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JOUENAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ May II, 1871. 



dant bloomer, and will make a most nsefal bedding plant. At 

 the same time MeSBrs. Grippe sent ng a coloured drawing of a leaf 

 of Catalapa stking.efolia aueea, which they consider the most 

 valuable hardy ornamental-foliaged tree that has been sent out 

 for several years. The Catalpa syringoefolia needs no descrip- 

 tion, but the variety, with the same robust growth and habit as 

 its parent, has foliage of rich glossy yellow. Planted in the 

 full sun, its beauty becomes far more satisfactorily developed 

 than in a shady situation, and the leaves will neither curl nor 

 burn, as is the case with many yellow-leaved and variegated 

 plants. 



At the autumn show of the Metkopolitan Floeal 



Society, to be held at the Crystal Palace, August 29 th and 

 30th, the following extra prizes will be cffered : — By Mr. Juhn 

 Keynes, Salisbury, for the best twelve blooms of Dahlias 

 (distinct), sent out by him in 1870 and 1871, first prize, £3; 

 second, £2 ; and third, £1. By the Eev. E. Hawke, Willing- 

 ham Eectoiy, for the btst seedling Hollyhock, three blooms, 

 first prize, 10s. ; second, 7s. ; third, 5s. The same variety not 

 to take more than one prize. 



We regret to record the death of Mr.. William Wilson, 



the eminent bryologist, which took place at Wariington on the 

 3rd of April, in the 71st year of his age. Mr. Wilson is chiefly 

 known as the author of " Bryologia Bfitacnioa," the standard 

 ■work upon Briti>U Mosses, which was published in 1855, and 

 of which a second edition was in contemplation at the time of 

 his decease. He took a high place as an authority upon Mosses 

 among continental botanists, and was iu intimate communica- 

 tion with them. In the earlier portion of his life he devoted 

 much attention to British plants generally, and scattered papers 

 in his name, often containing valuable observations in structure, 

 may be found in the " Pbytologiat," and other botanical j jur- 

 nals. He is frtquently quoted by Sir W. J. Hooker, iu the 

 " British Flora," and contributed many specimens, accom- 



panied by careful manuscript notes, to the Hookerian Her- 

 barium. — (Nature.) 



The principal object of interest at the soiree of theLin- 



nean Society on the 26th ult., was again Mr. Wilson Saunders's 

 collection of Miiietic Plants, which was even more remarkable 

 than last year. The following is a list of the pairs exhibited : — 



Olea earopiea Oleacefe ) 



Swammerdamia antennaria CompositiB i 



Anemone coronaria Ranunculacere ) 



Pelargonium triste Geraniace<e ) 



Osmanthus heteropLyllus OleaceEe ) 



Ilex Aqaifolium var Aquif oliacete t 



Gnaphalium orientale Compositse ) 



Lavandula lanata Labiatse ]~ 



Iris pulcliella Iridaceffi ) 



Dicrypta iridoides Orchidacese f 



Potlios argyrea Aracece ) 



Peperomiaarifolia Piperaceas I 



Adonis autnmnalis RannnculaceiE ) 



Pyrethrum inodorum Composltas y 



Heterotropa asaroides Aristolochiacese \ 



Cyclamen persicum Tar Priroulacese J" 



Oxalis Plumieri Oxalidacese 1 



Crotalaria laburnifolia Legnminosfe J^ ' 



Geniiana lutea Gentianaceje ) 



Veratrum Tiride Melanthacece f 



Gymnostachyum Verschaffelti Ac.anthaceje | 



Ecliites rubro-venosa Apocynacese f 



Grevillea sp Proteaceffi I 



Acacia sp LeguminoEie y 



Bosa sp EoaaceasV 



Xanthoxylon sp Xanthoxylacese j 



Euphorbia mammillaiia Euphorbiaceae ) 



Apteranthes Gussoniana Asclepiadaceie ]" 



Caucus Carota Dmbelliferse 1 



Pelargonium rutiefolium Geraniacese > 



— {Xature.) 



Fountains have ever been present 

 climates, and there they are most 

 appropriate ; they give an impres- 

 sion, and really are promotive 

 of coolness and freshness. They 

 were in the garden of Solomon ai^J 

 of Pliny's villa ; but in the latter 

 certainly, and in the first-named 

 probably, they were only a natural 

 spring of water trickling into a 

 stone basin. Even these require 

 taste in their arrangement ; on the 

 continent they are sometimes in- 

 decent ; and in this country to see 

 water constantly flowing from a 

 lion's or a monster's mouth is not a 

 pleasant association ; it is more t n- 

 durable from the 

 mouth of a dol- 

 phin, but far better 

 from the mouth of 

 a slanted urn. 



Fountains, how- 

 ever, are usually 

 considered as f jec- 

 tiouB of water in a 

 stream into the 

 air, and a more ab- 

 surd, tasteless, ex- 

 pensive difficulty 

 cannot be conceiv- 

 ed, whether it be 

 like the perform- 

 ance of a large 

 fqnirt, as in the 

 Temple Gardens, 

 or in a column of 

 water thrown up 



FOUNTAINS. 

 in the gaidens of warm | Fountains in this country should be inactive, except during 



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the warm days of the year, and' 

 in all countries they should toss- 

 tbe water to a small elevation, 

 but this should in falling, by 

 the arrangement of a series of 

 tszzis, be broken into cascades be- 

 foreit reaches its final basin ; water 

 descending may be always rendered 

 graceful. Such an arrangement iS' 

 in this which we have borrowed 

 from the richly-illustrated cata- 

 logue of Messrs. A. Handyside& Co., 

 Briiffnnia Iron Works, Derby, and 

 Walbrook, London. 



An approach to this form exists 

 among the ruins of Pompeii, and 

 it is a form which 

 would not be mis- 

 placed near a resi- 

 dence, or in the- 

 centre of a lawn. 

 All fonntains,how- 

 ever, we think, 

 are most suitably 

 placed within a 

 group of trees, for 

 the water harmo- 

 nises with the cool- 

 ness which their 

 shade secures. 



Some of the 

 most appropri- 

 ately ornamented 

 of fountains were 

 constructed by the 

 Greeks. One espe- 

 cially is described 



to aheight of 267 fe3t, as the Emperor Fountain at Chatsworlh. | with the water flowing from the mouths of dolphins. 



CYPRIPEDIUM NIVEUM. 

 The accompanying is a portrait of the plant exhibited at the I 19th, by Mr. G. Ward, gardener to D. Berrington, Esq., Pont- 

 J'loral Committee of the Eiyal Horticultural Society, on April | y-Goitrea, Abergavenny, and of which we then observed : This. 



