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JUBJEA 8 
HE Coq uito Nat or Wine Palm dre is one of 
has 
а very stout stem which 
40 to 60 ft., and bears a large spreading head of pin- 
pe n - The frui t is borne in rur racemes 
that fruit Ts 89, p. 516) contains a single seed 
which is nearly round, has a hard brown bony shell, 
and the albumen is white, — than in the Cocoa- 
sweet to the taste. The stems contain a 
large quantity of saccharine juice, which, hen 
boiled, bec а sor le, and is much 
about nint gallons of this sap, to obtain which 
the are felled, the leaves lopped off, and the 
extirpated from мү through the wholesale felling 
alm-honey. 
untry 
round Valparaiso, he having —— several 14 
-thousand trees on one estate alone. The late Mr. John 
Ball was there in 1882, and although he devotes a 
‚опе of 
paraiso, shee is a valley full o 
. 5 ubsea spectabilis, which used to cover the country 
a hu ndred trees 
remain. They are mis-shape 
quite i in character with the rocky — t they gro 
in e ierit of a Н 
ife). 
ing to Siemann, the Jubæa is cultivated in 
Colombia and other parts of South America. The 
someti imported into this country, and 
nown commercially as Monkey's Cocoanuts. 
s, bu t I know of no other use 
в a large healthy specimen of this Palm in 
5 һе bee ne hee at Kew. It has a trunk 81 feet 
in circumference at vend baso, and 7 feet at a ашеайде 
of 5 feet from the grou It bears a grand head of 
‘feather-like leaves, sch 17 feet long and 4} feet 
inl n n thing, as 
Фо garden at Lisbon, which was published іп 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle in 1882 (and which we now 
reproduce x 90, p. 517). En]. At that time the 
13} feet in circumference, In 1886, this 
-was then a ° 
16 feet high, 14 feet circumference at the 
base. The flow ere pr in January, and 
the fruits ripened the following August. I beli 
this is the only recorded instance of this 
gardens 
garden at 
in 
ae cats, Set it shriving in the 
on the Riviera, a amataire Mon. Кай 
aving a e ee Mg 
n as M. deer kady a pir 
cant the fruit figared, is 16 feet h d the auth 
of the trank at a yard high is more vpi 12 feet, 
ars : 
in the garden 
t Fota, near Cork, which 
requires only slight protection in winter, A plant 
d i e Bamboo Garden at Kew (iq saad 
ago, but it саней to th 
e fi 
EA W. Wu Ken, rst severe frost. 
NC )TES FROM n 
‘BOTANIC GARD GARD. 
Ba R coo. fine 
of this plant at one e end of tie К. 
October. Toese A * ee > 
cultivation, and this Montevidean species especially 
THE GARDENERS’ 
When Darwin 
P ye of 
ered and ripened fruits, It 
trunk r 
would furnish some valuable material for cutting at 
this season of the year, for though most o f the Arrow- 
m 
and are & at home 
well in loamy soil in pots if freely supplied with 
water. The Arrow-heads are almost equally мут” 
several North 
ri^ species, S. EM 
ontevidensis, all of which thrive almost as well 
in (dii greenhouse as the stove. Though I have it 
covered with its striking white panicles of bloom 
throughout the winter, the plants will 8 7 as they 
have at Cambridge, the stimulus of t stove. 
When water- pint and semi-aquatics ey more in 
demand in our gardens, as well as in vases and 
glasses in our home 
grown, alike for their foliage and flowers. Mr. 
Lynch deserves hearty thanks for his strong and 
persistent lead in this directio: 
ARISTOL^CHIA GIGAS STURTEVANTI. 
I do not remember to have seen this particular 
variety of the giant Datchman’s Pipe before. The 
magnificent ые in full bloom at the time of my 
visit must have been 15 inches long and 9 inches 
broad, with a sii tail eges 2 feet long in addi- 
Such n to be appreciated, 
forthey are so extraordinary as to pass the bounds 
of a axe еен: They suggest, on first sight, 
an enormou lia or a star-fish suspended by 
а stem, and embellished by a tail alike so small as to 
be out of all proportion to the apparently massive 
solidity, unique colouring and no and extra- 
ordinary forms of the flowers. This plant seems 
just at home on & viridi in one of the бу new plant- 
stoves recently e—one of the handsome 
groups of glass so N we linked together by the 
magnificent corridor into which the whole of the 
The plant is blooming with great 
profusion, and is in the most robust health, ояд. 
Mr. Lynch says, many of the blooms drop off during 
different stages of their development, a result surely 
not to be wondered at as we reflect how much raw 
material and vital force must be expended in the 
formation and finishing of one of these с 
lossoms. I have seen some ^ üben ples of A. 
gigas ч other species in seve ic gardens, 
ut never one of such gigantic — before; 
and ines of the curious in horticulture could 
hardly do "ee than secure and grow this splendid 
ari s grown апа bloomed at Cambridge in 
the highest Per on the lower side of a * — 
means long rafter; and though it is look pon 
asa oes bloomer, the plant was s thick studded 
with buds and blooms in all stages of development 
in the middle of last month. 1). Т. 7 
zZ 
о 
LI 
HARDY FRUITS AT ee oa 
CASTLE GARDEN 
Havine an opportunity mi in i month of 
calling upon the head-garden 
noticed 
1 spur; the variety would pay 
well to be highly cultivated, as it is one of the best- 
lenheim Orange Pippin, 
grown u 1 
colour. f the Pippins, Sturmer Pippin, Lord 
Saffield, Cellini Pippin, and IE Castle, were 
good. Golden Noble and Lord Derby also good; 
as was Warner's ing or as iles named D. T. Fish. 
These trees, as well as a few others, were bearing 
CHRONICLE. 
more Arrow-heads will be | 
[Novemper 2, 1895, 
excellent 7 of fruit. The trees are 1 
form 8 
en on, Tien 
found to be very satisfactory, growing 
and west walls, and horizontally trained:—Jarg 
nelle (the crop had been gathered), William Bon 
Chrétien, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Marie Louise 
(both of these had splendid fruits upon them, clean 
and handsome), Pitmaston Duchess (the largest Pears 
in the garden, but only a few fruits), Beurré Superfin, 
Beurré Diel, Winter Nelis (splendid fruit and crop), 
Beurré Rance and Glou Morceau were good int size and 
The Apricots, Peaches, ai 
south walls were in e 
been 
for hardy fruit culture, 
been planted of late years between the old ones; the 
latter taken were as the space was required by the 
young ones, se promised well for the future, 
The following mers will be found suitable for 
80 
nd 
Walburton Admir 
Lord Napier, Pitmaston 
PI Apricots: Breda, Hemekirk, and Moor 
ark. 
m he ordinary varieties of Plams I found doing 
well, as also Damsons. 
was given to the wall trees last spring 
own on open walls when good cultivation is 
past that front protection to 
when in blossom is often & hindrance rather than. a 
help to fruitfulness, 
ing a b the top of the wall, 11 inches 
wide, in the spring months, removing it early in 
Jane, In this way I was enabled to get crops of 
is not suited to the 
open walls; such my opinion, в fallacy. 
To be successful, however, there is need for care 
in the selection of varieties, planting the tret 
operly, in the au „care in pruning 
the spring, and of keeping the summer shoots ye 
from insects — th im 
most > 
in the cultivation, эчу thinning of the — б 
stoning ~~ 
ree 
fruit can 
ав proved this year in a few di 
F. R. H. S., in “ Shrewsbury Chronicle.” 
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ORCHID NOTES AND G LEANINGS 
Eo I 
ORCHIDS AT ROSSLXN, STAMFORD Hi вш, 
Tuar few plants cultivated in the neigh! = i 
of London thrive so satisfactorily a8 Orchi 
in one of the houses, it has 
until at the present time, several im 
Orange, Feen € j 
Ilearnt that pd dicem 
against frosts, 
aer testifying that wall fruit, however choice, 
may b 
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