February 26, 1890.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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like an oasis in the desert. At San Julio, a canon eight hun- 

 dred feet deep, with walls apparently perpendicular, was ex- 

 plored, and here was found, no doubt at its southern limit, the 

 Holly Cherry of California (Prunus ilicifolia), with the entire 

 leaves which characterize the form peculiar to Santa Cruz 

 Island. Veatchia re-appeared at San Pabalo on the mountains, 

 and afterwards was often encountered as far north as San 

 Fernando. " The trail from San Ignacio passed," Mr. 

 Brandegee tells us, "over high mesas, down and up deep 

 rocky canons all the way to San Pablo and mostly over sandy 

 plains from there to Calmulli. A great change in vegetation 

 took place in this vicinity, and many of the characteristic 

 plants at the south, that were abundant on the sandy plains 

 about Canon Grande, have now disappeared, and thencefor- 

 ward, until we reached the Gulf coast at the Soda Springs of 

 Calamujuet, the flora resembled that so familiar to us in 

 southern California." Such Arizona trees as Dalea spinosa, 

 Olncya Tcsota, Chilopsis saligna, form a large part of the 

 vegetation at Calamujuet, although Veatchia was still the most 

 conspicuous object ; "the trees, covered with pink blossoms, 

 forming a perfect blaze of color which could be seen plainly 

 milesaway." "Annuals, bothatMagdalena Bayand SanGrego- 

 ria, bloom in January and February, and by April have for the 

 most part disappeared. Many shrubs ripen their fruit in Jan- 

 uary, although many species of Cactus and some perennials 

 do not flower until April or May. The most noticeable feature 

 of the flora over the whole region visited by Mr. Brandegee is 

 the Cactaceiz, which often form forests and impassable thick- 

 ets, and brighten the landscape in May with their showy 

 flowers. Agaves are common and cover the ground in some 

 localities. Leguminous trees are, on the whole, the most 

 common and furnish most of the wood used by the inhabit- 

 ants. The bruised stems of Cereus gumosus are used for 

 stupefying fish. The leaves of Lippia barbata, a shrubby 

 species, are employed in cooking to flavor meat, while those 

 of another shrubby species, L.fastigiata, under the name of 

 " Damania," are made into a sort of tea. 



Among other interesting plants detected by Mr. Brandegee 

 are Polygala apopetala (plate iii.), a shrubby species ; a new 

 Horsfordia, a new Spasralcea, with slender, herbaceous stems, 

 eight feet high, and a new Gossypium, which Mr. Brandegee 

 dedicates to Dr. Ff. W. Harkness, President of the California 

 Academy of Science, " as a tribute to his efforts in furthering 

 the exploration of Lower California ; " a new Bursera, several 

 Daleas and Hosackias, an arborescent Lysiloma, whose bark 

 is used for tanning hides used to hold the wine of the country, 

 which thus receives a disagreeable flavor from the bark of this 

 tree. Several new Cereus and Opuntias, and an interesting 

 Aralia (A. Scopulorum, plate viii.), a shrubby species, four to 

 ten feet high, with petioled leaves, with three to seven leaflets, 

 and compound inflorescence, are described. A new genus, 

 Alvordia, in Composite?, in honor of William Alvord, the 

 President of the Bank of California, " in recognition of his well 

 known unceasing interest in and efforts for the furtherance of 

 botanical knowledge," is proposed for a suffrutescent peren- 

 nial. Gilia gloriosa (plate xi.) is a shrubby species, densely 

 branched, and forming round clumps, three or four feet high, 

 about which Mr. Brandegee remarks that " it will be difficult 

 to exaggerate its beauty as it is seen growing in rounded 

 masses, with the many-shaded large blossoms crowded toward 

 the end of the branches." Unfortunately, no seed could be 

 obtained of this plant, which appears to be very local, having 

 been observed only at one place — Ubi. 



To Mr. Brandegee's paper is appended an account of his 

 plants of the Euphorbia family, from the pen of Dr. C. F. 

 Millspaugh, and a list of fungi, by H. W. Harkness. 



Recent Plant Portraits. 



Montbretia CROCOSMI/EFLORA, Revue Horticole, January 

 16th ; a group of some of the newer varieties, obtained by M. 

 Lemoine, of Nancy. 



Solanum macranthum, Gardeners' Chronicle, January 1 8th; 

 Mr. W. Botting Hemsley throws considerable new light upon 

 this fine species, at one time supposed to be a native of 

 southern China, but now shown to be identical with a speci- 

 men collected by Mr. Pearce on the Amatala River, at an 

 elevation of from four thousand to five thousand feet, in 

 Bolivia. Solanum macranthum becomes a tree fifteen to 

 twenty feet high, called, at Hong-Kong, where it appears to 

 have been long cultivated and where it flowers throughout the 

 year, the Potato-tree. Carriere pointed out, some time ago, 

 that it was cultivated at Cairo, where it succeeds admirably 

 and forms an ornamental tree of the first order. In France 

 it is used in so-called sub-tropical gardening — that is, young 



plants started under glass in winter are planted in the 

 open ground at the beginning of summer, and attain, under 

 good cultivation, a considerable .size before frost. It is one of 

 the species with large, lobed leaves, with scattered prickles, 

 and it has great clusters of flowers, each three inches in 

 diameter, and varying in color from white to an intense 

 violet-blue, with large, bright yellow anthers. S. macranthum 

 may be expected to succeed in some parts of California and 

 possibly in the southern Atlantic States. 



Darlingtonia Californica, Gardeners' Chro7iicle, January 

 18th ; the portrait of a beautifully grown plant from the Mount 

 Merion gardens near Dublin, the largest pitcher measuring 

 three feet nine inches in length. This is probably one of the 

 very best specimens of a peculiar plant, difficult to manage 

 in cultivation, which has been produced. 



L/elia Gouldiana, Gardeners' Chronicle, February 8th, a 

 figure of this handsome winter-blooming species, from a plant 

 which produced ten spikes and over forty of its bright rosy 

 crimson flowers at Christmas-time in Sir Trevor Lawrence's 

 garden. Lalia Gouldiana was an introduction of Messrs. Sie- 

 brecht & Wadley, of this city, and was named for Mr. Jay Gould. 



Exhibitions. 

 Orchids at the Eden Musee. 

 THE fourth annual exhibition of Orchids, which is now in 

 1 progress under the direction of Messrs. Siebrecht & 

 Wadley, has been more numerously attended than any of its 

 predecessors ; indeed, the throngs on some days have been 

 so dense that an inspection of the flowers was almost impos- 

 sible. And the visitors found much that was worthy of study 

 and admiration. As usual, the larger portion of the plants 

 came from the Rose Hill Nurseries, but the contributions 

 from the collections of Mrs. F. Goodrich, of Mr. W. S. Kim- 

 ball, of Mr. J. Eyerman, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and Mr. 

 Frederick Mau added greatly to the value and interest of the 

 display. Indeed, the group of hybrid Cypripediums which 

 Mr. Kimball sent on from Rochester and which nestled mod- 

 estly among the Ferns on a little circular table in the centre of 

 the room, was to many connoisseurs the most attractive part 

 of the show. Here was C. Winnianum between its parent 

 plants, C. Druryi and C. villosum. Near these was the deli- 

 cate C. Measuresiannm, with C. euryandrtcm majus, C. Argus, 

 Kimball's variety, C. calophyllum striatum and many more 

 which are only found where the most rare and costly Cypripe- 

 diums are collected. Another group of cut flowers sent by Mr. 

 Kimball included such fine varieties as Cattleya Triance Back- 

 hoitsiana, the exceedingly rare Cattleya amethystoglossa 

 alba, Dendrobium nobile elegans, D. oculatum fimbria- 

 ttcm, two long spikes of Odontoglossum Coradinci pallidum, 

 Zygopetahcm rostratum, the bright orange-scarlet Ada auran- 

 tiaca, the curious terrestrial Orchid, Stcnorhynchus speciosus, 

 with its coral-red spike and beautifully spotted foliage, the 

 bright red Epidendrtan radicans, spikes of Schomburgkia un- 

 dulata, and many more of almost equal interest. 



On the side of the hall beyond Mr. Kimball's flowers were 

 twenty-five plants of Cattleya Triana exhibited by Mr. Fred- 

 erick Mau, of Weehawken, New Jersey, which deserve special 

 mention. Of course, the Cattleyas of this species were more 

 abundant than any others, but Mr. Man's plants had been 

 selected as the choice of thousands, and in richness of color 

 and firmness of texture they made a striking group. An un- 

 named and distinct Odontoglossum, in the way of 0. crista- 

 tellum, was another noteworthy plant in this collection. 



Mrs. Goodrich and Mr. John Eyerman contributed manv fine 

 flowers, among them the best example of the white flowered 

 Cattleya Triance, and a beautifully colored C. Bogotensis, a 

 flower rarely seen. The gem of the collection of Mr. De 

 Forest, of Summit, New Jersey, was an immense plant of C. 

 Triance alba, two feet in diameter. 



The tables in the body of the room were usually arranged 

 with large Palms rising from their centres, with the Orchids 

 grouped about' them in masses of Adiantum cuneatum and 

 A. Farleyense. A superb Seaforthia elegans towered above 

 Mr. Kimball's Cypripediums, a tall Chamaerops graced another 

 table, a Rhapis rose from a third, and in the anteroom was a 

 magnificent Encephalartos, twelve feet through. All these 

 were furnished by Messrs. Siebrecht & Wadley, as were the 

 other plants used for general decoration. Ericas were 

 abundantly used, and the stage was particularly attractive, 

 surrounded by a double row of Heaths and Azaleas, behind a 

 line of Adiantums and an edging of Lycopodium. 



Among the Orchids from the Rose Hill collection were 

 masses of finely grown Phalsenopsis, many Oncidiums, in- 

 cluding several good specimens of O. Papilio, a striking 



