— We are pleased to be able to 
Marcu 30, 1895. 
THE GARDENEKS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
393 
AERIDES CYLINDRICUM (Linn). 
give an illustration 
ourselyes of ‘he Lope to give a figure in 171 
not only to show the beauties of the plant, but to set 
at rest the popular error that it is identical with A. 
— a totally different species, but which is, not- 
withata 
azine 
he flowers of A. cylin- 
dricum have the sepals and petals firm and wax- 
like in substance; white, sometimes _tinged slightly 
The plant comes cpr a fo: h altitude in southern 
India, and presumably from an at fa eee locality, 
i l arden 
n in flower, and he states that Aërides 
cylindricum is free to grow and flower if treated in 
the same way. J. O’B. 
BERLIN, 
CONVALLARIA MAJALIS. 
Feıcke’s VARIETY or LILY OF THE VAL 
Ar the last oe s the Hortic 34855 re 
of Berlin, Mr. Fric f Wildpark, nea e sdam 
exhibited cities ibaian this markable 
variety, to which was awarded a iig Silve r Medal, 
The jan differs from the type by its oblong-lanceo- 
uch-more-acute leaves of dark green colour, 
— root-stocks, with a very pale rose hue, and 
of seventeen to twenty and more flowers, One 
specimen of this variety bore twenty-eight flowers 
this new variety 
15 biennial 
forceable, akui generally roots of 
Lily of the Valley can only be foreed when 3 years 
Cor Frownks rrom New TORK AT BERLIN, 
t the last meeting of the Horticultural Society 
of Berlin, there were exhibited cut flowers of the 
new Rose Belle Siebrecht fae Grant). R 
ebruary 
2 
x 
Were cut at New York, F 
Berlin vid England on 3 26, and were 
exhibited on Feb 5 the hee 3 
ruary 28 
d in little cylindrical 
up with the glass tube, in waxed pape 
closed at both ends by gutta-percha rings. Eight 
a box, which had at 
st trial w full success, it 
showed the ebe, va vending serena or scions 
n this way to very long 
of rare t 
diaca. 
Primura rLoRmwoNDa, WALL. V. 
VAR. GRANDIF 
This is a very fine variety of Primula side 
from Kumaon, Kashmir, and the western Himalaya 
and Afghanistan, where it grows up to an altitude 
of 6000 feet. The young seedlings must be planted in 
pots, where they grow 
after the fourth or fifth leaf. The plant is a little 
e. but the he pe a form a globe of about 
o 4 inches, and are beset with numerous bright 
— flowers of about — an inch in diameter. 
FIG. See CYLINDRICUM: FLOWERS WHITE, 
SOMETIMES TINGED WITH ROSE, 
Curiously enough, the plants produce still smaller 
flowers if planted out into the ground, 
Tur INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT Kios oF 
MINERAL MANURE ON ie FLAVOUR or 
In the * iseue of the Pomological praet by 
F. nd the 
results of the use of different kinds — of miner 
rries 
oo, 
ose manured pe 3 vole mst dra ew 9 per cent. 
phosphoric acid, and 11 pe „ had a still 
more agreeable eve ugay f favour wy more aroma, 
Pears, manured with cent. chilisalpetre 
(nitrate of toda), were ae in flavour without 
r or aroma e of 50 per cent. potash 
in form 61 biases amiga imparted 
to m an insipi ur with a little 
48 grammes superphosphate gave the fra 
concen gary flavour an aroma; a mixture 
of 48 grammes kalimagnesia and 48 grammes super- 
phosphate, imparted a more agreeable sugary flavour 
d aroma; whilet a mixture of 48 grammes super- 
phosphate, 48 grammes kalimagnesia, and 48 grammes 
chilisalpetre makes the fruite very agreeable, the 
unpleasant taste is removed, the tuga 
een the arom 
48 grammes chilisalpetre, 48 grammes kalimagnesia, 
and 72 grammes superphosphate, U. D. 
FRUIT NOTES: 
APPLE RYMER, 
Tuis culinary we is eg an excellent 
late variety. It was shown in good condition by 
Mr. Turton at the Reading aaa ae March 19, 
plump and high-colou 
APP 7 815 PEARMAIN, 
This is one of — best late dessert Apples; and 
although considered to be in season from December 
to February, it is really good at the end of March, a 
time when good English Apples have got very scarce. 
The fruit is ponies. in shape, gni carries a brighs 
) Bll. 
— The ral treatment 
required for r Meldi will per “cucumbers, with 2 
22 a more porous soil — 
— We te necessary in their eu — 
plants at the fourth leaf, and all side at 
second or third joint. The basin should not be 
ag very much, when a slight 
cessi s a0 
singly in thumb- pots, and placed under a bell- glass, 
in the frame, or another sowing of see 
— Winter fruiters, if in a healthy con- 
dition, may ** top- dressed, an * 
owing freely, the young growth should be given 
plenty of room to develop th 
limited, and there is a goo 
plants in 32-sized pote, it will be better 8 Ear 
the old plants and —— the young o Pot 
pote, or they — bs vw 1 
apart, 
and grown with a 
soil between two rows of 
be suffic ziak ra 
rther | 
water the A e 8 ot 5 — ue 
is required. Sow 1 seed vce fed fr e a 
re to dry being u andt 
to the Vine and the crop, a 4 5 2 
water pipes are over-heated vom fest to last without 
— 5 go on from firet to 
noe in leaf or fruit, and this is impossible 
