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Garden and Forest 



[July 30, i£ 



the old lichen-covered trunks gleam white and silvery through 

 the thickets of bright-colored Azaleas all around them. 



In a little rill near the hotel, the tall, rather ungainly Lettuce 

 Saxifrage (Saxifraga erosa) grows in the water, and in the ad- 

 joining marshy ground are the conspicuous triangular bright 

 blue tlowers of the common Spiderwort (Trades cantia Vir- 

 ginica). Parnassia asarifolia was found on old logs in the lake, 

 but it was too early for the tlowers, as well as for those of 

 Trautvetteria palmata, which, in company with the green- 

 flowered Veratrum viride, fills the deep bog along Little Stony 

 Creek, the outlet of Mountain Lake, with a coarse, rank growth. 



Magnolia acuminata is still in bloom on the borders of this 

 swamp, and fills the air with the delicious fragrance of its 

 large cup-shaped flowers, and all through the surrounding 

 woods we found the curious Conopholis Americana in all 

 stages of flower and fruit. The Striped Maple (Acer Pennsyl- 

 vanicum) is dropping its small pretty racemes, and at its foot, 

 growing" all along the top of a decayed mossy log, are the 

 dainty white flowers of Tiarella cordifolia. 



These great logs, principally Hemlocks, overgrown with 

 Moss and Fern, are the remains of what must have been a 

 magnificent forest, for enough of them are still standing to 

 bear witness to their former grandeur. In this jungle we find 

 our third Trillium, the stiff, dark reddish T. erectum, and that 

 curious vine, Aristolochia Sipho, which twines over rock and 

 shrub, the queer, though hardly pretty, brown flowers really 

 looking like so many little pipes among the large roundish 

 leaves. 



Both Menziesia globularis and Vaccinium erythrocarpon 

 grow along the road over which we drive to the Cas- 

 cade, five miles away, when we leave Mountain Lake on our 

 way to the New River Valley. The falls are charming and the 

 beauty of the ravine well repaid us for the rough climb we 

 had to reach it. 



There on the high cliffs we again found Asplenium vionta- 

 num, but this time with feathery fronds three inches long, and 

 we gathered Cortius alternifolia almost in the spray of the cas- 

 cade. Two more members of the Birthwort family, Asarnm 

 Canadense and A. Virginicnm, grew there in the deep Hemlock 

 woods. 



Gillenia trifoliata is another graceful white-flowered plant 

 that has a place in the flora of Salt Pond Mountain, and such 

 snowy clusters of the Deerberry's ( Vaccinium stamineum) 

 delicate little bells are surely rarely seen. In the woods near 

 the foot of the mountain we found a small group of the pretty 

 blue Scullcaps, Scutellaria saxatilis, S. serrata and .S'. nervosa, 

 all growing not far from each other. Among the roadside 

 trees Tilia heterophylla and Magnolia acuminata are promi- 

 nent with many Oaks, and here and there are large clumps of 

 the long, dark green leaved sEsculus flava, the latter with 

 swarms of bees around its fragrant spikes of yellowish blos- 

 soms. Some of the larger trees are dying by inches in the 

 fields, for the way of making clearings down there is essen- 

 tially a lazy one. The underbrush is burnt or cut out, grain is 

 sown, the trees are girdled and left to fall when and where 

 they will. How any harvesting is done in such fields is a 

 mystery to the uninitiated. 



Our twelve-mile drive over an unspeakably rough road in 

 wagons guiltless of springs came to an end at Eggleston's 

 Springs, on the New River, where in a rather comfortless inn 

 we spent the night. 

 New York. Anna M. Vail. 



New or Little Known Plants. 

 Schubertia grandiflora, Mart, and Zucc. 



THIS species, which has recently been brought into 

 notice in England, was first discovered by Martius 

 some seventy years ago in the forests of eastern Brazil. A 

 species much resembling this, but with rather smaller 

 flowers (S. graveolens), has been occasionally cultivated 

 for nearly fifty years, but has not received much attention. 

 Like the very similar Slephanotis Jloribunda, it is a woody 

 climber of the Asclepias family, with milky juice, and bear- 

 ing umbels of large fleshy flowers in the axils. The leaves 

 and branches are rather thickly covered with coarse brown 

 hairs, and the bark upon the older stems becomes thick, 

 white and corky. The flowers are pure white (becoming 

 creamy) and extremely fragrant, and are very persistent, 

 retaining their freshness for several days after being cut. 



The plant is readily propagated either by seeds or cut- 

 tings, and is a rapid and vigorous grower, attaining a 



length of twenty or thirty feet in the course of a year, and 

 continuing in profuse bloom for several months. It bears 

 a dry fruit of the size and shape of a small pear, covered 

 with scattered fleshy spines, and containing numerous 

 plumed seeds like those of the Milkweed. The leaves 

 have a somewhat fetid odor, especially when bruised, 

 which is the only thing that detracts from its value for 

 floral purposes. 



The genus Schubertia has been united by Bentham and 

 Hooker with Physianthus under the older name of Araujia, 

 but continental botanists still keep it distinct, perhaps more 

 correctly. It is very closely allied to the "Condurango" 

 which some years ago had an artificial reputation as a 

 remedy for cancer. 



The plant from which the figure here given was made 

 was raised from seed planted in the spring of 1889 by Mr. 

 John N. Gerard, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and is now in 

 possession of Mr. John Thorpe, of Pearl River, New York. 

 The vine is now twenty-one feet long, trained horizontally, 

 and covers a space three feet wide. It is flowering pro- 

 fusely both on leaders and laterals, the number of trusses 

 being about 160, with from five to nine flowers in each 

 cluster. S. W. 



New Orchids. 



Trichopilia punctata, Rolfe, is an elegant little species, 

 allied to T. laxa, but the segments spotted with reddish pur- 

 ple, an unusual character in the genus. It was introduced 

 from Costa Rica by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. — Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, February 22d, p. 227. 



Cypripedium x CEnone, Rolfe, is a hybrid raised by Messrs. 

 F. Sander & Co., from C. Hookera fertilized with the pollen of 

 C. superbiens. The leaves are much like the former species, 

 while the flowers have more of the character of the latter. 

 The only plant saved is now in the collection of Mr. R. H. 

 Measures, of Streatham. — Gardeners' Chronicle, March 1st, 

 p. 260. 



Xylobium Colleyi, Rolfe. This is the old Maxillaria 

 Colleyi, Lindl., described in 1838, and which has long been lost 

 to cultivation. A plant sent from the Trinidad Botanic Garden 

 to Kew proved on flowering to be this species. Its native 

 country still remains doubtful. It bears short racemes of red- 

 dish brown flowers, which smell like cucumbers, but are of little 

 beauty. — Gardeners' Chronicle, March 8th, p. 288. 



Dendrobium x Aspasia, Veitch, is a beautiful hybrid raised 

 by Mr. Seden for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, from D. 

 aureum, fertilized with the pollen of D. Wardianum. It was 

 awarded a first-class certificate by the Royal Horticultural 

 Society on March nth. It is the plant described in the Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle for April 20th, 1889, p. 490, as D. Wardiano- 

 aiireum. The lip is very richly colored. — Gardeners' Chroni- 

 cle, March 15th, p. 336. 



Cypripedium x Numa, Veitch. A hybrid raised in Messrs. 

 James Veitch & Sons' establishment from C. Lawrenceanum, 

 fertilized with the pollen of C. Stonei. It has much of the gen- 

 eral character of the pollen parent. It was awarded a first- 

 class certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society on March 

 nth. — Gardeners' Chronicle, March 15th, p. 336; May 17th, 

 p. 608. 



-Cypripedium x Othello, Veitch. A hybrid exhibited by 

 Messrs. James Veitch & Sons at the meeting of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society on March nth. Its parents are C. hirsu- 

 tissimum and C. Boxallii. Thus it must stand very near C. x 

 Godseffianum, which has the same or the reversed parentage. 

 — Gardeners' Chronicle, March 15th, p. 336. 



Zygopetalum (I Bollea) Whitei, Rolfe, is a new species 

 allied to Z. hemixantha, with cream-white flowers and a golden 

 yellow disc. It is a native of New Granada, and was found 

 growing with Cattleya Mendcli, by a collector of Mr. R. B. 

 White, of Arddarrock. It is said to be a free grower, and the 

 flowers are very pretty. — Gardeners' Chronicle, March 22d, 



P- 354- 



Odontoglossum Wattianum, Rolfe, is a very distinct form 

 somewhat intermediate in character between O. htteo-purpur- 

 eum and 0. Li)idleyanum, though whether it is a natural hy- 

 brid between them or a distinct species still remains doubtful. 

 The flowers are yellow, blotched with maroon. It was intro- 

 duced by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. — Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, March 22d, p. 354. 



L/ELIA-cattleya x Hippolyta, Veitch, is a most beautiful 

 hybrid raised irom Lcelia cinnabarina, fertilized with the pollen 



