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JOURNAL OF HORTICDLTUBE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



143 



visit ; and viewing the sloping bank from a little lUstance, for 

 freeness of bloom and brightness of colour the Hues of John 

 Hopper and Senateur Vaisse stood out pre-eminently over all 

 the rest. Duke of Edinburgh, good in growth and colour, 

 comes so invariably one-sided and malformed, that I shall be 

 obliged to throw it out. How disappointing to the modest 

 grower armed with notes from our Journal, the opinions of 

 authorities, on visiting the nursery to find the growths of many 

 recommended of the weakest description ; and he may safely 

 calculate that, if these be the results obtained in nurseries in 

 the south of England, or even France, transplanted from their 

 sunny skies to his ungenial clime, how short, beyond aifording 

 him a bloom or two on the wood so ripened, must be their 

 existence. And experience will have taught him not to repeat 

 the experiment with Marquise de Mortemart, Madame Furtado, 

 Xavier Olibo, Louise Van Houtte, and many other.s. For white 

 and light colours Madame Vidot, Mrs. Elvers, Acidalie, and Vir- 

 ginal are useless ; while Gloire de Dijon, Souvenir de la Mal- 

 maison, Baronno de Maynard (smaDish, but pure white), Bouli 

 de Neige, Louise Darzens, Madame Bonnaire, are all useful 

 good ; but when is a white Charles Lefebvre to appear ? 



I was delighted to see good old Devoniensis at the head 

 the Teas. A plant on its own roots put out 

 eighteen years ago has stood without the slightest 

 protection, though cut to the ground with zero 

 frosts on more than one occasion, and blooms 

 on as beautifully as ever. Madame Falcot and 

 Homer are very free bloomers on the Manetti, 

 and both beautiful in the bud ; the former is, 

 however, a little tender. Three Eoses — CCUne 

 Forestier, Triomphe de Rennes, and Solfaterre — 

 of the Noisette class, always highly esteemed in the south, are 

 worthless with us, the first-named scarcely blooming ; whUe on 

 the Manetti that beautiful Tea, Sombreuil, is gorgeous, being by 

 far our best Ught autumnal bloomer. Of course they are all 

 grown as pole Eoses, but in a sheltered warm nook. Leopold 

 Premier is another good autumnal bloomer of the crimson 

 class, and succeeds in a shaded spot; and what finer for a pillar 

 Rose than the superb Charles Lawson ? And can I close with- 

 out a word of praise for the good old sporting General Jacque- 

 minot ? Of course, although rather loose in his habits for the 

 exhibition table, yet in certain stages and in some lights he 

 flaunts a shade of colour second to none, and is besides invalu- 

 able for the bouquet and for garden decoration. 



With the exception of a few Teas and Mosses on the Briar, 

 Manetti is the only stock for successful cultivation in a Ught 

 soil. — A Rexfrewshiee Bee-keepeb. 



JOHN POWELL STEAWEERKY. 

 I WAS much pleased on reading your Journal of December 

 26th, 1872 (page 308), to find Mr. Eadolyffe speaking so highly 

 of John Powell. I am quite willing to endorse aU, and more 

 than all, that he has said respecting it. I have grown it by 

 the side of several other sorts ; for instance. Dr. Hogg, Eclipse, 

 La Constante, British Queen, President, and others, and, with 

 me, I have no hesitation in saying that, under fairly good out- 

 of-door treatment, for all purposes it is the best berry that 

 I have grown. If I were asked which Strawberry I should 

 grow for all purposes, supposing that I could only grow one 

 sort, I should say, Give me John Powell before all the rest. 

 I am the more anxious to speak thus highly of John Powell, 

 because the Rev. W. P. Eadclyffe is the only one by whom I 

 have seen it brought prominently forwai-d in print. — E. S. N. 



GLAZED COPINGS. 



brackets are fixtures, and the lights are easily put in their place 

 in a few minutes. When hinged together in pairs they are 

 useful in summer and autumn for protecting plants and seeds. 

 Cost of 120 feet of temporary coping 2 feet wide. 



24 [galvanised iron bracliots at is. Grl £5 8s. 



Bolts and tixing 1 3«. 



£6 111. 



12 glass lights 10 ft. bj 3 at 17s. M. each 10 8«. 



£18 19«. 



Cost per running foot, 2s. IBii, 



In your .Journal of the 30th January, in answer to a corre" 

 spondent " T. F.," you give drawings and a description of 

 Parham's patent glass copings. I now send drawings and a 

 description of the coping I adopted in the spring of 1870, 

 taking thejjlan from Robinson's " Parks and Gardens of Paris," 

 (page 585). The brackets were made by Messrs. Brown, 90, 

 Cannon Street, London. The frames were made of rough 

 wood covered with tarpauUn, costing about £3 for 120 feet. 

 The result has been so far satisfactory. The year 1872 was the 

 worst for fruit in this neighbourhood that has been known for 

 some years — so much so, that in general there was little or no 

 fruit on open walls. I used no nets, yet the crop of Peaches and 

 Nectarines was a very fair one, some of the trees having a full 

 crop. I have now substituted glass lights for the tarpaulin for 

 80 feet, and am trying them alternately with the latter. The 



Glazed Coping. — Scale 1 inch to a foot. 



a, Brick on edge set in cement, h. Permanent coping. 



rf, Galvanised-iron brackets. 



The glass lights are chamfered at one edge so as to hinge 

 together when not required for the wall, so as to be useful for 

 protecting seeds or plants. Cost of hinges and fitting, 2s. per 

 pair. — J. W. Geey, Lynwood, Berks. 



A CENTURY OP ORCHIDS FOR AMATEUR 

 GROWERS.-No. 2. 

 Section I. For which the mean temperature should average 

 about 60°, but which luill thrive in winter at a tempe^ 

 rature of about 38° or 40°. 



ANGDXOA. 



This genus does not find great favour with many Orchid 

 cultivators,yetthe various species produce large, TuUp-shaped, 

 richly-coloured flowers, possessing a strong aromatic perfume. 

 The labellum is hinged, and, together with the column, being at 

 the bottom of the cup-shaped blooms, they have been Ukened 

 by some imaginative writers to a baby lying in a cradle ; but 

 having had ample opportunities of becoming famUiar with 

 both babies and cradles, I have never been able to reaUse the 

 similarity said to exist in the blooms of this genus. 



There are several very beautiful species of this family, but 

 two kinds will be suflicient in a small collectioa. They may 

 be potted in good rough peat and sphagnum moss, and the 

 pots well drained. They delight in an abundant supply of 

 water and heavy shade whUe groiiNang, and even during the 

 winter months should not be subjected to severe drought. 

 They form large, stout, pseudo-bulbs, which are surmounted 

 with large, broad, plaited, dark green leaves. The flowers are 

 borne singly upon erect scapes, and continue a long time in 

 fuU beauty if ordinary care be bestowed upon them, 



