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582 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND “AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
(Jung 4, 1964, 
the winter of 1862-63. I shall bel to M" that many | three last are undoubtedly very fine T ; H. demis- 
have been injured or killed dur ing ec s ord sum has P ade fronds 16 inches lon 
: iw 
eink is uary. Then shi 
24- -sized pots, alw. taking ne 
when the thermometer was as i Here non leaves the labyr ‘of rocks, and | artifi 
occasions. The Ferns are mos tly. planted in "Mili views ied e lower part of the rent n "The path 
between the rocks, but advantage bas been ta ke n of now Paved to the stream ata point kien the water 
this immense natural rockwork to give a fi pool below. Nea 
tty 
situation and degrees of moisture suitable. to the | here Trichomanes radicans has been planted, and tl 
listurb the old ball or d and if 
By th 
A 7 ere 
streams of water make their way between the rocks, are | with seed. A too presumptuous water-ouzel has e 
decern m in|taken a fancy for the spot, and almost — the 
more exposed , places, P. Robertianum., | In milar Fern | with its thick mossy nest, Looking back over the 
and alpina, the free growing “American Coane eris | virginica and areolata, Platyloma atropurpureum, and 
tenuis, and several plants of the lovely C. montana, the e would b vestita. 
f the 
d plants, and bloom well the same 
pla nts, and come into bloom much earlier, 
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best o o genus. ould be occupying too mu ch s 
The pretty Woodsia obtus: e dare h re, 
rocks, also Woodsia arais d on ZA the omo people cultivate them that the "ed possess no 
ore care of it it daring the early. d e 
by ke 
may remain until they show signs of starti 
strong gnus which will generally be (wheel > 
ifi cia h 
pos: 
e end of n ril t| 
rea dy to receive their fin E shift inte ra 
dii em or into a border prepared for their 
tion, which, where practicable, is prs. E: 
sown i ated as abo 
those sown in the autumn make by far the 
0 
keep ont fna 
again into 
- not ta 
ible to leave al] 
Ne ko- 
es 
T nr te 
the the ron a 
Hz 
of a wall, where the path is raised to cross a deep | general interest. Philesia buxifolia an 
arr are planted Asplenium acutum, which is appa- | spinosa are growing freely, with Tropzolum speciosum 
ently dead; also A. aer septentrionale m trailing over them. Lapageria iu 2 killed to 
Antann; thé: Is st seems ali o ha sed the e gr round, As edd — — = s. Such ed ia 
i h 
itself in this position. Inas roped are lceolus, — the 
inum, and its fi th American variet A lat , | Siberian Cypriped genie hardly | t 
with “Ac H = len dte teal i rro to be seen elsewhere i in "England. ' Several “Hellebores 
l ith man ieties, 
l rii] n P. TU with uoc fronds | and five or six other kinds. On wet roska are orem 
hav mg been 
15 inches } . Polysticl flexu freely on Paesi Alpine plants 
iod Tod» lu edi dead. NEU P Primula farinosa, and ali, with large dark flowers. 
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failure by supposing that the rays of th 
In the high of path several 
teii mana o w "nd € b. agellanien and E n "€ been arranged for the cultivation of Bog Plants. It is 
Iu the a inde hawesd iam uil living d pro- | 9 difficult to imitate the conditions under which bog 
3 , ? LI . t H 
ffer 1 
Nube 
cause the plut to M n entirely" on the val ARA ` 
ing fter 
| replaced in the same position an rege i light Trid 
, | they occupie before. I could only b for the 
had not previously been subjected to the: em. 
which 
ith t al i 
| the “plants an equal ete of li ight. I iat pas: found 
un acted too 
Medos 
, The most 
suitable soil for this plant i 
0 | fibry loam "à which is Acca ano Ye h M dh of 
of silver sand, fibry peat, pie i 
$ equal porti 
hill dled with wet peat, and then great ae charcoal, all di Modo together. For the final nal shift 
crispum, ‘an th en ave n iN s from the natu sj bogs | on The m ing use ‘it. cho oppe qb ar ch coarser n 2 due ina 
Lomaria fluviatilis also seems hardy. Lomaria Pater- b ht iH wiliglàntsón the Shifti ke particular 
tni in a very shady ne bie much injured by the | Pers eee ee pe f » d oston, Orgilal 
=, bat is now MUR m tap Fonds; this is a very | dmir irably, a and many curious planta were, successfully Plate pos er ores 
Mera in em, grown, but the difficulty experienced now is to prevent = — SN ro Distinction find the following 
Lastrea cristata, intermedia, and dilatata are growing the Grasses and other strong- diobin y 8 Over- t may be ee the oe 
everywhere, Lastrea frondosa, Sieboldi, and opaca all powering the ro aca E bs natural bogs the cattle Hortioultaral Dorta ees, in the woa nd Florists 
J iving. Lastrea Thelypteris, planted by | oq these Grasses, and a subject Aere to ner Mr h consideration, 
little streams of water, runs its caudices under the of & springing up, but this dide being removed, the | altho wA it i$ launched with some 
soil and springs up many feet distant from the parent | more delicate plants get worsted in the “stru ggle fo for | in reference to the “Royal Horticultural Society; and 
- Lygodium scandens is quite dead, but L. pal- |, exi stence,” a i Me. arwin would say. The only plan yet | perhaps - good es ght - made of it. The 
matum on a wet bank is growing freely. L, mexicanum Zotar tht writer o e years we have thought 
avery handsome species, has lately been planted, at | by hand, an unsatisfactory process, and one which | it a disgrace eto poen that € notwithstanding 
cannot yet be pronounced h arge tufts of those | requires ‘great care and knowledge of the plants. If| the important fact connected with the pursuit, that 
two od mn acie Veces sensibilis and | any ingenious horticulturist will suggest any other plan, | can boast a larger repe of lit any other 
A banks; and in similar | tye a of these bog plants will feel much obliged. science or calling save the Church [no, no), yet it is 
places the ae € Ouyehians lucidum is growing E ehe P eon Jtr are Parnassia palustris, | utterly without any College, Club, tution 
freely, other foreign kinds, with Drosera | which scientific attainments in some form or other con- 
Shes cp falcatum is much injured, perhaps ki — | didhotoma, Whittaker gion rotundifolia, and others. | nect lo 
Wood M in an an eqi d st but 
Woodwardia anana and W. radicans whose last two of —— — — Pitcher plants are adi 
year’s fronds are more than 6 feet Jong, are € well: Sar aris and flava. In annou 
x wies A areolata, and virginica, are hea réuintkablo eem as hardy, I ought to e that it 
rdy. The two last are among Led most sicing | is probable that their ser re not frozen when the 
pins in the pote Scolopendrium vulgare and | {e of t as 99 
ie 
Bl peidrium reniforme. In y beds by arning, d never freezes. 
water ks Osmunda specta wile, iiie ea, Clay- | around would prevent minei radia! 
toniana and interrupta, all growing very finely. I 
similar situations are e Struthiopteris Boneyvanión and 
de ad. 
en ztia 
Athyrium Filix-fæmina is also her ith many | all pitchered 
stra Win varieties, of which A. Frizelliari is gv of the pisse ege 
most remarkable. Ap eas tx cei “> its ve ary 
pe variety flexile, is scel EEA well o st banks.“ -i 
are insect traps. All the Nte 
I have examined, whether of — Cephalotus, or 
Sarracenia, contain sweet se which at ract 
eed "s 
insects, and the insects iem oon in the 
ted i become food for the plant. It is most inter 
is prin stropurpureatn, , growing splendidly, with observe the modification. of the lips of the pr^ 
fronds 15 inches lon 
doi oing to lose sight of t 
ng. 
collection. Iti is perfectly ceci Lowi ‘fronds remaining Nepenth: es there is generally an overhanging lip, like 
uninjured during the most s eather. It is not | the eaves of a roof, all round a inside edge of the 
pA zt. obta dmg de t many sofielan. “The plants here are | pitcher. I have often observ: mall beetles ed to 
g — from Backhouse. | surmount this, and in their ridanie fall back into the 
tii 
tion may become a fact. aie see the 
take would, we are assured, 1, do more to 
Piatyioma s rotnndiolin and flex m apparently water. In Cephalotus a row of s 
te dead. Glei enia ^ alpina, planted i in (€ place, | thorny projections, ‘era s one sometimes 
f Ferns i the 
; it continued to uncurl its | spikes on top of a wall to prevent „people getting 
fronds Seg xe fos This is is a do iode but | over. I 
ation han by seeking to 
ardy example of a curious genus. The | with hairs like plush al Pointing downwards, to which 
finest of th the C Gleiche d mean amne i iae survived | insects attach their with difficulty, This is best 
Aou Bs E but is now dead; the others edin s purpurea w hiems specially 
ere also tried, namely Gleichenia S cata peee adapted for the catching of blue-bottle flies. 
St ortis tisque jf pesci ios quens ae of Sarracenia variolaris are l ama fall of of 
They do eje oii eae A za 
names t 
frost. 
In a very dry crevice is planted Quum vestita. so large that rats are found drowned in them 
This Fern is is often n place ced in na hoth — -— senon | ow a why, Nature has twi the E of |g 
gene- | plants »into these strange forms, is worthy of further 
rally to be Rund on it. Here about H3 prie nis were | in quiry, (n vd would bea henge in this paper. I 
i like i Sal 
sugges ction 
rae by which honow 
planted two years ago. The Fern remains evergreen | should see ec subject treated in the same ee Deep une is evidently a 
during winter, and = a frond was injured with 20° | manner as has cn fa iin he “ Fertilisation ex —- rational [sra - the Feilows do not bestir 
of frost. It is now making qu quan antities of young fronds. | [of Orchids,” and if Mr. Darwin i turn his atten- 
a a de cavern under a rock is Adiantum reni- | tion to it, I think that in the forms of Pitcher er plants 
ense tufts. | would find many points fitted o his ingenious | 
"ea one quoe small waterfall tumbles over € speculations. JV. W. B., Strete Ralegh. 
eri 
odea pellu- . Home Correspondence, 
all killed. Here also | . Clianthus Dampieri.—I would advise your 
and — camia — (see p. 486), to sow = seed e: ina S-inch 
n n October, and to place the pots a dry airy 
on rocks; P'Trichomanes shalt h in | a cool greenhouse. When the plants have grown 
prove 
| the rising mimus n of gardeners, in 
Chiswi 
ur corres 
I 
acquire on a win occupy | the fron 
opinion readers on am details 
‘this pect pate 
eke, trees; e 
variety ni itas and Trichomanes at “all confined, shift them i into 48-sized pots, and 
| have hardly been | replace them on the shelves, being careful not to over- 
„but the water them during the winter months. Here they 
oe ha 
earings of tuis que e Y Z. at 
Collecting | n reris —2 
* printed copies 
of the conditions 
Society cling to the send intckestà of horticulture, 
developing ie: ¥ vari urces, and no s 
s F.R.H.S. do not i n 
the meaning which plain F.H.S. bore in 
a science, but. reci that at the "pocket a these ich 
viduals are iem enough to pay t NI fee by 
ree 
on 
vens - the leading —— i of of the s dur , T 
no ann, TA 
Law has 1 
Church. mers, Geolog other e ome 
of the sotentillo world — their r institutions to 
ed with which is honour b; 
er | nect veted 
wish eden ey dori ts kso that a urs 
— sirva e: and a Royal Botanic | 
e 
the horiatra pem i I shall be Sis and d 
at pP MD d 
