THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Fronvanv 5, 1887, 
dividually, yet the profusion in which they are 
produced, E with their delicate ъё odour, 
renders them of considerable value. ith 
perfectly hardy, and by no means foati- 
dious as regards soils, it should find a place in every 
collection of shrubs. Fine large specimens, one 
а sunny wall, and for which their peculiar fan-shaped 
mode of bran E specially adapts them, 
The foliage is ve ry neat, dense, and of a dark shining 
green, the margins being distinctly serrated, 
EPIGEA REPENS. 
This, the c r ground Laure at the 
present time es eet the white ган 
wax-like flowers just геа: through the almost 
prostrate ene, Бейш ng o e richest description. 
Its character of being a doi uices to dues with, 
has no doubt лы with its 
flowers highly aromatic and refreshing. 
4. 5 Webster, Pr) yn Castle. 
RIBES FLORIDUM. 
The present planting season should not be allowed 
to pass by those who dice a pretty and interesting 
flowering shrub, without their procuring ром of 
the subject of this n du ild black Curran 
the N vives sine — It is a profuse Borer, 
ite of their rather large size— 
ves are not unlike 
species, after its having 
been described by I'Heriticr вече the name of R. 
floridum, was redescribed by Lamarck as R. penn- 
sylvanieum. e have also seen it in nurseries 
under the name of R. missouriensis. G. 
GESNERA CINNABARINA. 
for an effective, easily-grown 
and useful midwinter e should take care to 
< of the above. Its rich, warm, 
before it cT 
arranged among a collection of plants in flower 
In our Or win- 
r over two months, and the 
күр ra is only now in n fall loom. 
rei are started at the end of May in stove 
h: di in 5-in ve ies in a pot. When the 
he plants are shifted into 
their flowering pots and Bender in the stove. They 
pi plenty of heat and moisture and slight shade 
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from 
d 
y will make asm 
e tits to 2 feet through before Chri 
"Those who may be short of tubers бөгүн" wish to in- 
crease mae thelr tock me start the tubers! earlier, say the 
beginning of April, and take the cuttings when about 
i be propagated 
them is pe 
ust not be potte fi eceive much water 
until their po with r and - 
lants in active wt -— surface of the leaf 
pee и syringe them, аз the 
8 best n 
f water will padaria pieds some sediment 
oo piba iniecit Ө-Т. 
ORCHID NOTES АМО GLEANINGS. 
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INDIAN ORCHIDS.‏ 
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY Grow.—Orchid 
w 
grow in ссе кез no direct conclusion is drawn 
from the conditions state 
Although i re frosts i in ета Assam, and 
other hill stations in India, d not answer for 
English growers to come P4 bes conclusion that 
Indian ae coming from high altitudes are the 
better for 
a Sig a most of the hills in = where 
chids are found, hoar-frost exists only at night, 
bos iiy disappears with the early rays of the 
ing sun. 
B an Orchid covered with hoar-frost, with i 
pseudobulbs or leaves in an unripened state, catches 
the direct rays of the sun, the leaves or growths 
once get burned and turn black, and the plant runs 
a great risk of dying in лы. 
Probably the only epiphyte freely exposed to 
severe conditions of xem and snow is Saccolabium 
distichum. This р grows at an elevation of 
9000 feet about 10 miren d Chuckrata, Himalayas, 
on small stunted tre 
PLEIONE WarricHr 
is ап piens found in many edes where rea are 
three months of snow in the wi It has 
warm ii quarters, living as it bie among the var 
deep thick moss, which covers the large branches of 
the evergreen Oaks. It receives a generous ыру 
of heat and moisture during the summer mon 
Ca@LOGYNE CRISTATA 
is found in the Hi malayas on rocks in situa 
tions, and any frost or snow falling on it MD 
melts, 
C@LOGYNE GLANDULOSA AND €. ODORATISSIMA, 
grow ing in the Neilgherry and Annamully Hills, are 
d 
found in a ition where m is а good deal of 
frost in winter, but they grow generally on rocks in 
such exposed situations "hak they have n so 
ripened and hardened by the well 
es to stand the frost. g that well- 
pened growths will pass through coin of cold 
which would be fatal to half-ripened o 
These notes regarding the conditions sa which | 
hids grow in 
various Orch ndia, Burmah, and the 
Indian Re AS will be continued from time to 
time, if fou о be ofinterest to Orchid growers 
generally se de will surely be. Ер.]: Emeric S. 
Berkeley. 
ANGRECUM SESQUIPEDALE. 
It is not always that this Orchid can ы prevailed 
on to develope its blooms, preferring to 
and drop. At Chatsworth there is a ee now те 
open, It has three spikes, with three fine flowers 
one spike and one on each of the others; a fourth 
spike o but did not develope itself, Corre- 
spondent 
DENDROBIUM SPECIOSUM vam, Нили, 
There is a fine s en of this Orchidaceous 
plant in bloom at Steephill, St. Saviour's, Jersey, the 
residence of Mrs. C. Robin. The plant is divided 
into c breaks, and has nine spikes of por prise 
it. Some of the pseudobulbs, with the lea 
idle them, are 2. feet 
cireumferenc ce, 
such fine 7 E of growth ? [an even fin 
men was figured in the rigen Chronicle, i877, 
Jan, 27, p. 112, E».] C. В, S., Jers 
SACCOLABIUM BELLINUM, 
This neat little oid is one of the best of the 
group to which it belongs, and is worthy of es 
tion in апу East Indian distin: The flow 
about 14 inch in diameter; the sepals ай. petals 
yellow, reac blotched with dark brown; and the 
lip, which is hai 
, is white, with some Меч 
&nd purple мас бэм towar ds the base. It 
native of Burmah, and at present is very 1 rare in со p 
plant may now be seen flowering 
ndian-house at Kew, and an excellent 
figure is given at t. 156 of the Orchid Album 
GALEANDRA BAUERI. 
This plant is best grown in a pot, in a compost of 
agnum moss, with plenty of drainage. 
ndia-house, in à 
especially ved they have reed асу b bulbs to 
mature, as these will often if they are not 
thus exposed 5 the e The | pliiis of them in 
this itio sa antage, inasmuch as 
double adv. 
the unsightly bulbs are tip out of view in a certain 
degree; but when so placed they must be well looked 
after, just sufficient water being given to keep the 
bulbs from shrivelling. 
their growing season after their gro 
wering are com pleted the plants ue ie placed 
in the position romania d abov n as the 
young growth appears from the base of ти ДЬ, give 
a little water to encourage the plants to start 
ШӨН], and to produce good bulbs. 
hey are propagated by dividing the bulbs just a$ 
they cie ulbs at 
MORMODES PLATYCHILA. 
A pretty and distinct species of this interesting 
e is now flowering at Kew under e 
ers, which are over ап "s 
"i pale ee with some fifteen p me in 
stripes on the upper part of the lip, are borne ! 
aig 
allied to Catasetum, and one of the spec А 
ignea) i is thoroughly dealt with in the cme aae 
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к О 
"m 
work.  Havi 
nthus = Myanths, and pe^ 
them to be sexual conditions of one and the 821° 
plant, he takes چ‎ Et in hand, d pae м n i 
peculiarities. How it differs from Cata 
