CHRONICLE. 
Fearvary 26, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
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Porrixa-v». 
When the shoots have developed three Magis of 
leaves, lift carefully with a stick, and pot mall 
in a compost similar to that Loser 
This time the compost 
should be a little rougher, and for one pa 
sand used, substitute one of good sound loam 
FTER- TREATMENT. 
After the plants have taken to their new shift & 
system of pinching the shoots should be adopted, 
and the plants should receive a free admission of air. 
Towards the end of May, or early in June, it will be 
safe to trust them out-of-doors. An old frame which 
een used for forcing Potatos, on the top of a spent 
leaf-heap, will be found a suitable place. А similar 
the second shift, but 
coarser, with a little less sand and a little more loam, 
should be spread to a depth of 6 or 8 inches. The 
plants should be turned out of their pots and planted in 
this, from 10 to 
rose. The sashes should be placed over the a 
few days, and they should be gradually hardened off 
till they are removed entirely. Т eatment is 
w pinchi nd watering. By the month of July 
f water, and SEL water 
with Thomson's manure and dung 
HE BLOOMING iid 
About хе the points of the shoots will 
begin to show signs of setting for dire They should 
now belifted and potted, a dull day bei 
for the operation, if possible. 
earefully lifted with 
e weakest will go into 6-inch pots, 
but the rebus ones will require 8-inch and 9-inch 
for their accommodation. As potting 
A in their 
owers, I treated н e in the above manner 
last year, and we hay ч 
of flowers all мыни tha inter, a t there is 
* quantity. The only insect which troubles the 
Bouvardia thus treated is greenfly, but a little weak 
O-water from a fine-rosed syringe keeps them 
- Wm. M. Baillie, rne к 
THE BULB GARDEN. 
Min elucet eo 
= : It is never later than the карыш of 
a Tuary in x ing its charming white flowers, and 
bui it grown patches instead of only а few 
bs would no ; den presen жуш f 
a place in 
very en whe fl 
th chic f bá TE eis Е spring flowers form 
their leaves up, all of which seem strong and healthy 
after their warm covering. D. 
IRIS RETICULATA VAR. SOPHENENSIS. 
This pretty little Iris is now in bloom in the 
greenhouse at Kew, having s Taf receired the pro- 
tection afforded by a cold frame dur e winter. 
It was fully described: by Dr. ges 
for April 11, 1885, where its chief differences from 
the type and the principal varieties are fully stated. 
flowers, and is well-nigh full blown before the leaves 
make their appearance. It is very dwarf at this 
stage, the flowers rarely more than 1 or 2 inches 
from ns ground. The lamina is of a light reddish- 
rple marked d & low ridge of orange-yellow, 
ulle "e an in the type. A reddish-lilae 
with Musis кен lines o do very well 
with pot culture, but in all probability flowers much 
too early to be useful in the open air without some 
kind of protection, which is not кча covenient. D, 
DAFFODILS: THE SMALL WHITE MOSCHATUS VARIETIES 
OF THE PYRENEES. 
These pretty little forms must be found on the 
Pyrenees at very high is, or else on the 
southern slopes (Spanish side), where sunshine would 
be retarded. I have 3000 bulbs planted since August 
against а south wallin my garden at Temple Hill, 
and they are now only appearing above the soil—in 
appearance of foliage similar to Snowdrops. Will 
collectors can! whether my surmise be correct, -= 
dus пеат аатта &с., 
why? because palli 
in fu Hower тс Ж (Feb 14). To ве 
тіп tter name souls them, as all the 
blooms are aa “ышы; tortuous and unique in 
this respect. See Daffodil note in Gardeners 
Chronicle, February 19, p. 247, and read tortuosus 
minor for “fastuosus.” 
Foreing Caltha palustris (see p. 245, етте 
Chronicle).—I have anticipated M. Carriére in the 
way in which the soil is kept m ee 
pot, and cork the hole 
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&, 
= soil pure in the 7-inch one. W. B. H., Cork. 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
SOME PLANTS IN FLOWER AT KEW. 
Lycaste jugosa,—1n the Orchid collection at Kew 
are two or three well-flowered examples of this in- 
teresting and somewhat scarce Orchid, ho eal was 
Spiranthes colorata.— This м реч terrestrial Orchid 
is well worth growing for its handsome erect spikes 
the bracts also being highly coloured. 
be so curiously neglected ; there is no mention of it 
even in the last edition of Williams’ Orchid r 
Ma Some pans of it at Kew are now amongst 
the most imt t objects in the Orchid collec- 
tion. Formerly it to be grown under the name 
of Stenorhynchos peni iosa, 
Pleurothallis glossopogon, now in flower in the 
trange and striking 
flowers in the 
are the flowets of the last- — plant, a fine speci- 
n of w aw in п. Bull's estab- 
pe eu d e 
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е species is a native of Ce ntral Mer Sa 3 was 
figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 5840. С. N 
SoPHRONITIS GRANDIFLORA ROSEA. 
may be interesting to know that we have a 
Dut made in this country. have seen tw 
plants of this variety at the garden of Mr. Peacock, 
of Sud use, Hammersmith, and com- 
parisons made with the several plants it would appear 
that the rose-coloured varie not so vigorous as 
the type, but it is very distinct in hab owth, 
have віх Ape that were pur- 
chased at one time from Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton, 
which appear to be of the same habit, and indeed 
two of them have already produced pink flowers, 
Н. A. Page, Mount View, Sheffield. 
S. grandiflora. 
CALANTHE NIVALIS AND TURNERII. 
A collection of these popul d useful winter 
Orchids will no p be koe without a few plants of 
the above late aving С. Veitchii, С, ae 
C. lutea, and gre bove, a succession of Calan 
flowers be had kosi the end of October үт "the 
end of i and nivalis are a at 
their best. ide me now, and Veitchii was well la at 
the end of October. O. T. 
ORCHIDS AT Mr. PHILBRICK’S, BICKLEY. 
This c еза is well kno to 
choice and rare specimens dert are Бети pear for 
аі the experien ced gardener 
e collecti 
8 of the best varieties, sagi ts = excel- 
anceps Dawsoni; this had eleven 
ading growths, all of аа strong 
enough to produce flowering € Cattleya Per- 
; two of tl 
dosis blote hed with 
that this handsome early flowering Cattleya can be 
rchased as cheaply as any other stove pet no 
arm house shou ih Bes t them e pale 
сени form 3 E ome colo as a species 
rei € name of 
bait house set а f 
eulture of Phalænopsis is - een very attractive ; ; 
in the best varieties of the various speci 
ably well bloomed, ned a 
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the spikes having eighteen well formed flo a. 
uarti distinct, formin ost 
legant sp wo vari being considerably 
ahead of their fellows, by reason of the 
clusters of dots on the ral sepa 
P. amabilis i ucing numerous spikes 
1 flo plant of a - р псів 
ike of probably the largest flowers of this species 
а. е 4 proi i by 3 inches. 
"This is a natural hybrid between P. amabilis and P. 
Schilleriana. 2. ‘the Phalænopsids are cultivated 
ts suspended near the roof, and they 
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DE Abs the house A very regular "moist atmosphere re is 
vaporation f fom - borders, whic h ave 
