. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ommittee, byMr. G. F. Wilson-. It is a plant of the Colchica-ceous division of the great Lily family, with a tuftedhabit and very numerous crowded roughish the centre of the tuft rises a tall flower-stemwith small linear lance-shaped bracts below, and adense many-flowered raceme above. The flowers arewhitish or yellowish-white, .^s our figure shows(fig. 76), it is a stately plant for the herbaceous border,though it is said not to flower freely. Mr. WILSON,however, seems to have found the
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ommittee, byMr. G. F. Wilson-. It is a plant of the Colchica-ceous division of the great Lily family, with a tuftedhabit and very numerous crowded roughish the centre of the tuft rises a tall flower-stemwith small linear lance-shaped bracts below, and adense many-flowered raceme above. The flowers arewhitish or yellowish-white, .^s our figure shows(fig. 76), it is a stately plant for the herbaceous border,though it is said not to flower freely. Mr. WILSON,however, seems to have found the secret, and is toogood a plantsman not to reveal his method of grow-ing the plant. It is a native of the South-easternStates of North America, whence it was introducedas long ago as 1765. Crotox Warreni.—Under this name Mr. B. S. Williams proposes shortly to issue a fineCroton with long narrow leaves twisted like a cork-screw ; the ground colour is dark green edged withcrimson, and with irregular orange blotches. It is arobust-looking variety. April 3, iSSo.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 433. Fig. 76,—xeropiiyllum asphodrloipes, (see »?, 433.) Botanic Gardkn Seed Lists.—We have received catalogues from the Botanic Gardens ofVienna, St. Ietersburgh, and Palermo. Easter Monday at South Kensington. —The Royal Horticultural Societys Gardens werethrown open to the general public on Easter Monday,at an admission fee of 2</. each, and 10,089 personspassed through the turnstiles, so that the Societystreasury was benefited to the extent of £%\ \s. 6U. Anemone blanda—Mr. Ingram, writing from IJelvoir, says :— I do not know a more charm-ing spring llower than Anemone blanda ; of a moreintense shade of blue and preceding in flowering by at least a month, for the earliest sectionof the spring garden it is invaluable. It is most for-tunate that for purposes of propagation it producesseed freely, and its seedlings exhibit a decided ten-dency under cultivation to vary f
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