. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. d the hybridising was nodoubt the work of bees or other insects. Messrs. Veitch presented a plant to Kew, andthis has grown and flowered weU. Last spring itwas in flower for quite three months, and whenregarded as an ornamental shrub may be said tohave eclipsed both its parents. The flowers arepale pink, and whilst they are intermediate inshape between the cylindrical ones of E. lusitanica,and the shorter rounded ones of E. arborea, theybear a closer similarity to the former. In habit,on the ha
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. d the hybridising was nodoubt the work of bees or other insects. Messrs. Veitch presented a plant to Kew, andthis has grown and flowered weU. Last spring itwas in flower for quite three months, and whenregarded as an ornamental shrub may be said tohave eclipsed both its parents. The flowers arepale pink, and whilst they are intermediate inshape between the cylindrical ones of E. lusitanica,and the shorter rounded ones of E. arborea, theybear a closer similarity to the former. In habit,on the hand, E. Veitchii follows the seems, in fact, to have combined to someextent the greater flower beauty of E. lusitanicawith the better habit of E. arborea. In regard to its hardiness it will, I expect, beat least as hardy as its parents. Neither of thesehas suffered at Kew since the great frost of tenyears ago. But my experience is that 20° of frostor thereabouts, whilst not injurious for a singlenight or so, are fatal to these species if they areof longer continuance. W. J. Fig. . -ANOTHER APPLIANCE TO PREVENT DRIPIN PLANT-HOUSES. from condensation or otherwise, which may col-lect at any portion of the bar; and being light inconstruction and nicely beaded, it adds to ratherthan detracts from the appearance of a plainsash-bar. Shortly, the contrivance is that afalse bottom, beaded on the underside anddouble-grooved on the top, is fixed to the bottomof the sash-bar, so that the drip on either sidethe bar has a groove of its own to conduct it toor near the bottom of each bar, where it can dropclear of plants and woodwork and do no harm toanything. Both sash-bars and false bottoms areafforded a coat of paint at the point of junctionimmediately before the latter are fixed, conse-quently a water-tight joint is made, and thedrip-bars should last for many years in good,condition. J. C. Tallach, Shipley Gardens,Derbyshire, THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICUL-TURAL SOC
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