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GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



New Plants, Flowers, Fruit, and 



Vegetables. 



CORTADERIA JUBATA. 



lNDSOMe and strong-growing grass, closely allied to the well-known Pampas 

 It produces large plumose panicles one to two feet long, pale straw 

 coloured, with a rosy-purple suffusion. Unfortunately this beautiful grass is not 

 perfectly hardy in the British Isles, for, at Belgrove, co. Cork, Mr. Gumbleton s 

 garden, it succumbed to 29 degrees of frost during the winter of 1896, According 

 to the Bot. Mag., t. 7,607, Cortaderia jubata was discovered by Colonel Hall, 

 near Ouila, in Ecuador, at an altitude of 10,000 ft. It was found in 1830, and 

 subsequently introduced to European cultivation by Mons. Lemoine, who obtained 

 seeds from Chimborazo. 



TCHIHATCHEWIA ISATIDEA. 



This is a dwarf-growing crucifer, less than a foot in height, clothed with stout, 

 hairy leaves, and producing a branching head of bright rose-coloured flowers. It 

 is apparently a quite hardy perennial, as, according to the Bot. Mag. t 7,608, it 

 flowered in the open at Kew, in 1898, on plants raised from seed sent from St. 

 Petersburg Botanic Gardens in 1896. The plant has a sturdy stem that branches 

 towards the top ; the leaves are abundant, generally sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 from one and a-half to two and a-half inches long, recurved, greyish-green, and hairy 

 on both surfaces. The flowering branches together form a semi-circular corymb, 

 four inches across, crowded with small but bright reddish-rose flowers. 

 Tchihatchewia isatidea is a native of Armenia, and was discovered by the late 

 Count Paul de Tchihatchef, at an elevation of five to six thousand feet near 

 Eryinham in the province of Erzeroum. 



BUDDLEIA VARIABILIS. 



This is a quite new plant, differing very largely in general appearance from the 

 well-known Buddleia globosa. It is an ornamental shrub that will probably need 

 protection in most parts of the country ; under favourable conditions it will grow 

 eight feet high and flower during July and August. The foliage is variable, the 

 leaves being opposite, joined at the base, and from four inches to a foot long ; the 

 shape varies from oblong-lanceolate and obtuse, to linear lanceolate and cardate 

 acuminate ; they are always entire, crenate, or coarsely serrate, dark green above 

 and paler below. The rosy-lilac flowers have a tube half an inch long, and a 

 four-lobed limb ; these are produced from the axils of the upper leaves and bracts 

 in crowded globose heads that are shortly peduncled, the end of a flowering 

 growth having the appearance of a dense spike, until closely examined. This 

 Chinese plant was discovered by Dr. Henry, in Hupeh and Ichang, and byFaber 

 and Potani in the Tibetan province of Kam. There is a large plant at the Jardin 

 des Plantes, Paris, and one sent from thence to Kew flowered against a wall in 

 July, 1897 ; as inflorescence is figured in the Bot. Mag. t 7,609. Messrs. W. 

 Paul and Son, Waltham Cross, exhibited specimens at a recent R.H.S. meeting, 

 and gained an award of merit, as stated in these columns. 



Ledum glandulosum. 



Ledum glandulosum is an erect-growing evergreen shrub that has proved hardy 

 at Kew. Its dark brown bark is conspicuous. The leaves vary from one to two 

 inches in length, are elliptic, dark green above and silvery beneath. The simple 

 racemes of white flowers are borne in terminal corymbose clusters. There are five 

 concave petals to each flower, and these are ciliate above the middle. Ledum 

 glandulosum was originally discovered by Douglas in 1826 ; it was found also by 

 Sir J. Hooker and Dr. Gray in the Silver Mount Pass of the Sierra Nevada, 

 California, in 1877. It has, however, a wide distribution in Western North 

 America at a considerable elevation. Bot. Mag., t. 7,610. 



RlBES V1LLOSUM. 



A perfectly hardy Chilian shrub and one that retains its foliage during ordinary 

 winters. A specimen has been growing in the Kew Arboretum for the past fifty 

 years, where it flowers every year in June, producing an abundance of short 

 racemes of deep golden yellow flowers. All parts of the shrub are sub- 

 glandular- tomentose. The growth is erect ; leaves orbicular-ovate, often broadly 

 three lobed beyond the middle, slightly convex above, crenately toothed, bright 

 green above and pale green below. The racemes are abouc an inch and a-half 



long, and densely flowered; the fruits are pea shaped, violet-black, and hairy. 

 Bot. Mag. , t. 7,61 r. 



Crinum Woodrowi. 



A fine bulbous plant from Central India, producing a stout peduncle a foot or 

 so in height, which carries an umbel of six or seven flowers, each fully three inches 

 long and composed of six lanceolate segments that are white. The filaments are 

 bright red, aod anthers dark yellow. The bulb is globose and has no neck ; about 

 four inches in diameter. Few leaves are produced, these bring a foot long, and 

 three or four inches broad. The species was discovered by M r. G. M. Woodrow, 

 of the Poona College of Science, and bulbs sent to Kew in 1897 flowered well 

 under stove treatment. Bot. Mag. t. 7,597. 



MORISIA HYPOG/EA. 



A pretty little early- flowering plant, now largely grown in rock gardens ; it is 

 dwarf and stemless, with pinnatifid or pinnatisect and bright green leaves, amid 

 which the numerous golden flowers appear on slender peduncles. It is a quaint 

 Httle monotyptc crucifer from Corsica and Sardenia, and has the curious habit of 

 deflexing the scape after flowering, thus burying the ripening fruit in the soil. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 7,598. 



Cki astrus articulatus. 



This interesting shrub comes from Eastern Asia, where it has a wide dis- 

 tribution from Japan to Formosa, and from the North of Peking to Ichang and 

 Amoy. It is a strong grower, rambling and twining, and thrives near the sea, 

 salt spray not injuring it. The green obovate or oval leaves have crenate-serrate 

 margins. The insignificant dull green flowers are produced in small cymes, but 

 are followed by a capsule that is most brilliant after the foliage has fallen. This is 

 pisitorm, brown, and three valved, the valves being yellow on the inside; as the 

 capsule ripens the valves reflex showing their yellow surfaces and revealing the 

 ^L^Si 111 ^-^ ^ rlCt ariK Seeds sent to Kew in 1891 produced 



^^t^r m j7 ' and fruited in Novemb€r of that 



Philadel phus mexicanus. 



flowenofTc^y hue^T^ ~* **** fra 8 rant ' ^ 



states in the fi,t. 7f a , \ 7 ^ at Kew I and Sir V D * Hooker 



aVe from a solitary flower^' • hc finds no character whereby it is distinguish- 



uiary nowered specimen of P. aranditlorus. save that of fragrance. 



August 20, 1898. 



It is a common Mexican plant, but is likely to be of little value i 

 save to the hybridist. uc vaiue 1 



m this 



Callianthemum rutvefolium 



country 



t var. anemonoides. 



■^J^^^j;^ 2?!?^ of callianthus 



ar * reducible 



to forms of one. The variety anemonoides is an European alpine f^mT" 1 

 triangular leaves five inches across, and comoosed of nnlr. Ai H ,ne iorm, havqg 



leaflets. The flowers are an inch and a haTfacroJ ^T^L*! 68 ,? five «3 



white or pale and rose coloured. 

 7.603. 



Iris Grant Duffi. 



Thu n;Ut , ac . ross an . d have ten to fifteen petaU 

 This variety ls a native of Styria. Bot. \h£X 



vat ion. It 



is allied to I. tenax and to I. Douglasiana, both North Am 



"T." . • u VfV, k — win in orin American species. The 



ih.zome is creeping, but the base of the stem is swollen, and enclosed in a brow 

 sheath ; the linear, white margined leaves grow to a height of about two feet TV 



the falls, which are streaked 



and veined with red-brown. Bot. Mag., t. 7,604. 



Calochortus clavatus. 



This pretty Mariposa lily grows about eighteen inches high, and has a forked 

 sparingly leaved stem. Its large flowers a'e compised of three small yellow 

 sepals and three very broad, cuneate, yellow petals, sometimes as much as two 

 inches wide ; the bases of the petals are hairy. C. clavatus was recently intro- 

 duced to cultivation by Mr. Carl Purdy, of Ukiah ; the species are Califomian. 

 Bot. Mag., t. 7,606. 



Phyllostachys castillonis. 



This is a large-growing and extremely handsome bamboo, very graceful, and 

 clothed with lanceolate leaves about six inches long, light green, striped with 

 creamy-white. A.M., R.H.S. , July 26. Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. 



Strawberry Lady Suffield. 



A highly-flavoured strawberry bearing medium-sized fruits of a bluntly-conical 

 shape, some of them being inclined to wedge-shape. The colour is dark crinuoo, 

 flesh deep red and firm. A.M., R.H.S., July 26. Mr. Allan, Gunton Park 

 Gardens, Norwich. 



Culinary Peas. 



The Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society visited 

 Chiswick Gardens on July 22, and selected seven varieties of peas for awards. 

 Three marks were awarded on that date, and the A.M. recommended and 

 confirmed at the Drill Hall on July 26. 



The Bruce, a stout-growing mid-season variety; a marrow pea, growing $fu 

 high ; the pods are large, square-ended, in pairs, and well filled with sweet peat, 

 xxx July 22 5 A.M., R.H.S., July 26. Mr. II. Eckford, Wem, Salop. 



Prior, a splendid second early pea, 5 ft. high, producing an abundance of larp 

 deep green pods of splendidly- flavoured peas, xxx July 22 ; A M., K. II S., 

 July 26. Mr. H. Eckford, Wem, Salop. 



Continuity, a late variety, carrying its deep green pods in pairs ; a fine marrow 

 pea, and apparently a good dry-weather variety, x x x July 22 ; A.M., K.H i>., 

 July 26. Messrs. Sutton and Sons, Reading, 



Saccharine, a very sweetly- flavoured pea, free, about 4 ft. high ; a heavy 

 cropper, xxx July 22 ; A.M., R.H.S., July 26. Mr. Sims, Fyvie, Aberdeen. 



Honeydew, a very dwarf marrowfat pea, growing 2 ft. high ; a mfcN»son 

 variety, strong grower, and most prolific ; pods contain seven or eight tine peas, 

 xxx July 22 ; A.M., R.H.S., July 26. Mr. Sims, Aberdeen. 



Mansfield Show, a splendid variety, only 3 ft. in height, and carrying an eoor 

 mous crop of well-filled pods; a maincrop pea. xxx July 22 ; A.M., K*n**j 

 July 26. Messrs. Wright Brothers, Mansfield, Notts. 



Hartford s Success, a strong-growing mid-season pea, growing about j fr. h|g j, 

 and producing a good crop of deep green marrow peas in ° u 

 filled pods, xxx July 22 ; A.M., R H.S., July 26. 



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FROM C 



CASTLE 



A few days since I had a pleasant drive by way of Chillingham Castle to ^ 

 and back ; and, resting a couple of hours at Chillingham, advan tage was t % 

 the opportunity for making a hasty survey of the many good things in u 1 ^ ^ 

 and about the castle. Amongst I the wall fruits some £™. ct0 F ^J^fauj 



tree of Bigarreau Napoleon cherry, which when measured was found to 

 seven feet long. I have not seen the equal in sire of this tree, ana u 

 an extraordinary crop of fine light-coloured fruit. This tree is ^ 

 years old, and u is planted on a wall facing west in a fine strong "JT" _ 

 apples finish well, and asparagus thrives for a great many years w . # ^ 

 special care. We have a tree of this variety in light soil ^8^"^ JuQ ior 

 indifferently. ^ On a low wall facing east, we noted ™ e ™*™™[^ U highlyappre 



during the winter 



canes 



fruit. 



ever seen in tnis district. 

 some nice fruit up to the 18th. 

 ham Gardens. The condition 



the Koyal So«"*J 

 bright-coloured, go* 



the finest *t» wl *2 

 ind. WeshdlgJ? 

 .ally well k Chdh£ 



st credit on lUaNe^ 

 rild cattle that rouncd 



Woole*. 



ine vmage ot Uietton ; rounding a hill, we ODtaui «~ • --- m ■ v. 



situated at the foot of the most northern heights of the ^ k . 

 when we climb the heights beyond the town and look nortn .war , ^ ^ 

 view of the Lammermoor Hills north of the Tweed and a little ^ 



a few 

 Eshendale 



distant 



$peai 



peaks 



— bracing air. 



Alnwick Castle Gardens. 



>erson should be able wwr^ — . 

 gain mental and physical beneat fro* the 



f his trout*** 

 beautiful seeoefT 



HAaa». 



