The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . growing ever-green Asplenium Baptistii, which has theaspect of a bipinnate form of A. contiguum, butwhether really so or not it is a most distinct andornamental addition to the group. To theMaidenhairs Mr. Bull has added Adiantum New Garden Plants. Begonia socotrana, Hook, fil., sp. n.*A very pretty species, of which tubers were broughtby Dr. I. B. Balfour from the dry and hot island ofSocotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Arabia,one of the last places in the world in which a Begoniacould have
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . growing ever-green Asplenium Baptistii, which has theaspect of a bipinnate form of A. contiguum, butwhether really so or not it is a most distinct andornamental addition to the group. To theMaidenhairs Mr. Bull has added Adiantum New Garden Plants. Begonia socotrana, Hook, fil., sp. n.*A very pretty species, of which tubers were broughtby Dr. I. B. Balfour from the dry and hot island ofSocotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Arabia,one of the last places in the world in which a Begoniacould have been expected to occur. From thegeographical position of that island the affinity of thisdiscovery may be conjectured to be either Asiatic orAfrican, and upon the whole, though referable tonone of the sixty sections of the genus, founded byKlotzsch and A. de CandoUe, it must, I think, beplaced in the African one of Augtistia, from thecharacters of which it differs chiefly in the maleperianth having four segments, in the shorter filaments,rounded top of the anther, in the six lobes of the. Fig. I.—eegdnia socotrana : flowers rose-pink. aneitense, a Pacific Island species of orna-mental character, allied to A. Cunninghamii andA. fulvum, and likely to prove a very usefuldecorative stove Fern, somewhat taller than theuniversal favourite, A. cuneatum, but not at allmerging into coarseness of habit. We shall have to defer our brief notes ongreenhouse and hardy plants till our nextnumber. T. Moore. The Charleville Grapes.—Mr. Roberts, gar-dener to the Countess of Charleville, CharlevilleForest, Tullamore, writing to the Council of theRoyal liorticultural Society of Ireland, thanking thatbody for the special award of the Societys large SilverMedal for the wonderful bunch of black Grapes (GrosGuillaume) exhibited by him at the late winter show,slates that the exact weight of the bunch was26 lb. 6 oz., and that in five seasons the same Vinehas borne nine bunches, the total weight of
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