May 21, 1864.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 483 
aan SPEEE SET T: du ring which it lost its peri but the mischief | be in constant use, but with avery slight degree of 
| evidently was of early date, and arose undoubtedly | intelligence we believe that this method of 
, from ini prin of the roots by Nd. Solong is heating will be an immense boon to the cultivator, 
JEN L aporto f the tree Tien in healtb, and there 
ME WILLIAM BULL begs to announce that he is a plentiful e pni ids oh perio posi , the | MR. BATEMAN'S LECTURE ON COOL ORCHIDS 
, y 
Collection — Dong es 22 gistaro "i cut short, and in eonse-| DELIVERED AT EE to whow, 3 n 3, 1 Ma 
d WELL-KNOWN erlod now 
DOUBLE PETUNTAS for 186 = the whole whined d " by so nome sudden somewha remote, I was indebted fi he honour of 
2507119 RATES Rr x n bability a grea ct of my adus io tia Reval Morir Society 
FRENCH SPOTTED PELA RGONIUMS for 1364 emp rs Bap ted ^, dh cr tempt for the an Sher because they had no Epiphytes ! 
DROOPING GLONINIAS for 1864 inted out ua Eve n Pliny, ” he adde od, * ‘who seems to seri be ras 
or a Sensi man in respecis, wou. 
BB pon be had on applications. sone pale noe rd T plant y young trees ‘where p ones have du cut not have joe a Cattleya rai Bi Darling tonia had 
Mr. W. B. also begs to announce that hls NEW Now Cale fin | 3 ch ‘thin ngs come in his way !” e I E hink my 
boy ie pem y rid fompictiona) wht The least portion left behin nd ma th À ts, whose 
p m COLEUS MARMORATUS, 10s. 64. each valuable tree when we east pes it ignorance of Orchidology re aro necessarily ‘fro: 
tal Plant, GYNERIUM ARGENTEUM fol. VARIE- Orci Acponanee.of of the goun su where alone io Epiphytal 
GATUM, Si» 6d. cach oe s whereas S igno 
cee shment for New King’s Road, Chelsea, | — Iw another columm we publ 5 nce of the moderns in UR fascinating 
den SW, Seeds Worth Growin letter from Mr. WYKEHAM ptu of Le eds | ite ntin e unabated u g^ we close. of the 
OBSON'S PRIZE CALCHOLARIA SEED  is| Castle, respecting the new mode o ATING, | 18th cen bury, notwithsta pang p vast superiority of 
Aer gee in the kingdom. In sealed packets, Ls. 6d., 2s. 6d., hi sani described r Journal f year | their geographi ical knowledge and thei ir constant inter. 
a u. . 78. We have ourselves had an opportunity | course with all the chi 
OBSON'S PRIZE CINERARIA SEED.— Ten Fir slof inspecti ng the plan, which in point of economy | the world. is will at once appear if we compare 
ae te, 18,28 B, and Ae. Collection in the Spring, 1862, In sealed and efficiency is searcel to be equalled Every- the v ld as it i own to ourselves with the compa- 
L— LLL : | thing seems to thrive vans on the tile floor ; | ratively small portion of it that was known to t 
OO RR, see pasket py pu SEED, but for those things which may be supposed to | ancients, In this map ( B. exhibited a modern 
"3. Donsox & Soxs, Seedsmen, Isle hW succeed better when their roots are not confined, a map of pe wora s pax AA the wor world "E up 
ORTICI he h A 5 d 
Rov 3 E o RAEO ITURA Y L SOCIETY. hei eii i iore E- z 5 is eco: which. its Orchid- producing regions | are indicated 
of AWA & XAY A E 2 ed tint which varies in its nsity according as the 
Finst-cuass 4e TiCATES. consist only of or three refuse pieces of wood, yield of Orchids in the several portions may be great 
rore A from Mr. VERUS when made up at night requires no watching, and | dy small, The redder the tint ti re numerous the 
AUCUBA JAPONICA FOL. MARGINATIS, from Mr, Buil, Chelsea. en it is allowed go out entirely for the Orchids, Thus many portions of. Austra ia are just 
Le M Welt J. & C. Loë, Hammersmith, purpose of experiment, or for reg ing the heat, | tinged with red, while 
Guuenesia HECISTOPHYLLA, "from. Mr, et as, it is astonishing how lon e floor retains a | the peninsula of Cochin China, E “Nepal, the 
Lom diuo: fun as ag ay Sg sufficient degree of temper: colouring is intense. Hindostan less con- 
keon Curren, som Mr Verl. The main feature, however, f the wr is getting |spicuous, but in Ceylon and Ne ge the deeper 
D-CLASS CERTIFICATES. a genial bottom-hea rder iu front of the | tint jq m oris the lighter ne een 
Garyn van m Mr. Bul and Mr. Williams house, a ci 8 = Aaa value in the | over a large portion of what was supposed no ny 
Mr. : 
sent Vect om Me from Mr: Williams and Mr. Hull cultivation of Vines, which often suffer seriously | Years to id desert, but from which 
IRFFENBACHIA GRANDIS, from Mr, Bull and Mr. Williams, Captain Grant and others have lately brought most 
Perznomia ARIFOLIA, from the Society’s Gardens. m the great contrast I A tem — LE mines d Dubiduis Foul fa Heg 
O carer town Meme Cenipsitis Mon a mati pigri ap it is that ^ wa Leone, and song e, puse o jim Niger, Orchids 
The FARO a take place on June 1. , " i swarm, as is likewise the case in Madagascar ut it 
=" Tuomas Moone, Secretary to the Committee. | blossoms are developed. Shanking, spotting, | is perhaps in America, within the tropics, that hids 
ranch-roots, leafwerts, and other ladies arise | are most abundant. Here all the republics stretching 
The Gardeners’ fg iva frequently from this cause alone. is clear, along the vast ch of coat and Pa 
* ever, that the border may be applied to many | Andes are—at leas an Orchideous sense—red 
SATURDAY, MAY ther purposes. ithout the aid of fra it m republics ! Les now to the world, as known to 
yy ea | do de answer for Me ewm riae og, and oth the Sii as exhibited a map of the “ Orbis 
Erro WEEE. - i hieb are grateful for bottom-heat | veteribus aalit to Strabo), we see at a. 
Tusan — May Royal Horticuttural. (Hall and Table pee "we m in general ve them, eg but ibas the — | glance that t the mice of their geographical knowledge 
EDNESDAY, — nets Bevoratins tt, Kein Ed be frame e hav aciliti fell short of _the hid- bearin e d zi Ameria oF 
| eni; zwi Whe vefotitin, Which ink forensein come they has Africa in “that portion wich he rah 
Tux dry weather of 1862 was ve Ae beni capil vale directly i in proportion to their precooity, and |i ri. wer or yet In 
to Co: ve seen man s of|for Cucumbers and Melons, few conditions ean be| tn dor th ro neod Hot Wonder Ae 
its ray: and am amongst others n^ poa of | ima, pnd more favourable, the Orc riiai ients; that of the 
Cupressus macrocarpa, of 17 years’ foe ino obvious, moreover, that the plan might be} m sis less easily explained! It prevailed,'as we 
own garden, fell a victim, We had indeed for introduced on a large scale in the middle of a|have seen, the close of the last century, and 
some time Ope that the drought was not the | gar without any paromo. which would | might have continued almost to the present hour had 
primary cause RM f, but. we had hitherto | mat Ay iminish the expense. Experience | it-not been for the labours of a Brown or of a Lindley, 
densi to examin ypress, in-the hope that | would suggest numerous UR more especially of the latter, from whom, indeed, the 
ht send up dei from below. This morn- ver a list mperatures | Science of Orchidology may be cow to have ene: 
pa ever, we have received from the nei regi thermometers, one of which bark amd s his biais ed MS - Es 
bourhood of a portion he trunk of|was pl in the warm border ata depth of es voi 
a Cryptomeri ca, which was 20 feet high, | 8 inches, the other at the depth i border memorable paper * On e$ Cultivation of ri hie of 
and which suddenly began to fail last September, | in front of a short range of hot-houses continuous by the “grower. - 
y like o In this case, however, | n rra hn ‘the ru m e find that from | "y, raed 
one small bran the base which had taken s end 6 Nes usive, the mean tempera- | at Oxford—for it open abe out to me a new MA of 
survi as a ear wih a large | ture p M S und a ard was V v ed 
ief 
examination, it 
the sn pa a sheet of white mycelium 
xaetly as in v 
o 
nal, p. 24 
trees formerly oce Ur the 
ih the Confers "n e plan anted, there 
i 
The meh Ss more than is requisite, 
but = s to he nya Anak AA the wall which | 
separates the vault un he border from that! 
under da house, Ans re "e four large Or 
ce 
interest and enjoyment im t the lapse of more 
than 30 years, is as fresh n 
my horticultural career. 
| Dr. Lindley —- 
attached to the plan 
points to te En -SUCCESS he 
our attempts at thei eir cultivat ion, x then nisin to 
mr in order to do 
set of 
I 
all the Orch id-producing 
this he es in r 
countries i ‘of "the wor rd, wit finds that the „hottest if 
dry cold a 
ns 
the requisite nicety, 
till th roganing 
th tho “il deis roots | 
saw P the p 
| 
e n 
ick lines, which so often | 
with Fungi, Acque t 
many portions o ew | 
which the mycelium i at 
ed isease. On 
H 
tof the 
ed, 
E 
Mer d soil hiss is » contact ot with the preset - the 
it is not er to | 
at fi 
hyp t dry, 
ve so great a depth of soil as was rst 
of of planta. Heat and moisture ar are rene E essen- 
o 
hav 
antici 
It 38 obvious some eare mu 
At all events I can answer for my own, and 
moniui 
that at t Chiswick was quite as bad. After a while, 
reg the 
be estima greater than is desira 
that D st be t ^. aken 
ro d , or the oi eat will 
e properiy ble AN le 
was neither indispensable nor indeed desirable, 
as no be Bil gg Ray ace 
| in opening and shutting the valves, ae the times | am 
wheu the fire may be safely put out entirely 
dle 
y from the frost of 1861, 
redueed to a few embers. A thermometer 
bw 
and we therefore reduce sint temperature to w^ E oint 
or | 3 which it stands in e best t managed colle of 
* Hortic ultural Transactions. Second Series. 
Part I ,1832. 
