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mark if tlie growers could sell all at the first railway station, but the produce has 

 to be conveyed to London, a distance of sixteen or seventeen miles,-and sold whole- 

 sale ; yet strawberry-growing pays. In the first place cultivators pay the gatherers 

 255. per week, and a great boon to the working man these strawberry -grounds are. 

 An owner of fifty acres perhaps employs from twenty-five to thirty persons, chiefly 

 men, for two or three months, while a farmer with an equal amount of land would 

 employ no more than two or three, paying tl)em about 16*. per week. Strawberry- 

 growers no doubt find themselves pretty well repaid, for it was hinted to me that 

 the owner of about fifty acres hud cleared £1500 last year. 



Some might surmise that the past week being so showry would be detrimental 

 to the'strawberry-grower, but it is quite the reverse. The rain has caused the fruit to 

 swell to a great size ; the flavour, however, is deteriorated, but as they are sold by 

 measure, size is to the grower's advantage. All the fruit stands out from the leaves, 

 and it is gathered at all times, unless it is really too wet for the men to stand out ; 

 if left a week uugathered only a few would decay. If an order is given for a large 

 quantity for preserving, of course in that case the weather is studied a little. 



I find that some of the growers have planted filberts amongst the strawberries. 

 These stand about ten feet apart. They are probably actual owners of land that do 

 this, or otherwise hold it on lease. This again will prove very profitable, and when 

 the ground has got tired of its burden of strawberries, the filberts will be in good 

 bearing order to take their place. Fine orchards might be formed in this way, but 

 as in most cases the land is liable at any time to be taken from the tenant, he would 

 not, as a rule, incur that expe^ise. — W. P. R. in Gardener'' s Chronicle. 



NEW PLANTS. 



"ULOPHIA VIRENS, Greenish Eulophia{Bot. Mag.,i. 5546).— Orchidese. 

 A comparatively unattractive, though interesting orchid, introduced by 

 Mr. Thwaites, from Ceylon. The pseudo- bulbs are roundish, bearing 

 several grassy leaves ; sepals and petals nearly equal, yellowish-green ; 

 lip longer than the petals, white, with purple streaks. 

 SciLLA CooPERi, Cooler's Squill {Bot. Mag., t. 5580). — Liliacece. This is a 

 most valuable addition to the long list of beautiful and mucdi-prized bulbous-rooted 

 flowerino- plants for which we are indebted to the Cape of Good Hope. The bulb is 

 roundish, and the outer scales are of a purple colour. The leaves are grass-like and 

 elegant, of a bright light green, with brown spots near the base. The spike is 

 many-flowered, the flowers small, crowded, the colour lively rose purple. 



Warscewizella velata, Yelled Warscewizella {Bot. 3Iag., t. 5582). — Orchidese. 

 A beautiful orchid, introduced from New Granada by Messrs. Low and Co., through 

 their collector, Mr. H. Blunt. Its exact position is matter of doubt, and it may some 

 day be classed with Huntley a. It grows a foot high, has no pseudo-bulbs ; leaves 

 in tufts of five, penduncles one-flowered, sepals and petals an inch long, yellowish- 

 white ; lip very large, same hue as the petals, but with a purple margin and deep 

 purple streaks on the disk. The plant is unquestionably well worthy of cultiva- 

 tion, than which nothing can be more simple ; a moderately warm house and pro- 

 tection from the sun's rays being all that is required. 



Begonia geranioides, Geranium-leaved Begonia (Bot. Mag., t. 5583). — 

 A small and pretty species, with reniform leaves and elegant nodding white flowers. 

 A very pretty greenhouse plant. 



Poltstachya pube.scens, Hairy-stemmed Polystachya {Bot. Mag., t. 5586). — 

 Orcbideas. A pretty orchid, of diminutive growth, believed by Mr. Bateman to be 

 the Eijiphora jiulescens described by Lindley twenty-five years ago. It is widely 

 distributed in South Africa. The whole plant is less than afoot high, pseudo-bulbs 

 distaff-shaped, clothed with sheathing bracts, and bearing two or three oblong 

 lanceolate leaves. Flower spike hairy, ertct, and many-flowered; flowers closely 

 massed together, of a bright golden colour. 



ANGRiECUM Chailluanum, M. du Chailhi's Angrcecum {Bot. Mag., t. 5589). — 

 Orchidese. A very distinct species, sent from the Gaboon by M. du Chaillu ; also 

 sent from the Nun River, on the same coast, by M. Gustav Mann, collector for the 



