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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[FxnvART 16, 1895, 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 
CŒLOGYNE CRISTATA, 
wn in a pot, ori 
fibrous peat and sphagnum moss and good drainage, 
d be placed in the cool house me making its 
er tempera- 
ces 
spikes are very liable to damp and turn black, and 
2 plant een when first showing flower be re- 
oved to a warmer temperature. Cœlogyne cristata 
8 an c len supply of water during the 
growing season, and a good period of rest, when a 
small quantity of water will suffice. s subject 
to the attacks of scale, which should be 3 
sought for and carefully removed. This plan 
ue 
propagated by division of the rhizomes, with a 
bulbs attached to each portion. Orchid Album,” 
vol. xi., part 126, 
HAJOS GRANDIFOLIUS 
should be cultivated in a flower-pot, in a compost 
consisting of good fibrous loam, leaf-monld, and 
decayed pecan witha small quantity of sharp 
sand added. e plant, =- allowed plenty of pot- 
room, will attain large dimensions, w moderate 
applications of li e will be found especially 
beneficial, ensuring only vigorous growths but 
also beautiful healthy foliage, thereby greatly in- 
creasing its ornamental value. It should be grown 
in either the Cattleya or East India-house, as it 
requires an abundance of heat and moisture during 
; and care t to 
W er 
ect to the attacks 
be kept in check by 
propagated by division when the blooming season is 
past. Orchid Album, vol. xi., part 126. 
PLEIONE MACCLATA 
should be grown in a flower-pot, in a mixture of 
loam, peat, and moss, with a little sand added to keep 
the compost open; it requires plenty of drainage 
and a liberal supply of water while i 
commence to show flower duriag the autumn and 
winter 
can either be grown in the Cattleya or East 
India-house, Aon a 3 by division. Orchid 
Album,” vol. xt, 
SorRHRONITIs GRANDIFLORA 
is of easy evo and should be grown in the cool- 
a house, either of wood, or ina basket sus- 
pended from: the. roof, in 
i moss. It 
“ Orchid ea vol. tty et siete esi 
Carrera Mosst% var, Waonert, 
om beautiful form of C. labiata, in which the seg- 
ents are pure white, the throat of the lip alone 
honing a yellow colour. It flowers in Ma 
Jane, Lindenia, t. XU 
BIFRENARIA TYRIANTHINA, Rehb. f, 
A species well nigh lost to gardens, bat re-intro- 
duced by MM. Linden. It was originally described in 
Reichenbach’s Xenia, i., pp. 61, 223. The plant has 
the habit of a Lycaste, and the flowers are of similar 
to those of that genus. The segments ar 
white, deeply tipped with rosy-lilac. 
is of about the same length as the se 
veined nie lilac, and 1 at the base into a 
long conical spur, Lindenia, t. cx CI. 
be propagated by 
Lacio-Carrteya LINDEN 
Flowers of a rosy-lilac, the pow ee of the lip 
rich crimson. Lindenia, t. CDXL 
ERIA CINNABABINA, Rolfe, 
A species with loose many- -flowered racemes, the 
flowers measuring about an inch, and being of a deep 
orange colour, as also are the bracts of the inflores- 
cence, so that, unlike its congeners, it is decidedly an 
ornamental species, Borneo. Lindenia, t. CDXLVIII, 
CATTLEYAŽHARDYANA VAR, LUCIANI, 
noble variety, with the segments rich rosy- -lilac, 
the gis thickly spotted with crimson, and the throat 
yellow. Lindenia, t. CDXLIX 
OponTOGLOSSUM NEBULOSUM VAR, AMABILE, 
Differs the type in its larger flowers, a 
ge 2 kolan of a brighter pink colour, Pee 
ONCIDIUM CRISTATUM, Rolfe, 
of the pening species, possessing relatively 
war yellow flowers w rown, spots on 
the base of the lip “a crest, Usefal for cut flowers 
and decorative purposes, It flowers in May. Lindenia, 
DLI, 
Tuonra WINNIANA, hort, 
A magnificent species, with large flowers with 
rosy-lilac segments, and a very deep maroon-coloured 
plicated lip. Lindenia, t. ort. 
THE EDUCATION. OF 
Practica Horricutture.—It is no purpose of 
the present paper to dwell upon this subject. Saffice 
it to say, that a lad of fourteen or nt grounded 
in the way above indicated, would soon be very 
useful in a garden, while he would ha FERE the 
purely practical part of his studi The 
spade and of pruning-knife, the oik of potting 
plants, and regulating heating and ventilation, can 
competent and experienced gardener till he is 
eighteen or iia It is, however, possible, with 
t d an experienced practical man, 
teach much of the practice of horticulture in two or 
these apprenticeship years that the most lasting and 
valuable lessons of theory and of practice will be 
learnt, ee by those quartered in a bothy 
or in a college; and it is bon pace that at this 
tage every Raus should be held out to 
the young gardener to continue hone inti eres 
As conducive by this end, his hours of 
work ought not to be too lon ie; e it it 15 only 
possible to nes 850 evening hours in summer, the 
long winter even nings afford an pobre for 
making up for lost time. 
~~ CLass Es. 
It a dól: has learnt something of physi h; 
elementary biology, ead botany, sg A —— a 
horticultural college or the bothy, though he will 
very probably require yi training in surveying, 
and we e glad to d short 
co 
— pains Wii main subject of 
study r ng his evening leisure l be any. 
T is he will to consider from many ts 
of view, The geography plants, their fungoid 
d 0 the varieties in cultivation, and their ap 
physiological characters, all 
chemistry, he can, of course, occu 
4 py a very large 
portion of the time ae for study in its pursuit ; 
but it is doubtfu ul whether it will be worth his while 
— carry this study so — to become a competent 
We have been dealing so far only with those 
ained from childhood on the scheme we 
ide 
the more advanced 1 sae only after the 
completion of the school cou 
PRACTICAL eee 
are many rural and suburban districts 
a such districts, 
county technical education committees, to 
obtain (i) duly qualified teachers of physiography 
and elementary biology for their schools, who might 
also conduct evening classes in those subjects; (ii), 
peripatetic occasional lecturers on 2 aa 
meteorology ; z and (iii), teachers for evening classe 
in botany. is important that it should be bo 
in mind aor mere lecturing will be a little use in 
botany, biology, and physiography, though it may 
suffice in more subsidiary, i. e., less essential, subjects, 
Practical teaching, individual contact of teacher with 
of t ience an apartment, 
sai Horticultural ge pei either by 
the 5 into day and evening classes, or by a 
grouping in accordance with 29 8 it would ba desirable 
that the scope and results of these examinations 
should in all cases be graduated. G. S. Boulger 
CULTURAL ae 
BOUVARDIAS, 
Orp plants which were cut back in December, 
and iar ards cut down, wiil by thia Nera have 
ade some Ben ly pt and propagation may at 
once yore: ardenera take te young 
be cat just belo chet int, as i 
these root quite fr ets Having 
small pots with a lig 
the sea -in readin 
cuttings r 
, shift them into pots a si ize or two 
all, and again plunge 
5 well-roo ted, Some 
m the buds beneath the 
surface, an 1 8 
roots these will aie grow 
should have their points taken out. If the pis 
are to do well, they should be shifted into ge 
ts that were pinched sho 
wn to 5. soil, when several more strong 
pot fuls of very bush i 
should not KAN at the ‘points, and they may 
be allowed to flower, If, eee. extra larg ago 
are wanted, another repotting may be ale 
Li w hich roe e ye cuttings po be which 
point in 
0 
rather firmly. Early in mpane 
be tt ag cover. Bouvar 
syringed, and if mealy-bug shore 
must at once be taken to destroy them. 
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