100 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [JANUARY 30, 1864 — 
if they will even ees in the opin air with us, | flowers measured 6 inches across, and the k is s more condua 
they will rarely, if ever, produce their flowers or|8 inches. With them were eer — and we their x aig t than a pres ha and the gr great bean. 
fruit. And the reason of this is sufficiently obvious. glots i in equally vigorous heal of a specimen Azalen is to w t oe or 
Although their winters may be nearly as cold as the pot. Te ‘the stem is not sufficiently high to alloy 
ours, their summers are much er. During the]___ As "eL 
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Cotton still retains its high price, and is likely | thick, and the shoots so confused that the m. 
as far as we can judge, for a long time to do so, ES have no erga: of properly developing themsel 
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winter season, and which enables them to produce | when they have been more wisely directed tl Fase ould ask them, did 
their flowers and their fruit in the following year. | which for a short time pe * credit nae un-|ever compare the d. wir of the Psi eer Produ sel 
: : th pm : 
The warm rs too, e 
fruit for which provision has thus been made. trade, b marina. rn ing ry has lately | neatly thinned with pom that ur xm song 
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ich 
the sue ruits in a Tg 
elimate like that of ae ra shall, vestige of Afri "as ^ , prie o b edt 2 uii il in the west _I will suppose then, that Pasa commencing wig 
Seen tees MC MUN NE minuteness, Lou stib b iuis ear s meoubliondr pel hon amaris erred P m 
nature of P2 climate, as nn temperature E | those of Cotten, but unfortuns ately sc aidd Mi : p eet el 
dien of the country to which these plants are| staple t that there i is no probability that it can ever be e 
igenous 
A eastern sides of g ti e kno ets pondere je lant itself, which was at once | shoc 
to more subject to extremes of M E d by Mr. diis to belong to the | 
M. the western sides —to excessive heat in m halee, and which in fact appears to be the 
summer, and e te reme cold in winter. This was| Linnean species Eriocephalus racemosus, a -— of 
pointed out by HUMBOLDT many years ago, and ox ti — of Good Hope, i n: which, according to speci-| ass 
very beides exemplified on the eastern shore s preserved in Herbaria, as DE Cannot remarks, | to 
of Asia, which are now under our poadia. the cottony s substanco aries from a reddish or Nan iA | w: 
jo 1 own 
Smet i Ton that nen uo hi which obtains equally in true cotton. "The Eriocephalez | string to be poelgiui Tou required, and thes the second 
alee www B ha winter: Moof ou a small Sarr Vicente on a single Pd | these latter not requiring to be drawn down so my 
$ Fane in ; nthemi nd ar Ko 
the following description :—In the end of October | closely allied to the Gna naphalia, differing enséntialiy | v sted. Sac 
the ther We im ee sinks as low as the|in their caudate anthers, while those of Gnaphalia end, -meat]y... furnislied ,on ave ide a d 
re wi r į 
er tender crops which are cultivated in the | little heads whic are surrounded by a double|the string around the stake. When the plants s 
ecember, J i aken in 4 
d ost. h t 
and February, are the coldest months in the year, | invested with dense cottony . eeds, | longest shoots are to be removed, in order to irj 
; it ia | or ^ metroa Sin. 
P eio "The wie owe Arnen th not be poss siblo ar “ealtivation to improve the patie throw out their HH iota phe 
i uat. Mhe : r,) | Plant so.that it might answer some economical | thus they will become well furnished, It is as ema 
during this period is [7^ quently as high as 100° a UA M mero cultivation, math gi = | the shoots have open 3 or 4 inches in length, thatth 
: an improvemen in © | strongest and b 0 be selected and tied to fora 
the shade, and sometimes even a few degrees fertility ° the soil would most probably act in althe "ondas, And. dud nr eese tied. down dn the a 
higher. The rainy aay i pel not Ma A ds in wid contrary direction, as plan n general are | described. 
its m but rains fa copiously uring May The plants are now, we will su e. wing in 
an as of the soil i in which they gr ow. Theo only chance | pots, ads s ahapenbl ^; e, just it ot bloom tal m 
This i is the M of climate which i sk ire i b of doing anything towards i petenda ihe fc would | their seaso rowth. der item ci 
T st ason of growth. Un ed 
the fruit trees we have mentioned, be bya principle of repeated select, raise new |they should be nt moder: t to 
make dp an o rtificial way, in this sen times plants from yd collected from the | e promising | growth. If bottom “heat is iie E MT 
may be mado to yield abundant crops. With | individuals. , however, isa slow process at ths the better, , provided it is not too s ; that 
glass houses, and heat from flues or hot-water 
pipes, a cli mate m may Fe made which will answer | 
all the r requirements of such plants. The main 
est, etu re ing time and tr 
what ise after all never remunerate, b Wodld TF Gerd ato idate EROON Qu be dis ispose 
be necessary first to inquire what powers of gie ires the same as the two first ti 
down to t 
À " pan the piest. possesses, on which at present we have | draw them ) 
Cut e co co, the Hipon- Mesa e cie useful in furnishing the plan 
ing of the wood during sch pe imd? a I: New Plants. ase € laid for a well bala 
2 eeping this in view while 
and allow mL E trees to go to rest Ber as 268. DENDROBIUM FyTCHIANUM ( Bateman). Colonel | be no difficulty in building u 
winter m Sapte Sas: Fyteh "s Dendrobin and well furnished plants; d, with 
M) caule erecto jc aphyllo, racemis | dation, there is but little attention required as thy 
looked. When i trees are growing dr the| | terion ymultidorisspithameis, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis | advance in growth, to keep them in good order, 
open air in their own coun they are exposed to fabeli dio] lobis E aai x des^eey erre pins the shoots have:once been 
influences which favour the impregnation of their| integris rotu ndatis lobo inte: rmedio dilatato spathulato petalis | by keeping on the strin 
blossoms, and consequently bs “ setting” of = subæquali versus basin tom all hi 
i b 
ruit. The wind shakes their branches and| This charming Dendrobium was received last year by | again, even though the ties m re 
scatters the pollen about in every direction, or | Messrs. wé o» om Moulmein, whence it | Plunge them half the oo of the Bev: and keep " 
insects carry it on their bodies as they flutter from | Was sent to them by their invaluable correspondent | close or penus T Se or a few days until they begit 
espon 
flower to flower, - in these ways fue! lossoms Mr. Parish. At the time of its discovery Mr. Parish | break into growth freely; then admit ay 
eye d el y . 
sym an plant on the branches of an old tree overbanging the | the oon, and shut them up while the sp. 
P the iid river up which they were proceeding ; and as it is | Power to raise the temperature to 75° or 80". puit 
po perfectly new to. ecience, it may with Ages Bahr ies treated, they will make rapid growth, for no ps 
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Various other matters o <p ractical kind will |! ttiod more than the Azalea. As the season advance 
suggest themselves to <a who may pine inclined} The fied of D. Fytchianum are throughout of the | the sun becomes bright and powerful, a very thin C 
to cultivate the fruit trees we have named. , Soil, | most TUM Medos aa that the small lat " shading must be used for three or four hours, 
manure, e lip are tinged with crimson. They ar hottest part of the day, but it must no 
but ry matters may seis din the et pee ai m Mine in graceful racemes a span lo ine them too late in the afternoon, and on nop 
our English roceeding from the extremity of the upright stems; | 1S it to be used at all unless the sun is very , ong 
De: conelasion we ma: ES mark a the same the latter | being about a foot long and of the thickness Too much shading wili pe: induce ea 
natural laws regulate the production of flowers | 9f a goo quib | | | anotat, t ut s growth. In the course of fo ai 
: ear leaves unfortunate’ th ire to be e 
pem plants, iab a fae sim -— fruit rali before the zT s which are about an inch ee ae em m if they have "done well and the Faris aye 
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My description is me fro beauteous however "y shifted 
raceme uite filled with you 
Li bh we see at our flower on OWS; E it is to | to me Pig Daar by M Mr. [20 wens sgg sent sendy. If the pe e pr ate 
this knowledge we are indebted for a sight of| collection L Pendlebury House the pt then | them a liberal shift, that is to say, put them I^ 
those masses 0 TARAA floral bracts upon | flowered for the first time in Kur Specimens have | Wo sizes larger, from a 32 to al 5 
invillea etabilis — a plant which, until|also el srl from i , but being the prepared in quantity 
very lately, refused to produce its flowers under | re of smaller plants t were " very inferior to | Plants to be potted, should be p 
the hands of our English gardeners r. Turner's. The plant, which should be ue on a| Take of ou 
bis ck of wood, is of the easiest culture. J. B. Hany ne as m 
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Tua theca t nio Mr s will sapidly dis] Lot disphue EXHIBITION PLANTS. | iis le p e aum m 
the stewing system i s becoming more and more THE nt FEET MM I. T Wohi pes remark that there are various 
eviden day. Of thi e i j 
VC LA E Y PME CENE re ee PaE 
afford nost ediiishis proof. "They were | manageme ay aaa ‘cnllivation of this sons aA ri | precisely as it is dug. i 
inery under Sik halle’ of the late, am d kun. my all pret) e md hie cm from s a thes oe d sometimes 
em were varieti P 
partiou riire ng * fake that are worked u "d h 
and in the most emi in enu, ine in ri, clean healthy stocks from 6 to 12 inches high ; eyen i TENA pin tos 
as ivory. Two of these | 18 inches high it will be so much the batter, and only cause of death, by losing some of m 
