March 14, 1903. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
The Best Flowering Plants at Kew. 
“There are more plants in the garden than ye wot of,” 
Phaius Wallichii. 
Qne of the stateliest, as well as one of the largest flowered, of 
Orchids. Where large plants are required it is specially de¬ 
sirable, being of easy culture and of highly ornate appearance. 
The spreading sepals and petals are buff coloured, whilst the 
long lip is yellow at the base, dull reddish beyond. A native 
of India, where it occurs from Nepaul to Assam. 
Dendrobium wardianum. 
A handsome Dendrobe of pleasing appearance, producing 
two to three white flowers tipped with amethyst-purple, in a 
fascicle. The attractive lip is bright ochreous yellow, with 
two maroon blotches at the base; upper part white, with tip 
tinged amethyst-purple. Two forms are in cultivation, that 
from Burtnah being the more desirable, being larger in stems 
and flowers, whilst the Assam form, formerly D. Falconeri, 
have fully brighter-coloured flowers. 
Dendrobium Juno. 
Like the preceding, this hybrid is a member of the “ fasci- 
at the beginning of the year, when staged with a ground-work 
of Homan Hyacinths. A shrubby stove plant, introduced by 
Hr. FothergM from India in 1777. 
Tabernaemontana coronaria flore pleno. 
A desirable stove plant, attaining a height of 4 ft. The 
peduncles, which are produced in pairs in the forks of the 
branches, bear four to six white, fragrant, Gardenia-like 
flowers, very useful for buttonholes. Cultivated through 
India, it is familiarly called “ Adam’s Apple ” and “ East 
Indian Rose Bay.” 
Loropetalum chinense. 
A genus, nearly allied to Hamamelis, of two species, one, L. 
sub-cordata, not being in cultivation. This forms a desirable- 
adjunct to our ornamental, free-flowering shrubs for green¬ 
house culture, or as specimen plants for exhibition. The 
flowers are profusely borne on short lateral branchlets, pure 
white, of four thong-like petals. It is a freely-branched shrub 
bearing clusters of six to seven flowers. Native of China. 
Camellia reticulata. 
This handsome large-flowered species well merits a posi¬ 
tion in the conservatory, where it forms an attractive feature 
Hardy Water Lilies. (See p. 228.) 
uulata ” section. The flower resembles that of nobile, but with 
rounder segments and larger. 
Physostelma Wallichii (syn. Hoya campanulata). 
A pretty stove climber, with slender drooping peduncles, 
earing an umbel of waxy, pale buff flowers. The corolla is 
lup-shaped, in. in diameter, with a star-like process, formed 
py the stamina! lobes and a black, eye-like centre. An attrac¬ 
tive and ornamental Asclepiad from Singapore. 
kmphicomz Emodii 
Though sufficiently hardy for cultivation in protected parts 
outside, it forms a useful and attractive pot plant, associating 
veil with Freesia refracta. From the perennial rootstock 
irises short stems with emparipinnate leaves. The racemes 
ire usually axillary, though sometimes terminal, bearing five 
o eight orange-rose, erect, tubular flowers. Native of India. 
’lumbago rosea. 
Useful as a climber, it is most desirable when grown as small 
>ot plants. As such we have observed it to great advantage 
at this season. Though its flowers lack the compactness and 
symmetry of C. japonica and its varieties, yet it is a question 
if they are not more artistic. Native of China. 
Deutzia Lemoinei. 
A garden hybrid, derived from gracilis parviflora, distin¬ 
guished from the former by its shorter panicle of more spread- 
mo- flowers and erect habit, whilst the absence of a corvmbose 
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inflorescence and shorter branches distinguishes it from D. 
parviflora. One of the most useful cf white-flowered shrubs 
when forced for greenhouse decoration or for cut flowers. 
Cestrum Newelli. 
This, the latest flowering species of the section, suited for 
greenhouse culture, is also the most desirable. Its rich crimson 
flowers, freely produced, give it great decorative value. It 
resembles C. elegans, chiefly differing in the colour of its 
flowers and slightly larger leaves. It has been described as 
attaining a height of 6 ft., but trained on a pillar in the tem¬ 
perate house it is fully 16 ft, high. 
