720 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 5, 1894, 
ees en of it in the : eualeaie of sale. 
was sip me of those imported, 
inches, an 
inch; on mn opening, t the 
ow, get age 
yel hg pels ber mE lasted in Bt 
fifty days; the buds at the tips of the ger es an 
a on opened to-day (November 28), and I shall 
expect to see them in beauty in January, 1876. Th 
b 7 Sle in a night tem- 
time, w n 
o tt takes pieng of water, 
Bink 
e 3 tree. Is not this 
unusual? William Earley. [I incline to think tha 
his is the work of Bosirichus dispar (now Xyloborus 
ispar). I never met wit complete a ring before, 
but Ratzeburg gives a figu a branc of an 
Apple tree (and Apple and Hawthorn are much alike), 
out me size as Mr. Earley specimen, rin 
y in the same way is, only the burrow 
> more than half way round in the so 
into central r wood. 
too the burrow is represented as as originat- 
bd the ring, and aa up to it as in 
t the burrow 
has 
e time dh and 
shrinking of the wood about it would naturally 
be to enlarge it. 4. Murray.] 
Broperit saed Be am —If Peg eet mys- 
tery to t ought +e Eve 
known thee one ot prsi i is m mention 
pi and bon allied to paraffin in Kekulé’s Fikriach 
i ag ied Chemie, vol. i., gal 633, 1867. IP. 
pak wt Dyer, 
Wellingtonia gigantea.—Seeing in the Gar 
of November 21 (p. ah he 
ven by yol 
deners’ Chronicle 
dimensions ofa W 
; share in the Gardeners’ M Mutual 
ociety, ~—e — of — have 
been held i in jaras of his h His varied knowledge 
general urbanity tig iie a fitted him for the 
ot these and efore 
= rete by thse ad Dy the e gar- 
find 
T tik sellers ia se 
pase N nes 
i. aioe jounefel of ey Gra still 
hanging, All the Vines and Peach peg that 
they — been well attended to. The four houses of 
vere. two Bana condition, and in one of themi 
wo Bananas occupying each end, and 
° of fruit, the heaviest of et ae 
50 lb, when matured, I may add, 
| ing through the nurs 
Pat they are EOT in large tubs. 
houses n es this Bic there are two plants of 
Heliotrope h a space o 17 feet. In 
g rchid-house, the collection in 
is small, there was Canine Veitchi, in flower ; 
Cypripedium niveum, wit ; the Dendrobiums, 
of which there are thriving little ‘bits, are grown in one 
of the Pine-stoves, where they seem to enjoy the 
full light and the dry high temperature. Notable 
amongst these was D. albo sanguineum, which like 
the: others was growing in a basket made ' of Bambo 
season of the year. To remark upon the contents of 
each house would take more time than the short hour 
spe me, seeing the ei irty houses 
on the place, with several ranges its. I can only 
it me time since I saw such order and 
peanliness a garden as is exhibited at Wimbledon 
Hous 
Anemones Blooming in the Autumn.—Look- 
rsery grounds of Mr. T. Bundy, 
Bi =e near er a Avie _ days aa l 
came across some s of A in full bloo 
and the oes wonderfully ne far ake time of Fi 
These beds bloomed freely last spring, and when the 
eds, 
wer foliage and full of rich blos- 
soms, Is it not, ws possible to make Anem 
valuable as autumn-blooming i 
pra n November a surely be made very useful, 
Tree Aloes of South Africa.—The Kew 
w plant 
of the Natal arborescent 
ent Aloe, sent to this country by 
but ar 
ming spaced from one another by the sokini 
of the axis, so that the main distinction potoan the 
Natal deus = iii arborescent species seems to dis- 
appea m now strongly inclined to think that 
they ‘ie ehn Be though there is still some dis- 
colour of the flo ee | ioe 
ich ould stand. I 
Bering ie EM ra 
cet aa hich Mr, one 
1 maen Jee 8) iat the greatest oe” of 
i kiki EA he h en Was 30 feet ; it tical 
have been 12 felt Ww. fe Thicton Dyer. 
Cattleya gigas. —I send you by to-day s post. = 
flower of Cattleya giga (the same as ed in 
ones ts 
Stee Septem 
ere at Som 
of the gro are at least 20 inches in length, and 
cm we E pongi it (àa imported plant), scarcely two 
t has made seven Ra p iia from one 
4 
ee Border pile —I have jotted down a 
few parle: ond beontifal Bye vih I think may 
worthily be ri wes’ list in the 
Ga + ig Chronicle of ‘ast Satay 
BRITISH. 
Orchis fusca Gymnadenia anpere alba 
o> hircina a 
Erica vagans 
RAL AND SARTREN: aome 
Crocus Weldeni albus 
Muscar osum pallens 
SouTH iaag BORDERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, 
Crocus medius ao “vet -> 
mi — S 
, T E , laien 
“4 longiflorus relat hiemale 
» , minimu j Anemone fulgens 
Hyacinthus amethystinus » stellata purpurea 
„albus, » pavonina 
Scilla itali Orobus variu 
INES. 
Campanula Raineri Pulsatilla vernali 
Silene Elizabeth Primula nivalis 
Dianthus neglectus 
: Asta Minor, Caucasus, PERSIA. 
Eremurus robustus Gales, Grei 
Tulipa beotica nae 
T. ts 
Vy Drestan Beauchamp, 
numbered among the a wg 
ore this is in print we (the nasal tcp 
pag i dead, it may not be out of place to offer 
a few remarks u; upon these bodies. I do not 
question 
assumed in your of th 
a miy dinates in Jaar peper a aen mak RE 
In two other 
en lanceo 
“| onthe te 
wame 
the corpete are too large ; : js Ri co 
and the o; only ¢ 
a 
class of p as er 
has his eye sey his taste moulded b 
S whose soul would lea 
the sight rs a yellow Pink, a 
ouble Daisy with a flo 
might not be 
lm, but becau 
does not follow that he would 
in judging th 
the line of demarcation betw 
of the com coment ¢ 
wards will 
influence of a 
The kemen Floral Committee co 
i m ;im the 
of the 
would submit that is by no means. 1 
uce the iat number, Also @ 
Trochetia  Peianoxpiaihe a a recent 
the Gardeners Chronicle there is 
a distinct species buta young state ws the 
think there is little ‘dou that there 
species : that fi Andrew’s Botani 
plate 389, appears to be the true 
that in the Botanical mais ae! plate 1 
eyhrosylon: A com with the 
Ke 
anahytlil 
W. B. H. 
Paper See Capsicastrum.—This plant ca 
own for wi devon 
ration of all who see “33 iaa popi € 
seeds and cuttings, but we give the pref 
former mode of raising it, because we fit 
e frost sets In 
surface and well aking the pots beto! 
place theif in heat, Their berries 
colour, and, contrasting beast ne 
late foliage, render 
esirable phic for table decoratio 
he gy. Be aig we 
before doing 
We lift them about the 
