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with two wires is placed upwards on the stand beyond to make the inquiry from havi ing my Violet beds when Messrs. Standish and Noble, m the shape of 
my easy reach, and cannot turn rou = when sere ring; they come into re er, repeatedly and on succe ssive of a new Azalea, collected. in the north of China b Mr 
the other I use for those — close at 0 nd, a whic h seasons, mixed with s ngle whites ; ; and althou gh these _ Fortune, and expected to prove perfectly hardy g r, 
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of my o Af, 8. “Ble dell, — [the keep For a 1 ong w m e was of “that | rosy-purple flowers, looking like so many hal 
labels ee, T ‘thin — arcana heads, with the ies — 9 been mixed accidentally, b w I can bells, so that, independent of its beauty, which is 
corners cut off. One of them was supported by two hardly avoid the e that — e reverts | it will be exceedingly interesting on account of the fort 
small copper wires ; the othe ee one on it They are | to a 3 form from which it sprung—am I right, of its blossoms, which are quite distinct in that respect 
ee j * neat, aoa looked as if they would | or wrong? Does any one's experience verify such a from any Azalea yet introduced. It is expected that 
goo result? I ought perhaps to mention that those plants plant of it will be shown at Chiswick, on the 8th of May, 
— — e 45).—I ean confirm your corre- that show the white flowers seem to have assumed more | when a better opportunity will be afforded of judging 
dent's statement respecting the ill effects of cold “awa od than those that maintain their character. | of its merits. A Knightian Medal was awarded 
upon this class of plants — no damp ever reached | Que Messrs, Veitch received a similar award for an example 
em. ie ant g t m pel cum Hain pai II am prepared (so my of their charming Dendrobium albo-sanguineum, K 
which is Lee 8 en plants of every descrip- ee eee es), t ann “A 8 nate proves to be a free bloomer, and a distinct and fine 
tion ; but where I m e to keep Grapes hanging on | ment, at p. 945 with re . rd to the effect of Capsicum species. Other novelties among Orchids consisted of 3 
the Vines oh thè en one of” M arch. I always light a fire | fames on Aphides. For although I had prorat small piece of a flower-spike of the lovely Odonto- 
in the mornings, and fre during the night if used them with tobacco, I had never . them a- glossum Pescatorei, and a bloom of an execedj 
there is the least sign of frost. I generally put the rately until a fortnight since, when, having some unique handsome new Huntleya from Mr. Mylam, gr. to 
Gardenias into ucumber frame in February or Geraniums very m N nfested, I placed —.— in a Rucker, Esq. The ore was marked with dark 
March—rather a quick transition—and they me early | hand-glass, and fille 4 1 with the s moke. I examined in the centre, which was . by a field of pele 
to shed their old leaves; but their unsightly a taid the plants the following morning, wes, 0 o my varprise, Primrose, A Banksian — was awarded it.— Messers. 
ance is soon hid by a fresh supply. Two pears ago I the enemy was not annihilated. On the succeeding sc rere aed sent a ne w yellow-owered Indian Dendrobe; 
some large plants of Gardenia florida given me 00 1 I collected my — with a determination to and a plant of the same genus from 5 
a late gardener to Sir H. Hollyhock, ote maxim is to | sweep the field; the smoke was poured in amongst them | Den — heterocarpum in a diminutive state, was 
grow nothing that he has not convenience to grow w well continuously for some time, until I flattered myself that | furnished by Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston.—Mp, 
They had good roots, but the leaves were quite white | to a certainty every green-coated rascal must have been | Bunney, of Stratford, contributed imported plants, 
and decayed at the tips. I plunged them in a bed of | destroyed ; but, alas! I was doomed to disappointment, | which were flowering for the first 2 of N 
leaves in an early Vinery. Towards the end of summer for on the next morning, “behold, they liv ed?” eee nobile, or some closely — kind, 
they began to look a little green; but in winter they to my giving publicity to these results, I had intended to D. Farmerii with a fine e of — and yelow 
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their old appearance. I tried them another bees had a thir rÁ but after perusing “ A Reader s” flowers. A Certificate of Merit was awarded for the 
year and another winter, and then I consigned them to letter, I think it is pretty evident that F little — be done latter.— From Messrs. Backhouse, of York, came 3 
the rubbish é truck some young ones last year, | in stroying insect life, in the absence of t eed” Cattleya, named amethystina, but which appeared to 
which I kept in the cutting pot all the winter, and they tobacco. G. Fry. [We must eo ta — na be nothing ae a variety of C. — e ! : 
were affected in the same way. I have lately parted | ments give exactly the same results as have bee ob- notus, from th Wales, accompan 
them, and placed them in leaves under a hand-light in | tained by Mr. Fry.] the absence of | — light its flowers td pe open, 
a ii and they begin to show that they like their; Welsh Seed Trade.—Having sociai to —— seed at Mr. Blake, gr. to J. H. Schréder, Esq., received a 
situation. J. kes Aor Swansea, I beg to correct a statement b anse r. Barron, | Certificate of Meri f for a cate plant of Dendro- 
For orcii Stra I perceive by your report of} of Sin ngleton, as to yx e price of seed in that town. That bium albo-sanguincu — Mess oddiges, of A 
the Horticultural ‘Society's meeting, at p. 230, that Mr. | prices of seed, at certain, res * mounts, should be | communicated a caer — of ‘Orchids, consisting of a 
M‘Ewen exhibited some Strawberries in fpa ‘and that, | furnished to “Mr, Vivian’s „ gardener, is tome a subject — —— plant of the Sweet Vanda (V. suavis), 
— to his experience, the best sort for foreing of no wonder, but that they are 8 sold much the deep purple-flowered Saccolabium ampull : 
is Keens’ Seedling, and the next, Alice Maude.” It lower to other people is a fact. Mr. Barron has ane Leases Skinneri, the charming Dendrobium anosmum, 
strikes me that Myatt’s Surprise will turn out to be an 3 proper to test “Mr. Bundy’s” veracity, as a species in the way of, but handsomer than D. macro- 
— Strawberry for the purpose. I have not tried the Carmarthen or Llandilo Prices, and reli = esti phyllum, and wanting the strong Rhubarb smell wh 
it as yet, but I intend Sate I next year; and, in the ‘at proper course by preferring instead to claim for belongs to the latter; also the lovely 3 
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last year in the open ground, and it proved to be the denial, and are more consistent than your Swansea | specimen of Aerides affine, with two charming spikes of 
rarity i more fe: a week. Now, I think, 8 ae | correspondent. The first fact is still with the whole- blossoms; A. virens ; the cinnabar-coloured Leelia (L. 
forcing, it will be valuable, as sale dealers. A Welsh Seedsman. [We have a few more | cinnabarina), n ng white 
ee bloomer and uces large fruit ; but I am afraid, communications on = subject; but it is now time for Algoa Bay. A Knightian Medal was awarded.—Messts, 
155 the British Queen; it will not stand much heat. a to terminate. ] E. G. Henderson, of ‘the —_ Road wood i 
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ompass — In Longfellow’s beautiful poem John's Wood, sent a continental Camellia named Riza 
eg. (Mucor 8 A mould Siy similar | of “ Evangeline” are the following lines : with two blooms on it, exhibiting the familiar sport 
not identical hat described by Mr. Graham | « Patience, the priest would say; have faith, and a prayer one flower being red while the other was i 
and then in mapere Figs — Took per- ar N wered! = , | Striped with red. Along with it came a fancy Pelargo- 
fectly pate externally, but when eaten, like the inten ee how magnet, nium named Annette; two 1 nge trees, in order ! 
of Sodom, fill the mouth with rms dust. My spe- | Ir is t Ga Compass a ower that the — of God has — a to show how freely they bloom in pots in a small state 3 
cimens seem to be decidedly the same with hate ia ae on iis fragile stalk, t s journey three Amaryllids, a collection of Cinerarias, four 
ebaica, Corda, which he has figu on as grow ver the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the deser rt.” Cyelamens and six hybrid Rhododendrons. A Certificate i 
Opium. The spores in this case are external ad Nan 1 3 pe applied to me for information as to what | of Merit wasawarded for the Camellia.— A finely flowered 
clavate or globose tips of the threads. M. J. B. plant the poet alludes to by the name of eee specimen of Azalea Tveryana, for which a R 
How to Dislodge wild Bees. How am Ito get rid of wild 1 I would feel 8 obliged if you or any of Medal was awarded, was contributed by Mr. pa 
bees, of which large swarms have taken entire possession | your corres spondents eng — 5 the desired to Sir E. Antrobus , Bart. — Some seedling al 
of a turf bank in a small garden, on which they have. information . attention was called to the were shown by Mr. Coldham of Southgate. 
quite undermined and destroyed ‘the turf? They are curred to one diit Cotoneaster mi- Sommersby, gr. to Major Martyn, sent two dwarf 
now extending their destructive subterranean work to * might ue he plant i intended : besides, Hydrangeas, and a white seedling Petunia. — From 
155 Dee lawn. Any advice will greatly oblige, . | being, I believe, a native of Nepal, and not likely to be n 
Drive them out by stuffing into their holes rags dipped met with where the scene of this passage of the poem is new and very handsome 
in spirits ts of turpentine. ] laid, viz., the foot of the Ozack Mountains, the terms sian Medal was awarded; also 
Weather.— Permit me to call attention to a some- |“ delicate flower,” “suspended,” “ _— stalk,” &c., pretty Boronia tetrandra, t the 
8 strange 3 that occurred last week. ee plant of an entirely 2 
Wednesday th maximum temperature was 69% 4-5. ee Wood, of No: nado tng 
and on Friday night the minimum temperature was Hardiness of Greenhouse Plants. ae e is an plants, a contin Rhododendron wi 
24°, a difference of 45° from Wednesday noon to Fri- | interesting additio on to the iist of tender plants proving flowers a fine specimen of the va Se | 
day gant — it is remarkable that the same easterly hardy in the South and West of England. At Carelew, Heath, Mean Hartnell virens, for which a © eg 
wind on both — This n seat of Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., MP., isa plant of Merit was awarded—Messrs. Jack Oe ‘= 
liable. omen must, I should of Bletia Hyacinthina, ing asa . rial received a 8 Medal for an interesi 
accounted for by the effects of “hot sunshine trol orchid in the open ground, and has been there for some tender e plants, consisting o V 
in upon previous cloudy weather,” as Mr. Howard ob. years without any protection ; also a fine shrub of the reigned Croton, Achi 
and Wednesday was solely the effect o 
the sun’s rays from the heated earth, buil 
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On Friday the was 
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9 after ar similar state of the atmosphere. a dq r Wob 
hie se mark, to show the e y effects of : major, making a very pretty the Duke of Sutherland, 
Tadiation on still calm nights, that while the thermo- contrast to the other hardy shrubs from enh gi thy = pots of Keens’ Seedling Strawberry. 
ights of lay and We 3 ki a eat a of W. „ N wia il Cuthill’ 
than 4 nice plant of Aralia ) n 
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