May 5, 1897.] 



Garden and Forest. 



173 



bears evidence of the irregular and extreme conditions in the 

 various periods of its life. It will not be unexpected, then, to 

 find Pine trees of the same age in the valley differing widely 

 in their dimensions. The average dimensions of trees of 

 various ages given below, and based upon the measure- 

 ments of fifteen trees, may, however, be taken as an indi- 

 cation of the rate of growth of the White Pine in Bear 

 Creek Valley : 





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 mature Spruce, 

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 casional Spruce. J 



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 ( 98 years old. 



( Two trees meas- 

 ■J ured of 123 and 

 ( 128 years old. 



From this table it is seen that the growth in height is here 

 comparatively slow for the first fifty years, and much 

 slower for the next seventy-five years, while the diameter 

 for those same periods increases very rapidly, especially 

 during the second fifty years. This is exactly what should 

 be expected from Pine growing in half-open or entirely 

 open groves. 



Washington, D. C. 



A. K. Mlodziansky. 



Foreign Correspondence. 



The Royal Horticultural Society. 



THE extent, interest and variety of the plants shown at 

 the last fortnightly meeting were such as one expects 

 to see only at a large exhibition. The hall in which the 

 meetings are held is not nearly large enough to accommo- 

 date all the plants now sent to these meetings, and the 

 society will be compelled to place some limit on the num- 

 ber of plants sent by each exhibitor or else a larger hall 

 must be found. The latter alternative is most desirable. 

 It would be a pity to place any limit upon the exhibitors, 

 especially as the quality of the exhibits is almost invariably 

 of a high order. Certainly the result of the activity shown 

 by the society during the last few years has been to make 

 these fortnightly meetings both popular and useful. To be 

 able to go to a centre where all the new and interesting 

 plants can be seen growing is a great improvement upon 

 having to get some idea of them from pictures and descrip- 

 tions in the papers. The importance of these meetings as 

 a help in the promotion of horticultural taste cannot easily 

 be overrated. 



Primulas and Auriculas were the special feature of this 

 mid-April meeting, and they were as well represented and 

 admirable as ever. The season has been a little backward 

 for them, still the collections of show, alpine and fancy 

 Auriculas were large and interesting, and it was a positive 

 pleasure to go from group to group noting the charms of 

 green edge*, gray edges, white edges ; the selfs and golden 

 eyes among the alpines, many of them with the meal and 

 color laid on with such mathematical accuracy as to look 

 artificial. One must inspect these plants in such company 

 as Mr. James Douglas, Mr. Sanders, the Rev. F. D. Horner 

 and Mr. Turner to fully appreciate and understand their 



points. There is no plant enthusiasm like that of the Auri- 

 cula fancier. New varieties were awarded prizes and 

 certificates, and altogether there was abundant evidence of 

 the vitality of the Auricula cult. Daffodils were in as strong 

 force as Auriculas, prizes being offered to collections, while 

 in the numerous new hybrids and seedlings shown there 

 was evidence here also that Narcissus has become an estab- 

 lished favorite in English gardens, although our friends on 

 the Continent see no beauty in these flowers. The Rev. 

 G. H. Engleheart's collection of new seedlings and hybrids 

 was of the greatest interest, several of them being of quite 

 exceptional merit; one, called Red Prince, after the style 

 of Nelsoni, with a large open cup of rich scarlet, and 

 another named Beacon, of similar character, being consid- 

 ered by some competent judges as two of the most beauti- 

 ful hybrids yet raised. They were awarded first-class 

 certificates, as also was a new hybrid named Snowdrop, 

 raised from N. albicans and N. triandrus. Mr. Engleheart 

 says his work among the Daffodils is a source of the great- 

 est delight, and one might add that such successes as he 

 achieves ought to be a source of considerable profit also ; 

 for it has come to pass that fanciers of these plants will 

 pay five, ten or twenty guineas for a single bulb of a new 

 Daffodil. I should say the two new ones named above are 

 each worth considerably more than the last-named sum. 

 True gardening is, of course, done for love ; at the same 

 time the commercial side of the work has an importance 

 which even our wealthiest amateurs nowadays do not 

 overlook. 



The Orchids were represented by an exceptionally large 

 number of new and rare kinds, as well as specimens show- 

 ing good cultivation. The most noteworthy, perhaps, was 

 a hybrid raised by Messrs. Veitch it Sons from Laslia Dig- 

 byana and Cattleya Trianas, which resembles the hybrid 

 raised some years ago by the same firm from this Laelia 

 and Cattleya Mossise, but it is darker in color and differs 

 slightly in the form of the segments. It obtained a 

 first-class certificate. Zygopetalum Perrenondi superbum is 

 a larger-flowered and richer-colored variety than the type 

 raised by Messrs. Veitch from Z. Gautieri and Z. interme- 

 dium. It was awarded a first-class certificate. Similar 

 distinction was accorded to a very fine variety of Odonto- 

 glossum Wilckeanum named Empress-Queen, and shown 

 by Baron Schrceder ; it has large full flowers, heavily 

 barred and spotted with red-brown on a bright yellow 

 ground. Two other Odontoglossums obtained certificates, 

 as also did a beautiful example of the old but now rarely 

 seen Dendrobium albo-sanguineum. Large groups of 

 Orchids from Messrs. Veitch, Sander, Low, Williams, Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Baron Schrceder, Mr. Lucas and others 

 were remarkable for the numerous beautifully grown ex- 

 amples they contained. Epidendrum bicornutum, as vigor- 

 ous and well flowered as could be wished ; Dendrobium 

 Brymerianum, with thirty clusters of flowers ; Cymbidium 

 Devonianum, with four strong flower-spikes ; Cattleya 

 citrina, in great number and well flowered ; C. Shrce- 

 dera? alba, with fourteen beautiful flowers, and An- 

 sellia Africana, with nine large spikes of pale yellow- 

 brown barred flowers. When it is remembered that these 

 plants, which are valuable and delicate, are brought long 

 distances in treacherous weather and exposed to the unfa- 

 vorable conditions of an ill-constructed hall, and all for 

 love, no prizes of any kind being given, such displays 

 speak much for the generous enthusiasm of the Orchid 

 devotee. 



Erythroniums are most useful plants for spring garden- 

 ing, and some of them are quite worth growing in pots for 

 the conservatory. E. revolutum, with ovate mottled leaves 

 and scapes a foot high, bearing large rose-tinted flowers 

 over two inches across, was awarded a first-class certifi- 

 cate. Ornithogalum lacteum, an old garden plant of last 

 century, but still one of the best of the Cape species, was 

 awarded a certificate under the name of 0. grandiflorum. 

 It has strap-shaped leaves a foot long and scapes two feet 

 high, bearing dense racemes of white and yellow flowers, 



