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THE GARDENERS’ 
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enthusiastic anti-planter. The planting itself will 
be done by pan eee of rural labour, 
ars eee pst have gained 
end of the 
he iaki selected 
shrubbery, arboretum, and Plantation, ee which 
be and his friends will shoot o very 
sason, The remaining years of its ‘life will Kebab 
be enlivened by a series of interesting and instructive 
Fic, 39,— ONCIDIUM INi 
thinning and pruning experiments, carried out 
W experta whose ideas are not dimmed b; 
y sameness 
the y convention, After a century or 80 
— in the plantation rot, are blown or cut 
usually three ting in its dis- 
ee, and the proprietor at the time 
* Considers it a favourable opportunity 
Woods ing the long - disputed mka of 
aa Yellow records and accounts are 
e estate office, which hile. that so 
Faden pim employed for so many days in 
8 aa e or that a certain number of trees 
erden of same at different times. The 
U iina these investigations i is, that Stubb’s Farze 
Orne to have cost more than it yielded; the 
tr,” os ever after asserts that “ woods b t pay, 
England have a similar history, and 
zuch examples that facts and figures are 
ee derived 5 the purpose of demonstrating 
that woods do not or will not pay. 
their te paying is * It is true that when 
formed for game cover alone, they serve the object 
in all cases, and may be said to pay in a 
any other crop. This cost is pio divi ibl 
two sub- heads—i nitial cost of for: 
e sums 1 1 
SCULPTUM: PETALS, DAEK CINNAMUN; SEPALS, PURPLISH-BROWN ; 
MARGINS OF * SEGMENTS, PALE YELLOW, 
proportional to the rate. As the thinnings become 
table, the net sums realised are invested or 
bear interest at the same rate, and consequently 
early thinnings, after a certain age, which do not 
affect the ultimate value of the main crop, tend to 
prolong the rotation by counterbalancing the amount 
which ho plentation has ultimately to pae 232 
Where the soil and timber are regarded as 
the 8 on it is ——, he pe 
a normally ed 
forest, are constant, the — being the annual 
increase in growth over the whole area. It is the 
length of time requisite for an artificially- 
formed forest to reach the normal condition 
of atocking that renders planting so unpopular 
as an 5 t, but when once condition 
has bee ed, there is no reason why it 
should wae yield as good returns as hundreds 
of other and 
by capitalists throughout the country. Any esta 
the wooded porti which is well and 5 
ugh by roper managemen yie 
nee 5 — 1? pe which the timber stock 
o ensure such being the case, it is 
CHRONICLE. 
297 
ment pre- 
man 
cludes the ral s of the highest yield being assured 
the soil, 
that woods do not pay can be 5 aith, 
therefore, it is essential that a trial should have 
been made under conditions 
or 
tal nature, instead of an assured and 
eager e. definite amount. A, C. Forbes, Bowood, 
Calne 
ONCIDIUM INSCULPTUM. 
Tuts remarkable species, introduced from Ecuador 
y Messrs. Backhouse, was fi d fo 
and 
described ‘ Reichenbach in the ges 
August 3, 1 We have sent to us for our 
g. 39. Reichenbach s says: 
“ The ligulate a lobed lip has basilar 3 
auricles, and th 
bo sides under the stalk, wher is 
connate—a ver nusual case The rsal 
sepal is unguiculate, with an oblong blade, 
alike, narrower, 
arched outside, connate at their W The petals are 
nearly like the dorsal sepale, but with 8 
1 ae measure 14 inches in diameter, sepia- 
— =i petals; the crest is of the latter colour, wá 
sometimes aon The pseudobulbs are ovoid, com- 
pressed, smoot 3 to 5 inches lon bout 
2 — TAE “Leaves ensiform, 12 to 18 inches 
long, complicate at the base. 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA, 
PANDANUS VEITCHII. 
T 
2 8 plant. 
worked up in a short time by detaching an ing 
up the es wa which are produced freely from the 
axils and bases of well-established plants. Th 
should be fet — pots from 27 to 37, inches in 
diameter a ou 
plants. Drain e pots well, and use a pen 7 soll, 
with a l of . sand added, which n 
be made moderately firm. Afterwards shift the 
plants into larger pots, as they require more space at 
the root; but plants in pots from 4} to 6 inches 
in diameter are the more useful. After the young 
plants have made 2 they 3 sien * Post rded 
a position near the ina 
pit 
E n : 
There are several varieties of this ornamental 
grown in gardens, viz., E. gracillima bart 
japonica foliis 2 ah and E. e = — 
are quite hardy, and are suitable ie 
on the margins z in bog gardens, 
in small pots 8 : 
n purposes, ay light and graceful habit i 
and the ornamental e citar Wi 
them of 2 vay were. by dividing g 
and potting 
Use a com pa 
consisting of about three parts * light sandy 
and one of fea mould and peat, and make this firm 
