740 el. 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 12, w 
starch and iron it; and you have an idea of the 
r streets are neither crooked 
are curved with a most mis- 
eye. 
picturesque gables remain, where they are not 
wanted as guide-posts, in the market places. 
There are few streets with brilliant shops or 
which you can call grand arteries of communi- 
cation. Numerous canals give to numerous 
buildings a deceptive aoisi of being 
cay but, to aggravate the uniformity, "e 
feels inclined to give it a push, to compel it to 
move on more quickly. 
Each house being thus own brother to its 
ronan neighbour on ook side, and every 
treet being cousin- german to every street 
Whith leads into or out of $ you are frequently 
either brought to a standstill, or lured on, 
and garnish the fatted calf; but they are only 
bits of local colouring, Sone of the staple 
manufacture of the town, which afford no indicas 
At the xar of half-an- 
provoking labyrinth of linked sameness long 
wn out (which makes the town seem much 
bigger than it is), a vigilante is your readiest 
— Its sober pace rests your w 
limbs, and gives you time to read and study as 
you ride the Flemish inscriptions on the walls 
h app 
_ Golden Flower » as the appropriate _sign of a 
public-house whose customers their 
the row! 
3 Boulevard de = gher driver, wenn 
: sie wollen.” - (A German word in season, in 
F often smooths a heap of difficulties ; 
Dy think you are trying to 
o ment tot Ghent have a aliehidy been aei, in 
deners’ Chronicle C973, PP. 544, 580, 649, 
Let us peep a few of mi 
Boule 
sheltered to the north-west by the immense 
mass of the Military Hospital, a convent some 
hundre 
a long time in 
_ making, especially as the object is to have them 
in pairs. Unpaired plants are of inferior worth. 
Specimens are we OE bad Bere for £8 the 
| inthe establishment of 
Messrs. F. Gazelle & Soh; a restricted nook, 
couple and upwards ; other subjects, bought of 
the grandees of the trade, fetch many times that 
sum. The British market of enormous 
capacity, but it does not take in—that is, it has 
not a taste for—everything. Among the articles 
which escape its swallow, with rare exceptions, 
are the remarkable standard Bays and Laurus- 
tinuses, which are principally called for by Ger- 
mans, Russians, Swiss, ther nations of 
central and eastern Europe. At MM. Gazelle’s, 
one wonders to see how much work can_be done 
in so little space. They havé quantities of seed- 
lingWood Laurel, Daphne Laureola, for working 
choicer and tenderer Daphnes upon ; charming 
variegated Hollies, grafted ; beds of Rhododen- 
drons, grafted low, and full of buds ; houses for 
Camellia multiplication, besides single plants 
h as Yucca aloifolia 
depressa (see Gardeners’ Chronicle, Oct. 2 
1874) sprinkled with orange-red berries the size 
a Pea, which look as if they had been rained or 
hailed on the plant. It is one of the things 
the French call gazons, turfs, from their mossy, 
carpet-like, spreading growth, which must 
become a favourite for rockeries and suchlike. 
I have planted one in the middle of an earthen 
; pan, which I expect it will convert into a green 
cushion spotted with bright terra-cotta beads. 
Two of a trade seem to agree, at least here, 
for M. Gazelle has a gate opening out of his 
| garden into that of his next garden neighbour. 
Invited to pass from one to the other, perhaps 
we shall find that their trades, though both are 
horticulteurs in style and title, are not exactly 
the very same, 
(To be continued.) 
New Garden Plants. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM LACERUM, T Orch. 
“sub P 25; Zd. Odontoglossum Folia, No. 54; 3 Walp, 
Annal, vi. 843.* 
aden pana Bogs or at with a narrow 
colou 
eck, dark green i They are profusely 
mi with dark in the young e-made 
grow! Leaves 11 inches long, upwards of 1 inch 
broad, < above, carinate belo 
shortly acuminate. Spike u of a foot long, 
6—7 fl TR r 
m 
with which Mr. 
ends bisong of this highly iat p 4 
which flowered recent Willia 
way. ure to see a plant pre- 
viously k known in the scientific world only by a single 
spec: in the Hookerian collectio 
Matthews in Peru, 18359 
Having been allo a 
rivalled liberality, 
rather i 
pene the a pee stand in the 
centre o or in the wt PE while they stand 
on the bas Williams’ ias wers. Mr, Gower 
thinks of the probability of a - It may 
be so, yet those parents which oul liste produced it 
ieuane and luteo ae are not yet found 
pelos either ve escaped thi - 
w es Baa e unfortu- 
tmtely i interrupted by his death, which okipan from 
his own wife, it is well known. X. G, Reh. f. 
Pyrus (§ ne MAULEI. 
We are now : able to complete our account of this 
plant, already figured bys at p. 757, vol.i È; Ger 
ditional il 44) representing t the fruit, 
tintat -oblongis acuminatis; labello 
cuneato-oblonga acuta seu acuminata ; antice tring 
: carinis geminis in lamine emio pete 
ulo, ecto, pt Me antice utrinque, apiculi 
extrorsis altius insertis ; cili Ppa pons 
semio blongis lobatis. “Flores illis son ee per Lindleyani, 
oa aes magnis brunneis intus 
-A Magnific ent 
ble va 
ulinary frui It is quite distinct fron 
(5 Cydonia) j Japik. and flowers later, M, na 
Sa 
THE LINDLEY MEDAL. 
As a pendent to the remarks on the I | 
Medal, pu Polished at p. 676, we print the € follo 
authentic list of the awards already made w 
1. Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons—Collectigit! of Orchids, 
- Dec. 19, pee 
Wiliam Bull, F.L.S.—Collection of pas, 
Jan. 23, 1 
< eeng . J Veitch & Sons—Collection of Orchids, 
April 17, oe 
M 5 Gr toG per, Esq. Thee 
r. ark 
varieties of | Phelaantane Schilledana. ‘Mare 
Mr. J. Tapli ee e Duke o Devons y 
Coelogne cristata Feb, 18, 1868. [Nowof South Amboy, : 
New Jersey, 
6. Messrs. 7. “Veitch & Sons—Collection of Orchids, 
Feb. 18, 1868 4 
7. Mr. J. Goo de, Gr. 3 Dowager Lady Ashburton— 
specimen f Lilium auratum, with 152 
oe a 17, xe [Since e left. ] 
May, Gr. to Louisa Lady Ashburton— 
Phal acca. tie, ST with 280 flowers, March 15, 
1871. A ag ~ 
M. Needle, Gr. R.H. The omte de ki 
Patis— Group of Ophrys ti “Orch, ee 5, 1871. E 
r. W. Denni ning, Gr. ondesborough— 
Specimen of Vanda te 
r. Baines, oe to H. L. M Micholls, 
ai x Nepata Raffiesiana, with forty-seven eo 
ote 
Denning, Gr. z rae ooe EE 
Utricularia montana, May 21, 
og eg aoe 
ORANGES AND LEMOS a 
approach of the a season of | 
oration ot the 
admiration is, in many cases, 
pepa 
e 
all there are few prettier ER 
where the most luscious of 
whitest of Almonds, the gayest of fancy b 
most brilliant (and the most ee ?} of 
what we can gather about their history. 
The Forest Flora of British India recently 
lished by Dr. Brandis has already been noticed 
upon porcelain dishes, and expose it it to the 
that they may enjoy its fragrance. fs 
ranges and Lemons—which may be ‘ 
some 
