THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 21* 



Muscat Troveren, a very prolific grape of fine quality, and well adapted for forcing ; 

 second, Mr. Fowler, with Chasselas Muaque. White grapes not having Muscat 

 flavour : first, Mr. Osborn, with Buckland Sweetwater, of a beautiful amber colour ; 

 second, Mr. Fowler, with Golden Hamburgh. Single bunch of black : first, Mr. 

 AUport, with a splendid bunch of Black Hamburgh. Single bunch of white : first, 

 Mr. Turner, with Muscat of Alexandria ; second, Mr. Osborn, with Buckland Sweet- 

 water. In this class, Chasselas Musque, Golden Hamburgh, Foster's Seedlhig, and 

 Muscat Troveren were shown. Four vines in pots : first, Messrs. H. Lane and Son, 

 with superb examples of Alicante, Buckland Sweetwater, Foster's Seedling, and 

 Frankenthal. Two vines in pots : first, Mr. Record, gardener to Colonel Lloyd, 

 with Buckland Sweetwater and Royal Muscadine, tlie plants only a year old, trained 

 to iron rods, from which the bunches hung. This is a neat way of training pot 

 vines, especially if there are long and strong canes to deal with. 



BOTANICAL CONGRESS. 



This was held in the first instance in the Raphael Room of the South Kensington 

 Museum, and afterwards in the Sheepshanks Galler3\ M. de Candolle, of Geneva, 

 presided. Papers were read by the following gentlemen : — Mr. James Anderson, 

 of Glasgow ; M. Baumann, Ghent ; M. Bommer, Gherit ; M. Bossin, Paris ; Mr. 

 W. Bull, London ; Mr. E. Carroll, Dublin ; Professor Caspary, Eonigsberg ; Major 

 Trevor Clarke, Daventry; Mr. B. Clai-ke, London; Mr. \V. Earley, Digswell ; 

 Professor Go^ppert, Breslau ; Dr. Hidelbrand, Bonn ; Mr. Shirley Hibberd, London ; 

 Mr. J. E. Howard, London ; Mr. Hewlett, Wliitwell ; M. Van Hulle, Client ; 

 Professor Karl Koch, Berlin ; Professor Kickx, Ghent ; M. Krelage, Haarlem ; M. 

 Lahaye, Paris ; Professor Lecoq, Clermont-Ferrand; M. Mas, Bourg ; Dr. blasters, 

 London ; Dr. D. Moore, Dublin ; j\Ir. A. G. More, Dublin ; Professor Morreu, 

 Liege ; Dr. P. Mueller, Melbourne ; Professor Parlatore, Florence ; M. Pynaert, 

 Ghent; Professor Reichenbacli, Hamburg; Mr. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth ; Dr. 

 Schulz Schulzenstein, Berlin ; Dr. Schulz Bipontinus, Deiderheim ; Ph. F. Von 

 Siebold, Leyden ; Mr. W. G. Smith, London ; Sig. Triana, Paris ; Mr. Robert 

 Warner, Chelmsford ; Mr. Hermann Wendland, flerrenhausen ; Mr. Tuflfen West, 

 London ; Dr. Wight, Reading. 



The President's Address was devoted to the consideration, 1st, of the advan- 

 tages of Horticulture to Botany ; 2nd, of the advantages of Botany to Horticulture ; 

 and 3rd, the beneficial effects of the association of Botany with Horticulture. 



COOL VINERY ORCHIDS. 



(Written for the Botanical Congress by Robert Warner, Bloomfield.) 



^T is now about ten years since I bought several lots of imported Lycaste 

 Skinneri. They were placed in a cucumber house, that being the only 

 hothouse I then had. They began to push out young shoots ; and soon 

 after this an old orchid grower called, and when he had seen them he 

 remarked, "Ah! they look as though they meant growing well, but in 

 three years not a bit will be left ; no one can keep them long." 



I immediately concluded that if they did not live long in great heat, it could not 

 be right to continue the old plan. They were removed into a vinery where the 

 vines were young and thin, considerable quantities of water were given frequently 

 to their roots, and to the surprise of all they flourished remarkably well, and con- 

 tinued to increase and flower, until about two years since the late Dr. Liudley pro- 

 nounced his opinion that longer and broader leaves and finer flowers had never before 

 teen seen in England. 



In an evil hour for them they were divided, and not having so much attention 

 paid to them as formerly, irom my collection having become much more exten- 

 sive, they felt the efi'ect much, but are now recovering, and will soon be as strong 

 as ever. 



This was one of the first, if not the very first, successful experiment in growing 



