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SEPTEMBER 7, 1895.] 
THE 
GARDENERS' 
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER I7. 
CATTLEYA 
MENDELI. 
HUGH LOW г CO. 
EXPECT TO RECEIVE A 
VERY LARGE IMPORTATION 
CATTLEYA 
MENDELI. 
Per R.M.8. “PARA,” 
Which they will offer through 
MESSRS. 
PROTHEROE 
AND 
MORRIS, 
AT THEIR 
CENTRAL SALE ROOMS, 
67 & 68, CHEAPSIDE, E.C., 
ON 
TUESDAY, SEPT. 17. 
Full particulars will appear in 
next week’s issue. 
CLAPTON NURSERY, 
LONDON, N.E. 
CHRONICLE. 261 "à 
IMPORTANT SALE. 
Tuesday Next, Sept. 10. 
ЗГТ BY, ORDER, OF 42:888 
MESSRS. LINDEN, 5 
7 
PARC LEOPOLD, 
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. 
CATTLEYA 
MENDELI. 
А fine lot of Imported Plants of this 
magnificent Cattleya. 
Guaranteed to be the finest strain ever 
imported of this lovely Cattleya. 
CATTLEYA MENDELI. 
Selected, established, unflowered 
lants. 
Superb, healthy, clean, & "tak 
Cannot fail to give satisfaction. 
The Grandest Strain ever Imported. 
CATASETUM BUNGEROTHI, 
CATASETUM SPLENDENS 
AND ITS MAGNIFICENT VARIETIES. 
Specially selected established un- 
flowered plants, with strong spikes. 
From the same importation out of 
which we have flowered those grand 
new species as Catasetum imperiale, 
C. Lindeni, C. Luciani, C. mirabile, 
C. O’Brienianum, and other magnifi- 
cent new forms. 
BY MESSRS. 
PROTHEROE & MORRIS, 
At their CENTRAL SALE ROOMS, 
67 & 68, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON, Е.С. 
Gardeners Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1895, 
THE NATIONAL HORTICUL- 
TURAL SCHOOL AT VERSAILLES, 
i^ the year 1874 a National School of Hortioul- 
ture was established at Versailles, on the site 
of the old kitchen-garden. The creator of this 
kitchen-garden was the famous John de la Quin- 
tinie, about whom it may be interesting to give а 
few details. Born at Poictiers in 1626, Quin- 
tinie early showed that he had a strong inclination 
for the study of agriculture and horticulture. He 
began his gardening career as manager of the 
gardens belonging to Tamboneau, the then Presi- 
dent of the Chamber of Accounts. . He is said to 
have applied himself to so intense a study of the 
France. 
useful experiments. He was the first who proved 
it useless to join fibres to the roots of trees when 
transplanted, and he discovered а sure and in- 
fallible method of pruning trees, “so as to make 
, and even produce it 
equally throughout all the branches, which had 
never bates been tried, nor even believed to 
be possible" (vide Chalmers’ Biographical Dio- 
tionary, scis v.). 
Quintinie came to England i in 1673, and during 
mmuni 
some directions concerning Melons, for the cul- 
tivation of which Quintinie was —À 
famous. These directions may be оо: 
those who are interested in the history of od 
deniag in the Philosophical Transactions of the 
Royal Society for 1693. It is said that either 
of а considerable pension if he would stay and 
take upon him the direction of the Royal Gar- 
dens, but he 5 to serve his own King, 
Louis XIV., who made him “ Director-General of 
all His M ajesty’s fruit and kitchen gardens." 
The architect Mansart it was who designed the 
kitchen-garden, the “ Potager,” as it is termed in 
French, but unfortunately, although he chose a 
that was in harmony with the general 
appearance of the gardens and park, he made the 
mistake of not thinking about the effect the site 
and the nature of the soil хори have оп the 
vegetables and fruits. constructed | 
orangery a tho south ofthe plan, and in front л, 
dur the Joke which still Dena the name of [^^ 
í Pièce d'eau des Suisses." Much of the soil of 
the 1 was formed from the earth 
orks, and it was not as good 
ave liked to have seen. 
Moreover, the kitchen-garden was in a place 
where had been formerly a deep pond, and it was 
myo, to fill up the place of this pond. 
In Quintinie’s book entitled Instruction pour 
les jardins fruitiers et potagers, one can read of 
the difficulties he had to contend with in bringing 
