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CarrLEYA ELONGATA (C. ALEXANDRA), 
This is again in flower at age and again falls short 
at we were led to expect when it was 
first introduced. It has an erect scape 1 foot long, 
bearing "eis flowers, each having a pedicel 2 inches 
long, and measuring 2 inches across the segments. 
The colour = the 2 and petals is а coppery 
brown, with a flash of rose about the tips, the lip 
being deep rose, above which the white top of the 
column shows ws mens A In a broad sense, I 
should say this is a form of C. guttata, although for 
rden purposes it requires to be vein on 
viness 
vt "i 
о The name 3 ed here was given to this 
plant in 1877 by M. Rodrigues [Orchid., Nov. 1, 72, 
ex 81|, тз before it was 
K fifteen ye 
named С. Alexand: ә; by its introdacer, M. Linden. 
STANHOPEA HASELOWIAN 
e have had this plant in ealtiration three 
years, thanka to ап importation of it by М. Linden, 
although it was described by ee forty 
It ia one of the e and — 
kno 
d delicate colours. efor 8 
h larger, and differe 
eultivate this к=н 
Haselowiana 
Probably the same species, 2 [a o5 
FLORISTS' [8' FLOWERS. 
FINISHING THE BLOOMS OF CHRYSAN- 
THEMUMS, 
Ir blooms of the finest exhibition quality are to 
result 
to, or the ten months’ labour and anxiety will be 
thrown away. If suitable accommodation exists this 
last phase of culture is quite simple, but not so if 
the houses are unfitted tor the proper development 
of the flowers in the month or six weeks previ 0 
their opening. The worst kind of house is one that 
is lofty and lacking in light. Sach houses are usually 
much too moist, causiog irjury to the е petals and 
lengthening of the flower-stalke, with pest 
weakness long before the blooms are fally dev d 
In thia — be house the conditions are such — the 
buds well satisfactorily. Sometimes a season's 
labour is не cnn by a single act of careleas- 
| ness on the part of th e gardener or bie assistants, 
n e as to the requirements of the 
$ plants at that time. 
After the 9 and the 
colour of the florets 1s spa developing геад 
It should be remembered t 
The blooms that remain 
will be all the better if the energies of the plant are 
spent upon two blooms rather than three, which is 
the usual number allowed to ne plant. 
“te is seldom that a house can be devoted entirely 
although i it is best if 16 can be 
A span-roofed 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
and here also the plants obtain sufficient light and 
air; moreover, the foliage in — case of the Vines f 
useful as sbade for the flow The Vine leaves 
must not be left too thickly on Ee rods, or spindling 
wiil occur. Air must be afforded dey and night till 
place; as at that stage I object to a direct current 
passing over the plants in such a manner as to cause 
a draught, the more eae when—as is sometimes 
the case—the e faces north or east. If the 
weather is cold, чад ог 
of = house, Shade 
nts sheuld dict lack mauurial e 
This is a fallacious practice, 
the plants requiring feeding as much then as at auy 
time. My rea la to 8 ч» plants until tlie 
more. Tie ki nd of manure should be varied, y ы 
affording 2 doses of any one kind is bad 
oft 
аз à purifier. 
finish an incurved than a Japanese bloom. 
latter are lar arge in diameter and depth, the petals 
proportionate in breadth, and the colour rich and 
clear, and the floreta evenly disposed so as to form a 
perfectly symmetrical flower, everything necessary 
in a Japanese bloom is attained. Bat in the in- 
curveds we must not only obtain size, bnt also depth, 
в more important, solidity of 
hich lack any one o 
requirements are поб perfect. 
bloom of any of the “ Queen of England" 
is 5 inches, and the depth 2 inches, the bloom 
is not properly developed, 
Ihave, perhaps, entered rather tco fally into the re- 
quirements of the blooms, and especially those belong- 
ing to the certa section; but having seen so many 
mistakes made exhibitors in ignoring essential 
points, I am eium with the idea tbat beginners 
m 00 
idea that early crown bads give the largest blooms— 
- so they will in diameter, perhaps; but if they are 
„taken before the middle of August, the blooms are 
sure to be rough as well as thin,“ and quite useless in 
а against flowers that were not taken ‘geo 
mewhere near the 25th of the same month, or the 
following ee Earlier-formed buds develop Boriti 
at are inclined to reflex tban incurve, when 
— tendeney i cm common. In these cases the opening 
( ide — by remov 
branches from the а а stake, раге тоа 
9 equally safe by some oth 
ase of vineries or Peach- houses being em ployed, 
I ‘eat tie the branches to the wires, a 
the world will not make all 
the centre, 
the exhibition stand. 
Japanese blooms can be much im i 
proved whilet 
opening by the same means. Sometimes, the plan d 
having received a check at the roots in some way or 
other, development in the flower is retarded ; instead 
CHRONICLE. 
[Оотовав 19, 
of unfolding evenly and straight, the tips 
florets curl inwards, which is eh E 
caciou 
depredations, E. Molyneux 
ORCHIDS IN THEIR Ho 
We disembark, вау at Savanilla U.S. of 
or at the mouth of the mighty Rio Magda 
The river is navigable for a distance of 
and under favourable conditions, the y 
circumstances it might take fifteen to Mn 
ая, 
utilissima (known in commerce as Tapioca 
he vegetation on the L a 
what monotonous, but, 
After the ter 
Upper and the Lower. 
of transportation left the traveller is 
horseback. After three E e жат. re 
a stubborn mule over hot plains, 
climbing and E “hl Tongas is 
ill i 
a snowy peak, forming part of the cen! 
chain of Colombia, and at an elevation of : 
above sea-level. 
Wut ү Gao 
e of the most „ items to the 
їз the finding of a good district, not 
plants are me but also where 
of varieties may be obtained, This in 
many hardships and inconveniences, bu 
cted as head-quarters—4 
if possible, in the district an or in 
outskirte, or, in short, in some pla 
there is an exit permitting M. res 
By head-q 
tin diffe rent 
to йө t. The 
times for two MEE 48 
mountains, ready to deatroy en" 
