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THE GARDENERS’ 
or not at all from the parents. The seed should be 
in autumn, Although the Phlox is classed with 
perennials, the plants may be had finely in flower 
in seven or eight mon m п 
and I never k 
lants are 
well suatained through the heat and drought " 
the summer, The first year there i 
‘stem flower to each plant; and if it is intended $b 
flower them a second year, they should be replanted 
about 2 feet perar on fresh deeply о, апа 
well — na 
same Leser is necessary for the named 
varieties, but а good system of propagation must be 
ed out, It is easy enough to chop an old Phlox 
plant into pieces with a spade, and plant them 
parately, but this та ны dees поб 
give satisfactory results, Тһе best spikes are 
come into 6-inch 
After floweri ots into the 
open ground, as recommended above for seedlings— 
24 а = Such d produce the finest 
: season, and three only 
| жарша be allowed to ach p plant. J. Douglas, 
URBCHEDUS AR BURE ORD 
DORKING. 
Sig Trevor Lawrence, Bart, the President of 
the Royal Horticuiturai Society, is justly known 
f the m iberal of the а 
arde 
fine collection of Orchids, and he is as kee 
ecto. i 
‘the number of s о, increase, the difficulty 
of keeping in. iih unique plants about which little 
‚ог nothing сап be gleaned to serye as a guide to 
their culture has to be met, In this particular, 
and in most other matters 
culture, the remarkable 
and the splendid 
eatly enhances “the 2 of a visit 
to look up the specimens illustrated. Invari. ariably we 
find them in better condition than ever, and on the 
e have depicted, were found 
in splendid condition, lacs promising a ati Il gre 
of bloom i coming season. 
this the сазе with the great mass of —— Law- 
exhibited by Sir T. 
which the Vanda teres and V. Hookeriana thrive во 
wel), and in which the tall specimen of Vanda X 
Mies Josquim (Hookeriana X teres), is thriving and 
approaching the flowering stage, we found i rich 
collection of varieties of Lelia anceps throwing up 
spikes profusely, and the singular Luisia folate, 
lia awrenceana, rious greenish- 
white Epidendrum Imschootianum in b! In the 
next div th of which the scarlet 
ision, on 
Habenaria інг the allied H. rhodocheila, and 
the white pink forms of Habenaria carnea, 
thrive so well, and make such a fine show, in bloom 
were the 3 Barford hybrid, Cypripedium X pic- 
turatum (Spicerianum X superbiens), С, Mor- 
ganiæ рит ӨНӨ, still the beet of its class, and 
one "pes it = pone to conceive finer in its way ; 
uryal arious other C ypripediums, and a 
* ** of im leya e eee nian 
h 8, like the other warm houses at Bar- 
ford, have all ‘ka available on under the staging 
planted with Cyrtodeiras, Fittonias, Pilea, and 
other pretty compact-growing foliage-plants. Such 
a method fills up vacant spaces, is effective, and very 
favourable for the plants. In one corner of the 
house, а eee out of bloom, is a large specimen 
of Cœ umingii, 
Fem iin =ч house, a cool intermediate one, has а 
full collection of the large- flowered Ee in 
excellent condition, M. H ibschi aud 
lossum B:cto- 
niense and O. B. album, Miltonia Clowesii and other 
Somers арі some pretty tufts of the orange- 
arlet Lelia monophylla, which here thrives so well 
iat the emen bear from twenty to thirty or more 
flowers on 
In the 8 intermediate house, filled principally 
with a splendid collection Læliaa an 
the bank of varieties of Yon 
ia in undiminished vigour and bea 
sorely trouble most growers, aad x wonder 
many have com hem-during the 
long time those in the Barford pa Bei have been 
- this 
acidium num, 
some 4 feet across, and in the most perfect health ; 
how 
he 
e а fine example of the singular 
Со!орупе eiae and Cattleya x Blesensis. 
In the large span stove-house, amid the fresh- 
looking foliage gard „г, coloured spathes of 
f 
a on is a col- 
leetion of the handsome-leaved Bertolonias, and in 
а corner the giant specimen of Grammatopbyllum 
speciosum, which regularly sends forth its tall, stout 
pseudo-bulbs and graceful Palm-like ын but ая 
yet has not produced flowers, Some day the reward 
e — and skill will come, and the flowering 
the plant add another triamph to the many which 
à; ord, 
um-house has its occupants 
ne very * Pd 
on the e place for нышы ot f ye ала These plants 
8t one time, although keeping — healthy, did 
not make the progress desired un il they were shifted 
into their present quarters, and — that time they 
have increased in vigour а siz3 in а remarkable 
degree, and another house on the same plan wiil 
— be n for newcomers A few O. Pes- 
catorei, О, cris good lot of О. grande, 
the pretty — — eristatum, Trichocen- 
— albo-purpureum, and others also were in 
wer, . 
In the next intermediate-house, E M table 
in centre is filled with the speci of Sobra- 
lias, which a little earlier in the ear are one 
the sights of Burford, ten or a dozen ict гагнах 
and varieties, each giving а рии аб опе 
ate llum, an 
О, 
zi 
CHRONICLE. 
(Sxprewpre дү. — 
and the same time. At present the 
represented are S. macrantha, of I | 
some grand plants and varieties; and $, Xantho A 
Here in bloom, боо, are 015 1а ment ç 
Cypripedium X Кайт СЖ oot 
other of the older varieties ; and in а shag aye 
a large specimen 
superbu 
vexillaria, 
and about 
r pretty Aganisia ionoptera, Epidendrum ooi, 
EN ffianum 
e lar arge ран -roofed чаши in which the 
interesting from the floor to the roof, for underneath 
from the immense h 
anged like tin 
coppery-orange Cirrhopetalum Mastersianum, 
& fe er us botanic 
flower; and among the Catasetu 
P. Esmeralda Regnieriana, a number of rare by! 
Cypripediums, and a good show of varieties of D 
drobium Рһа!епорвів Schroderiana. Oa one | 
the Barford E е аге as 
bul 
th 0 
Dendrobium 
have made, 
to flower wake 
In the Aé 22 the em of 0 
fenestralis (Lattice plant), an obj 
interest, is still in fine co т. = in 
Stauropsis philippinensis, a real g 
stem, clad with distichoua аса "rom уз 
пе 
me quite new crosses are ex 
with foliage, Oncidium 
rencis, Dendrobium bracteosam albam, Pol 
Bain, the show in t 
liant effect, the splendid tuberous 
Streptocarpus, and fragrant Lilies, V 
wi 
In the open ground there are flowers 
