APRIL 9, 1864.] 
In the same house with the Lycaste were a ie fine pg Schilleriana. 
togloss uch as n her y 
ei, and O. Phaleopss, which had | me, “however, before I conclude, call specia ial attentio on to | 
mens of certain rare Odon 
Ts m, O. Pescator 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
But I must not linger too long 
re, or my ‘ Dies’ will be unduly prolonged ; let 
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ta cure or destroying every specimen they can find, that 
what they do not themselves want ma: 
only cm s kept i in tbeir aoe es by putting prohibitory 
prices on their heads.* ikewise, mn finely in 
flower, was O. Uro-Skin tact a x Guten ant of most | 
imposing presence when well grown. rm ame 
country another great rarity was pointed out —Epiden- 
drum cnemidophoru i f which,atthetimeof 
visit, there was only this on hte J specimen in Europe, |S 
although othe: ers, Iw was hap ace were shortly E 
use— ose 
temperature undergoes a odes rise—I found all the 
| ceeded in in ag tog ether. Besides the ordinary | l: 
i 
Lowii, 
herbàr 3 Arg ‘lo ociety 
seeks to soci will, by the annihilation of its 
, becom 
sutissimum, c ook i. 
C. Veitchii), C. Stonei, C. Schlimii i; and e Aen um, 
|of which last there were two varieties that sd d 
I Fen ce take specific rank. In addition to | 
however, I must not be supposed, to in — somo of the 
m: s ingenuity, 
poteet Veitch, jun., on the wher 
Vanda Batemanni grew (indeed it was E settled 
with 
pa nts ^ an centre: e E. gem eM 
me a record only of the things that 
also learn with very great satisfaction that a 
asd ial has been addressed by Sir W. Hooker, and 
the chief authorities at Kew, to the Council of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, earnestly requesting a 
h electione of tbis proposal to give prizes for 
llections of indigenous Blan r the very o M n 
A 
elso if you. will, pi ra ‘spare— the Orchids, s 
Catt] 
hen the door 
Mara to face the much greater egree heat and of the ss Fy “of this wonderful genus, | 
e to which the old E. S still "y" claim, siw whi ch, even at present represented, forms a truly 
Wei ow in fact enter the houses on the right of the | distinct, nei manageable, an aah enjoy ate group, | 
quadrangle, ey are n at exclusively devoted | a bi cum, form a nice subject a * Monograph.” 
crm má includin ng o = 
Continental “India he E 
ieeingo ast t of these ther 
I fear little ! tl 
iis 
WILD PLANTS, AND THE ROYAL HORTICUL- 
r4 than a | high pasen nat but with respect to 
tm central India many have already proved to 
e simos t as impatient of heat as the Epidendra and 
Odon — ossa of New Grenad 
Veitch had placed in one of his cool houses, in which 
the ti 
y 
Y of the loveliest Cologynes and 
some o varieties of Aérides 
iius p eie found to succeed te oe under 
“cool treatment.” But there is this differe 
such treatment as applied to — an nd F 
pe) e etel ie the m 
8, real some of these Mr. has 
at 
1 v SOCIETY'S PRIZES FOR DESTROYING 
THE 
ae! erstand that the following “ remonstrance ” | 
rti- 
Wr 
been addressed to the Council of the Royal Ho 
cultural Society :— 
that serious deer 
wild specimens of English plants. 
tpe we desire to thank the Society for - having shown 
Bot 
ian | species will be 
herbaria, who are ‘desirous of "obtaining € every plant | yy 
ake 
tempted | 
ot any. 
“ The value of land, and the riens state of agri- 
M ri inn therefrom , has caused many wild 
plants to be now confin 
n | foealities, often of small meid 
extirpated by collectors 
for prize 
whem v ed V burst ? Mena d their growing 
tenson, and dm sink into as stat e of Awya repose, 
re greatly 
to o destroy | what they do not gather i in order to Sagas pes 
n which man 
disappointment. 
resolute spirit, 
cw 
eo mmangis); but what e 
o of which might uisi be 
of bes y possibly 
rieda Ellisii ( te which Reichenbach Pastis his new 
say of 
supposed to 
onged to Oncidium cpm: and to 
ssed and flattened under a mangle. 
and the rem fer mire 
ins of very s 
base. s no 
d 
re 
om | extirpation bY the collectors for these 
will 5 prizes promote tt crabe aii 
e hose benefit they a 
rhizome = a strange fat bulbs at 
the 
intended, for there is 
1 
book, athens any of - specimens, or even seen any 
of them. But supposing the ad as 
san e et eee ‘Probably apply, i in some degree, 
to the Society ; for no attempt 
ilst s 
à éxticph- 
most interesting native 
t this disposal of 
is quite beds its legitimate 
and we have only to repeal 
we oordially «oie: of the course taken by the learned 
or of the Royal Gardens, in thus protesting 
ust howeve r, before quitting the subject, 
ress our regret and surprise that so important a 
lp publi do document as this “remonstrance” shouldh wit vebeen 
an 
ew à even to single | 
It is feared that such | Pears on 
RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF THE STOCK 
AND GRAFT, AS REGARDS FRUIT TREES. 
own part, we are of opinion that in the of 
d stock, made between the same species or between 
species closely na a Buch as that between different 
other vy enr from e d "Pane species. The breaka or melting, throughout centuries. Everybod 
ant s able o be Sears Ate "n estro it ew wt ot such MOS wrt of os y d the grea fester fii dr 
they | our mocks are taken from the forests; these 
possess n no 0 beauty : nor interest to the common “eye, but atoa rtainly com » fo DT the m ost part from the seeds 
e of much value in estimation of scientifie of the bes wild as sar, which id more Wild 
botanists. Thors is scarcely a county in England in | 3nd primiti Pears that 
pla J 
quality of the 
fruit is affected more by the Armet = the - mae 
by. the. influence of the stock. upport o 
"n 
nted, and 
without the hap of ether persons. 
“As it seems MÀ certain. that these prizes cannot | 
Botany, and must 
is last, was a 
i 
4 
j| 
was once fortunate enough to see 
shorter than 
in 
n 
Hi 
Ü 
I only regret that n n 
t jee mask was there a Aene 
f — botanical works! While on 
cree nary form 
e an Orchi 
Hi 
d 
ing evi 
z en which, t at another | 
cultural 
| operation ? 
s I must n Hort 
H; 
er 
had p iaka 
rhizome, and sii if it be referable to 
There were other houses 
: were other 
Air plants, in which some gigantic specimens of 
morsum ) Um 
unim 
of the charmi 
Mure mention ; ; 
eaves ue peendo-bulbs | * 
|through the selfish greed, not of real 
withdraw them before ‘th 
destruction to com 
LA 
** We have the Mi to be, Gentlemen, 
* Your m ost | obedie ^H "rm 
Koh IT 
ed by Uie wendidate - bimsell | wisi 
c Rete 
pra 
more oct sar rei than others 
quality.” 
M. Breitling, in the Annales de la Société Centrale 
iculture de France, says, ** There has been much 
the reciprocal action of the stock and 
ndr other, and many almost contradictory. 
F ouncil to metier ary mi rm 
The Botanists’ Chronicle, x — little | 
perio "ee jets Stroggling into existence, expr esses | 
a M ollo | 
t has been n announced in the newspapers that the 
icalteral nes EA with the ^ eee Pees andae of | P] 
couraging the study of local 
ffer es for the three best | Berbaria of 
to the ede our botani 
nists 
.Kensingion i " 
distributed in 
t the loss of even a single species, and are 
MÀ for their successors 
ho hav 
interest, either in piada 1 
| the known habitats of many 7 our plants are rapidly 
‘rare plants, giving 
if one 
the great t botanical societies, to whom we look 
the stock upon the graft as positive ; but rea of 
A graft on the stock is estimated as "nil, or 
| doubtful." 
n France, (ranae M. Liro 
Fer that we worl 
opu from the stone, 
dimi id erae and consequently the 
parili 
|. | 
"T AES 
inii 
Rivers 
better 
to “support a "weak-growing one, must have a great 
eren on its Me capo sometimes causing death, 
) p not the destruction, of our botanical 
ould 
es, sh 
poate bg Ser out and pillage a 
them, moreover, a 
let loose all the idle dilettanti in the 
all the localities of 
a direct i interest it in 
cal | liable. 
It is not so with the Pear and Apple. As is 
remarked by the German author, we have little to 
apprehend from the influence e of the the 
