Fesrvary 26, 1887.] 
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shake the soil from the roots, which spread and 
cover, pressing the M un firmly around them, and 
then mulch with 
strongest trained about 8 inches apart, and encou- 
raged to grow to as great a length as possible with- 
out being stopped. It is a mistake to train them 
thickly, so that the foliage Goce crowded, as this 
prevents the wood being g proper! matured, and is 
thereby is not only detrimental in man the num- 
ber and quality of the blossoms, but accelerates an 
attack of mildew—the Rose's most deadly enemy. 
The most efficient remedy we have tried in our small 
Rose-house for destroying this parasite is а weak 
F rog А 
те. 59, LELIA ANCEPS VAR, SANDERIANA: FLOWERS WHITE, DISC OF LIP CRIMSON, 
solution of sulphide of potassium, which has been 
i a en ntly re io commended in this journal. For meet- 
Фал Der a spring demand for blossoms we culti- 
Vendi r of plants i in pots, which are repotted 
чишип, and are introduced a few at a time i 
ure, a ume piper subjects, the ДАК of 
3 have become too numer 
gre to cultivate. all 
ero r ordin 
€ The RE is a selec- 
Ones :—David Pradel, Jean Ducher, La. 
re d'Or, Madame Lambard, Madame Willermoz, - 
Maréchal Niel, „Marie Van Houtte, Niphetos, ош 
venir ler Ami, W. F. Bennett, Reine Mari 
riette Жайыде Bravy. T. бой, Hendre бак 
dens, ез нот 
THE COCORITE PALM 
(MAXIMILIANA REGIA). 
Tue full-page illustration in the Gardeners’ Chro- 
nicle of Febr het 12 last gives a very good idea of 
this magnificen ent ie as seen growing in the 
openings in the ben the river banks in British 
Guiana. One É: Kiwa enisi h 
giye, and which. dónibtituten the peculiar beauty «f 
(5ЕЕ Р, 280.) 
er Cocorite Palm, is the way in "n. e light 
shade are constantly changing places on the 
dad leaflets as they flutter in n ает with а 
cing for joy. They 
graph, for they are never still for an i 
In the dense wall of di side ^ bami 
e tree 
an 
where these superb trees appear to the greatest pos- 
Hus advantage. They do not grow close together 
ove, but a little way eta as if punt for 
а agii on а lawn. 
e mos 
stage of growth is that repre a in on 7 
tion, with the e leaves ising st raight from. the 
ground; but the t metimes develope a 
stem 60 fee "When ay "half this height the 
trunk is often invisible, being completely covered 
o picture can 
with creepersand Ferns, The finest of these planta- 
tions of Cocorites, as they may be called, that I saw ' 
p the Dem 
, hiding it just as the quill is hidden in 
a beautifully curled ostrich-feather. The upper 
surface is deep green, and they are whitish’ under-- 
‘he Indians in the interior make darts from tle 
leaf-stems, and use the leaves for thatch. They eat 
on the river banks the Eta 
(Mauritia flexuosa), which has splendid, aene 
and a ae like a grey stone colum ce- 
ul nicole, = greenhouse eile "аре 
edulis. "d. Layard 
HORTICULTURAL SUNDRIES, 
MESSRS. CORRY, SOPER, pei & CO, 
as sundries. i 
Street, describe themselves as “ Whofeenle Horti- 
——— Sundries Merchants to’ Nurse 
n and Florists,” and i 
ticular forms of animal life which occasion Айй 
especially in the skin, among the live-stock of the 
arm, as well as those other preparations having 
nicotine for their essential element, and known for. 
their excellent effects in settling, so to speak, the cor- 
responding parasites that affect plants, such as scale . 
igating greenhouses, er hose teen 
articles known аз ti don Tobacco pes " and 
n Powd ome EUM = {тее, 
best. Virginian or Fits af o. With 
the assistance of scientific preme cain have the 
most suitable apparatus for securing the essential 
oil of Tobacco 
It is, however, with *nurserymen's, seedsmen's, 
and florists’ sundries” t their great 
e 
, Stage scenery, summer-* 
iiem waterfall, iie: wall, or what not— 
you ll find patterns and designs here, and you may . 
es СЕСЕ of the necessary work, all to be done 
in virgin cork ; so with rustic woodwork and garden 
furniture. you may see here nice little E as in the, 
recent Exhibition grounds at South Kensington, 
hanging-baskets, wall cad flower-pot stands, | 
