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FLORA AND SYLVA, 



Good Kinds. 



edible kinds are the forms of Cucurbita 

 pepo and C. maxima ,and especially those 

 recommended in our list of varieties. 



For growing upon poles the 

 best Gourds are Cucurbita 

 pepo, varieties Golden Bell, White Egg, 

 Ostrich Egg, White Green, Warted, 

 and Bicolor Pear Gourds, the Orange, 

 Lemon, Apple, Green Striped Custard, 

 and Melopepo Gourds, and the small 

 Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria vuL minor). 

 For clothing a pergola, beside those 

 mentioned the following may be used: 

 Spoon Gourd, Stradella, Large Warted 

 Bell, Dipper, and Large Bottle Gourd, 

 Hercules' Club (forms of Lage?iaria 

 vulgaris), Bishop's Hat, Malabar Gourd 

 [Cucurbita jicifolid), and Turk's Cap 

 in green, white, and red varieties. For 

 bush-plants and for winter use the best 

 are Golden Bush, Golden Crookneck, 

 Red Etampes, Golden oblong Pump- 

 kin, Ohio Squash, Golden Hubbard 

 Squash, and Scalloped White Bush. 



JOHN W. ODEL 



The Grove, Stanmore. 



Coriaria Terminalis. — To Messrs. Veitch o 

 Exeterwe are indebtedfor finely fruitedsprays 

 of this plant, so utterly unlike others as to be 

 worth a place in gardens of light soil. It is a 

 stout herbaceous sub-shrub of rapid growth in 

 a sunny spot, bearing at the end of every shoot 

 tapering spikes of glistening yellow berries, 

 thickly set upon a crimson stem. The finest of 

 these spikes measure fully 9 inches long, and 

 though smaller than this upon the side shoots, 

 the combined effect is good and continuous. 

 Beingof sappy growth thebranchessoon droop 

 when cut, but in the autumn border it is new 

 and striking. A native of Sikkim, it is hardy 

 everywhere in the south of Britain. The 

 flowers are not showy, and, as in others of the 

 family, the berries are poisonous. 



NEW EARLY-FLOWERING 

 IRIS* 



Of recent years the kinds of early Iris 

 have increased, four or five new species 

 of the dwarf Juno section having come 

 to us from Asia Minor, and at least as 

 many more allied kinds from countries 

 further east through Turkestan to the 

 Indian frontier. Several of this eastern 

 group — which includes bucharica, Fos- 

 ter iana, JVillmottiana, and warleyensis 

 — come very near Iris orchioides in leaf 

 and manner of growth; the plants found 

 by Siehe in the Levant approach Irisper- 

 sica so nearly that most of them, though 

 now classed apart, were at the outset re- 

 garded as forms of that pretty though 

 delicate species. These new kinds are 

 still scarce in gardens and confusing from 

 the fact that they vary so much in colour 

 and form of leaf and flower, that it would 

 be easy to name a score or more of new 

 kinds running one into the other and 

 closely linking the group with the Per- 

 sian Iris. For the moment, however, we 

 Jnay rest content with a brief outline of 

 e four or five recognised species. 



The best known of these is Iris 

 'eidreichii — the plant of our plate, first 

 flowered at Kew ; shown by Messrs. 

 Wallace of Colchester before the Royal 

 Horticultural Society in February 1 900, 

 it gained a first-class certificate as Iris 

 stenophylla — a name since corrected. It 

 is a charming bulb for the rock-garden 

 in early spring, hardy, distinct in colour, 

 and the best of the one-flowered section 

 of Juno Iris. The blue colour of its 

 flowers and its free growth single it out 

 from the forms of /. persica, its vigour 



* With coloured plate from a drawing by H. G. Moon at Warley Place. 



