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Fesrvary 19, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
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both three years old from the seed, and planted of 
found esd hri only 15 per cent, of the 
h Firs were dead, 70 per cent. of the Larch 
were dead. As kon planting was going on in the 
neighbourhood :: Жз same rei and conducted in 
the same way— like—I was anxious to 
know how they nal вассвейей, - found on exami- 
nation that not more than 20 per cent. o 
the Larch occurred in a 
this unaccountable failure 
d as many reasons were assigned for 
it as there were persons who gave their opinion. 
At the time I was also unable to satisfy myself as 
tbe true cause of the оа failure, and it 
was not till I subsequently made some actual ex- 
чери: I arrived at the settled conclusion 
hat the plants perished from the cold state of the 
ктар at that season of the ded in which above all 
others there is least heat in the s 
That the temperature of DE of the time of 
` planting, and several weeks 
fully persuaded, and will endeavour to 
show in a nme paper. C. Y. Michie, Cullen House. 
AMATEURS' NOTES. 
LARGE SPIKES ON ODONTOGLOSSUM 
CRISPUM, 
In the Garden of January 10, 1885, p. 17, there is 
a note that says that at the Chateau de ‘Gonville 
‚= ba to put forth a spike 
e 
across, the smallest 22 inches; the whole meia of 
the spike was 40 inches— 20 inches bare and 
20 inches bearing bloom; it therefore required in 
this variety 20 inches to accommodate eight blooms 
slightly. ike to hear other growers' 
experiences on these points. see at p. 212 of 
issue February 12, pe. “Ж pee of Orchids” 
wart Hodgson's 
plants at Lythe Hil, К э бирел as having fifteen 
blooms on a spike over 2 feet long. 
the particulars, as I have noted them 
meets the = of the gardener, would he 
a good many spikes over 2 feet long, ry the greatest 
number of aie blooms I have on them now is thirteen 
¢ blooms each. A propos of large piles, 
I have mi Gage f Mr, Sander's importation of 
Cattleya Mendelii gie at the Central Rooms on 
11—a plant with bulbs all over d inches: 
high and 1 inch across, the large one 11 inches ues 
1$ across the Sn ла bearing an old 13-in 
spike of three-eighths of an inch diameter, а 
carried seven 5 нац Is this not a remarkably large 
wshay. ; 
one? De B, Cra 
ANGRECUM SESQUIPEDALE. 
MTS MA G. Lucas’ —— AUN ros 
in he issue o f the 12th inst., I can corrobora: 
fact that the fertilising insect is a moth "Tropea 
Noctua. The plant is grown in the Cattleya-house, 
and has been there ر و‎ since I ps it, the 
sixteen developed and one rising leaf, and 
developing three buds each. When 
was as yellow as а guinea. 
their green lustre under the nursing it received at 
the hands of my gardener, who had an especial love 
for it, having been on Sir W. Marriott's staff some 
time before, and who is justly proud of it now. 
De B. Crawshay. 
THE HERBACEOUS BORDER. 
DOG’S-TOOTH VIOLET: ERYTHRONIUMS. 
The pre pod engen ns bid fair to consign ma: 
extremely bea , not to say 
plants, to « ie" place in the eaten, id aeos 
Such are the Erythroniums, the i 
distinct, it all possessed of pi» beauty of flow 
and foliage, or both. "They are amongst the Көн, 
of spring flowering plants, and are alike suitable for 
sunny borders out-of-doors and growin pots. 
When, therefore, we take into consideration their 
dira sui we not always pose 
"е never- 
derived no doubt from the peculiar formation of 
their roots—they are commonly known. Of this 
original species, introduced during the sixteenth 
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eastern Europe and of Siberia, where : is very abun- 
dant, and, according to Gmelin, the bitants of 
a 
those remote districts use its long ад white bulbs 
in soups. It may be well to remark that in the wild 
state it grows freely amongst loose stones, bushes, 
&c.—a fact which goes far to show how well adapted 
it is for growing upon exposed artificial rock- 
work, &c. 
Erythroniums do not habitually seed in this 
country, but are increased by the bulbous offsets 
formed below-ground. e proper way to plant 
hem is in clusters of five or six bulbs or in rows, 
thickly hey subsist and 
the month of March indefinitel n 
permanent wooden pegs should be constantly main- 
tained over them to mark the spot where the bulbs 
rest in winter. Newer or more recent р iud 
tions comprise decided advances on the abov 
thronium giganteum (syn. grandiflorum) i isa ene 
ing Californian species, growing to a m aod of 9 or 
a inches, mene cing variously as many as to 
x bloo ne m, the individual poe 
belg se 3 inches in wes and the colour, 
according to catalogues, red, but in reality those I 
grew varied in colour from white to yellow, shaded 
with purple. The ican species, eolatum, 
has bright yellow flowers; whilst Nuttallianum is 
afine distinct new species, with fine golden-yellow 
flowers, William Earley, Ilford. 
THE APIARY. 
SCOTCH BEEKEEPING. 
I promisep that this time "4 нне eo ine 
tt Sg but only on 
| pog ow 
Stewarton hive, one iind used in beekeeping 
Scotland, There is no doubt that the old-fashioned, 
dome-shaped skep was, and is, a very comfortable one 
or bees; and there is as little doubt that the shape 
which comes nearest to it is the next best as far as 
the bees are concerned. 
That shape is not, however, by а 
obtained a patent from that monarch in the year 1675. 
I am not prepared to state the exact date when our 
Scotch friends adopted this shape; it is sufficient to 
say that the Stewarton hive is so-called , from 
Stewarton, a place in Scotland where they are 
Eco * also no il that 
even paying arriage the be 
Ж, iar there rete in England. А Stews arton 
hive consists of a сез of oct t 
of two different уне 
breeding-box, or stock-box, and is about 7 inches 
deep; andthe other kind of box is called the honey- 
box, and is about 4 inches deep. They all inter- 
changeable, as the octagon is the same size in all. 
There are slits on the top of all the boxes, and strips 
of wood fit into these slits, and they can be opened 
or closed at pleasure. Each box is provided with 
two windows, closed by a shutter, and through these 
the state of the нам can be ascertained. А good 
ing is to pacea a Hei of bees into 
where you wish it 
us all dà Dude Of course 
ufa must x а cover. If you have another swarm in 
a few days put into another stock-box, and place it 
beside the other. At dusk, when all the bees are at 
home, put this second swarm on the top of the first. 
It would not be a bad thing to puff in a little smoke, 
and then withdraw the slides from the ens box. 
There will then be er ig er anal througho On 
the principle of the rich being well model there 
will be no quarrelling, $e it is well known a swarm 
is always well provided with honey. А s 
queen of course there will be, and probably she will 
be hoisted out in the night, and will be found out- 
side the hive next morning. Here, then, will be а 
strong colony. In a few days a honey-box may be 
added. If honey is coming in well another box may 
be added under the other. It is always best to add 
these boxes а little in advance of the wants of the 
about 201b, that makes 200 Ib. from a single hive. 
Walter Chitty, Pewsey. 
PLANT PORTRAITS. 
CAMPANULA ISOPHYLLA, Garden, January 1,41887, 
ATASETUM ATUM, Illustration Horticole, 
t. 619, December, 1886. 
CarrLEYA 'TRIANLE HOOLEYANA, Orchid Album, 
t. 
GarsAxDRA Bavert, Orchid Album, t. 267. 
NEPENTHES MASTERSIANA X, JHiusivalión Horticole, 
t. 618. Dube, 1886. 
OponToGLoss' биж ALEXANDRE VAR. CUTSENIANA, 
Lindenia, t. 
‚ Охстогом om, Lindenia, t. 72. i 
OPSIS R Orchid Album, t. 268. : 
THRIXSPERMUM  UNGUICULATUM, Orchid Album, 
t, 266. : 
ZAUSCHNERIA CALIFORNICA, Garden, January 8, 1887. 
ER HORTICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT 
Society.—The ey, meeting of this nes 
was held at the Memorial Н bert 
Thursday evening, the res inst,, Mr. Robert "Tait 
presiding. Mr. Forrester, "gardener, echwood, 
a paper on còmmon insects and how to check 
their rein and on the rr to adopt for their 
destructio 
