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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 9, 1895, 
about ve roots. Stand the pots on sifted coal- 
ashes in a pit or frame, and keep close, 3 3 
on bright days until the plants show si 
growtb, when the sbading should be discontinued, 
and a free circulation of air gradually admitted, 
LIBONIA PENRHOSIENSIS, 
The present is a good t o take off cuttings 
and work up a stock of 755 t taken off with 
a couple of joints and inserted in 3- inch pote, crocked 
with andy ‘oll: watered, and 
ou 0 
hottest part of th he 
neat — singly into thumb- (paia using a light sandy 
d, and placed on a shelf near the glass, viene 
y should bə afforded indio until root-act 
commenced. Pinch the growths daring the five 
following monthr, in order to secure nice bushy 
‘plants well furnished with their ali bell-shaped, 
orange-coloured flowers. H. Ward. 
THE WeEskK’s WORK. 
THE ORCHID HOUSES. 
By W. H. WHITE, Orchid Grower, Burford, Dorking. 
use.—Plants of C. Trianæi, and 
many of its ee varieties, are now e t 
flower, and to keep t e blooms fresh and perfect a 
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moisture 
tleyas of quite another 1 Re is the 
renceana, which is ; prominently showing its 
flower-buds in the ances ” and sh receive more 
a] water and be 
liberal ies of te e t 
placed well up to ht in t e 
of the se. As the youn aae 
tleya ing to 9 
tleya gigas are now sta 
no longer be kept under stag e 
rta as 
the light possible, but when the ba is stron 
must be thinly s pose in 
i rche d; 
ex. C. Dowiana, and its varieties 
e suspende 
est corner of 
hou 
after they haye Hops. 5 the case of those 
failing to flower, when the d Sahara to root. 
CCELOGYNES, &C.—The species C. Massangeana, 
C. towentosa, C. flaccida, C. barbata, C. graminifolia, 
C. Færstermannii, C. pe- 
cio. ferta, 
drained 2 ate wit pad. 
© root in. na ndant supply of water is neces- 
ry whilst, is. being made, and a slight 
warm daye will help the plants 
ihe. e 
temperature will best suit all of hem. 2 tha time 
many young seedling Dendrobiums 
to grow, and should be repotte 
s,shagnum an 
ted at once, using 75 
roken crocks, which 
asily Riga 
Scotch 1 a a well dow 
will su d well in shallow pans suspended to the 
roof of — Cattleya- resh rooting material 
sdould be supplied if wa after the flowers fade, 
LÆLIAS.—The present is a good time to re- pot 
Lelia anceps, L. albida, L. autumnalis, L. Gouldiana, 
and others of that section. Darng the re- potting, 
the materials about the roots * be disturbed 
as little as r — 8 e plants re- 
„„ he . ho plà ee 
have become deca’ they shou e le N 
— — 1 cay = old roots should be left 
that when the plan ed, the water will pass 
freely through the comport, The sar root ote 
in 8 bin sphagnum moss, rather 
— used. After fo- ‘potting, w aiir 
sparingly, —— aor: sheet by the N of the 
roots and new growth that more is n 
ODONTOGLOSEUM CITROSMUM, —This species 
und them as a protect 
bold and slugs. The wo 
pests; but they must atill be trapped b 
methods, When the spikes appear, the pant ae 
na house 
should not be re N any 
dryness at the root at this. pond will cause such 
plants to bloom 
FRUITS UNDER GLASS. 
By RICHARD Parker, Gardener, Goodwood, Chichester. 
VINES. —In the case of Black Hamburgh 
vineries sho 
— Vines started about the end of the present 
onth. 
VINE EYES. — Those which were put in to strike 
g roots, and 
few days when the sun is m ” : 
have gen ota: penetrated the new eoil, a close humi 
atmosphere should be mai . and all the draughts 
of cool air which would check growth should be care- 
ully guarded again he erature of the 
house or pit should not fall at Piah below 70°, 
while by day it may rise to 80° or 85° with sun-heat. 
CUT BACK VINE8.—These, if recently shaken out 
afforded them a 
t be carefully applied 
until root-action Deen a and the foliage bs 
growing quickly. 3 them well syringed, and s 
that the ee is 8 d. 
PEACH - N eee nt disbud the for- 
warder trees, fabs tie in the shoo 
oots in — 
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with feat ital liquid. 
be well su dae With tepid 1 
or seat spe ager 
IN POTS. —Plants which, having 
ted" Were weil rooted in Anaust, and 
weeks, the soil being dr 
Those which are plunged in . out-of-doors are, I 
fear, too much damaged to be of any use for’ forcing, 
3 they may be of use to fill up gaps in the 
the pot, and left th il igh E a 
a 8 e - t an „ 
and this must be mad p fir it a blunt pote 
by A wil i e the 
„ p-dress g! a plaats Sih rech loath and 
a sprinkling of Clay’s Fertiliser, or other Ale 
u e the plants in moist coal-ashes 
ter prepared for fo 
ill than 
were they exposed on the dry hee 9 
re a 
Continue‘ to brin 
forcing- house. g ON succession 
in numbers according to the demand, Preparing 
the plants, as before advised, by plunging 
em in a moist, gentle hot-bed, so that 
T y bə 1 started before growth of 
leaf begins, with the result that the foliage is 
stronger, and t -trusse t well 
above it. Plants —— are swelling fruit should be 
daily syringed to the increase of red-spider, 
and regularly dad some kind of liquid-manare, 
weak soot-water being one that is very 
nda 
aintained, or the fruit + will be baut in 
ad dite ur. Plants coming into flower mut 
arly, but moisture muat be kept from 
the bloo: i i 
them a few hours, as the pollen is then more easily 
distributed. A night temperature 3 55° will 
them until the fruit is set; soon as 
and a the 
weather permits, a little air may p“ left on at 
night, 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
By BAILEY WADDS, 1 Birdsall Gardens, York. 
—The planting 7 Ghent 
0 ae Eri c edume ias, 
Pernettyas, Skimmiar, Rhododendrons, Pen which 
ay not have been completed i should 
one. the re-arranging and making of new 
shrub-bed in progress, no time should be lost. 
e autumn is really the best time 1 planting and 
chance of success at any tim 
1 provided the plants ar not W or flower- 
naturally come out x the ground 
itt a good ball of roots, — this should be pre- 
served Naas planting without prt and mulching 
thə surface o half- 
Y 
the depth of 2 fe ee 
e soil during the e ge 
pci where water is th . 
on the other hand will they do much good i agren 
sandy, and dry soils. uch a case as the fect 
means should be taken to l the 2 
by placing a 6-inch 
ese rep 
be securely staked, and * 
ry and strong, a 
like tied i and is not vnsightly. 
