Apa 13, 1895.] 
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CHRONICLE. 
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— — — 
notably Viscountess Hambledon and Miss Anna 
rtshorn, have a de eided tendency to the formation 
ccount for 
persistently showing zo many fi 
clean growth. The continued removal of the buds is 
all that can be done to lessen the evil, E. Molyneux 
NURSERY NOTES, 
MESSRS. B. S. WILLIAMS AND SONS. 
Ix the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper 
Holloway, the adv ae are witnessed of cultiva- 
ting a neral collection of plante, and this, at the 
e, in a very ae degree, — the 
long i severe winter. the large winter 
i Fro 
garden at the entrance, furnished with lofty Palme 
s, and brigh 
Fie, 63,—FLOWERS OF AGAVE ATTENUATA- 
there is a good display of bloom. In the New 
Holland houses the ager fuchsioides, D. tulipi- 
fera, and other large specimens in bloom taking us 
back to the phe when a they f y formed the principat fea- 
ho Of modern class of 
just commencing to make a fine show. ippe- 
astrums (Am marilia), f for which these nurseries sre 
famed, a gorgeous display is furnished, the Holloway 
strain of a dark "iiie of scarlet being very notice- 
able. The fine forms of Cliyeia (Imatophyllam) 
miniata, a genus of plants the improvement 
which Mr, H. Williams has al with suc- 
M a) 
cess, evidence of which can be seen in the three 
fine varieties, specially noticeable among the mass 
ge - scarlet heads of 
collection 
we noted in one of the houses, re 
ener. 
spotted Anthuriums, aud brilliant e 
on Canna Köaigin Charlotte, the eee scarlet 
e edging. a col- 
every house there are plants of intere 
Nepenthes nes coloured - nae 
plants are fresh and bright as usual, 
The Orchids,—These plants are a special og 
these 8 and yield at the present date 
. In fature, e the show will "a 
e tofore, the more popular 
species and ordinary varieties having to be cut as 
soon as ready in upply the shop which the 
firm me herp in — illy. 
In one of the chief Orchid-houses we noted 
pretty e in which were a fine specimen of Cym- 
bidium eburneum, some well-flowered C. Lowianum, 
Trichopilia 3 N Sanderiana, Cypripedium 
wered Cymbidium Davonianum, 
Lycaste 8 — other species, and a splendid 
lot of Oneidium sarcodes laden with flower was 
e 
=, 
s $ 
= 
(see T 457) 
suspended overhead, Ia ano ther house visited was 
a show of Dandrobiums, mostly varieties of D. nobile, 
n * 
Saspended overhead were two striking and u 
ommon Cœlogynes, viz, C. tomentosa, 5 
resembling C. Massangeana, but w ith salmon- 
coloured sepals and petals; a 5 C. lactes, with 
retty sprays of milk-white The cold 
houses have little flower at wes a the 
y healthy pli lenty A few 
Sophronitis, Odontoglossum crispum, O. aie oni- 
anum, O. cristatum, se escatorei, and 0. ee 
are in bloom, howe asdevallias showing 
colour, associated — ere, being the fine, rich, 
crimaon-coloured Pinguica the hand- 
of its clase, and oni the easiest to culti- 
* of eee 9. 
aller 
care, is a 
a grand e eau a th 
hybrids. In bloom were 
Rothechildianum with two spikes, some planta of C. 
Alice (Spicerianum X Stonei), C. x A Ashbur- 
tonis expansum, C. X eee, C. x politum, C. 
x Io grande, C. callosum, C. X Huybrechtianum, 
C. Mastersii, and many other species. 
In another warm, moiet house the varieties of 
Pescatorea, Bollea, and Batemannia are growing 
vigorously and sending forth buds, They are sus- 
pended near the e and probably soma who fail to 
n pots and he stages s would 
table warm 
re as at Holloway. Still ie 
m house, in which was a quantity of 4 da te 
sho Wilde flowers, the blush-white V. te dies 
nha ta ore in 
fed is a plant of 
true Dendrobium cucullatum giganteum in 
ower—a very pretty object; also D Cassiope, 
D. nobile Cooksoni, D. nobilius, Angræcam 
modestum, 
* 
A. cltratum, Phalænopais Schilleriana, 
Ornithocephalus Sa titel? and a large number of 
other pretty and rare thin 
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