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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Decemeze 21, 1896, 
Elm is most difficult timber to deal with, it vary- 
orsale. We ek peni not 
шера 
and to the СИРА unless indeed, 
under very peculiar circumstan 
‘We would strongly urge on intending planters ^. 
necessity for growing the Ash in quantity, and an 
dampish we suits it admirably. 
Beech, if grown on chalky or gravelly soils, finds a 
ready market at from 10d. to 1s. per foot, that off the 
Chiltern hills per chalky 5 of Herts 3 quickly 
picked up, even at a trifle over 134, pe 
“Maiden” Willow cannot үн 
and the demand for cricket- wed 
increase with the Grace memori 
Birch, Alder, Poplar, and amps of & like kind 
vary & good deal in value, and around some of the 
Welsh towns for clog-sole making from 84, to 10d, 
is seldom refus 
Much an the home-grown timber is of — inferior 
quality, which fact tends directly to keep dow 
prices; but, indeed, 16 can hardly b widened that 
the output of woods and plantations that are culti- 
vated mainly for game rearing, shelter, and orna- 
ment can be either sufficiently clean or straight to 
fetch anything like a remunerative price. 4, D. 
Webster. 
got for love à or ET 
will be s 
Book K NOTICE 
ona or Nonm AMERICA, 
object а late Asa Gray was the 
accomplishment of & КЕ Fiora of the Uaited 
os _ SYNOPTICAL FLORA LORA OF 
Five or six editions of a Manual flora of the northern 
also passed through the ie Ia 1878 
re a volume of the Synoptical Flora of North 
4 another similar volume. The 
тунт" of these instalments showed clearly that 
the task was agens the powers of one man, even 
that m ray. The States them - 
selves multiplied, Fates. became increasingly 
numerous, and their riae proporti ly ex- 
‘tensive and varied, And s 
great and good man who is venerated in this country 
as he was at home, died when only a fr. ragment of his 
fter 
е work was done, Now, three уе 
death, comes another portion ‘of the work (to be 
v of Wesley & Son, 28, Essex Street, Strand). 
It has com the notes left by Dr. 
Gray, and by his successor, Dr. Sereno Watson, aleo 
has been continued by the 
men with — 
wich the КАМАНЫ prese nts the same admira 
lucidity, terseness, and excellence. of — o 
chat characterised the portions produced by Dr, 
Gray, It is a source of satiafaction aleo to find that 
in matters of nomenclature 
: prematureiy into grow 
WEST INDIES. 
PARTIALITY OF CATS TO THE AVOCADO 
AR. 
т may be 3 to place on record my 
experience in Grenada, во far as concerns the 
fondness cats have for the fruit of the Avocado 
was puzzled one de 
о give two kittens which had just 
previously been presented to me, when it was 
ne of my men that a piece of Pear 
ould be relished by them. This suggestion I 
ith some emount of reservation, but it 
was not long before I sav myself that the Avocado 
Pear was eaten up by them as а dainty morsel, 
Since pe occasion, I н seen the same two kittens, 
when m sag Pear have been placed before them 
at the е time, to leave the former and eat the 
Pear Чонай, This 
rather antagonistic to vegetarianism. 
— ve known at home, that Avocado Pears 
Кай, r 
W. Z. Broadway, — Garden, Grenada, B. W. I. 
THE WEEk’s WORK. 
THE ORCHID HOUSES. 
By W. Н. WHITE, Orchid Grower, Burford, Dorking. 
NDROBIUMS.— For flowering during the late 
the shag Il 
aho 
When the Aser tu have reached fal 
x 
Ainsworthii x, D. Domini- 
splendidissimem NS 
D. itai e acing x 
ano X, 
wth 
show, may be brought from the cool resting-house 
intermediate- house 
till the flower-buds are well advanced, after which 
remove them to the lightest аын position in the 
East Indian-house, From the present time, and till 
tity tok — pseudo-bulbs plump, and induce the 
slow advance o eiche buds, The species D pi- 
datum, D. D. primulinum, D. Boxalli, 
D. trans „ D. lituidorum, D. P i, &c., still 
reat, sho be ы at rest till the flower- 
buds show, when m war d be, afford 
ре. р. ebrysanthom is a free- fowering handsome 
Кай yellow blossoms. As ce 8 just aoa 4 into 
th, the rooting material, if it has bee nt 
"ue Agr tdt — — out Fern * 
with fresh. s ifbuog up near the roof in the 
East In 8 А та till the young roots have а 
fim hold s e compost, water sho 5 be T 
„or the new growths may dam 
When the plant ia is M active gromh, теза ыр сай 
th t b e di sep the 
ossimum, D. tauri- 
D. aro rent D.A 
others | are growing in 
armest house, = water them liberally till the 
— эрир is quite mature 
in some o 
CATTLEYAS. ANON t those which flower late i in 
the spring and ea шег, C. labiata Warneri ів 
one of the handsome, “aad à any A now starting 
to grow should b: np, or elevated on inverted 
pots во as to be brought cioze to the r 
warmer end of the —— affording 
them water in sufficient quantity to fairly moisten 
is fully completed. 
them in the intermediate. hou 
with a moist air, an 
three times & wee 
ome lumps of peat and spbagnum-moss may be 
— the croc 
the Cattleya-house, pnp е pr 
treatment, they will soon become 8 and 
sometimes make stronger gro in one season than 
plants which have been in the e atm hy pmi 
THE KITCHEN GARDEN 
By Јовх LAMBERT Gardener, Powis Castle, Welshpool. 
HORSERADISH.— Preparations for planting а bed 
of — may now be — dif the demand is 
ould be planted every 
arge and м к, a bed аһ 
year. Horseradish is one of. the m 
garden dope jo usually left to take care of itself 
out-of-the-w ig corner of the kitchen b ries 
A piece of 88 uld be selected su 
е demand, = trenched 
rich manure being la 
f manure worked into the upper two 
5 is important t 
hould be the richest, therefore the Mi e 55 св 
should always be placed at the bot 
pi ugh ns "aie 79-е 
the best method of planting Horseradish. 
CARROTS AND TURNIPS.— Where early crops of 
these — are required, pits should be filled with 
fermenting e ys similar to those suitable for 
Potato, г the Carrots, however, should 
receive more nr than t 5 used for 
ured by insects. 
st 
barred earth. = ahou 
through a ы screen or siev 
arah surface of Bo 
frame or pile when 
nished off ready for the seed 
being sown, When it has beccme viue p 
seeds in rows 9 inches 
varieties for fram e work are Parisian, Siren ci, and 
d Early Nantes 
Carro:'z. х ап Tarnip isa g 
variety for frame use, but it is no earlier than the 
old flat Datch, 
e, by 
sowing one-third of the area at А Mus and not letting 
manner of A dues 
een t le 
about a quarter o 
with & ptece Ы ке: E 0 
patting it ev with a bright spade. 
Јасер а Mor atys is one of the best for 
early work. 
а perasan of the. weather - 
ow канде ый of late, 
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