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THE GARDENERS? 
appearance, much more easily — by the 
practised eye than described b ed en the most facile 
pen—it will be nece ssary to give more air. But every 
change in treatment must E initiated жий caution 
and in a gradual way, so as to be almost impercep- 
tible to the subjects, 
The euttings may be induced by too 
much warmth to make growth before there are any 
roots formed—an undesirable evidence of progress 
at the wrong end, which will probably dry up 
put an end to any chance of roots 
Equable coolness of tempera- 
ture is the best, the only iré of such a con- 
tingency as this 
There ikoni be no haste in the desire to pot off 
after rooting has become assured. Let the plants be 
thoroughly etin and make their first growth 
in the cutting pot. may be desirable to let them 
stand 
left over to the mre spring. Small pots— 
thimbles—should be use 
hi adually inure them 
to the treatment required by established plants. W. 5, 
THE HARDY | FRUIT GARDEN. 
In pruning trees, oe the spurs are of great 
length, a few should ntirely removed annually, 
till by degrees all the stra -bearing shoots have been 
reduced 
requirements, and may be cut in much harder than 
those of stronger growth. 
The pruning of Goose and Currants should 
€ be pushed on with in mild weather, but where 
he birds are ссни 
Gooseberries during early spring, it would be 
ursery. 
pruning annually ww thinning out the m 
of the crown, inte 
also receive attention by thinning out some of the 
old hes, shortening tips of the 
8 later when the appear. 
blossoms In 
pruning Morello Cherries, some of the oldest of the 
branches should be removed annually, in order to 
€ good quantity of young bearing w wood: to be 
The training of More llo Cherries should now be 
ork 
sown Ve pone 
eitch’s 
raised in their establishment by Mr. Soden. 
Phaius grandifolius 
fruit and vegetable baskets, and the finer shoots 
come in u 
walls, small twine is the best tying material, taking 
care that the ties will allow for the swelling of the 
branches: especially is this so with Mayduke and 
other dessert varieties. 
The fruit-room should receive attention every 
few days, and all decaying fruit removed. W 
are now using the last of the Marie Louise an 
Knight’ s Monarch Pears; one of the next to succeed 
these is Winter Nelis, fruits of which are now 
ripening. Of Apples in use at the present time for the 
dessert, we have King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange, 
and Blenheim Orange Pippins; and Stirling Castle 
for culinary purposes. Edward Ward, Hewell, Broms- 
grove, 
ORCHID NOTES А) AND GLEANINGS, 
бани Yi VEITCHII x. 
A srRIPED form of Calanthe b eig has been 
ыар! sent us by Messrs, Veitch, who tell us that it 
has also been exhibited at ber y M. aene, 
We e figure one of the flowers (fig. 11) in which the dis- 
tribution of the colour is tolerably symmetrical, one 
Fic. 11.—STRIPED CALANTHE. 
half of each segment being rose-pink, as in Limatodes 
rosea, the other half cream-coloured, as in Calanthe 
colours were very unequally apportioned. It will be re- 
"ose on Calanthe ` Veitchii x isa ты raised 
does, But in the case of such erratic cre 
is no telling what they will do. M. T. M. 
A Хет Borne Hyon 
At the present time there is flowering 
is the issue of by Calanthe 
h on. This “ Phaio- 
Veitchii, ao a einn producti tend gea 
in 
CHRONICLE. 
_ The 
| star, with thick, broad, , white 
` petals, 
45 
nerves. The lateral petals are ascending, some- 
what smaller than the sepals, and recurved at the 
margins. The lip is more like that of a Phaius than 
It exceeds the 
gments in size, and is confluent with the mar- 
gins of the column at its base ; the lateral lobes are u 
turned, obtuse or rounded, the anterior lobe divided 
All the lobes of the lip have a pale rosy flush, the 
central portion or dise being yellow and marked by 
prominent yellow keels, and prolonged into a short 
slender curved spur as in Calanthe. The column re- 
sembles that of a Calanthe. It is oblong obtuse, in- 
clined forward, hooded at the top, bearing the dis- 
tinctly two-lobed anther in front. Pollinia eight, 
compressed, wedge-shaped, tapering by slender stalks 
into two groups of four each. Ovary downy, slender, 
elongated, curved. In the more essential floral 
characters, then, the hybrid resembles the Calanthcs 
rather t the Phai he flower differs con- 
siderably from that of Phaius irroratus x ( Gardeners’ 
Chron ‚ р. 264, with fig.), a hybrid between 
Phaius grandifolius and Calanthe vestita, not only in 
the е 0 but in the form of the lip. 
this interesting novelty will in due 
time i transmitted to Professor Reichenbach, from 
ere er refore, we ma; ‘ct in the future a full 
unt a name, v while iı in general appearance the 
reverse holds s good, M. T. M. 
DENDROBIUM INAUDITUM, Rehb. f. 
иаа to The figure in the Lindenia, t. 66, this is 
redly an astonishing Orchid—not, indeed, one that 
an elegant Odontoglot, but one that one wou 
included | in that museum of wonderful ж, hee 
which the Orchids furnish so many specim 
Truly this Dendrobe—we take Professor Reichen- 
bach's assurance that it is endrobe—has the 
foliage and inflorescence o а Pleurothallis, and the 
"ns of а ia 
‚а 
In flowering speci- 
on the top of the leaf- 
road based, with & short blunt spur and the anterior 
lobe prolonged xd а эмр point, The plant is a 
native of New Gui 
Puarvs Номвіоті, Rehb. f. 
vely shady places, 
i figured in re last sumber of the — 
Lid 
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ZYGOPETALUM ROSTRATUM, 
merara dern rarely seen э-дин 
lip, marked with a few pink 
the thick ae column is = хия үт Lindon 
t. 68. 
_ Сиүзїз BRACTESCENS, 
flowers of this M form a five-pointed 
sepals and 
and a three-lobed DET the two lateral lobes | 
the central lobe spreading, ovate-acute, 
with 5—7 prominent longitudinal ridges. It is 
