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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
work at this early date, before the plants make their 
growths; for if left later in e sea- 
s get injured and also 
e the growing of 
many varieties, but selections of those that are found 
most suitable to the фени soil and district, 
and which will succeed each other, and thus pro- 
due a RERS pos over a lengthened period 
of tim 
My ны here is to plant Vicomtesse Héricart de 
Thury an 
g 
ed, giving 
rm by RE and treading 
and replant with either rooted runners in pots or old 
forced plants his applies to Ava on the borders 
The rows of plants are 
2 feet 6 inches asunder, and ы t between in the 
rows, E. Ward, Hewell, Bro 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
* BLETIA HYACINTHINA. 
We have te this pretty little Chinese Orchid 
ly hard s in this 
ITOW. 
grass-like, and of a pleasant tint of green, while the 
flowers, which are produced i in terminal racemes, are 
placed in favourable surroundings. A little shade 
is, perhaps, D ARAE in the cultivation of this 
Orchid, 4. D. Webster. 
FLOWERING OF ANGRECUM SESQUIPEDALE. 
I wrote in your issue of Feb ruary 5, under the 
head of “ Orchid Notes an 
wt 
viz., three each on two spi ikes, and two on the other, 
Jas, Hopkins, High Cross, Framfeld, 
ErrpENDRUM Ехрвеѕи. 
A small plant of this rare and sos little gem 
was one of the many striking plants seen in flower 
graceful white. and 
lilac flowers render the plant very attractive, and one 
cannot refrain from wishing it may become more 
common in collections, 
DENDROBIUM ENDOCHARIS. 
Hybrid Orchids are generally considered to be free 
flowerers, and this one seems no exception to the 
rule. Whether it is owing to the care and judgm 
exercised in ion of the parents or not 
winter flowerer, and a number T uc are now in 
perfection at the Messrs. Veitch' 
MASDEVALLIA TRIANGULARIS. 
Mhie? n le Я : £41 + 
little genus, anda ve ry f free flowerer too. Ac 
f th 
plants in the Kew collection are literally bristling 
with Sowers and buds, some oe in number, and will 
be in perfection in is one of the 
a sho It 
older species, and rim descri. Br Lindley in 1846. 
R. A. Rolfe. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
EARTHWORMS WITH BIFID HINDER 
agazia 
drew attention чо kept roses 
ые бл with bifid ges de 
common earthworm, L. t 
ran 
dling, L. fcetidus. pce my account 
Mae published „Наш; пана , stated 
there bios a similarly bifid specimen in the 
park Mus Since that time I have pirat ie 
another merî which I gave to 
nei , and ve now one lyin for 
m desirous of 
at 
bra d such ergo es as they t 
with b acked in a little mould and moss, 
, pac 
F. Je же 77 British gc (Natural History), 
Cromwell Road, London, S.W. 
DRESDEN INTERNATIONAL pty Hb ens — I i is 
overnment hiss given all 
facilities for the importation of plants from England 
d are for this c 
О all 
exhibit bias 
ted. Until this stupid т vien 
tion is rescinded Mir e buying nothing in Gn 
that can be procured rh б ere. Paul H Son, 
FRUITING OF HEDYCHIUM GARDNERIANUM.— 
is fairly well known, this handsom Indian men 
i ost y in many places in ри country, a 
owers кеш if allowed sufficien ce in a 
cool conservatory. Underthese conditions however, it 
“set,” ev if the culti vator 
does not seem to 
attempts to fertilise the flowers artificiali In heat, 
thout a ial ai 
fruiting specimen is now one of the most conspicuous 
iria A in the Palm-house at Kew. G. N. 
STANDARD ROSES.—I thank “Б. D." for his 
welcome е to the so-called doomed standard 
es who have not noted some of the more 
recent Pitas se among Briers may rest assured 
i are not К, = » disappear j just 
y ve S “defended st rd Roses for, 
among other reason 
recourt garden 
in towns or the > urbs, a yet more distinguished 
service is rendered by the so мын abus TEM 
B that is, the elevating stem 
TRUE PARASITICAL PLANTS.—In one of 
be ere is a very intentin notice 
of true parasitical plants. It 
imself to. think there Tus 
A E Ik the 
sob of 
oda the, 
rrestris, and the Pied the 
at 
the Gerkrdins of the United States of America 
parasites ? Jean van Volxem 
TILLANDSIA kushon Md is one of the mos 
easily grown, an me time one ‚ОЁ the most - 
curious Bromeliads i in cultivation. 
t e 
from a swollen "urb libe мае the inflorescence, аз ~ 
vell as i | 
it, is а rosy-re ome well-flowered - 
есенна аге now to be seen in the Kew collection, _ 
GUN. 
OUTDOOR GRAPES. — The article upon this | 3 
subject in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of Febru ruary 12 — 
could in their ns for home consumption 
I remember tasting fairly g wine made 
ear Stamford Street, Blackfriars, on 
а Vine which often bor noug 
nine-gallon cask of wine. There are still old Vines 
in that neig егар some of which have a history, 
scarcely worth while trying to na 
hunt 1 some kind of glass shelter. To those, how- 4 
ever, who wish to try = gy of growing 
Grapes out-of-doors I strongly recommend July 
Frontignan, as the бйр and best flavoured purple 
ittle known eenhouse, glass 
wall, or groun wits 6 but it will ripen in the open 
better than ine s other Grape t noticed the 
ety growing on ar ric house in Hants 
thirty years о and I still үче it in stock. Like 
all € outdoo hr and indeed all small Grapes 
pem. : useless for marke 
wher 
in England. Flav 
must be size also to please the British public. 
July img is, however, a delicious Grape, а 
and not liable to mildew. е best 
companion to it is the Royal Muscadine. See Mr. 
Barron's Book on Vines, р. 211. W. R. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. — 
hold its Leser s—and it may 
i it remains at South Ken- | 
а асат arrange- — 
ments, the u gr rvatory, which mi E 
without exception, the best building for — 
i the purpose to be fo 
mittee especially—in judging of the plants 
things it is of the greatest d that Pi 
found so bright and beautifu the country ii 
should suffer nothing when sab itted to the A 
ment of the committe When 
suggested th 
quarters to Chiswick a strong outcry ! 
although it must be admitted that now, wi 
ompeting lines of , and a regul 
service, this place i very mu 
difficult to h th is 3 lety 1 
quarters ih the Albert Hall. But it bep eaded 
e old gardens the home dar 
Society, whilst li ht and not expensive buil 
tt be aches this if needed, certainly е 
