January 15, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
77 
fruit whilst in а green state happily tends to light en 
1 
numbers of the cuttings fail. 
frosts just as they are bursting in the spring, and of 
course ere roots are formed, restrain them, and will 
often destroy many cuttings; and again, a hot or dry 
uil a iN \ уи m 
we х | | ve 
bn Job 
hem. Thus it happens that very rial renewals 
may fall in during some years, and fi n others, 
ut it is far wisest to grub out and ыз а breadth 
rge 
tuff to three- -year 
bushes, as the transplanting at йе former age seems 
to offer less check then than later. The price is of 
course lower also, and the raiser prefers to dispose 
" Mmi y 
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Fig, 10,—PYRAMIDAL IVY-LEAYED PELARGONIUMS AT COOMBE WARREN, (SEE P. 76.) 
summeris as much to be feared, for, having such 
cutti gs 
2 to be faced and their results tolerated if земле 
ollov 
g the past year or two the demand has been 
нф М London ; evidence that of late fewer 
pruning have much to 
do with the life of Gooseberry bushes, and they may, 
во cared for, remain good for twenty years; but, as 
а rule, fifteen years is а good life, and with bad 
culture * much less period suffices to deteriorate 
of his stocks early nee к = over for a third year 
e cuttings is chiefly 
ore day expressed 
t least enable him to employ his ‘women up till 
peres as other work was slack. The 
bundles are usually made up in ошым, as in 
hat way count is easily kept of the num mbers of 
lanted. Naturally allowance has to 
of the cutting wood, and the nature of the se easons 
which follow on the planting. 4. D, 
INDIA. 
VANDA CERULEA, &c.—In reply to your -question 
large tropical- -looking 
Orchids live and flower in the Hills, I 
have not much to add to what Sir J. D. Hooker says 
in his Himalayan Journals, vol. ii, p. 
there says Бтр the ое Hils Уап 
corulea gro at feet elevation 
on small irat in exposed situations, that its roots 
sprawl over the rough bark, that at flov wering time 
the temperature ranges between 60° an ?, and in 
wintet hoar-frost forms on the ground, 
In Shillong station, alt, 5000 feet and facing north, 
the Potatos were cut by the frost id in December, 
1885, and there must have been 8° or 109 gfi ost 
in January, 1886, At this level and “higher: 
the Deputy Commissioners house) Vanda бене, 
ows very fast and flowers profusely: it comes into 
flower 1 October at the end of the rains, when the 
iei rec itid may be 50? to 70? (I only guess at these 
temperatures); but it remains in flower long after 
this. The plants are merely tied with string on the 
bare stems of Fir trees, and I have noticed that the 
roots get very little hold of the bark though they 
grow fast into large plants, 
In January, 1886, when I was in Shillong station, 
though there was frost at 5000 feet every night, there 
were various tropical looking Orchids in flower and 
coming into flower. 
In the Naga Hills in November, 1885, at 
8000 feet elevation, there was continual mist and 
frequent rain; the forest was both wet and dark and 
very cold at night ; indeed the Nagas said that there 
would soon be snow at that level. Yet under these 
conditions I collected a large Cymbidium, two or 
three other raa "mp: and a “ tassel ” Hoya just 
coming into йоу 
Pleione (a Minim hite one) was in profuse flower 
on exposed bare rocks i (ifie very summits ofthe hills) 
on the road to Lailankote on October 28, 1886, at 
5500 feet elevation. The common and abundant 
Pleione Wallichii runs in Sikkim to 8000 and ¢ 
feet. In these cases even the highest day tempera- 
ture'in the shade7must have been very low. 
Dendrobium Devonianum flowers (as Sir J, D. 
Hooker, /.c., states) at 3000—4000 feet elevation in 
it is abundant on Oaks 
322. He 
very exposed situations; 
scattered on bare grass, with a north exposure below 
Nunklow, feet elevation; but this Orchid 
flowers in the ren of the rains (July) when the 
shade temperature w y re n 70? daily, and would 
hardly fall below 60° а 
Vanda undulata I bolle we in flower on a very 
exposed hill side with north-east aspect, alt, 5600 feet, 
(at least) above Shillor т; 
Ia г that I can only refer so loosely to the 
species of Orchids re phe to; but my specimens 
have not yet arrived, and I write only from memory, 
С. B. Clarke, F.R.8. 
CONTRAST AND HARMONY, 
LEVERLY written тия well thought-out paper 
on “Contrast and Harmony” was read on the 15th 
ult., at the сня and Midland Counties 
Gardeners' ign item ont Association, by Mr. John 
e King's Norton Nurseries, before & well 
attended a ng. 
Alluding in the first place to an important work 
nthe Birmingham Art Gallery, “The Martyr," by 
Ge rts, in which the snowy garment and deathly 
features of the maiden, and the crimson-scarlet 
orks, also in the same gallery, 
by Albert Moore, in which the lovely tints of azur: 
blue, greyish-white, and soft canary y во ex 
sitely blended as conveying "dam -ope’s—idea 
what was meant by true “ Harmc ' he passed 
to what may be called the майыша». part of his 
