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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 



I December 25, 1873. 



follow, employers shonld not blame their gardeners unless it be 

 where they have the means of firing the trees in autumn and 

 have neglected to do so. Peach-cases should all be heated, to 

 enable gardeners to cope with the effects ut a dull season in the 

 case of the Peach crop, as well as render such structures avail- 

 able for wintering hall-hardy plants, in many cases where such 

 accommodation is of the worst description.— (T/tc Gardener.) 



THE KOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S 

 EXHIBITION AT BATH, 1873. 

 Statement of lieceipts and Expenditure. 



Dr. £ s. 



To Sale of tickets 1368 16 



Cash taken at gates 2108 



Special prize fund 1101 



d. 

 



7 6 



Veitch Memorial prizes 

 Royalties for printing, supply of re- 

 freshments, &c 



Space for implement department . . 



Advertisements 



Special donations 



Sale of pii^e and sundry receipts . . 

 Interest allowed by bank 



30 



118 

 293 



22 13 6 



17 12 



16 9 3 



29 18 6 



5106 5 5 



£5106 5 5 

 To balance brought down £1248 17 3 



Cr. 

 By Laying out and restoring exhibition 

 gi'ouud 



Fencing ground and erecting glass 

 pavilion 



Kent of ground 



Prizes and medals 



Judges' fees 



Hire of tents 



Police 



Printing and stationary 



Advertising 



Bill posting 



Bands 



Secretary's remuneration and agents' 

 commission on sale of tickets . . 



Travelling expenses, board, lodging, 

 ■wages, &c. ; the London Council 

 and Society's staff, itc 



Judges' and exhibitors' luncheon 

 and breakfasts ; refreshments for 

 police, Sec 



Carriage of tents, parcels, &c 



Postages and telegrams 



Microscopical soiree 



Painting 



Law costs and auditor's fee 



Hu'e of chairs, photograph of 

 ground, Abbey bell-ringers, and 



incidental expenses 



Balance carried down .... 



£1248 17 3 

 £ s. d 



■£5106 5 



Royal Horticultural Society, one moiety 624 8 8 



Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Gar- 

 dens, Bath 20 



Royal Victoria Park, Bath 302 4 4 



Hanoverian Band and Floral Fete Committee . . 302 4 3 



£1248 17 3 



GRAPES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



[Mb. R. Fenn has sent us the foUowing, received by him 

 from South Australia.] 



I HAVE just been reading your article on British wines, but 

 I felt more particularly interested and somewhat amused at 

 your account of drape wines made by you. I have had my 

 pleasant home in this good land over twenty years, and know- 

 ing how luxuriantly the Vine flourishes and ripens its fruit 

 here, I felt surprised to read your statement — that it is the 

 practice in many foreign vintage districts to add sugar and 

 ■water to the Grapes to make wine. I can assure you that in 

 our vineyards such deceit is never practised, and the wines 

 made here and exported to London are purely and simply the 

 juice of the Grape, and most of our wines, without any forti- 

 fying with spirit, contain from 24 to 30 per cent, of pure spirit. 



You will believe my statement about the purity of our wines 

 when I tell you that in the fruit shops in Adelaide (our capital) 

 you can buy glorious Grapes of all kinds, of such a luscious 

 ripeness that you never yet tasted in England, at Id. and 

 2d. per pound, while if you live in a village like Norwood your 

 friends give you as many Grapes as you like to have for 

 fetching. From the middle of January to the middle of May, 

 notably in February, March, and April, the great abundance 

 of all kinds of the most beautiful Grapes would astonish yon, 

 and in the public market you can buy them at £4 to £6 per 

 ton weight, and the wine-makers buy as low as £2 10s. to 

 £4 per ton, so that there is no fear of our wines being 

 adulterated. We have all other fruits in equal profusion — 

 Peaches, Figs, Pomegranates, Pears, Apricots, Loquats, and in 

 the winter Oranges, and our gardens are filled with flowers in 

 the open air all the year round, such as many of those men- 

 tioned in the February Journal of Hokticultuee as requir- 

 ing in England great care and trouble to bring to perfection. 

 This is indeed a glorious land of beauty and of plenty. The 

 warmth of our summers you like after the first year or two, 

 ■while the lovely scenery around Adelaide would charm you. 



I suppose in no country in the world are gardens and flowers 

 so generally cultivated as here, and it would be worth a journey 

 to Adelaide to be able to look at the lovely flowers exhibited 

 at our October Show, and the glorious fruits in the February 

 or March Show. — E. Edwaehs, Nonfood, South Atistralia, 

 June 1-itli. 



A CENTURY OP ORCHIDS FOR AMATEUR 

 GROWERS.— No. 10. 



CTPEIPEDIUU. 



The Lady's Slipper family. The very name of this genus 

 should be suflicient to render it a great favourite ■with all 

 amateur growers of the masculine gender, quite independent 

 of the beautiful colours and markings. There are now a 

 great many species of Cypripediums in cultivation, a few only 

 of which can, however, be introduced into these pages, be- 

 cause one of my chief objects is to select those plants which 

 afford the greatest variety in a given quantity, and therefore 

 any of my readers who may feel disposed to commence the 

 cultivation of this order with, say a hundred plants, certainly 

 would not approve of one-fourth being members of this genns. 

 This, then, must be my excuse for omitting many very beau- 

 tiful species, not only of Cypripediums but of many other 

 genera. With the permission of the Editors I hope, however, 

 at some future time to say something upon those species and 

 varieties which have been left out of this enumeration. 



Cypripediums are easily distinguished by their peculiar 

 Ijouehed or calceolate labellum. There are some American 

 species which have been separated, and a new name coined for 

 them — viz., Selenipedinm. These are distinguished by having 

 a three-celled ovary ; but the whole family is such a natural 

 one in all outward appearance, that it seems to me unneces- 

 sary to separate them in this place. 



"The Cypripediums are plants of easy cultivation, they flower 

 very freely, and last a very long time in flower ; even as cut 

 blooms, if a Uttle attention is bestowed upon them, they will 

 last three or four ■weeks. The compost should consist of good 

 peat, chopped sphagnum moss, and sharp silver sand, in about 

 equal parts. The drainage must be good, and a liberal supply 

 of water is necessary both in summer and ■winter, because 

 these plants have no pseudobulbs, or any thick or fleshy leaves 

 to support them through a period of drought, neither should 

 they be raised above the rim of the pot like other Orchids. 



C. CAtiDATUM. — This very handsome species produces bright 

 green, carinate, distichous leaves. The scape is produced 

 from the centre, is erect, from 12 to 18 inches in height, 

 usually bearing three of its extraordinary and attractive 

 flowers. The sepals and petals are tawny yellow, suffused 

 with bro^wn. The petals produce the most wonderful appear- 

 ance, as they continue to grow for several days after the bloom 

 is expanded, until they reach a length of upwards of 2 feet. 

 The pouched hp varies much in colour in the different varie- 

 ties ; the finest forms have the upper portion deep rose, suf- 

 fused with yellowish brown. It blooms from April to June, 

 and lasts several weeks if the flowers are kept dry. Native of 

 Quito. 



C. BAEBATUM GRANDiFLOKUM. — There are numerous forms of 

 C. barbatum : that which I have selected will, undoubtedly, 

 please all who grow it. The leaves are broad and obtuse, 

 arranged in two ranks, and producing a terminal scape, which 



