. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. and the rich redcolour often assumed by its foliage. We have not space to mention more of thecontents of this nursery, but enough has beensaid to justify the decision of the arbitrator inretaining this enclosure on the condition thatthe public have free access to this as to the otherparts of the Forest. The interest of such a nurseryand its special value as an experimental groundare too obvious to need further comment. TheRambler. New Garden Plants. Brassia ((;lumace.€) euodes.* This belongs to the s
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. and the rich redcolour often assumed by its foliage. We have not space to mention more of thecontents of this nursery, but enough has beensaid to justify the decision of the arbitrator inretaining this enclosure on the condition thatthe public have free access to this as to the otherparts of the Forest. The interest of such a nurseryand its special value as an experimental groundare too obvious to need further comment. TheRambler. New Garden Plants. Brassia ((;lumace.€) euodes.* This belongs to the small but difficult group ofBrassia glumacea, and looks very like it. The flowershave the ends of the sepals and petals of a neat yellow,or yellowish colour ; the column is marbled withpurple, and llie upper part of it in front is purple;lip yellowish. All the sepals and petals, except thetips, brownish-red. This colour may be the last .state,as is observable in various Brassias. I am unable tosay whether the flowers were distinctly colouredearlier. They have a beaulifid smell, whence the. Fig. 117.—flower of masdevallia rosea nat. size, (see p. 6Si.) tinct I. opaca, and many others. The CheshuntYew may be noted for its close pyramidal habit,and grown as it is here, in association with thegolden Yew, is very striking and effective. Rhododendrons and American plants gener-ally are grown in considerable quantities. Anavenue now in course of construction, and linedwith specimen plants of the best named varieties,already shows the kind of effect that thegrowth of another season or two will people fancy that Rhododendrons willnot grow kindly on stifif clay, but a visit to thisnursery will undeceive them. It is fair to say,however, that cocoa-nut fibre refuse is used inconsiderable quantities to lighten the soil. Afine piece of Andromeda floribunda may bementioned in this connection. Conifers, orsome of them, do well here ; the Deodar Cedarin great beauty and quite un
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