Jose 1, 1895.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
under glass, ı summer ‘ena winter, rand te Gana; m is an 
In a warm-house some e fine e examples ‘of — 
vexillaria, Phalænopsis amabilis, Cypripedium re 
berlainianum, and various Dendrobiums, were 
in bloom; and suspended near the roof some ail 
ts f Cattleya Warscewiczii, with stout flower- 
spikes coming up. The orua and bright light 
when growing, doubtless, have much to do with Mr, 
* small plants sea Ns so well, whilst other 
wers do not succeed with this variety, 
VIOLAS. 
Ir was but the other day that an eminent n 
grower of these very beautiful bardy flowers was 
lamenting the difficulty of filling the place of ripe 
cate s, rendered s 
at — 
There will probably presently arise some one who 
admire a large batch of seedling Violas, then flower 
ing in ofasion. Such a batch as this in- 
diated enn enough how great is the incitement 
nds of seedlings yearly, not 
but even for the sake—so potent an attraction 
the florist—of seeing — of which — before 
was known unfold their flowers as to the colour and 
character. If all our seedlings, of no matter w 
were certain to be reproductions of the parents, the 
charm which now so strongly clings to seedling 
that labour of all its interest. 
tive as all were, there were 
admirable garden — over the om 
dwarf, aman crowded with blooms, of good fo 
atout of substance, and of beautiful a — 
Fic. 98.—A MONSTROUS FLOWER OF CATTLEYA SKINNERI VAR, ALBA, 
sos nga eee eee 
certain 20 much hes of late been done to popu- 
larise Violas as ordinary garden, bedding and border 
flowers, that there is — probability that they will 
suffer in public estimation. The worst danger they 
have to encounter seems — to lie in the putting 
too many varieties that are of no 
in at Bedfont seed 
grounds, to see the thousands of — 
and Primroses then so beautifully and abundantly in 
bloom, I could but even from these turn aside to 
whites, creams, yellows, blues, purples, and 
whilst many others 
large collection. Bat small plants, even the finest of 
these bear no comparison with what seen on 
large seedling plants, which put out the previous 
has 
our summers here in the sonth wonderfally well. I 
or three on 
Messrs. Cannell & Son's seed-farm at Eyneford, big 
and 
8 than tbey aty and tow 
22 Oh! that we could see 
about in 
produce varied 
masses of colour as these pretty Violas, A, J), 
CATTLEYA SKINNERI ALBA. 
Auoxd the 122 at the Temple Show were 
two spikes of 
lip was reduced to a nar 
that man to recognise to what 
belonged, or) n were similarly 
affected. 
RESTRICTIVE CULTURE . 
FREEDOM.“ 
#0 that thou mayst have comfort to 
ral system of e in my stoves, penne, 
and ferneries, and as time wears on, the more I see 
he 
of it, the better I like it. The luxuriance of of gromth 
and richness of flower far surpasses r 
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©) Rxiznate frome a paper vent by Ms. W. —— a 
Coombe fay Rew ed ga Birmingham Gardeners’ Mutual 
Improvement Association. * 
