652 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
(Jury 9, 1664. 
THE CULTORE, EXE THE PERPETUAL 
TION. 
Tae following remarks on oe. culture of these now popular 
ard useful flowers, for which we are indebted to the 
eu florists e abridged from J’Horticulteu 
neais 
erpetua —— on anos of its vigour» 
(A laugh). But i 
was now applyin 
mbine science, DS and Amm published 
« i Fook entitled Mumbo Jumbo the Mountains of 
Moon on the Gaboon. (Lau, zhter). He had had 
1 
used in his life 
had ever peru (A laugh, and * Hear. >) 
o there „were then three 
had borne 315 well expanded and beautiful flowers; 
season 
growth in a idium leucochilum = 
sures 9 inches the largest part of the pseudo. 
idi 
readily. The mil should be Miller freely manured, an 
the m The surface of the groun 
should be occasionally broken up with 
after much rain, i 
deepl y 
rt 
pat in at the end of April or the beginning of May 
4} 
bulb, and .91 inches d LA this i is thr ree times 
-— in it—some lurking fun or humour i in it; 
as none. f nonsens x such a 
might be pe to come from a combin 
age, writing a dvamatio- ‘sketch 
of 
oe this most beautiful Orchid can be 
ve ong. -flower spike on each Pe at 
Thee 
the m of in me Lens rn showing to what 
ey sen Mise. (Mach ight) The thing would not 
deserve any consideratio 
ag conducted and seat table 
e Museum, had been ses whether it was true that 
the "ei then yield a ve 
do erve the p uit e several years, a nd to keep | h® Was to take a part in the vp grep of the 
them d rf, it to.sh ch flower-stalk, | 278™ umbo Jumbo; or, the Moun of the 
after - bloom is over, to 2 or 3 and whether T de er “to make 
base. 
In this way there will v obtained e 
a greek: S200 of flowe 
To 
co 
stalks not yet p 
will lengthen out, and in the spring yield o: 
mis-shapen flowers, while the plants will » inl 
furnished. 
f Oc n the plants should b 
open gro 
well drained. s case 
cover them with ‘straw, i in uda to itas Mid sin 
Moon in the Gaboo 
wn Mira its | himself n more interesting i in the eyes o; 
ery ye ar | a udi h 
joy the flowers in Pistes the — should be lang 
co 
vc ages i pec in was i told had taken en in itha 
id n 
= 
the enlightened 
o make his face as black as a coal. (A 
ormance was under 
3 me 
ne was 
a fool of himself on the occasion. 
econ er and Under these circumstances | 
oad to ask ark right x gentleman whether public | 
s at Sou 
able SM po sa sala aries eum re — 
take 
monstrous ar 
Gardens, t know whether hon. gentlem 
the 
a 
only read the production. s qui ugh t 
make him avoid the Ba ig Hortionitural “Gardens on 
the occasion. (Laughter and ‘hear, $^)" It 
really a serious thing. if re table suits servants had 
e person connected with | bee 
: shed, and e 
ngton, who might be — à 
d 
o g 
soil ve plenty o drainage, the 
cer 
g 
warm system, ever si me ‘the year 1838 ; t 
more pri rog pps aw E" than one year un 
ment t vapour 
baths. T am ge i convinced that many ‘Ore 
stand from na to 25° of frost s chi y 
slightest injury. During the very se 
1861 a large piant of Phaius Wallichit was left ina 
pndured from 18° to 25° ost 
than a week before I noticed its marora 
I was very much afraid when 
lose it. I nei P applied the usual 
[4 
SES 
y 
Neu. animation, It w 
a temperature of 6°, w 
it i w 
uatemala, a 
pot % 
of water in it. The 
t had been in flower 
a few of the 
às 6 always Mt a " 
speratur as abou 
d on ly 
| to make fools of themselve 
flowers paving pE $ um Geo. Ey 
re. ps Whio ich is. so, fatal to planta when they have and to the refinement v feeling which was supposed 
E to exist in this country. (Hear) He sped the Ri oe! 
a E oed et agni seen bahay ae hon. gentleman would give the House a eign Correspo: ni 
of Lyon pr year by ^|that the Science and Art Depar seite - euin r ais TT rs Ms, E. m 
| embark in liter ursuits or dramatic form aes errace Station, Mare am pny 
= Secretary Cuzin— Sato colant; apt, Sexy, scarlet s con ps € Iam quite well, and at last have found i employe 
Mons Bondet—Straw-yllow, strongly bordered | q Sur tir ke on Oroper D eas Pape dE tie lady witch T daspatolod e ton ot Y lan APT thought t 
i y =e colour; | flowers very T€ ith slate | Downes’ Seedling G the crisis of the final| would not write again until I had got a permanent 
i cepe Lad Hy OEY ge, sti dice eer met It — discoloured, looks as if pincel or, as they say here, * billet;" but I did 
"Robe t Fo "ba: Pure white, heavily bord d itl by negro fing - of course is worthless. I believe hear of one before. the Je of January, at which 
“ nth ; as us i pre white, d fre e bl orero uva ETT this rand and solely from sunstroke. | my b the ship. cia aure Imus 
an uen ` Benarye bite e ag let peces, ith Muscat of Slekandein does the same, if fully exposed | tell you was 70 miles from Christchurch, and I 
nest Bena Ory senrieb, SEO bat dangerous angle, and at the critical period, to the | only get up t there by wala, sol had ts to set off u 
oo ry Whit ith icd midsummer sun. Let your corres, ent shade his €— x ws 2 at man and blanket, Z 
d "Pai aivre—White, with a broad cerise bunches, as we have done, to obviate the evil, and I i "s certainty as 
nd; flowers enormous, and well. formed. This 
vigorous eg powder flowering variety is quite an 
acquisition amongst the Perpetuals. 
—— M MÓ— 
orrespondence. 
£21 
bjec 
t Kn —€— y 
Snakes.—Can any of y 
how the noise rcm aly known as hissing i in aed is | most 1 
extremely plentiful in x 
ften to | be 
and this s mmer 1 have had occasion o 
e — e till a few 
a specimen mmon snake 
(Natrix tora), hissed fondly, it. repeatedly, both 
whilst I held it in the air We eei nd whilst allowed 
ida and I have heard so many reasons given 
so that I should be very glad to know the true 
papers A. I fin — it 
pte fer’ fitfal old 
& concerning it is 
- the 
mi 
re ways than NM other fruit or vege- 
table. j ep a po 
fork a dinner a ‘ae 
—I understand that 
exhibition. Some day I may rev 
the mean 2 M TER 
e (both the Mies e snake de 80 CO 
that your readers of 
PM without a silver 
W. F. Radclyffe, | 
its secret 
d ud room for the Wk 
Parliamen 
y; they w were s portaat P 
ying uw small por 
ell a 
uxuriantl 
on Mr. S heres skilfu 
as qui un 
e v us: no ^ obtained this ratte tion. Howey 
sake short of the stor og la mpi there in two dig 
walk, and was ut Well, the first j to 
an 
h|and after 
it 
: 
the 
sheep, vá stables E 
put on as 
UL. 
NO 
E 
Ei 
erd 
p jr 
ha ae FOLO; aud ee 
1 saving enp if n the 
so I po eit wI "A 
is a list of decem — have Tun e grea 
— collection of es 
mean tempera rature 
or cvm 
- on d just like a lot of pigs; aad ie 
i of fleas 
blanket, 
um 
$ 
HER 
FEET 
tim iud at w on thd 
Bed: such a a small l hut to deep in that v had 
the bare floor (no beds, not even Ps 
—I killed 145 in five nights 
v said to thal 
d down 
um 
What w 
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EH 
Mackail, 
Lraxtoni, 4) 
i 
i 
irr 
= 
i 
2 crassifolium, -— € cristata. 
taken ature of 75° on 
Ẹ 
= 
P 
Db 80 — of E 1863, per: nd placed at once ordi the 
d mean -— f 50°. uring 
B. hotel part of the ih temperature 
from 50° to 65°, with qoae of air; the 
e hou 
the 
greenhouse plants that 
o 
measure 51 pre round the spem ss part of the we 
bulbs grown in a 
r 
ec? Tat ay Nad ted 
several things 
There | live in 
| y boxes wi 
not go and YE after them I [shoul in 
lose them altogether; so go off I 
Pte ir Pig Pi ede IPRC AT Ae 
ound 
Sá 
ub 
D 
i 
Ht 
taken out ; qun journey 
- a isan set 
in, one of our shepherds 
live in ‘ee plainest ote fs possible. 
Pm et, which was at our out 
i a 
