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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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there to artistically balance the picture. Many 
plante o Dendrobium nobile are also in bleom, and 
there is great variety sonal them ; also D. eg, 
D. densiflorum, D. thyrsiflo rum, D. superb 
aureum, and other Dendrobes, not the least aan 
of which is the pretty purple-tinted dwar 
Kin e Ca is 
almost entirely confined to the varieties of Cattleya 
Tri hem are rome- 
yellow Lelia flava, which is by no means a common 
plant; and ite ally, L. cinnabarina; also the cherry- 
crimson Epidendrum X O’Brienianum, one of Messrs, 
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Fig 64 —acave ATTENUATA: 
HEIGHT, 3 FT. 3 N.; 
Morag s A erosses * r and which is so 
free ngs, that it is — 
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Oncidium 3 the new and pretty cl . — 
ium Lucasianum, and other species, are also 
vending up their spikes freely. 
part of the -garden, and yn > pia 
Passed = aaa wall; indeed, so far 
at present be te few Py the ‘Liem 
rock- pleit have past eA and the rocky heights 
4nd sloping banks of the garden are already com- 
FROM THE GARDEN OF H 
LENGTH OF SPIKE, 4FT, 101N, 
te a bright show of 8 with the 
8 aoe S. o. , S. Burseriana, 
ai. other Saxifrages; some w the dwarf blue- 
flowered Scillas = Chionodoxas, the Erythroniums, 
ee “a amen Coum, from corms gathered in 
Devon 3 e eee and a few other 
Navona pee one specially pretty and rather rare 
a care has 
n to give each class of plants the ee 
rock, or nen suitable for its Bsc culture 
hence the satisfactory state of the rock-garden at 
Warnham Court, 
M, THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. 
FLOWERS, STRAW-COLOURFD 
i CATTLEYA TRIANI, 
In the current number of the Orchid Review is a 
5 3 of fifty- kus varieties of this 
popular species 
ra Ar Boxtep PARK, 
In these w gardens an unusually 5 md 
lection of er e is to be seen in flower a 
present time, one huge specimen of D. nobile a ess 
4000 b 
fine . crassinod 
although 2 bonis shows ho 9 with sixty - 
two good b and several other specimens 
of D. hi os ei pa for at least from 2000 to 
blooms, These superb plants evidence great 
sene skill in Mr. Prinsep, the gardener at this 
place, T. E. S. 
HOLLAND. 
ig Garpeninc PRRIODIcALS.— Holland is cer- 
tainly rich in ages ng periodicals, We have the 
seek weekly journals: Sempervirens 
H. Witte); 
Kuyk) ; Floralia (A. Tiet); Flora et Pomona (G. A. 
mboliencultum (Joh. de Breuk); Rosarium 
G. Staes). Soon we shall have another n 
hie or ay a called Tuinboukundis Tydschrift, with 
itors. It all these little gardening 
benen were amalgamated into one it would be 
better. 
Lars Snow at HAARLE 
The statement of our correspondent ` as to the 
Those gentl 
= Sliver Medal, but 
o Mr. W. J. Daudey 055 of Haarlem. Mr, Schertzer 
was Ist, Mr. Daudey 2nd, and Messrs, Krelage 3rd. 
AGAVE ATTENUATA. 
Tue i illustrations, _ 63, — era a plant 
which is attracting much attention just pt! in the 
gardens of H. M. the tiny of the ad ans a 
2 to 24 n length native of — 
and has been figured as A. glaucescens t. Mi 
t. 5333. (Se e Baker, Handlosk 4 8 
pil 
MUSAS kos CONSUMPTION 
Tue usefulness Ta 2 ss species of Musa in 
decoration is so generally known 
most 
houseg, attaining, as they do, a height of 40 feet. 
There are, however, some s e Molins paradisiaca 
and M, p. sapientum, 5 h 25 feet, and fruit 
well, if the house is larg den to allow develop- 
m Dr. Morris has given 
much valuable information respecting Musas in the 
Kew Bulletin for August, 1894; and he has given the 
names of many additional ee fit for use or 
articulars 
ornament, p especting them which 
most persons were werf f—at least, I feel sure 
eners were, That number of the Ke 
Bulletin is a mine of information, and a valuable 
manual of reference, I can say that it was of much 
benefit to myself, from the copious n 
and 
at Kew for several valu 
which would shortly have been ripe had not an 
eae s to above is more 
ripening. The work b , ike 
dope ] it would at first sight 
, giving, as it does, names and descriptions 
of N which have not hitherto been grown in 
