Остовев 26 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CRRONICLE. 
A 
en 
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онар Mr. — — -" of manure to 
twenty-five il, mixed at once, with top- 
dressings oes of м, ог — like 50,000 to 
d. per acre, not mix the ingredients 
together before using them, € were simply weighed 
wn eap of soil, and at 
but the latter ча нт =н hold fast a much larger 
puen So r per cent, of nitrogen 
es that ба in — soil, and in the one- 
fifth of good half-rotted stable-manure; and — 
po the amount of nitrogen in — ^ be 10 to 1 
Я ton, every vator n 
that good soil, with an addition età one part s stable- 
manure to four parts of soil is поб lacking i in row 
fact, 
many Chrysanthemum growers à po vet 
with this alone. And yet I 
— as Mr. — in "e — * 
or ety r lacking in nitrogen, as notwith- 
3 ing the good supply of — at hand, "з 
planta were — for lack of it, because they a 
able to pgp й е in the form of nitric acid, 
and not as not even the sulphate of 
mmonia (n Ag persa c) could be transformed into 
nitric acid. Otherwise this = be quickly done 
by Chrysanthemum anta orded sulphate 
ammonia, and “шм a in same result as Mr. 
yke gets from monia, e 
appearance of very — е кы in a few days. 
Here comes the only difference of any —— 
— ** n of Mr. Dyke's manure and min 
fforded nitrates, aud I ammonia (or ane 
1 substances), and his plants — 
their nitrogen from the nitrates, and t 
the soil, But it is quite impossible for — 
We wan 
a concentrated, effective, but above all, harmless 
supplementary manure—and kainite, at all events, 
is not such а one, The price of an article is also of 
вота and it s be 
conseq 
quantity and not іп а small way at a high price 
at the druggists. 
I cannot see the force of Mr. Dyke’s remarks about 
the arii te of chlorine, sulphuric acid, an 
lime, when he himself uses the same substances 1 ina 
much — proportion to soil than I do, and with 
6 (or 25) parts of soil is very 
interesting. M. P. Andersen, Jönköping. 
— = MOL HOME. 
tinued from p. 423.) 
CaTTLEYAS n ttleyas are found at from 2000 
to 3 5000 feet above sea-level, almost Daraan 
in the fi orks o 
e branches. They als ways trv, asit were, to establish 
found in all exposures, This is easily expl 
eg 
e are two rainy and two dry 
seasons in the year, while even during the dry seasons 
t is MOS an н occurrence to have a shower 
of rain and th 
en, 
ih н Cattleya Trianei ке found in flower 
almost the year — yet there are two 175 
ower seasons, December to Ji ris and Msy 
June, the latter belg the chief, A numberof fed 
would have four and five flower: wering leads already fully 
up, with another half- break at its base, while 
very often а third would be starting. Such breaks 
. generally very small, 
trees and 
always seemed to grow -— get in — less time 
than the mother bulb, i ‚аз it were, in one 
united sort display their ням ne 
GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE 
Ths Republic of Colombia is very rich in sri 
in 
territory. The greatest sedha of s 
is probably to be found on the eastern foothills of — 
central Cordillera, е is я continuation of the 
Peruvian and Equadorian Andes; but upon entering 
8 they weg р into three distinct chains, 
known as the Central Cordillera, the Eaatern Cor- 
alr, and the Western Cordillera, forming between 
Juan,” or the 
territory is drained principally by th 
the Orinoco 8 great stretches of Which are as 
yet unexplor 
ne e State E Tolima may * considered аз the 
me of Cattleya Triansi. s the — 
It follow 
fool of n Central Cordillera Age abou 
nd degree to about the fifth degree —— 
itive, and at its southern limit it is distributed 
over all the three chains. This latter region ie also 
the cnn of Odontoglossum а m Lshma 
a gigas takes the place of Cattleya Teiaumi 
ide — where it extends between the 
sixth and the eighth degree northern latitude on 
e cade — and — erga она territory 
nally rich in useful such as 
Cats — prac ең Miltonia Hiec mg m" 
glossum luteo-purpureum, О. sceptrum, О. 
—— O. Wallisii, and O. Harryanum; aleo . 
pene. Schlimii, Maxillaria — — 
fimbriatum, an asdevallias riety, 
pa however, may be considered as she — 
district for the latter. 
I found Miltonia * ав ee as 2000 feet 
above sea-level, and a as 6000 to 7000 feet, 
but at the first. чө i sadi ome . en were 
js generally aromas on smaller 
Odontoglossum бы is found at а very high 
— often growing on th r in mass, 
where it rambles for yard зо it finds a tree tuited 
for its iiw ense . The magnificence of the flower- 
spikes surpasses парин, A 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM. 
Oa the Eastern iita Odontoglossum 1 is 
found, principally between the fou 
ee northern latitude at an resend of chier to 
The best plante and the beat varieties, 
— occur at and 7,000 feet elevation, 
where they grow in oceasiona al openings of the forests 
on the cud and branches of large trees, and where 
there is an abundance of light. Ia company with 
О erispum grow O. Lindleyanum and О. gloriosum, 
thward, o т in the state of Santander, 
the eastern foothills 
ed 
o 
Chocoensis ia found, Unlike its allies, it grow 
a great ipse in a on level land, atretches of 
which are unhealthy. This Cattleya is 
very a АЯ іп rain A апа grows invariably 
on trees. The flow season is August and 
барыа, In this, P 
Odontoglossum - i groriag in & MM 
high temperature. 
e, pt 1s енна. 
е New унта Pa are rapidly 
Pisas er in quan chrysotoxa is vey 
near extinc on, Miltonia — is going fast, аб 
are alsoC em Mendeli and Odon 
es which many of 
сч landowners veh ahne the respective governments 
net the total destruction 
And can you blame 
ng 
oft their most beantifal ат 
lecture by John Е, Lager, reported in 
them ? From ure 
American ning. 
FORESTRY, 
—— o 
INSECT ENEMIES TO TREES, 
Tue best authorities assert that high cultivation 
and the proper rotation of crops is the moat —— 
country is concerned, it ma 0 
tended that the men bera; by few, if any, insect 
attacks to which our crops are liable, equal the 
injury caused by a У werd s frost in May or June, 
or & severe hailstorm late the season, "This 
probably the reason үн бөйөн = — pay 
во little мар ани о eg 
forcing- — моч леи — саз 
be adopted with а prospects of success, doubtless 
thinking it pe to strain es the gnat when they 
have evi swallowed the camel, 
в be generally true M — crops, it is much 
or hen we come — forest trees. In th 
е it must be remembered, d "n 
г trees in D itain are d from many of t 
маа which commit auch serious st upon € 
same kind of trees in continental forests, The Scots 
Pine with us has no very dangerous foe among the 
Lepidoptera, while on the Continent it has at least 
on Faith the 
country, it has evidently done less per 
to Pine trees быч) small plantations a мг isolate 
clumps) than its habits would lead o infer. The 
Pine-weevil ie principally confined 2 p northern 
parts of the kingdom, and from its size and habit of 
attacking small and newly-planted trees, ia brought 
into more prominent notice than would otherwise be 
the case, The Pine saw-fly again, altho occa- 
pone d assuming a dangerous өрө; gives little 
trouble as a rule. 
ноен to deciduous trees, where have we а pest 
which gives us any real cause for alarm? The Oak- 
leaf a our Oaks to 
winter dareness in dry эте blighty springs, but the 
midsummer shoots put m right in the course of 
a few weeks, and the (деше seem but little the worse. 
Many ineeets, рейку beetles, doubtless get 
name from their well-known babit of attacking old 
and half-dead trees, and thus hastening their natural 
decay; but in ея ар merely act as Nature’s scaven- 
gers, As f fact, an attack by any of the 
bark- beetles чей а tree, or part of a tree which atill 
t abandoned galleries may be noticed in trees 
эы are practically dead, bat in which life still 
lingers in one or two branches, 
For our comparative immunity from successive and 
to thank their — parasites and enemies. Where 
human beings are at all crow together, there 
epidemic diseases occur; and the ineects would seem 
o be affected in like manner, for a year in which a 
; of — creatures appears is oſten 
followed by one in which they are comparatively 
rare, Bacteria and other erien of parasitic fungi 
8 pie а > grent part in then 
of tb ifie creatures, 
oar trees a 
bout 5000 
9 17 t may easily be imagined 
what "nid happen if this went on unchecked fora 
some- 
the course of a summer, 80 
As an instance of this, it may be mentioned that 
the attendance at several Ger 
the Balti 
swarm 
Pine wood 
long and poisonous hairs, which, at the ъди 
