Avavsr 17, 1895.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 183 
Aralia monstruosa, a fine specimen with twenty- 
five glossy and healthy leaves, certificate awarded 
j k (& a 
—. 
à l'unanimité; to M. Kuyk (aleo à l'unanimité) for 
Earya latitolia variegata, а specimen of considerable 
vigour, and very healthy. Certificates e als 
awarded as follows: to M, Ch. Spae for Rondeletia 
speciosa, growing i ne trues about 18 inch 
across, and well covered wit tty flowers of 
bright-red colour, with nge centres; to M. 
blue, bell-shaped flowers; t . Wyckaert for 
Lycaste Deppei, a well-bloo speci t 
M. Szewezick for Gesnerias ta robusta alba 
measuring more than 18 inches across, very well 
grown, and very walter. Ch. De B. 
SCOTLAND, 
DISA GRANDIFLORA, 
EpiNBURGH.—Every year as the flowering season of 
these plants come round, we are reminded of the great 
beauty of these Cape Orchids, and the amount of 
admiration expressed at the first sight by the E 
bears testimony to ne m p "gr species w 
well grown. In a mber stablishm enta 
tivatión, the reason of failure bate difficult to 
account t e umidi 
> ity 
Fig. 35.—PHYLLOSTACHYS VIRIDI GI AUCFSCENS. (SEE P. 186.) atmosphere, water, and other causes being brought 
auses eve с 
ust now for conv ce 
our specimens are — a sas e in the — 
house, where they are staged upon la bed of sp phagnum, 
and enjoy full exposure to t „© aun and air, and 
receive copious supplies of wa The colour a 
the flowers is dark, and the AMD good, R, L 
Harrow, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
THE WEEK’s WORK. 
THE HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 
By W. Pore, Gardener, Highclere Castle, Newbury. 
PINCHING LATE GROWTHS ON FRUIT TREES. 
3 eav s n 
, STOPPIN ETC. — Continue to stop 
the — ‘shoots в, ку remove geo п t 
old and bar — where such сап be spared 
training in young wood thinly, by ‘that perfect 
ripening is ensured. 
PEACHES AND NECTARINES, PINCHING AND 
TRAINING —Any gross foreright shoots on these 
trees should be removed, all sublateral fu 
shortened back to one leaf, and any shoots which 
are likely to make Res пса апа 12 8 k Ded 
* may bave the points removed, Trai rie young 
Fic, 36.—PHYLLISTAC TY? Out. (see Р, 186.) shoots thinly, and take care to iow: the fruite full 
