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THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
Apbh. 12, 191*. 
reminding everyone of Coelogyne pandurata. 
The spike exhibited was about four feet 
long, and had six branches, each bearing 
about a score of flowers and buds.. The 
colour is pale apple-green with blackish 
markings upon the gp'eenish yellow lip. Mr. 
C. Curtis, the old Veitchian collector, re¬ 
members finding this species in Madagascar 
forty years ago, but he was unable to bring 
home live specimens then. F.C.C., R.H.S., 
April 1. Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., 
Haywards Heath. 
CYPBIPEDIUM ROUNDHEAD. 
The florists could find little or no fault 
with this hybrid between^ C. nitens and C. 
Earl of Tankerville. The flower has a 
rounded, shapely appearance; the broad 
dorsal sepal is white, with greenish yellow 
base and centre, and over the coloured por¬ 
tion dark red-purple spots are freely strewn. 
Both petals and lip are greenish-yellow, 
heavily shaded with bright red-brown. 
F.C.C., R.H.S., April 1. Lieut .-Colonel Sir 
George Holford. 
L^LIO-CATTLEYA DOMINIANA 
SOUTHFIELD VAR. 
A splendid flower, of large size, and with a 
very fine ruby-purple lip. The sepals and 
petals are light rose-purple on a creamy- 
white ground, but the bright colouring is 
somewhat streaky. F.C.C., R.H.S., April 1. 
W. Waters Butler, Esq., Southfield, Edg- 
baston, Birmingham. 
ODONTIODA KEIGHLEYENSIS IGNITA. 
In this neat form of the hybrid between 
Cochlioda Noezliana and Odontoglossum cir- 
rhosum, the flowers are larger and more 
shapely than in the original cross, and of a 
brilliant crimson-scarlet colour. A.M., 
R.H.S., April 1. Messrs. J. and A. McBean, 
Coofcsbridge, Sussex. 
ODONTIODA OOOKSONI^ RALLFS VAR. 
. A charming variety with rounded flowers 
borne on a strong spike. The colour, crim¬ 
son-scarlet, is very vivid, and distinctly en¬ 
hanced by the white apex to the lid. A.M., 
R.H.S., April 1. Pantia Ralli, Esq. (gar¬ 
dener. Mr. Hunt), Ashtead Park, Leather- 
head. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM EXIMIUM WARN- 
HAM COURT VAR. 
A very beautiful odontoglossum derived 
from the fine O. crispum Luciana and a 
good form of O. ardentissimum. As shown 
in our illustration on p. 235, the flowers are 
of fine size and excellent shape. The blush 
ground colouring is heavily blotched over 
with nch cnmson-purple; the apex of the 
lip IS white. F.C.C., R.H.S., ApS 1. C J 
Lucas Esq. (gardener, Mr. Duncan), Warn- 
ham Court, Horsham. 
DOUGLASIA LiEVIGATi. 
A pretty, densely tufted alpine plant from 
the Oregon mountains of North America. It 
closely resembles an Androsaoe. The tiny 
leaves are surmounted by small umbels of 
purple-rose flowers, each a little less than 
half an inch across, and with a rose-red eye. 
A.M., R.H.S., April 1. Mr. Maurice 
Prichard, Christchurch. 
NARCISSUS WHITE EMPEROR. 
This is not a white counterpart of the well- 
known Emperor daffodil, but is a rounder 
and more refined flower. It has broad 
rounded, cream-white perianth segments 
and a wide trumpet, prettily frilled at the 
mouth. WTiite Emperor was raised by the 
Rev. G. H. Engleheart, who stated that it 
was of pure Ajax parentage; the majority 
of those who saw the flower also agreed that 
this was a trumpet variety, but some 
sticklers for rule used finely graduated mea¬ 
sures, and proved to their own satisfaction 
that it was a Giant Leedsi variety. Three 
members of the Daffodil Committee were de¬ 
puted to classify the variety, but could not 
agree, though we understand the majority 
favoured the trumpet rather than the Leedsi 
classification. Anyhow, it is a beautiful daf¬ 
fodil, and goes to show- how crossing: and 
recrossing the various varieties and types 
is breaking do\^ even recent definitions; 6onr 
s^uently new varieties will have to be ar¬ 
bitrarily placed in one or other <?f the n|ne 
groups into which daffodils are at present 
classified. A.M., R.H.S., April 1. Messrs. 
Cartwright and Goodwin, Kidderminster. Also 
shown by Mr. C. Bourrffe, Bletchlejr. who, 
with Messrs. Cartwright and Good win, hold 
the stock. - 
PRIMULA YISCOSA aTHEtLO. 
Scarcely so robust as the foregoing, but 
extremely free-flowering, this variety should 
find great favour in the rock garden. It 
bears many-flowered trusses of deep rich 
purple colouring. A.M^ R.H.S., April 1. 
Mr. James Douglas, Grq^t Bookham. 
PRIMULA YISCOSA JEAN DOUGLAS. ^ 
This very fine primula is really a hybrid 
between P. viscosa and' the alpine auricula 
named Innocence. Of robust growth, the 
plant exhibited bore three fine trusses of 
oloom, the large one containing over a score 
of flowers. The colouring is bright purplish- 
rose, with white eye. There was some doubt 
expressed as to the identity of this plant, and 
it was at first considered identical with P. 
viscosa Mrs. Berkeley, but subsequently it 
was found distinct, and to have been 
rais^ at Great Bookham. A.M., R.H.S., 
April 1. Mr. Jas. Douglas, Great Bookham, 
SENECIO STENOCEPHALUS. 
A strong growing species from China and 
Japan, and one that promises to be of value 
for the semi-wild garden, and possibly for 
the waterside. It has handsome, bold, reni- 
forme leaves with deeply toothed margins, 
and these often measure 16 inches across. 
The golden ray florets are usually five in 
number, and the flowers are plae^ closely 
together in sturdy racemes a foot or more in 
length. Bot. Mag., t. 8472. 
ROSA SERTATA. 
This "very handsome Chinese rose has very 
small leaflets, and large rose or rose-purple 
flowers, and makes a graceful shrub 3ft. to 
5ft. high. The blooms measure upwards of 
two inches across, and have a dense central 
cluster of golden stamens. It flowers about 
mid-June, and its blooms are followed by 
deep red fruits, so that in autumn its bright 
hips, glaucous stems, and dainty leaves 
render it a very attractive shrub. Bot. Mag. 
t. 8473. 
AMORPHOPHALLUS CORRUGATES. 
Though the genus of Amorphophallus is of 
little value in gardens, it has the distinction 
of containing the largest flower known— 
using the word flower in its widest sense, of 
course—this being produced by the huge A. 
titanum. A. corrugatus is from Siam, and 
has a green-purple shaded, white-mottled 
sjmthe. The spadix has a dull yellow apex, 
with a cluster of rosy male flowers below, 
and a group of dull purple female flowers at 
the base. Bot. Mag., t.8475. 
ASTER PURDOMI. 
Collected by Mr. W. Purdom, in Northern 
China, when travelling for Messrs. J. Yeitch 
and Sons. A. Purdomi promises to be a 
very useful and beautiful garden plant, and 
one especially suitable for the rock garden. 
It is a email-growing plant, and has hairy 
leaves about l^in. long. The flowers are 
21in. across, pale violet, with yellow centre, 
carried erect and solitary on stems about 
six inches high. Bot. Mag., t. 8476. 
C(ELOGYNE CBISTATA. 
This old and popular garden plant is one 
of the most beautiful of orchids, and its 
semi-pendulous spikes of white flowers, with 
golden-crested lip, are well known for their 
decorative value. This old species has the 
TOnour of a double-page illustration in the 
Bot. Mag., t. 8477, and the history of its in¬ 
troduction in 1837 is given. 
OVER-GROWN CELERY 
seedlings. 
Cultivators wijl have raised their batri. 
of celery plants at this time and e^ 
enc^ growers will not make tk mislaid 
subjecting the .resultant seedliiurs to a 
high temperature. ® ^ 
Very frequentlynne sees the plants dra. 
up, and then thelbest results cannot be t 
cufed. I do not object to placing the seed m 
. on the surface of a mild 'hotbed nor ‘ 
deed, to plunging it to the rim, but I e 
prefer not to plunge the pan. The mi 
take is made when the pan is plunged i 
a very strong heat, the top darkened ai 
the young seedlings kept in thU po^tk 
for a week or longer. Undef these conf 
tions the young plants are much drawn u 
greatly weakened. 
Celery should be raised under cooler co 
ditions, and sown very thinly, being ful 
exposed to the light from the moment tl 
seedlings break through the soil. Ve 
often a lot of seeds are sown in a small p 
or pan, ten seedlings growing in the spa 
where one should be. The cultivator ge 
all the plants he needs from one corne 
and the remainder—ninety per cent.—ti 
thrown away. How much better it woii 
be if a few seeds were scattered evenly s 
over the surface of the soil. The ^ 
lings would be strong from the very firs 
and continue to gain strength. 
When transplanted all the seedlings » 
lecled should be of the same size, so tlu 
the matured plants will be so when lifti 
for use; as, unlike cabbages and simili 
crops, the matured specimens cannot \ 
gathered here and there. I have found i 
advisable to grow celery plants on a co( 
base throughout, after the first transplanl 
ing, as many plants growm on^hotbeds haf 
“ bolted,” or been pithy and holloi 
stemmed. G. B. 
QUERCUS DENSIFLORA. 
This is one of the rarest evergreen oi 
cultivated in the British Isles, and f 
examples are known to exist, although t 
good-sized trees may be seen in the K 
collection. A native of Western Noi 
America, it is found from the soutlw 
parts of Oregon to Southern Californ 
where, under the most favourable circu 
stlances, it attains a height of one hunm 
and fifty feot, with a trunk up to ion 
feet in diameter, sometimes dear 
branches for half its height. The obi 
leaves are from two to five inches W 
and between one and two inches 
When young they are w hitish on both sur 
faces, by reason of the presence of nu^ 
rous short, felty, grey hairs. 
much of this pubescence disapp€Oj^ i 
the upper side, but it remains 
throughout the life of the leaf. *^ 
margins are rather prominently 
and the reining is very conspicuous, 
acorns take two years to mature. 
Jepson, in his “ Silva of California, . 
that its bark produces the S 
known for heavy leathers, and 
trees are usually barked standing. * 
they are barked they often live two y ^ 
and mature a heavy crop of acorns ^ 
second year. Sometimes, 
trees continue to live for an m ^ 
period after barking. So 
bark said to be tJiat 100,000 
sacrificed in a single ye^J* 
alone. The wood is used, ^ som c 
for house and wagon Building- ^ 
fornia the common names of Jan 
Squaw Oak are applied to the tr ^ p 
