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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[ребемвев 14, 1895, 2 
of Lycaste Skinneri alba throwing up its flowers 
appeared in ч eh condition, Masdevallia tova- 
à bilia dár ^ 
almost perpetually in flower. 
of Odontoglossum coronarium, sometimes called O. 
brevifolium, was freely covering а large raft nearly 
3 feet long by 2 feet wide, This plant has not 
d plan dwardi, carrying an enormous 
branched spike; several Oacidiums, Cypripediums, 
and others were in bloom, and the houses presented 
an interesting appearance, H. 
BANANAS AT HAMPTON. 
E are few nobler leaf plants of a tropical 
fine effect out- doors positions, than are 
M ? all vegetation, these plants give some 
of the most luxuriant and the most rapid growth. 
decorative objects of vegetable production. It is 
not usually the case that products of this description 
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rule, and there is a most admirable illustration of 
this fact to be now seen in a house attached to the 
mpton Court, 
the place, there is no 
doubt; but much of it is devoted to Peach 
cota, Vine na to 
rather too much so to be 
pleasant, when the river is exceptionally high. 
Last winter when the great Thames floods pre- 
vailed, the higher portion of the grounds 
aped d en and the lower parts from 
to 8f n water, which poured through = 
gardena y round the houses in the m 
cau si of a 
young wood died, is а point which may be left for 
* to decide. It will not be a 
matter for surprise, as was mentioned shortly us 
п these pages, to learn that this flood having risen 
to a height of 4 feet in the house devoted to Bananas 
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e a week or two after the flood had abated. The gar- 
another good start made, The result may be seen 
to-day by anyone interested in Banana culture f 
prodaction, who may care to look in at River 
House. se devoted to these plants is an 
erect span, 21 feet by 16 feet, and is some 11 feet in 
height. "There 
there is some 9 ыа of rubble for drainage, - 
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materially reducing the soil area. 
laid firs ugh pieces of turf, and then — 
compost. This is a material of very innocent 
nature, being chiefly old pot-soil from Chrysanthe- 
mums, &c., with which is mixed a moderate 
quantity of old hot-bed manure, and rather more of 
turf edgings or trimmings. о: the atereotyped turfy 
Nearly filled 
the point of their florescence, fully 5 feet long, but the 
actual length of the fruit cluster is 3 feet. The 
fruits will commence 15 ripen in Februa acy, and 
those now set wil! occupy some two months before 
they are all ripe. The present average temperature 
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higher, There 
ammoniacal s tha ffensive 
plant and fruit- houses. 2 tificial manure of any 
sort is employed; the only e of feeding 
otherwise than the soil and plenty of water fur- 
nish is found in occasional waterings with the 
contents of a cesspool. The plants now run to about 
10 feet to the top of the leafage, which is of very 
noble character, and reaches 6 feet in length, and of 
proportional width. The stems of the plants close 
the ground are generally 3 feet in e 
The variety is Masa Cavendishii. Could Mr. Last 
but exhibit one or two clusters of these nef каш. 
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paid to such solandid culture as 
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duced, and the surroundings, without renting: that 
Banana calture is at Hampton of the most meritorious 
nature. А. D. 
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Снв THEMUM Sacks LYHURST, DaRLINGTON. 
—The polation of балласан at Hollyharst, 
the residence of W. H аны pe NEN not large, 
is extremely well and reflects credit on Mr. 
Coultas, the vil ы киге) дует of the ен їп 
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considering ths number of men employed, show that 
the old school of gardeners can give some of the 
younger ones W. 
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I would ask, cannot the National Chrysanthemum 
22 make a limit as to the height of flowers 
own of Japanese varieties, at their own and 
Ed socisty's shows? There is nothing which 
mars the look of the tables more, than to see one 
ahow-board of cut blooms propped up (as if they 
k pipes) about 18 inches high, апа оп 
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| the use of kavisi show- 
boards 3 inches high in the front, and 6 inches at 
the back, if such cups and tubes are allowed to be 
етеде проп them. If the flowers were staged of an 
ight, the tables would Aui в more satis- 
T icut. һап that pre at 
present, There is generally a "gm limit pr pro- 
vincial shows as regards the Pom mpons, and it is 
usually that they are no! to exceed 6 to 9 inches; 
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National ыен Society, viz., to growers of 50 to 100 
plants, 100 to 300, and from 300 to 500. M. E, Mills, 
The 8 Coombe House, Croydon. 
FOREIGN GORRESPONDENGE, 
A Aare FROG. 
eading of a tropical frog at Kew 
(Candee Oren November 30, 1895) I read with 
uch i t а note on that sort of frog. I had 
ibus srentares myself for many years in one of the 
houses under Herbault-en- B:auce, 
hay na received them from Gaadaloupe, 
where they are said to be very abundant; but h 
hot- houses, for as often as they 
were taken into other houses, they lived only a few 
ths 
The h house in which I had kept them for ten years 
was а large lean-to, the back wall of which was 
nearly covered with blocks of hard wood, covered 
with the bark, split in large pieces, and nailed to 
the wall. Ол these blocks a fine vegetation of Ferns, 
Bromeliads, and Aroids, grew, and it was among 
those plants that the frogs used to harbour, and 
especially. down ia the hearts of tall-growing Bilber- 
ay; but in y os 
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but I learnt to catch them in the daytime by etter 
them down in the hearts of B.ibergias, when they 
would jump on to the walks oí the houses, and thus 
render 16 possible for one to catch them. This 
speci i ifficult to acclimatiz 
have no opportunity of obtaining any more of them 
from Gaadaloupe, and it was only when reading the 
account of the frogs at Kaw ia the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle that I remembered having had the sama 
kind. Ch Maron, Orchil Бев at La Cavulie e, 
St. Barsabt. Marseilles, Franc 
PRICES OF GARDEN MANURES. 
In ws days when gardeners for on own мл well 
for t employers’ sake, - о eir 
E on within reasonab bounda, EA think. ч ia 
time to say something sont the price of those arti- 
ficial manures which are now so commonly used, but 
the use of which ia anal by tha unreasonable 
anded by som 
men connected with the trade. Live and let 
live" appears to a maxim unknown fo s 
For example, there is now quite & number o 
different vendors of Vine and plant manures, all 
of or about the same quality and actual value, 
according бо analysis and the testimony of nM 
of repute, but which vary in price to the extent of 
from 30 to 50 per cent. or thereabouts—this Gus. 
I am e informed being divided between the 
manufactu and the middleman. - thoroughly 
е kuowa. ко чет not long since asserted in 
northern agricultural ee e ад "that if gar- 
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