70 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
also a fine lot of Calanthe Veitchi vestita rubra 
and the var. oculata ; some spikes of the former had 
fully forty flowera thereon open and opening. Mr. 
Bonsall, the gardener at Elmet, is much interested 
in the hybridising of Orchids; and some of his 
crosses, if he should succeed, will doubtless be of a 
very interesting character. The whole collection 
showed that it received much intelligent care on the 
part of the gardener. 
T. R. Jessop, Esq., Tue Graner, Rounpuay., 
The Orchid collection here is evidently extending 
amazingly. Those gardeners who, like myself, reside 
more or less distant from the enterprising centres 
of horticultural activity, have their minds opened 
the country. Mr. Jessop is an en- 
solace to mind and body to spend 
ap hours amongst his Orchids, 
Nearly all the aeg genera and species are included 
in the onary by way of increasing the interest 
therein n 
plants, s bein ng 
grown in peat. In a vinery I noticed some plants of 
Dendrobium Wardianum with splendi? growths, 
studded with flower-buds nearly their whole length 
of 3 feet. In the warmest corner of the Cattleya- 
house were Phalenopsis of various species, and 
which seemed to be in ds health. At one end 
of a temperate-house ticed, amongst others, the 
following Orchids in flower, viz. Dendrobium Phalæ - 
nopsis Sc Sch broderianum, a splendid see no two 
n nie hk œzlii 
Sata 
plant and variety; t ‘Oncidium tigrinum an 
405 pubes, 
m cristatum, a plant of Leia anceps with 
fully hiy s spikes, These plants had been grown ina 
eed during the past summer; and among 
t stage Gotha some fine plants of the Morada 
e. Other plants were Angræc tratum, 
caste plana Measuresiana, and Cattleya Schroderi, 
the latter being out of its season a while, Ina span- 
a house, recently erected for Odontoglossums 
d other cool Orchide, was an excellent lot of estab- 
lished plants of the leading kinds, Though few were 
in flower, many of them showed by their healthy 
growths that there will be no lack of * 
pr. 3 whole collection bespeaks the 
wed Wer 1 b Mi $ 
8 E. J. C., Gri ap m 
—————— = 
GREENHOUSE HARD-WOODED 
PLANTS, 
(Continu:d from vol, xvi, „P. 722.) 
PoLxdALA.— This genus of plants is an e: 
5 xtensive 
one, but the varieties best rer to greenhouse cul- 
may very con y be kept under the half- 
dozen, and they are natives of th ty 
was of 
Pol; 
greenhouse plants durin ring 
hese, when well-flowered, 
very rare, 
however, to observe them now i anythi 
presentable condition, o Ad 
As soon as the plants are out of flower, whatever 
pruning is needful should at once be done; this 
should not be later than the middle of June if pos- 
cannot be detec 
middle of G there will not be much hope of 
flower the next year. 
It is the omission to prune early which has given 
many a Polygala the 1 — being shy-flower- 
ing, whereas it is not so. eed more pru a 
than others. P. Dalmaisiana, yes instance, may 
cut back when of full size, as if clipping rapes ton 
This variety will always break afresh very freely, and 
is of very compact and self-supporting habit. P. 
oppositifolia is more disposed to make stronger 
shoots, but fewer of them; therefore, when framing 
a plant of this species, it is better to tie down these 
strong shoots. Afterwards, by careful attention in 
stopping the stronger ones whilst still soft and 
sappy, there need not be any difficulty to maintain 
a well-balanced plant. I have seen this latter kind 
heated as a semi-climber, but I do not admire the 
plan. I see no reason, however, why it should not 
be trained to cover walls, x up pill I consider 
these two species to bə t 
purposes ; they are 
other, 
differing n more in the sh 
form of P. myrtifolia. In all there are twenty-four 
species enumerated by Paxton in his Botanical Dic- 
tionary, but I am inclined to think that some of 
these are identical. 
In all but the very worst 3 2 Polygala 
may be Lee out-of-doors o the end of 
Septembe This covers the ai he of the 
grow ing season, and well-hardened outside growth 
is infinitely the best. Exposure to sunshine and 
frequent syringings will aid in expediting the growth, 
and also in keeping down the red-spider, which is 
about the only insect that is Wie 8 
and this even not seriously so, used, the 
cool greenhouse is the best place, with ‘liberal venti- 
lation on all fav 
recommend peat y 
about two-thirds o 
of peat, with ans inaddition. Bearing in mind that 
the plants may, under good Management, remain in 
the same pots for two or three years, it is incumbent 
to pot thoroughly firmly. When pla ants are gro win g 
in large-sized pote, a 
performed, so that the same size of pot may again 
be used. Polygalas as require more water than many 
other hard-wooded plants, and they should never be 
mnia x peee dusty-dry; in this respect, I 
ace them 
per 8 in the same category as Myrtles. 
eee 
— —-¼—̃ eeern 
3 NOTES. 
years, 
8 be p it in mind, 
Cultivation are dis- 
sivsithed with it naar it does not flo ower, re 
when properly treated it flowers free] » producing its 
15 terminal panicles of bright yellow, orange - 
me flowers in mid-winter ed early Ka r 
83 > ol ii tag of it in flower now in the temperate- 
plants not so far 
advanced 5 s will kee il, 
p up the dis lay until A 
The history of the plant is now w ell k few ra 
es high, which 
& good head of bloom. All 
— 
lateral growths must be emai one stem with ons 
head: of flowers must be aimed at. For figure ae 
Gardeners’ ese, Nov 25. 1893, p. 649, 
Kruera Notontana, 
This is a good greenhouse plant, but a miserable 
see in the . — It has done well this a 
enhouse along with 
r ak like po E. a: Re i 
flower from midsummer until n 
18 3 high, with thick fleshy fin: aue 
cordate, dark-green, hispid leaves, and te 
racemes of flowers which are not unlike the e 
of the Bladderworts in shape, the lower segment t 
the corolla being large and lip-like. In the Flora of 
British India, the flowers are described as small, but 
at Kew they are fully an inch across, and, excepting 
the base, are of the richest blue 1 l and rich | 
the bluest of Gentians. Mr. Nock, of Hakala, 
recently informed me that on the O hille it 
grows in abundance in wet places, and that iti 
used for making curries, Klugia is a genus of for A 
. three Indian and one Mexican, It belong 
the Gesneiads, and is related to Cy 
cSt on Ke. Here it is a perennial, but ic 
the Flora of British India it is said to be an a | 
B r'a Srg 
RE SSNS 
Mormopes ROLFEANUM, 
There is a plant of this distinct species of 1 1 
modes in flower now at Kew, which differs in um 
particulars from the plate of it published in Lind i 
in 1891, t. 289, in having a short raceme bearing tm i 
flowers and a bud; whereas, in the picture it ee 
presented with a five-flowered raceme, There isi 
difference also in the colour and size of the 
which, however, may be varietal. It may he ited 
asa M. luxatum with tawny-yellow and red flower, 
The sepals and petals are yellowish with gren 
stripes, and the lip is a kind of Apricot rel. N 
figure of it will shortly be published in the Botanial 
Magazine, This species was introduced en Pert 
Rolfe of Kew, 
eee SCAPHA, 
This is one of the most attractive of e ande 
species of Pleurothallis. It has been 
since 1874, when Reichenbach d it kan: 
upper portion being prolon 
form tails; 
lance-shaped, with the lateral 10? i 
folded over, and looking like a eka T 
A figure of this plant has been prepared for 
tion in the Botanical Magazine, It belo 
coloured flowers, long sepals, and we 
Kew 
petals, W, W, 
SPOTS ON- — — LEAVES a 
OR BEA 
| H 
as parasites, at the —— f the cellular 
which they gradually dest 
These fungi belong chiefly to the genera 
Daetyl “etn nna e 
pe e geen — 
