December 2, i8qi. 



Garden and Forest. 



57 1 



•obtained from seeds that new and promising sorts are now- 

 raised in great numbers, as shown by the number put for- 

 ward for certificates. Some time ago it was hinted that 

 the crossing of different kinds of Chrysanthemums with 

 each other was easily done, and would be demonstrated 

 by an American grower. I am doubtful whether any 

 trustworthy instance of an actually cross-bred Chrysanthe- 

 mum can be pointed to. One may guess that a seedling 

 bears the characters of two given sorts, but that, of course, 

 proves nothing. 



[The Chrysanthemum is, without doubt, a difficult plant 

 to cross-fertilize. It is not difficult, however, to emasculate 

 a few of the outside rows of florets and fertilize them with 

 foreign pollen. If the central florets are then treated with 

 some solution of gum, which will prevent the development 

 of seed in them, it is reasonable to conclude that we know 

 the parentage of the seeds which are produced. When the 



Nerine pancratioides, Baker. — This is a distinct and 

 pretty plant, and will, no doubt, prove valuable to the hy- 

 bridizer, Nerines being very mobile in the hands of plant- 

 breeders. It differs from all other Nerines in having small 

 projecting teeth between the filaments of the stamens, so 

 that it has almost a distinct corona, a character which is 

 indicated in the specific name. The flowers are otherwise 

 not unlike those of A 7 , pudica, but slightly smaller. They 

 are pure white, with uncrisped segments, and are produced 

 in umbels of from twelve to twenty flowers upon a scape 

 two feet long. The leaves are produced at the same time 

 as the flowers, and are narrow, nearly terete, and about a 

 foot long. Mr. J. O'Brien has recently introduced this spe- 

 cies from Natal. A description of it is published in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle this week. 



Dendrobium Leeanum, Sander. — A plant of this in flower 

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resulting plants show evident traces of the blood of both 

 parents our conclusions have this additional confirma- 

 tion. — Ed.] 



Gerbera Jameso.nt. — Although flowered at Kew two years 

 ago and figured in several periodicals, this pretty Cape 

 Composite is unknown in horticulture. A specimen of it 

 was shown this week at the meeting of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, and obtained a first-class certificate. It is 

 a stemless plant, with leaves not unlike those of the Dan- 

 delion, but more leathery in texture, and nearly erect. The 

 scape is erect, a foot long, bearing a nodding inflorescence 

 as large as that of Rudbeckia Newmanni, its color being a 

 rich orange-scarlet. The plant is almost hardy, having 

 stood outside all winter both at Cambridge and Kew. Its 

 scarcity is owing to its failure to ripen seeds in England 

 and to the slowness of growth in its fleshy rhizome, 

 which forbids division. At Kew it has proved a good pot- 

 plant for the greenhouse. 



by Messrs. Sander & Co. along with D. Phalcenopsis, to 

 which it bears a close resemblance in the character of its 

 pseudo-bulbs and in habit. The inflorescence, however, 

 is more like that of D. superbiens, but the flowers differ 

 from this in being white, shaded with pale mauve on the 

 sepals, with a deeper shade of mauve on the petals and 

 labellum. 



Phajus maculato x grandifolius. — This is a hybrid raised 

 from the two species named by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. 

 It has the habit and robustness of growth of P. grandifo- 

 lius, to which there is also a resemblance in the size and 

 form of the flowers, their color being soft primrose-yellow, 

 tinged with brown, the front of the lip deep chestnut, and 

 curled in as in P. maculalus. It obtained a first-class cer- 

 tificate. 



Dendrobium Phalcenopsis. —The recently imported plants 

 of this Australian Dendrobe have not been long in reveal- 

 ing their true character, there being some hundred and fifty 



