Mar 25, 1898. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
649 
in the soil an abundance of phosphoric acid and 
deficient amount of 
tion, would indicate an abund 
and an — amount of phosphoric acid and 
tac h. 
pota 
As a rule, — having the greatest leaf develop- 
ment require the most potash as food. — 
and stable manures that have been well preserved 
t twice as much nitrogen as phosphoric 
aid, and, 2 soils that have received 
ral app 
= lb. contains 16 5 lb, of nitro 
f ammonia in 100 lb. mpra 21 2 lb. 
Pare chloride or muri tash in 100 Ib. con- 
om Ib. of a seine tash, Pare e of 
00 lb. contains 54 Ib. of ac 
a b should — in 100 lb. muer 125 lb, 
con 
nitrogen, and 45'2 lb, of actual potash. M 
= of wood-ashes gives a mean 
100 lb. of dry ashes by weight — 53 lb. of potash, 
15 lb. of phosphoric acid, 33 lb. of lime, and 3 1b, of 
magnesia, een ac pad ms ea 
sulphate of ammonia, and all 
fertilisers are secured by — — — 
small amounts to the —— plant given as a top- 
dressing. J. J. Willie, — 
BELGIUM, 
M. PEETERS’ ORCHIDS AT BRUSSELS. 
WE noted in bloom, at a recent visit, a fine Cattleya 
dull white colour; 
Trianæi & * - 
Lalio- Cattleya “— from C. 
nitis radicans X Epidend 
blooms on Odontoglossum crispum * Mas 
devallia ‘Teitehi, Prince de Galles ; many fine 
specimens of Miltonia vexillaria and M. Bleuana, 
MeeTING at GHENT ON May 5. 
te 
and Scolopendrium scalariforme, a peculiar Fern, 
M. L. De praana, f a iaaa Dracæna 
leaves, 
a satisfacto when 
grown under the same conditions, were sti ill u 
M. Jules Hye staged : splendid Miltonia . vexil- 
dark rose-coloured ; also 
and eee as, for i 
Van H „ from M. Em. de Cock; the 
ful Cocos eddeliana, from uriez 
Frères; Smilax argyrea, from M ger Rhodo- 
Lindleyi, a M. Desbois a fine 
specimen of the magnificent Phenix Ja ae from 
M. Em, de Cock. 
MM, Dunz Ferns. : 
MM. Duriez Frères at Wondelghem, Ghent, have 
herbaceous Fern: Dictyogramma 
some pretty : 
japonica fel. var., a plant ; 
Adiantum fol, var., much to be 
cristatus is an exceedingly pretty plant; Blechnum 
brasiliense, on a stump is difficult to grow, but there 
is a fine specimen here. Ch, de B. 
NURSERY NOTES, 
MR. H. J. JONES’ PELARGONIUMS, 
T may be the reason Mes such 1 
showy peor as the Cape Pelargonium 
omparative neglect nowadays is — M 1 
may be due to that desire for change merely which 
has 8 caused the gardener, as well as many 
other perso regard r a less worthy 
object than yt one which the 
2 or. Whatever the reason, ri 1 noticeable that 
in many gardens a 2 collection of Pelargoniums 
is absent, and again in others whe plants may 
be found, they are frequently but indifferently culti- 
vated. Vet the show varieties have not lost their 
FIG. 93.—SEEDLING STAGE OF CUPRESSUS, 
popularity with the market grower, for the writer 
has recently seen 1 “ty ars cate glass in 
the neighbourhood of , Broxbourne, and 
other centres of market 1 — exhibiting 
zuch cultivation as it would be difficult to s surpass, 
The fancy varieties have been b 
effectually than the others, so that bat for the 
excellent exhibits . annually 41 Mr. c. er, 
N long for nae 
Three or 
alre 
themum world. An de 
seen at this establishment, consisting of a numerous 
collection of well- cultivated y- lowered 
plants, of a strain with constitution, 
8 numbers of large bright flowers, but devoid 
eat prim character peculiar to the florists’ 
varieties, They area decided im upon the 
old kinds, especially in the matter of habit, as only a 
with 
what used to be necessary in order to get a good 
The best of the varieties are those enumerated 
below, — which are new, but others have been 
Mr. H. J. Jones is — 
— new, but it is a sterling variety, 
Mr. E. Bo 
. and heavily blotched. 
uch of its attractiveness to a 2 white eye, and 
named after Mr. 
wide, flower 
Henry are a very 
ap large house there is a grand lot of Ivy- 
page Sree pn lok wale promising than they 
do at the present. 
TRR IA ETOS? 
ariation, + 
or indaced E shin a S ie so much dis- 
cussed, it is well to bear in mind the 
that existe in the same plant in the different i 
of ite growth, Ia 4 93 is shown a sep plant 
of a Cupressus, with leaves linear 
and spreading, and the adult * sal, \, densely 
The rdial leaves 
ome of the 
Cypresses, Thuyas, an in i 
mingled with the adult foliage. 
liar leaves sometimes assume a mor 
manent character, and, tanesi are the only form of 
leaf produced by the bus n the of the s0- 
any one now will contend we 
leaves are th of i 
At one time Thuya filiformis was — 
ve this way — 2 
ne Biota) orientalis. W 
Thu 
prey ood the survivals of { ancestral f 
another matter. Gorter they resemble the 12 
of some of the primeval Lycopode, 
