Junk 29. 1912 



THE GARDENERS* MAGAZINE. 



487 



GLADIOLI. 



Innocence.— Thin tine pure wbiU? early- 

 floworinp ffladioluw HurpaHKCH the well-known 

 form of <'»>ivilU*i uaiiuMl The Hrid^\ and it 

 should H*M»u lK*conie a favourite. A.M., 

 National (ila^liolus Society, June 18. Mr. 

 T. W. Lo Pago, (juoxnsoy, 



Cardinal —Another fin« early variety, with 

 large, nalmon-red tlowers. uiark*^ with 

 white. 'Hie budn are quite red. A.M.. 

 National CiladioluK SmMety, June 18. MeKBra. 

 E. H. Wheadou and Sons. Le Couture, Guern- 

 sey. 



Queen Mary. — A large-flowered early gla- 

 diolus, with rich pink, white-lilotohed flowers 

 of great l)oauty. A.M., N.U.P.S., June 19. 

 Messrs. Uarr and Sons, Covent Garden. 



WAHLKNBFIRGIA VINC^FLORA. 



A low-grow i n g hardy peren n ial , su i table 

 for the rock garden. It l)ears it** campanu- 

 iatc flowers very freely, on alender stems; 

 the colour is bright ca»rulean blue. F.C.C, 

 N.H.P.S., June 19. Mr, Reg. Prichard, 

 West Moors, Wim borne. 



LITHOSPERMU 



FROKBELLI. 



A eompact little plant, lesa than a foot 

 high, clothed with neat leaves and furnished 

 with deep blue blossoms. A.M., N.H.P.S., 

 June 19. Mr, Reg, Prichard, Wimborne, 



RODGER.SIA TABULARIS. 



This Chinese plant has large peltate leaves 

 and heads of rather small whitish flowera 

 that are fragrant. A.M., N.H.P.S, June 19. 

 Mr. Amos Perry, EInfield. 



SOME UNCOMMON 

 RHODODENDRONS. 



The rlHMlodcndron.s have ^ur]»a>tfiiHl them- 

 selves in frf>e<iom of flowering this season, 

 and never do J romeniber having note<i a 

 more gloriouii di^^^play. 



It is true that their soaaon of beauty 

 wafl cut short by the prolonged drought, 

 at leaxt where artificial watering was not 

 rew»rt4»d to. and, incident allv, it should 

 nave received attention. Happily, the big 

 rainfall we have experience*! will bring 

 about strcmg and vigorous growth, whim 

 will be responsible for another aeftson'a 

 display. 



The object of thi.«« note is to call atten- 

 tion to a few unmmmon rho<lodendrons 

 that are apt to bo lost aight of amidst 

 the galaxy of beauty include<l in the ag- 

 gressively hnndsonie gardeti varieties which 

 littvo re#intted from the intercrossing of R. 



arhoreum, R. caucaiticinn, R. ponticum. R. 

 cat4iwbirnse, etc. From the Hinla1aya^ wo 

 haveR. Icpidoiiim, which produces it,s small 

 Jind flat flowers in the latter part of April. 

 I am told bv a Kew colleagne that this 

 ^peciofi afforcis a sprinkling of flowers at 

 intervals throughout the summer in a wei%- 

 tern garden, but, aa far as my experience 

 and observation goes, the flowers prwluce<l 

 after the normal flowering perio<1 arc 

 searrolv worth speaking about. With the 

 ^!v. nt Mt .FiMo, R. Rroughtoni aurcum*, a 

 liyliri<l r roated by intercrossing Azalea 

 Ttiollis and an evergreen rhododendron, dis- 

 I'lj»v» it^ charms, the flowers being of 

 v< llow colouring, as the name indicate. 

 ^'lH>n there \n also R. Smithi aiireiim, of 

 'Hilar luio R. Ksempferi hails from 

 ' tP'**!. and makeis a brave show in late 

 '^]>ring, more e«i>ecially when a doxcn plant.'* 

 arc brought to^pfber in a grnup. In^^l. or 



f'oloTlV. 



a number of <piiic ]>**tii4^ 

 <^ral of which cannot boa.vt .» 



- <'i'-];?i ' two in< lu'^ Knf 



IK it 



witlLstanding, aro veritable gems of this 

 great family of plants. 



R. M'rpyllifolium beans flowers of a purple 

 hue, the loaves being very snwill, while 

 R. racemosum is a very dewirahlo i*p<M.Mes, 

 with ro«o and white bbMjms. R. puncta- 

 tum, H. WilM)ni. R. yunnanose, R. ufglea- 

 nicum, and R. mvrtifoliuni extend the list, 

 not forgetting H. kamtchatieuui, whi<h 



mon forms, and certainly it would oornstfl- 

 tute one of the most intort^ting featuroN in 

 the garden. Walter U. Aooktt. 



The Bottle Brush Flower.— Few 



har<l-u'(MMU*<l plants have made tlie same 

 amount of headway in popular favour within 

 the la*>t tew years a*i tliijj, and at reeent 



iMiii.Aiii:iJMn 



i;t II (^i i: r iu.anc. 



A IxMutifiil iiardy sliruh with an abundan^-^^ of nemi-double whit4 tl*'\\vir 



Juno IH, Me*«srs. Ja^. Vcitch and Sons, ChelM a, 



A M i: H.S,, 



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n o y 



oar imne of 



luxuriates in a very damp or boggy situa- 

 tion, and sptMxlily resolves itself into a 

 wide-spreading mass. R. Roglei, which, 1 

 believe, is synonymous with R. cinnabari- 

 num. is a great beauty, and so are the 

 alpine species, R. hirsutum and R. ferru- 

 gineum, whirli ■ i - ;i blazo of CM)]our in 



their eeaj^on. 



There is mu* n ti. KminnnMid in a fully 



> 1 1 cc t i o n of th ese u nc4 » n i - 



Temple Shows it hs^ Ix^n well represented. 

 All previous displays were, however, left lie- 

 hind at the International Show, for both a*^ 

 standard** and as )njf-li i l nit- inagnitit^ut 

 example* were shown. In i iti competitive 

 cla***es prixce vere award^nl lor the best npeti- 

 mens, while in several non-competitive groupw 

 very fine example*> were shown. It is known 

 generallv as Metrobidcr*^ Jiorii.unda. but by 

 iMttauists it is referred to as Callistemon 

 salignus. — S W . 



