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“THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 13,3 
cation of his statement in the Philadelphia Academy 
PA e x . eee. E LPK | ee go e a 4 
hs S 
OPEN AIR Dr A 
(Continued EtA 
VI.—SIBE 
RIA 
Anemome ars er (3) Campanula sarmatica 
*Aqui Gentiana gelida 
Dracocephalum speciosum 
pit cheilanthum Pulmonaria dahuri 
*Pæonia -s fi.-pl. Bre “he nce agg 
See oe bracteatum . Corydalis eee ata 
-ydalis nobilis Vorname ao 
Dianthus dentosus 
Lychnis fulgens is roster pepectabills 
Si Sel Fritillaria kamschatcensis 
Hypericum elegans (?) *Lilium tenuifolium 
Lathyrus mutabilis  __ yy, avenac 
Orobus Fischeri | *Tulipa en 
‘Thermopsis fabacea | bi 
*Spirzea venusta He. merocalis Middendorfii 
edum Ewersii | tris lævigat 
»» populifolium i Ati 
Saxifi crassifoli | Cypripedium macranthum 
Adenophora coronata 
VII.—Himarayva MOUNTAINS. 
Anemone vitifolia {Primula er 
Aquilegia kastad Polygons É Binit 
bensilob vaccinifoliu 
tMeconopsis Wallichii 
odophyllum Emodi 
Hypericum patulum | 
Gera ma um Lambertii | 
us fiintalayensis | 
Glossocomia ovata . 
di 
Dic 
P Geille atrosanguinea tAmphico: 
Spiræa bella +Paris polyp 
-Astilbe rubra - tRoscoea purpurea 
+Saxi purpurascens = |` a oppositifolium 
Morine longifolia i i ré 3 
Erigeron Roylei š lei 
~ Cyananthus lobatus | Lilium giganteu 
Cathcartia villosa ta, 3 he pee 
t+Androsace lanuginosa Tricyrtis macropoda 
*Primula denticulata Tulipa stellata 
T s unroi | Iris dec 
t „ sikkimensis | A 
VITI.—CHINA AND Jap 
„Anemone j japonica 
Rosa ba 
„Fvunkia san 
grandiflora 
m merocalhis Dumortieri 
fulva fol. var. 
“Lah ilium tigrinum splendens 
Ee ae bergianum. z 
t » longiflorum — 
y R 
eia japonica 
j xifraga obtain 
Anemonopsi ni 
mili : = 
procum| 
is nae Ia elliptica 
| tChimaphila ı umbellata 
is tApocynim pits 
seve tuberosa 
eA mani marilandica 
ag repiins salia 
* Mimulus cardinalis 
heon Meadia 
}Rhexia virgin ica 
+C, 
stonia cærulea 
Hou: 
3 cea Soyer 
Erythr 
telonas er ieee tt 
+* Lilium um 
Een piel 
od 
| Habenaria peye es 
stemon ii 
Jeffreya recu 
#Dòdečatheon. n integrifo lium lanceolat 
Jeffrey +*Lilium Humboldtii 
+Primula Parpi. t ,, pardalinum 
a" Phew re micrantha 4#3...Was ikad 
album 
Triteleia laxa 
Pee Douglasii 
si 
are miei ji 
Pr 
| settin, 
all the attempts of experimental 
*“Sisyrinchium grand Morum 
XI.—OTHER PARTS OF ngi th bag DING CHILI, PATA- 
F SOUTH AND CENTRAL 
GONIA, AND HIGHLA 
AMERICA, 
quilegi inner Ourisia coccinea (?) 
+Viola pyrolefolia + Primula magellanica 
opæol pecio EOE as c 
polyphyllum F- tala 
ORAE A foribandá icallixene ‘polyphylla 
lasiandra Gun cabra 
*Geum costing um {Verbena venosa 
{Fuchsia co *Alstroemeria aurea 
‘Calandrinia iseolor z ssy aS 
» umbella b nsis 
Fra oa ramosa tCype ella Hesbertii 
+Ner pene de ot riteleia uniflora = 
+ Lobelia pag th phy 
None pees p carinata 
Tae roseus 
Cenar — (hyb.) 
—CarE er Goop Horr. || 
tOxalis Bowei *Sparaxis pulcherrima 
Toe rA Ms lr itonia 
4 speciosa *Crinum c 
; lota ta 2 Amaryllis Bellz lenna 
ER gasei *Sprekelia formosissima 
Anchusa capens Sladiolus 
Hebenstreitia dentata (9) xia in variety 
Anomatheca crv Babiana 
*Kniphofia maea jparaxis 3 
* A 4y +h A 
pana varia t Hyaei 
LOPA S afarie hi 
x > H. F ELUS: 
THE OLD WALLS AT KEW. 
(Concluded from p. 648). 
THE season bein 
o far advanced that the 
onger peas so 
notes 
great meas the reader 
being able to follow then, either in his own garden, 
or some other place as the den i 
e forms of vegeta 
life in the various sini: houses at Kew. 
Before leaving my voris for tho ose of warmer 
climes, I wish to say a few words respecting some of ` 
t hose y 
Leguminosæ 
he e numbers and the ened d trib 
pena “ag shall, therefore, contine in 
o the ane o 
tanthus nepale is a handsome telai flowered 
shrub, but it cannot at all compare with the familiar 
and u hrub- 
to 9000 feet, and is hardy 
of England, but needs the 
orthwards. Even in the vicinity 
of London it suffers from hee old of severe winters. 
ke ris foeti i 
rs—the great majority 
th Africa. Piptanthus has 
esembling those 
of the 
the 
on the base of each leaf, but here t they 
their outer edges, with the appearance 
of being aly one, and tat opposite to the leaf. poe 
Den are large, rai 
5 2c yus 
down here, that leguminous plants havi 
ed 
AES paremat t OW 
— successfully on the same land year after year, 
ral manures, includi ing potash in abiane d 
nei E nce E E T 
n I = very few plants from this cou t bulb 
can be oie dh: y bees pt these will ao better kept ays t 
This section may therefore be omitted. 
for mention to-day belong to one or the other oF ie 
tribes of the ; 
the best results ; but it still remains to bed 
what constituents should applied, and 
form, to obtain fai 
large quantity of nitrog 
Indeed, where ae mi en 
is a 
the fo ammo alts or nitrate of 
least development of leguminous erbag 
is a digression. Lupinus belongs to the tribe 
which is mainly composed of sh 
usually has all the stamens united i 
elphous. With exception of a few 
species in the Mediterranean region, this ge 
confined to America, and chiefly 
o 
Romans cH poe H _ t bitte er taste ”) Teally be 
o the gen but eems quite pos: pe per 
were originally introduced from Am 
ave genera of trees a abi represented a 
rous ns byd areeni scp bent the sely allie ed, specie 
Ta a s Ho H m, ric ate Ligai 
for e a : never rtheless the herbas ceous ve 
doer not offer any sari instances of sisalla ' 
I can remember., 
The next in order is one of the Broom 
kake ze a erma, 
nosper Liss 
flexible branches clothed wit 
owers appear The p 
and the calyx wn, It ot o 
ental character, but well adapted in habit 
ing up the me of a ra da wth & 
parts of the kin I have experience 
hardiness, = should expect that it would need 
Seem ion of London, as it is i 
Medite nest region. T] Ge 
viciously Fe noe ge thi 
gen. d others from the Latin genu, ak 
The g Ea eas (the Greek name for 
species) i is s familiar t tl oat Nonsuch, M. lapu 
ern, the 
PT Thave r “view, diers f Foii most f its 
being woody, form ing a shrub of consid 
its ratte country, the South of Europe. It poss 
cial attraction, b ngs to 
his is usually folded spirally, 
elegantly reticulated or clothed with its 
curved brist] ome of t very much 
the shell of a ix. ur native species 
Our 
peculiarity, but they are pes so beautiful as son 
the Sou = — uropean for š 
more species E, the s ub-order 
Jossie i mini on, and that is Desmodiu 
carpum, I 
ss 
the mountains of India, and singular 
pods generally ri 
it in flower, 
. gyrans i P. 
markable rotatory- motion ‘of zA leaflets 
addition to the sepin e. the I 
aaia two other sub-orde the 
he no 
æsalpinieæ. 
chiefly reiting of shrubs mas trk. 
landica is herbaceous, 
> The Elm genus, Ulmus, is mit ep! 
aso by nue frie typie coke ae 
b 
te-l: ne 
long. is | 
but it 
of E 
alli 
