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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jone 22, 1995, 
borgen to get their roots in the chinks of a piece of 
ockwork. The bulbs in these public gardens are 
. gt. is spent in this way 
any im t private sera an 
The people have — as much variety to look 
upon in the parks, which by their — * in the shape 
of rates they assist to maintain, as either lords or 
equires, hat a step in advance has been made in 
this way, and all within the last twenty years, par- 
ticularly about all our cities, towns, and to vnships in 
the United Kingdo t is a great ty to 
see the working-classes so thoroughly in earnest, not 
only in enjoying the beauties of Nature set before 
them at no great distance from their ar a but in 
conserving and maintaining them. Viator 
alaya a 
than 
FLORISTS’ 8. FLOWERS. 
THE FINAL POTTING 0 OF CHRYSANTHE- 
MUMS, 
onth of June is the usual period for 
the roots matted 
growth is checked, and the plants may lose their 
lower leaves when their retention is most usefal to 
them. 
To the er eee, — potting of Chrysanthe- 
class blooms cannot ined from stems that are 
soft and sappy, the cen of improper potting. 
are loosely potted they 
grow strongly, eur’ ie aes a but 
such growth is nerally nting in solidity 
and firmness, and without pren attributes no 
first-class be produced. Firm pot- 
ture, after- men 
playing a great part also, Chrysanthemums having 
but a short season of growth, and much to do in a 
co 
„ a8 it is 
of course, form the principal part, and the 
more turfy or fibrous the the better. Some] 
pasture loam is the best, but — 
sth arabe ia of little use. 
is essential to 
wy 
over the e compost-heap, 
are destroyed, ‘aid the lime intimately 
mixed with the soil. Charcoal is of much value 
as a sweetener of the soil, and as means 
of storing for the plant's 
is also very useful 
loam i 
fee 
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pots, o 
the: ‘well e 
lumps of fibry loam above the crocks, or what is 
better still, aia freshly-cut turf, thoroughly soaked 
in liquid m 
Som E err in mis pots p very large age 
for no variety requires one larger than 9 inches 
diameter. If the stock pas. of 10 or 11-inch eee 
it is better to place two plants of one variety in a pot. 
Pot firmly, especially those of the incurved section. 
If the soil is moistened throughout when the poene 
is done, the plants should not require to be w 
for several days afterwards, but the foliage should 
be moistened at least twice daily—night and morn- 
ing. Z. Molyneux. 
THE WEEK’s WORK. 
FRUITS UNDER GLASS. 
By RICHARD PARKER, Gardener, Goodwood, Chichester. 
LATE VINERY.—The Vines in this vinery, 
consisting chiefly ot Lady Dor 
gr 
ventilation of the vinery will now ndant, the 
ines having a long season in which to mature their 
W. 5 es is my ractice to leave a little air 
on ight, increasing it early in the morning if 
bright, * of the berries being usually oronge 
about by the early morning sun shining on the glass 
hilst the air within is very humid, 
PEACH HOUSE.—Any trees from which the fruit 
treat- 
cases of bud-dropping on a Meh trees of whic 
os hears, are more often due to the premature ripen- 
ing of the previous year’s préivth rather than to any 
other cause. hen the Royal George and eres 
varieties of Peach used to be forced bo produce ripe 
fruit by the end of May, e Aude daun was practically 
5 as with rtable roof-lights then in 
e gardener pce a 7 — his trees fall Si 
1 to ine weather after the c 
the wood, with atment, never got 5 
forward 
Such varieties as Early Alex 
are now forced very early to obtain 
fruit in April. st when culti vated ts 
such portable trees bei asily removed from under 
lass to a spot of-doors, after the crop 
g 
These pot trees, with the ne use of the syri 
te, will retain their foliage 
pies ong time, and wond-ripe ning will therefore be 
seg as it should be, 
atchfal eye — — be 1e 
with flowers - of- gulphur, mixed 
ter, as soon as signs of it oe noted, and 
increasing the amount a ventilation during the 
night, 
MELONS.— Where fruits are W the a 
stage, less a at the root and in the atm 
ewes 5 no — 
ng the ripening 
Grea of ae” frait wi not be good, 
Affordin| ae eee ts hastens the ripen- 
d 
ided with means of , the weather in 
September and October — too — or Melon- 
ing in unheated ctures, 
at short i of lente in frames; for 
these plants, le, make wth as 
the roots find their way into the fermenting rial, 
Continue to close the lights agg with p of 
Moisture in the es until such time as the frui 
changes colour, when the plants should be treated 
in the sa manner advised for Melons in 
uses, 
; pre : 
during — weather, to bedr ms! 22 js the 
THE ORCHID HOUSES, 
By W. H. WHITE, Orchid Grower, Burford, Dorking, 
EYAS.—The plants of some of the tall- 
growing . viz., C. intermedia, C. Harrison 
C. amethystoglossa, 6. Alexandre, C. Schofieldi 0 
and Lelio-Cat ttleya Harrisi, now starti 0 
should be placed in the best and lightest position 
i e house; and any of these species which stand in 
need of repotting may now be taken in and, care- 
fully affording water reed, neither letting — 
become very dry nor too moist till well r 
n to ice new 
growth, and should be placed in the 
pot, which has the effect of 
bringing the shoots near to the light and u 
-watering of this plant must be 
avoided, moderate quantities asd water sufficing till 
the growths have made progress, When the e young 
pseudobulbs have become — half-grown, the 
interior of the soft fleshy-sheaths which e 
them s examined, as it is he a 
yellow thrip finds a hiding-place, if 
not detected in time, are capable of greatly disfigur- 
the growth of the plant. They are 
eya Bowringiana should not b 
8 at thie Mampi the proper time for 
g it being about eeks after flowering, as iti 
then that the new obe, emit a great n 
ts. 
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rest, nothing being done that in 
start. The e kind of treatment as regards rest is 
applicable to . purpurata, a plant which if forced 
into growth immediately it has flowered, has no 
time allowed it to regain its — consequently the | 
hs made are seldom satisfactory, whereas the 
utumn early winter — are strong nud 
floriferous. a Warneri is r plant 
which should find a place in the coolest part of the 
is, a8 soon as r 
from the last- made pseudo bulb. 
MILTONIAS.— Miltonia Roezli does well —— es 
the summer months under like treatment. It e 
now in bundance 
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much moisture, When located in the coo re = 
keep them rather on the dry side than on the eE 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
, Birdsall Gardens, 
R 
ve not 
tion. past fe 
. — for newly-planted Viale, i Tieas atal 
for delicate-growing ate ie like Marie 
Neapolitan, and New York, w ich on light vo 
apt to be injured by red-spider. me ia well to mt 
* beds on . * water oF 
tten manure, revious to affording trate of 
soda between 
safest rule with this — Boo 
