. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. of white, pure as drivensnow, which seen as we have them here, behind a rowof the lovely colxalt-blue Gcntiana acaulis, produce amost pleasing effect. Being of a close trailing habit, they are just the thing for mounds or depending overrock, where they associate well with Lithospermumprostratum, a plant that shoulil be in every I saw lately covers more than a square yard ofground, and will soon be a fine sight, as it issmothered with blossom-buds, which when expandedwill afford choice bits


. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. of white, pure as drivensnow, which seen as we have them here, behind a rowof the lovely colxalt-blue Gcntiana acaulis, produce amost pleasing effect. Being of a close trailing habit, they are just the thing for mounds or depending overrock, where they associate well with Lithospermumprostratum, a plant that shoulil be in every I saw lately covers more than a square yard ofground, and will soon be a fine sight, as it issmothered with blossom-buds, which when expandedwill afford choice bits for working up in biloba used to be thought much of, buthere is a plant quite hardy rivalling it in the beautyof its flowers and yet almost unknown. What asplendid thing it would be in a basket hanging downa foot or two over the sides, clothed with those deepintense blue flowers, of a shade so rare among theplants. To grow this and the Phlox well they shouldhave a sunny spot and deep light sandy soil, in whichthey soon spread and form thick masses of verdure. 7. ittS Hf ^lOOllS. Les Orchidees, &c. Par K. de Puydt. Paris :Rothschild ; London ; Dulau & Co. Large 8vo,pp. 348, woodcuts 244, coloured plates 50. It is not long since we had occasion to comment onthe elegant volume of M. de Kerchove on the Palms,and now we have the pleasure of bringing under thenotice of our readers a companion volume devoted tothe Orchids. The chapters comprise an historicalsketch, details of structure and classification, indica-tions of geographical distribution and climatology,treatment and cultivation, injurious insects, and aslight account of the principal genera cultivated inEurope. This is an ample programme—one, more-over which could not be fully dealt with in one, norindeed in many volumes. All that can be looked foris a general outline, and if this be done correctly andin an agreeable form, the Orchid lover and the generalreader should be content, as those whose


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