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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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freely, which is certainly a feature in its character 
hi 
to end with this lovely plant; its branches are 
trained curvingly over our Orchids. Of the latter we 
have just about enough to swear by, forming not 
only a most exquisite floral canopy, but also a sight 
once seen not soon to 
settia pulcherrima is another plant that rejoices in 
this treatment; we i had in this way bracts 
15 inches across, a rosea is also useful. Seri- 
cographis 83 is yet one of our mos 
useful winter - flowering plants; for cutting it is in- 
valuable, and we never can have too much of it we 
have grown it plentifully. Thyrsacanthus rutilans 
ect in this way yields its pendent inflorescence ee a 
ost graceful an liar manner, as if, in 
eren dipping its colours in honour of the Kapp 
group of plants surrounding. Many other and much 
newer plants might be mentioned, but these perhaps 
may suffice to illustrate the system of which I am an 
advocate, 
Planted thinly, many other plants not mentioned 
above might thoroug 
not find time fer to attend to the watering o 
Besides above-mentioned system lanting- 
out in the principle whenever an oppo 
tunity occurs. I have had in glorious flower, Lager- 
strOmia indica, with shoots 4 feet, 6 feet, and 8 feet, 
flower. In a house of medium temperature we have 
Bougainvillea glabra flowering yearly in great splen- 
dour. From one horizontal a 
rals are cut 
n stem ear—in point of easy 
cultivation this plant is second to none Thunbergia 
ng a roof 
40 f feet long, producing during winter and spring a 
complete mass of flowers very much to be admired, 
but as it was useless for cutti 
ower-stalks either hang down or be 
r 
Our fernery, which contains a goodly collection of 
hardy Adiantum capillus-veneris fringe the path- 
sides of our Melon and Pi oves, enough of 
which could be had to turf down a goodly-sized 
ma ezi n. 
A s ago we planted ont a house of 
Camellias, ne they, too, have grown so tre “ange 
dously, that it is necessary every now and the 
introduce the process of pruning and porte of 
the best varieties, 
ardening in every department, like everything 
else, is continually changing. The transition within 
st few w years is something marvellous, a 
to be a clever Wale, in any one department is a 
position in horticulture worth tryin 
it is the way in which I have been schooled, but 
rape I always like to hold 1 with the 
who has received a broad horticultural train- 
— and 1 whose a eri 
has any, are smoothed over by con 
of the newer — ol, 
sessed of but o and who is miaran a a 
specialist, is a man who cannot reaso beyond his 
own peculiar specialty; but I am nevertheless of 
n pos- 
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sits 
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bation -a years, 
is various duties, shows de- 
ntion to some specialty, the een of 
which he cares for, and somes up toa 
and masterly fin is manner Ae there 
is every hope, or he will make himself known and 
heard when time gives him the ty. 
At Frankfort - on-Main, a few years ago, I had an 
the Palm-garden 
better on 
xample of the Pas girded at * 
might well be imitated in 
— ioe establishments so many thousand plants, 
some in tubs, some oial aoa a ainis ieai 
of places of tort vable, struggling hard for 
5 In — Aoii of valuable plants are 
daily. 
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HEATING 
ANY conflicti 
to the cost of this method 
giving the exact duty obtained, 
pun ve been made as 
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With the 
setting the er in such a form 
no future doubt or discussion, 1 
observations have been made „ wit 
erte the results being as follow : — 
Date. = E a Rise 
| aturo, rature 
Jan. 4 to 10 4 to 10 490 
„ 11 to 17 44° 54° 
„ 138 to 24 38° 52° 
„ 25t081 36° 54° 
Feb. 1 to 7 F 43° | 55° 
„ 8 to 14 379 550 
„15 to 21 35° | 54° 
„ 22 to 28 me 3% 55° 
difference being caused by the varying force 
Althou ugh the osm given are only to 
February, they have been contin 
the ae a makes the records 
have iscar 
for = laha complete weeks, it will be 
for ev 
to prevent the results being a 
. Às 
e on vg nine-tenths of the 
throug and the cubic 
fering — — will, of course, affect the 
but the above may, I think, be taken ag an 
standard for calculation, 
The average mean temperatures for each 
may be obtained from the gardening pe 
from any physical atlas, and the actual cost 
ing any plant-house by gas can easily be cal 
from the data given. Thos, Fletcher, F. C. &., 
World, April 20, 1895. 
PRECOCIOUS ROSES. 
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Co. of Paris, The flowers are singlé, 
