The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . A GRANDISRHODODENDRON ASSAMICUMSCHISMATOGLOTTIS LONGISPATHASPARMANNIA AFRICANA FLORE-PLENOTECOMA ROSEAZAMIA PRASINA. Twelve NEW of sorts. Six NEW GLOXINIAS, with erect flo rs, of sorts. Four NEW FUCHSIAS of sorts. Six NEW SHOW PELARGONIUMS of sorts. Six NEW SPOTTED PELARGONIUMS of NEW FANCY PELARGONIUMS of sorts. Twelve NEW ZONAL PELARGONIUMS of sorts. Six NEW of sorts. Six NEW DOUBLE-FLOWERED ZONAL PELAR-GONIUMS of sorts. Eight NEW BEGONIAS, with Variegated F
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . A GRANDISRHODODENDRON ASSAMICUMSCHISMATOGLOTTIS LONGISPATHASPARMANNIA AFRICANA FLORE-PLENOTECOMA ROSEAZAMIA PRASINA. Twelve NEW of sorts. Six NEW GLOXINIAS, with erect flo rs, of sorts. Four NEW FUCHSIAS of sorts. Six NEW SHOW PELARGONIUMS of sorts. Six NEW SPOTTED PELARGONIUMS of NEW FANCY PELARGONIUMS of sorts. Twelve NEW ZONAL PELARGONIUMS of sorts. Six NEW of sorts. Six NEW DOUBLE-FLOWERED ZONAL PELAR-GONIUMS of sorts. Eight NEW BEGONIAS, with Variegated Foliage, ofsorts. Five NEW HYBRID HANDSOME-FLOWEREDBEGONIAS of sorts. Sixteen NEW COLEUS of sorts. Eight NEW FRINGED COLEUS of sorts. PRIZES FOK NEW PLANTS. Twelve Handsome Silver Cupst specially designed by Messrs. Elkington 5^ Co., are offered as Prizesfor Twelve New Plants of Mr. Willam Bullsijttrodiiction, at the Great Summer Show of the RoyalHortietdtural Society, to be held at Kensington, June 3,4, 6 and^, i88i. Establishment for New and Rare Plants, KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, ,. THE SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1881. A TRIP TO S I K K I M. {.Coftcluded from p. 462.) OF Orchids by far the most numerous isa Ileurothalhs, which, if any Orchid canbe called a weed, is one here, breaking downlarge limbs with the weight of its tangledmasses. Pleione Wallichii and P. humilis arevery abundant, the latter flowering in Febru-ary and March in the moss on stones andbranches, and quite indifferent to the nightfrosts, which prevail for three months in theyear at this elevation. Ccelogyne ochraceaand C. nitida are also abundant at 7000 or 8000feet, the latter growing even as high up as9500 feet, where I have found it on Yew trees,which though rare in Sikkim are found scat-tered through the forest on Tongloo and otherplaces. Cymbidium is also very abundant at7000 feet, whilst a beautiful species of Ampe-lopsis, a Jasminum, Dicentra thalictrifolia, andmany other climbing plants help to make th
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