Feprvary 19, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
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CHRONICLE. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
PHAIUS GRANDIFOLIUS. 
a plant of this i in full bloom in the conser- 
vatory which has bee bloom for six weeks, an 
which appears as if it will last six weeks ten in per- 
fection. It is in a 9-inch pot, has six spikes. of bloom, 
and on each spike there are twenty-four blooms— 
Ee. fully opened flowers and twelve to open. The 
flor wer-stalks are 3 feet in height, 
to arrange with other plants, and is v very effective, 
After the plants ше done blooming they should be 
rested by being kept dry in a house of about 50? of 
heat till growths es ا‎ to push from the base of the 
sand and broken potsherds well mixed together, 
then place them in a house where 
ео till they are redütrod 
" Ligue If pine ANE they should be put into 
re heat, as they force They are . easily 
ea by E the E and potted into 
small pots and treated as above ге nded, W., 
Smythe, Basing Park, Alton, Hant 
LÆLIA Ancers, Five СВАЕ ON A SPIKE. 
| In reply to the qoe put by “ An Amateur," on 
_ P. 114, I can inform him that we have often had spikes 
anyag five fine blooms. I КНЕ е Sas in the spring 
: * the d following : years it produced one ori more 
spikes that number of 
„аты nt at the ps азан) — last spring, but 
neither then nor at the pre i f 
three each, and one (a late weak growth) has but two, 
may be mentioned, however, that this plant is 
1 wuch weaker than last year, on account of a check it 
й As we do not possess a plant of L. anceps 
_ Dawsoni I cannot say if Vi тийчу will produce 
. буе blooms, but four is a number to be proud of. N, 
| comi The Gardens, Moor. Hill, West End, South- 
SOPHRONITIS VIOLACEA. 
An elegant and beautiful little plant, possessing 
merit of ur e ering during the dull 
flowers are bright rosy-purple, an 
from 1 to 15 inch in diameter. It was Мт b by 
| T Gardner, in 1837, in Brazil, that collector E eee 
_ that he found it only once, and then 
may be seen flowering in the cool 
hid- fiot id at | Kei at the present time, 
CxPRIPEDIUM ELEGANS, 
A note as to the colour of the flowers of this inter- 
Ëra == 
` This was described a 
by 
g the error, though I am in 
way responsible for it, as I simply copied the 
п from the garden label when the planta 
came for determination. But I now see that E. 
Fordii is simply a form 
species (which are not well dried), I concluded it to 
be new. f course I ought to have identified the 
two, having them before me; but a vigorous living 
plant does a n adr е app 2 a shrivelled 
herbarium mummy.  K. y other species 
of the group, is a genuine үе “a e RAR, 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
THE AURICULA. 
ow the second week in February, and the 
whole адста of plants sheltered by frames or 
glass-houses 
wea 
r them, as we have dis- 
continued the old- еч custom of removing а 
portion of soil from the surface а 
afterwards with rich loam and manure. 
require a very large supply of water at fir 
none of them should be allowed to become dusty dry, 
This is the best time to take off and to propagate 
offsets. Very few of them fail to form roots, and 
e plants have 
formed the first leaf they may be os out, as has 
been advised in previous numbers 
Tur Carnation AND Picorer. 
I have had a very much larger number of diseased 
specimens ie these sent pies this seaso 
any previous one. I have n 
plants with half of the Pos quite dried up, od 
rers that are green will soon be like the dried ones, 
ey 
jurious to them. I have no doubt that the injuries are 
caused by the treatment they receive. [Probably the 
leaf worm. Ер. ]. We grow a very large number of plants 
of all the sections, including yellow-ground Picotees, 
ee or perpetual-flowering Carnations, and I 
n say without hesitation that we have never had any 
* «dot " on the leaves, gouty growths at the base of 
the stem, or had the leaves die off with damp. These 
are all derangements of the s me of the plants 
that may be prevented by a ipm of culture. 
The plants are all quite he ages t they must be 
kept from an excess of moisture, po A this is 
perhaps not more injurious than erring on the side of 
verdi at the roots. I do not at any time like 
the plants " be ores d at the гоме but ier 
water them at mid-winter, to pre this r- 
dryness; e iius "d ra watered in e eet 
Tree CARNATIONS, 
Ir is quite time that cuttings of Tree Carnations 
required; the plants propagated from these early- 
struck cuttings will uce flowers in September ; 
they require growing on in a ouse 
All our compost for potting the Carnations and 
Picotees has been pr erie and they will be potted 
in three weeks. plants are placed in cold 
frames until they are evt established. 
Тнк Dania, 
The tubers have now been placed in boxes, а 
have been placed in а grues where they have р 
artificial heat, but not too much; as we do n 
require many cuttings "ther i is — time to =н 
them without too much heat. e pot roots are 
started later. Seeds should be sown on a gentle 
hotbed about the end of this pet and when the 
plants are well up prick them out in boxes abou 
3 inches apart, to be subsequently potted off, 
These will produce strong flowering plants in the 
autumn, whether they have been saved from single 
or double flowers. It is necessary to grow the plants 
е тез ^ ipe sturdy habit, and they ag ps 
closely together nor grown 
bush i еч especially in the later кые ‘of 
their growth 
Tue HOLLYHOCK, 
We have kept the plants out 2 the open ers 
for three seasons now, and hope that the disease has 
disappeared. We have now put in a lot of cuttings 
taken from the plants out-of-doors. Planted at this 
time of the 
икан апа а close 
bell-glass is 
ome persons are 
adepts at propagating them by root-grafting. A 
‘small portion of root is taken; the cutting is Mm 
grafted on ird: and tied firmly with matting. “It's hould 
then be p ed in the same way as the cuttings arc, 
covering pn union with the potting soil. J. Douglas, 
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. 
he Agricultural College of 
is experi- 
retum 
iii arge, and alludes tó ai varying con- 
ditions Modius; the hardihood of trees :— 
Last winter, says the Professor, was as cold as 
any we have had in twenty ag Soke Fahr. below 
zero—yet thrifty. sprouts of 
Proressor Beat, of t 
а narrates in brief the e of h 
men bs еде forest trees їп the 
reason not yet un nde These 
Magnolias have usually, even in mild winters, died 
to the snow line. 
For six years a number of trees of the American 
е ن ن‎ Ms (Diospyros) have died every winter near 
From this I supposed I was war 
ted in pronouncing this well known tree as 
Mi 
In st 
were usuall lanted when freshly gathered, just 
he h e 4 fi 
more, they were 
of pasion and again wer in мегзер As the trees 
crowded some were cut оп A very little trimming 
has been done by rm of menting dead limbs and 
preventing bad crotches 
After the trees had got a good start and shaded 
the ground pretty well, piae generally ceased, 
as it seemed as though they would take care of them- 
selves, but grasses and w 
tially occupied the gro € рр retarding 
considerably the oath: of t The grasses 
aa weeds which seem to e bier most harm are 
le te in autumn and early in 
ir while there is no foliage on the trees to shade | 
he ground ts 
The trees where slightly cro show a marked dif- 
ference in their habit of holding their lower leaves 
'The lower branches of Black nut. Butternut, and 
White Ash die young, because they do not carry their 
leaves. The to 
wt m" ^u contrary, White Oak, 
White Swamp Oak, h, Sugar Maple, vood, 
Hazel, Blue Beech, Choke Cherry, Poplars, and sprouts 
