Jouy 6, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
17 
THE ROYAL GARDENERS’ ORPHAN FUND.— 
The monthly meetiog of the committee took place 
at the 1 Club on the 27th ult., W. Mar- 
siding. The following special dona - 
Memorial Fund, £55 13s. 9d ; Mr. J. 
£1 5s ; Messrs, J Laing & Sons, Forest Hill, EI Is ; 
К. I. Measures, Esq , proceeds of sale of third edition 
i “Cypripediams Hybrid Species,” £7 105»; and 
Mr. A. Stirton, Wrexham, 5s. A cheque was drawn 
for the children's quarterly allowances, which now 
amounta to EZ M 10s.; and the gardeners about the 
country who do not yet aubscribe to the Fand or 
— it in any "- should pe а wr —— ws * 
that в zum is paid annually t in 
the maintenance of the — "children ref" dead 
garden 
THE ORIGIN OF THE CINERARIA, — We 
somes further remarks to make on * —— — 
present. 
ve that our colleague The Gard s azin 
" ары i pr ves [со his own satisfaction] that 
vid n favour of bybridity will not bea 
also have to refer later on to th 
alleged hybri үз that have "in in the . 
Botanic Garden, and in that of Mr. Ров 
M. RoDiG48 —Some of the Belgian papers M 
full detaila concerning the compliments paid t 
Entre Robidas, the Director of the School of Ноні: 
culture at Ghent, on the occasion of his completing 
thirty-five years as a professor. Many of us in this 
country are also familiar with the unceasing 
labours of M. Ronicas, his accuracy of perception, 
hia. рач, his powers as an administrator, and 
are fortunate enough to reckon him asa 
personal friend. MM. Вовувмісн, Рухаквт, Robr - 
GAS, an х Нот, constitute the “four-leaved 
Trefoil,“ а 1000 to whose joint efforts for more than 
thirty years no small part of the progress of Belgian 
horticulture be stalk of this four-leaved 
unity is бодае De Kercuove pe DENTERGHEM. 
Floreat semper diuque floreant 
National  HoaTicULTURAL Society oF 
FAANCE.—A‘ the last meeting of the Orchid Com- 
mittee of tbe National Horticultural Society of 
France, Mr. Jacos, Orchid Foreman to the Baron 
Ep. ре rmainvill ed а mag- 
nificent — of new hybrid 
amonget t, 
Cattleya Armainvillea alba (C. Mendeli x C. 
gigas), petals and sepals large, pure white; lip 
broadly open, crimson; pare gold yellow at the 
ase. Another plant of the same cross had the 
papa slightly flashed with clear rose, A splendid 
is Lelio-Cattleya Jacobiana (Lelia purpurata 
x ‘Cattleya Mendeli), the division of the flower 
; the front 
from L. сааи х с. Мо 
i is 
aame as the one obtained at Mesars. Verrca & Sons. 
Мг. Pace, gardener to Mr. 
extremity ; the whitish ЗЫ yahi is very head 
and arched. "This plant received a first-class certi- 
fieate, Georges Truffaut. à 
THe Late M. J. E, BOMMER.—We have re- 
fate. hz з ee e I.E s MEAE 
late J. E. Bommer, whose name is so well — in 
connection with his monographs on Ё M. 
MMER, it will be remembered, was a — of 
Brussels, and his death took place last February. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
THE STRAWBERRY, SENSATION.—This Straw- 
with us this season, 
by the side of Noble, it has 
ripened its fruit as earl tha iety, and the 
fruit is very much finer in appearan f bette 
avour than that variety. its ts may 
for p ey 
— 
an Taten it would be! V. S. Hu ristone, 
Parif: eld, Hall 
BAMBOOS AND THE PAST WINTER,—Mr. Bean's 
instructive paper on the subject of Bamboos and the 
nteresting, His conclusions 
regards ( 
Country. e can 
form; and if they Add © be carried to a still more 
unfavourable climate, they would perish —— 
Т, Fruun Mitford, Batsford Park, Moreton in 
Marsh 
THE CINERARIA.— As authentic records are 
wanting upon the early history 2 the subject, a few 
e made with the view of 
в kar ures, If it 
d lanata, | 
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nta 
эмы evidently not designed, and it may be said that 
our greenhouse Cinerarias came by A 
planta of Cineraria craenta when in flower shonld be 
180 , 80 аз to make sure — 
pollinated with other Cine 
saved from such а stock, the s own, and the 
lants aog in flower carefully examined for 
variation Then а few planta ineraria 
cruenta еси be pollinated with the pollen of Cine- 
anata, and vice versd, saving the seeds, an 
raising planta from them, and watching the results. 
as my experience goes, the seeds o Cineraria 
cruenta are not abortive, as is in the Botani 
Magazine, 2 a plant which was in flower in these 
gardens а short time ago has ral sai 
ing sprung up the surface o 
the soil of the аа which it was grown, aleo from 
he seeds gath fi the pl I can 
endorse Мг mond’s remark, that the flowers 
retain their beauty until the very day are 
red.” ay be that our plant had become 
pollinated by the florists’ Cinerarias, which were in 
oom at the same time as C. cruenta. These seed- 
lings from С, cruenta which » bein will be watched 
ith interest, to note wh any variation takes 
place from the parent 88 8 ad I send you 
note upon the subject in тд en . Douglas 
the latter and two or three seedlings of the former 
CEDAR OF APAOR, A TAPLEY.—The height 
ol ios agg K aias 80 feet. Ius top is large and 
flat, It was planted in 1825. W. T. T. 
RED WATER. -I Sei in my qne 
г of 
bas turned у т "red colour, iu 
if he ia not already 
Horticuliural 
which — it — es -— months, and then 
becomes clear а icroscopic examination 
it — a that — May is — to — s red- 
coloured organisms, which. according to Prantl and 
ines, are referable to Homatococcus. I do 
know whether this red water is often seen and well 
known, but as it is very unsightly, I should beextremely 
obliged to anyone who would tell me if there be any 
means of destroying the growth, or of preventing ita 
recurrence, S. Courtauld, Bocking Place, June 26. 
— LS.—The note of Dr. Morris regarding 
the injury to scarlet Chestnuts by these — 
little thieves is ver known 
berries by wholesale 2 bite the nets to pieces. 
Last season d Plums were annexed in 
large quantities, the winter one little 
fellow came regularly every morning on to the sill 
It gave us great 
high. The other day, when 
e rrel was edi sitting by the bell, 
1 mouth fall of — hemp, and the rope bitten 
wo. We presume he found th 
si — hia nest, and my bellman bad to climb up 
to fix another rope. Query: Did the squirrel find 
the rope frayed, or did he manufacture а soft wadding 
? Charles Noble. 
from the rope? 
VY THUNDERSTORM.—A — note of w 
happened at Edge last week ma some of 
your readers, At 4 р.м. on June ved a thunderst 
suddenly — in sky after a brilliant and 
hing day. About a thousand — light - 
ning, all within five or iles, occu in an hour, 
during which I estimated that nearly 2 inches of rain 
A с ed over а in a 
sharp t 
bail, — ‘twenty minutes, completely 
en, and many r" the 
curious sight, 
ride targets. А 
f illed the hbou but, as 
far as I bava heard, - human beings. С. Wolley Dod, 
Edge Hall, Malpas, June 29. 
STORM IN YORKSHIRE.—The storm of June 26 
was the worst the oldest man in Mirfield could 
remem 
my garden of nearly res in extent, Peas, bn 
Stra vain Raspberries, aan. all vegetables, flo 
4 ing else, were с —9 and 
nearly — pane of glas 
no means the ty one who has хлабава, 
but when a man is depending on his 
serious thing. D. Brown, Nah Nurseries, — 
Mirfield, 
COMTESBE HÉRICART DE THURY 
penny: —The етар р. 775, well мса this 
— variety at its best. This variety was 
h Mr. Wildamith, of Heckfeld Place, for —— 
Mars n obtain that was ] better for 
sib 
te gener 
short-stalked, if the bulk 
removed when — ЕМ. 
