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massive, and associated with other fine-leaved plants such 

 as Cannas and Ricinus. The plants are cut down every 

 autumn, and in spring they send up vigorous shoots, which 

 are thinned out to three or four, and furnish a mass of im- 

 mense leaves all summer. To see the Paulownia to per- 

 fection in Europe one must go to the sunny south, and I 

 have a pleasing recollection while writing this of the mag- 

 nificent avenues I saw of it in full flower at the end of 

 April in the gardens of the Villa Borghese and the Pincian 

 Hill at Rome, where the climate exactly suits it. Among 

 other interesting things in the arboretum are the Ceano- 

 thuses, the French hybrid varieties of C. azureus, of which 

 there are several in nurseries, but none so fine as the oldest 



large as L. purpurata, with broad (not refiexing) sepals of 

 pure white, and a lip painted with brilliant tints of purple 

 and crimson. Messrs. Sander also had fine examples of 

 autumn-flowering Orchids, and especially of that noblest 

 of all Vandas, V. Sanderiana, which seems to have dropped 

 out of notice until lately it has been shown splendidly from 

 St. Albans. It would be interesting to find out (if it were 

 possible) how many plants of the original importation of 

 V. Sanderiana are alive now. The hundreds, and perhaps 

 thousands, that were distributed to all parts, not a few to 

 your American collections, would surely have been more 

 in evidence at exhibitions than they have been if it 

 flourished as most growers thought it would. In addition 



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Gloire des Versailles, with its pale purple-blue plumes of 

 flowers. The finest dwarf autumn shrub is the new 

 Hypericum Moserianum, a cross between H. calycinum 

 and H. patulum, between which species the hybrid is ex- 

 actly intermediate. It has large shallow flovs'ers of bright 

 yellow, with tufts of crimson-lipped stamens. It flowers 

 profusely and continuously, and, in short, is quite a gem 

 among hardy flovi'ering shrubs. The florists, too, have 

 found out that it forces well, and can be had in bloom early 

 in the spring, so that will tend to popularize it more. 



At the Earl's Court E.xhibition a fine Orchid from the St. 

 Albans Nurseries was Lselia Gravesise, a hybrid between 

 L. crispa and L. purpurata. It is an exquisite flower, as 



to the cream of the autumn-blooming Orchids, Messrs. 

 Williams, of HoUoway, had some new plants and Orchids, 

 the latter including the rare little Pachystoma Thompson- 

 ianum, which received a first-class certificate, though it has 

 been in gardens for years. The new plants included 

 among Dracaenas, D. indivisa Veitchi variegata, a cumbrous 

 name for an elegant plant with narrow leaves striped with 

 yellovi', and which will, no doubt, be a popular decorative 

 plantin course of time. Other new Draceenas of the ordinary 

 reddish-leaved type were Miss Glendinning, Mrs. Laird, 

 H. E. Milner and A. Laing, to which first-class certificates 

 of merit were awarded. Carludovica palmaefolia and Cu- 

 pania elegantissima were two elegant plants for decora- 



