January 8, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
48 
alpine plants. Mr. Ware has, during the past year, 
received certificates for a few good things ; and in his 
Primula capitata major and P. Reidi, F. Wilson, 
Esq., ridge, introduces to 
e fi 
other desirable 
proved plants was setintactocily done in 1886. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, 
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HERBACEOUS CALCEOLARIAS. 
Tue earliest batch of these will require more 
eadily growing. No place suits 
them better than shallow, cold pits, where the sur- 
roundings are always moist, and the temperature 
steady at about 45°, 
PRIMULAS. 
Plants for late blooming should at once receive 
a 
ever water is н to Primulas 
1 ould be taken not to wet basin ntre part, as it 
E is ый to cause canker and decay 
CINERARIAS. 
$ Those which were potted early will now be coming 
E _ into bloom; if any are 
the plants are thrown prema-‏ ا 
_tarely into flower‏ 1 
PELARGONIUMS 
| TM have been tied out should now be examined, 
: | taking out weakly shoots, and stopping and regulat- 
^ for 
about six weeks, careful wa и must therefore be 
. practised until the days lengthen 
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ANEMONES AND RANUNCULUSES. 
Аз regards our collection of named varieties of the 
- Anemone, they have been planted out where they 
_ are to flower. is was done early in Decem 
Epon the quality af the ail 1 
Fantaisie a 
T planted P^ 
four years ago a collection of fifty of the best varie- 
ties in heavy loam, and although the ground was well 
. drained many died, and the others were poor. Now 
they are planted in much lighter loam, and the 
planting is done in this way :— А drill is drawn as for 
Peas, and the tubers are set out 3 or 4 inches apart ; 
when this is done the drill is filled up with a compost 
of loam, leaf-mould, and sand in equal proportions. 
The bed in which they are to be planted should be 
deeply trenched and well enriched with decayed stable 
anure, Ranunculus roots are not planted until the 
middle of February or later; but in order that they 
may have a chance to do жей. it is very desirable that 
18 inches or 2 feet and filling it up with turfy loam 
ought to give sarong results, but we have no time 
to s However, we do 
When the 
t arrives, we are sure to find it wet, pro- 
bably frozen—if the latter, wait for а thaw. If it is 
erely wet, and there is a supply of fine dry peat 
available, or the siftings from the Orchid-houses, 
3 inches of this spread on the surface and worked 
in with a fork will make it in capital condition to 
receive the tube Peat is suitable for the growth 
of Ranunculuses, and is a good medium in which to 
place the tubers, the fibres going Созуп into the rich 
loam and manure beneath. J, Douglas. 
Wuar ts A Picorke? 
Having recently found the word “ Picotee” in a 
standard work spelt with two c's, I tried to discover 
its derivation as well as its definition. In Robin- 
son's English Flower Garden we are simply told that 
it is “from the French piquoté," but I can find no 
such word referred to a flower in any French Lexi- 
con, the other hand, Vilmorin (Les Fleurs de 
pleine terre, ей. iii., p. 763) calls picotés “ Billets de 
nd blanc, ou CKillets Anglais." Two 
Dictionaries on gardening state that Picotees have а 
white ground spotted with red. І can find no nearer 
or more probable derivation than the French picoté, 
* marked with the small-pox." "This is hardly com- 
plimentary to the flower. Can any опе suggest a 
better orga t C. Arig Dod, Edge Hall, 
MESSRS. CURTIS, SANDFORD 
& COS ROSERY, TORQUAY. 
Oxe of the most bees Joe in the 
development of the n fries, + of е is 
the extension of the isis f the ба Rose 
Twenty-five years ago Mr. Henry Curtis ая оп 
lease for Rose growing from Mr. 
C. Н. Mallock. The commencement was an unpre- 
tentious one, for only one small greenhouse was put 
u the present time there are 25 acres in 
cultivation, and about twenty hothouses, gree 
pits, &c., having in all a total length of more than 
1000 feet ; some of these are lofty span-roof struc- 
tures of an ornamental character. For many vears 
the special feature of the firm was the cultiva- 
tion of the Rose, in which, from his large at 
authority. 
attention to other Iture and 
floriculture, and although Rose- in ng is still a 
i and well- 
dini dod and packing room. Оп the upper floors 
re the private office and three large store-rooms, 
ed with var- 
d d t is alto кобейе a substantial 
building, and indicates no little enterprise on the 
part of the firm. 
AMATEURS' NOTES. 
LJELIA ANCEPS HILLIANA. 
In reply to “ An Amateur's" note on this plant 
upon p. 11 of January 1, 1887, I can inform him that 
my plant is “ fragrant,” but has not a strong perfume 
equal to scenting the house like some L. autumnalis, 
is bid sweet al It may also interest him 
0 know its origin ; it c Sander's РТТ 
of rond 1881, sold не Stevens’ Room 
Tue New VARIETIES OF WHITE LÆLIA ANCEPS. 
L. a. virginalis seems to be equal to L. a. alba 
and the distinction on paper seems but small. It 
would be interesting to know if “ Amateur” flowered 
it out of the great importations of 1885 and 
1886. These new white anceps have still refused to 
bloom with us, though they improve in size of bulb, 
and leaf and root, and really some are now nearly 
as large as their imported bulbs. We grew them in 
the Cattleya-house, which is a curvilinear span run- 
ning east and west, exposed to full south sun (but in 
shade, with only one thickness of “ cotton shading "), 
and their quarters are on the north side stage, stand- 
ing on inverted pots on a shingle en on which 
Panicum and Tradescantia grow. tried some in 
baskets and one on cork: these have hir that that 
is not the way to grow them. Our potted plants are 
best. Some we tried in the cool house have done 
well (as also the typical L. anceps now blooming 
there), but they were poor bits to start with, hence a 
fair comparison cannot be made, 
OpoxTocLossvw HYBRID (Rossi?) 
- d pei rer ren this, which rather puzzles me. 
h 
srsum, the lip is pure white, very bluntly cordate ; 
and here comes the anomaly—the crest is as white as 
Ehrenbergii rubescens, which I have in 
bloom; it seems to me to be a white segmental 
adspermum having a white crest. It came from the 
importations of John Cowan (Limited), so those Who 
have plants should look forward to 
things. My plant has some sixty bulbs and ten 
s, so doubtless it has left a '* family " 
De B. Crawshay 
EsTADLISHING CATTLEYAS IMPORTED IN THE AUTUMN 
SEASON. 
The wonderful and perfect condition of the recent 
plants of С. Lawrenceana imported by Mr. Maw, and 
leaves as green, and prominent 
quiescent, as if growing in their native habitat 
Roraima, and t blic showed its full a 
of their excellent condition by buying them liberally. 
But, alas! there is one the calculation — 
which neither skilfal collection, careful packing, nor 
can eliminate—our 
satanis эы, and the bro dreary mouths for all 
vegetation yet to ' come. Nature will not be ignored ; 
for her ways 
which, debere or not, we must must concede. 
beautiful leaves are all falling, first shrivel- 
р 
instead of the attractive foli- 
1 eg with them, and this ardens, i r 
be taken. A genial, growing atmosphere 
odi at night to 65? by day, plants potted is 
