MES ee ӨРЕН 
Остовев 19, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
461 
as cultivated in gardens i is that it has not generally 
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atudy the requirements of the spe 
which are natives of hot, sandy plains, a reasonable 
amount of success is attained, 
very warm, dry summers. The plant mak 
noble show, with its tall, stout scapes crowned with 
bright red flowers. - chief cue to be observed 
in the culture of nsvigias is withhold water 
arly in the season, — when the leaves begin to 
. Fic. 81.—B&UNSYIGIA JOSEPHINÆ : 
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wither, to place the bulbs in a ner piger 
either in full sunshine out-of-doo 
frame or greenhouse, to be — ааг P 
kept in а dry state 
р 
But if the leaves ре, and get well advanced, and 
no flower-spike appears, it is reasonable to conclude 
that the bulb will not flower that season ; and 
plant should be liberally watered and grown-on 
the leaves again wither, when, if kept dry, as 
before- mentioned, it Miran in all probability, re 
the cultivator with its gorgeous display of bloom. 
The present season мы уз, und been а favourable 
one for Brunsvigia, for we have seen the species — 
notice in flower at K 
Lowe, gardener to Ea i fiac 
at the Royal Hortieultural "Soci iety 
this year, and which w 
— our co ge wem see 
de Aron It is а very 
old “Tobebitent of gardens, and it is recorded 
FLOWERS DEEP RED, (SEE Р. 460) 
чн» ess JOSEPHINE in Holland, and ts flowering 
pesi — of — it was ab in honour 
of her. 
LiNDEN'8 ORCHID SALE AT STEVENS’ ROOMS. 
— On Thursday, October 17, Messrs, Linnen, L'Hor- 
ticulture Internationale, Parc Leopold, Brussels, 
commenced нер series of eun Sales 0 2 to 
be held at s' King 
Street, Covent биб апа * in splendid 
qu uality of the plants sent was worthy of the 
— ды таз e fair 
8 
Boon aid of the numerous 
— held ы r^s auctioneer à fairly 
— actory "e. irren 
n demand s to be 
The principal things 
some — — 
catalogued е rre kan amd eiie ich wer 
evidently the C. Warscewiczii — авд 
which no ed came plant оша ы desired. Good 
healthy specimens of the » 5 named | ip 
of 
Lelia purpurata which 
m, and eq 
and the singular and pretty Zjgopetalum Joris- 
ianum found favour with the purchasers, if we may 
y the good prices at which they were knocked 
rs, Lin in 
really first-class plants as on this occasion, the 
success of the venture should be atsured, 
NEWCASTLE AND DiSTRICT HORTICULTURAL 
MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT Society.—The meis 
gate 
Јонх Buttock 
taking the chair. 
exotic Ferns, in ad 
Larze, Northdene, G 
Chrysanthemums, An excell 
man, in which he rec 2 d cuttings чата іп 
the spring for making the strongest and healthiest 
plants. Ап Ha озі Moi h in gm 
MARKET НЕРОНТӘ.—1 is яо exceedingly rare to 
receive a letter like the subj »ined, and so exceedingly 
arden. К. GILBERT, * niin Octo 8 
We must repeat that the prices quoted are 
exceptional ones, but averages for the week. 
COMPLIMENTARY DINNER AND Ыза, 
TION.—On the occasion of Mr. Crırre leaving 
Shoreham — to take charge of pun — 
gardens, Tatto k, Cheshire, a few friends enter- 
tained him at ai inner at the George e peat 
on the evening of Friday. ола Мг. Си 
was afterwards — wit e dim moe. 
clock with inscription, as a — of esteem 
SENTA- 
THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM.—By an arrange- 
ment recently concluded between the President and 
IH 
Fellows o ard College and the city of Boston, 
important additions have been m arden 
and Fo о the Arnold Arboretum, Th 
include two parcels of land with an area of about 
20 e boundaries of the original 
retum, but reserved by the c city for its own 
uses when it was established ; зы 22 of land 
with an area of about 3 acres on the north-west 
border of the Arboretum, and beside hr the city 
last year; a piece of land, the property of Harvard 
M south-west of the old Arboretum, with an 
a of 675, acres; this consists of a high, rolling, 
mis 
B 
hill, the second highest land in the city of 
From the summit 
i is 
and under the new arrangement the city of Bosto 
is to con miles of additional roads, 
Among the scientific gardens in the United S:ate 
and Europe, only the Royal Gardens at Kew, with 
an area of 251 acres, exceed the Arnold Arboretum 
in size, and it is probably safe to aay that no other 
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