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May 4, 1888. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
939 
what he penans and pays for it. — — — advisa- 
bility of for profit, 
that 3 2 upon the way — 12 at the 
the chief considera- 
from e object in view, 
do * — — Ind whic h brings i n less — 
2, 6d. . per acre, but which is capable of 
growing — The s planting of such land is rather 
a national question than otherwise; and perhaps 
e s Mr, one believes, the 2 of 
home dene. and ente will take the place 
of “ ” which are apparently made to 
sell.” A. C. "For 4 
MARKET GARDENS AND 
TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
Set bon has the Gardeners’ Chronicle contained two 
above subject. Careful read 
the two subjects are 
commercial horti 
in most districts perhaps to — . lines, 
the more pressing problems of technical education, 
The Press,too, has done splendid service in the same 
oard of 
to help rather than hinder our older established 
on, and furnishing up- 
Pota 
P. Hari T , Fre ved — Oabbages, 
er Tu fruits, flowers may well startle patriots 
aw tionists 
k $ 4 
article on Market * — knowledge 
is necessary for for the hee on of 2 Some 
rey 
4 1 
— and many of them from their connection ion with 
salesmen and their nearness to large centres are in 
th markets, and are well 
d 
c and 
regularly 
On the other hand, there are market gardeners and 
are mostly not only days but weeks 
profi They fling 
crafts mostly 
for functions that alone can com- 
5 after a few 
and failures, they swell the and dolefal com- 
plaints all too common. 
For illustration, a Des “aaa farmer tried Celery 
acale last winter, and was told that very 
litter over the crowns. 
ore May frost-bite, Worse than all, 
1 orders had been booked for late Celery, and 
uch rotten rubbish was sent to market in execution, 
ihat the reputation of some districts is lowered o 
tarnished for years ; whilst egr ebed who En sufficien 
education as to the growth, storage, and sale of 
Celery ha wie nae sity welt’ ty ole al 8 
winter of admitted severity. 
Notwithstanding all that has been 3 gail gt 
nical education country, very 
remains to be done. Neither is it all loss, er — 
plished co! to be done 
ect-lessons, 
228 
— — difficult to tabulate, but not 
always the weaker nor the worse on that account. 
No one with his heart and head in this great 
and useful work of technical education but will be 
pired and 
ins encouraged by your leader on p. 492. 
No one newspaper, professor, or lecturer is entitled to 
write or speak with more ‘authority on the subject 
= * Gardeners’ Chronicle, the leader of the 
hese tters, and still found with un- 
—— energy, linking more closely science and 
practice through the stimulating forces of tech- 
nical education, With horticulture, with its feet 
firmly planted in our common, elementary, or 
continuation schools, and the highest rung of the 
ladder within sight or sound of college or lecture- 
halle, and in closest touch with our horticultural, 
a great future 
devotees of technical 
and practical horticulture and agriculture, D. * 
agricultu or general press, 
should be within reach of the 
ERIA RETICULATA.” 
nts sin gular little species, and many other 1 
* offer little mere to the gardener to 
cultivate 2 though to the botanist and lover of 
Nature, an * ose who use the micro- 
scope, they sg a new, dal. eer pane 
fully interesting 640 ſor observation 
oe The tiny scale - like pseudobulbs of Eria — 
ata produce — large flowers considering 
owe 
IES => 
Fic. 78.—ERIA RETICULATA: — 2 Sor {THE FLOWERS 
REDDISH-BROW 
wh 
forming an inviting tunnel for tiny strollers of the 
insect kind. The plant illustrated Nog 78) has 
flowered years in * r. James 
O'Brien, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, who le very partial 
to botanical curios ; a sim ae ie we 
illustrated, he has lately — the tin ria 
—— E. braccata, E. albiflora, — micro- 
pr go Q. Jenmanii, Cryptophoranthus minutur 
many beautiful little Cirrhopetalums, Balbo- 
phylum Pleurothallis, Stelis, &c, 
HARD -WOODED GREENHOUSE 
PLANTS. 
(Continued from p. 167.) 
Carr Heatns,—Amongst all the various genera of 
in the greenh 
* Tastrated in Wight ic., v., t. 1737, as Apgeiasthus 
marchantio‘des, but later reduced to Bria. 
finest and noblest forme. 
McNabbina, or of the finest of the E. tricolor 
section? Possibly some good cultivators of other 
pe do not even remember 
ore of the aforenamed kinds, 
much skill in their cultivation, it but when 
well done, no other same 
tunity for ying * ae a plant 
Castle. Some of re even now amonget 
those that e most popular, such, for i 
as E. Cavendishiana, E. hyemalis, and E, hybrida ; 
whilst others, are of the first rank, but not 
of so free or d , are nearly so much 
cultivated as they deserve to E. F E, 
airrieana, 
2 and E. Shannoni glabra are instances of 
eer in present day plant- 
culture, that so many of the finest species 
varieties of discarded, or 
slower ot suited, bat, on the other 
hand, there are 3 that may fyr ao used, and 
with distinct advantage, more particularly as sprays 
and in bouquet-work; the decorative forista are 
Galil to a alive to this fact, as may be noted 
from time to time. E. Cavendishiana, E. ventricoss, 
in varieties; and E. melanthera, to which might very 
antageously be added E. Eweriana, E. infandi- 
ve forced out of cultivation these and kindred 
sock subjects that cannot fail to be attractive when 
well managed, 
It is very rare that even the least possible objec- 
as flowering plants; 
regard to other genera, but in this instance 
opinion is practically in their favour. Were they 
better cultivated, and di ı more atable 
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