August 17, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



627 



LILIUM BROWNI. 



Browni 

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erits 

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The very beautiful Liliu 

 ^ore than passing attention 

 vbo love rare flowers, and especially from 

 :hose who have a sheltered position and 

 rood lily soil to offer it. It dearly loves 

 I mixture of sandy peat and leaf-soil^ and 

 s generally at its best when planted among 

 iwarf peat-loving plants, such as heaths, 

 indromedas, rhododendrons, and other so- 

 called "American" plants. When grown 

 unong these subjects, suitable conditions of 

 ;oil and moisture are provided, and the 

 .hrubs give that shelter to the advancing 

 growths which so many lilies greatly appre- 

 :iate. 



Lilium Browni grows from 2ft. to 4ft. 

 :igh, and its purple-spotted stems are 

 ibundantly furnished with lance-shaped 

 eaves throughout their whole length. The 

 tems are surmounted by one^ two, or three 



THE ROSE BEDS AT KEW. 



I should like to add a few supplementary 

 remarks to those that recently appeared 

 concerning the roses at Kew. Each recur- 

 ring season the roses at our Tsational Gar- 

 den form a much-admired feature, and now 

 that the rambler varieties are practiially 

 over, one s thoughts naturally turn to the 

 dwarf plants, of which there is a gootl and 

 representative selection in the vicinity of 

 the Palm House. 



As might be expected, the hybrid teas 

 contribute their share to the floral display, 

 among them being the first of its class, La 

 France, which is flowering with great free- 

 dom. New as well as old varieties are there 

 represented, and among the more recent 

 kinds may be mentioned that well-known 

 tea^ Lady Hillingdon, which in the bud 

 state is so fascinating^ but loose when fully 

 expanded. 



Mrs. Aaron Ward, a peculiar combination 

 of Indian yellow and rose. 



Of those usually classed a^ teas pure and 

 simple, beside Lady Hillingdon, above re- 

 feried to, there are Corallina, semi-double 

 flowers of a distinct reddish shade ; Lady 

 Roberts, reddisli-orange^ with an apricot 

 suff"usion, charming in the bud; Mrs. A. 

 Byas, yellow and rose; Madame Lambard, 

 bright rose, a fine autumn flower ; Souvenir 

 de Pierre Notting, apricot yellow and 

 orange ; General Schablikine, coppery-rose, 

 a grand gorden flower; Princess de Sagan, 

 remarkable for its rich velvety crimson 

 blooms; Anna Olivier, blush and rose; and 

 Marie Van Houtte, a striking combination 

 of yellowish-wlute, deep yellow, and peach. 



The deep colours are at Kew mainly re- 

 presented by hybrid perpetuals, all of which 

 are good old tried sorts, such as Victor 

 Hugo, Glory of Cheshunt, Dupuy Jamain, 

 and Madame Victor Verdier. 



Of sections other than those above men- 



A lii:U or LlLiLM liKOWNl AT KEW. 



rumpet-shapod flowers, each flower Gin. or 

 ^in. long, prettily flushed with rosy-purple 

 in the outside, but pure white inside, save 

 or a medium line of purple down each 

 'f the three inner segments. The prominent, 

 leep red-brown anthers are a conspicuous 

 eature of a very attractive, refined, beau- 

 iful, and noble flower. July and August 

 ire the months in which L. Browni usually 

 •lowers out of doors. As a pot plant the 

 pecies is very desirable, as it is charming 

 or conservatory decoration and for group- 

 ng. Some idea of its va^Iue in beds of 

 )eaty soil may be obtained from the ac- 

 ■ompanying illustration, which represents 

 t at Kew, in the sunk garden on the west 

 iide of the Palm House. 



DAHLIAS TO PERFEiCTION.— A thoroug-h g^uid* 

 <> the •nooeeeful culture of these popular floweng m 



PahUa« aaidi their Ouiltivation," hy J. B. Wroe, 

 >no« iB, n€t, by post Ifi. 2d. bound in oloth le. <5d., 

 ■>y lK>st, Is. 8d.. from W. H. aad h. CoULngrridge, 

 Aldersjfate Street, London, 



Other hybrid teas now in a very attrac- 

 tive stage are, of course, Caroline Testout, 

 whose large, rosy-salmon flowers are borne 

 in a bold and imposing manner ; the blush- 

 coloured La Tosca, one of the best of all 

 bedding roses; the bright orange Madame 

 Ravary, charming in the bud state as a 

 button-hole flower; M. Paul Lede, remark- 

 able for the carmine shading on its orange- 

 yellow petals ; Duchess of Wellington, deep 

 orange saffron ; Earl of Warwick, a beauti- 

 ful pink flower with a deeper centre ; 

 Madame Jules Grolez, perhaps the finest, 

 rose-pink of its class ; Liberty, remarkable 

 in this section for its deep coloured flowers ; 

 Mrs. A. R. AVaddell, grand in its rosy-scar- 

 let buds, but the flowers, which are of a 

 bright salmon colour, are loose when fully 

 expanded ; Lady Ashtown, a beautiful, rose- 

 coloured flower that continues well on into 

 the autumn; Joseph Lowe, blush, deeper 

 centre; Antoine Rivoire, a flesh-coloured 

 flower, the base yellow flushed red ; and 



tioned are a beil of oiich of those pretty 

 dwarf polyantlius, Jessie and Orleans Rose, 

 and also of that rich gold and red-coloured 

 member of the rernettiana section, Kaj^on 

 d'Or. Souvenir de la Malniaison is so fine 

 as to well merit a place in the garden, 

 though it must be looked upon as one of the 

 most pronounce<l veterans. Beside these 

 dwarf varieties, a bed of good-sized bushes 

 of the richly-coloured Gruss an Teplitz, and 

 another of the pure white Frau Karl 

 Druschki are very striking. K. 



Lobelia tenuior as a Basket 



Plant. — This strong-growing, large-flowered 

 lobelia, of the speciosa section, is usually met 

 with as a pot plant. It, however, forms a 

 very striking feature when grown in a sus- 

 pended basket, if the long, loose-growing 

 ahoots are allowed to dispose themselves at 

 will. There is a rosy form of this lobelia, 

 but to my mind the rich blue, typical kind 

 is th^ hest. — T, 



