October 24, 1894 



Garden and Forest. 



425 



tion of saving the industry of fruit-culture from ruin by 

 foreign competition, nor, judging by the correspondence 

 that has lately been published in the Times and other 

 papers, does it appear likely that anything will be done. 



The Forestry Conference. — This meeting, held at Chis- 

 wick last week, produced an exhibition of varied interest, 

 and a number of papers of more or less importance as con- 

 tributions to the literature of the subject. Probably there 

 was more for the gardener than the forester in the exhibi- 

 tion itself, consisting, as it did, of collections of all kinds 

 of hardy trees and shrubs, many of which were new or 

 rare ; but there was not much that the horticulturist could 

 turn to account in the papers read and discussed. Mr. 

 Thiselton Dyer, the Director at Kevv, presided at the Con- 

 ference, and he did not give any encouragement to the 

 theorists who argue in favor of forestry in this country as 



Fig. 67. — Cypripedium Arnoldise. 



a profitable undertaking. There are large tracts of land, 

 large for England that is, which are planted with timber- 

 producing trees, and which serve the double purpose of 

 protection and picturesque effect in the landscape, the sale 

 of the timber itself being of secondary importance. Forestry 

 is hopeless in this country, but sylviculture is often worth 

 while. It, therefore, may be that by preaching forestry 

 to those interested in the land, they may be induced to pay 

 more attention to the selection, planting and after-treatment 

 of trees, which, if not likely to prove a direct source of 

 profit nevertheless contribute largely to the value of sur- 

 rounding land and to the beauty of the landscape. There 

 is no room for forestry here; there is every need for large 

 areas of trees and shrubs. 



London. W. WatSOIl. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



Cypripedium Arnoldije. 



THIS is one of the large-flowered, short-stemmed sec- 

 tion, showing, in this respect, the distinctive charac- 

 ter of its seed parent, C. bellatulum. After the completion 

 of its first growth, which Was of unusually slow develop- 

 ment, the plant began to show the influence of the pollen 

 parent, C. superciliare, and increased rapidly in size and 

 produced its first spike with twin flowers. 



The individual flowers measure three and a half inches 

 across. The dorsal sepal is slightly concave, of a white 

 ground color, furnished with lines of minute purple spots, 

 the special portion marked with a number of short pea- 

 green lines. The petals are broad and spreading, with 

 slight undulation, ground color rosy white, the 

 whole surface studded with minute rich purple 

 spots. The influence of the pollen parent in the 

 lip is very perceptible, both in shape and color- 

 ing, the upper portion and infolded lobes being 

 suffused with a deep rose color, which changes 

 into a light green toward the lower portion and 

 veined throughout with a richer shade. The 

 leaves are elliptic-oblong, with a light and dark 

 green tessellation. 



Cypripedium Arnoldiae (see figure) originated 

 in the nurseries of Messrs. Sander & Co., at St. 

 Albans, England, and has been named in honor of 

 Mrs. Hicks Arnold, of this city. It was exhibited 

 recently before the Royal Horticultural Society of 

 London, and obtained a first-class certificate, and 

 is one of the best crosses yet obtained from C. 

 bellatulum. 



New York. A. DwimOck. 



Plant Notes. 



Habenaria carnea nivosa. — Three years ago (see 

 vol. iv., page 487) we figured Habenaria carnea, 

 an introduction from Singapore, which had just 

 flowered at Kew. The plant has a neat habit and 

 large, though delicate, flesh-pink flowers. A variety 

 with white flowers received an award of merit 

 during the summer from the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, and since then we learn from the Orchid 

 Revieiv that this variety, which is called Nivosa, 

 has made its appearance in several other collec- 

 tions, and we learn that the same form has ap- 

 peared in this country. It seems to grow as rap- 

 idly as the type, and both plants are admirable 

 companions for Habenaria militaris, of whose rich- 

 colored flowers it was said that no English soldier 

 could boast a jacket of a brighter scarlet. The 

 leaves of Habenaria carnea are spotted with white 

 on a ground color of pinkish gray, but the leaves 

 of the new variety are green and unspotted. 



Papaver Atlanticum. — A new perennial alpine 

 Poppy from the Atlas Mountains, probably a form 

 of P. rupifragum, is a vigorous-growing semi- 

 dwarf species with long, narrow, deeply cut, some- 

 what hairy, light green leaves. The flowers, borne singly 

 on graceful stems one and a half to two feet high, are about 

 two inches in diameter and of a dark orange color. They 

 are very fugacious, but are borne in succession from 

 early summer until freezing weather. The plant blooms 

 the first year from seed. 



The Double White Colchicum. — This is, perhaps, the 

 most attractive of the species and varieties of these 

 autumn-flowering plants. Each bulb sends up numerous 

 flowers in succession, and they prove very interesting and 

 attractive in the border, especially if they are planted 

 under a carpet of dwarf Sedums or other creeping plants 

 which will serve as a foil and preserve the purity of the 

 flowers during rains. The double white form is much 

 more showy and more substantial than the single white, 



