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THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
435 
NEW PLANTS AND FLOWERS. 
PJWNIA L’ESPEBANCE. 
A beautiful new tree pseony, obtained by 
crossing Paeonia lutea with a variety of P. 
Moutan. This is the second hybrid from 
these parents, and it produces a lar^ and 
beautiful flower with three rows of light 
sulphur-yellow petals, each with a crimson 
base, surrounding a large cluster of deep 
crimson, yellow-tipped filaments. This is 
practically a siiigle variety, whereas the first- 
ODONTOGLOSSUM LAIBESSEI. 
A neat and beautiful hybrid, derived from 
O. Cervantesi and O. Edwardi. Tlie plant 
bore a branching spike about a foot high, 
carrying flowers about l^in. across the upper 
half of each segment white, and the basal 
half deep wine^urple. A.M., R.H.S., June 
3. Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, (grower, Mr. 
W. H. White), Burford Lodge, Dorking, 
Surrey. 
of plants were raised, though only one, P. 
Excelsior, was deemed of sufficient merit to 
be perpetuated. The original plant was ex¬ 
hibited at the Temple Show of 1911. The 
flowers are of good size and very effective, 
and a flowering plant is about 15 or 18 inches 
high. A.M., R.H.S., June 3. Messrs. Jas. 
Veitch and Sons. Chelsea. 
SALIX MAGNIFICA. 
In this very distinct new Chinese willow 
we have a plant that promises to be a very 
acceptable addition to our hardy trees. The 
specimen shown was about 4ft. high, and car¬ 
ried neither flowers or fruits, but its leafage 
attracted the attention of arboriculturists. 
The largest leaves were fully six inches long 
and over three inches broad; deep green, with 
a faint glaucous tint above, and pale ^reen 
beneath, firm in substance, and suggesting a 
P.®ONIA L’ESPERANCE. 
A hybrid between P. lutea andT* Moutan Flowers pale sulphur-yellow, with crimson bases to the segments, and crimson filaments. 
A.M., R.H.S., June 3. Messrs. J. Kelway and Son, Langport. 
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ATREWORTH. 
orchid dene VABIETT. 
P 411 liandsome orchid was figurec 
flowed ^'aji Particularly attractive, 
with ^8v ^ ^ rtch red-bro 
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H. David 
ODONTOGLOSSUM NEPTUNE ST. 
FUSCEEN. 
A dwarf plant, with bright and attractive 
flowers, the colours being white, with 
blotches and spots of very bright and light 
red-brown. The species concerned in this 
hybrid are O. crispum and O. nebulosum. 
A.M., R.H.S., June 3. Mons. H. Graire, 
St. Fuscien, Amiens. 
PRIMULA EXCELSIOR. 
A particularly attractive hardy primula, 
and one that promises to become a great 
garden favourite, as it is of robust growth, 
perennial character, and bears tiered spikes 
of glowing orange-scarlet or vermilion 
flow^s. The parents are P. Unique and P. 
Cockbumiana, and from this cross hundreds 
magnolia rather than a willow. The purplish 
leaf-stalks are an. additional attraction. 
A.M., R.H.S., June 3. Hon. Vicary Gibbs 
(gardener, Mr. E. Beckett, V.M.H.), Alden- 
ham House, Elstree. 
PAPAVER PERRY’S UNIQUE. 
This striking Oriental poppy is of medium 
size and brilliant scarlet colouring, with a 
blackish blotch at the ba^ of each segment. 
But the great attraction is the deep cutting 
or fringing of these segments, and this at¬ 
traction will ensure for the variety a fair 
share of popularity as a border plant. A.M., 
R.H.S., June 3. Mr. Amos Perry, Enfield. 
IRIS GRACILLIPES. 
A neat little species that has long been in 
