Marcu 30, 1895,] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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immediately they open, but to let them * until 
e old flower- stem eo 
germinates, which is usually in about tw 
months, the os ants must be very — psc 
using a fine rose for the purpose, 
8 are as have become fairly rooted, they 
may be treated as 1 moisture similarly to the 
older e but they must not be disturbed until 
= following Sere < 
ould be hod is to 
placo several of these young 8 tron the edge 
smallest size pots, and to suepend them well 
up to che roof- glass of the hous hg en the new 
appear, the plants must be attended to with the 
BLETIA HYACINTHINA may be repotted in the 
game compost as paler for the Calanthes, Keep 
sed to the light, and in the 
Other 28 of Bletia 
ould be repotted as they show signs of gro 
when growing — require the temperature of 
the intermediate- house 
PLEIONES, ETC.—The cool-growing species, as 
P. humilis, P. Hookeriana, should, as soon as new 
commences, be repotted. Place men in 
pans, and suspe i gan 
ventilator in the O 
glass, Keep 
~~ supplied with moisture at 
the root at all 9 
PLANTS UNDER GLASS. 
By W. H. Suir, Gardener, West Dean Park, Chichester. 
AQUILEG!AS.— Though not generally grown in pots, 
there are ama plants more lovely. Sow rather a 
inas tek nee sand. 
the —— about an inch high, prick 2 of 
into boxes 3 eee apart each way, and when the 
planta have grown to touch each other, pot into 
“size pots, usi loam, leaf-soil, cow-manure, 
and coarse sand. fterwards the 
y place 
outside. Towards the beginning of June they should 
potted 
de into 16-sized pote, using the same com- 
bef In t ter, when the plants 
have lost their leaves, the should be removed 
to e, The following spring they should 
greenhouse or * and when the 
p ow, they should receive 
liberal supplies of Nee with Panga occa- 
J. ate 
PRIMULAS,—The first batch of seed should now 
be sown in 33 bt drained pans, using for the 
mpost e ing of one-half loam, and 
one-half f Jeaf-monld, with abundance of sharp sand, 
The surface of the soil should be slightly p 
and an tle w 
way, and the soil become 
and 3 with fine soil, pi 
on yo m arg ape 
lag loss of moisture, and the pans pat in 
h e greenhouse shelf, * kept sha 2 till 
in 5 agers should 
of t * y. aks iiias ihe haves 
Double- flo ag varieties 
eg of . is to mound- up 
of the 
e 
sandy leaf-soil, and 
will form, ‘and the plants may then b 
divided « with a knife, each — with a portion of 
e Pot in o 60's a gpt using one-half 
aa quantity 
e soil porous, Piac 
frame, and kee ma close for a week or two, that! is, till 
roots push into the soil, when more air and light 
may be 5 afforded. 
ATION SOUVENIR DE LA MALMAISON 
Old Resting plants should bave plentiful supplies of 
water, with weak manure-water aff 
tobac pe uld—a very essential point. Those 
plants of the > variety which have er flowering 
should be removed to a cool vinery 
from the young plants ; and they may 
also be brought into flower quite six weeks earlier 
next spri 
E FLOWER GARD 
By Barney Wapps, Gardener, Birdsall diski York. 
DECIDUOUS AND EVERGREEN PLANTS SUITABLE 
and M. conspicua Soulangeana, 
ga wat should, in cold eee 
be placed ca toatherly or westerly as ts, the ev 
cio neti outh or grandiflora age on a sout ath 
1 er for these plants should be as well 
wea as if for fruit trees, well ie of good depth 
th, and consisting of pasture loam, partly- 
it tie pl crushed bones, and coarse san eè roots, 
if t ants are in pots, should be i out hori- 
foot, masy 
sit border. 4: B 
evergreen climber, this is without an 
—As an 
e “al, I, ond toe also be put to a variety of purposes, 
Š edgi A shrubberies or flower-beds, basket- 
it- 
Sle for planting against damp vigel than Ivy, its 
numerous roots and dense growth helping to 1 5 
them dry. It requires but little care in 
year after lin 
owing shoots resent is a suit- 
able anon for p 8 Ivy. The plant likes good 
* Page with ple of manure afforded when 
for 8 large surfaces in a 
time. The small cut-leaved and vari er; varie- 
i wis 
phylla, which do well on a south aspect; Crates 
yracantha, an ses en 
ng the : 
-be — variety; C. p. Lelan 
pris e A 3 microphylla, C. Simonsi 
succeeds well on east or west aspects if planted d in 
good garden soil, E agnus reflexa, and the varie- 
— N are very good 
pects; Escallonia macrantha, with pink fl 
and E. philippiana, with white o 
uth; aed hake elliptica vill do 
well on east or wes 3 aspec 
Half-hardy annuals, i.e., those which are benefited 
by being sown in a little artificial heat, may now be 
sown. Under this heading are included Ten-week, 
East ian, and In edi to German 
rs, Zinnias, Marigolds, Phlox Drummondi, &c. 
Sowings of these may also be made on a wa 
border t ds the end of April or beginning of 
mgs lS vag in most parts of the . it is be 
in shallow boxes r glaas, and 
8 when the danger from socks | is passed. 
HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 
ots W. ee Gardener, Se sets Castle, Newbury. 
NT8.—Early forced 
e when — — off, should be 
planted in ers as 80 as 
to a crop of fruit in the W when a few 
dishes are sure to be w e at the dessert. Before 
plenting see that the soil in the oist, and 
when planting it suffices to j old ball 
th soil, treading firmly the soil around it. If the 
weather be dry, on wi after planting will 
generally suffice. The surface of the beds should 
afterwards be loosened with oe. Amongst the 
most useful varieties for autumn fruiting are Keen’s 
oe King of the Earlies, and Vicomtesse H. de 
emia he last being the best, 
RIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES, — New 
dikes v . — which may have been litted from i 
open ground and sent b or rail, ought to be 
te 
tted a own — lter for a time, so as to 
become 2 st — planting them out of 
doors. In p l not to bury the small 
the piante an ng. the frat» firmly, 
AMERICAN 
Apple trees should be examined now for American 
3 any that may be seen to have escaped 
the winter’s dressing, 8 bonld be X; 
ea of rosin and spirits mentioned in 
s a trial. Ep.] It is also a 
time to search for and destroy the eggs of the - 
esome, the eggs will be found on 
the smaller branches, glued to the bark, like bands 
or rings of 3 15 
PYRAMID PLUM TREES,—Although Plums are 
not N met with as pyramids, it is a form of 
ulture to which most of the varieties lend them- 
d for which some of the best 
rienced in 
A 2 
brea! wths not pat M. 
