The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . k looks at its best. Home Correspondence. THE WHITE-FLOWERED CENTAUREA NIGRA.—On August 29 there was a statement in these pagesthat this plant had been found growing in a fieldnear Stroud, and no one else is reported to have metwith it. I may mention that the plant is to be metwith in the neighbourhood of Bervie, on the Kin-cardineshire coast, and I saw it last year for the firsttime in a collection of wild flowers at the flowershow at that place, and on remarking to the Brown, parish minister
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . k looks at its best. Home Correspondence. THE WHITE-FLOWERED CENTAUREA NIGRA.—On August 29 there was a statement in these pagesthat this plant had been found growing in a fieldnear Stroud, and no one else is reported to have metwith it. I may mention that the plant is to be metwith in the neighbourhood of Bervie, on the Kin-cardineshire coast, and I saw it last year for the firsttime in a collection of wild flowers at the flowershow at that place, and on remarking to the Brown, parish minister of Bervie, that I hadnever met with it before, he assured me that it wasnot uncommon in that neighbourhood, nor werewhite-flowered plants of Campanula white Campanula I have often found wild, buthave not yet found time to explore the Berviedistrict. I observed lrom the railway carriagewindow the Lithospermum maritimum growingprofusely on the sea beach there (why, Mr. Editor,has such an appropriate name been dropped, for firstSteenhamera, and now for Mertensia?). White-. FlG. 49. —SCENE IN AN INDIAN UAEDEN. it will thrive in or near towns better than mostConifers. Mr. Woodgate, of the Gardens, Perry-field, Oxted, obligingly sends us a photograph,executed by Miss McNiven, of a specimen of regu-larly pyramidal habit, 20 feet 6 inches in height, and41 feet in circumference at the base. AN INDIAN GARDEN. Ooa engraving (fig. 49), shows a view in a gardenof one of the great native princeB of India— theGaekwar of Baroda. Were it not for the pagoda-like structure in the distance, and the canopiedbridge, one might fancy the view to be taken from anEnglish garden, but the absence of the characteristicluxuriant growth of a tropical garden, the Palms,Cycads, Bamboos, and other noble foliage plants isdue to the fact that the garden is only of quite recentformation, it being one of the gardens that theGaekwar engaged Mr. Goldring of Kew, to lay out, about Baroda, w
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