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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Apri 13, 1895, 
‘ascent of the sap,” now called the transpiration 
current, 0 fs top o - tallest tree, is still unex- 
plained—or rather, w ould say, none of the pro- 
posed explanations is peor satisfactory. 
The author designates his work a student’s text- 
book; we venture to think that for some time to 
come it will be the student's text-book—at least, so 
far as advanced pupils are concerned, 
GARDENS IN LONDON SQUARES. 
Ir must have struck the ordinary eset what 
a pee gc ggg . thing is the garden the 
London squa: No doubt it would surprise him on 
entering one ie find how charmingly they are 
2 and full of flowers —as, ind 
are. But could they not be laid out to give a 
better s ene for the yen of the public, and 
add t: ral bea 
© 
=h 
ur great metropolis ? 
ay Bo as 80 J as pak, done to improve 
its appearance, owing to 8 of great clever: 
ness and taste having been employ — ay ge 
n the 
in the Ape part of London, particular 
estates of the large landowners. They — be 
arranged fs give a good effect both from the Saag 
and from the peg = esapta ugo private for the 
paea in the wh arapa annual, pay- 
ment to keep ant in Feeds er, ek e might be 
done with the money that is spent on Fi gardens, 
as every householder round the square of say sixty or 
not touching, the heavy-looking iron fence 
arrei, = It would have a much better effect to 
allow J, from 6 to 8 feet—of grass 
sta i fence and the planting; leaving aa open 
space betw: shrubs at intervals, making a 
peep into — lawn inside, but not large enough to 
destroy its privacy. 
Trees p at wide intervals outside on the 
bene if N should be one, next the garden, 
would improve the appearance from outside; the 
— k * : tree, especially a Plane, a tree largely 
planted in and suitable for London, is one of i 
greatest beauties, but hardly shows in a Londo 
square garden from outside. Of course, planting 
trees on the outside of the fence would necessitate 
trees that grow to any height being planted away 
from the edge of the garden inside, to prevent their 
growing into them. 
The design of the garden should be of a formal 
ption, not being, as rule, of an irregular 
shape, and being ede es. d by buildings, it is a great 
mistake to make a pretence of being in the eee 
and Jaying out the naturally-flat ground into a sort of 
mini hill-and-dale landscape. The making of 
mounds upon bined the shrubs are to be planted 
give effact 
1 
growth, 
8 F 
5 
ge +h. A. * of m 
leche 
plan | different sorts, although they have the 
ae merit of flowering perpetually through the 
hole summer and autumn, should be used sparingly, 
as cuttings cannot be raised in the garden, so entail 
a certain amount of expense, 
The lawns a. de as little cut up as possible by 
paths, but should be — with groups of two or 
trees here and th 
Standard eee zuc an as Bay, ‘ae 
or clipped Laurel in tubs, placed in a formal man 
at the entrance gates and various points, would look 
The surface of the 
well during the summer months. i 
of a 
nnuals eve 
largely used, being quick growers, and lasting as long 
as the weather permits the garden being enjoyed. H. 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA 
EUPHORBIA JACQUIN FLORA, 
mber of years we have grown this plant 
successfully by treating it in the following manner, 
Through failur 
pot culture, I ata d ow 
planted out, where thought, would enjoy 
a more regular medium in regard to moisture as 
compared to the fluctuating conditions of pot culture. 
= this end I had ten ae LEER along the ma 
a 40-feet pit, and as the shoo m they w 
iste up wader the — in arch fashion, — 
a lovely floral canopy over some Orchids which stand 
on a bed beneath. The soil consisted of a small 
quantity of loam, but not so much sand as usual, In 
and planted out in early 
ched to the top of the tg by 
ext autumn, N the wood was well ripened. 
From the we of November until the prenent 
time, the ts have literally formed a 
wer — the admiration of all Wis have 
see Where there is much decoration of the 
reaper to be aban, the e eee and foliage 
of the plants are invalaible m s. Sometimes 
the table has been draped with eos pelle shoots 
alone, and sometimes in conjunction with othe 
flowers. The flowers and leaves, when placed upon 
whi 
nearly 
shall shortly cut them hard back. They v Anes de por 
form their growth in course of the summer, an 
under the slight shade afforded by this leafy canopy, 
the Orchids seem to thrive fog are apparently all 
the better for it. Treated i milar manner, 
have been equally saccegsful oan Polaseslia pulcher- 
rima, W, Miller, Combe Abbey, 
. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 
ORCHIDS AT WARNHAM COURT, 
HORSHAM. 
Tue interest of C. T. Lucas, Esq.,in Orchids con- 
tinues unabated, and although all classes of flowering 
nts are cultivated in these fine gar 
the presiding 2 
ham Court, and f his gardener Mr, Dancan, From 
the stately iii (an illustration of which we 
gave in the Chronicle, J 11, 1892, 
Lett the houses form a continuous chain, those 
“ag stent plants. ep eies 5 
n 
nig sn ed 3 the 
ing objects, two fin 
nucifera), raised from nuts gathered 
Mr. C. J. Lucas, who aleo Sosa in collecting 
there the pretty rose-lipped Epiden m 
Some rock-bordered gree 
interest- 
- nut Pains 
SE 
manner of the staging in 
‘or growing Pelar- 
e in the olden time. But the desired end 
is accomplished, and the whole of the Odontoglos- 
sums brought to much about the same distan 
the glass of the roof, whether they are 1 on the 
front of the ataging, or at the bac 
pleasant ae to behold. 
As he gemma the forms of O. crispum 
fine o 
ee shige any es there are, Some 
B are in flower, but only one jg 
Be z., O. Andersonianum dred, 
ife 
asak ee, ne form, with the broad petals m 
nearly like Q; PEA but the colour is pale yellow, 
the inner half of the segments bei 
uch, it is a remarkable advance on th A 
in bl lii, O. cirrhosum, O. cons ; 
and other species; a pretty Masdevallia Shuttle- 
ment is 
Oncidium, but aa eras cool house will grow them 
well, 
Passing through the ornamental re we 
come to the warmer Orchid-houses, one of these 
ere shown some healthy dale, of Richardia 
Elliottiana, crossed with f R. 
k 
rat ead the rare 
Searles ideen Schom 
four strong spikes. Th 
with its ball of root 
adopted suits it well. 
— are in bloom. 
The next is a rather lofty warm-house, and in it 
is . specially well-grown class, viz, the 
Angræcums, som 
flower at Warnh 
ivory-white flowers; 
blooms; some compact plants of the charming A. 
citratum have many spikes, as also the beautiful A. 
Sanderianum, A. articulatum, and others of the A. 
Ellisii section. These, except the prom mien 
mostly suspended from the roof, in which position 
they grow best, and send down their long drooping 
spikes pt a p Hipi thən they usually do when 
; e same house is a giant 
plant * .. 4 which many 
spikes of its crimped brown flowers; well in flower 
were D, albo-sanguinum, eee 5 bas 
tianum (Harrisianum x villosum), C. 
* Calypso, and other Geda 
me 
ten 
2 next house has a splendid show of 
obj 
Had the plant been staked 
have looked nearly so protiy, but it has been su with 
to bloom as it grew, the pseudobulbs 
bloom, hanging around in irregular order, 
centre displays some green young ikai 
shorter unflowered pseudobulbs appear here 
endrobiums, one plant of D. ene 
