Остовкв 19, 1895.] 
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grag covered with wooden shutters, and lined 
in the interior with wire-gavze. ese ape 
tures are, бл р by the eye, about 5 feet apart 
ап i the lo 
i 
ws of 4-inch —two flows 
fully adequate, even in this e мату locality, to 
do the work in stress of wea The interior 
presents a stage fully 5 feet -— on — side of a 
3-foot passage. The stage rests rather under the 
top of the brick side, and is of strong flags resting 
on pillars arched from pillar to pillar, so that air may 
2 — unduly impeded in * са — bottom 
tors below the stage a hrough the 
. dell It will be seen — Е those who 
know anything about Mei rm n. the 
Stand Cattleya-houte differ of thoee 
side 
saad this is absolutely necessary, because of 
the ned which we shall advert э presently, going 
down like living things in search of some support 
The ground below on either side of 
indeed the passage itself, is covered 
surplus-water, from watering, goes dow 
black medium. The roof is АЙНЫЙ — a kind o 
lath- blind, much broader in the lath than usual, I 
should say 3 inches wide, and placed proportionately 
wide apart, thua giving a maximum of light, and at 
u 
prises the ground-work for the system in practice 
and now for some of the results of the practice м 
A few sentences, however, on the re yt 
ve on is not more liberally provided for. Both 
Mr. ran and his accomplished orchidist, Mr. R. 
Joh 
їз точ to free ventilation at the bottom, and 
little, or aa little as — at top. The o 
and hence, when- 
particularly with a down-going sun, is of the hi 
importance for а cm culture, These 
flat-roofed houses, too, capital in respect of the 
sun ti 
thet from SN) to September his bottom ventilators 
are seldom, if ever, shut, "night or day," and when 
the top ventilator is used, it is only for a few hours 
in the middle of the day—always shut before 
damping down. 
'There are three kinds of utensils or receptacles 
used for culture; first, pots y of common 
make; second, square teak baskets; and third, deep 
cylindrical te baskets of rather elegant fo 
the choice bits of slow and dwarfish growth, 
and the auxi cut off. Cattleya gi 
е x producing flowers 
then the lip, gorgeous in ita 3 ot E 
purple, with - great yellow eyes, on ithe 
side, the crests lovely, a Apya among “Cattleya 
the leaves were gri Herons bur the ming 
Over the pot-rims, ongside of it was 
al 
a very deep-coloured di v ora, 
one of the greatest gems in the grandis way 
in modern times, with nine spikes, each three- 
flowered—great too, in the height of 
exuberance, purata Statteriana is after 
the Hardyana type, with а lip of equal brillia 
and the segments broader, and white as snowflakes. 
There is a most beautiful hybrid between Lelia pur- 
purata v — Warneii ma pen from the 
ales Hye med Parisiana х, 
of — — and — away like ite 
feliows, although not yet up to Stand Hall growth, 
on парер х С. gigas and Loddigesii is - 
Lælio - Cattleya x Canhamiana 
Leia. юе Р X Cattleya Mossis are gems of ы 
first water, the roots going down quite — inches — 
filling the pot, delighting one's eye as much as t 
plant itself, Cattleya Statteriana, a — ейн 
of aurea type, is growing in this climate in a way 
which we do not often see aurea do; its roots are 
actually touching the coa', after dippin g past pot 
and inverted pot, to a length from the base of nearly 
2 feet; and what а gem that selected variety is !— 
more valuable even than many of our yen raised 
hybrids. L io - Cattleya x Powbe Lelia ein- 
nabarina X Cattleya Mosis is quite a atrong, 
— куне mr 
flowers! The na 0 
aa the size of L. — m 
This is grand work on the part of the cross-breeder. 
Cattleya superba alba is beautifully developed, and 
= —— — — shown at the fortnightly rm 
e 
=> 
= 
i 
s in 
— grees plant of one of the moat difficalt | to 
do of all Cattleyas. Then there is x C. eximia, 
. Nisa, in which the parents, C. gigas and — 
crispa, are both — and the roo — here, 
sometimes clambering on the rim and over the — 
of the jöt; and — dipping — show- 
ing abundantly to the practised eye the suitable 
character of the atmosphere. In houses чм D the 
dry order day and night this scarcely e curs 
the roots electing to take hold of the bui — pot, 
8x 
cænas is in rude y einige vem 
double leaves to its flowering bulbs, f the tre 
of which the doe hs spring. Cattl se ionis smt i 
which was honoured with а first-class award at 
the chief pat where Certificates are given, and 
where few are thrown away upon even high- 
class бј was showing * The 
‘charming Lelio - Cattleya Amesiz, C. “cris spa 
х C. maxima, is Nasen pan — of extra 
Don апа abundant root- m ; eremi r of 
the hybrids are freer in Boro n than £ e of the 
e 
Wem 
pec aenea 
recuperate, and fre 
great host of 
is doing extraordinarily well, 
, but here it is rampant in & good 
many plants, but not so variable in variety ав its 
compeers. C. Claesiana of th 
winter, li ia anceps and its brood. oW- 
Чаны isa oprah to grow in a climate of this kind; 
its pushing leads are as thick and prominent as one’s 
thumb, and а glorious coloration it makes when in 
flower, The rather unique C. Mendeli leucoglossa 
; indeed, the varieties of Mendeli 
one's eye upon them. C. X Pallas and Laiia 
and С. wi 
gour. 755 ep Rothschild, C. x Gaskelliana, and 
imparted 
he vigour of Gaskelliana to 5 
à C eerie i 
it. The sam it 56. broad leaves induce long roots, 
pushing do 
interv: 
lateral buds on a dwarf Apple tree 
remarkable growth for a rarity is visible than that 
of С. Gaskelliana alba, Looking at other albinos 
of d species, а is & veritable giant, and 
this is e rium 
9 there are my three selected Cattleyas 
— We won honours—C. aurea Statteriana, F.C.C., 
еи F. C. C, 1892; C. er 
— of Derby, F.C. C. in 1894" The last 
gem of the first ves and what in gardening Meis 
ology is mes a white gigas. It has been divided into 
two pieces, each running neck and neck, both о 
wer (a for description, Gardener 
Chro r Septemb p. 360). be n 
Neo, Tal tat | in the air in the suspended 
pos аэ evidently suits this plant 
I the собни of the 
above described in detail, the Cypripediums and the 
Lselias divide the pride of place. Lelia elegans in 
many varieties is doing well, some pieces in rather 
p, and 
te 
— for ‘aden 
excellens, Chelsoni, and c one called тат a 
white segments and brilliant lip, attract atten 
and Lelia purpurata, and many others. T 
are in small —— plunged iato penis 
and as they increase in size, t ооо а оп апа 
hung up en their — сонш: r. Bratter i is s strongly 
— — 
n pots, where the — have: not been 
ki two or three years, among decaying — — 
where watering is of little consequence, because of 
the little value of the plant. Seedlings will not 
do, for a time, with a season of rest, only, singularly 
u s in the 
ougb, I never kn e 
peat surrounding a living plant, Тое little embryos 
n а house of t kind were getti * 
never can have too many Cattle 
much difficulty in 3 a large brood from one 
seed- vessel — so di t from Oypripediuma. 2 
Dendrobiums; апа rte hnson would not s & 
seed arat the мео ч hag pots where any oy his 
Some people might say 
that the extraordinary "exuberance ot the planta. was 
It is not so. The system here is to have a rest and a 
drying, at proper seasons, and, moreover, no plant is 
nged or overhead ; the moisture — 
sary for Vie trm is obtained — evaporated and 
condensed moisture, h terial used is two- 
thirds best brons peat, and oabi ted best selected 
sphagnum-moss—a very common mixture. In fine 
pe are — marvelloniy fine lot — pests, n; 
n bette w than I 
а Goa pli vi" small lot, but еб, 
looking at, and go when you will there is something 
choice in flower. 4. 
SCOTLAND, 
— P —MÀá 
MORELLO CHERRIES IN THE GARDENS OF 
NE PALACE, PERTHSHIRE, 
Mr. Warp does e to refer to these fine trees in 
асе in the eners’ Chronicle, as well as to 
mportance of tlie general culture of Morello 
eost And as he appeals to Mr, McKinnon, 
who succeeded the late Mr. Holliday as gardener at 
белм, Mr. Smith of the Viceregal Lodge, Dablin, 
and to myself, models 
as Mr. Ward frankly confesses Scone trees 
object-lessons in OV 
through life. Doubtless the same feeling 
largely mong t and men 
lant, train, or 
gsther Morellos anywhere without recalling the 
giants they had seen in their Scone days. There 
were other good features in the old gardens, but the 
Morello Cherries on the M" wall of the south 
garden were the кич of the plac 
e but the m dus mes Dodds, in my 
time, or Mr. Blackie the к was allowed fe 
