118 THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 
„55 [ 777K 
[Aveusr 3, 1895, 
agricultural depression. Amongst other 
factory the W bave the form of flat dies 
9 inches by 44 inches. They appear to 
consist of fine loam mixed with cow-manure 
agments of spawn interspersed, 
When mixed, they are spread on the ground 
by himself 
scale. Long raised mounds of manure are 
formed in the open air, each 32 yards in 
length, and 2 feet 6 inches in height, and as 
The degrees 
the beds are “ spawned " by the insertion at 
intervals of fragments of the bricks 3 inches 
square, The beds are moistened when 
necessary, and when the spawn has com- 
menced to run, the beds are then cased 
with moul out 14 or ick. and 
then covered with long litter, beneath which Fic, 29.— MUSHROOM CULTURA: 
in about weeks, th ngi make their 
appearance, the average, we were f 
at 
these beds eenia чум, P Mush- rose; side lobes wrapped closely over the column, pure 
Ue > es Ede өй si pr the he P — white flushed with rose on the margin; yellow-veined 
ey Я M . Rd, 
a yard. Four outdoor beds spawned in in the throat. Leonard Barron 
THE ROSARY, 
— — 
average * 7 ія т of 700 Ibs, 
T A WHITE MOSS ROSE. 
e Trang s to ensure a 
more or len diio "ie. one get suc- 
ceeding another 
“ City » ойнаса riding to town every 
morning by the District cat from ve 
are puzzled to know what c 
those long mounds of earth, on mn whe nothing 
E ever seems to make its 
mber that years ago а very dis. 
Mr, Newnuam Brown, of Reigate, has in his garden 
a white Moss Rose tree, which twice during this season 
has моба а flower balf-white, half-red, all the others 
being white. The white and red do not melt into each 
other, but are sharply defined, one petal, in fact, being 
MAKING THE “spawn.” 
half-red, half-white. According to Mr. * Botting 
0 © е is an 
DA the —— of red and white ^m 
same in any two flowers; but sometimes a pure pink- 
similar organism, it follows that in & cross-bred vati "i 
which is not constant or “fixed,” any vegetative 
may produce the cross or the parent forms. 
. botanist, and one by no means 
unknown in the gardening via а genera- 
tion ago, travelling to and from Kew viá 
Putney, used to express his wonder in like 
manner at these mysterious mounds, That 
they contain — treasure we hope we 
have made appare 
The three a pim in the photograph 
(fig. 24) produced at this gathering 508 Ibs. 
Mushrooms, or an average of 5} lbs. to 
the yard, 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY "A 
CATTLEYA x 700.8, hyb. nov., L. Barr 
(С. FORBESI x С. VELUTINA.) 
Tuts hybrid has been raised in the col- 
lection of С, б. Roebling of Trenton, N. J., 
& decided Pn. in a section but 
little cultivated. Flow rs 34 6041 
ста he on 
у fragrant; sepals and pe 
equal, e. —— brown, irregularly and 
aparse with intense rose, un dalate, 
recurved at the apex, flushed rose at the 
base, where they are narrowed almost to a 
Lip prominent; median | oe?semi- 
cla — SL iis UE —— = — — — 
orbicolar, white with ‘rich heavy veins of F 
16, 24,-—мигвнвоом CULTURE: 
GATHERING THR СВОР, 
