Feprvuary 2, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
133 
mixed with them sori-bearing fronds 1 82 narrow 
pinnules of the ordinary acrostichoid for 
Karsten next describes some of the more remark- 
able species of the Asclepiadeous genera Dischidia 
and Conchophyllum, which produce modified concave 
views taken of the part they play in the economy 
of the plant. 
waste of moisture. In C. maximum the modified 
leaves are as much as 4 inches across. 
Polypodium imbricatum is described as new, — 
it is exceedingly near P. lomarioides, though Karste 
asserts that it is entirely different—gdnzlich vers- 
chieden, It is one of those having a climbing caudex 
in shield-like “memes or extensions. However, 
the real point of interest in P. imbricatum 
is the presence 8 elater-like organs, forming con- 
centric bands around the spore sg 3 
takeably — paaa in development with 
elaters of Equisetum.“ If correctly es 
Fig. 18,—GLAss SHED FOR CULTIVATING APRICOTS AT BIRDSALL, YORK, 
Dischidia Rafflesiana, figured and described in 
p. 368, from a 
this 
photographs, are 
8 sowing these plants growing naturally. They 
affect open, dry and hot situations, and therefore 
ra anda . — the means provided against the 
this i is indeed a noteworthy discovery, which many 
paper on the 3 which a 
Ergänzungsband of Flora, H, 
peared in last year’s 
APRICOT cht i UNDER 
ASS. 
Fia, 18 PEER a 85 shed for cultivating 
rd Middleton's gardens at Birdsall, 
any 
extremely suitable for the purpose, 
rarely opened ‘iad Mr, Wadds, ke We, 
has failed to secure a — Ber- of fruit, pea 
ordinary orchard - hou success 
cultivation is Piers attained, The 
spring, and in ungenial seasons the conduce 
to the 3 ad yat fruits and the maturing of the 
d. shed faces east, and is a hip 
W 
roof or ee, ; — wood -work of the hip rests on 
the back wall, and the front on a dwarf wall 44 feet 
high. The height at the back is about 12 feet, and 
a ventilator runs the entire length. Lights at the 
front of the house are not necessary, but they would 
improve the appearance. The front rests on pillars, 
and the house is trellised ratte Nee strong 
res 6 inches apart from each 8 the same 
istance from the roof. The o 2 facing east 
prevents the trees blooming i early in the year 
under 
wall i ia nene vn yur Beenie the western sunlight. 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
LZLIO-CATTLEYA MRS. ASTOR, O'Brien, 
A nrhRID from Cattleya Gaskelliana, by Lelia 
xanthina, and combining the characters of the two 
parents. Flowers 5 inches across, light yellow. 
Front of lip light pink. See Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
1894, i., pp. 230, fig. 24; Orchid Review, ii., p. 3 
Reichenbachia, t. 89, 
Puatius amaniis x, O’Brien, 
Gardeners’ 1 ap i., 206, fig. 32 
id 
Review, i, 86. from Phaius 3 
by P. tuberculosus, ee 90. 
N MARTHE X, Sand, 
A hybrid from Blumei, by P. 
See Gardeners’ n, 1894, i., 
e hybrid Phaius require a warm, 
moist, and shady hate and roportion of 
fibrous loam in the compost in which they are potted, 
Reichenbachia, t. 90 
r e 
34: Orchi 
ZYGOPETALUM ROSTRATOM, Hook, 
Botanical Magazine, t. 2819, &c. Should be grown 
n a warm moist house, and be kept watered all the 
year round, but most liberally when making its 
young growths. Phonan eign t. 91. 
oGyYNE SWA NANA, Rolfe, 
Review, ii., 
gments are oo a d 
ene, and abundance of moisture. 
vs liable to the attacks of insects than some 
Orchids, " Reichenbachia, t. 92 
HYBRIDS AND THE Resting SEASON, 
In the rent part of the Reichenbachia, Mr. 
Sander sie: inn to the necessity in hybridising 
of selecting plants which have the same 
1 which goes to 
in Mr. Sander’s experience, the result is cae: 
tory, the plants growing badly, and the flowers 
produced often malformed and imperfect. This isa 
very curious and important observation. 
Puatmnopsis APHRODITE. 
I may mention, à propos fig remarks made on 
p. 110 respecting a spray W ourteen flowers of 
this grand Orchid, that 2 was A cut in these 
gardens a —᷑L whi 
erp i l 
Albani, who was staying with the family at the time, 
There is at the present time a plant of P, Stuartiana 
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