. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . the top of the incline are planted large specimensof Buxus pyramidalis, B. miorophylla, Cai-piuusBetulus var. pyramidalis, &c., sent by Moser,Versailles. MELIANTHUS MAJOK. This Cape plant has long been an inhabitantof our greenhouses, where its peculiar butvery handsome grey foliage always attractsattention; of late years it has been made useof for summer bedding, for which purpose itis very effective. Our illustration (fig. 57)was taken from a photograph kindly forwardedby Mrs. Dunbar Buller from D
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . the top of the incline are planted large specimensof Buxus pyramidalis, B. miorophylla, Cai-piuusBetulus var. pyramidalis, &c., sent by Moser,Versailles. MELIANTHUS MAJOK. This Cape plant has long been an inhabitantof our greenhouses, where its peculiar butvery handsome grey foliage always attractsattention; of late years it has been made useof for summer bedding, for which purpose itis very effective. Our illustration (fig. 57)was taken from a photograph kindly forwardedby Mrs. Dunbar Buller from DonaghadeO;,Ireland. The shrub grows there in the open-air, and has attained a height of 7 feet, and isabout 24 feet in circumference. The plant hasthis year produced four spikes of its purplish-brown flowers, which are not only handsome, butstructurally very interesting. The bees also findit worthy of notice from the quantities of honeyednectar formed in the flowers, the conformation ofwhich is so contrived to attract the insect andmake it useful in conveying the pollen to Fig. 57.—FLOWERING SPECIMEN OF MELIANTHUS MAJOK IS A GAEDEN AT DONAGHADEE. Another very interestinglfeature of the garden issupplied by the Eose-beds, planted with materialfrom various French firms. Almost all classesare represented, and nearly all are in good healthand blooming well. Amongst the Hybrid Per-petuals. Captain Christy, Baroness Rothschild,and Ulrich Brunner are very noticeable. A bedof the Hybrid Tea Gruss an TepUtz is also veryshowy. G. Boucher, Paris, exhibits a collectionof some 320 varieties on standards; these, how-ever, appear to be suffering from the intenseheat of the St. Louis summer. The hot weather,however, seems to agree well with the Cannas, ofwhich there is a magnificent display. The prin-cipal exhibitors of these and Dahlias are Vil-morin, Andrieux et Cie., and Cayeux et Leclerc. The garden was designed and the exhibitsarranged by M. Vacherot, who was chief garden
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