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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Javar 99, 1887, 
AMATEURS’ NOTES. 
LÆLIA ANCEPS. 
I wer to “ Amateur's " query at the end of his 
letter on р. 114 (J аа y 22 iss issue) as to a five-flowered 
P n Imay say that I had one in January, 1885, which 
I sold at Protheroe & Morris' rooms on the 27th of 
that month, and it was much noticed ; € plant 
had three others bearing three Aem Also 
us a four-flower ed xps 
andsome variety, which is cribed in in 
Pu (у: Professor Reichenbach) of Piik ruary 14, 
1885, p. 206 ; also a plant i ith four spikes 
of four flowers each upon it. "De B. Crawshay. 
LÆLIA ANCEPS VARS. WILLIAMSI AND STELLA. 
By the kindness of ' “Ат ” I have seen the 
rt of 1 The wanting: in 
every way is immense between “ Amateurs" new 
arrival and these two plants of Williams: in e 
way that difference is in favour of L. a. Ste lla, as 1 
must call it, for С two varieties are eminently 
distinct. I have seen a good m Williamsi, 
and all are dle ver alike as to the tube of the 
P its markings, and the keel, which has not three 
eep c а 
ine lines running its whole length, as Т, 
Mn Again, the colour of these lines is 
ou 
ibd беген; Stella has carmine, the poa 
almost урый» liee d bulb and leaf, too, I consider 
them wide especially the long distance 
between the bulbs of md marks : as Ash a ink 
habit. Williamsi has as starry om- 
sse on > wan as Stella has to Wr iaa, "bat ies 
ot merge it into Williamsi, for she is a star of the 
second magnitude (allowing Dawsoni to be first), 
whereas Williamsi is decidedly a third magnitude 
dapectally when by her side. There are, may 
idists who, value put roe Мын admire 
Stella more than Dawsoni. De B. Cra 
FRUITS UNDER GLASS. 
RAISING YOUNG VINES FROM EYES. 
Ir not already done this E gren е ke: scen 
to at once, m 
0 p 
ree parts light 
loam and one of sweet leaf-mould, pes g the ey 
in sand prior ^ covering them with a little of the 
mixture indica red 
three or four leaves raise 
must be applied sparingly at the roots after 
the plants are shifted and until IT begin S 
pus y into the soil. 0 
he pot 
ich the plants should oa 
direction of th whence, as well as through th 
side lights, fresh air is admi when necessary 
Young Vines will grow equally welf trained up unde 
the roof of a lean-to house oung Vines of last 
years striking should be back to within 9 or 
12 inches of their bases, the woun ed with 
'Thomson's pus. and Un be put into a vinery just 
started, and w he ade h of gro 
the plants sh ud be Ton iei, the old soil shook off 
the roots, the la pei "shortened back a little, and then 
potted, using a compost consi 
X сте parts of good t 
cose ens horse- gy ere making the 
co eiie po ely firm about the roots in potting. 
H. W, Ward. ue Castle 
NEW APPLIANCES. 
he most useful amongst these is Mr. B 
Williams’ (Victoria Nurseries, Holloway) apparatus 
Fig, 38.—THANATOPHORE APPARATUS WITH MODERATOR 
SP: LAMP. 
for boiling tobacco-water, ime named the “ Thanato- 
phore" (fig. 38). It is 
anaes tors both on the en 
е of Tobacco, when eva 
is ihe inimical to insect om € its application has 
nd 
hitherto been atte lty. The 
Thanatophore, of which най are th es manu- 
factured—two wi wit 
r reservoir to 
hold the juice, with a steam reservoir and a dome- 
shaped top "ipe о. a азы 
steam into the plan 
to Mr. B. s. 9 гэн po ‘the opportunity of iftis- 
trating the invention, 
Hawx's WATERING Can. 
ee new aipe of watering can, which we thi 
nk i 
re ent, тй” bya will find favour with 
gardeners, ue small s 
хе $ Mayola Ton Road, , Clapton, й ‘the 
orticul Soci 
тенч r 1886, (See fig. 39. E 
— ә 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
LUCULIA GRATISSIMUM FROM SEED.—Notwith. | 
standing statements to 7 е 
cultivators, beni handsom 
they e: fairly established in 3-inch pots— 
afterw in 
fautigation 
BO FOOTPRINTS REMAIN ў 
AFTER SNOW ?— Can any опе tell me why footprints — 
made on a lawn a snow continue after the thaw 
to be marked with dead grass, when € around them - 
ON A LA 
is green ave nido the dea ss blades, — 
and do not find that they are dece. t the base, _ 
which bc be supposed to be the cause; nor does E 
m meno n а dry frost when — 
the frozen blades would be more liabl broken, — 
, Edge Hall, Malpas, Cheshire, 3 
ORIGIN OF THE WORD PICOTEE.—T think your Р 
corres spondents on this subject miss one important 
» that being freckled or spotted is э -— 
me form or other to all the ee d 1 
Wi Жк X 
dge of the 
eri 
i ctum. he explanation 
ny: is there & likelihood of it being 
Mr. Dod's note, p. “ January 8, 
hing an 
UT «i ould | think e 
ave e 
a Dane living in S 
should tell an eel the meaning of а 
word 
made 
purl and pearl. Sidney. : 
of stitches in i kantig which gives to the work when | 
it is used a ribbed or waved арреагапс E 
MULA STUARTII,—I send for your in inspection 
ачи winter bud of P. Stuartii, together with wt 
reve ive arin at fi 
plant of the former, after flowering, sen 5 
shoots whi k off in August and made а 
separate pl ; several of these flowered at t 
сЕ which I enclose rs 
an a rimrose rose root, 
& > unic from the fibres of the dead ata 
find P, Stuarti rather dificult to keep through 
