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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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freely as might be desired.Lastly there is what is of course indispen-sable in such a book—a copious index. Since the appearance of Darwins woik,covering somewhat similar ground, therehas been no book of such interest to thoseinterested in the biological side of horticul ■ture as this, nor one so full of promise in allmatters relating to the maintenance of thepurity of old breeds or the production ofnew strains. ODONTOGLOSSUM CEISPUMSOLUM (SYN. CALLISTOGLOSSUM,Crawshay). This remarkable form, the property of W.Thompson, Esq., of Walton Grange, Stone, Staffs,was originally named solum by him, andunder that name was noted in your issue of March 25,1905, on p. 181 by Mr. OBrien. Thoughthe word solum would mark the variety asunique, it occurred to me that callistoglossom would better describe it, and when at Stone odApril H last Mr. Thompson acceded to myrequest to be allowed to rename it, which Jnow do. The extraordinarily deep, solidlycoloured lip of intense claret-purple-brown, and
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tt^ARpCHKOf^ --J Fig. 134.—ODOXT03L0SSU.M CRisruJi solu-u (syx. callistoglossum, Craunhaii), IJAY 27, 190,-).) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 323 the column, the whole of which, down to thevery base, are the distinguishing features of thisremarkable form. There is one more similarcoloured spot in a sepal of the second bloom (orleft side), otherwise it is unspotted. Mr. W.Sterenss photograph reproduces it perfectly. DeB. Crawshay. (The plant having been exhibited and recordedunder one name, that name must be retained;fcut if individuals elect to employ another name,it must be as a synonym only, which others arenot bound to accept. If the abbreviation var. isused, the termination must be feminine— a ;if the abbreviation is not used, the neuter um is more appropriate. This seems pedantic, butit is well to have rules and to stick to them. Ed) ABELIA UNIFLORA. The genus Abelia consists of half-a-dozenspecies, natives of the Western Himalayas, China,Japan, and Mexico. They are all showy, deco

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