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oessful propagator. Here before us is an old 

 treatise on layering carnations, and cuts some- 

 thing like these, showing how things sliould and 

 should not he done abound. And then most of 

 us older ones can tell of the days and days spent 

 in bending over carnations as well as other 

 things, slitting and rutching and pegging down 

 carefully every little bit of wood that could be 

 held between the finger and thumb. Xow it is 



so different. The carnation shoots, as well as 

 the shoots of any other thing, are taken off in 

 immense quantities, stuck in by the small boy 

 in sand boxes, and these put in anywhere where 

 it is a little warm, a little shady, regularly moist, 

 without continued watei'ing — and this is the 

 whole art and mystery of the thing. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Orchid Culture. — Mrs. R. P. writes: "Permit 

 me through your columns to return thanks to 

 Walter Gray, of Philadelphia, for replies to in- 

 quiries as to orchid culture, &c., also for article 

 on same subject by Chas. H. Snow, of Baltimore. 

 In reply to the former would say that I had 

 learned of the error in name of Cattleya citrina. 



It came to me from the Patterson and Green- 

 brook greenhouses, labelled " Odontoglossum 

 citrina," and I took it for granted that it must be 

 so. I have since learned from Mr. Reynolds, of 

 Brambleton, Norfolk, and also from " Williams' 

 Orchid Grower's Manual," bought of you, of the 

 mistake. I do not find that the plant labeled 

 Dendrobium nobile, received from the same 

 source, answers to Mr. Williams' description at 

 all. Mine bloomed in February last; flowers 

 were a deep pansy purple and pure white, beau- 

 tifully marked, but smaller than I should expect 

 from Mr. Williams' description. I have had no 

 success with Cypripediura barbatum, but C. 

 villosum was lovely, and the bloom was perfect — 

 twelve weeks. I received also from Xew Jersey 

 a plant with large fleshy leaves, bearing label 

 Bryophyllum cal^'cinum. I have sought a de- 

 scription of same from various quarters without 

 success. Can you or any of your readers tell 

 me of its nature and culture? Have owned it 

 over a year, but see no signs of bloom, although 

 it grows and seems healthy. I am pleased to see 

 articles in your columns on orchid culture. I 

 wish much to get together a sufficient variety to 

 keep my little conservatory (6x12) bright with 

 their bloom the year round, and will then discard 

 therefrom all geraniums, but have not, as yet, 

 been eminently successful. Can any of your 

 readers tell me of a fine free flowering (white) 

 climber, that will bloom in winter in conserva- 

 tory which is heated from living room, without 

 bottom heat? 



I hope I have not tired your patience with the 

 multiplicity of my queries." 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



The Grape-vine at this season will require at- 

 tention, to see that the leaves are all retained 

 healthy till thoroughly ripened. It is not a sign 

 of healthiness for a vine to grow late ; on the 

 contrary, such late growth generally gets killed 

 in the winter — but the leaves should all stay on 

 to insure the greatest health of the vine, until 

 the frost comes, when they should all be so ma- 



[ ture as to fall together. The leaves of Grape- 

 I vines are very much subject to the attacks of the 

 leaf-hopper which destroys them before their 

 time. In large vineyards there is no help for it ; 

 but amateurs with a few vines can remedy this 

 by syringing. A garden engine of some power 

 ought to be in every well ordered garden. Grapes 

 sometimes suffer when maturing from mauraud- 

 ing bees. Where these are very bad the only 

 way is to put the best fruit in bags. There is 



