The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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he fact thatGerard published a figure of it in 1597. Thisfigure is not from the same block as that ofClusius and Lobelius ; yet it is evidently aclose copy. Respecting the present rarity ofL. peregrinum in gardens, Count Solms statesthat the well-known Lily-grower, Mr. MaxLeichtlin informed him that he had neverseen it. But there is some mistake or lapse ofmemory here, because, says Mr. Hemsley,there is an excellont cultivated specimen inthe Kew herbarium received from Mr. MaxLeichtlin in June, 1875. With regard to its claims to specific rank,opinions have differed. Linnaaus, SpeciesPlantmum (1753), p. 302, makes it a variety ofL. candidum, floribus dependentibus ; whilstPhilip Miller, who knew it well in cultiva-tion, maintained that it was a distinct species.In the first edition of his Gardeners Dictionary(1731), he says : It is now become almost as : r— * Eine fast verschollene weiase Lilie. Botairsthe Zvit-ng,1897, pp. 03-70. Supplement to the Gardeners Chronicle, May 15, 1897.
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Mat 15, 1897.) THE GARDENER FT CHRONICLE. 321 plenty as the common White Lily in manygardens. In the eighth edition (1768), wherehe first adopts the bi-nominal nomenclature, hestates that it is undoubtedly a distinctspecies, differing from L. candidum inits slenderer stem, fewer narrower Leaves,somewhat smaller, drooping flowers, haying thepetals more contracted at the base. Manyauthors, including Elwes and Baker in thiscountry, follow Linnjeus ; but, whatever rankit should take, there is no difficulty in dis-tinguishing it. Perhaps some readers of theGardeners Chronicle may be able to give itsrecent history in this country. It may be added, that the native country ofthe common white Lily was not known tillcomparatively recently, the Greek localitiescited by Boissier. being all cultivated spots. Onthe mountains of Lebanon, however, it occursin a truly wild state. Cypripedium bellatulum.—This, tbe mostornate of the section commencing with C. niveum,and continuing through C. Godefroyr

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