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ТНЕ 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avevsr 10, 1896, 
laden. Apples on pyramids have good crops of fine 
Cherries sweet, 
asp- 
berries, Brambles, red and white , but 
bl "i & failure, pee 
s, and Apric not grown 
doors. D. S, Melville, Polialioch a qunm Lochgilphead, 
STIRLINGSHIRE. — Apple and Plum trees were never 
more beet ager attacked with сүт than this year, bat 
A te 
t of the trees are well cr —— Small fruit- 
bushes are heavily laden with are and have all 
along been vigorous and health i 
been seen on them. The fruit ie unuaually large, 
which we attribute to liberal manuring. M. Temple, 
Carron House alkirk. 
WicrossuIRE.— Apples, Pears, Plums, and Cherries 
are all good crops, the tree 
free from insect 
below the average; the latter suffered from th 
effects of the severe frost, which killed much of the 
fruiting wood. es are heavy crops, but the 
trees are badly infested with caterpillars, Curra 
and Raspberries are good cro the fruit very 
fine. Strawberries were abundant, but owing to the 
hot weather were soon over, James Day, Galloway 
House Gardens, ку liestoum. 
To be continued.) 
AMERICAN NOTES. 
ORCHIDS AT TRENTON, N.. 
(From Our Own Correspondent.) 
of the most interesting collections of Orchids 
and hybrids, form no inconsiderable portion of the 
whole, but perhaps the chief feature is the large 
collection of white Cattleyas, to the collection of 
which Mr. Roebling has directed his full energies, 
and it is his desire to make his collection of the 
of all the known forms. It will no дом 
be of interest to init ic dii the list of those already 
inel 
Cattleya Triaræi ой forty-five bulbs, ten — 
and a grand variety twenty 
bulbs, five ‘eae an shite, aplendid blossoms ; C. — 
alba Trentonensis, very deep orange 
bulbs, two эзин C. Skianeri alba, ten bulbs, ‘iced 
leads; C. Mossiz alba, bulbs, three leads ; 
C. M. alba Trestoneni eight bulbs, two leads; а 
Aclandis alba, ten 
leads 
ga am leads to - one; C. S. alba Trenton- 
ensis, d variety, m bulbs, three leads; C. 
E!dorado Apr ten de pe leads, 
Very marked advances on all other white varieties 
are C. Gaskelliana alba Trentonensis, C. 
Trentonensis, an 
| has е огап 
place of lemon inthe throat; the С. oma gases 
green throat ; the C. Schroders has almost 
and are probabl. eee 
рг у unique plants, 
shape and exquisitely ; pure, well qualified 
0 bear the home of this - 
ы En ! splendid col 
= ` includ purpurat : 
p ке except а — Bede iis 
ж 
СА жо: L. majalis alba, sixty шк; nine leads, 
a splendid healthy specimen ; L. anceps alba, 
Balla original variety, tw 
в; L. autumnalis alba, twelve bulbs, four leads. 
The climate of the district seems to be ас 
adapted for the. growth of Cattleyas. C. Rex h 
ows with an astonishing vigour, and in & hirt 
time there will be a wealth of blossom; nothing 
could be finer, One specimen has fifteen flowers 
from three growths, and the new bulbs and leaves are 
as large as those of the best grown Lælia purpurata. 
iece carrying twenty- 
Among the more dis- 
ety is one named Lageri in 
r of its discoverer, =й introduced it and many 
xcellent thro rough Messrs, Pitcher & 
tinct species of this v. 
honou 
other e 
no trac 
fine expanse of its lip, Also in flower was a new 
Cattleya hybrid, which is named Juno by request of 
Mr. Roebling; it is described elsewhere (see p. 118, 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, August 3). 
C. Hardyana, a splendid specimen with four leads, 
attracts by its graceful form and delicate colouring. 
Of hybrid Lelio-Cattleyas the one out of L. purpurata 
and C. Mossiæ known as L.-C, Canhamiana is very 
attractive. The finely frilled lip and the drooping 
petals having the peculiar twist of L, purpurata give 
it an air of distinction. 
ue tenebrosa Roeblingiana was past its best, 
but it still stood а worthy reminder of what had 
been. Its colour, dark rose madder, sepals and s 
with an almost black-purple lip, makes it quite free 
from anything else, 
ypripediums embrace such a e of forms (over 
250, all select too) that it is not possible to 
enumerate thie Ре: 1 a selection can be given. 
tion, and h $. AN W 
where, the work i in — being largely carried 
tis 
thought, and wisely too, that it is better to Моми 
an acknowledged fine hybrid а to wander off into 
а multiplication of “ noveltie of mediocre rank, 
iiri; under the 
m by Mr. 1 Henry T. Clinkaberry, 
who was formerly veli known to peer orchidists, 
some highly interesting results may be expected, 
One of the most conspicuous of the Cypripedes is 
С. Gowerianum, wi 982 sepal 24 inches 
rs are, to take th 
б. with four flowers; 
C. macropterum (Lowii x о very elegant, 
with its clear rose-coloured sepals ; О, Sanderianum, 
having had four flowers, the E with six new 
growths ; C. Smithii (Lawrenceanum x cili 
ie ridge esi 
to to modify the conditions—sinking the 
putting them on the north side of th 
give to the Cattleyas 
&c., strength and vigour, which it is a rare treat to 
The e rapidity Lus эме Cattleya and Laelia seed. 
erminate s very noticeable, Plants ате 
ич җы visible to the need M five and six weeks 
wing the seed; and, indeed, numbers hays 
been put into tiny basketa six months from Sowing, 
None but the finest varieties are being used in thes 
crosses, of which over fifty have been sown already, 
Leonard. Barron, 
^ LALIA e 
fro * the time of its i 
as vol 
flo ve ared. Of late years, additional 
nte ken in it on nt of the 
pportunities which it gave the hybridist of pro- 
ducing novelti LT in appearance and striking 
in form, Th of these, and one which has been 
one of the dial arkable strides made by the 
h 
raisers of hybrid "erm was the Talio Санде X 
Digbyana Mosis (fig. 31, p. 161), raised by Memm. 
Jas, Veitch & Son 8 Lelia Digbyana d and 
Cattleya Mossiæ 9, and first flowered by them in 
The flowers are of a clear rose colour 
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3 
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follows Сте Digbyana, while in their colour 
ge size th ttleya anne 0 үй 
it received 
merits at the hands of the m Committee at 
meeting of the Royal H — Societ]; 
when it received a First-class Cad 
REIN ASTERS. 
tude of forms and colours, The; : 
admirably adapted to profuse and generous eff el 
schemes of p g. a 
he evolution of the China Aster suggests 
um 
Europe about 1731 by R. P. d | 
missi з China, for lin honore]: whom ET 
time it was a single flower ; that i is, s, the rays or lig™ 
late florets 
Chelsea, England, in 173, 4 
seeds of the single white and red АРЫ д 
evidently from France; and he received 
m 
blue in 1736. In 1752 he obtained seeds Mes 2 
1753 of — и 
dwarf forms, for Miller says 
18 inches to 2 feet high. Martyn, 
that y addition to these varieties men 
had then appeared & ** variegate 
