o 
' watching or netting the produce of our gardens and 
orchards i er to secure 
NovEwBzR 19, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1109 
unskilful person, descended from the tail of a coach, | 
stable, ‘wee - taking "p Run first a blew apron, a 
ions of a gar dener, assumes the governmen nt 
| the glare of the sun. moreover, often seen on | dit tions; e A 
the Calabash, the H Plum, and other moderate-sized | receiving the sun’s fall ra 
trees in the e open pastur: the lowland — and habi 
yat deal of Ii ight, Occasion ally 
8, but consi 
ted witl ,Sweeping stables 
f the secondary ils ie like R. H., ” I | tre 
— seen t 
u ] g 
ll as making hoppede &. without i eomidring 
obtained with m 
dit rri: Lane not more | enough to poris may be the 
rd 500 rm bei the sea. With respect to the | conditions x Orchid collected even in an i 
colour of this flower in cultivation, I may say that tI 80 1 Jamai 
E 
s its ery 
prse vo a ta that TI had made pe A 
s 
| take this rh eer of noticing 
f 
~~ 
d trea 
we cathe Epidendrum jon d 
familiar with i in 
aer A i hi 
m I. 
their original habitats d bs bits. 
pro oba bly unn posing $. but a more perfec ct acquaintance 
ation; se ait ratur: re (includ- 
n Jamaica, I grew my specimen near the Ba 
a curious edhe elev 
et 
8 EE 
[1 
^ 
greater iion and 
encouragement than ‘that of are butlers, &c., who 
ea edl a much larger share 
T M iller, s Nurseries shaggy ae ury. 
on this subject 
ed f 
dai 
e ept. aleen 
" | will ee nm from the old peduncle, but I — 
of this 
charming Orchid. One | of the | ing tl t , an 
from N Oth t tl ) 
their 
d iret de or m Erie per arty alight or 
ida shadow, and the i of either; aspect, if any 
the middle of ticular one is affected; average height from the 
om miu" to vies off; this eina developed a new sub- | ground and its range ; hoive of ien: if any, and the 
i r branc lossom, which continued from positiors no rmally chosen; and m. other particulars 
‘6th to Oct. 20th. have read that Ph ifficult to be prescribed, w sild bey loable and might 
be attained, it _ your travelled punica y would 
To retu auti idi kindly nns what they them- 
t 
seen pong from about | 
e old which I had 
not seen it do s , to , Jam 
>| 
as good as ano 
cannot be equal. wit! thdr raw the — vede. "E 
equal that you | 
me r affects know, avoiding that tendency to a too hasty 
middling-sized trees, as Crescentia,  Githaresylons | | generatim frem exci y era to ir all of us 
Spondias, &c., that fringe the P. H. Gosse, F.R.S., Tor: 
on 
Som, decide which is best, that ws Todd place | pastures. It "seems to exercise very little selection of | 
them “equal? I have had letters of thanks for |tree ngle of a stout limb some 15 or 20 feet from | Forei TE 
my remarks on the shjaot, “W, H.” will be in great | the ground, of almost any species, serving its pur | reign Correspondence 
favour with young ladies: but I advise him for awhile | But it certainly is oina mainly on the sun-facing ARIS ENS AND IMPROVEMENTS.—A corres- 
to steer clear of the “old ones.” Ire observing | side of the road, and i "e xem with no more | pondent writing at c; on the 14th inst. in 
to an old friend that “ all flesh is Grass: " to wh m. pe shade than th ‘linge im ree It is | reference to thor arks on the qon mme goin 
yes, and o 
-” to stick to the Grass 
sent. pad 
jon in the French cepi, at p. 1057, sa 
* Baron my od the gre of t 
genius and P ie han 
| connec ected wit 
he VIN: is the 
d in everything 
"a recollect 
- they, when all ut the 
h the ebrii ar of Par 
e travels to Sar 
of his owe "Wann 5y telling me ce at that sites 
the of Pari ceeded 130, gis vut of fra 
s ve fusi before ‘the extensive suburbs of Paris 
in his 
e | faco Pes vale 
ne of fR S elle aoe 
i one opinion as to this award, 
Thi 
eas Į | were subjected to the — and owing to the stupen- 
think they ar are but one species), m nt than | dous buildings and publie works now in progress, anc 
either, is the frequent companion of Bro oughtonia, and the consequent influx of all varieti ies of w orkpeople 
m 
1 heard iani y 
viz. that it was altogether a e ere 
or 12 sta hown in the class, 
g to the dry character of ‘the 
has been almost imposs rage to _ keep 
i in - e 
1 
pop conl x ege faet that all 
han they did a few y ago red 
of s a tree-trunk, from 5 to 
100 wad y suiting fe ae y well. 00, age the sun, 
- less exclu sively, E dt oq — in tall er reasons too long to detail, ri peng 
oods ; but not in humid, s woods, moun- | be inclined to estima ate the present revenue the 
tainous distri cts. re Iono as (probably rallies, or y eu 
kese h an ip othe 
prawls about the aed Logwood U e of : 
the 
In go 1 
fall nk $^ 60,000,000 o: 
any Cm piv’ 
ve » multiplied lately uw us to a 
"Bote E of culinary n and 
exponse pared 
Some E er have deny m 
e means at command, and therefore "if not constantly 
d shooting — depredato: rs, damage i 
constitute the fences of "E K 
land. The Logwood the very | francs, and the Toba 
closest resemblance to our own eru so a a | bute 
Tn en where you lose the Tpdiritaat] De 
forms of the leaves you would scarcely uals the whole 
difference ; P: the scraggy, slender, thorny t igh pri amici 
matted and intertwined, sits the Tonopsis, and occa- liotropes, Pinks, 
perri | Géraniimi, &c., growing S Rredidly, us 
cnal 
pasture acco pts which till 1830 med 
000,000 of fra and in 
ow daring b 
of their p ri food, I wil jus rd one 
und 
short reco) 
er A notice this summer, 
instance 
if you ‘suppose these ipo lying on the summit of a surrounded with a blaze of flowers. One bed of Pans 
compact Thorn | hedge, om guess hew much of Tube is magnifi 
E 7 the nets bei ing peg, gged 
beds well watered. Next 
r|sun in 
ges ey enjoy. — es these, | . 
many smaller sorts of Oncidium, many o 
and other genera even less conspic eries, but 
grow on ur and primitive 
What eddie. meh i beet fa n such a 
climate with à ning!” more care and attention bestowed 
upon the garden 
mbs of trees 2 
very lowest levels of w 
t other, on the same levels, eet retire from 
he s A. species goog’ large round flattened bulbs, 
cannot name, as I saw it not in flower, grows 
in artes 
| palustris) ofa: a wk morass 
as | Cave, always in the deepesc sh And the very 
D Angrzcum funale, with benutiful cream-white | 
rs, but no v vestige of leaves, throws out its plexus | Ag 
n ted fo: 
ANTHEMUM. 
eep 
r for “ their | 
alw 
‘Habitats of Orchids.—l regret that “HH” 
has not igang nm art low 
Crut e, i eo! 
mop over a stream, but dares not M" aris doa thanks to the exertions of M. Tulia a large assem- 
— ae. most lovely Ion floweri a | blage o ora eg rown Chrysanthemums, both in pots and 
of the richest violet "Pure (probably re in a cu 
he Fol Orch.) I found read In x Clase of Six ers give Plants (Nursery- 
sparsely in m Mr. Forsyth, Stoke 
lden 
my own 
1t 
n, s 
* Chris Annie Salter, Alma, Ari and White 
contrast in its habitat with "d rigena, 
Chris tine. E Merry, Stamford Hill, 
- | Logwood hedges; and show 
m 
western exiremit y» eres observa- 
tions o Ay istribution oft ~ Orchids, ih Ja - ave 
A Naturalist’s A digi in 
sits In localit; 
‘are common in the lowlands besid 
Caribbean Sea. Of htonia sanguines 
Oncidium luridum. (erroneously named O. 
nense in my work above referred oh, and Brasavola 
nodosa are by far the most ab undant. 
many tbe ene 
DAE 
down to the very beach of the psa 
had Abbé 
p en Eagle, King of the > Netherlands, 
ngham, | Ta bot. 
he Por lass of Three cernens Plants, . 
y exhibi 
Mr. 
hmi who was the on. ibitor, sent finely-zrown 
l bloomed exam; of Insigne, Vesta, and 
W} 
from knowing t those of its congener TS. 
the v of the mountains, as en — Find da 
fon, 
ge abe 
000 feet above the with a 
ch prenter fuer of hic yet 
Mr. Forsyth contributed 
Cedo Nulli and its 
Lilac varieties, orent St. Thais. 
Three plants of Pompons shown by the same exhibitor 
of Cedo Nulli and its Lilac and Golden 
dense and not a few occur in the perpetual 
shadow 6 of theheart. of wy s grand ol fo forests. But of such 
wW the 
is fR Palm 
nt from etg of m orie secre 
of Thrinax), in Crabpond i. a fetid swamp, 
a | diff 
loving species. 
ver more than peii Y rop of plants — for effect was set up wi 
with 
e by Mr. Forsyth. It consisted both of 
warm; in Januar 
specie: 
which h atali and is often overflowed | w. 
b a M. pov, scarcely 
ay 
“ Norths," it is uncom- mig jo Large- rand varieties, the two being 
ation 
g to šo” ap Flower ; and the air, even | intermixed in such a vpn as to present a very pretty 
which parch up the | appearance veral o 
their entr 
Írom the mede Here em are rots rs fai | 
blaze 
ow ai " that gor of Standards, which when in good mE as these 
are loaded | were, produce a very been contrast E deir more 
morning the 
Cedo Nu hio and its arido — ar 
b. ascen. 
of the sun; Were all along that portion rof th 
i e road w ch leads from Blu efields to the | 
hum 
urs; por] the lowly|to suit this mod 
e of training admirably, as did a 
of the a We Lycopods ee € 
dromeda, 
tion of the copious nig 
far above ( our head, near the summits of the towering 
—the Mosses 
and Ferns—feel to the tread like a Mesi sponge.| In th 
lasses part for Cut 
Ü ki nds of ‘Epidendrum, ice Brassia, | the óootésk for prizes was confined to Me: 
J 
*k fnllv int |N 
ssrs. F orsy e 
were 
und in such con-j Merry, and Saltmarsh, in all of whose stands 
reach, Here again its elevation thro ows 
