THE GARDENE1 



CHRONICLE. 



ags in May, three or four ro 



they are then shifted into the pots they aj 

 flower in. All that the plants afterwai 

 plenty of water, with some liquid manur 

 When they are in their flowering pots, t 



showy Saee will" be found exceedingly use: 



Sale of Orchidaceous Plants. — The collectors o: 



Stew..-' ,'.■.:--:■.■:, Co vent-garden, both as regards 

 imported plants, and those consisting el 



-e plan's?. I, however, suffered from 



tiaed as belonging to, or b 



room immediately from t 



was that a Pitcher plant purchased at the sale, though 



brought away in a bag and put into the i 



uearly all its leaves, and probably will 



Vanda, bought at the same sale. I find, also, that other 

 purchasers i _ :is evil would 



have been avoided if at the sale the state of the plants 

 had been dec: :i. Of course 



-Mr. StvNM could know nothing of the matter. A 



Dyrfaam Park. The tree stood in front of a new cou- 



They ought, howevi 



it, however, to caution the mm 



not to mutilate their roots so much as they 



do. I have frequently sent my own men, 



looking yellow, with two or three in the centre of tlw 

 quite dead, I made a minute examination of them. 



;s were a little fresher, and appeared to have be< 

 1 ; and I at last discovered the depredators i 



enfre pot, and, that after eating the bark off the larger 

 amoved to the next plant. Subsequent 



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the ordinary way by water, or drive him^ BObduei U» 

 he individual from personal injury but *?** ^ 



received no injury from it and the Awnbdow iL^S 



.^dlulw^S! property * *** ** 



tary, in the chai'r. The Duke 



Heseltiue, Esq., and T. Henry, Esq w^A*; 



Fellows, and the following gardeners horn *Z*S1 



M g P me N b u e n :hTm '* 5; b r ¥ f *• i° G - H ^X 



ra.r., XNuneham ; Mr. K. Erring 



Egerton, Birt , Oulton-park ; Mr. T.lnam„ 1* 



her Majesty, at Frogmore ; and Mr. A. Toward » Z 



three charmingly-bloomed plants of the beautiful rosv 

 purple flowered Barkeria Skinneri, each plant bearing 

 from 12 tola flower-spikes. The; 

 on blocks of Willow and Maple, without spha-STo? 

 "*>ut tin.' 



graceful, two-lobed Auj 



vely, purple-stained, delicate wl 



: so ported it from London. The first plants I loet were 



[The insect is the larva of the Otiorhyn- 



i pieces just probably drive tl 



When I was at < 



neither new i 

 is in come respects, and I 



ry, and before planting, they' 



■ng salt and water, whi 



i the bed, or 





that bav 

 I get away too i 



the top k pinched off early, in order to aUowWothen 



X e :"t a " : ■ISLE'S 



"',are the principles to «i 



ofits advantage ej- ^y^^^LT^ 

 tho» shertened back, a«d tkey «iU bo.. 



r I'aper of the 1st inst, are 

 > he firea'nni- 

 , iie streamof 

 breaking out again ? and 3, whether a si 



arry,wliite.flowered, 



for the Angrsecum, 

 Mrs. Lawrence, of 



lly pendent spikes of 



„ — the sweet-smelling 

 V. suavis, a well managed Saccolabium dentieulatum, 

 a variety of the autumn-flowering Lielia L. autumnalis), 

 Cypripedium barbatum, Barkeria Skiuneri, a Lvcaste, 



bieh promises to be a very fine thh 

 •. to E. Druce, Esq , of Camberwell, sent a weU culti- 

 ited specimen of Cypripedium insigne, for which a Ces. 

 ficate of Merit was awarded. 1 1 had 2 7 perfect flowerson 



keeping the heart of the plant, out of which it issued, 

 A Certificate of Merit was awarded it.- 

 ld.gr. to J. S.Venn, Esq., of Highbury- 

 I a plant of Zygopetalum Mackayii.- 

 ., of the Wellingtop-road Nursery, ex- 



E. Hartnelli and E. hiemalis. It is 





caries' Garden, Chelsea, sent a dwarf Chrjs&n 

 n, measuring 20 inches high and the same across 



me ooservations which are appended to the inquiry of I usual way. , 



"Oft, R," , v.^oflsleworth.producedaBioodPiue-apF^ 



M kmd,namea 

 with a ^o. 2 fire annihilator, afford a satisfactory U<vi, I'rince, weiring .'. lbs. H a*. It reseniWeo 

 state from my own experience in the u*e the sort called Buck's Seedling, or an I.: 



ng in the v af K»ur given out l^etter'and notto be so liable to decay at the core. A 



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 a°No 1 T0 t ach' 2 ' 1 aDd 3d ' l repl " V ' t,mt <he Tap ° Ur fr0tn G ™*°» n Produced ^ specimen of the kind of ^jj 



e artillery. The numl er a 



,ch. It will be figured U -- 

 Society's Journal.- Mrs. ^ eU J* 

 xhibited some beau..' . «* " '"f \ 

 r.,if r>f Benthamia frasifera, some m 



l The plant which produced it was * 



