The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . than do those of mostother species. The exterior of the outer perianth seg-ments is a brownish-yellow, with three deep purplestripes, the inner surfaces, as well as both surfaces ofthe inner segments, being a very pleasing blue. AtKew this is at present the most striking hardy plantin flower. the shade, average of three years, was 93° (in Febru-ary), the lowest for the same period 62 (in August).The maximum in the sun 158°, in February, but vary-ing comparatively little throughout the year; thelowest
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . than do those of mostother species. The exterior of the outer perianth seg-ments is a brownish-yellow, with three deep purplestripes, the inner surfaces, as well as both surfaces ofthe inner segments, being a very pleasing blue. AtKew this is at present the most striking hardy plantin flower. the shade, average of three years, was 93° (in Febru-ary), the lowest for the same period 62 (in August).The maximum in the sun 158°, in February, but vary-ing comparatively little throughout the year; thelowest temperature on the grass was registered at 50°,in August, the range being about 14. From thesefew data, which may be useful to cultivators, it maybe judged that the climate is not likely to be an un-healthy one, all things considered. IlAMAMELis JAi-ONicA.—This species is now in flower in the Kew Arboretum. It differs from (figured in the Gardeners ChronidcXisX week)in its rather paler flowers, which are also somewhatless in size, and are borne in less dense clusters. The. Fig. 46.—THE DRIVE AT UNLEY, SHOWING THE ORIGINAL GROUP OF LARCHES, (SEE P. 24O,) display of an excellent piece of decorative gardening,and it is to be desired that under the new dominantinfluences we may now see something that shall notinduce vexation or ridicule on every passing gardener. Roses.—Winter Rose forcing and propaga-tion are now being pushed on by Messrs. hundred dozen blooms were cut the first week inFebruary. One of Mr. H. Bennetts new varieties,Jean Sisley, was in fine condition : the flowers at thisseason are about the colour of Madame Victor Verdier ;the buds are large and of the long tapering shape nowso much preferred to the shorter more globose is here a new yellow Continental Rose, not yetnamed ; the habit of the plant is like Safrano inappearance, the flowers are something betweenMarcchal Niel and Perle de Lyon. Messrs. BECK-WITH have so high
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