of pe 
d the centre yellow. Piante in smalle clumps, as in 
Botanic Garden, it is singularly attractive. 
w w flowering on 
Kew. Itis 
ves are more finel 
CLEMATIS DAVIDIAN 
— = the hatasos ground a 
tubulosa, but the 1 
. This is a native of N. China. 
ELUMBIUM LUTEUM, is. 
cred Bean, 
this season producing ore ay seeds on a plant in the 
Oxford Botanic Garden. 
nic Garden, where it ea now Te, pro- 
ducing its lovely flowers, a, are of a rosy-tinted 
white colour with rich yellow centre. 
—— In the garden of Mr. Melato at at Pike. 
bridge, is one of the finest examples any- 
— seen of the beautiful 
ut fully bearing © all that we have from ti ; 
time said of its e and beauty. Its age eran 
colour refitied style of growth are the two most 
‘Temarkable of its characteristics. 
— BELLIS ROTUNDIFOLIA VAR. aT kt 
lue Daisy—is flowering on the rockwork at 
It is one of the valuable krina to our col- 
hay Si oor a biie 
Dahlia will be 
or eitaoutnty, ‘at on collectors 
interested in this. 
by 
the alleys of the Greater Atlas in latitude 4 at 
of 4000 to 11,000 feet” (Dr. 
n the 
Cup UPRESSUS LAWSONTANA | grass, 
BRITISH GARDENERS.—I. 
ANDREW TURNBULL. 
Pe pea of the present notice, and of the 
portrait, Mr. A W TURNBULL, has 
baek | head nites er at Bothwell Castle for upwards of 
forty-five ram during which tim a 
propagator and culti- 
e much-respected tutor of 
e from time to time been 
Ir. Turnbull was born at ia a it in the 
1804, his father 
h his master’s 
commenced early out nine of age 
Turnbull 
his father’s yard 
ow 
vated such attractive wild flowers as the n neighbour- 
od afforded, with th 
ho , with the sete that he acs to 
e gardening his calling; an n just over 
of age he entered apprentice 
garden at Haining, in the fmmmiediate.n mo 
ilchost: of Selkirk. Here, Mr. Turnbull writes— 
I was bound for ne aoe and paid £4 as 
apprentice MEF con = board, b but the 
only cash ea came +. my ih 
in two paym 
ts, being Is. at idol of ‘the two Yo lente 
fairs. Mr. Craick, my master, was, however, a good 
kitchen gardener, and every attention was paid to 
kitchen cropping ; it was one of my duties to serve 
the kitchen, pm 4 every young Sone should 
Both master and man had plenty of 
i of of outing the. sopt 
AcE jp 
an 
was pressed t ourn 
another suitable poe hy was got. 
recommendation of m 
but that I got plenty of work in the Selkirk pe 
until I went ip Dalkeith Park in March, 1821, under 
tedly a very 
the late Mr. M nald, who was undoub 
ae en and fruit gardener,and an 
"Then. Se at Dalkei 
alone. My memory at that time being pretty good, 
I generally learned fifty plants in an evening, and 
gee” them the following evening pe geting 4 looking 
m learned 
up any new ones, so 
then aig i Dalkeith, 
not quite eighteen of age when Mr, 
McDonald plac e as foreman in the flower garden. 
ume my ie ok veg anes in po 
situation had been 
applying to the, for aapa i ie 
o had prev y reman in g>. forit 
garden, for ariano n, he told me od 
a 
of the plants that were scarce did n 
arg I | to 
hen a Doet 
entrusted with the 
I got the charge of 
employed in = garden aid be he wat conducted 
the work as arranged by Mr. MeDorald, pian i 
accounts of tina, "Re. » which he was kind enough to 
say I managed to his entire satisfaction. 
At the term of Martinmas, 182 28, he sent me to 
my present situation, which Thave now ye for forty- 
aa and a uring which I have been 
mpl under noble lords and two my 
present employer being the Right Hon. the Countess 
of H ew, if any, men have greater cause to be 
thankful for x had sucha i 
and kind em 
age I was 
rot foreman’ comet on, when 
n and women 
Westwood, who has lon: 
ore of the garden and out-of-doo: 
at Dollar Academy ; and I have aoe om very intimate 
ed omson, 
and paid strict attention 
was the peo eee > i Taper on 
rivilege of seei retty uen! e 
tion oF. Heaths a ue th dinburgh Botanic 
then Ra -Sa ad 
Mr. McNab, 
cessful cultivators 
piratii ie of 
miende certainly one somen 
the direction of so able as Mr. 
Turnbull, the rece at Bothwell "Cas astle have 
acquired as sept aon yn interest in the history 
of gardening, as the Castle itself, — a Lapeer 
ruin, has done in he history of ee 
ON THE GERMINATION OF 
UNRIPE SEEDS. 
ee 3 
perenne interest, a andi is seresa 
a recent number of the Bulletin de 1a ocitl 
the late 
