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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Maron 2, 1895, 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
CATTLEYA TRIANAI VARIETIES. 
Tun Trianwi section is one of the handsomest and 
most variable of the C. labiata group, and it is found 
than any oth 
of access, and which cost the least to get, orth- 
less whe mparel with the Popaya bag 
now sent by Mr. Alfred Tom alin, gardener to 2 
White, Esq., Oakwood, Crayford, Kent, are eq 
the beat, size of the flowers, the 
eboracen 
rl rich pur ple lip, an 
hter in colour, and has a ante feather at the tips 
as pee and No. 3 has a ne lip, with circular 
crimped front lobe; bright crimson, with lavender 
margin. With Si rae an weather outside, such 
flowers are pleasant to 
CATTLEYA Triana, POPAYAN VARIETIES, 
The excellence of the Popayan type of Cattleya 
Trianæi, and its superiority over those from oth 
districts, is well shown at the ent time in the 
Right Hon. Lord hehild’s gardens, Tring Park 
Tring, where some plants importe year from 
The size and colour of the flowers are of = 
hest order, and, beside them, the ordinary vari 
poor, hey ar * of the high- 
m on the 
labellums te 1 indicate the 
the report that a blue Catt- 
district whence they 
look very 
coloured class, and the bright vi 
fronts of their broad 
at 
3 Cattl this 
l t a single indifferent 
form having appeared, N their gorgeous blooms at 
this season being invaluable, 
Cypripepium Hysrip, 
A problem in amio Cypripediums is A 
for the second time by Mr. Jones, gardener to W. C. 
Clark, Eeq., Orleans House, Sefton Park, e 
who states that it is alleged to be C. x Leeanum 
FRENCH BEANS AND OTHERS. 
THE use made of Ne vegetable differs according 
to locality, and varies sometimes even in the same 
locality ; hence a corresponding number of distinct 
varieties and methods of cultivation. Requiring 
more heat than moisture, of rapid growth, the 
French Bean is easily in as & summer crop 
between a crop gathered early in spring, such as 
sie eee = or Trifolium rubrum, and an 
autu m a cultural point of view, 
N are ee divided into Runner Beans, 
supporting with stakes, and Dwar 
h form a low and self-supporting tuft, 
As regards cultivation on a large scale, we will here 
deal with Dwarf Beana only. The others, that is to 
say, French Beans, with the stakes that they require, 
pertain especially to the department of market- 
gardening, sie AE so called 
Fr pm the poi oint RA view of consu mption, Beans 
the Haricots verts”), or as ri 
or, salle i as ripe and dried ere n tee latter 
usage being the most important of all. In many parts 
of France the raising of Bane which is mA on 
in connection with other crops, either among the 
Vines or in the uke, gives a 8 almost com- 
parable to that of cere t important for 
ublic food, as sab of the edible panna, 
and those of Beans in particular, are among the su 
stances sprog nitrogenous elements at most 
wes difficult to indicate the varieties of Beans 
Sas — for harvesting as dried seeds. The 
advantages vary in one 1 and another, and 
the fancy of the buyer has always to be considered. 
It has often much influence — aes very varying 
fees yielded 7 pr odacts of equal intrinsic quality, 
but of which one is in fashion while the other is not. 
Tb may be 840 generally speaking, that the white- 
seeded species are preferable, 
with puckered leaves, and Early Etampes” on 
the pes Beans < — quality, together with the 5 
aricot de ns, the dwarf Bonnemain, and the 
dwarf Harloos Riz, or Comtesse de Chambord. The 
Haricot Suisse Blanc (Royal Dwarf White Bean), 
and especially the dwarf variety, and the dwarf 
Dutch 5 sabre, can also be confidently culti- 
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vated for t ; the econ will always 
find a sals wheat in oe ee 
Haricots greenish seeds, 8 Merveille 
de France, Bagnolet = a are more valuable 
Beans, but to o 2 ese 
coloured and uniform, necessitates that work and 
knowledge on the part of the grower shall assist 
Nature a little. As soon as growth is beginning to 
cease, which is easily known by the fall of the leaves, 
and while the pods are still green, the plants should 
be pulled up by hand and piled up into little heaps, 
The leaves, and, if necessary, some straw, serve to 
cover over the heaps to make t 
and to exclude the light as far as poasi 
ten days or ae be the ee is e 
the Beans are dry, and can be t hed, 
h 
smaller snd shorter, olive-shaped, and 5 isa pok 
is a considerable consumption in 
Haricots suisses sang de bœuf, rouge ( boi Spotted 
e h Bean), or Indian, the Haricot Ture are sent 
ee dried to the Paris Halles. 
can always be gathered within five 
— ae is harvested still sooner in the case of 
aricots shelled „eren, and still more 30 for the 
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s of Paria where the cultivation of 
0 foram is e on to 
considerable extent, there are three varieties almost 
exclusively devoted to this purpose, and of which two 
have been already rare Haricot Flageolet blanc 
(Early Laon Bean) and dwarf Soissons. The third 
Bean 
„but still fresh, i 
bh thick and Se delle lica ies 
of the Flageolet rougo REI Wonde 
is 3 when green, but more rarel 9 
For the productio on of Hatioot verts (French 
Beans), which is extreme T. important in the 
neighbourhood of all large s, and of oe 
in particular, the number 92 15 suitable varieties 
ana endless. In one village alone, where a 
e growers are devoted to this industry, ther 
are fifteen d different kinds grown, and each justifies 
u- 
by some special merit a preference shown 
for it. Further, the very early strains which 
yield the fra, supplies for the market, the Haricot 
Flageolet tampes, Noir de Belgique (Belgian 
Negro 1 or Dwarf Belgian Bean), Chocolat, ri 
each other for this purpose. 
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owing to consignments which arrive rom countries 
more favoured as to climate. 
Beans are, like Asparagus, but in a less degree, one 
of the anaes which bear transport well, They 
come into Paris from 3 Provence, and even 
from the South Fe Spa 
For the main crop, 8 are preferred that yield 
largely, have long, straight, and rather cy 
than flattened pods, of a fine green colour, and free 
from black ot rf Beans intended to be used 
green sho uld not be too short in the stalk. It is, in 
pods, as these then touch the ground at their lower 
end, becoming soiled and often rotten from contact 
with the damp soil. 
Among dw sie Beans suited for use, as Haricots 
e ci as the most important 
arf Bean), one of = most generally cultivated 
nthe environs of Par It is not very early, but 
extremely productive, hed sturdy, and perpetual, 
There is now a sub-variety with puckered foliage, 
H. solitaire (Bush Har is a more branching 
form of Bagnolet (Black Sala Rer Bean), more 
precedes H, 
has wider and less numerous pods. 
80 ecure a continuous crop, 
beginning early and ending late. i 
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tender, but its long pods are of remarkab 1 
e a nto 
It is possible, to a certain extent, to combine the 
cultivation of Beans eaten whole (or edible-podded) 
with that of Haricots verts, In one case as in t 
other, in fact, the pod is gathered and eaten whole, 
but in Haricots eaten whole the stage of development 
is usually more advanced, and the seeds are alrea dy 
the old dwarf Haricot Beurré No Dwarf Noir 
d Alger (Dwarf Butter-bean), as the es between 
he extre- 
more 
nearly to the dimensions of a pod o 
Flageolet. The plant is sturdy, Ress and yields 8 
considerable crop. The extra early Haricot Nain 
Mange tout, and the dwarf white Haricot Berta 
also commendable, because of the white colour 
their seed; and in the case of the former, its extreme 
ee eaten whole with 
podded Bean, or King Theod 
Bean), early and abundant, 
in cooking their deep violet colour, 
green like the others, he soil 
The culture of Beans does not occupy #81 
very long, and generally leaves it in an "ex 
