The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ner,Barlow, &c. The alpine section has beenmarvellously improved during the past fortyyears, especially in the hands of Mr. CharlesTurner and his successors, and Messrs. Douglas, was the beginning of the production of the finevarieties occasionally met with in the presentday. Both as a decorative and exhibitionplant the Achimenes has lost ground, a retro-gression, perhaps, caused to some extent by thegreater favour shown to the Gloxinia andStreptooarpus. Large pans and pots of theleading varieties wer
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ner,Barlow, &c. The alpine section has beenmarvellously improved during the past fortyyears, especially in the hands of Mr. CharlesTurner and his successors, and Messrs. Douglas, was the beginning of the production of the finevarieties occasionally met with in the presentday. Both as a decorative and exhibitionplant the Achimenes has lost ground, a retro-gression, perhaps, caused to some extent by thegreater favour shown to the Gloxinia andStreptooarpus. Large pans and pots of theleading varieties were at one time a feature atour leading exhibitions, and they still put inappearance at some provincial flower-shows. attractive. The white form of A. chrysantha ismuch esteemed, and one of the latest introduc-tions—Stuarti—is a charming dwarf blue early-flowering type. A. glandulosa and its varietiesdo best in the cool, moist districts of the north. Chinese Azalea, like the Camellia, hasdecidedly declined in popular estimation, thelatter in a more marked manner than the. Fig. 163.—municipal gardens, cape town, (see p. 422.) Phillips, Walker, and others have raised finevarieties also, some of which will be grownand exhibited for years to come. The centre ofcultivation of the Auricula for exhibition is nowmore in the south than in the north asformerly. Aehimanes has in late years ceased to bogrown as much as formerly. In 1837, thescarlet A. cocoinea appears to have been theonly species in cultivation; but during theforties there were several introductions, notablyA. patens, A. longitlora, in 1841 ; and in allprobability the crossing of this and A. coccinea Some two dozen or so varieties, to which addi-tions are occasionally made, afford ample choicefor those who are induced to cultivate this ges-neraceous plant. Aquilegia is deservedly popular, and isincreasing in popularity. Sixty years agoA. alpina, formosa (californica), and glandul
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