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JOURNAL OF HOBTIODLTUHB AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



95 



S£3^.'- 



ORCHIDS IN TUBS. 



HEN at Leeds tlie other day I was very 

 much surprised to see ii number of Orchids 

 luxuriating in tubs. Tliey were firown by 

 j\lr. L. Temple, gardener to W. G. .Joy, Esq., 

 (if Hcadingley, in a vinery, and certainly 

 no one ever saw such plants before. On a 

 plant of the pretty Liclia anceps, :! feet in 

 diameter, I counted fourteen spikes of 

 bloom, and on these forty- three fully- de- 

 veloped flowers. This being one of the best varieties, was 

 exceedingly beautiful, and worth going a long journey to 

 see. Mr. Temple seems to have a very happy method of 

 treating this beautiful plant, for it was growing and flower- 

 ing quite as freely as a Pelargonium or any other soft- 

 wooded plant. 



The following were also equally well grown — viz., 

 Cattleya crispa superba, 4 feet in diameter, and which 

 produced fifty blooms last year ; C. Harrisoniaa violacea, 

 ■"! feet across, and which produced sixty flowers ; C. crispa, 

 y feet across, thirty flowers ; Odontoglossura grande, 2 feet 

 across, forty-one blooms, probably the finest plant in tliis 

 country ; Dendrnbium nobile, 4 feet in diameter, four hun- 

 dred blooms ; Miltonia Clowesii, S feet across, one hundred 

 blooms ; M. spectabilis. -'i feet in diameter, forty-nine 

 blooms ; Oncidium flexuosum, 4 feet across, forty spikes ; 

 Phajus grandifolius, 4 feet through, tliirtj' spikes : Oypri- 

 pedium insignc. :? feet in diameter, forty blooms. The 

 above were all in tubs 1 foot deep and 2 feet (i inches in 

 diameter. 



Besides the foregoing, I noticed in pots equally luxui'iant 

 specimens of Dendrobium densiflorum with fourteen spikes, 

 and Oncidium divaricatum, with a spike 4 feet long, and 

 the plant 2 feet through at the base. This was the size 

 when the plant was exhibited at the Leeds Show last year, 

 and it was undoubtedly the finest example ever seen of 

 this pretty species. 



The Orchids are treated just the same as the Vines. 

 When the Vines are at rest, the Orchids are also allowed 

 their season of rest, and when the Vines are started in the 

 spring, the Orchids commence their season of growth. 

 This system appears veiy simple, but it is, nevertheless, 

 the right plan to adopt, and has enabled Mr. Temple to 

 mature some of the finest Orchids ever seen, and to show 

 the gardening world that they may be grown as easily as 

 a softwooded plant, and at even a smaller cost ; for the 

 latter would require more attention during the winter than 

 the Orchids. This, therefore, should encourage many who 

 have been hitherto deterred from growing these beautiful 

 plants in consequence of supposing the expense of fuel and 

 labour to be too great ; and when it is known that the mode 

 of cultivation described is applicable to the lovely forms of 

 Odontoglossum, such as O. Alexandras the blooms of which 

 wiU remain in perfection for three months, retaining for 

 the greater part of that time their delightful fragrance, a 

 commencement should at once be made. With treatment 

 such as Mr. Temple gives them, and with an equal amount 

 of care, they may soon be made large plants. The follow- 

 No. 411.— Vol. XVI., New Sbrjeb. 



ing is a list of Orchids that would do well under similar 

 treatment : — 



Odontoglossum Alcxandrie 

 Bluntii 



citrosmum 



cordatum 



cristatura 



Dawsonii 



gloriosum 



Lindleyanum 



Pcscatorei 



Pescatorei splendens 



nsevium 



nebulosum 



phahtnopsis 



pulchelluin 



pulchellum grandiflortun 



racliatum 



Wameri 



Uro-Skinneri 

 Oncidium crispum 



bifolium majus 



incurvum 



leucochUum 



ornithorhynchum 



serratum 

 Pleione bumile 



lagenaria 



maculata 



Wallichiana 

 Tricliopilia tortUis 

 Maxillaria vcnusta 



aromatica 



Harvisonii 

 Masdevallia coccinea 

 Lycaste aromatica 



cruenta 



Skinneri, many varieties 

 Lselia albida 



acuminata 



autiimnalis 



Laelia majalis 



superbieny 

 Epidendrum amabile 



aromaticum 



macrochilum 



macrocbilum rnseum 



vitellinum 



vitellinum majus 

 Disa grandiflora 

 Cypripedium insigne 



Maulei 



Schlimii 



venustum 

 Dendrobium ehrysanthuja 



Egertonii 



Hillii 



speciosum 

 Anguloa Clowesii 



Kuckeri 



uniflora 



uniflora superba 

 Arpophyllum giganteuin 

 Barkeria spectabilis 



elegans 



Lindleyana 



Skinneri 

 Cattleya citrina, and those 



previously named 

 Cffilogyne cristata 



cristata major 



speciosa 

 Cymbidium ebumeTim 



giganteum 



Hookerianum 



Mastersii 

 Brassia verrucosa 

 Brassavola glauca 

 Zygopetalum Mackayi 



maxillare 



To the preceding list many other species might be 

 added.— J. Wills, F.R.H.S. 



PEACH CULTrV'ATION.— No. 7. 



Protection. — The blossom, young fruit, and foliage of 

 the Peach and Nectarine are Liable to be injund by frost. 

 Nothing answers so well for protection as coping boards. 

 A wall having copings that project 11 or 13 inches will be 

 considerably warmer than one having only an ordinary stone 

 coping, for the heat accumulated in the wall during the day 

 will in the latter case be abstracted by cold air coming in 

 contact with the surface of the wall, and that cold air 

 becoming heated, wiU ascend, and its heat will be lost to 

 the trees ; wide projecting copings, on the contrary, obstruct 

 the ascent of the warm air, which consequently accumulates 

 at the wall, and the latter is not so soon cooled. The 

 copings wUl need to be supported by iron brackets, which 



Mo. 1063.- Vol. XLI., Olb Sebies. 



