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JOOKNAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEE, 



I May 1, 187S. 



is its consequence, and his suggested practice to avoid its 

 occurrence is — 



" Planting the Potato whole in light, loamy, and, if possible! 

 in sandy soils in situations -wliich permit of being properly 

 drained ; and also in not allowing the Potatoes to remain in the 

 soil even for one day beyond the time necessary to complete 

 their full gi'owth. So long as Potatoes are planted year after 

 year in the same soil, so year after year will the disease be re- 

 produced ; and so long as Potatoes are grown in heavy, and 

 especially in clayey soils without due regard to drainage, so 

 long will the Potato disease flourish iu spite of all attempts at 

 its extinction. Incidentally a clerical friend informed mo that 

 on one occasion his father grew Potatoes on raised ridges, and 

 planted Cabbage in the trenches formed by throwing-up the 

 ridges, with the most remarkable success, both in case of Pota- 

 toes and Cabbages ; the latter, requiring more wet than the 

 former, drained the superfluity from them, and hence the result." 



THE SALE OF THE MANLET HALL 

 COLLECTION. 



We some time ago stated that the celebrated collection of 

 Mr. Sam Mendel, of Manley Hall, Stretford, near Manchester, 

 was to come under the auctioneer's hammer ; and accordingly 

 it was disposed of by Messrs. Capes & Dunu, between the 7th 

 and 17th of April. A detailed account of this princely col- 

 lection of Orchids and Ferns, as well as of all that is beautiful 

 and rare among plants, was given by Mr. Wills in the 1.5th, 

 IGth, and 17th volumes of our new series ; and in proof that 

 the extraordinary riches of the place were not overstated, we 

 win just add that the amount realised by the Orchids alone 

 was £4,361 10s., while the Palms and other plants brought 

 JE1,225 Is. Od. The following are some of the highest prices 

 realised : — 



Orchids. — Aiirides Schriideri, .£13 10s., RoUieson ; Cj'pripedium 

 Stonei, fine specimen, 13J gs., Williams ; Dendrobium nobile 

 cserulescens, 19 gs., Marquis of Westminster; Odontoglossum 

 Phalaenopsis, fine plant, i'll 10s., Broome ; Odontoglossum 

 Phalfenopsis, fine plant, 14 gs., Wright ; Miltonia Moreliana, fine 

 plant, 12 gg., Berrie; Cattleya Pincllii grandiflora, 10gs.,Veitch 

 and Sons; Oncidium coucolor, very rare, 18gs., Bockett; Vanda 

 teres, fine plant, £20 ; Dr. Ainsworth ; Aerides quinquevul- 

 nerum, splendid specimen, lOgs., W. Agnew; Vanda suavis, 

 very fine specimen, i'll, Morris; Acrides Veitchii, splendid 

 plant, 19 gs.. Garden ; Aerides nobile, splendid specimen, ,£11, 

 Dr. Ajnsworth ; Aerides Lobbii, very fine variety, i£10. Cross ; 

 Vanda insiguis, true, fine plaut of this rare species, 14 gs.. Lord 

 Londesborough ; Aerides Schroderi, good plaut, 20 J gs., Gaskell; 

 Cypripedium Dayanum, very fine plaut, rare, £1~, Carden; 

 Masdevallia Veitchii, very strong, .£1G, Berrie ; Sophronitis 

 grandiflora, grand plant, 13 gs., W. Agnew; Vanda Lowii, fine 

 specimen, 17 gs.. Lord Londesborough; Masdevallia species 

 (large yellow flowers), Sophronitis grandiflora, and Odonto- 

 glossum falcipetalum, 10 gs., Gaskell ; Crelogyne cristata, speci- 

 men plant, ,i'lG, W. Agnew ; Lycaste Skinneri alba, ^£16, Veitch 

 and Sons; PK-ione lagenaria, good mass, 10 gs., Agnew; Den 

 drobium Falconeri, grand specimen, 32 gs., Gaskell; Dendro- 

 bium Wardianum, grand specimen, 28 gs., Agnew ; Cattleya 

 exoniensis, fine plant, 26 gs., Berrie ; Dendrobium Devonianum, 

 grand specimen, 12J gs., Gaskell; Dendrobium McCarthisp, fine 

 plant, i£12, Williams ; Masdevallia Lindeni, strong, ±39, Berrie ; 

 Oncidium splendidum, rare, 41 gs., Williams ; Cattleya labiata, 

 very strong, 14 gs., Gaskell; Phalffinopsis Liiddemauniana, 

 llj gs., Agnew ; Epidendrum prismatocarpum, giand specimen, 

 free-flowering, 27 gs., Broome; Cymbidiiim eburneum, good 

 plant, 15 gs., Gaskell ; Dendrobium crassiuode, grand specimen, 

 13 gs., Gaskell; L;elia purpurata, fine specimen, 28 gs., Carden ; 

 Lffilia elegans, grand specimen, 13 gs., Veitch & Sons ; Cypri- 

 pedium Stonei, fine specimen, 13 gs., Bockett; Epidendrum 

 vitellinum raajus, superb variety, 13} gs., Williams ; Cypri- 

 pedium Iffivigatum, 10* gs., Williams : Sophronitis grandiiiora, 

 grand plant, lOJ gs.. Hurst; Dendrobium Wardiauum, fine 

 plaut, 11 gs., Carden ; La;lia cinnabarina, specimen plant, 17 gs.. 

 Dr. Ainsworth; Aerides affine superbum, 10 gs., Williams: 

 Phaius Bensona;, grand plaut, 12 gs., O. 0. Wrigley; Cattleya 

 Mendehi, fine plant, veiy distinct, 34 gs,, Morris ; Odonto- 

 glossum PhaliBuopsis, very strong, 11 gs., Bockett; Angi'jBcam 

 sesquipedale superbum (the flowers of this plant measure 

 9 inches across), IG gs.. Rev. J. B. Norman ; Aerides Fieldingii, 

 splendid plant, IGJ gs., O. O. Wrigley; Masdevalha tovarensis, 

 strong, ±14, Williams ; Dendrobium filiforme, very fine speci- 

 men, l5 gs., Rollisson ; L.-elia anceps Dawsoni, nice plant, 10 gs., 

 Berrie ; Aiirides Williamsii, 11 gs., RolUsson ; Saccolabium gut- 

 tatum superbum, grand specimen, i'lG, Dr. Ainsworth ; Cypri- 

 pedium Dayanum, rare, 10 gs., Broome ; Cypripedium Stonei, 

 superb plant, 3Ggs., Cross; Coelogyne cristata, specimen plaut, 

 £18, Rev. J. E. Norman ; Odontoglossum Phalfenopsis, fine 

 specimen, £12, Cross; Aiirides Dayanum,large specimen, 10 gs., 



Goodall ; Aerides Veitchii, fine plaut, two breaks, 23 gs., Berrie ; 

 -derides Schroderi, splendid specimen, 23 gs., Crosse; Cym- 

 bidium eburneum, grand plaut, showing seven spikes. Day's 

 variety, 57 gs., Williams; Aerides Fieldingii, 15 gs., Morris; 

 Aiirides Fieldingii, Hi gs.. Earl of Stamford; Dendrobium 

 Schroderi, 13 gs.. Cross ; Epidendrum prismatocarpum, ±7, 

 Lord Londesborough ; Miltonia cuneata, 12} gs.. Earl of Stam- 

 ford; Cattleya labiata, fine plant, lOJ gs., Berrie; Angrjecum 

 sesquipedale, fine variety, 11} gs., Cross; Angi'fecum sesqui- 

 pedale, grand plant, 14 gs., IJroome ; Cymbidium Mastersii, 

 12 gs., B. Hume ; Cypripedium Lowii, very fine plant, £1G lOs., 

 Cross; Aerides afline superbum, 17 gs., Bockett ; Saccolabium 

 ampullaceum, very fine specimen and variety, 21 gs., O. O. 

 Wrigley ; Cypripedium hirsutissimum, fine plant, 12 gs.. Cross ; 

 Maxillaria luteo-alba, fine specimen, £14, Earl of Stamford; 

 Dendrobium chrysotis, £12, Shaw ; Odontoglossum Phalfenopsis, 

 fine plant, £11 10s., Earl of Stamford. 



Pahiis and Miscellaneous Plants. — Cocos Weddeliana, 42 gs., 

 Tattersall ; Cocos Weddeliana, grand specimen, £60, Cole and 

 Sons ; Gconoma Seemauni, fine specimen, 31 gs., Tattersall ; 

 .A.nthurium Scherzerianum £11, Williams; Anthurium Scherze- 

 rianum, grand specimen, 42 gs., Cole & Sons ; Gleichenia Men- 

 delii, 27 gs., Tattersall; Gleichenia flabellata, grand specimen, 

 38 gs., Kaye ; Gleichenia hecistophylla, 23 gs., Carden ; Adi- 

 antum farleyense, grand plant, 16 gs., ISackhouse; .\nthurium 

 Scherzerianum, gi'and specimen, 1'46, Carden ; Trichomanes 

 Luschnathianum, very rare, £16, Stewart; Gleichenia Mendelii, 

 very rare and beautiful, £31 10s., Shuttleworth ; Acrophyllum 

 venosum, 2 feet 9 inches by 3 feet 9 inches, 13 gs., WiUiams ; 

 Erica Massoni major, 3 feet by 3 feet, 15} gs., Stewart; Acro- 

 phyllum venosum, 3 feet by 4 feet, 11 gs., Jackson & Son ; Rho- 

 dodendron Gibsoni, 5 feet by 3 feet 6 inches, 10 gs., Haigh; 

 Acrophyllum venosum, 3 feet by 4 feet, 35 gs.. Cooper ; Ne- 

 penthes sanguinea, gi-and plant, £50, Veitch it Sons. 



EXTRACTS FROM DR. R. SCHOMBURGHK'S 

 REPORT 



ON THE ADELAIDE BOTANIC GARDEN AND GO'^'EENMENT 

 PLANTATIONS, 1872. 



It becomes more evident every year that this establishment 

 promotes the advancement and taste for horticulture in South 

 Australia; and I cannot omit repeating apain in this year's 

 report the great advantage which this State horticultural estab- 

 lishment alTords in promoting such a taste. The number of 

 persons who now frequent the garden for instruction or study, 

 or who come to see what they have not, to compare and get the 

 botanical names of what they have, and so derive a certain 

 amount of knowledge, with the pleasure of seeing, I may say, a 

 permanent flower show in our green and stove houses, are in- 

 creasing every year. The number of our amateur florists is 

 also steadily increasing, which is proved by our annual flower 

 shows, where the number of fresh exhibitors is observable. 

 These shows testify also the improvement in the culture of the 

 plants. 



Since the last few years an increasing taste for floriculture is 

 also visible amongst the working classes, and at our shows, 

 under the class of cottagers, we notice specimen plants which 

 exhibit the care and jiidgment spent on their cultivation, so that 

 even nurserymen may take a lesson from them. 



Another jiroof that horticulture is muck appreciated is the 

 many tasteful cottage gardens which are now seen, not alone in 

 town, but in its environs, and this progress is only since a few 

 years visible. 



Since the publication of the catalogue of the plants cultivated 

 in the garden, 1871, in which GOOO species were enumerated, ex- 

 clusive of the florists' flowers, 1479 species have been added to 

 the collection, comprising most eminently valuable and rare 

 plants, not alone of an ornamental, but commercial and medical 

 value, which imdoubtedly will benefit this colony in the future. 



We never before received the plants in such good coudition 

 from abroad as during the last year, which may be accounted 

 for — the plants from E urope having come mostly per the monthly 

 mail steamer. The quick passage of these vessels secured the 

 safe arrival of nearly all the plants, so much so that, in some of 

 the consignments, ouly four or six of the plants had been lost, 

 and, in consignments per sailing vessels, only so many plants 

 were alive. 



In the islands of Mauritius, Jamaica, and the Azores, where 

 the forests have been wantonly cut down, so that some parts 

 of those islands are now totally denuded of trees, the results are 

 felt most alarmingly. The rain has become less every year; 

 springs and rivulets, which before ran uninterruptedly, have 

 ceased to flow. The respective Governments of those islands, 

 convinced of the injury done to the country, have taken steps to 

 replant the forests ; in Mauritius, especially, the replanting has 

 beffun in full earnest. 



If in tropical countries the influence of forests on the climate 

 is so apparent, how much more must it affect a dry climate like 

 South Australia? 



