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THE GARDENERS’ — 
As to ants, the writer says that one of the 
performed by them 
the trees. There can be no doub 
large num bar ay epiphytes are modified, so as to 
encourage the ants to bring them soil, and to retain 
it when brought. One of the beat examples is that 
of Platycerium grande, th 
nts for their neste. 
ds are also borne by Dryn aria. The a 
an deposited by the ants in the leaves 7 a ie 
and really consists of rich 
humus ery collected by the ants, e Mala 
Bulletin, it will be an, is an e e pation 
to botanical litera 
Tue FRUIT Export FROM THE CAPE. 
of fruit on 
id, and som 
Mr. Z. Goodman, over 6 ton 
Messrs. White & Co., 4h —.— and Mr. J. B 
Robinson, half a ton. 
The M.S. 
orman, which left for — 
ee 27, took the following shipments of fru 
kins, 6 i Messrs. Wai 
Mr. Haw 
Mr. Pope, 10 tone ; Mr. a Williams, 34 tons; and 
Mr. J, B. Robinson, 2 to 
F t Parane at Care Town 
The fashion of holding floral parades has re; 
d and valued — Mr. 
ebru 
he central ornament, while 
harness and wheels were made gay with many flowers. 
N PLANTING IN DOMINICA. 
The Ditti b is a plant native of Malay, and the 
fruits in scent particularly offensive, like a“ well- 
vel cheese plentifally flavoured with Š 
Specimens were sent i 
Agricultural Journal gi ~ Leeward Islands, to St. 
aaant about ten a ago; and one of these, 
under the care * De. “Nichelle has now attained a 
year fruited. >- frait 
BELGIUM. 
h da 
pontica, 1 9 . rustica fl.-pl. were nea 
e those of the dre those 
only . esca d that were well covered up; 
delicate varieties were utterly destroyed. 
a NOTEWORTHY Orcaips AND AMARYLLIS. 
. Vuylst rip they Fore 125 ent, b i 
covers half the tps the rest is —.— 
beam — bro 
rming variety of O. Pescatorei is that with 
very O. Andersonianum lobatum i 
tinctive, owing to the 1 -coloured border of the 
divisions; it is a fine va 
arne —— —We have mentioned M. 
Van Imechoot's seedling 8 and have 
now seen those r — € M. Vuylsteke The 
former, twent aoe were from seed gained 
from O. Insleayi leopardinum m X O. crispum; th 
foliage of these is that of c ef that of the others 
f Insleayi. The second lot o edlings, of which 
M. Vuylsteke has sown 
8 X ane in all possible ways, but with no effect ; 
t e takin ‘the a paper, 
he ec — them — and carelessly, £ and the 
result was Vay 0 a y young plants here mentioned. 
teke has filled a house 50 feet long 
by 13 wes sit “Amaryllis, all Pag raised by him, 
with the exception of some from Messrs, Veitch, 
which bloom later and require more heat. Among 
the many novelties, ngs will be made of those 
suitable to = We think these plants 
so particularly fine — worth mentioning here. 
The smallest flower of the species here specially 
mentioned measured nearly 5 inches across, Ch, D. B 
W ORK. 
PLAN UNDER GLA 
By W. H. — Gardener, West Dean Park, Chichester. 
UCAL pTus.—Piants in pots should now be 
given a liberal shift, using good rich soil Me the 
purpose, and afterwards —.j— them in a warm 
calyptus are very useful 
THE WEEK'S 
Of this 8 and E. globulus, a few 
i be each ear, and the p kept 
in —.— small p rh th the winter, The seeds 
best 2 — 
dae. Il these have filled their te with 
roots, and large plants are required, Pepot them at 
= using good loam ie f-soil, and rotten Mush- 
Tunsx results are only now being discovered. 
Roses, Rhododendrons, Aucubas, Cherry-Laurels 
Holly, many Conifers (Cupressus Lawsonians, Biota 
orientalis, Thuia Lobbi, Thujopsis dolabrata, Abies 
canadensis, Taxus hibernica, Abies Nordmanniana) 
are much damaged in the eastern districts. It is the 
Ancubas, herry- Laurels, Rhododendr 
country the parts of the Conifers and 
which were covered by the snow have naturally been 
well protecte 
beds of Cherry-Laurel set side by side, divided by 
small paths; th e covered on the same 
day with matting, and now almost all the strongest 
oom-dung, with plenty of sharp * or road 
When the plants have rooted into the fresh 
aye ri 
h, and syringe them twice or thri 
daly, and afford. slight shade when the sun i is bright, 
ps appear, te forth with, 
2 s oF the plant 
NIZEFLORA shoul w be 
m the soil, where a. the 
in full lig light, 
or increase 
the you 1 URA an 
be taken off with a heel and put us tate onal ey may 
CHRONICLE. 
[Apert 20, 1895, 
sandy peat, heat of 
90° under bell-glasses if these ar : bean 
A fi n and 
eep them close 
afterwards gradually afford more — ote 
hen the pots are full of roots, pot off into air, 
using a compost of tu m, peat, leaf-soil ot 
d V 
these ~ to train them up the wires on the ae 
stove when in flower let them hang | a 
the 8 obe from 
NUM CAPSICASTRUM, — Cat 
plants and keep rather dry till they bead * . 
when they should have a — of the old sil 
removed and be repotted into r pote, or they 
berry quite as À 
in, and if kept growing oan the summer, they will 
cat nice 1 in the au 
plants commence to e 
water should be withheld entirely, and the plants 
nho Bas d 
leaf-soil, with some 
room-dung added, and give plenty of water at 
roots at all time 
TAR 
seepi FRUIT GARDEN. 
proof, 
rotection A * of two or three t 
sh-nets, and stretched to poles put into the 
m o 
at about 2 feet from the bottom of the wall, 
the top by staples or Jong nails. 
etting may safely be left down continuously for 
— . it cold winde 5 but not longer than 
tely necessary, as Pea eatly dislike any- 
— in the shape of 4 0 pers nets 
up and faste of 
ned at the to 
quickl 
em fee: firmly at 
ound 
the 
Ae left until the d 
removed as soon as practicable, 
ing that a tree is pag smothered in 
a seta ts energies beg i 
by the 23 af tana which a ti 0 
would 
STRAWBERRY. BEDS, 2 7. 
ot have been mule 
applications of liquid-manure 
benefit. Diluted house-sewage is 
purpose. 
D NES T . 
be e ned occasionally, y cracks | 
be opening in the clay at oncs Alled, and mae 
against the air. All gro b 
scion must be rabbed off as fast as they ® 
