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; 
being placed in 
Sige o bed ding Tulips that ought to have 
ie whit 
tions cultivated in pots, but in bedsin th 
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THE 
SEPTEMBER 12, 1874. 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE: 
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= winter, and are hailing the rising beauties of the 
s 
Tulips may be appropriately massed in beds 
ted wi ant, using one 
th ip warf-growing plan 
or two varieties in a bed in gars to gain a certain 
effect, ac sii nA to the oe of the ed 3 or pe 
may be as one sometimes sees them employed at 
Belvoir and other wah kates laces an aita 
beds of mixed flowers that give a successio on of b 
garden, And the Tulip has some inia to be re- 
a town plan rs. Vei 
r M 
are in the habit of planting-ont a collection, 
as W spe e Kine’ ey every year, 
at` rsery the Kin Road ; 
they Eom. there, Producing brilliantly “coloured 
and la owers. varieties as 
Alliance, scarlet; Yellow Prince, pure ic Keon “Yellow 
Pottebalker, golden yellow ; Duchess of Parm 
-red, ined wit yellow ; and White Potte- 
bakker, palin w me do as well at Chelsea as when 
pi one in the Lo 
amount of improvement to d 
old v p> eties that have held their own ie nearly half- 
tury. 
w The best of all the ae gy: scarlet Tulips is 
La Belle Alliance, of large .size, though dwarf in 
prowess with stiff, erect footst potstaiks, and standing 
What an excellent and effective con- 
certificates, rtis pomier = 
r dwarf A em een et types, b 
, are muc ch Eri 
maenna 
crimson Couronne Pourpre, distinct and ve 
bedding paa, and the glorious Vermillon Bril- 
lant for pots. i 
matched. 
the scarlet toe si oral 
of ki i 
is Paul Morcelle, cerise-crimson; and C 
Superbe, rosy cerise—the latter vı ‘fine. By some de- 
clared to be identical, they are mee iat dient ie character, 
whether employed cr 
and Rose Grisdelin we get three very charm- 
, being of a 
ame any colour, and dashed with white or peach. 
Cerise Grisdelin and Le Matelas are very fine for 
k a 
nding the weathe 
ulips the last must st be aiia, 
Shades of purple and violet gine us some grand 
flowers. There is Wouverman, st of a Saik: 
purple, dark, and” eieeive’ a the en; 
rf and erect in gro fine. Next 
Van der , perhaps the best formed of all 
our early Tulips, looking like a fine and promising 
in the Icemen division of the show class ; 
the colour purplish violet, and very fine, whether fo 
po Faviola and Globe de Rigaud are both 
Pe flowers, more or less or marked 
flaked, si 
iey are useful and ‘effective in collec- 
open ground 
at are apt to get a somewhat miniet appear- 
Proserpine and Queen of Violets are of ae 
aeiu os fine and 
shast aa dagie it 
es aovely 
cate ate oy vile hues, hues, both 
r beddi 
ployed in Bdk way. en of Violets m 
fotcoloured bed, and, like 
Proserpine, too, 
pots. oeps 5, 
of the show class 
Of the white sells aia ro aa still holds its 
te) neral uch a stiff, 
a pot variety it is also. 
elena is a sewer white self, and very pure, at; like 
It sho uld also 
ap yc 
grown in pots under glass it comes 
it loses this to some extent. Tt 
| Parks and 4 
pagar 
Of edged og po a de Parma and the 
glorious Keizer are unapproachable. 
form of Duche 
former will Keps gwnd com 
form, flow f the latter Sill “diets ay the broken 
Ganie “Tt i eg nearly so effective in its broken 
as in ro edged fo 
ana Bird the head of the yellow self 
ai Taps It is vay little later than Yellow Van 
as superior to it as a Green Gage Plum 
is rea apratela Bullace 
large, it is cheap A price, and it gis that stiff A 
abit of growth so necessary in a bedding be 
Yellow Pottebakker is very good also. mas 
oore yet maintains its Pe ME “individuality of cha- 
racter—a kind of shaded wile id in colour, and very 
bee tks righ for bedding purposes. 
thus ed seen that the older Pica so 
Py their eminence ; at the sa 
are new candidates to publie favour, biring i rotan 
n order. But more of this by- doit: by. 
. : s 
Aotices of Gong 
Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado, By T. C. 
Porter and J. M. Coulter. (Washington : Govern- 
ment Printing Office.) 
This is a small and unpretending treatise, but one the 
labour in preparing which, and of which the value 
when prepared, are out of all wos t itte to its modest 
appearance. Itis payrak h e catal ased on the 
personal researches of Dr. Parry and oft the authors, of 
the plants of the Colorado snare Full descriptions 
are given of all those species a 
f 
und in Grays Manual of the North-Eastern or 
Chapman’s Flora of the States moun. 
ins of Colorado, as anien by the dir 
ow so accessible to the travelling public that this 
synopsis will be val those who intend to visit 
a re not only like Swi nd as to its alpine 
scenery, but also as to its flora. It is announced that 
other local Floras of a si character will be issued 
from ti opens The ery of Col is Aa 
ci of snow- Pan Mi 
mountains reaches from one of these vast spurs 
e forming a natural Mars tenho the 
f the plains 
rites : 
ing region is ie in a wor 
Mr. Black anti rado ; its Res 
a DE OE e 
Wilton iit chiens Oe cli DRE of the Fortidh 
Parallel, thie teaeatcloes of the Californian botanists on 
the one side and those of Dr. Asa Gray, Englemann, 
urber, &c., on the other, we may hope 
complete dong the icy States of North A 
interesting n nly bo ly but as a a 
large quota of bent plans for our gar 
—— Mr. feces continues hi 
contributions otany. is | 
moirs have been devoted ‘to No th A n Poly- 
gonacee and Cheno els which iudei a 
large number of weeds introduced from Euro ne 
H. Krelage has just issued a e of 
nd varieties of Lily- Notice sa sur sey nt 
valuable 
en t me- 
e September number of = Botanical 
Medecine iy Poe & Co.) contains 
ee Á J panese oan with blue 
the ts of the danth p 
deepy-ct projecting crest ; 
a hts bach i species 
enbach in our columns in 7865, p. 434. 4, 
r. Hooker remarks : atoi es sae 
essor el 
synopsis of the genera and ies, or even a 
classified catalogue of th h synonyms, habitats, 
and references to publications, w a to 
botany and horticulture.” Cinna dron corti- 
cosum, whose bark is used as an aromatic stimulant, 
is also figured, well as Drosera ittakeri—the 
same species as one s in flo y Mr. W, 
ull at a recent — of the Royal Horticultural 
Society; Pentstemon humilis, Noe: Ae yt 
low-growing species with blue flowe 
volubilis, a species — B. soola; st t pener 
a i twisted sca 
t issued part of the new edition of the 
MEVI. Dictionary (Van Voorst) brings the work 
up to the word ‘‘skin.” The book has long been 
‘idispensible o miscroscopists. 
—— The fourth ma fifth parts of the re-issue of 
Sowerby’s British Wild Flowers (Van Voorst) have 
eave dan “the work Eiger ag es 
he value of this unpretending as a to 
i phoned “go eal & CONANA on a 
incontestable, as the 
beyond the ge 
shite remi r small, are Ciriani 
e Land dag Sg he Pocket Book, by John 
ant i pelea & Co.), is one of those books 
about which the reviewer can say but little ¢ save to 
i e present 
he 
is little e iy that be said, It will T eii 
become the Soket companion of all land surveyors 
and agricultural enginee 
—— It is but a short mine since we had the plea: 
sure of announcing the co cement of the twentieth 
ee of the Fore des Serres, and already a second 
‘i - the os 
and anmam 
d, but which in Belgium 
propagated, says M. Van Houtte, 
by cuttings from the subterranean stock—a fact worth 
knowing, as here some difficulty has been experienc 
wi aximowiczii, a pamasa spiny 
as being as 
us in southern Englanc 
a frame. It is easily 
in flower, does commit self 
of ji co age it A deeply- cut leaved variety 
of th 
canta var. ' filicifolia, The ia of Amaryllis procera 
Aralia pentaphyil from a memoir of- M. 
Florist, as the finest of the Tacsonias. It 
isa native of Northern Bolivia, as we stated 
time after its first publica! emaining 
lates are devo to ous Pears, of which 
dmirable coloured plates given. It is to 
be hoped these will be separately published at 
some future time. The letterpress of the present 
number contains, in addition to the description 
f£ the plates, bio cal noti 
arious of of 
botanists and collectors, su 
ini Drummo 
