February 



IRISH GARDENING 



25 



Cffilogyne Mooreana. 



THIS new coelogryne is one of the most 

 beautiful of recently introduced orchids. 

 The flowers are such a pure and chaste 

 white, opening during December and January, 

 that in the future, when more plentiful, it will 

 be an acquisition to many a collection. 



While collecting for Messrs. Sanders and 

 Sons of St. .Albans, 

 Mr. Micholitz dis- 

 covered this new 

 species on the Lang 

 Bian Range, in An- 

 nam, at about 4,300 

 feet elevation. 



It first flowered 

 with Messrs. San- 

 ders and Sons in 

 December, 1 906. 

 and received a first 

 class certificate on 

 December iith at 

 the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society meet- 

 ing, and was named 

 after Mr. F. W. 

 Moore. At Glas- 

 nevin it flowered in 

 December, 1907, 

 and also this year, 

 the flower being 

 sent away to be 

 figured for the 

 Botanical Maga- 

 zine. 



The flowers are 

 remarkably like the 

 well-known Ccelo- P:<''tohy 



gvtte cristafa, with 

 the numerous yellow, hair-like appendages on 

 the disc of the lip. The similarity, however, is 

 only seen in the flowers. The leaves are from 8 

 to 16 inches long and ij^ inches broad, and 

 more upright than C. cristata, while the scape 

 is stiffer and more erect, being about 8 to 12 

 inches long. C. F. B.\ll. 



Professor Farmer, F.R.S., who succeeded the late 

 Dr. Masters in the editorship of the Gardeners' Chrotiicle, 

 has, owing to other professional duties, retired 

 from the " chair." According to the present arrange 

 ment, Dr. Frederick Keeble, M.A. , of University College, 

 Reading, has accepted the post of scientific editor, 



The New CtELOCvNE— C. Mooreana 



while Mr. R. Hooper Pearson, late chief sub-editor, 

 h,HS been appointed managing editor of the paper. 



.As demonstrating the efficiency of grease-banding, 

 samples of bands taken from fruit trees have been 

 sent to recent meetings of the Scientific Committee 

 of the R. H. S. of England, showing large num- 

 bers of entrapped insects. One band from an apple- 

 tree had caught nearly 400 male and female winter 

 moths, and many bands had each upwards of 200 cap- 

 lures upon them. The larger proportion of females 

 were caught from 

 the middle to end of 

 November, males 

 being more abundaftt 

 earlier. 



Growers of black 

 currants should care- 

 fully look over their 

 plantations in order 

 to make sure that 

 every single bush is 

 quite free from **big 

 bud." As all fruit 

 growers know these 

 swollen buds are due 

 to the presence of a 

 mite, and that it 

 allowed to remain on 

 the bushes the shoots 

 arising from them will 

 fail to develop pro- 

 perly, and eventually 

 shrivel and die. Fur- 

 ther, that the pest 

 spreads very rapidly 

 to other and healthy 

 bushes, and that there 

 is no known remedy. 

 Every twig showing 

 big buds should, 

 therefore, be cut off 

 and burned at once. 

 If the bush is badly 

 affected it should be 

 destroyed root and 

 branch. The big 

 buds contain mites 

 and eggs during January and February. During March 

 the mites become active, migrate from the.r wuUer 

 quarters, and begin busily to lay eggs in fresh buds. 

 Remember this fact, and act upon it, else there w.ll be 

 trouble coming along later. 



The recently established Kingstown Gardeners' 

 Society seems to have all the vigour of youth and all 

 the energy that springs from real enthusiasm m a cause. 

 Its object is stated to be " to promote by means of 

 lectures, reading of papers, discussions and outings, the 

 study and advancement of horticulture, whether adopted 

 as a profession or a hobby." We notice that Mr. F. W. 

 Moore is to lecture before the society on the 3rd mst. 

 on Water in Gardening. Next month we propose giving 

 an illustrated article on Rock Gardens, by Mr. George 

 S. Satterley. 



[C. F. Path 



