Novemssr 12, 1864.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 1088 
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iaaa, Pentstemon, Pæony, Petunia, Phlox, order. lll disposed critics, and there are some of) for all;lovers,of flowers, wis ar that these imported 
cotee, Pimelea, Pine, Pink, Pitcher Plant, Poly - [Wenn m in - world, who admire their. own shad Um plants do ee hands, and that, too, in consider- 
apthus, Poppy, Potentilla, Primula, Pyrethrum, may laugh at your panty irapa Coja and liken | able quantities. Any one in the habit of walking 
culus, Le ag n, Rocke et, un Salvia, rhe saca then to an assortment of dried bo ws n | round sm" London nurseries every year will find, 
Galion: Scilla, Sedum, Solan Spiræa, Statice, | end. They may point to the fleshy a of s - in those places where on are grown, that the 
p Tea plant, Thibandia, Tulip, i. i t Vallota, | healthy specimen v the more ponent sa Be va pals eater bulk of the plants seen 12 months before are 
bena, Veronica, Violet, T Ape ooth Violet, Russian | of Vandew, which has a tendency to i ead out roots all | gone, and others are occupying their places Specimen 
Viole, Wallflower, Yucca, Zinnia, and other plants not = we mp E iad Ld ask you to cut hon off | if | plants will probably be seen , time after time,— —planta 
specified a above. us to have a really handsom 
T "possession but some people ] know very z well that | In all ev a few'of the more common things 
ll thi be also geen; but there are less of these remain- 
the this 
— CONIFERS ARE GRAFTED, it appears, with very that if these | may 
pesen parties consider themselves advanced students of|ing than was raid to qu mit clearl 
great e r " ou — t — p M: of they are malpa mistaken. tical gnereh — that the list ^ ge growe been 
However, et me illustrate these ideas practically, | increasi 
in symmetry to those raised fro “By a adopting |... 
the — of wedge-grafting it is IUS that -- ange On the ‘Continent generally, a Paris th the trade will 
of damage by wind is avoided. and in a e the each individual flower will grow in your estimation tell the same story. At least in Paris the growers for 
: ota 
Tier Mr. Fowler has by this been rail to Mr. Rucker’, at Wandswo rth, and you ‘will see | formerly, All this "information wm P ^ ow that t 
nabled to farnish the grounds Zu this fe piu ith "^ a asa * no razilian Cattle eyas of all shades of | are now pur well scattered ov untry. 
Millie liin than it could have | | colour as will put — out of sorts with most flowers | tenaciously do some of our on 
Pl so of! that commonly mask ronan. Or go to Mr. Sister! ame en dine g order ; ent ic lng to er and 
has | 4t; Broomfield, in T- — of My ond Jh and veer as it were, from their sight! or was this 
e n and y when the writer 
1 Mossie and its peaca songs Lelia À aei as I e of Thibaut & Keteeler, and of M. Luddeman 
believe was e of fl of Paris. acus r be d friends Messrs. 
La Guayra, in any part | of "Veteres, oF in Brazil. | Keiocler or Luddeman, from w mo much 
crit and persona al s Pec “would put a price 
bien nded together in such a way as to “defy the tg bema a plant unless they had duplicates in thelr 
y of man, and make you us m ent pause, and | possession. There were, to my m i vy something more 
di sa red oye mx of ma and | than mere mercenary aie aede rie here, and 
"Mu fili o Wat melin: go to Mr. Day ay! at yan during the all } honour to them for 
'multifloro foliis "subteiquall, bracteis cucullatis acutis, fori. | m same eol d and you 4 find as many wreaths| For y d with the view 
Taie vom eme nee n zm ease of p and ‘rid as would supply the | of placi d the intelligent practice of our 
sepius subsqualibus (interdum pe ribus) | heads of all the fair sex ane are privileged to attend | own shall — in eain r^ treat upon 
ey "labello air ea AOO uó eet * pe ~ vu» * Her Maj wh 4 Drawing-room,” such a display and in | the hait at length ; i a in the first place it will be be 
apice recu diro ‘maculdto 'érlatà. roit bulauellatà | such tin m I venture te sa Bay, as was never seen in | well to discuss e and, formation of house 
columná arcuatá clavatá Jas a or the Hast Indies. Butoh! if you want purity | udi de i AA adapted for James 
This splendid addition to the genus Odontogl whiteness and chasteness of form, go to Low's, | Anderson, Se 
has been lately receiv ine hr the ti 1 Society | Vaiteh'a Williams! 4 
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what has been accomplished by it a 
fail to be convinced of the soundness ot the practice. 
gain, if you 
New ants. 
280. peel ge r ALEX — M icp PRINCESS | 
r Waxes’ Ono 
ad 
to discover it in the gloomy forests “of Santa Fé do has been “sent from qme _ " the rx NOTES ON qe citi —No. XXII. 
of flowers rl Roxan aes O GARDEN, GLASNEVIN. 
It is allied to ow rei and 0. 'erispum, but is | and artistically disposed when under a aner te of (Go se e iy = 
quite distinct fr ^o; ud. pr. more lovely | cultivation, D d Tux garden rests o: on n oalp limestone, and is in con- 
than'either. Tis “flowers, a ccording s discoverer, if you want curiosity of form and a n American 
re or less.of get the Dose gin f res plants, bu e Pines seem thoroughly at home. The 
purple min mingling in some cases with the eda pure denk and you will see an exact re resentation of the visitor T entoring instead of bein «T d atit bya 
white of the sepals and petals; while red apoi and head and shoulders of thi g array of strongly contrasted c —the 
pen radiating lines, and a rich yellow — A: dove cot, a l app l t ll di zm rof any 
centre, all cantribste to the Momm of the.lip. | ready to sip of t enm in font; bel finds himself easily ^ am onest besnüfally 
re H this new Odontoglot is eminently bonutifal, or the a Onaid lucum Pai majus) I grown Arbor-vitæs and Cypr mi lege ne Welling- 
li t tonias res rare Pines amon ex while here and 
A o pri E there he meets with magnificent, ulis of the Tritoma, 
name it Me eros. It val à loubtless be of loured Anguloa (m iml Clowes, h 
the easiest cultivation in.& cool. nd. sllum, a ost s - length of spike, than I have seen it on this 
à E Ud 5 the gin the Epp ce mn 
yet gs in lines or but dott es 
| there—bei 
jo! 
and 
ORCHIDS AND THEIR CULTIVATION.—N. To. T pers Hensal, with its bus jointed A se i 
one enumerate, in a line or|that turns topsy-turvy, on a far more a a 
s of Orchid: tivated i doped Eod is ad icy ani Pp Ra p vin. Pines are 
— In days gone by their importation was not | vast deal more simplieity than any aoeakibenk that | planted to a considerable extent in various pore: of the 
much a matter of merchandise, because then very ever performed; or the three-toothed Catasetum garden, but E particulary in its highest quarter, in some 
sae penis knew anything about the iza- | (Catasetum tridentatum) which, when touched t on | parts of whieh visitors might i A themselves in a 
tion, and en my od pi E of the flowers; or|the stigma, cave x The largest 
had either h en the strange insect-like | ——P parera at its enemies. Deodar in the Pine cuttin obtained from 
forms which m a Gn ve represent. Commercial |. sending out an occasional Skirving by Dr. E. Vus d to ooa in his 
a who had business to do with foreig I g expediti g The chiefs of the older Pines were two. 
introduced : a few to | botanie gardens lt t out | terprisi in half d f P. Pallasiana, venerable, and about 
ble t ropical regions o sf the 70 feet highs and a fine old E of P. Cembra, 
aos = very few availed un of the cutee earth, ge yee of Veitch e ys hi have long | grafted— Scotch Fir. Picea 
tunity. It was only in botanie gardens, where the been associated with Orchids and Orchid cultivation ; hobilis ien -— cones, and al 20 feet or more in 
flowers as they o; came under scientific eyes, - so have those of Peseatore, Linden, and others on the| height, a noble plant indeed in that state: and P. 
their merits were brought before the notice of the Continent. All these gentlemen have done dine go posee: with Pinus i . Montezuma, 
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t, 
kept pace Mr. | Low. also‘entered the | Gerardiana, a very e 
pov pit Wandsworth. I am aware that mor e | lists, and cai with ee of ih mn which affords food to the Nepalese, a was an 
yg med, but th ese are a few of the principal | cultivation (à ‘the family which can boast t of. | excellent plant, on as well as thos of Thujopsis 
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Ee e the enterprise of her citizens, who (god trade in this way. Private m LE is not | Korg very li b, the Stone Pine 
ede nd x — dendi raien again | at an end, for numerous boxes are consigned to the | was €: out to me ir D Dr. ien as having been 
0. They have, however, pim Mr. Stevens, of Covent Garden notoriety. The raised from some of the batch of seeds that 
Edin h, ough boxfuls the. steamers and, a Spaniard from 
^ for, go there when you may, you will|fold within the same number | 
Del worth ng. and | find who will 
vey, the one in the East Lothians, the other in of cargo arrived at port. 
of private n,had| Now-comes the nd—! 
dn RR gmap a semua, Pe 
ique | E it. may b 
plants; but judging these by the present s iad | val upon à collection of Orchids, 
Twelve years ago sum ridicul But before coming u^ 
Other single collection | to a hasty conclusion, let any one estimate the amount hago egi ain looked a very gem among 
the name, unless it were the few grown at of money that must be disbursed before valuable | th Conifers ve growing freely and 
well Castle. But what is their | plants can be collected on the spot, then their con- compactly, and 
ow? Hundreds of gentlemen dre growi nt home, their liability to death on the way, Among the Te I “Cet Pa Boshel!, of whom the 
them for tens that grew them before, and their popu: | and the considerable difficulty in getting many of the reader may ask—“ Who is he!" Me là hale old 
ing ev . The more people | sorts not only to live but to reproduce themselves by | man an who has been in the ere nee its formation, 
know them the more they admire them, and the more | division of the stem; and reckoning all the care, | in 98 when 
anxious are they io become possessed "of choice col-| the house-room, the fuel, the every little thing neces 1. who could mow 
r lections. They are the gems of all the flowers of the en luce and maintain health, his ideas about ue PaRa uens ^a ades ved eyes, and who 
, garden. A l besa little sol bered down. It is an is E able to “cut around - man in the garden." 
fl Ex S ME: y a pepe Aaa x ` f g fre on a standard Rose 
o» oa iz fact ely o 
y BE 1n vain in any ow 
