Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . serpens.—This is a Himalayan ally of March 25, 1896.] Garden and Forest. 125 which has been cultivated at Kevv for the lastfifteen years and has flowered every year in a greenhouseabout this time of year (March). It is a beautiful plant; thearching stems, rising from a woody root-stock to a lengthof five feet, are partly clothed with shining, green, myrtle-likeleaves and fringed for nearly their whole length with pen-dent tubular flowers an inch long and colored blood-red,with darker V-shaped lines. The flowe
Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . serpens.—This is a Himalayan ally of March 25, 1896.] Garden and Forest. 125 which has been cultivated at Kevv for the lastfifteen years and has flowered every year in a greenhouseabout this time of year (March). It is a beautiful plant; thearching stems, rising from a woody root-stock to a lengthof five feet, are partly clothed with shining, green, myrtle-likeleaves and fringed for nearly their whole length with pen-dent tubular flowers an inch long and colored blood-red,with darker V-shaped lines. The flowers remain fresh Candida.—I noted this plant in 1894, soon afterits introduction to Kew from Guatemala, where it occursonly on the crater of the Vulcan de Agua. Since then ithas improved under cultivation, and it has been in flowerin a cold house along with Cape Heaths all winter. Thestems, which are about nine inches long, are formed of theclosely folded bases of the leaves, as in a Crinum, the leaf-blades forming a spreading rosette about eight inches in. Fig. 15.—Raid Cypress, Taxodium dislichum, in Bartrc upon the stems for about two months. Such a specimenas this at Kew takes about twenty years to grow, but, onceacquired, it is a most valuable plant for the conservatory,practically looking after itself if only a little water be givento it now and then, and when it comes into flower it isuniversally admired. It can be multiplied from cuttings ofthe young branches. Mr. Elwes, who collected this plantin the Himalayas, found it growing upon trees withCcelogynes, etc. diameter. The flowers are developed two or three at atime from a central capitulum, each flower having a tubetwo inches long and a spreading limb of three ovate con-cave segments about an inch across ; they are of the purestwhite, with a cluster of pale yellow anthers. The root-stock is fleshy, and during the autumn the plants areallowed to rest for about two months. The genus is mo-notypic and is a
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