The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . through, withample foliage on their vigorous shoots. Of othervarieties, including the white I. alba, there was anumber of thriving young specimens that give a lungseason of bloom—flowering, as they do, where pro- of a character such as admits of their being arrangedwith almost any other description of cut bloom, butfrom the long continuity of the plants in flower, theyfill a place which few other things are capable ofdoing well. Franciscea calycina was noted in specimens some4 feet through, and Kondel
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . through, withample foliage on their vigorous shoots. Of othervarieties, including the white I. alba, there was anumber of thriving young specimens that give a lungseason of bloom—flowering, as they do, where pro- of a character such as admits of their being arrangedwith almost any other description of cut bloom, butfrom the long continuity of the plants in flower, theyfill a place which few other things are capable ofdoing well. Franciscea calycina was noted in specimens some4 feet through, and Kondeletia speciosa major ofa similar size; both were strong, fully-furnishedexamples. Of Anthurium Scherzerianum, so pro-verbial for the exuberance of its flowers, there areseveral large specimens, good forms of this mostvariable plant. Several large specimens of Stepha-notis had made excellent growths. Associated with the above-named plants was agrand plant of Calanthe veratrifolia, that in thepast spring bore thirty spikes of its long-lastingsnowy flowers ; Cypripedium Lawrenceanum, a fine. Fig. 132.— lodge for garden pupils, Missouri school of horticulture, st. louis. (see p. 489) three, pendent on long peduncles, fragrant, paleBulphur-yellow tinged outside with claret-red ; peri-anth about 8 inches long, the segments permanentlyconnivent in a funnel-shaped tube, which is about5 inches long, and 2 to 2k inches broad at the topwhen the flower is fully expauded, falcate about onethird of the way down ; outer segments little over1 inch broad; inner nearly 2 inches; stamens\k inch shorter than the perianth ; anthers above1 inch long, brown with red-brown pollen, like thoseof L. Brownii; filaments straight, the same colouras the perianth; style curved, the stigma overtoppingthe anthers. J. G. Baker. NOTES FROM UPLEATHAM. The cultivation of hard-wooded stove and green-house plants up to a size that will admit of theircompeting successfully at leading exhibitions, is a perly treated
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