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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 491. 



at an elevation of about 8,000 feet, where Oaks, Rhododen- 

 drons, Myrtles, etc., are its companions. In habit it is said 

 to resemble D. Victoria Reginee, another new discovery of 

 this year and also a native of the Philippines, described as 

 having stems which produce "great numbers of richly 

 dark blue and white blossoms borne in trusses and lasting 

 in bloom for several weeks. The flowers are over an inch 

 in diameter, the sepals and petals white at the base, with a 

 great blue blotch at the edges, the lip ovate-oblong and of 

 the same color." In D. cceleste "the fleshy flowers are 

 entirely dark blue, with the exception of the ovary and 

 spur, which are purple. The sepals and petals are ovate 

 and almost equal in size, the lip obovate and blunt, the 

 column blue." These two species are described by Mr. A. 

 Loher, Manila. 



Incarvillea Delavayi. — The most vigorous example I 

 have seen of this fine Bignoniad is in the garden of Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, at Burford Bridge, where it is grown out- 

 of-doors in a sunny border all summer and lifted and kept 

 in a frame in winter. Under this treatment it develops 

 leaves two feet long and spikes four feet high, clothed with 

 flowers proportionately large and rich in color. According 

 to a note in The Garden this plant is hardy enough to thrive 

 if left permanently out-of-doors in most parts of England, 

 for in Dalbeattie, near Dumfries, seeds sown two years ago 

 have yielded plants which were in great beauty in June this 

 year after having stood the last two winters in a climate 

 not very suitable for tender things. It will be remembered 

 that this plant was introduced from China by the mission- 

 ary after whom it is named and that it first flowered 

 in Paris in 1893. It is now easily obtained from the 

 nurserymen. 



Tea Roses and Violas. — In a notice of Tea Roses grown 

 by Mr. Robinson at Gravetye last year, I mentioned the 

 excellent effects produced by planting bedding Violas 

 (tufted Pansies) as a carpet or mulch to the rose beds. A 

 series of beds of Teas has been planted this year bordering 

 a curved walk against an old Yew hedge, and among these 

 a selection of bedding Violas has been used. The effect 

 now is most pleasing. Each bed is filled with one kind of 

 Rose and one of Viola. There are no harsh or brilliant 

 colors among the latter, their blues, yellows, creams, whites 

 and piebalds harmonizing well with the whites, creams and 

 pinks of the Tea Roses. The latter are, of course, on their 

 own roots. It is a mistake to plant Tea Roses that have 

 been grafted or budded. Bedding Violas are again the 

 subject of a special trial at Chiswick, where there is now a 

 fine collection of varieties. TTT rTr 



London. W. Watson. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



Rhamnus occidentalis. 



THIS plant was first noticed by Mr. Thomas Howell, 

 near Waldo, in south-western Oregon, and described 

 by him as a shrub from two to ten feet in height, with 

 coriaceous yellow-green elliptical leaves, from acute to 

 obtuse or retuse at the apex, flowers in subumbellate fasci- 

 cles and black obscurely lobed fruit* Last September I found 

 it in the same region, but at higher elevations on the north 

 slope of the Siskiyou Mountains, where in dry gravelly soil 

 it forms broad compact round-topped bushes about two 

 feet high and sometimes five or six feet in diameter, being 

 in habit quite unlike any of the forms of Rhamnus Purshiana, 

 to which it has sometimes been referred,! and from which 

 it also differs strikingly in the yellow-orange color of the 

 under surface of the leaves, similar to that of the leaves of 

 Rhamnus crocea of southern California, a fact which has 

 already been pointed out by Professor Greene. J 



Our figure on page 285 of this issue, made by Mr. Faxon 

 from specimens which I gathered on the Siskiyou Moun- 



tains, will perhaps call attention to this interesting plant, 

 which on further investigation will probably be found to 

 be specifically distinct from the very variable Rhamnus of 

 the Frangula section of Pacific North America. The leaves 

 are described by Mr. Howell as persistent ; probably, how- 

 ever, they fall during the winter or in early spring with 

 the appearance of the new growth. C. S. S. 



An Undescribed Antennaria from New England. 



IN the spring of 1891 Mr. J. C. Parlin collected at North 

 Berwick, Maine, an Antennaria which then appeared 

 very different from the common form, but which has not 

 been critically studied until the present season. Early in 

 May of this year, while botanizing with Mr. Parlin upon 

 the intervales of Great Works River, in North Berwick, our 

 attention was attracted by the stout, viscid, young shoots 

 of a plant which proved to be the same as that collected 

 six years ago. The plant was abundant in the woods or 

 on recently cleared knolls in the intervale, and, though 

 still very young, it reminded one, upon a superficial 

 glance, of a Gnaphalium rather than an Antennaria. At 

 that time, early in May, the common Ladies' Tobacco, or 

 Pussy's Toes, of the fields and meadows (A. neglecta, 

 Greene, Pitionia, iii., 173) was in full flower, and even 

 passing to fruit. 



Later in the spring, in late May and early June, the large 

 viscid plant has been found in great abundance by Mr. 

 Parlin in southern Maine, and by Dr. B. L. Robinson, 

 Mr. E. L. Rand and others in southern New Hampshire 

 and eastern Massachusetts. The plant flowers at the same 

 time as Antennaria plantaginifolia (see Professor Greene's 

 paper); and it is interesting that, as in case of two of Pro- 

 fessor Greene's recent north-western species, the staminate 

 plant is unknown. Wherever found the pistillate plants 

 have been abundant, but thus far only that form has been 

 detected. Often, however, this species is found growing 

 with staminate or pistillate plants of A. plantaginifolia. 



Aside from the glandular stem and large cauline leaves 

 and the purplish involucre, perhaps the most striking 

 character is in the bright green smooth and shining upper 

 surface of the strongly discolorous basal leaves. These 

 characters separate the plant very clearly from the other 

 Antennarias, and I propose it as a species, which I dedicate 

 to its discoverer.* 



Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Merrill L. Ferncild. 



Cultural Department. 



Herbaceous Perennial Plants in Flower. 



pROBABLY the finest show made by any herbaceous peren- 

 ■^ nial in the garden now is the glowing mass of flowers 

 borne by a clump of Alstromeria auraniiaca. While this 

 plant has flowered here annually tor eight years past, at no 

 time has it shown such luxuriance of growth and bloom as it 

 has this season. Although it requires a slight protection in 

 winter in this vicinity, it flowers perfectly without any protec- 

 tion after a mild winter like the last one. Success with this 

 plant depends largely on the situation and the condition of the 

 soil in which it is planted. A slightly elevated position with a 

 warm aspect in a soil of such texture or so drained that it will 



* Howell, Pacific Coast Plants, Collection of lSSy t No. 1105 ; Fl. North-western 



America, 113. 



t Trelease, Cray Syn. Fl. N. Am., i., pt. i., 408. 

 + Pittonia, ii., 15. 



* Antennaria Parlinii, n. sp. Rather tall, 1 }' to 4 dm. high, the stems conspicu- 

 ously leafy, pubescent with white appressed-silky or even lanate hairs, and bearing 

 elongated purplish glandular hairs, especially toward the base and the inflores- 

 cence ; stolons rather stout, glandular : old leaves of the basal rosette subcoriaceous, 

 obovate or broadly obovate-spatulate, tapering below to a winged petiole, rounded 

 and generally mucronate at the tip, including the petiolar base 4 to 7 cm. long in 

 well-developed plants, iK to 3!, cm. wide, smooth and bright green (never 

 arachnoid) above, almost shining in the fresh plant, 3-nerved, beneath canescent 

 or glabrate, wrinkled and with prominent veins ; lower cauline leaves spreading or 

 ascending, oblong, obtusish, mucronate, glandular on both faces, green above, 

 sordid beneath, 3 or 4 cm. long, the upper reduced ; lower leaves of the stolons like 

 the cauline, the terminal ones large, obovate, strikingly discolorous, bright green 

 and smooth above, white and closely pubescent beneath : heads loosely or densely 

 corymbose : the involucre subcampanulale, sometimes fully 1 cm high, of 3 rows 

 of imbricated bracts ; the outer bracts herbaceous, purplish,"and somewhat glandu- 

 lar, with short acute or bluntish erose scarious tips; the inner with the narrow 

 scarious tips long-attenuate: styles and corollas purplish: pappus silvery white : 

 akenes 2 mm. long, granular. In woods and on hillsides, generally in rich soil, 

 southern Maine and New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts. Maine, North 

 Berwick (J. C. Parlin, 1891, J. C. Parlin and M. L. Fernald, 1S97) ; New Hampshire, 

 Jaffrey and Dublin (B. L. Robinson and E. L. Rand, 1S97); Massachusetts, Lexington 

 *(B. L. Robinson, J. M. Greenman, etc., 1S97). 



