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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jvrx 20, 1895, 
When the tobaoco leaves have been properly 
pressed, the cakes are taken out and out oross- 
wise into strips 4 inches wide, тА the two ends 
cut off, as they are not sufficiently The 
next step i is to tie half-a-dozen 5 these strips 
together by means of ropes. The next opera- 
tion is to make the tobacco ready for use, This 
is done by means of a plane, very similar in 
shape to an English carpenter’s plane. The strips 
of tobacco are stood up on end on the ground, 
and kept in position by boards made for the 
purpose. As the strips are only about 13 foot 
high, t е work t plane in 
half-stooping position, a most uncomfort- 
a 8, orki f. an English- 
man's point of view. However, the Chinese 
do not appear , as they work away 
shavings of the tobacco leaves are the tobacco 
ready for smoking. Every man puts his 
shavings, as he takes them from the plane, into 
small heaps, weighing about a pound each, 
enclosing at the same time a ticket with the 
е 
away according to whether the packet is too 
light or too heavy. When the packets are of 
the proper weight they are put into another 
paper, both ends closed up, and then packed in 
boxes ready to be sent away. There is a good 
deal of order in the way in which the factory is 
worked. Women are only employed in stripping 
off the leaves from the stalks, men do all the 
rest of the work. aet is one lot for damping 
e leaves, + another batch for 
cutting the pressed cakes it to strips and tying 
them up ready for planing. The planers only make 
the tobacco and put it into heaps, a separate 
lot of men put it into the first papers ready for 
weighing. е men who weigh the tobacco 
pass it on to others, who put it into the second 
paper, and these finally hand it to the packers, 
The tobacco is of a dark brown colour, and is 
only used, so far as I know, by the Chinese. It 
has the reputation amongst them of being a par- 
ticularly good brand, and the factory is said to’ 
be one of the largest іп South China. It was very 
amusing to see the workers at 12 o'clock, as this 
is the time they take their mid-day meal, 
As soon as the clock struck twelve, everything 
stopped as if by — егу. 
minutes tables w 
and the men were busily 
engaged i n emptying them by the aid of chop- 
sticks. this meal in the 
same place as they had previously been working 
in. W. J. Tutcher, Botanio Garden, Hong Kong. 
NEW OR NoTEWORTHY PLANTS. 
THE GUADELOUPE CYPRESS * 
(С; macrocarpa VAR GUADELOUPENSIS, Masr.) 
Тив late Prof. Sereno Wateou deacribed this fine 
press as a distinct species, under the name of 
С. guadeloupensis, and perhaps rightly, It may 
——— ͤ odd 
* Cupressus guadelou 
{iad xiv. 1879 a Sap tang te agente 
eet high or 5 feet in diameter, vi with greyish 
and leaving the 
Ренне ойм. from that island. In жа паб ыва, 
mental purposes,” likely to prove very valuable for orna~ 
also, and, as we think, more correctly, be жан 
a form of C, macrocarpa, The latter, known 
the Monterey Cypress, has a very limited range of 
distribution on the Californian coast, and, to our 
thinking, the present is but an insular ‘varlety of the 
species, differing from the type more especially in 
its glaucous colour, It is true there is a 775 
distance between Monterey i in lat. 86° 4’, Guade- 
loupe, an ey in Wa шш: from the 
mainland, wi ound, but it is pos- 
sible that intermediate localities * be found. At 
any rate, the prese of di t characters is a 
common featur K ыы 2.6 оп isolated 
islands, Our оаа (fig. 9) is from a specimen 
sent us by Dr. Franceschi, of Los Angeles, who can 
also furnish seeds, The illustration shows a por- 
tion of a spray with male flowers of the rein size, 
foliage and male flowers magnified. 
are generally larger than here Hep Tort 
0 d a figur 
of the leaves of that species, ae I" those of 
С. macrocarpa (fig. 10). М, Т, Mast 
FIG 9.—THE GUADELOUPE CYPRESS (C. MACROCARPA 
VAR. GUADELOUPENSIS). 
NTEROSORA FAWcCETTI, Jenin. т, gp. * 
The only | plant of this discovered was sent үе ше 
veral years ago by Mr. Fawcett to determi I 
that it was a true Enterosora, but it dif- 
fered | from the Guiana species in its much smaller 
Having 20 little material (a single bat full 
m eure 
plant), after noting the i tioned, T 
Enterosora Fawcettii, депта 
Phu iped, about опе-еї, —- ot ап dh thick, Е т M 
elongated, upright, coated 
—— tufted, slender, ‘brown, —4 p e lon E е: 
othed throughout with fi ne ferruginous hairs; fronde Зай 
n, simple, 3-4 inches › 4—6 lines сог 
ceous, lin ‚ apex tak 
thence to the b rgins even or e vg 
of the frond, imm in the upper 
lines mes which o ^g 8 slike e cavities 2 
Ж. in woods 
n the —— ot the Port 
— — sporan W pa the under surface 3 
at Rose Hill, St. Andrew Parish, on th 
Royal metic: 
as Mr. Fawcett, after careful . Hie ui of the 
specimens of E. Campbelli at Kew, writes me that 
regards it, because of the characters just mentioned, 
as a distinct species. The Guiana plant has 
elongated root-stock, which, though morphologically 
of similar character, is several times larger, quite gla- 
E 
B 
— бурана trifurcat 
grows in both countries, for — without close 
examination, they would at once be mistaken. G. 8, 
Jenman, Demerara, 
HEMEROCALLIS AURANTIACA VAR, MAJOR, Baker, 
This botanically comes yos to the a: which I 
described in the Gardeners’. Chronicle, 1890, vol. e 
p. 94, from the Royal 8 Kew, under the nam 
of Hemerocallis aurantiaca, but it is larger in all iu 
type, and like it, flowers later than flava, Middendorfii, 
and Dumortieri, The leaves are an inch or an inch- 
and-a- half broad, firm, and strongly ribbed, The peri- 
anth-tube is three-quarters of an inch, and the limb 
4 inches long. The inner segments are 18 to 20 lines 
broad, and the expanded flower is 5 to 6 inches in 
diameter, It was imported from Japan by Messrs 
Wallace & Son of Colchester, and was exhibited at 
the Drill Hall on the 9th inst., where it obtained a 
Certificate, J, G, Baker, (See fig. 14, p. 71.) 
ORCHID NOTES AND AND G LEANINGS, 
ORCHIDS AT ROUNDHAY MOUNT, LEEDS. 
Тнк Orchid-houses in Dr. Jessop's pretty * 
their occupants have in Mr. Tyson 
Roundhay Mount, a careful and diligent cultivator. 
Seeing therefore, that Dr. Jessop himself takes & 
personal interest in his Orchids, it is not surprising 
that the collection affords a good example of suc- 
cessful cultivation, 1 
d 
epartment, perigi Me 
health, and freedom * flower ar arked, 
In the Dendrobium-house, the base of which i is ‘a part 
planted with foliage plants, Palme, Begonias, &c., the 
specimens of Dendrobium a df 2 
gran y nt hs ne ne hundred 
flowers, Їп addition, there were utiful 
plants of D, transparens, covered with — г | 
blush-white and purple flowers; D. Pari 
several of the 150 or so plants of D. nana z 
Sehroderianum which are here grown, — re in flower. 
Some fine specimens of D. tbyrsiflorum 
era f 
that class; together with a few г чно added 2 
to the display. E 
Ia the block of span-roofed houses we foun nd 
fine Cattleyas and Lelias, among the former being 
в large number fi wers on excellent — of 
Cattleya cte among these C. M. marmorata is 
a noble form f flower, with very large lip, “that 
marbled 
of the most delicately-tinted and fragrant of 
; C. intermedia мыд other species were noted. 
Among the Lelias, L. ina was in flower, 
a'so a dark acarlet- но form of L. pane dis- 
tinct and pretty variety. In the same house a fire 
plant of Miltonia spectabilis radians, and other Mil- 
tonias were remarked, a small stage 
the glass for M. Roezlii and M. Phalenopsis, both 
of which are in fine condition, 
Passing to the group of Lelia purpurata, we found i : 
а good show of fine and dissimilar flowers— 07^ 
um з ЧЕ алыры ч суу 
with X rose and purple; C. Schroders is on“ 3 | 
r — 
being raised nern 
