. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. pipings ; these,when well rooted, may be planted out inthe open garden to produce a display offlowers next season. Besides the lacedflowers the amateur will look for self colours,and especially for those with a blotch ofcolour in the centre of the flowers ; besides,some of the seedlings with quite singleflowers are admirable; but unfortunatelythey have the fault of l>eing fugacious incharacter; but to make amends the plantsproduce them in profusion. Jax. Duucjlas. TREES AND SHRUBS. HTBKID
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. pipings ; these,when well rooted, may be planted out inthe open garden to produce a display offlowers next season. Besides the lacedflowers the amateur will look for self colours,and especially for those with a blotch ofcolour in the centre of the flowers ; besides,some of the seedlings with quite singleflowers are admirable; but unfortunatelythey have the fault of l>eing fugacious incharacter; but to make amends the plantsproduce them in profusion. Jax. Duucjlas. TREES AND SHRUBS. HTBKID the Transactions of Ihc Roijal Scottish Arhori-cultural Society, vol. xviii., 1905, p. 13-, mention ismade of a hybrid Larch, a cross bet-ween L. leptolepis and the , the Japanese species having been thefemale parent. No further information is given,and -we are left in ignorance whether the crosswas a natural or an artificial one, by whom itwas effected, and of other details which would beof particular interest. 390 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [J0NE 24, 1905. PRIMULA VITTATA, Bureau and species was first discovered by PrinceHenri dOrleans in 1890 in the neighbourhood ofTalien-lu. Pratt also met with it in the sameregion about the same time. Messrs. Bureauand Franchet described it in the Journal deBotanique, v., 1891. The plant was introduced intothe Veitchian nurseries by their collector, Wilson,who describes it as being common in bogs andmarshes on the Tibetan border, between 9,000and 10,500 feet. It flowered in an open borderin Messrs. Veitchs Coombe Wood nursery iaMay last, and was exhibited before the EoyalHorticultural Society on May 23, when itreceived an Award of Merit. Fig. 16c.—PRIMULA VITTATA, A CHINESE SPECIES : COLOUR OF FLOWERSMAGENTA SHADE OF PURPLE. ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS, DENDEOBIUM OBSEEVE at p. 355 a note by Mr. J. OBrienrespecting Dendrobium Seidelianum, Echb. f., ofwhich my Dendrobium Loddigesi
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