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two spikes of bloom rising from it, one of which has 
wn out a branch at a height of about 15 inches 
above the pot. The branch itself is in bloom, and 
appears to have twenty or more buds yet to open 
while the main —- has over fifty blooms and buds 
nit. The other spike from the same bulb is very 
strong and well flowered. The second bulb has one 
good spike also. Everybody who has a plant-stove 
ave i of Calanthes 
which expanded their first cs in the second week 
in October, and which from all крайын will keep 
later. 
q devoted to them near the glass 
during their growing season. N. Blandford, 
CALANTHE CURCULIGOIDES. 
Kew Orchid verre "wr species is now 
It has large plaited leaves and 
boi) a crowded 
yellow flowers, ran hree- 
эө — of 
ors state 
tre 
anne s Malacca, pepe Mw Singapore, and was 
gured some years ago i e Botanical Magazine. 
t. 6104. С. Nicholson 
CATASETUM MACROCARPUM. 
This is a fine Tropical American species, with 
large flowers densely spotted with purplish-brown. 
good specimen is now in i 
ettet at Kew. 
is figured i 
The he "ciel is especially nenne as having been 
and yrs 
erti 
ractically a male Orchid, 
as Sir R. Schomburgk states tn although he had 
seen hundreds of plants in Essequibo, he had never 
found опе in fruit. G. Nicholson. 
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CLERODENDRON FALLAX. 
dump plant i is well suited for the decoration of the 
and conservatory, and when grown in 6 or 
T-imch pots will make a fine subject for vases 
to stand in the dwelling-house. The plant can be 
qu in estes е гч ип October, if kept in suc- 
and so different times. The foliage is 
m а Баша “Tighe green, and the elegant scarlet 
flowers, which form a corymb at the top of the stem, 
and just above the Tl will last many weeks under 
ordinary care. The plant is rem. flowered in small 
pots, and, moreover, makes cr ent od чаре when 
rown of a large size for e show 
for which it was once much grown; gata amongst 
others, by Mrs. Lawrence and Mr, Cole. 
This plant will grow well in a temperature of 60° 
to 65° till it comes into bloom, when it should be 
removed into the conservatory or cool greenhouse. 
After the ee have done flowering they should be 
ing kept som 
by be ept ewhat dry in a cooler house 
till January or Fe , when they should be 
shaken and repotted into suitable size pots, accord- 
ing to their strength. Well drain the pots and | put 
a little th 
а ittie moss over 
drainage, f 
loam and river sand, “well mixed—the first t-n 
t the oes be с 
warfed an 
d be done carefully, and pee 
half peat and half sand ; the soil should be pressed 
firmly round the cuttings, and carefully watered, then 
put into a cutting frame and kept close to the 
on, lightly watered, and again placed in heat. As 
soon as the plants are well rooted, they can have 
more air admitted, and eventually be stood in а cool- 
house. For small plants. I like to grow from seeds, 
which 
potte 
for cutting: these seedlings flower about June, and 
last till October. W. Smythe, The Gardens, Basing 
Park, Alton. 
SPRAY-PUMPS. 
For several years past I have advocated the neces- 
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means of spraying trees for insecticide or fungicide 
Fie, а —ТНЕ CYCLONE NOZZLE: eninge PUMP, TO 
HICH THE HOSE FOR NOZZLE MAY BE FITTED. 
purposes than that afforded by the ordinary rose 
nozzle as attached to garden syringes and engines. 
Ay LS e 
Orange scale (Aspidiotus aurantii) in my garden has 
taught me that for using solutions for this end a rose 
nozzle is not only extremely wasteful, but absolutely 
useless, 
The ingenuity of our American cousins has con 
c" & boon on all fruit growers by the invention 
the Cyclone Nozzle, for an account of which 
indented to Mr. Hubbard’s Report on Insects Affecting 
he Orange, kindly forwarded by the United States 
одмет of Agricu 
The article Er: » is as follows :— 
THe аттар OF INSECTICIDES, 
“Fi ce of Spray.—1In мену. with - 
enemy so thoro ected as any of t 
bark-lice, liquid insecticides shou 
into the 
bo: The ori : 
right angle to the hose, and not in line 
The jet of spray thus by a turn of tlie y 
irected upward or Reihen and brought into со 
tact with all ped the foliage and branches, fror 
beneath as well a m the upper side, ош. _ 
** The Hi gutem Naz g. 27: 1, profile; 2, pl 
3, section).— "ii h answers the 
conditions, and is pies stashed to any fore 
b ans ibb e, 18 described. 
e 
ausing it rotate rapidly in the chambe 
outlet consists ver} ll hole drilled 
centre of one face of the c < The 
should not be larger than 
will admit the shaft 
ordinary pin. agmen this outlet dp fuid i is 
Having had several of these nozzles 
and three-eighths of an inch diamet 
this is to be bored a hole, so that the inlet bi 
inch, and its depth eleven-thirty-secon 
bea its walls should be at least one e 
iarubbe 
and үөн 
ing. The outlet s to be a 
diameter, with the outer xit re bevelled 93 1 
is sufficient to keep the top firm an 
leak: 
E 
For small gardens a single nozzle, 
some weg ари of an inch gas-tubi 
force-pump, will be all that is necessary 1° 
trees and small plants from aphis, 07 аа 
from aphis ог deret 
In bond ger ga “duplex” nozzle, 
fig. 26 (1), is avn e, in order to save 
consists of two nozzles attached by a Y 
at any perp the user likes. 
