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Garden and Forest. 



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of stems heavily laden with rich blue flowers, is now the most 

 attractive herbaceous plant in the rock-garden at Kew. It is 

 planted in a moist, partially shaded position in rich loamy soil, 

 where it has grown into its present dimensions from a small 

 plant in about five years. Every year hundreds of seedlings 

 spring up about it, proving that the plant is as happy and as 

 much at home as if it were on the Swiss mountains. Indeed, 

 it is even happier, according to Mr. Dewar, who has just re- 



the plants and the size and rich colors of the flowers. They 

 were obtained from Messrs. Hallock & Sons, of Queens, New 

 York, who profess to have obtained them by crossing G. Saun- 

 dersii with some of the finest popular kinds. These at Kew 

 are not named, but they deserve to be, and the raisers may be 

 congratulated on the excellence of their seedlings. Some of 

 the spikes are fully six feet high, and they are well furnished 

 with flowers, all of them larger than any Gladiolus we have 



F'S- 55- — Insects Affecting Chrysanthemums. — See page 439. 



(a) Cicadula quadrilineata. [i) Lygus lineolaris. (c) Tripthleps insidiosus. (d Plagiognathus obscurus. (e) Eristalis lenaz. 



[f f) Phytomyza Chrysanthemi fly and larva, with Chrysanthemum leaf \g) showing mines of larva. All enlarged except the leaf. 



turned from Switzerland, and declares that nowhere did he see 

 this species so fine as it is under cultivation here, and he saw 

 acres of it. In the gardens at Belvoir Castle it is equally vig- 

 orous. It ought to become a favorite for borders, or even as 

 a specimen on lawns. There is a white-flowered variety of it. 

 New Gladioli. — A bed of seedling Gladioli, comprising 

 some half a dozen kinds, now flowering finely at Kew, is at- 

 tracting much attention because of the extraordinary size of 



seen, whilst the colors are brilliant as well as variable. In 

 another part of the garden there is a fine bed of the best of the 

 hybrids raised by Monsieur Lemoine, of Xancy, from G. purpu- 

 reo-anratus crossed with some of the G. Gatidavensis kinds. 

 These beautiful plants have already won a first-class reputa- 

 tion, their colors being exceptionally rich, the flowers large, 

 and the plants as easy to manage as the ordinary varieties. 

 Monsieur Lemoine also raised some hybrids from G. Saundersii 



