Apri 6, 1895.] 
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GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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forms will require time to recuperate, and the silver, 
although less affe cted, show signs of the dire effects 
odendrons in quantity 
suffered. 3 of all kinds are severely browned. 
Berberis Aquifolium has scarcely a green leaf, but 
B. japonica, 5 its side, in many rows, is scarcely 
injured. The Lawson en te in ordinary forms are 
the erecta bie and Fraseri 
re quite uninjured, 
e affected, while 
erbac 
antitier, — a hg pe lok 
up with their usual — 
Wallflowers are killed o atright and, bony the 
vegetables in spare quarters, such as Brussels Sprouts 
Har 
and dy Greens, have scarcely a semblance of 
life. The deciduous trees of the ordinary kinds, mih 
y occupied, and, although 
speak d season, it seems to have 
been well in hand for years. 
The trade in cut flowers is considerable, and 
although there is ons acre of glass, it takes it ail to 
supply the shop in the centre of the thriving town- 
ship of Bowdon and ig Ge eee are largely 
for cut flowers y 
e, and nothing could be finer than the 
~ health of the plants and the show of 2 It is 
supposed “goon 
by many that thin earth 
wear ont the plants, but the converse is apparent 
„as most of them have been planted seven years, 
genus as well as for Palms, Tree Ferne, and su 
flowers produc m some o e best of the 
teraggy- growing but beautiful - flowering hybrid 
Himalayan Rhododendrons. Forem them 
in thia way is the best variety (there are two varie- 
ties) of Rhododendron Veitchianum. Its beautiful 
flowers come in so well about Easter, and they 
cover a “ Pi = ground,” in any floral design. The 
od R. G s appreciated, and among the 
2 SANÍ group, Duchess o 
White Lapagerias festoons thé haft which is 
20 feet to the apex— not a house certain nly 
general remunerative purposes, and Mr, 
3 if he were bailäing again he would not 
Put up suc 
There is he of eight houses, 60 by 12 feet, 
paag having its eile New Holland plants 
Cuitivated in division along with Epacris 
— Nerines. These 
— 
are among the best eee for those who have 
to supply a shop. Miss Joliffe is largely grown, and 
seems as a pink colour to take oiek rank, flowering at 
the season it does; then the white La Neige, and the 
Pike 
is grown in 88 but it ze 
than a winter flowerer. The Richardia is planted out 
in “bi hs and farnishes in this way great spathes for 
cu uttin ng. Thi is a admirable wreath- a revels in 
nd prodigious 
flower 
A — use of similar size is devoted to Odontoglos - 
sums, of which O. crispum forms the chief. The thou- 
pay for the room they t 
have had a hard winter to pull through, but they 
seem all safe, neither affected with cold nor oppressed 
with too much artificial heat, which has a tendency 
in the dark days to make many of them not only drop 
buds, but their leaves also. 
In another house are the Covlogynes, and a number 
house affords, The Chatsworth variety was very 
for ow 
useful in this way. moi 
atand longer when cut than its comp 
does the C, C. alba, both of vs the initiated in 
rhizome between 
well in dontoglo 
ae which we do not see very satisfactorily idee, 
rule, in these times. 
“Palme of table oe a Asparagus plumosus and 
deflexus, which see to get browned at the 
extremities in a * which does not suit it, were 
in company with lots of Pleiones, of which P. lagenaria 
ized, Then Oncidium 
crispum, rather a mi 
pended, the ground moisture from the forced white 
Lilies doing them, in my opinion, a power c 
Schroderianum, was in quantity. It is ‘doubtful, 
however, if this beautiful North orth Australian Dendrobe 
will last out than the stubborn superbiens. 
Dendrobium Ainsworthii, ot one of the most dis- 
tinct, because of its nearly ste white segments, was 
growing well in suspended bas 
Phalænopeis are in dne. * established and 
semi-established ; Angræcum ipedale is doing 
more than well in the hot mien air, and the hybrid 
endrobes, cut up and grown for sale purposes, are 
wonderfully ye et This applies to D. Schneider- 
he most distinct and best of the 
r 
achievement on the part of our 
who since the Hardy collection was broken up, has 
taken to other business 
pictorial D. nobile Cookeoni, and 
form of D. i REN still i in its way unrivalled. 
well, and so are those Cypri- 
e doin 
tenebross, ar a as a remarkable 
pediums that are grown here. ven 
plant, the old C, i 2 n demand, and it more 
par of the times, and the demand for Ladies 
during summer it 
which dee. the services of the middle-man offer 
urns. The suitable appen of frames 
for aie -out plants are in evidence, and the whole 
place seems to be under capable management, Viator, 
THE HERBACEOUS BORDER, 
— Sd 
PAPAVER UMBROSUM, 
In Inder Kewensis,1 find this given as a 2 
variety of eee Rbæas, and I do not question its 
correctness. It is, | however, noteworthy, that amongst 
the hand d hybrids which 
come up in my garden, He 
have never seen anything like an intermediate form 
between these two, — * * geared ry — 
have — simulta 
many parte of ya garden, ge * — perom ra ad 
come era self-s r the man y-coloured 
and double — of Pa apaver Rheas whic 
uce of seed which was sent to 
Index Kew 
species, though apparently — with those 
varieties of P. Rbæas commonly known as Shirley, 
Poppies, It is of much ee growth. Ep.] C. Volley 
Dod, Edge Hall, Malpas, 
SENECIO PULCHER, 
This handsome e of Senecio is quite pry 
pensable for the her s border, Possessed of a 
vigorous habit, ite large 8 leaves are attractive 
when the plant is = in flower, and when ite hand- 
some magenta-crimson blossoms are pate expanded 
the plant is almost * The flowers are from 
3 to 4 inches across, consequently in a — ge group it 
creates a moat distinct effect. Careful cultivation 
is necessary, and in t 
rich soile, no manure should be added at planting- 
ime, or a certain grossness of habit is obtained, 
which is very aa irable, Nor is this all: the 
over-fed pori is very ptible to a disease, 
effect is obtained, s 
about the plant which will not permit of any formal 
extreme frosts 
r er 
If they are lifted, the majority will be fresh 
hose a few inches deep in the soil, 
pots. Two dozen of such ay readily be 
inserted in a 5-inch pot, ag = allow room for small 
leaves to develop. ee = upper or 
n cut 
cleanly and wit 
frequently refuse to rend Place the pots in the 
greenhouse in a shaded place, or on gentle bottom- 
heat if available, When leaves of 1 inch long are 
brous 
made, the root-cutting will have emi 
roots at stage the young plants may 
open 7 
tendency to growth, a fact chief 
decay extending from the the surface | 5 
Ferro L say 75 n 
