October io, 1888.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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as a symbol of the suzerainty of the King ; and the right to 

 represent them at this ceremony was eagerly disputed for 

 among tlie higliest nobles of the realm. Similar tributes were 

 frequently exacted by minor suzerains, and even in real estate 

 transactions a Rose, or a bushel of Roses, often appeared as 

 part of the payment or an equivalent therefor. The Golden 

 Rose, wliich the Pope still annually bestows upon some one 

 whom he desires to honor, was first given in 1366. The form 

 of the present was chosen as significant of the fragility and 

 evanescence of life, and the indestructible, incorruptible ma- 

 terial as emblematic of the immortality of the soul. At least, 

 Mrs. Herriclv tells us, ancient writers thus declare ; and, 

 whether it be accurate or not, the explanation is a poetical 

 one. Tlie drawings by the author, which accompany this arti- 

 cle, are both faithful and poetic ; the others are less good, and 

 the colored plates are beneath criticism. 



Black-tuood' s Magazine for August contains an interesting 

 article called " In a Garden of John Evelyn's " which unites a 

 sketch of Evelyn's life with a (lescription of the garden which 

 he assisted in laying out for a friend — one of the Howard 

 family, who afterwards became the Duke c>f Norfolk. This 

 garden lies at Chertsey, in .Susse.x, about thirty miles from 

 London, and in the neighborhood of Wotton, Evelyn's old 

 home. As Pope and Addison worked in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, so Evelyn worked in the seventeenth, and still more in- 

 fluentially, to popularize a love of nature among his country- 

 men. Pope's and Addison's efforts tended to turn men away 

 from the formal towards the natural style of gardening. In 

 Evelyn's earlier time, landscape gardening, in tlie meaning we 

 now attach to the word, had not as yet been thought of. Never- 

 theless the truest love for nature and the most admirable 

 taste characterize all his works on gardening, and the formal 

 gardens which he loved are by no means to be confounded 

 with those which, later in his own century, were mere ar- 

 rangements of clipped trees and regular walks crowded with 

 a mass of artificial constructions. His taste had been trained, 

 during many years of foreign travel, on the beautiful early 

 gardens of Italy, and something akin to them he tried to pro- 

 duce in England, with a wise regard, however, for differences 

 in climate, habits of life and artistic conditions. The garden 

 at Chertsey is said to be better preserved than most others of 

 its time, and the description given of it in Blackwood is cer- 

 tainly most attractive. "It is perhaps an ancient pleasance 

 more than a garden such as belongs to the present day. . . . 

 The growth of years has but added to its charm, and has pro- 

 duced the grandeur of the trees, which must be the chief at- 

 traction to a pilgrim to the shrine of 'Sylva Evelyn.' . . . 

 There is as much shade as sunshine around us here. . . . 

 Few signs of modern taste have entered ; ' bedding out ' and 

 those monsters of horticulture known as massifs are un- 

 known. There is not a single ribbon-border anywhere, nor 

 beds of tropical plants. . . . Here is a space set apart for 

 a rose-garden, and the Roses have had their way in it for 

 years. Trellised arbours lead to it, and the entrance is dark- 

 ened bv overhanging clusters. Below the rose-garden the 

 ground slopes to the margin of the stream. . . . There are 

 thickets along the stream and many a winding walk lielow tall 

 trees and all kinds of flowering shrubs overhanging the 

 stream. We notice fewer brilliant effects than tender colors 

 and sweet scents, except at intervals, where great scarlet Pop- 

 pies ffaunt in the Sim, contrasting with yellow Day Lilies, or 

 spires of blue Lupin or white masses of golden Crocus catch 

 the sunshine in early spring. And here and there among their 

 more cultivated sisters there is space for a wild flower to find 

 shelter. . . . Here is a group of Ilex trees, whose shadow 

 falls upon some old brick-work, and flights of stone steps 

 which lead up to the chief attraction and crowning feature of 

 the garden, a broad, grassy terrace, stretching in long per- 

 spective for a quarter of a mile. Half way down its length is 

 a semicircular recess and a pool of clearest water covered 

 with Water Lilies and dark with overhanging trees, which hide 

 the entrance to the grotto; . . . and rising over all tlie 

 splendid group of Firs. . . . On the old walls which 

 bound the terrace on the left there is a delicious mingling of 

 fruit and flowers. . . ." 



interesting and valuable addition to the list of hardy 

 shrubs which can be cultivated in gardens in our Southern 

 States. 



StHOMl!URi;KIATli;iClNIs. Ciirdciicrs' Clironiclc, August 25th. 



liotanical Magazine, September : 



SpathoGLoTTIS YlElLLARDI, /. 7,oi3; native of the Sunda 

 Archipelago and New Caledonia; a robust species, with hand- 

 some pale lilac, or nearly white, flowers, two inches across. 



Caraguata Andreana, t. 7,014; native of New Grenada; is a 

 showy Bromeliad, discovered by Monsieur Ed. Andre on the 

 Cordillera of Pasto during his memorable South American 

 journey, and introduced by him into cultivation. 



Masdcvallia Mooyeana, t. 7,015. 



Narcissus Broussonnetii, /. 7,016 ; ■' tin's is a very curious 

 plant. It is just like the white Tazetta Narcissi {Italicits, ■ 

 Panizziamts, etc.) in habit, leaves, perianth, stamens and 

 pistil, but the corona is very nearly or entirely obliterated. It 

 was carefully studied by the late Jacques Gay, one of the most 

 painstaking botanists who ever lived, and his conclusion was 

 that it ought to be regarded as forming a monotypic genus. It 

 was first found about the beginningof the century m the neigh- 

 borhood of Mogadore fiy Broussonnet. Nothing more was 

 heard of it until 1873, when specimens were sent by Dr. 

 Leared to the late Daniel Hanbnry. Now it has been intro- 

 duced alive, and was flowered last winter both at Kew and hy 

 Sir E. G. Soder at Flone. It will probably not prove hardv in 

 the open air in England." 



Erythronium Hendersoni, /. 7,017, recently described and 

 figured in this journal (p. 317). 



Recent Plant Portraits. 



On'CIDIUM Lietzei, var. Aureo-Maculatum. GarlcnJJora, 

 August 15th. 



PlagianthuS Lyai.I.I. Gardeners' Chronicle, August 25th ; ' 

 a malvaceous shrub or low tree, with handsome white flowers 

 three-fourths of an inch across. This will probably make an 



Exhibitions. 

 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 



■T^HE fifty-nintli annual exhibition of this society, hekl in 

 ■*• Philadelphia last week, was not as large as some of its 

 predecessors, but for the number of remarkal;>le specimens 

 displayed the show has not been surpassed for several years. 

 Proliably the finest plant in the hall was a Kentia Forsteriana, 

 exhibited by Wm. Joyce, gardener to Miss Baldwin. Its 

 foliage is very clean and bright and the plant is fully twelve 

 feet high. Specimen plants of Latania Borbonica, Cycas 

 circinalis and Pandanus Veilc/iiiioWowed hard after this in the 

 order of merit. A remarkable Cissiis discolor, covering an 

 oval frame four feet high, well furnished with foliage, some 

 of the leaves measuring quite nine inches long, was exhibited 

 by Robert Wark, gardener to C. H. Clark. An Alamanda 

 Scliottii, also grown on a frame and well set with flowers and 

 buds, showed blooms quite four and a half inches in diameter. 

 It was exhibited by Wm. Frederick, gardener to W. W. Fra- 

 zier, of Jenkintown. Thomas Long, gardener to A. J. Drexel, 

 exhibited a well-grown specimen of that miniature Palm, Liv- 

 ingslonia Altissinia, and its beauty made visitors regret tliat it 

 was so scarce and costly. A specimen of Cocos IVeddelliana, 

 exhibited f)}' Mr. Joyce, is six feet high and in fine condition. 

 Chas. Ball contributed a well-colored plant of the variegated 

 Pineapple. Three fine plants were shown of Davallia Fiji- 

 ensis, a Fern that was gro\yn by a Philadelphia florist for 

 ten years before it was named and distributed by Wm. Bull. 

 It was sent to the Philadelphian by a friend who visited the 

 Fiji Islands. 



The collection of fifty Caladiums from "Wootton," the 

 covmtry-seat of Geo. W. Childs, were fine examples of good 

 culture. John M. Hughes, the gardener to Mr. Childs, de- 

 serves great credit for this display, as it occupied nearly one 

 side of the hall. Hug'h Graham's son received a first premiimr 

 for six fine specimen plants of Maranta, and Chas. D. Ball took 

 first for a grand collection of twentv-five specimen Ferns, 

 including the finest Adiantunis, Davallias and Gleichenias. 



Henry A. Dreer exhibited Aristolochia elegans, a novelty 

 from Brazil. It is a grand vine and certain to become popu- 

 lar, if, as is claimed, it will bloom the same season from seed 

 sown in the open air in spring. i\Ir. Dreer also exhibited the 

 finest collection of tuberous-rooted Begonias ever seen in 

 Philadelphia. Man\' of 'the flowers measured foiu' and one- 

 half inclies in diameter. 



The tank of Water-lilies contained examijles of Nyinf^hcea 

 Zanzibarensis, N. Devoniensis and Nehinibiuin sfieciosiini, 

 and a smaller taidv was filled with the conqiaratively new 

 Pontcderia Crassipcs, from British Guiana, with blooms w- 

 sembling at first sight a (lale blue Iris. Cut Roses of admirable 

 quality for the season were exhibited by Edwin Lonsdale, Craig 

 & Bro., Pennock Bros, and Coles & Whiteley. Some Madame 

 Cuisins were particularly fine. The Gloxinias and Petunias 

 exhibited bv Henrv A. Dreer and the il.iintilv ari'anged Pansies 



