. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. actus, also, has here a different flow-ering period. ROSES FOR ORNAMENTAL FRUIT. BY W. C. STRONG. Fully endorsing your opinion as to the desira-bleness of the Dog, Cinnamon and Carolina Roses,for their showy fruit in autumn, let me add thatRosa rugosa (Japan) is superior, by far, to anyother variety in this respect, and also that itslarge flowers and rich, luxuriant foliage renderit one of the most desirable shrubs of recent in-troduction. DENDROBIUM CAMBRIDCEANUM. BY MANSFIELD MILTON, YOUNGSTOWN, O. This fine Orchid from the north of India de-serve
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. actus, also, has here a different flow-ering period. ROSES FOR ORNAMENTAL FRUIT. BY W. C. STRONG. Fully endorsing your opinion as to the desira-bleness of the Dog, Cinnamon and Carolina Roses,for their showy fruit in autumn, let me add thatRosa rugosa (Japan) is superior, by far, to anyother variety in this respect, and also that itslarge flowers and rich, luxuriant foliage renderit one of the most desirable shrubs of recent in-troduction. DENDROBIUM CAMBRIDCEANUM. BY MANSFIELD MILTON, YOUNGSTOWN, O. This fine Orchid from the north of India de-serves more attention by lovers of the beautifulthan it gets. It is a deciduous drooping species,and is shown to best advantage when grown in abasket, given plenty of water during the periodof its growth, gradually withholding as the 46 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY [February, shoots mature. The flowers, which are of a j temperature to grow in, and will produce itsbright orange, having a crimson blotch on the i flowers more abundantly if well ripened by. jASMixuM GRACiLLiMUM. (See Opposite page.) lip, are produced on the young growths during I being kept close to the glass, having plenty of-the spring months. It requires a good high | light, but not too much of the burning sun. 1882.] AND HORIICULTURIST. 47 NEW OR RARE PLANTS. Jasminum gracillimum (see illustration onpreceding page).—We have briefly noted thisnovelty in our last years volume. It seemsto be an introduction of more than ordinaryvalue, on account of the great demand forfirst-class winter-blooming flowers. We give thefollowing representation of it, together with asketch of its history with which we have beenfavored by Messrs. J. Veitch & Son, of Chelsea,London, through whose enterprise it was firstintroduced to public notice : A beautiful Jasmine, collected for us in Bor-neo by Mr Burbidge. The following is Sir J. D. Hookers descrip-tion of the plant in the Gardeners Chronicle forJanuary 1st, 1881: A very near ally of the wel
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