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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(June 29, 1895, 
blotch on the lower petals; a promising variety. 
rloo, a Viola large enough to be classed with 
the Pansies, baving rounded blossoms, colour violet, 
deeper on the lower petals, with a few deep purple 
veins, the upper petals violet, slightly fiushed with 
silvery-violet, the top petals deeper, ght 
beading on the edges of dark violet, and aai 4 — 
veins radiating from an orange and white eye, stout, 
and of fine shape. 2 Beauty, a name which 
a to ee the peculi 
lilac w h alight veins of a dee 
deticately peg pink, very pretty and of good 
Cleg Kelley, —— lilac deepening to pale 
lida, paler still, delicate silvery-lilac, the name Blush 
Beauty could be more appropriately applied to this 
flower—very soft and pretty. Lastly, is a seedling 
Pansy which Dr. Stuart states was raised from a 
cross between the Peacock type and a dark self; the 
flower is stout and of excellent form, the lower petals 
are those of a dark self, deep glossy velvet, the upper 
petals rich shaded glossy purple, while the appear- 
ance of the flower is enhanced by the presence of 
what is always so effective ina dark self, the white 
3 over a golden eye, The presence of this imparts 
li expression to the flower in a remarkable 
ihe and the Scotch florists do well to make it one 
of the properties of a first-class dark self show Pansy, 
R. D. 
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PLANT NOTES. 
RHODODENDRON QUEEN OF DWARES. 
Tunis is one of the many early-flowering hybrids 
raised by Messrs. Isaac Davies & Son, nurserymen, 
Ormskirk. It is well named, being a plant of very 
dwarf and compact habit, with small green leaves, 
and the flow e 
ooming, and when put into pots and 
0 * a gens N they may be got into bloom 
Or they may be grown entirely in pote, 
ge re ae as e or helped with some 
suitable fertiliser when coming into bloom; be 
stood out-of-doors during the summer, and take: 
into a greenhou se to flower. Very little, if — 
forcing is required, as the plants arly 
naturally, and they are very free of bloom. There 
is reason to fear these Ormskirk Rhododendrons are 
not so well known in the London district as * 
deserve to be, R. D. 
THe WEEK’s Work. 
By W. H. SMITH, Gardener, ä Chichester. 
r —Tubers that were started thickly i = 
ust be carefully divided before the root 
sel entangled. Put four or five in 48-sized pots, 
* enemy is mealy-bug, which is 
very troublesome, and fre t are neces- 
sary. this e e gre 
at care must be 
or the leaves will be broken, and this will greatly 
from the tes of the plant. 
_ ACHIMENES in flower will benefit Af ee 
occasionally with 3 e-water. In 
those grown in pots, Sas ace a little fertiliser e deer 
the ee, Keep owers picked off, and 
the straggling 3 secure. Achimenes grown in 
baskets require an abundance of water during the 
hot weather; in fact, it is hardly possible to give 
them too much while the plants are growing and 
flowerin 
CAMELLIAS 3 liberal supplies of water at 
the roots, for if a o become dry, the plants 
will be sure to 3 wa buds, When beging ing to 
ring. Plants in borders 
those in pot or t 
be stood outside ith a partially sheltered position for 
a tim ms afterwards in full sunshine. Regularly 
ayri gü he plants night and morning, and sponge the 
foliage hedea ly. 
EUPHORBIA JACQUINIÆFLORA, —Small plants 
little broken pp hired and sand, will be found to suit 
them very well. hem on a shelf in the stove as 
near the glass as possible, and afford plenty of water 
when full of roots 
ER-FLOWERING PELARGONIUMS "s now ba 
are thoroughly hardened, they may 
placed outside; but stand them on ashes or boards to 
m and leaf-soil, 
will be most 
n 
flower-buds pinched off, ai = 3 growths 
ed. 
made should be stoppe 
THE ORCHID HOUSES. 
a W. H. WHITE, Orchid Grower, Burford, Dorking. 
HES A —The different vee 
ties ve ‘Calanthe rei, aaa Thos ~ — 8 ps 
section, are now ing vigor 
rooted ‘plants — yi be p 
gi care, ere e ua 
of these plants is 8 it is good practic 
nally, and . * those that 
look over them o 
have filled their my with roots, that 
placed together and pir to ait ternate a 
f liquid cow-manu ous to using this liquid, 
it should be strained t 1 a piece of fine musli 
Do not apply the stimulant too strong at first, about 
one gallon to three g of water fficient 
n 
for the firat three or four wateringe, but afterwards 
it may be given in equal proportions. Kee sd 
plants as near to the roof-glass as conve eee 
much service to amateurs who li to —— 
towns. In such localities dense sulphurous fogs 
frequently occur just when pla mmence 
bloom, and Howers are spoiled, oa 
section flower dane the early spring m en 
and pratas ot ere, Yala- 
able fo pu ne bead ing 
their growth, and later eas will si ele 
treatment to that des 3 above, ante as 
Phaius amabilis, P. , P. Owenianus, a Mar- 
tbæ, P. Cooksoni, Prato e CE yee dis, P. 
Blumei, F: piroga a, and ming gE should 
the same way e Calanthes 
be eated 
heathen 9 growing season 
PHA Apsis. —Amongst plants now flowering 
mention may b 
P. violacea, P. Marie, P. speciosa, P. tetraspis, and 
. 8u Several of these ll co 
tinue to bloom for some pe Bas ag time; . iti 1 
after 
whet the plants should oy! supplied with n 
rial about their roots, and returned to their Wilton 
near to the ass of the hot cost division. An 
extra 8 hould be given them, as their 
green foliage is an susceptible to injury Sent sun, 
EULOPHIELLA ELISABETH4,.—This new plant 
has now commenced to grow from the base of the 
advisable to re- po m, the operation should 
done at once. lant a free and deeply- 
ting mee. fair- sized are le. 
d t adhere to the sides of the pots, an 
roots 
5 they may be turned out without — 
es being much mutilated. Previous 
suit them 
ry loam and e ee a 
— 3 
handful of finely- broken erocks mixed 
be an advantage. There is no necessit 95 
plants above the rim of the pot. Pla 
h 
tng soon e gment in the young gro 
455 a the foliage, bia a 
th 
1 aed be needfu 
CCELOGYNES. — C. Se and C, 
should always be protected from strong 
otherwise their leaves quickly — e the 
plants require abundance of wa til is 
m 
ecessary 80 are from 
the rhizome as it extends upwards may somes - 
thing to cling to. We fasten the stems on to upright 
k-rafts, with the rods at least an inch a 
lower part o is then inserted into a pot and 
mly fixed with ek over which is a some 
ordinary Orchid compost; living moss is then 
picsa in werd over the surface, as the plant 
em in 2 the sphagnum grow 
e — its bas 
ANGULOAS, aA plants of Anguloa Ruckeri, 
A. Ctoweaii, and A. u 
g free- 
rooting subjects, Aad Bigg bo considerably more 
material to grow n the majority of Orchids, 
ood drainage is ta ty the first pm = using as 
e of turfy loam, 
MARINE. Cari 
them free from — and red-s spi 
THB HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 
se Popr, Gardener, Hizhclere Castle, Newbury. 
FIG SUMMER PRUNING — All superfluous 
eakly 1. Wo and those likely to be in the way 
et i reaching the fruit, should be forthwith 
removed, either by rubbin 
g away those ot strong gro 
ing small spaces without undue crowdiag, some 
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very leaf a 
far — not to s 
leav here 
e in — borders. 
afforded whilst the fruit is swelling, we i the 
quantity an it begins to ripen. 
LL OR ESPALIER TASES: ry * lateral growths 
= Pear, N ae ery gres 
1 n former 
Calenders, by . ok the ponte ial aor 
rops of fruit; this, with frequent syr 
ae the * will contribute to th 
most insec 
—Waspe’ nests should be sought gor 
5 f 
atroyed. A r and effective ome eans 0 
ing the 3 our sakai 
7 hen the passage to 
of deacending, tar is of no avail, but Srp 
known as McDougal’s “ Smoke Ferrets 
er 
the keeping down d 
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