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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[FEBRUARY 20, legs, 
Ae and may be turned on one sid alpa New Plants. 6; 
as soon as the seedlings are well roote Plants | 269. TRICHANTHA m Hooker, vi i Plant. t. 66 
with oio seeds, as for example Stocks, it is said, and Botanical Magazine, t. 5428. = 
may be metimes raised advantageously in this| Some 20 years since Si William H on n: is cá 
manner, "M. in his Zcones Plantarum two species of a n 
Gesneracesz, gath y Mr. W. Lobb, in niian 
cent meeti 
he 
ture et C de Botanique de Tni, M. y oder in nthe cop 
ks 
ome remar the culture of certa 
out of all proportion to the scanty amount 
| which - "eap n kd wak terminal Fimo. 
bea: Now 
of foli 
alw ays be recollec ted ta 
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| and ina yii as that may be, in sach cate li fri 
eee offices it has to perform. 
ng 
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ET 
be ll 
o make What 
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eaves, 
i PLANTS, ref ed specialy to the 
success e had obtained in the treatment of = of 
th ra, Æc hmea and „Tillandsia to wit, by growing 
ther with the ai of Sphagnum 
moss. " ie many Har the of t 
interesting and deectiontal, and yet so little grown, | i 
obuipatatirely Ls eager c in e ina of the limi rt 
bition p MP "s other affinities su — for ex 
lants Ne ‘ately b ym 
s from tropical Ameri 
through his collector, Mr. R. Pearce agi! 
vhich flower ed with Mr. Veitch, in the 
E 
t Mr. F 
anner to su pport the fruit Deere its sace harine flesh 
pulp; 2 flesh, a under the peng r 
r 
ole vitalityi is ixlasaiedl in the his sometime 
bition purposes, which too generally usurp the whol 
r the p 
ving consi rm 
able variety to a collec’ 
RAVY bones dat PM Fu Mu species of | 
se aes we ward the Pusat to allude | well as our 
rpose of invi va. somew. ^ loss. "irr form ‘then 6 that originally figured 
f this rac 
effort. T. 
| happens when genns debility Iso. Gen erii hoe 
y 
ttle, but n there i is the ston bap 
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hoer 
or atal 
th 
continue to exist, whils 
rom Mr. 
hairs ap — more seio than they would appear 
to be fi r woodcut, At any rate it is a ve 
beautifal addition to our Spe free-flowering | 
Tu and Tillandsia, P ch latt includes 
esia, grow on trees ai foin r te ce 
Orehide and like them "isteforé Should be 
The habit of the plant is described as epiphytal, 
wn | and the slender stems as scandent and ims, ad of a 
than the weaka 
| icon. "s off as after limb; but still the tree 
becom d less every ye" till the only hope 
I 
in a yo a QU gps eie em: n many cases w 
| are persuaded that such an eve ay be 
foreseen ; and the most advisable proceeding would bs 
to procure young tre € - nd keep them in trainin 
that 
either on blocks of wood or cork, with their roots smooth or clothed n ith appressed hairs, ready 
nveloped in Moss, or when grown in should | bright red colour. e leaves are ovate acuminate, | Mi ght be readily filled u up; A = trees 
have provided for their roots a mixture of half-rotten | entir ciliated, Loonie at length smoothish, the | § safely moved at any age, e ~Ar ey more o i 
wood, thick fragments of heath soil, a um upper ' surface of a full pedan, while the under surface | half cover the height of the 
Moss. os gem of culture was tried las t spring on is strongly marked with a red rib and „primary veins ; But t we ll- trained healthy pem ham- be planted ins 
they are sure to grow 
| thai the other. uch hat the difi 
and especially on utes fulgens, and risa speciosa, 
‘the hope that they ral yield | 
iheir (ran dig that geason, y et tw months 
Th 
the leaf axils APEE mt the deeply : mes 
parted calyx, wie “divisions are palmately cut into 
AVY M es to his mode of 
inflorescence i = hene two 
e proposes to De further 8 in the 
rime direction n. 
I 
species, B. fastuosa and B. ere 
which have per flower stems ea ith numero 
es of a brilliant 
four 
tensii, with purplish b 
in gardens: Æ. Mer- 
racts and rosy flowers with ayellow 
cup or calyx ; and fine 
; 4E. fulgens, Tne violet | flow 
nd eup ; 
inflorescence, but the leaves stained wi Vi purple | 
beneath ; and ZE. suaveolens, which to the elegance of serve for the origin of the required additional 
its flowers joins the sweet odour of Violets. Of eee Thus [3 a sufficient ba leading 
Dam wisi emm m numero cies offer ranches be obtained. 
an elegant and brilliant inflo nce, the magnificent season should 
B, rhodocyanea and B. Moreliana being put form " deett tbe baies ini. s age ; 
prominent examples, with t arge rose-coloured i 
floral leaves, and their blue or violet owo with a cu I NN which Dr ME v en 
of ively zone: iteairnea there are such species as bore or qe have borne the sige last , 
1 3d, shoots which pushed last sprin were 
P Smas tongifolis, and mese with rA A Y striking | throughout the season as succession shea duel 
with white flowers, having a yello e: à peg 
formed at th t : which bore the fruit season, will 
gro mii ome caer of Soyo — ; and should, therefore, be cut a ay in TES 
P. macrostachya, of which the splendid inflorescence | room for their successo: 0. 3 iar 
is boriy on stems adorned with floral leaves of a i y ex NAI the leading branches; 
ne red, an omposed of a long close spike of avid - : leading 
of a still more lively red, from : o t which one Miei deut s shortened i 
flowers of a pure white, or white tipped with yellow. — scias aun e sere ug S this is dl 
Of Tillandsia, he points out that there are several e them push a shoot whe: aired, this occasion, 
handsome species, of whi inida wet eee ae em | OOF? S | that need be said respecting them on t qus 
tMmpla.. And. then thete j& Velur suparmbed fren | the b ae the timb Sube. bles four- vrbem nd | that we have now only to deal with No. 3, deeem 
the last, and affording V. psittaci ina and V. speciosa, two spreading ; its upper lobe is bifid, and a lar club- | that were 1 f ^ mmer's shoo! import 
brilliant plants with of scarlet bracts, shaped appendage, rennes T cs at the apex, grows | | Their management, however, is of the beers 
and the with - darkzoned leaves, | {om the ex eee sinus, The ance, y A Ao fate of the tree mainly be dort 
We ought to see more of these fine things in our stove yellow of the i continued i in siripes down the Ther s eae ti hall they Y 
collections, and somewhat less of and | tube, the in te with them’ Shall say be diat me 
tereti ahve oor bth t reas oe the base red. | trained in at full len, m 
great a share of our hothouse i varied NE t Mv ving the summer & o, 
miens es 'of Botany men the — s: Sg sane pore T pnt and at full length are well known to be these: ie 
or fy s ÉrrENNE Gar, at Il oii the ; 16 ih g airy coloured calyx, together with | looking trees in the first instance, from the 
ull, at the age of TT years. Iiis well observed that jn the toot profusion in which the flowers are borne of fine long shoots; but from their length Bes 
to}science is inestimable ; yaaa that those who SIE for the hot pa i Mis most desirable | shoots are unable to push wood buds near hen there 
were honoured with hi friendship will feel his absence | P a Heda earce indeed describes aud consequently no shoots for one one thi 
f itasac g little stove Pert and we can well ‘Ad 1 en of one 
rom amongst us to a very egree. Though believe it will prove itself to be so. oie eee Saat be is took 
o writer, it would be difficult to name ically ined too far ie a MM 
om » 7. mes 
the seentio Luowledge of European plaut ON PRUNING THE PEACH TREE. e vic ga de eens e eae 
ios Wot wl npn rte agn Hts hoe Radar Woe aes haf SNS Tore om pony ty bn ese er 
i om sia was order that their ; frolli insy be obtained in eee, n bie n Meier ^w aly : Te ed, TT 
the d named by Ronenr een E AXE - = ing > walls — -—- built for | weak prolongation. of the ‘growing int. Ariel 
ped em minae m ed em. In some cases the trees co ry fairly the | decision arrived at is. me these useless pieces" tree 
ind : d 1916; i M Uri pete, Naha ie Apts allotted to den; E in n otim | wood must be cut then of 
nt umts 2. = Fiora, ud lished i speci bey pt nich, | vA pda Paeon prede d neon This i is the inevitable [P Leg 
ae latter Wie. cm on ly poset me cit attached | of training in successively the shoots of @ 
ng rac EN EE LEE EE sn woes 
| extent of nal 
sizə, has become an indispensable handbook | every year on the i ran de which bos results ne Ern rtening rent y^ 
Deis res botanists travelling on the Continent. - is that the bare framework of consequence of M etd iacet nag Ege oe eye Bach shoots 9" 
tree becomes 
lies i in “controlling thei Stoth 
wood,” say some; 
get smaller stools 
h other 
prolongation of the banke "whilst the men kj 
n the preceding. We have shown 
