-— THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [APRIL 9, 1864, 
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self is how to | prepare. and pack them. The | which are thus mooted, we may usefully devote a ultimate serm ents; ale mo sea EL 
eiu of seeds for exportation is p aco to some further explanations supple- | the of stipes only clothed with white” 
more importance than m manner in which t mentary to those already offered, which will be ecd d E “ew i ne te long, bright I 
are per agar packed, the first pla «ier found at p. 146. The X ege ges which have been | |. on the powd ery bas therwise smooth eie ts ed 
ought to be dried € Hl ia so that all signs | now Lind hi us are thes secondary rachides pe ae n elei at the base, listed 
of sted may be evaporated and driven off.| 4, ngth of tine, ‘is it necessary that the| This on nt 
If this is not sttanded to, the moisture is apt to | plants Mode, p» gro m here | have recently been made to our collections of gard 
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warm latitudes, and their vitality is thus injured ei of tho he dies to bag n, we will say, an “Orchid o Asplenium ferulaceum, noticed at p. 1108, 1853, 
or destroyed. This important matter being |just co into flower, and to grow it for , 
attended to, they may be packed iu almost any we eie: : EENT that ips within the und of the | finely cut into small narrow segments, but the freti. 
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been uP ^g to, and is one whic h we do not utup. The lower part of thestipes as 5 wel bs 
SECIE gi 3 1ec te the caudex, has a covering of white powder similar 
n the system of putting up seed in or we plant n ‘a s hanging pesa , for ‘instance, b be | t D is gen enus, but thig 
bottles rint p show the importance we attach to | admissible ? i vond bea Dir d Au) E f í 
the seeds being carefully dried before they are put pones s E be thwarted by their wishes not| ky remaining part v^ the ere a8 well as the lamina 
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of King William Street, London Bridge, were r stated that it was not our| The plant has been i ed by Me essers. Veitch 
requested by the Horticultural Society of London iim to im ma conditions on the exhi- | & Son, from Chili, Genin holy collatis Mr. Pearce, 
to put up a colleetion of seeds in different ways for due beyond this, that the com peting plants — proves to be a free-growing greenhouse ey 
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were put in T and sealed up, een were pu Tout grown plants, actually cultivated b M gin Ye "t h EST. [ee d 
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mede ey were sent to China round the | inquiries, however, and others which have been psi cont ‘sit a the’ Floral Commi si Toe 
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four months. When the seeds were sown, they all | tition, if left in this way, may be misunderstood. | gramma flexuosa of sant cal America, - being als 
vegetated in a most satisfactory way; those|The subjoined explanations will, it is hoped, | three or four net dex eh and having small line 
packed in bottles grew quite as well as any of the | prevent this from being the case. gments; bu 
others, nor could any preference be given to any| To the first inquiry our reply i is, that a plant | different “obviously p: inde » in the peculiatl 
one mode of packing over another. But then, it just coming into flower, Fi i into a room from | flexuose rachis which has suggested the name of 
must be remembered that these seeds were care | latter species, and in the refracted position of i 
fully dried before they were put Nf Had this part would not have been gr own ina roont ithe sense | Primary pinne. No other de rupis sperie us 
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of the operation not been attended to, the result | we intend, and should therefore be excluded by | YS approaches it even ro nearly as t 
would probably have been very different; those|the judges. It is clever indoor culture which we Se 
packed in bottles would have perished, while those | desire to encourage. The most satisfactory way to DIES ORCHIDIANE.—No. XL 
in brown paper and canvas bags might have|clear up this point will be to require that the (Continued from p. 1928, mie 
survived. In availing ourselves of the pattern | exhibited plants shall have been kept in a room for| Messrs. Verrcu AND Soy, Exo URSERY 
post w ich is now offered to us for the trans-| at least six weeks previous to the show. ING'S , Roa», CHELSEA. — This enterprising. firm’ 
2 of samples of seeds, there is only one mode| To the second inquiry we reply, that if the |alti Orchid 
is that if the 
acking allowed, and luckily that mode judges give the awardsto the two plants which growers, soon fought their way into the front ranks, 
usualy aciem "the best one, ‘ Samples oi display the Pear es skill in Messi whether Fern | When once the matter was fa (id taken up. No other 
seeds hich cannot be sent in Open covers, |or flower, we shall be satisfied. Our object in establishment € rz s great 
m des ‘closed in lcm r material, offe ring the rewards will then have been gained. 
tied at the neck." Had the panui Gaata ps there are two prizes, it is scarcely within the avo > beon * 
— stu h e its of probability that any diffculty will a n i 
ds during a long voyage, he could not fave found in selecting the two Der. diss me subject: Et 5 Road, enter ges pent 
suggested a better plan. o the third inquiry we reply, that undoubtedly ae a ru arrange ed o on P ither side, until you 
As t e kinds of seeds which are likely to|a basket plant—not however a basket ts flt: E SUPFOI unded on all sides by 
prove an acceptable to friends in foreign | will be eligible if grown indoors for the requisite | glass a eni e you may be almost said to 
countries, w remark t that common well- | period, and so would a water plant grown in M. y the (Orid) void from China to Peru," 
known hikes are path appreciated than anything | aquarium, if it met m requirem nt. e fo dere you nji we “3 Ri 
else. Useful vegetables are always welcome, and | that any kind of plant, grown in any manner, es il a ing tor’s ‘Projecti 
common flowers, such, for example, as Mignonette, | be admissible, provide is is fairly grown indoors ie eu being pae to the es ot te T : 
Wallflowers, Stocks, Geraniums, Primroses, and| under the care ady gardener, not a pro- ye etn acia whilst the natives 
pue o: 2 e mm! M — highly prized than — western hemisphere are prov bia Sar in ome pa 
oral novelties with high-sounding names. un We our correspondent will h nding range of houses on you 
thing whic = o the mind the flowers an à | dificulty d in setting bis friends to deis E: M wx or Africa and the mo Indies ie the e most pt 
home of childhood and youth has an irresisti v | — rs may go and do likewis eed igher temperature than Wii sitios have ni 
charm for those whose lot is to sojourn in countri | sisi, , uil their constitutional ma i "s » - 
far away from home. — ls WAR be houses overloo qm Mr. Veitch the pe og 
ants whic t ht, whe 
There is a class of seeds which retain wem | Horticultural — cdi rs Committee has approved: co Ne lected, ite ved kept i pee sd e 
vitality for a very short period unle ess they are|in its last year’s report on the experimental plants Sei on the left, where “Cattleya pop Sc e 
sown In the earth, and therefore it is useless id wn at Chiswick, i is the Mica ANNUA, an old- | dominate, Some years since there was yet another 
attempt to send such things abroad in paper or fashioned annual, which it is stated was very effective | subdivision, sevetal Odont een Pn b, 
C y t m hs. massed i little 
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like kind belong to this class. If we wish to sen We | saw these plants, and can bear testimony that such | here it was that I first aa eng ese 
t to a country as distant as the East Indies, | "39 the case. The subject is mentioned here for E treatment’ in actual opera It more 
they must be sown in earth in WARD's cases, an sake of Leine] „out that the effectiv veness of s | admirably, a nd Mr. Ve nw believing that pose ; 
this condition i a arge num 
Athanasia w. 
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i " rely to good culti- own, 
^ The 3 of some of the side st K vation. Sown thickl a ds th E- sE too x ROT of the b LM o i is they were g 
wg are kept long out of the quid. many of - annual flowers, the Athanasia i is a mere | proceeded to apply e principle | to one ol 
eed ; trans; ie singl to 1 : : : ntoglossa, &c., 
ris e Mi cmi p ud y into good soil, it | Orchid houses, into which the Odo 
e, Qu Tit ee e be obierved a they forme a with a profusion of its | removed—and where indeed they are atill_—but ME 
ina Green ed sir wil be observed already right yellow flowerheads. "The "branching ‘abit | have not micconded so well a5 Um sie qaman a 
t I hie! 
» TS ire ig TER cer the di rey favourable | to the Peretti te or * succession of flowers, the forth, which their present house bs m dq ik 
good pea It is stated, and ie believe ed. go od the let f A "d t eee pot e Weisen her be ki 
authority, that the seed of some of t the ghost ee incidun ith ¢ | here will ar 
which are so difficult to get hadi without | haria, ; | corymb of the peculia ar rayless shai as sis : s Beg Fugen ora n hatean, in which ® 
their vitality destroyed, ought to be gathe € as gardeners would say, all “ g entirely the | cool 1 Orchid-hoose dosi nok form a part of th e mania 
— it is qui be MOM tiers: ia po int of | ^ s s the eir beau aty to co But n x time to take a systematic W der peaking of of 
In co Aer riu po in ratulate ou d in point of fac ey very much iséwible | attractive Orchid region, and as we were 
the new boon which e been confe: s ingens telo E A = ay ^e " from their bright yellow selon ntry plants we had perha ps best begin n gers 
postal pu of England on all those who eret dn y 
' choose to send samples of -— to their = e OR ar ce [s deis 
7 aea, East, or Pacha bagel —€—— HÁ€ | ietinam,| and Barkeria Skioneri, The latter meg 
gs our English parks and ongona Punon, M. luxuriant health, as indeed was the Lycaste o of mY 
x Fronds erec us. bright t ,| man striking varieties were in bloom at the amber of 
wed mann Me and | immi) delto; pre ped mae visit (November), and I doubt not an equal n In fact, 
(lamina about 1 ft long and 1 ft. broad - base) ; primary | equally fine varieties are in bloom still (March). hoy 
'| dea mam DIEM eae, he riangular acuminate | with a little mai ing you may have the Lye it 
pi anion being lon; at, pitres mover for at least six months in the year, y 
dide the secondary ones of th e form (4-3 inch) | is over, Epidend vitell » 
Sn ul e s ovate divided at the base into | its place, and keep up a succession of its 
ed and at tbe apex into simple minute ^ in.* de 
Mann oa midrib and certus iren ri Meso Lye Skin í till Ly m petal Ee aga dicen 
w! er fair readers 
border; sori irregular, forming unequal usually forked 
