CARSON'S CLIMBING LILY. 



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is a large colony of Furcrcea longceva. 

 In an upper part of the gardens Crinum 

 Powelli bears flower-spikes over 5^ feet 

 in height, and a fine form of Sparaxis 

 (Dieramd) pulcherrima, with flowers of 

 a deep maroon-red, has arching flower- 

 wands almost 7 feet in length. This short 

 account of Trebah gardens must not be 

 considered in any way exhaustive, as the 

 names of many interestingand beautiful 

 things have been omitted. 



S. W. FITZHERBERT. 



Ivy on Trees. — I agree with " Repton " in 

 thinking that Ivy is not so hurtful to trees as 

 is generally supposed, but not so far as to 

 think that it does not injure some trees even 

 to the extent of killing them, and much de- 

 pends on the tree it grows upon. On um- 

 brageous trees with foliage giving deep 

 shade, Ivy never makes way enough to do any 

 harm. It is a plant that loves the light, and 

 will not grow fast or well under the branches 

 of a Sycamore or a Beech, for example. With 

 scanty-foliaged trees, however, it is different. 

 Many years ago we had Ivy planted against 

 the stems of the trees in many places, and it 

 has been growing with the trees as they grew. 

 On the Birch it grows fast, and some of these 

 have, in the course of time, been all but covered 

 from bottom to top. We have other trees of 

 the same kind and age and much larger ones 

 also, but they are in good health; these have 

 no Ivy upon them. The Birch, being a scanty 

 leaved tree, the Ivy grows fast upon it and over- 

 masters it. The tree on which it thrives next 

 best is the Larch, and we have old ones of these 

 showing an even and tapering column of Ivy 

 about 70 feet high. They are about eighty 

 years of age, and the Ivy upon them cannot 

 be much younger. On the Ash the Ivy makes 

 some progress, and some of our old trees are 

 clothed to near the top with it, side limbs and 

 all. On the other trees that have good and 

 ample foliage it never makes much headway, 

 and we have no example of it in the Beech 

 worth speaking of. It thrives on Scotch Fir, 

 but on the Sycamore it is either dead or dying 

 in most instances. — J. S, 



CARSON'S CLIMBING LILY 



(Gloriosa Carsoni). 

 We have had occasion to refer to this 

 new and beautiful plant upon two or 

 three occasions of late (pp. 250 and 

 330), and are therefore pleased to give 

 an excellent engraving of it from a pho- 

 tograph taken in the Cape House at Kew 



GLORIOSA CARSONI. 



(Engraved on wood for "Flora" from a plant in 

 Kew Gardens.) 



last August. It is less strictly a " climb- 

 ing Lily" than others of the group, be- 

 ing more often of dwarf growth and self- 

 supporting; its handsome flowers are 

 composed of broad petals which are yel- 

 low towards the centre, shading to deep 

 red in their lower parts. A nativeof East 

 Central Africa. 



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