. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Fig. beacteata feom kew. iPMograpU hij C. I. RoffilL). Fig. BRACTEATA, ORIGINALLY FIGlRED ASS. MEDIA ROTUNDIFOLIA ALBA. The VlLMORlN MEMORtAL. — The sumsreceived or promised now amount to ^1,281),the number of subscribers being 3,ll;2. is one of the most desirable of hardy Spirjcas,and is useful for forcing purposes. Whilst thereis happily no question at all as to the value ofthe plant, there is very considerable doubt as towhat name it should bear. It appears that thereis a
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Fig. beacteata feom kew. iPMograpU hij C. I. RoffilL). Fig. BRACTEATA, ORIGINALLY FIGlRED ASS. MEDIA ROTUNDIFOLIA ALBA. The VlLMORlN MEMORtAL. — The sumsreceived or promised now amount to ^1,281),the number of subscribers being 3,ll;2. is one of the most desirable of hardy Spirjcas,and is useful for forcing purposes. Whilst thereis happily no question at all as to the value ofthe plant, there is very considerable doubt as towhat name it should bear. It appears that thereis a Japanese plant, and there is another shrub Southern Russia through Amur Land cannot pretend to decide the point, butwe may add that on February 25, 1883, theJapanese form was figured in our columns,and described by Mr. Nicholson as S. mediarotundifolia alba (fig. 62). On June 16, lS9t, Mr. 150 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [Maech 11, 1905 Hemsley descanted in the Gardeners Chronicle on•the Japanese shrub, which he called bracteata, andsaid that the name media was erroneously appliedto it. It was again the subject of a note on July 6,1895, p. 22
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