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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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spotting finding place on the ground colour of most 
The plants are very robust, the 
on his Cyclamens with hea s not endeavour 
to get a full-grown Seat with in the period of a 
year, so that his plants do not fail when put under 
the ordinary conditions of culture 
Cinerarias, which were only just акн 
colour, should be a fine sight in a month's ti 
These are just about the perfection of Cineraria 
ч stocky, every part well developed, 
without a tra "Ду. 
аз аге ue ерене houses being 
filled with them, the See s of various colours, 
and the singles of the sinensis йнй occupying 
rent houses. rows, 1 fe 
differen т. t long, of 
Primula sinensis, White Perfection, formed a fine 
sight. This variety is a great improvement on the 
Queen, the white purer, and the flower less puckered ; 
Queen of Stripes, a pale rose, with an Auricula eye 
of a velvety texture,is a notable sort. 
The double kinds are particularly useful for green- 
house decoration, and are here always increased from 
cuttings. 
The Begonia-house was filled with flowering eme 
foliage. Mr. Cannell finding his present amount of 
nursery garden much too small for the а of 
his increasing business, has taken a farm 
in by hills on pes bie and 
> demie adapted for any kind of n i 
it and vegetable growing. Teeny s acres of 
this fertile vale a already been trenched, provided 
with roads, paths, and water; and are being planted 
with stock from Swanley. The t erms of his lease 
of 40 acres out of the знн аге very favourable, so that 
with ordinary anagement, the energetic 
3 founder of the Home of Fin and his descendants 
. will have a larger and a better home for nearly a 
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predict what the florists' ОЧЫ may be іп 
NOTICES OF Books. 
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LABOUR ON THE FARM By John Chalmers 
Morton. (Bradbury, Agnew & Co.) 
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e of the excellent series of Handbooks 
e Mr. 
These are explanatory and argumenta- 
The | fifth chapter "deals with the cost 
farm operations, ora the last with the 
t each month of 
be 
book is written 
ard and agreeable style that 
arrests the pleased attention of the reader, and 
spec thor, even in cases 
where he feels he must differ from his conclusions. 
ici цы Солк. 
AL IRELAND: a Practical and Non-Political 
tew of Tiled: for the Irish, By Robert 
is., (Murray.) 
g Alar book which excites our warmest sym 
9 more potent means of putting an end to 
the unhealthy fermentation that characterises the 
neighbouring island can be suggested than he: ipf 
profitable ааз. The climate is so wet, much 
the land so barren and relatively destitute of Lite 
wealth, that many in this country who do not know 
the facts of the case look upon 
course of 
surprising variety of 
butter 
5 : the 
hundred pages he deals with a 
subjects — agriculture, cattle breeding, the 
one can 
lay the entire blame of the present condition of 
Ireland either on the climate or on the soil. 
Resources there are awaiting development, and these 
t few nor unimportant. So t are these 
resources and so varied that it is almost with eei 
nation that one reads of their misuse or negle 
Whether this arises from faulty systems of govern- 
ment or from hereditary racial characteristics it is 
not for us to discuss here. All that we can do is to 
thank Mr. Dennis for his book, and give a general 
which we are here co 
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Immediate returns might be 
roceedings such as bring wealth 
to the Scilly Islands and Western Cornwall, 
LE PROPRIETAIRE PLANTEUR, &С. Par D. Cannon. 
(Orleans: Herluison.) 
Th a little treatise full of useful practical 
hints on the subject of afforestation and decorative 
landed proprietors and estate managers. 
tural depression is as severely felt in “ Protected ” 
s it is here: our neighbours have the 
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may 9 to give ou 
ofi its co The lessons ther convey are in the 
main applicabie to this country and to Ireland, and 
those that are of purely local interest may be passed 
over en 
Cas on advocates the importance of at once 
planting. all land which is no longer profitable, 
either as past r as arable, and to render 
worn-out waste lands productive by better spera of 
cultivation, appropriate manures or impro 
and lastly, by planting all waste land not suitable a 
ordinary cultivation. „The author speaks w the 
confidence that experi e can give. What 
he preaches practised for the - fifteen ye: 
France, but 
in Sologne, one of the poorest region: 
which i is now in process of rapid transformation, and 
in of agricultural depression is comparatively 
and increasingly prosperous 
In the cultural enterprise a the present day, the 
in which represents the difference between 
fit and loss becomes daily narrower, from the 
effect of competition increased cost of pro- 
duction. Every error in management, every useless 
extravagance in planting may, therefore, e ngender 
serious loss in the future, the ill-effect possibly not 
becoming apparent till long after the cause ; € if 
Art in general is long and life is brief, the a 
pismo! is b көл long, for the life of the planter 
only corresponds to the infancy of the tree. 
к diri кй instance, then, Mr. Cannon counts the 
cost, and bids the intending jtini calculate the 
ratio of cost to the probable ultimate yield ; he gives 
sites, and of trees suitable for particular soils. He 
details the necess tions, d sho how 
economical and careful work—how te- 
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2 obtain 
red tape seems to be unwound and wound up 
again. 
Having thus given general directions to the 
would-be planter as to the relative advantages of 
sowing, planting, or transplanting, and given instruc- 
tions as to the method 
what he passes over. 
these have now been 
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hardy t rees of great pro and 
ually aid eiii eil introduc 
rofit. We might mention 
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removed in the case dim the trees mentioned, just as it 
has been in other 
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labour and time, and is Аре to be of very great 
assistance to the forest 
INDIAN ORCHIDS. 
HEY Grow 
NDITIONS UNDER WHICH .—Deciduous 
varieties of Pha m wire are principally confined to 
ars mainland of India and Burmah. Plants of this 
us growing in the Archipelago are not asa rule 
ur aei the и, of the islands never attaining 
the dryness of the 
Puarxworsis Lowtt. 
This plant loses all its leaves in its native habitat 
directly after flowering. It grows on limestone 
rocks, and on the branches of small bushes, growing 
in the crevices of t 8. , The ra ranges of 
limestone hills on which it grows, rise suddenly out 
of the ae of the rivers Gyne, Ataran, and Salween, 
The coun i 
these hills is dades. water the geate 
up, an an 
ves have dried up, pk us 
remaining but roots. 'The roots cease to grow, 
but are kept plump by the heavy dews which fall at 
resting season is short, as showers fall 
in March, when the plant at once begins to put forth 
fresh leaves. 
Some observers have noted that the plant 
