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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE, 
M. AD. VANDEN ir a NURSERY 
NURSERIES Te a E — collection — Banner 
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Ferns, . er the ret 
Fic, 58.— ABIES BALSAMeA (FROM KEILLOUR PINETUM) : 
a BRACT, (SEE P 
he has extended . brauch. We counted o 
hundred pots, containing seedlings of dare. ae 
and varieties, many of which, while coming up, form 
soft moasy-green carpets. Last year 
of seed were raised. No fewer than seventy pans 
are full of pricked-out seedlings, 
rieties, 
plete ae tc include examples of the rarest, as 
well as the more common species, 
mec is afforded, as wellas an example worth copy- 
ing. Selaginellas are largely cultivated here, One 
plant of recent introduction, which finds due appre- 
ciation, is Saintpaulia 7 this is largely 
the prop pagating- house, 
Thus a scientific 
sion 
days ‘os divided pieces are in leaf, We noted Cero- 
pegia elegans, with its curious black-ground flowers ; 
<i) 
N | k 
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CONE-BEARING SHOOT, LEAVES, CONES, SEEDS, AND 
C. Sandersi, a a aga of Bertolonias growing 
vigorously in the open How curious is the 
aquatic a Coro 1 “thelictrioides, Sgt vel 
merged in water! In the same house with this 
saw several =o plants, viz., Smilax argyrea, Taa 
cantis , nandrium Lindeni, and some 
pretty little clumps of Peperomia — Pe obtained 
without uy pa back, which we recommend?to 
0 
8 there ept some beautiful plants of 
Manettia bicolor, and ical 
liferam, called in — La Fortune, and re 
Bryophyllum pro- 
mark- 
able for the — in which it eee a leaf 
ie laid on a pan o from 
the 2 of — — lobe. It bears a raceme 
e green flowers like little bells, Pilea sela- 
ee always spreading rather . mae 
in height, forms pretty conical plan 
Scar ffiana is a — Pema with hairy- ot — 
whic e of a carmine-red on the under-side, and 
very effective in the aun, Ch, D. 
2 
M. A. Van Ixsnoor's OrcHIDS, 
At Mont St. Amand, Ghent, is to be found one of 
the most complete horticultural establishments in 
1 bloo charming variety 
of the same species, E. 8. v var. ‘Wallaceum, a the 
lip rose- spas dotted with carmine; a fine variety of 
ee ter onianum, with large — 
on the back a , and rose-coloured borders; O. 
imu wi ar 
respective merits wood differe ces; O i ee 
O. rubellum, O. asp with n flowers on 
one atem, ard e e of O. maculatum; O. 
eve meanum; a pretty purple variety of O. bicton- 
the curious Brassia ocanensis; Masdevallis 
Pourtalxix (Veltehi x Shuttleworthi), a small speci- 
men with twelve pretty flowers; the tp 
Chysis Limmingbei, the curious Chondrorhyncha 
Chestertoni, from New Grenada, th of 
flower looking as if cut from thin paper, We would 
mention also the rather rare Dendrobium 22 
album, D. splendidissimum 1 D. Cassio 
Vanda Stuartiana, Lycaste plana ensures iata, 
L, ear L. lasioglossa, Cala nthe masucs, Phaius 
Blumei, P. Wallichi; aleo ci maculatus, with foliage 
aun coe with white 
leased and webster to note seedlings of 
ee ele raised from O. luteo- 
O. Harryianum. These, and those belonging t 
Vuylsteke, are the first that have been raised in 
Belgium. One of these valued seedlings has already 
leaves. The seed germinated after 
bat dià 
collect them, but some alighted on a pot 3 feet away, 
others on one 16 feet distant. Ch. D. B. 
FORCED POTATOS. 
ee ae new Po 
e to the gardener’s credit on account of the 
rarity of vegetables generally. 
ter the frosts experienced last i when large 
d, or greatly 
and means. I know man 
apring would have lost all of their early Potato crop 
had they not covered the plante at the last moment; 
es although a few leaves were were 
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