The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . lly of the greatestTrnportance. It is to be found in GanL Chmn.,1852, p. 730. Here we learn from the introducerhimself that he met with the plant in 1S4S in anurserv near Shanghai, and that it was introduced toEugland by him in 1840. The Chinese nurserymanfrom whom he obtained it stated that tlie plant wasbrought from a high mountain in the interior calledWang Shang. Fortune dilates upon the beauty andhardiness of the shrub, and its distinctiveness from New or Noteworthy Plants. BAMBUSA TESSELLATA, Mu
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . lly of the greatestTrnportance. It is to be found in GanL Chmn.,1852, p. 730. Here we learn from the introducerhimself that he met with the plant in 1S4S in anurserv near Shanghai, and that it was introduced toEugland by him in 1840. The Chinese nurserymanfrom whom he obtained it stated that tlie plant wasbrought from a high mountain in the interior calledWang Shang. Fortune dilates upon the beauty andhardiness of the shrub, and its distinctiveness from New or Noteworthy Plants. BAMBUSA TESSELLATA, Munro : AND BAM-BUSA VEITCIIII, Carrien: In ray list of new, or newly recorded {:;arden plantsof LSSS, published ia the Kcio Bidlctiii for thismonth, I have stated that Bambusa Veitchii is thesame as B. tessellata. I regret to find that this is anerror, into which I was led by a statement of GeneralMunros. In October, 1887, a type specimen of BambusaVeitchii was brought to the Kew Herbarium fromMessrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Combe Wood Nursery ;this specimen I immediately recognised as being. Fig. 89.—skimjiia japonica, seedling male foem = fbageans of gardens, (see p. 520.) S. Laureola, the Himalayan plant. Fortunes plantwas exhibited at the Horticultural Societys Rooms,21, Regent Street, on October 23, 1852, when theKnightian medal was awarded it, and the plant, inpopular parlance, made a great sensation. M. T. M. (To be continued.) SKIMMIA.—Did you ever hear of a hybrid be-tween a bull and a cow ? If you didnt, you may seesomething quite as absurd in your own columns atp. 709, 1888, in which Skimmia ForemanniX isspoken of as a cross between S. fragrans and ! I thought every tyro in gardening knewthat these were the two sexes of one plant. I havegrown the two together for the last ten years, andyou have actually figured the resultant berries inyour own columns ! So much for this welcomeaddition I And the Floral Committee of the RoyalHorticultural Society, too ! Proh pud
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