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THE GARDENERS' DEN: AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[ Mar 7, 1864. 
Aerides and Lælias I have named in a cool house from | o 
April M Ot Talways find it Senis to take | 
th airy hov during | c 
lie exist district, who hare 
y very fine specimen 
ft Tor ae this in nime | visited by several gardeners i in om di 
M the Com been unanimou 
caused a ae " x E 
accompanyin pers 
- | gardeners, mosty E " Englan 
u 
t 
n be grown at small 
uel is a fact no is to be 
doubted, pn I see be nat sit ts of Orchids t o be 
gr ne; -rooms. Disa 
3: 
al being made, m 
a fresh impetu 
t been 
warns siae y: 
n I iiid ie the flowering of this 
Wha t can be e cause of this apathy - ^ s Dard E 
tI i 
rare. B. A., ing. 
The Hydropult. —Mr, Bu 
Years ago, 
kind i 18 v very 
believe tton cannot 
ranium house, but Vd. are terres- 
al an‘ 1u ter: sted par ty," 
| em: I write anonymously. ^ 
ent to his office in Lendéitbell "Street, 
| are opult there, was pleased with it, and or 
But I took the „prec: ecaution of dete 
pretend that Į 
to say 
Poli than from any othe neither rr m able to 
be regrette d t 
| their own Societ y, for 3 haa 
ny 
eli quoc — to 
this So bot 
d i 
ra ually As y 
all occasions strenuously advocated the cause of the | 
of a Society, I have addressed you on the subject, "pe 
Num 
rin 
I tried it in my orchard-house ees 
Mp damos it flufig little spits of water, 
y 
, but When 
must 
Mesi are seid Y gardeners 
ibe, but the a | 
paym 
Potes bitteri 
itid 
dene’: 
3 it flooded m 
— st e 
E 
8 
e an object. on | 
rom you in an early of | 
and m 
a moist arke Aae lime p can 
make the 
lines 
yonr Journal would 
you i 
be productive of ebd fent | 
ard R. , Cutler, _ Secretar: Ty. 
[We _would refer to tha may succeed, but soma 
p Ree. Skinneri i wil root more strongly in pea 
than almost any other epiphytal Orchid I know, md 
itis therefore possible that i& might be induced t 
me some sort of grow n ina Gyro om, but I ink. 
ould be a poor chance of flowers in the 
following season. Maus! is eventi to the E 
of e piphytal m an nd un til I s e an Ore hid grow 
ag in 
is possible, W. W. H pas Ralegh, 
e Correspondenc 
Floral Co: Nn Awards.—Two tini in pert las 
week's impression seem word o 
not | 
common in 
n drown t 
g have 
e first-class, and. which h xil 
he 
hydropult utterly from what it was 
two years ago, it is a mere water pop-gun, with an 
at tke n: of the ram-rod. Richard d D. Blackmore, 
Teddingt 
of "Dee 6, 1862. There may be personal antipathy "s 
of the Soc iety—and we belie 
there is " 
Wasps.— It may be 
[da ited now with beer and 
he queen wasps, will catch t 
e tried it, and hang them everywhe The wasp 
aia Ivy walls, cp any place where ‘there is honey | 
In one day the bo ottles „produced ne d 40 wasps, 
ad 
only t 
worth stating that bot 
reign Correspondence. 
RUSSIAN wind Funer.—aAt p. 291 you express a 
regret at not knowing the Russian method of pre 
ungi for eating. 
| most; eaten 
Ps 
Ants.—These pas first made their appearance 
y stove, in which they a 
h or without vineg ording to taste, 
with it; it) | Ag. deliciosus, Boletus ps haridus d aurantiacus, 
ws dosi are boiled in mig and then ae in an cd peppered 
a 
oe at the same time not co! 
admits an vg! and e aan: ahi 
us 
ai ^ forgotten or 
now ad th 
ery par 
ful all 1 blo vinegar, and n tee un 
the | anthers t pM with it, The 
the flow The ARAUT aia LA. interfere = - e Boletus edt and ludus is 
[destroying of t the fruit in the lea: Another method o 
especially 
simply, - ‘i Tus 
ato prevent hem ps 
en 
tially known rs Urin 
cultivation, perhap: 
ome few out of. the hig chus. 
s s explanat ion y may account for th je awa rds to the 
aftar baving aon lost to 
merely existi ing in 
This 
ime with less expen s rict 
Gestroyir 
n grille 
sula and A 
` tree. , that t | quantiti a sufficient n blacken, ies -— ive ` p, “Wolkenstein, Beroia of the Russian 
= rele rf E i pla: oe In Pme E Mr. Thom mpson’s a small watering pot full of boi ater, ot pored Horticultural Society, St. Petersbur, $ 
bát me: d i Pod "d say, P Cali at if it were not possible | it upon them, which killed them instantly. I have R EED ROT PETE | 
regi ne a syed the ollinsia +n Jo Ls "bad pen A DB P Brito and n ery few ants infest) EXHIB THE SociÉTÉ RoYALE peral ata " 
: e, , is my house. B. , The len tht shi ch ou ort of the — eatures 
— he had not : impetnonsy jumped at a con- G.A." | of uode extended, ‘prevented s week 
" cae iut dii vil (5 t it wi m HN, a ond like to try a bip: with pem to vue going i details o the contribut ations s 
nis sun n em x is bantling that the | lice which I have adopted during the last differen: eih and indeed the arrangements of 
Det be 3 ethe Qub itt e E on view of its merits | fe xn hich at present succeeds well :— the show by which the collections are broken up and 
dui asion he ‘tas mittee. In arrivi at the con-| to take some pieces of tolerabl streng wire, sufficiently | distribu for effect as soon as the aw: gm 
awn as s the “revelation of the |long to form rings round the plants to be protected, in, rendered it impossible to do this with Ba like 
recast t. The « Rino t P" dud hrs o nd sew lists, or paper, or any flexible material po an — It may serve, however, as a record, 
lire pot rtc iii ein and the “Committee” inch in width alon g: thosa wires, s gs ing just if we give a brief resumé of the moet shown, 
hae "m od so d ac d ein named hs tu rned the ends "back hat they m ^ Lh ges into each taking De in the order in which they appear in p 
effe therefore quite unwarranted. It is not us “ee bys be pars án 
FW ripeto T ae in plant n cnet d. my annoying to the wood without injuring the lant, M. de e Smet, Ghent : nno nth Porta 
they should lie on the ae so as not to all cipere ryptomeria elegans, Japan, 1 d 
passage for the vondice, I have used carbolic acid | pressus Lindleyana argentea var. 1864; Retinosp 
A mre pal Ro cud Rs recommended in all cases, | obtusa a Japan, 1864; R. pisi ry 
ra on the Xm the e person using it, unless | 1 , and R, pisifera argenteo-variegata, apan, 1 4 
we see, t he bottle is i entrusted to careful hands, and the | Thuja Warreana fol. elegans var. California, 1864; 
hed ye to m plant if the acid touches it, Should any Sap pygmæa, 1863; Thuj Sa dolabrata fol. Wed 
flowers | of your Cor: nd ls 8, int accustomed to the j; 1068; x dolabrata pc , 1864, and p evi 
ic ata, tempted to try it, perhaps it may save | diee, s rigidus, Japan, 188; 
them some tr = tion that sweet oil applied fiho; In sy . polita, Japan, - 
at once in i of being ve on the fingers | and A. amabilis tol. elegans v vars ` California, 1864 
much alleviates the pain and injury of the bure. Ho. | ar Essen, Aix- ix ts Chapelle lle — New p not MIS 
arden ee d find the arii pog in force i in| are e previ Archyro rons 
a situation a n" h I latel y engaged as head | jav dica, Jat; i Livitonia s alias, Sumatra; Sal esi 
y : e men is in number, are| dem Mey ra, and undetermined species 0 thiol 
allowed to come tot their work w is | Calam a ak Martinezia, Stadmannit, 
or _As 4 to Ar tf Fic feel to want a day’s holiday, they take it duced by the 
y erent | without consulting me, or in any way appuisi of russels :— tro 
= so that Wie Wace ee eae "ys p a "d intentions stay e E otk un foci apri EL pese i commeres: Aopen si ium slat. 
petals are in full| feel disposed to repose upon their pillow for an hour or wee Cissus amazon 
-— ones pr a e more than their|two longer, they do so, a yr in such cases make their | ni n; eel Mayok fia ror ‘Philippines “Marans 
ve remige i — icol held to be, asa | appearance after breakfast, at half-past 8 o'clock. pret ta, Rio Pur urus, and M. tr Phryni 
decorati € — ‘to C. bicolor, which has = Secondly, on oo every man leaves work at| Negro; Medinilla itica, Philippines; ie 
e e mea ited at the Regent's| 4 o'clock p.w. Fi herefi , houses are | majestieum, Rio Purus; Philodendron a Pean 
jud; shut up, pits and Hines are covered up, and the water-| Para; Rhopala eleganti Parana ;. intro 
ing hurried over, so that every man may be ready to | cinnamomea, Costa Rica, New plants. philip: 
vee Ber a: und of the Under reps Si previ to ia zebri 
f | tat rete p» 
an any man conduct a garden in pines; 
J.C esten to himself or to his Ee. 1 
C., Dov Chia 
last Pe READ gn "his Sikkim d Rhododendron var, y. hypo 
be Ro Turm in| phyllum glaucovirens, St, Catherine; | Paras 
odi I m y pe "f aiat bal 
E hire, Lies o a th ay om be eet leuca, Solomon Isles; Dieffenbachia p 
; it has been | Doryopteris Alcyonis, St. Catherine; Gy 
well im [irae | 
