564 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
that 3 into the solid wood some attack only 
the trunk, others prefer the branches; here are the 
e wood- eaters, there the parasites which feed on 
latte: Will you, I r repeat, 8 3 al 
these the death of the tree? No ; this 
taking the effect for the Degree and imitating 1 
forward persons that a eager to sound the 
trumpet to their own prais 
Many of our readers are aware that an mage rae 
resembling Acrides odoratum has ae been intro- 
duced into cultivation under the name of re suavis- 
simum, a name which it well 8 for it has a 
with yellow and green, cae always suffused with 
pg ae render this cont cig se 
n. specimen now 
ceme ron 18 Weber long, 
n full perfection, 
tla great acquisition to the 
park, Arundel. 
8 
of persa the 3 3 might “se ovate to remain 
for several years urbed in the place. II 
sufficient distances to admit of the usual summ 
ding plants being inserted amon; oa them, in order to 
pata the bed by the time the Orchids died off for the 
se 
re is one more to which I wish to direct attention 
could be m ae n bedder! 
in the north of England; if so, why s try 
to overcome any difficulty attending r eo in 
gon 
fiower-garden. , Dale- 
CLIMATE OF BELLE-ILE, 
(Belle-Ile-en-Mer, west coast Fy France, Lat. 47° 18’ N.; 
Long. 5° 33’ W.), 
AND ON SOME „ . 
‘CESSFULLY CULTIVATED N I 
Henrie: L journals frequently lade i to the 
mildness of the elimate of the Buron a of ere 
where plants 8 the south of E and e 
the flowers _ larger ; it gi been obtained by 
Co., of Exeter, and | 
still w urgi age flourish withoat shelter, i in ihe 
CaS, Were gos open We arned from the Gardeners’ 
deserves this special notice Chr alate lately, that in the gardens of Cornwall or of | m 
Although the species is 3 8 e endron javanicum, exposed to 
, yet we conceive is quite as all the influences of that mild sky, was covered with an 
distinct as the other Aerides are from each other. | abundance of splendid flowers, such as deners in 
e narrow constantly-bifid etc lobe of its ale other parts of England could not obtain with the aid of 
the asaran middle lo e oe slender i and Orangeries sort ion 
racem very nest 1 abit, ample always interesting to mad ers of horticulture ; but 
h a 
0 
— of distinction which a cultivator would say 
are strengthened by the 3 habit of the species, 
its autumnal flowering, and it: 
blossom Reely when very youn 
a ae ORCHIDS AS BEDDING PLANTS. 
Epipactis sent to you by Harcourt as 
a new mbes 5.20 from the neighbourhood of Chichester, 
t ption an 
P. 536, 
rv 
outsix years ago, but I have never looked egm 
itin any other light than as an accidental variet 
, the ee difference organ ng in 
smaller and m 
ie tendency to 
Pro 
the interest increases w 
ral 
t it bes Me both 
it y before 
facts relating to this su * which have 
been collected * “pollen Mer rthy agri- 
culturist, M. Tro o has dee eee of 
the climate of tite] little ile, and possesses a talent for 
ä 1 to be met wi 
In 1826, M. Trochu introduced the cultivation 2 — 
he ma 
T looked in vain for gid but the variety the follow- at the base 153 inches tterly, when 
ing, seasons an ces may have very | they were stripped, they furnish a k board i 
much — do — = seen ass g” kerag ze 5 breadt h. M. T Trochu ba nyan 85 t the af a a. 
local many of the Bri rehids, the th ill i - 
E. latifolia and its apal are nian oyar and I regret 0 gy — thay Oe eas rack oie soa 
n the 7 ay cimens gh 
I ants 
of the native Orchids tie 
as they flower at a time when variety is much | 
easily 
Orie: flower 
genus Orchis might be 
what can be more i aie 
Most of the 
And 
: yield fruit. 
and, provi 
all | cultivatio: 
he ant Gon 
aed I think I may on 
and thou 
waar ne i 
for th 
the 
hom cert they 
up for the purpose and to 
hall er 
proper av 
-| The Doni of the Cork 1 51 meer the od x lauer, 
— is sh Dea pa but still m 
e Fig tr 
* ujubes grow with proportionate 1 5 at Belle- 
y 
they flower there aad, 0 
The Mulb Wige å markably w fe 
it is sheltered. — the violent sea-winds, 
acquires an en: fruits abu 
Many other uth, — 
Myrtles, 
uccas, i grow, it may be said, without 
or 
The er of these an omalies o climate is now well 
let 
rey | 
anigtt | be planted i in spere or high rove the beds at 
er bed- | fr 
ce numerous 
, | naturalisation of exotic plants, useful i e = i 
convi OrLameny . 
ral favour, as it orn 
i er must þe a 
it will pisom —— 
Bothnia, and far 1 ge. within 
othing uncom 
of the ocean ought to Ne ‘th 
to mak 
maki a] 
nd, Chili, he 
able not only timber trees 
amental effect, trees hich i 
be no difficulty in naturalising for e 
t 
1 cal regen 175 i 
give to the ee a ‘lg mee 
near London in the open 
= 3 sad y last, all the sorts we have m 
0 at a moderate price from 
5 n. Nandi, in Revue Horticole, July, 
— ees 2 
the — well deserve to 0 r the 
on 
the 
Ie 
t is too vigorous.a habit t to be su 
when = fined to the ordinary li 
e flow 
propagated from skilfully mai: paaa 
ong jointed vigorous shoots shou ld not be 
cuttin ngs, as plants these 
jointed rather hard bits 
be — obtained in spring, and will 
in a s bottom-heat of from 70° to 
e | potted singly and kept in a warm mois 
dur > aa oe 
~~ 
Europe, 
rth an enormous 
rm water, the heat of aed is communicated 
the atmosphere. Its effe ps no 
re sensibly fe ast of eee 
is n of high moun- 
which checks the 
esents an Ke p Teis of climate 
tter | rather hard, and 
ufficiently ri 
and it ya probabi 
the ill ale 
rich by 
ts w 
