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a trough of it. As soon as the peas are up, 

 sprinkle them plentifully with soot or 

 wood-ashes : stick directly, and then every 

 evening in dry weather, you can fill the 

 alley with water, alternating twice a-week 

 with manure-water, and the crop will 

 come wonderfully fine. This plan is the 

 one we always adopt after the beginning of 

 June, and we have for years had healthy 

 rows of peas, and abundance of produce, 

 when, elsewhere, the heat has turned them 

 yellow b-fore their time, and the gathering 

 has scarcely paid for the seed. The method 

 is not so troublesome as it appears, for the 

 filling the trench with water is hut a few 

 minutes' work, and being sunk and closed 

 at the ends, there is not a drop wasted. 



Orchid House. — Orchids that have 

 finished their growth should now have such 

 attention as is required to get the pseudo 

 bulbs well ripened. Many of the large 

 specimens will be found to require a spong- 

 ing all over, and this had best be done at 

 the first opportunity, and in the present 

 lull of work there is a fair chance of its 

 being done eflectually. More air should 

 be given now among orchids, and to allow 

 of a freer ventilation, put all the small and 

 growing plants at one end of the house, 

 where they can be kept close. Stanhopeas 

 are about to commence their seasonal 

 growth, which is a good time to repot 

 them. As a rule, they do best in 

 baskets, both because of their habit of 

 growth and the downward direction of their 

 flowers. They should have plenty of root- 

 room, in shallow baskets filled with chop- 

 ped moss, and after the shift to have very 

 little water at the root till they grow 

 freely, but liberal heat and atmospheric 

 moisture. As soon as they begin to grow, 

 water at the root freely, and keep them 

 growing briskly till they have formed their 

 pseudo bulbs, and then keep nearly dry till 

 they show flower. A prolonged rest is 

 most essential to their welfare. To get up 

 good specimens, put them in large baskets, 

 in which they ma}- continue several years 

 without shifting. There need be no fire- 

 heat in either liouse this month, unless we 

 have a long period of dull, cold weather, in 

 which case keep up the temperature by ar- 

 tificial means ; but, as a rule, a judicious 



system of ventilating and shutting up will 

 insure a proper temperature for Indians 

 and Mexicans alike, and better than by the 

 aid of fire-heat. Temperature of East India 

 House, and for growing plants, 70" to 7-3' 

 by night, 75' to 85' by day, with a rise to 

 90' with sun-heat. Mexican House, 65° to 

 70' by night, 70' to 85' by day. 



Orchids that may he in bloom in July. 

 Aerides affine, odoratum, rdseum, crispum, 

 crispum v. Lindleyanum, crispum v. palli- 

 dum, crispum v. Warneri, Fieldingi, macu- 

 losum, muculosum v. Schroderi, McMor- 

 landi, nobile, odoratum, v. cornutum, quin- 

 quivnlnerum, quinquivulnerum v. album, 

 suavissimum, Veitchii ; Acineta Barkerii ; 

 Angrecum caudatum ; Anguloa Clowesii, 

 Clowesii macrantha, uniflora, virginalis ; 

 Arpophyllum carilinale ; Barkeria melano- 

 caulon, spectabilis ; Bolbophyllum Hen- 

 shalli; Brassia Lanceana, Lawrenceana, 

 Wrayii, Broughtonia sanguinea ; Calanthc 

 Dominii, fiircata, masuca, veratrifolia ; 

 Cattleya Aclandia;, amabilis, Candida, ci- 

 trina, crispa, orispav. superba, Uarrisoniae, 

 Harrisonite violacea, labiata picta, Lemo- 

 niana, Mossite, McMorlandii, Schilleriana, 

 superba, violacea, Wagnerii ; Ccelogyne 

 Lowii ; Coryanthes macrantha, macrantha 

 maculata ; Cycnoches barbatura, chloro- 

 chilum, Loddigesii, ventricosum ; Cymbi- 

 dium pendulum ; CypripeJium barbatum 

 grandiflorum, Lowii ; Dcndrobium alba 

 sanguineum, calceolaria, cretaceum, san- 

 guinolentum ; Dendrocliilum filiforme, 

 glumaceum, Epidendriim alatum majus, 

 cinnabarinum, maculatum grandiflorum, 

 Phoeniceum, verrucosum, vitellinum ma- 

 jus ; Galeandra Bauerii, cristata, Hunt- 

 leya, meleagris; Ltelia Brysiana, elegans v. 

 Warneri, llava, purpurata ; Miltonia specta- 

 bilis ; Mormodes citrinum, luxatum ; 

 Odontoglossum citrosmiim, hastilabium, 

 nrevium ; Oncidium divaricatum, longipes, 

 luridum guttatum, pulchellura, pulvina- 

 tum; Peristeria data, cerina ; Phajus albus ; 

 PromenosaEoUisonii, stapelioides; Sacco- 

 labium Blumei, furcatum, guttatum, gutta- 

 tum giganteum; Sobralia liliastrum, ma- 

 crantha, macrantha splendens ; Stanhopea 

 aurea, Devon iensis, oculata, tigrlna, tigrina 

 lutescens ; Vanda Batemanni, cristata, 

 Roxburghii, teres ; Warrrea tricolor. 



USEFUL NOVELTIES. • 



Sabmienta eepens. — A dwarf | and numerous drooping tubular axil- 

 trailing Chilian herb, su.itable for [ lary flowers, of a light scarlet, remind- 

 growing in baskets. It has fleshy ing one of those of Mitraria coccinea. 



oblong convex leaves, about an inch 

 long, and toothed towards the ajiex, 



SwAiNSONiA VIOLACEA (Lindley), 

 Fabacese. — A handsome half-climbing 



