Marca 9, 1895.] 
edha es other 3 3 left — — e 
what lighter in colour; the 
the lip ye e variety was that 
hich . in the eee er, January, and wa 
—— ed b r. N. E. Brown in the 
r was almost of 
rks "i being — vel 
yellow, PTh hese oe area 
EUCHA GRANDIFLORA. — When looking 
Bia the —— of Edward N Smith, 
E Manor, Portarlington, Qaeen’s County, 
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84 
recently, I saw one of the best- flowered collections of 
Eucharis I have ever seen. = were all in 
I 12 inck pots; each pot carried an oe rage of twenty 
co 
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spikes, upon each of which there were from six 
eight exceptionally large flowers, ihi the foliage was 
SQUIRRELS, —“ Adversity introduces us to strange 
I hay 
— 7 forcibly reminded of 
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tried going up 5 gi a: 
a This method also failin beca 
I „and ran away. 
found it turned the scale at 5 ounces. 
grass with a 
Qa 
THE GARDENERS’ 
had dragged over oe ground more than 100 — 
I have long know 
r unconsidered ride. 
but never or th e to a my cows’ 
winter food. Th ar, however, my knowledge of 
natural history has received a se shock, for 
was und e impression that, t 
ow I am wrong, 
ike Rip Van Winkle, residing in Sleepy Hollow, 
but cersataly live in Wide-awake Villa, for th 
merry little creatures m seen plunderin 
25 Nanuip heaps from early morning until fo 
Bat though they rob me, I cannot kill them 
Charles Noble, 
EES SP.IT BY FROST. N. the late frost 
the Spanish Chestnuts and English Oaks have been 
split to an alarming extent. I find the da amage has 
e occurred to trees of moderate age, say 
O years; in some cases the fissures were 6 to 
case is very curious: an Oak 
9 etak deep, One 
CALIFORNICA IN FLOWER, 
is split ogee “ager into four quarters. In most 
cases are closed, but the marks are * 
tinctly Made Charles Noble, 
GRAPE- VINES IN POTS v. PLANTED CANES 88 
certainly say a year by 
have here * Sweden, generally are the months 
of November, December, Jan dark 
any difficulty in ripening can wn on during the 
to the glass and in 1 pots. They are 
summer close tothe g 3 it, 8 
CHRONICLE. 
305 
PROPAGATION OF FICUS ELASTIC A.— Your 
correspondent, ‘J.D: G," 
in regard he geena subj ect by m 
appears to "fail to gra 
is wanted. If a sufficient number of tops can be 
obtained, this does Eny with the necessity of utilising 
pP 
wanted, means have to be taken 20 as to increase 
the stock i in the manner you describe, 
3 that a pla int is 
TEVENS’ NEW STRAWBERRY.—Being in 
the neighbourhood of Mr. Stevens’ place recently, I 
plants, an 
as astonished to see 30 man y 1 K S:rawberrie 
I can confirm all th 
ti an early form it must seen 
home he are so nearly all alike well 
cropped with fine fruit, that there is * ere: in 
getting one better than another. As you sa e foli- 
age isre p ean J amall and dwarf, that they a 
cover the 6. inch pots the pl 
they are r not more than 3 inches high 0 
look at l one would think that they had 
never t n up a single leaf during the time they 
our many readers for Mr. Stevens to 
afford some 8 of the origin of his seedling, 
aud 5 treatment. R, Abbots Leigh, 
—— I can fally confirm your estimate of the 
1 0 * rer pei this variety, having seen the 
ts is heir various 
5 but soot-water for watering the plants, 
W. Richardson, Hassocks Nursery, Hassocks, 
HILL’8 “EDEN.”—Jast a few lines in reference 
this head- 
cult, at this distance of time, to come to 
conclus 
ill n ingenious man,” and “fa ve 
observer; and f „ would . — ecm 
contented to tell the world he knew, 
e might have been e man, and 
needed not uch mean no 
patrons and frie 
alge is will known Li 
5 ‘ies ce 
pd ee —— 5 his 5 — a 22 out 
lete account of Hill and his seventy- 
ar paiia with mr xe As am en nted 
ation 
aa fe . vi er ‘307 of Hill was erbte, 
charley but it is jast as well to e mber that 
the a "Sir Joba f century was an 2 eo irri 
r ot a much greater 
— 2 * jade contemporaries who held their 
