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THE GARDENERS’ 
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inverted pots are also used for this purpose where 
found necessary. The shading is on the outside of 
keep it well above the glass, so that in the hottest 
weather the house is kept at a comfortably cool tem- 
These are points which аге invariably to 
h the 
plants thrive, and in spite of occasional attempts to 
improve on it, it is still the best pattern of a cool- 
house—the abundant tankage, which some Orchid- 
owers decry, being still one of the healthiest 
features in such house. 
Among the large-flowered O. crispum at Bankfield 
not a single indifferent form appeared, while some 
were remarkable for their spotting. Among these 
& fine form of the O. Jenningsianum class, with 
гове- үзг" айд в 1 with purple; and several 
very handsome quie ties of O. Anderso 
Also in Med W 
; Ub ЗМ, Cymbidium Lowianum, and 
Oncidium macranthum, the whole making а fine 
display, and pointing to the advisability of growing 
one class of Orchids well, rather than а general 
collection in an indifferent condition. 
In the Cucumber-house а bank of Cologyne cris- 
tata was remarked in fine condition, with а large 
plant of C. c. alba in the centre 
The Vineries and Peach-houses were bright with 
tuberous Begonias, Pelargoniums, &c.; and the 
t 
nd in 
garden the Roses were very fine, notwithstanding the 
severity of the past winter, 
DENDROBIUM CRUENTUM. 
Tuts fine Dendrobium was originally aue 
by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., on the 
lay peninsula, and described be ^ late 
Professor Reichenbach in th 
The lip is handsomely 
be inferred from the 
pda in which the plant is found, its proper place 
warm 
— are нед — up. me that good speci- 
s are in t ountry (fig. 17). it proves a good 
polt which Per. formerly — doubted. 
THE ROSARY, 
NOTES UPON NEW ROSES. 
Mocs interest is felt by rosarians in the question 
whites certain new varieties of Roses are really 
acquisitions in the true ве sense, о or merely possess some 
ithout sufficient merit to 
Warrant their cultivation in the future. We never 
have too many really анн w Roses, and it is all 
the more pleasing to find o r again во 
well in front of our — friends. 
Without the least — the palm must go 
of Newtownards, Ireland. 
Many of us who saw nde box of twelve distinct new 
ich won at the National Rose Society's 
Show at the Crystal Palace, were much struck 
with the 
lity 
ced growers were loud in their praise ; 
and I may — mention as an ee fact, that 
upon its n 
Rose than Madame Cusin. 
no fewer than ten of the twelve are of Messrs, Dick- 
sons’ own raising. s by get a little closer to our 
deer is, as I adjudged it, 
an 
e 
years. of the fine qualities possessed by 
one of its parents and by its sister sport The Bride, 
Messrs. Dicksons told me that it is in every way а 
counterpart of Catherine Mermet excepting in the 
colour, which is а pale creamy-white, delicately 
flushed with very soft rose. The 600 miles journey 
that this variety had endured in trying weather for 
any cut Rose, impressed me very favourably, seeing 
that the bloom was staged in such а fresh condition, 
and I have "ie нө chat the card of Commenda- 
tion will be — 2 the coveted Gold Medal 
ext — 
н of Caledon i isa hybrid Tea, and a great 
addition to this class of Roses. It isa grand grower, 
of a perfectly distinct shade of colour, — a pink 
and soft shade of rose combined, and as a decorative 
plant it is zure to be in good demand. rd of 
Commendation was also awarded here. Tom Wood 
is a Rose of a very pleasing colour, being of а deeper 
tint, and I should judge it to be also a much fuller 
FIG. 17.—DENDROBIUM CRUENTUM 
Lady Moyra Beauclerc 
e 
consistent of all the new varieties, was 27 R. G. 
Sharman Crawford, a H. P. of extra m When- 
ever shown it has been a great ovd т only 
because of its deep rosy-pink colour, whic 
tinct, but on account of the old 
which the blooms are borne, the base of the petals 
being much lighter -— ^ tips, while on the 
outsides they - m h pale flesh pink, The 
zu and with me it has 
kept в certain cardi of shading that few other 
Roses could retain during the late sultry weather. 
is is а Gold Medal Rose, while the first prizes 
and First-class Certificates it has won are very 
numerous, А box oftwelve aw was decidedly 
at the Palace, 
e 
(H.P.) Mis not yet won the Gold Medal, but it has 
ad irat-class Ce 
splen , 
Mrs, John Laing, but distinct from that variety. 
Mavourneen (H.P.) I have only seen twice, ап it 
gave me the impression of resembling Helen Keller 
and Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford combined; colour 
a silvery-flesh, with rose shading. аш that 
its growth and freedom in blooming is remarkable. 
Avoca (Tea) is somewhat like Ernest Metz for 
size and rn but it still considerably brighter, 
after а long Т which necessitated its being cut 
upwards of thirty hours, 
Marchioness of — (H.P.), one of last year's 
Gold Medalroses, I did not think so much of 
before, but the season has "зня against a Rose of 
his class, The colour is a satiny-pink, of 
clearness, and with deli ose pink shading. This 
he most distinct ave, a 
yet,be shown in grand form by those who possess it. 
Marquise de Litta (H.T.) is a very peculiarly 
shaded form of La France (H.T.). Itisa good grower 
and free bloomer; carmine-rose with a vermilion 
centre, the two — NE in а unique and 
pleasing way. А tre t Gloucester, and several 
good singles at the dee — stamp this as a 
promising H. Tea 
Clio, Sylph, Alister, Stella Gray, Lorna Doone, 
Corinna, Dake of Fife, Shamrock, Captain Hay- 
wood, and Robin Lyth have pleased me most among 
the remainder, At Gloucester, Richmond, and the 
Crystal Palace by far the best of the new Penzance 
Briars was — Deans, & semi-double flower with 
very 8 mens, Its colour is brighter than 
that of a other and the flowers are far less 
fleeting. А, 
PLANT NOTES, 
ALSTRGMERIAS, 
HE large clumps of these growing in the border 
on either side of the entrance to the Black Hamburgh- 
house at Gunnersbury Park came through the severe 
winter unharmed, the only protection afforded being a 
further and farther afield as the seasons They 
are never disturbed, but have reached the extreme 
edge of the border. 
It has been remarked, that Alstrœmerias were at 
that do not possess a tithe of the beauty of the 
stremeria, Exposure to the full blaze of the aun 
appears to be immaterial, 20 long аз m is ‚ good 
cultivation 
of the plant at Gunnersbury, where it occu 
spot quite shadeless during the hottest part of tlie 
day. Water is rarely given; the mulch economises 
the moisture in the soil, and the plants rarely suffer 
for qm ar it. 
It i t because any ич is experienced іп 
pari m that the of cultivation has 
become so circumscribed. There are certain species 
and their у; that are readily, procurable, such 
as aurantiaca, orange-yellow, streaked spotted 
viti. € is found to vary under eultivation, 
rea, golden-yellow, 
vs chilensis and 
deep orange lata, a y douleur species, 
colour rose-purple; Pe purple and white, and 
its à rem ido alba—perhaps one of the tenderest ; 
and pulchra 
(eto) white, ina; and yellow. 
compost peat, leaf-mould, and sandy loam 
should be employed. 
те appears to be no common name for the 
Alstrcemeria, though one or two forma are known 
St. Martin’s flower ; and the white form of Pelegrina 
