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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 351. 



mon in collections. But this white variety, white, that is, 

 with a yellow "wart" or callus, is a rara avis in English 

 collections, and Mr. Measures' fine specimen is tantalizing 

 to those who would like but cannot get a plant. 



Masdevallia attenuata and M. Laucheana, both new 

 introductions, with small white flowers tipped with green, 

 were shown in flower this week by Messrs. H. Low & Co., 

 and were awarded botanical certificates. 



New Chrysanthemums. — The following received awards of 

 merit this week : Madame C. Molin, a fine Japanese variety, 

 broad petaled, bold in form and colored deep golden yel- 

 low, tinged with red-brown ; Louise, also a Japanese 

 variety, with large flowers, the petals inclined to incurve, 

 white, tinged with rose on first opening ; Reine d'Angle- 

 terre, a Japanese reflexed variety, elegant in form and col- 

 ored rose-purple ; Prefet Robert, an incurved Japanese 

 variety, colored deep maroon, with a silvery reverse ; 

 M. A. De Lacvivier, of similar character to the last, colored 

 carmine red, with bronze yellow reverse ; Hairy Wonder, 

 a well-named Japanese variety, the segments being cov- 

 ered with hairs, the flowers large and colored cinnamon- 

 red ; Miss Goschen, a large-flowered Japanese variety, with 

 flat, broad, clear yellow petals ; Admiral De Vellau, a deep 

 yellow, large-flowered Japanese reflexed variety of consid- 

 erable merit ; Mrs. H. J. Jones, an incurved Japanese 

 variety, broad petaled, white, with a creamy yellow 

 tinge ; Duchess of York — the handsomest and most distinct 

 of the new varieties shown this year. It is pure Japanese, 

 the flowers large and full, the petals curled and the color a 

 bright clear soft yellow. The plant is said to be of good 

 habit. It was raised in Scotland and is now in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Jones, of the Ryecroft Nursery. Some of these 

 obtained a certificate from the National Chrysanthemum 

 Society, as well as from the Royal Horticultural Society. 

 They represent the pick of a great number of new kinds 

 shown at the two meetings. 



Carnations. — May Godfrey (white) and Reginald Godfrey 

 (salmon), recently noted by me as first-rate new varieties, 

 were awarded first-class certificates this week. They are 

 certain to take rank with the best of the winter-flowering 

 Carnations grown largely by florists for market. They 

 were raised and are being sent out by Mr. J. W. Godfrey, 

 nurseryman, Exmouth, the well-known raiser and grower 

 of new Chrysanthemums. TTr „. 



London. W. WalSOH. 



Plant Notes. 



Quercus coccinea. — The Scarlet Oak is one of the first 

 trees which come into our minds when any allusion is 

 made to the autumn colors of our woods. It is a tree of 

 the first size and handsome at all seasons, with abundant 

 shining leaves in summer and clean limbs in winter, but 

 in the autumn its leaves turn to a glowing scarlet and hold 

 their brilliancy longer than any other one of the Black 

 Oaks, all of which turn to some bright shade of red. It 

 cannot be too often stated that among trees valuable 

 for planting in parks, or streets, or private grounds, none 

 are so strangely neglected as our native Oaks. They grow 

 with as little difficulty and quite as rapidly as the trees 

 commonly planted, and there are none which can be used 

 with less fear of disappointment. 



Viburnum dilatatum. — This is one of the most recent 

 of the Asiatic Viburnums introduced into cultivation 

 here, although it is very common in Japan and central 

 China. Seeds of it were sent to this country in 1880 by the 

 Agricultural College at Sapporo, and the plants raised from 

 these bloomed for the first time in the Arnold Arboretum in 

 1888. Since that time it has proved its perfect hardiness, 

 and every year gives new testimony to its value as an 

 ornamental plant in autumn, when its copious clusters of 

 berries, bright red, sometimes tinged with orange, make 

 it a very conspicuous object. Like most other Japanese 

 plants, it retains its leaves late in autumn, and they have 

 turned this season to a bright yellow color, although usually 

 when frost comes earlier the colors are more dull. Viburnum 



dilatatum is a spreading shrub, some eight or ten feet high, 

 resembling our common V. dentatum in habit. As a flow- 

 ering plant it has but ordinary merit, although about the 

 middle of June it puts forth liberally small flowers, which 

 quickly fall. Its prime merit is its fruit, which makes it at 

 this season one of the most showy of shrubs. 



Rose Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. — This is a sport from 

 MadameCusin, which originated with Mr. John N. May, of 

 Summit, New Jersey. Like its parent, the flower is of most 

 charming form, and is at its best before it has fully opened. 

 In color it is of the fashionable shade known as cerise. 

 It is not quite a self, but shaded light at the base of the 

 petals ; still its general appearance is rich and bright, and it 

 is especially effective under artificial light. As seen at Mr. 

 May's, the plants are strong-growing, with good foliage 

 and prolific of fine flowers on long stems. The flowers, 

 while of fine substance and color, have the added merit of 

 lasting for an unusually long time, the petals adhering so 

 firmly that some flowers, now before us, which were cut 

 five days since, cannot yet be shaken apart. 



Iris stylosa. — Encouraged by the genial temperature, 

 this Iris commenced to flower last week in the open. This 

 Algerian species heralds a new floral season for this genus, 

 for, excepting an occasional or desultory flower, the garden 

 has been bare of Irises since early August. In its native 

 country it is said to flower usually in December, and here 

 it is properly a cool-house plant. Thus protected, well- 

 grown plants, root-bound in pots, will flower freely. It is 

 hardy here in a sheltered corner, at least, and it is well to 

 plant out spare roots, for the chance of flowers, when 

 weather conditions permit. The flowers are purples of 

 various shades, and there is also a white variety. They 

 are stemless, but furnished with such a long tube between 

 ovary and petals that they are borne well up among, 

 or even above, the leaves. This is one of the Irises with 

 narrow grass-like foliage and thin, narrow, creeping 

 rhizomes. 



Corydalis lutea. — The bright yellow flowers of this plant 

 are still opening in early November, and very cheerful they 

 look now that so many of their companions have been 

 blackened by the frost. But, besides its special value as a 

 late- flowering plant, this Corydalis has the almost unique 

 habit of continuous bloom from May until hard freezing 

 weather. The plant, which is a native of the rocky parts 

 of southern Europe, is naturalized in many other countries, 

 although it is not often seen here. As grown here it is a 

 true perennial, and becomes in time a low cushion, two 

 feet across, of pale green twice-divided leaves. The flowers 

 are borne in short racemes, are held above the foliage on 

 slender stems, and the whole appearance of the plant at 

 once suggests its relationship to the Dicentra. It is one of 

 the best of plants for the rock-garden, and it will thrive in 

 an exposed situation and sterile land as well as in the rich- 

 est garden soil. It can be increased from seed or by divi- 

 sion, and when once established it will go on flowering 

 indefinitely. It is much more attractive than the more 

 common Purple Fumitory, C. bulbosa. Our native C. 

 aurea is a neglected biennial which flowers from early 

 spring until midsummer, but it needs a rich well-drained 

 soil and full sunlisfht to be at its best. 



Cultural Department. 



Work in the Greenhouse. 



DY this time everything about the greenhouses should be 

 -L-* made snug, for in this section we may expect a snow 

 storm any day, and all loose glass, leaky hot-water pipes and 

 other repairs must be attended to without delay. One of the 

 commonest errors of construction is to use an insufficient 

 quantity of piping to supply the heat in coldest weather with- 

 out pushing the apparatus to do more than should be required 

 of it. Much fuel is thus wasted, not to speak of risks of injury 

 to boilers, grate-bars and piping. Every glass structure should 

 have a series of pipes to hold in reserve for zero weather, and 

 to be put to regular use on these occasions alone, though they 



