532 



Garden and Forest. 



[Number 194- 



It occurs near La Crosse, along some of the smaller streams, 

 and 1 observed it near Turkey River Junction, Iowa. 



The White Pine is the most common conifer along the Black 

 River. In the northern part of La Crosse and in the eastern part 

 of Vernon County it is common on the sandy loamy soil. Near 

 the Mississippi River it only occurs on the sandstone ledges. 

 Large trees were once found at La Crescent, Minnesota, 

 and quite a group of these Pines occurs near Clayton, Iowa. 

 Northern Scrub Pine (Pin us Banksiana) occurs on sandy 

 prairie soil along the La Crosse and Black rivers, where 

 little else grows besides some tough grasses, Prairie Clover, 

 Lupins and Wild Indigo. Red Pine (P. resinosd) occurs in 

 isolated places in the sand bottoms of the Black River and 

 sandy rocky ledges of the Kickapoo River. 



Hemlock I have not found along the Mississippi River, nor 

 does it occur near the mouths of the Black, La Crosse and 

 Wisconsin rivers, but near Rockton, on the Kickapoo River, 

 which is a tributary of the Wisconsin, numerous groups occur. 

 The Trailing Arbutus and Clintonia borealis nourish under its 

 shade among decaying logs and leaves. 



Tamarack grows in the peaty swamps of La Crosse and 

 Trempealeau rivers. During dry years portions of the 

 Tamarack swamps are passable, but during wet years they 

 are for the most part very wet. Owing to frequent overflows, 

 which carry with them much soil from tilled land, these 

 swamps are gradually filling up, and, as a consequence, the 

 Tamarack in these localities is losing ground. I found a small 

 swamp near La Crescent, Minnesota, but in a few years this 

 swamp will be a thing of the past. 



Red Cedar (Juniperus Virginiana) grows along the Missis- 

 sippi River, on the sandy out-crops and limestone rocks, and 

 most abundantly in the sandy bottoms of the Black River. 



I have indicated, in a measure, the principal forest-trees be- 

 tween Trempealeau, Wisconsin, and Dubuque, Iowa. In the 

 northern portion Betula papyrifera, B. nigra and Juglans 

 cinerea are more numerous than farther southward. Pla- 

 tanus occidentalis, Gleditsia triacantlios, Gymnocladus dioicus, 

 Juglans nigra, Qucrcus Muhlenbergii and Mortis rubra are 

 southern trees which have moved northward along the Missis- 

 sippi, and, therefore, are found close to the shores. 

 Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa. L, H. Pammel. 



We intend to figure some of the other hybrids obtained 

 by Mr. Dawson from this cross ; among them is one with 

 the habit and foliage of Rosa multiflora, with small, semi- 

 double, fragrant, pink flowers, which is, perhaps, even more 

 distinct and beautiful than the one which forms the subject 

 of the illustration in this issue. 



New or Little-known Plants. 

 A New Hybrid Rose. 



WE have more than once insisted on the value of the 

 Japanese Rosa multiflora as a hardy shrub. A figure 

 illustrating its flowers and foliage was published some 

 time ago in this journal. The picture in the present issue 

 is of a fine specimen in the garden of Mr. John Robinson, 

 of Salem, Massachusetts. It shows the manner of growth 

 of a plant which possesses an individual beauty surpassed 

 by that of few of the plants found in our gardens ; and apart 

 from its own merits it seems destined to play an important 

 part in the creation of a new race of hardy climbing Roses. 



Mr. Dawson has been hybridizing it at the Arnold Arbo- 

 retum and has already produced two or three distinct seed- 

 lings of very considerable value. We are able to produce on 

 page 533 of this issue a photograph of one of these hybrids 

 obtained by crossing Rosa mulliflora with the well-known 

 Hybrid Perpetual General Jacqueminot, the latter being the 

 pollen parent. The result is a vigorous and hardy plant 

 with a tendency to climb high. The spines and foliage are 

 those of the pollen parent, but the flowers are clustered like 

 those of R. multiflora, sometimes as many as sixty being 

 developed in a single panicle. They are semi-double, 

 rose-colored, an inch across, and exceedingly fragrant. 



In Rosa mulliflora may be found the ancestor more or 

 less direct of the so-called Polyantha or miniature clus- 

 tered Roses which have become popular of late years in 

 English gardens ; but none of these are hardy or very sat- 

 isfactory with us here in the northern states, probably 

 because they or their parents are of southern origin, and 

 the real interest of the results obtained by Mr. Dawson lies 

 in the fact that by working from an absolutely hardy form 

 of Rosa mulliflora he has been able to lay the foundation 

 for a race of hybrids of as great or greater beauty than 

 any of the Polyantha race found in gardens, and absolutely 

 hardy. 



New Orchids. 



Cymbidium Lowianum, var. concolor, Rolfe. — A very strik- 

 ing variety, in which every trace of red has vanished from 

 the flower, which thus becomes of an almost uniform light 

 greenish yellow, and forms a decided contrast with the 

 ordinary form. It appeared with Mr. C. Eastwood, of 

 Lane House Nursery, Luddenden, Manchester. — Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, August 15th, p. 187. 



Cypripedium x macrochilum, Hort. — A hybrid raised 

 from Selenipedium longifolium, fertilized with the pollen 

 of Uropedium Lindeni. It bears much resemblance to 

 £. x grande, of which it may be considered a variety, 

 with somewhat larger lip and other slight differences. It 

 is a very interesting hybrid, and furnishes another kind of 

 proof that the Uropedium is only an abnormal state of 

 Selenipedium caudalum. It was raised by Messrs. James 

 Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, and was awarded a first-class 

 certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society, on August 

 nth last. — Gardeners' Chronicle, August 15th, pp. 199, 

 201 ; September 19th, p. 343, fig. 40. 



Oncidium Forbesii, var. Measuresiana, Kranzlin. — A 

 variety with yellow flowers and a very pale border. It 

 appeared in the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., of The 

 Woodlands, Streatham. — Gardeners' Chronicle, August 22d, 

 p. 227. 



Catasetum ciliatum, Rodr. — An elegant little species, 

 described some years ago and now appearing in cultiva- 

 tion for the first time in the collection of M. Robinow, Esq., 

 of Didsbury, who received it from the Amazon district, in 

 Brazil. The sepals and petals are greenish white and re- 

 flexed, the petals of the -same color and erect, and the tri- 

 angular, acute, concave lip whitish, tipped with deep 

 maroon-purple, with light purple transverse lines on its 

 basal half, and with purple bristle-like hairs, half an inch 

 long, on the sides near the base. The flowers remind one 

 of some peculiar bees on the wing. It is very distinct 

 from C roseo-album, its nearest ally. Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 August 29th, p. 242. 

 Kew. R. A. Rolfe. 



Plant Notes. 

 Some Recent Portraits. 



The following plants are figured in the October issue of 

 the Botanical Magazine : 



Yucca filifera (t. 7197) : this is the great arborescent spe- 

 cies of which portraits appeared in the first volume of 

 Garden and Forest (Figs. 13, 14). The history of the plant 

 from which the figure in the Botanical Magazine was made 

 is interesting. The trunk was sent to Kew in October, 

 1888, by Mr. C. G. Pringle, who collected it at Monterey, 

 in Mexico, as a museum timber specimen. When it arrived 

 at Kew it was apparently quite dead, and the trunk was 

 placed in the museum. Here it remained two years and 

 then put out some rudimentary leaves and an inflorescence, 

 and, being transferred to the temperate house, these devel- 

 oped in September, 1890. The leaves were very short, as 

 compared with those on the wild plant, and the panicle of 

 flowers is less dense, and, curiously enough, is erect, not 

 pendulous. 



Cirrhopelalum Collettii (t. 7198) : this is an Orchid discovered 

 by Major-General Collett in the southern Shan Hills, and 

 is one of a collection of several hundred species made 

 by him during the late Burmese war, including many 

 plants previously unknown to science. The flower is "re- 

 markable for the extremely long attenuated sepals, which 

 are highly mobile and are wafted about by the slightest 



