March 26, 1898 



GARDENERS MAGAZINE. 



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NSWERS 



GORRES PON DENTS 



Editorial communications should be addressed to the Editor of the GARDENERS 



Magazine, 148 and 149, Aldersgate Street, E.C. 



The Editor will be glad to receive photographs of gardens, plants, flowers, trees, 

 fruits, &c, for reproduction in the Gardeners 5 Magazine. He will also be 

 greatly obliged by correspondents sending early intimation of interesting local 

 events relating to horticulture. In sending newspapers containing matter to 

 which they wish to draw attention, correspondents are requested to distinctly 

 mark the paragraph. 



Specimens of plants, flowers, and fruits for naming or opinion should be sent to 

 the Editor of the Gardeners' Magazine, 11 Endsleigh," Priory Park, Kew, 

 Surrey, and as early in the week as possible. All parcels must be sufficiently 

 prepaid. 



Secretaries of horticultural societies are invited to send early notification of forth 

 coming exhibitions and meetings, and are requested to advise us concerning 

 change of dates. 



Gasoline Motor Lawn Mower.— C. D., Newbury: We are at present 

 unable to give you the address of the makers of the Motor Lawn Mower illustrated 

 recently in our columns. It is an American invention. 



Botanical Magazine. — W. P., Dursley : The volumes referred to by our 

 correspondent W. T., Cowes, were some of those issued during the first twenty 

 years of the Bot. Mag. The volumes you mention are among the most expensive 

 of the whole set. , 



Curators of London Parks — E. S., Kew s The iaddresses you need 

 are— Mr. W. Browne, Superintendent, Hyde Park, W. ; Mr. F. J. Coppin, 

 Superintendent, Battersea Park, Battersea. Kensington Gardens are under the same 

 management as Hyde Park. 



Oncidium sphacelatum.— P. S. T., Hull!: This is an easy orchid to 

 cultivate, and one that is frequently seen growing and flowering freely when 

 treated as an ordinary stove or intermediate house plant. If, however, your speci- 

 men is not in the best ot health, it will need careful treatment. Directly new 

 growths commence to push and new roots to form is the proper time to repot or 

 top-dress the plant, using a compost of fibrous peat and sphagnum, with ample 

 drainage below. As the species likes warmth more than most oncidiums, it may 

 with advantage be placed in a warm house during the period of active growth ; 

 after the growths are completed, stand the plant in a cooler and dryer position, 

 such as a greenhouse or vinery, and give less water. Water must not be wholly 

 withdrawn, as the species objects to anything like drying off. A strong specimen 

 in full growth will stand syringing frequently ; indeed, owing to the progression of 



for correction 



growths some become so placed that their roots do not soon reach the soil, con- 

 sequently syringing is almost necessary. It will probably be best to break 11 d 

 your plant to ensure a good and clean start. P 



Cypripedium Mrs. H. Bruce.— We have received from Mr. G. Walker 



L Druce, Esq., St. John's Wood, the following letter, and desire 



*• ™ J J? e , g t0 ^ that a mistake was made in your rep3rt of the R.H.S. 

 meeting of March 8 last, as contained in your issue of March 12, concerning my 

 hybrid, Cypripedium Mrs. H. Druce (C. niveum crossed C. beliatulum). Being 

 the raiser I know the parentage is correct. The foliage is quite distinct from that 

 of L. Godefroy* ; also, the flowers of C. Mrs. H. Druce have a white ground, 

 w ? m ^ od< : fro y^ this is yellow." In reply, we have to congratulate Mr. 

 Walter upon having raised a handsome cypriped ium bet ween t wo interesting specie* . 

 We still hold the opinion that C. Mrs. H. Druce is nothing but C. Godefroyrearti- 

 hcia ly produced, and not differing much in any material respact from the latter. It 

 has long been thought that C. Godfroyce was but a natural hybrid between C. 

 niveum and C. beliatulum, though in some plants the influence of C. concolor 

 instead of C. niveum seemed apparent by reason of the creamy or faint sulphur 

 tinge. Some objection to this origin of C. Godefroyce as a natural hybrid have 

 been raised, the chief being that of geographical distribution, This objection has 

 been removed by the production of C. Godefroyce as a result of crossing C. niveum 

 and C. beliatulum, the plant flowering in the collection of G. W. Law-Schofield, 

 Esq., New Hall, Hey, Rawtenstall, of which our coadjutor, Mr. Shill, has charge ; 

 the seedling has been generally recognised as C. Godefroyce. When we consider 

 the variation to be found in C. beliatulum, and in C. concolor, which extends to- 

 wards the less variable C. niveum, we can understand how the progeny of varied 

 forms of these would also be varied and allow for the present difference found in 

 C. Godfroyce. Our correspondent states that C. Godfroyce has yellow-ground 

 flowers ; he might with equal propriety have stated they had white ground flowers, 

 for the shade varies from purest white in C. Godfroyre Gardenianum to primrose 

 yellow m C. Godfroyce luteum. The form in which C. niveum and C. beliatulum 

 appear most distinctly as parents is known as C. Godefroyae leuchochilum ; others, 

 as noted, appear to be the result of a cross between C. concolor and C. beliatulum, 

 while still others may be the result, and doubtless are, of combining C. concolor with 

 C. niveum. It has been suggested, and with much probability, that the whole group 

 of cypripediums here referred to are but variations from one type and the result 

 of the intercrossing of such variations. However, for the present it is sufficient 

 that C. Godfroyce has been produced at New Hall, Hey, and at St. John's Wood, 

 by crossing C. beliatulum and C. niveum, so the provisional name of C. Mrs. H. 

 Druce cannot stand, and C. Godefroyce var. Mrs. II. Druce would be both cum • 

 bersome and unnecessary. Mr. Walker has proved both the New Hall, Hey, cross, 

 and opinions long held. The Orchid Committee of the R.H.S. considered the 

 hybrid Mr, Walker has raised to be C. Godtfroy*?. 



Names of Plants.— P. S. F., Hull : Oncidium sphacelatum. No, the 

 daffodil is not an uncommon form. 



H. J., Barton : 1, Chlorophytum elatum ; 2, send when in flower ; 3 and 4, 

 next week ; 5, Pulmonaria officinalis ; 6, Thalictrum minus. 



S. O., Hampton : 1, Primus Pissardi ; 2, Muscari botryoides ; 3, Saxifraga 

 oppositifolia. 



N. A. F., Wroxteth : 1, Asplenium Nidus avis ; 2, Selaginella Emileana ; 3, 

 Choisya ternata ; 4, Hibbertia dentata ; 5, Eupatorium riparium. 



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