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THE GARDENERS’ 
a timber crop left for aad years x pu deo 
with by the hand of m eof u 
have often ьа. as ыст in, at — 
rate, to the Scotch thinning practice :— 
* Saturday, August 3, was devoted to an no 
of the Oak woods in the neighbourhood of Freien- 
berswalde, and 13 some 
whole excursion. 
eae that the wo = seemed to grow in 
interes by day; but this pone was probably 
pri кы. A fact that as time went on the 
becoming more familiar with the 
E of German forestry, and давы — 
e fo 
But now it is being agen: taken in hand with 
the object of regeneration, e soil is very 
rich, the Oak is the tree PUR is designed for the 
dominant species, The older class of Oaks are 
300 years old, and average 120 feet in height, and 
3 feet 6 inches in A They are for the most 
part perfectly straight and with very little taper, and 
were universally acknowledged by all to be not only 
finer than any trees that the members had ever seen 
before, but finer beyond 2 err of what was 
possible. The total q verd oft mber per acre 
averages about 6500 з 
п conclusion, it is ий remarking how rapid 
saddle past failures on the owners of estates 
тене 
j choice 
plant, have been almost wholly in the hands of 
the foresters, whose advice landowners have fol- 
lowed, A gentleman who owns extensive woods 
in the Highlands called on the writer the other 
day, snd, speaking of his own woods, said they 
were next to worthless as timber. The trees 
were neither of the right sort, nor their timber 
of the right quality; and all, he said, because 
“ we had not known any better—what to plant, 
or how to manage woods,” 
A question of some interest I would like to 
put here, There have been advertised for sale 
lately nearly 140,000 cubic feet of blown-down 
imber of fair average quality on the 
Duke of Argyll’s estate at Inverary, an 
another sale of only less extent at Faray in 
Forfar—much of the timber “exceptionally 
in lots fetch, trimmed on t 
Qu Be t owners or their agents 
2 forth benefit of their neighbour J. S., » 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
SELMA асли Wedd, 
Tas new Introduction of Messrs. 
Pilea Spruceana ought to make a useful decorative 
T where dark foliage is desired, and possibly it 
might be found useful for summer be am ng. Itisa 
native of Peru and Venezuela, N. E. 
ASPLENIUM 1 OROUPOUCHENSE, 
estoe, M.S, n. sp. 
Stipites, dead naked greyish, channelled, 3—4 
in. long; fronds late, bipinnate, 
cuneate-truncate, ded 
toothed, 1—15 inch long, ai inch ig ; pinnules 
cuneate, bluntly dentate outer curved edge, 
about З lines long and od: veins allt, ae 
reaching short of the margin; sori short, medial o 
the veinlets, i line long; 8 equally "m 
rather vaulted at maturity, revealing the crowded 
spores,—Trinidad, West Indies. 
I have had specimens of this Fern for some long 
time, referred. to me by Mr. Hart, who found it in 
the herbarium of the Botanical Department, under 
the M.S, name given toit by Mr. Prestoe, apparently 
its first di rer, after district or ality 
. Hart has lately gathered it in 
I cannot find that it has ever been 
described or published, It belongs to the cuneatum 
group, but is well marked by the narrow, slender 
fronds and short Dareoid sori and involucres, It 
makes an interesting pot-plant. G. S. Jenman, 
Demerara, July 24, 1 
ORCHID NOTES AND AND GLEANINGS. 
ARUNDINA Ba BAMBUS/EFOLIA. R 
Tus elegant Bamboo-like growths of this pretty 
Orchid, which are often 4 or 5 feet in height, render 
8 
d purple — it is a charming object, and asthe 
2 follow each other in succession, it lasts in 
bloom when in good 3 s throughout the whole 
summer and autumn, It is at present in flower in 
the collection of Gao, C. Raphael, Esq., Castle Hill, 
A ин Green (gr., Mr. Н. Adams). The plant 
is evergreen, and therefore requires to be kept moist 
at all seasons. It seems to thrive best ia a cool part 
of the intermediate-house 
CarTrLEYA DowIANA AUREA, 
This charming yellow- coloured, fragrant species 
seems to have flowered exceptionally well this season 
if we may judge by the specimens 
correspondents, Accompanying some very fine and 
3 flowers, Mr. Geo. Rob 
oberts, 
voman-White, Esq., Arddarroch, Garel 
an “We have had a splendid show of 
. Already over 100 blooms 
have opened, and nsn 1 many in bud. As 
dark 
ien] iibi. the gold veining in them 
Sr e almost to adiping аз дай 
Mr. А. Н, Murrell, to A. H. ton, E 
Castleton House, White Lsdies Road, gs alao 
sends a grand flower, i in which the petals are marbled 
with rose colour as in C, aurea marmorata, 
MasDEVALLIA GUTTULATA, Rehb, f. 
I can confirm Dr, Krüozlin's и 
h рейд 324 
that Masdevallia Lawrencei is e plant indes : 
described in 1890 (Gardeners 
р. 267) as М. guttulata; and, what is 
state that it is also the M 
M. guttu- 
King it to be only of garden 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ocronzn 5, 1895, 
— 
origin. Afterwards I found that it had been 
given by Reichenbach himself. I oy, erloobel 
M. guttulata, Rchb. f., because I did not look in thy 
M. ionocharis group, any more than in the Chiman 
that 
synonym, R. 4. R 
Тнк ASHLANDS, Normes E 
Within a radius of 20 miles of Manchester ther 
are, as is well known, many fine = 
collections of Orchids, whose treas 
to the modesty of 
their owners, bave hit is теу fr been exhibited 
known, and may shortly rank as one of the finest in 
the district 
Unlike the connoisseurs in the MS whore 
gardens are more favourably situated, climatically 
and atmospherically, the gentlemen of eres 
ing the plan 
ia a 6 inch basket, it can really be said. to bes 
there was & goo 
nümber of un екЁ * visible amongst the o 
C. bicolor, a very i 
yellow рна and petals, and dark — 
lip; аз Кур uas Ashlands variety, which 
ge a worthy 5 its distinctive rene 
and well-for 
The colour is a d ose-pink, the d 
splashed with bright — reminding 008 ‘ 
the beautiful C. Mossie Hardyana: i 
leriana type were remarked in flower, 
inteseoly M purplish-crimson lip; 
the ia prestans and pumila sections 
varieties ; ; 1 Miltonias, Epidendrum& 
others, in flower. 
a the Olontoglossum-house there was not mach 
bloom, although there were some few good 
arly good 
in man 
aad 
is due to Mr. E. Pidgsley ki the 
gent manner in which he mee his charge 
t: LiND 
The last part of this кїз is devoted ® 
en and description of а 
variations from Cattleya labiata Var. 
piae cue forty-six forms are described, 
MEN LTC уер TEN: — 
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