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Garden and Forest. 



[January 15, 1890. 



■'■', large plants oi which are in the Edinburgh Botanic 

 Gardens. It is a shrub, with hard, woody stems and long lin- 

 ear leaves clothed with viscid glandular hairs, as in Drosera ; 

 and it hears terminal recemes of white flowers. A shrubby 



Sundew, attaining a height of three or more feet, and with 

 leaves so sticky as to render the plant, when hung up in the 

 house, useful at the Cape as a fly-catcher, is a novelty of no ordi- 

 nary kind. Seedlings of it are in the Kew collection. Still another 

 new plant from south Africa is Gerbera Jamesoni, which has 

 already proved a charming pot-plant for the greenhouse, and 

 may also prove hardy in the neighborhood of London. It has 

 pinnatifid hairy leaves about a foot long, and single-flowered 

 -.apes, the flowers >>r heads four inches across, not unlike the 

 Paris Daisy in form, and colored bright flame-red. This is 

 certainly one of the best of the new introductions of this year. 

 Olearia insignis is a very striking- addition to the goodly num- 

 ber of the Olearias already in cultivation in England. It flow- 

 ered for the first time last year at Kew, but I do not remember 

 that it has been recorded amongst garden plants. It has numer- 

 ous elliptic or oblong leaves, nine inches in length, and the 

 whole plant is thickly felted with white wool. The flowers are 

 on axillary peduncles, and are in the form of the common 

 Scabious, two inches across, orange-colored in the centre, the 

 rav-florets white. It was introduced from New Zealand, and 

 is figured in Botanical Magazine, t. 7,034. C/iironia peduncu- 

 laris, the handsomest of the genus, forming a compact shrub, 

 two feet high, with heart-shaped shining green foliage and termi- 

 nal panicles of erect, Gentian-like, star-shaped flowers, one and a 

 half inches across, and colored rosy purple, is a useful addi- 

 tion to easily grown, free flowering greenhouse plants ; C. pa- 

 iustris, smaller in all its parts, and fleshier, but a pretty and 

 very fioriferous plant, is almost as good. Both these species 

 have lately been introduced from the Cape, and they were 

 this year much admired at Kew. The first named is figured 

 in Botanical Magazine, t. 7,047. 



Amongst hybrids raised in English gardens there are, of 

 course, many plants of first-class merit. Messrs. Veitch con- 

 tinue to add beautiful, free flowering Rhododendrons raised 

 from Malayan and Javanese species. It is impossible to speak 

 too highly of this race of plants, which are certain to fill a 

 very large place in all well furnished greenhouses. Strepto- 

 carpus, too, is proving a good, useful genus, the various 

 hybrids and crosses recently raised at Kew from S. Dunnii, 

 S. Rexii, S. lutea and several other species clearly proving 

 that a race of plants as useful in the greenhouse as Gloxinias 

 are in the stove may be expected from them. M. Le- 

 moine's new race of Begonias, obtained from B. Socolrana 

 and some other species, probably B. semperflorens, may be 

 expected to take a favored place among the stove Begonias 

 when once their cultivation, at present a failure in some gar- 

 dens, is understood. 



Bulbous Plants. — Whilst those races of bulbous plants 

 such as the Hippeastrums, Nerines, Liliums and Narcissi 

 have continued to improve in the hands of the breeder of new 

 kinds, there are very few new introductions of any bulbous 

 plants whatsoever to record this year. The only stove bulb is 

 Cr inum Brachynema, which, although introduced from Bom- 

 bay and flowered at Kew in 1870, does not appear to have 

 become established in gardens. It has lately been reintro- 

 duced in quantity, and flowers of it were sent to Kew for 

 name a few months ago. It has large umbels of pure white, 

 substantial flowers with long tubes, a limb three inches across 

 and fragrant as Cowslips. It is likely to become a rival to 

 Eucharis should it prove amenable to ordinary cultivation. 

 Nerine angustifolia is remarkable for its very long flower- 

 scapes, some of the plants at Kew this year producing scapes 

 three feet long, and bearing an umbel of about twenty rosy 

 red flowers, similar to those of N. jlexuosa. Tigridia Pringlei 

 is likely to become, a favorite here, though it is very similar 

 to T. Pavonia both in form and color. Gladiolus JLeichtli ni, a. 

 new introduction from the Transvaal, with bright red flowers 

 like those of G. psittacinus, and G. Adlaini, from the same 

 region, with flowers dull yellow spotted with red, other- 

 wise similar to G. cardinalis ; these two new species have 

 been flowered at Cambridge. The hybrids G. turicensis and 

 G. Xanceianus are both very beautiful breaks of continental 

 origin, being large in flower, distinct in shape and beautiful in 

 colors. They are the progeny of G. Saundersii and G. Gauda- 

 vensis, and are perfectly hardy in England. Messrs. Veitch & 

 Sons exhibited a collection of the Nanceianus race before the 

 Royal Horticultural Society this year, and they were generally 

 admired. Watsonia iridifolia, var. O'Brieni, is a pure white 

 flowered variety of a robust, free flowering, easily grown 

 plant, and is likely to become popular. It is the plant which 

 Mr. Goldring mentioned as W. iridifolia, var. alba. It was in- 



troduced from south Africa by Mr. O'Brien, of Harrow. 

 Liliuin Wallichianum, var. superbum, is a noble Lily from 

 India, introduced and flowered this year by Messrs. Low & 

 Co. It ha* a stout stem, six feet high, bearing three or four 

 flowers, each nine inches long and six inches across the limb, 

 the color milk-white with a pale yellow throat. The Indian 

 Liliums are difficult to establish im'English gardens, otherwise 

 they are first-class. We have now L. Xepalense (introduced 

 last year), L. Ncilghcrrense, L. Philippinense and L. Wallichia- 

 num, but they gradually weaken under cultivation. A new 

 variety of L. longiflorum from Hong-Kong and the newly 

 discovered L. Henryi from China are in cultivation at Kew, 

 but they have not yet flowered. Fritillaria Bucharica, from 

 central Asia, is an interesting species with whitish flowers 

 borne singly in the leaf-axils near the top of the stem. 

 Galanthus Fosteri, from the province of Sirwas, in Asia 

 Minor, has flowers like the larger forms of G. Elivesii, and 

 leaves as broad as in G. latifolius. Although not new plants, 

 it may be worth recording of Anomatheca grandiflora, Anoi- 

 ganthus brevifolius and Cyrtanthus luteus, three south African 

 plants which have not yet got far beyond botanic gardens, have 

 proved exceptionally easy to manage, very free flowering, and 

 sufficiently ornamental to take a place among small bulbous 

 plants for the cold house or frame. 



Hardy Herbaceous and Alpine Plants. — The best of 

 the new plants in this department are several Irises, notably 

 I. Gatesii, from Turkestan, related to /. Susiana, bid larger 

 and better in color even than that superb plant ; I. Bamumce, an 

 Armenian species of the Oncocyclus section, but with large 

 purple flowers like the German Iris, and I. Bakeriatia, also 

 from Armenia, with the habit and appearance of /. reticulata, 

 the flowers purple and yellow, fragrant as violets, and appear- 

 ing in February or even earlier. Spircea Kamtschatika, re- 

 cently introduced and named S. giganlea, a plant like our 

 Meadowsweet, but much larger, attaining sometimes a height 

 of ten feet, the enormous panicles of white, feathery flowers, 

 very fragrant, is likely to prove valuable for bogs and swamps. 

 It was exhibited recently by Mr. G. Paul. Primula petiolaris 

 and P. Poissoni are small though pretty additions to this 

 already largely cultivated genus. Primulina Tabacum, an in- 

 teresting Gesneriad from China, is one of Dr. Henry's dis- 

 coveries which flowered at Kew this year. It has a tuft of 

 obtuse, lobed, leathery leaves and erect viscid scapes of 

 Phlox-like flowers, one inch in diameter, violet colored and 

 exhaling an odor of tobacco. Podophyllum pleianthum is 

 another Chinese plant which Dr. Hance described as one of the 

 most interesting discoveries he ever made. It flowered at 

 Kew this year. The leaves are peltate lobed, a foot across 

 and shining green, while the flowers are not unlike those of 

 the Snake's-head and colored deep crimson. Clintonia An- 

 dreivsiana is a Californian Liliad of some interest with termi- 

 nal umbels of rose-red flowers not unlike some of the Al- 

 liums. Calandrinia opfiositifolia is a Californian perennial 

 which this year was very attractive out-of-doors at Kew ; it 

 bears white, star-like flowers two inches across. Kniphofia 

 Natalensis is a slender species with pleasing, orange yellow 

 flowers, not so attractive as the popular garden kinds, but still 

 an interesting plant and of some ornament. 



Trees and Shrubs. — -The only noteworthy introductions 

 amongst these are Rosa gigantea, a magnificent species from 

 the high regions of upper Burmah, and likely to prove hardy 

 at Kew. It has enormous, cup-shaped flowers, six inches 

 across and snow white. Cornus Sibirica, var. Spathii, is a 

 variegated leaved form of a useful garden shrub, and Skim- 

 mia Foremani is useful either for out-of-doors or as a pot 

 plant for in-door decoration in winter. 



Kew. W. Watson. 



Entomological. 



A New Elm Insect. 



(Zeuzera pyrina.) 



SCARCELY a year passes nowadays that does not bring to 

 light some insect newly imported from a foreign country. 

 These importations are in no case desirable acquisitions, and, 

 as a rule, become our most destructive pests. The Elm has 

 suffered for some time from the attacks of the imported Elm- 

 leaf beetle (Galeruca xanthomalcena), and now it seems settled 

 that another pest has gained a foothold among us, and threat- 

 ens destruction to our Elms by boring into the branches. 



This species is the Zeuzera pyrina, Fabr., in the imago stage 

 a very handsome white moth, rather closely spotted with black, 

 as shown in the figures. 



For several years back single specimens of the species have 



