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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[$ЕРТЕМВЕВ 14, 1895, 
BELGIUM. 
PLANTS AT THE ROYAL CHATEAU AT 
LAEKEN. 
URING а visit paid to Laeken bd ; noticed 
ood and 
ken ате numerous саза goc 
An unutual and admirable variety, which we com- 
pared to a fine Pen оп, es mention. The 
mon, d 
ground-colouring was ав purple, the throat had a white 
ground with very dark and effective veinings; there 
was one white spot at the base of the lower mid-rib, 
the spot whence springs the lateral lobe—in 
fact, the whole flower is moat effective. There were 
many seedlings of Anthurium Andréanum with 
large spathes; in some the spathes were very dark, 
in others the veinings were very distinctly marked 
Orchid-house, in spite of the ы кунү 
а 
floral trusses and quite п 
trained along iron wires, which t race a 
very fine when in fall 
bloom, One Lelia cris á with a fine well-spread 
and waved lip, with a dark ground, bore s ower- 
stems and thirty-eight flowers and buds, speci- 
mens of Cattleya Rex bore altogether forty blooma— 
one plant alone bore ten; Dendrobium suavissimum 
with many trusses; and Epidendrum vitellinum 
with seven racemes, I noted, besides some fi 
Cattleya gigas, chilleriana, I 
noticed one specimen о of C. Mossie with 127 flowers, 
and a pla f Odontoglossum Bictonense with 
pra trusses each with fifteen flowers, 
berum AT deer rae 
y found 
be bloom a Horticulture Internationale numerous 
f Phaius Humbloti and Lælio- 
Curs з good Cypripedium Мерк! x, Cattleya 
gigas, numerous plants of Ойдан | Buagerotht, 
and good varieties of Cattleya Rex 
М. Peeters has some fine dark 8 of Mil- 
tonia Moreliana and of M. spectabilis; the very 
beautiful M, Peeterai, Rchb., the M, Blunti, Peeters- 
jana of Rolfe; the rare Dendrobium Guiberti, and a 
Cypripedium Harrisonianum, all greenish-yellow, 
very curious, but less pretty than the type. Ch, de B. 
J GROUPING FOR EFFECT IN 
„„ CONSERVATORIES, 
sI 
When the op 
evident, it is a record fact. 
weeks ago I visited the mim of Osmaston Manor, 
near "romantic Ashbourn n Derbyshire, and I 
was charmed with the чш е effects which were 
fo b be, seen in every department. The conservatory 
efi 
sea [4 
моц Ui 
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arrangement, The structure waa about 40 feet square, 
and the effect 
— ak 
was made i in the centre. There w 
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à Lyeog stones, while 
arose "3 T eim carpeting, 
. ether richly-coloured foliage plants ats; while restin 
on the рен were Еном, Be ye g 
: ring ap Dally at werner —.— 
is, very well this 
season, and many people lost their plants in the 
similar climbers covered the walls. The effect was 
most pleasing, and quite pomi from the usual style 
а Oat-of-doors the 
runs an open corridor, facing the lawn, with а long 
series of arched pillars, In the centre of each, and 
hanging from the arches, were baskets of Pelargo- 
niums flowering profusely. 
Inthe vineries and other houses, the abundance 
and quality of the fruit 
trees 55 5 plainly to the 
obtained a this benutifol place—the out-of-door 
fruit, the Pedes garden, and the herbaceous 
border being worthy of equal note. Mr. Bardney, 
the gardener there, had some very good new Carna- 
tions in fine condition, and, indeed, the whole place 
is a credit to him. Rambler 
THE WEEK’s WORK. 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
By BAILEY WADDS, Gardener, Birdsall Gardens, York, 
DING PLANTS.—Complete arrangements for 
n propagate 
n the proportion required. ast 
n a favourable one for the flower- 
e hed the flowers severely as s00 
з they have appeared ; but, on ther hand, single 
flowering tuberous-roote g E as, and 
Pentstemons, have done exceedingly eid эпа. 
ing the —— e udden chan eather. 
If Begonias plan S Beli in the ast Riding of 
brkibite dui — like the present one give 
satisfaction—as they have done i in many cases—they 
Begonias damaged by rain or winds quickly recover, 
and their bright green foliage accentuates ev 
ticle of flower, Cuttings of Begonias may still be 
put in boxes or pots of sandy soil, and placed in a 
warm- Prep or pit, and kept growing as long as 
possi 
ARGONIUMS.—Cattings which may be taken 
after this date and put in boxes or pots should be 
laced in frames or pits, from which the glasa-lights 
аге removed, p them in the open air as1 
possible; bu weather becomes wet and cold, 
the lights should be placed over them, at the sametime 
tilting them up to allow abundance o 
Brighton 
ning — gir de - flower-bs 
rrangement of a long 
n at its 
"EHI 
Er 
nally ve —— well d 
— bed planted with ‘the following, and see 
est, was excellent :—Th 
band was planted with Lobelia specios 
— * 3 in the vea dotted through 
with white Cactus Dahlia Constanc 
оона 83 have given — satisfaction ; 
they are easy to cultivate, and they stand changes of 
may be struck in Mia ue 
: у in pots or boxes, and 
if kept growing for a time 11 small bulb. 
that "M пуз oe the spring, if the variety is 
e E ч , 
ow om, and are ost satiaf; 
w in full bl actory o 
autumn flowers for the garden or for cutting purposes, 
M MONS for summer and autumn beds or 
for cutting purposes are invalusble ; sta 
. dier well, and their tall 
spikes of bloom are hin # effecti tive, 
— "зе shoul 
y may b — during the win ter. 
ра унн. пак varieties are George Smith, 
ountess of Hopetoun, The Lady, Miss A 
Fowler, ee Carno ot, and Py. : т А. 
RIAS.—Cattings should be 
the green — — „ and we н — 9 
apart into frames, using ‚ well-drained 
Shade the glass with 
time. The frames should be kept rather close and 
moist, in order 2 keep ttings p and 
fresh, With the exception of the — ty amplexi- 
ceolarias have not done well th 
— — 
frames during the e С through insufficient 
attention in regard t ection. ‘They should be 
kept as cool as чет — at frost should 
not touch Шарга а good thick turf-pit ів the best 
place for the 
ANTIRRHINUMS for keeping through the winter 
should be struck from cuttings and kept in frames, in 
In som districts 
THE ORCHID HOUSES, 
By W. Н. Waiter, Orchid Grower, Burford, Dorking, 
ODONTOGLOS88UMS.—No Orchids are тоет ШШ 
of general cultivation an 
Odontoglossums. Most of them are easily E 
апа yet sometimes they sive more trouble than 
other class; for when they once lapse into 
Ф 
E 
ome comparatively dry for a 
middle of each day, so as to enable the plants 
throw off any ex i 
— about them, which otherwise will pre- 
owth,  Odontoglossums, if watered 
like so many semi-aquatic pl гей will ku 
many roots, and generally daterio . en water- 
ing, go carefully o ин: апа thoroughly — 
er Амы onl whi e e dry. specially must 
thia treatment be — iie during the autumn 
and winter months in the caseof such Опа E 
of — grow, a as this informa " 
greatly assist him in falling their requ 
; but the no better time than | 
— орон tho” mejority of the plants, especially 
nee of O. e phans, 
О. 
which, having fr 
become well-established before winter comm 
a а ж 
should be spread to make th 
Pot 
decayed arabe 
into ite just lar, 
n morning — pd and x 
h fresh ai ible, especially when 
much fresh air as possi 9. Freshly- 
— be used, filling up the 
hese plants consist oot : 
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