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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
347. 
FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 
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THE PHLOX. 
Tuts is one of the most lovely late summer flower- 
ing plants, easily propagated, and its cultural re- 
quirements are of the simplest kind. For this very 
reason the Phlox is generally badly grown. 
grown 
Each c one will throw 
А two or three year 
uce a dozen or score ; all these 
m remove ut five, when they are two or 
three inches long, and in that state they make the best 
In order to get them rosted quickly I prt 
each cutting in a deep thumb-po plunge tle 
pots over a gentle hotbed. They. bie roots very 
quickly, and soon make growth. When rooted each 
plant is E into a 5-inch pot, and will produce a 
handsome spike in 
perfume. These pot plants are planted out in beds 
or borders of rich deep soil. 'The best spikes 
imaginable may be produced from these the c 
эы season. The third year they will flowe 
trong, and after that they ought to be destroyed, 7. 
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PRIMULAS AT FARNHAM ROYAL, 
The capacity to 
Cinerarias and Cal lh in the kingdom which 
r. Jame es’ experience seems to have 
been e апапу 
ingly wa strains of Chinese Primroses. Without 
m he houses at Farnham Royal in which the 
rimu 
* тне У уды like the оет, pus Chiswick Red 
eae CARNATIONS. 
A Supply of the. 
se sweetly scented flowers, varyin 
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colour from pure white to brilliant red and rich 
Tmany, white, "imd marked 
M beste yellow; Pride of Pens- 
шл no scent) ; Miss. Sui. 
; Worthington G. Smith, 
E Sod d re, ӨЛ: un dark crim- 
кагыш ir de 1а maison, blush-white. 
Res "1 supply mm during the months 
ne. 
ost in getti N in cuttin х 
9r other approved varieti If es 
tlates 
are placed closely together on petam A i. 
the finest strains of ~ 
water pipes to take the necessary number of hand- 
lights, and the slates covered with two inches deep of 
ite sand, the desired complement of good healthy 
cuttings may be inserted therein at = m T s 
inches apart, watered through a fin tcp 
light put on, and the cuttings shaded e M glt 
sunshine when the foliage of the Vines is not suffi 
cient. They will soon root, and must then be potted 
off singly into thumb-pots, using fine sandy mould, 
put back in heat near to the yt watered, and 
shaded for a few days until the roots have pushed 
into the soil; afterwards admit. ры freely during 
favourable weather to ensure sturdy growth. The 
plants should afterwards be shifted into larger pots 
as soon.as they re — it, a вош pos сөт: 
fine group, the 
white spots shading off to yellow in the ч, with 
broad prj See eye, was very dist Other 
colours of the same type were rose, ME ere e 
purplish- oom all sad da spotted and very pre 
Another form of th 
f flower, edged like a Picotee, was very 
charming, and should be in LE co Nastia’ the 
colours are rose, lilac, and с 
The blu ARN т aaa was EA by a 
plants having a very distinct habit 
and flowers of great ел. borne on long stout 
stems ; the colour is light blue 
т. Ow. wen has been successful in | raising a few very 
ing of three parts good loam (more or and 
one of sweet leaf-mould не a little coarse E 
added, making this firm about the roots in pottin 
The pinching, sticking, and tying of the Кане 
should also be duly attended to. Н. W. JV. 
ANT- enki oe 
ERIA 5 
AN 
Few people would be inclined to enumerate an 
Orchid in any list of insectivorous plants, yet the 
little plant a is the ~~ ied e note is such 
confirmed ant - catcher circumstance 
deserves to be recorded, em it "s hardly ien 
f dw: 
and compact habit, it bears erect distichous ibis 
of numerous small white and very woolly 
the spikes much resembling those of our British 
Spiranthes autumnalis. The flowers measure nearly 
two lines long, the sepals and petals, which expand but 
very little, being t half => length. plant in 
the Kew collection ring several spikes of 
flowers, many of which ipea black in the centre, 
and on closer examination this is seen to be due to 
the presence of a small black ant. The flowers 
secrete a drop of liquid at their base, which is per- 
he 
creatures, and that in several instances the} 
alive, and making most strenuous efforts to escape, 
but all to no purpose. They come to suck the 
nectar secreted by the plant for the delectation of 
those insects (whatever they may be) which fertilise 
the flowers, but being themselves unfitted for this 
se, and not being strong enough to get € 
they pay the penalty of meddling with things too 
high for them with their lives. Such is fate. R. A. Р 
NURSERY NOTES. 
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PRIMULAS AT MAIDENHEAD. 
. В. Owen, of the Boyne Hill Nurseries, has 
for at last ten years been working up a strain of 
Primula sinensis, and has got one of the prettiest 
collections I have observed, most shades of colour 
aoa in күлне ing represented; amongst 
rose-magenta, a very hp Аы 
vith tike yellow и eye. The flow 
scr substance. poss specially LAG 
rosy 1 iolet-purple, crimson, 
hsc "ilac, blush, and ше i of the plain leaf 
lass. The Fern-leaf varieties, the light and dark- 
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the 
The lightly spotted varieties are e ars for 
decorative purposes. They are a distinct type with 
medium-sized flowers. A rich crimson flower with 
ais в decided a erri and invaluable where cut 
flowers are n dém and at this season of the yesr—one 
a clear white 
that can be desired ; it is one of the finest of the double 
white varieties. Another, white with primrose-yellow . 
ground, is of great merit : and lastly, а scarlet-flowered 
kind, е in habit and form to th 
Other беч 
and as pae 
elevated shore the foliage, they are admirably 
adapted for cutting purposes. Visitor. 
pileo AT AP * ow: 8, M aine: 
| м 
аз үз some i lhet prier tmn ететан ч 
gro 
ength of dime established on 
The 
and are rarely any 1 
blocks or in pots ere they pass into other hands. 
enabled to follow out their risky Ai set in the 
жон rear of our advancing tr 
Cypripedium-houses were fall ‘of the most 
ну Анар plants. C.ciliolare, a small plant, 
was throwing up freely, although in some ha 
reputed shy ; ; established plants of C. 
Many of t 
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Вогпео. rge numbers of wonderfully healthy 
examples of C. Swanianum, C. villosum, C. Roezlii, 
C. Lowii, and s T ON EM. were observed in 
к^ various hou 
e Phal кит -house was crowded with plants, 
E healthy, vigorous little things; butthe flower- 
P. Sanderiana, quite white, but not the true P. alba; 
P pen "P. Schilleriana, and others, ps ы in 
1 
Of that specialty a the nursery, Dendrobium 
А rdianum was in thousands, many of in 
established and ее тт am сасе ир 
flower; some of the a larger size 
than is usually seen after they have тийе growth in 
this country. A dark variety of D. F indlayanum wes 
ierardi; D. trans 
The numerous plants 
indications of abundant bloom later. 
Of Angræcum sesquipedale there is now bend 
one of the finest importations that has ever arrived 
сот its habitat emis e shy and 
cult A. citratum was observed in quantity, with 
one e spike of my ap^ bloom on sage of the quite 
l plants; A. Ellisii, a large fl 
jm m 
. Of Cattleyas, a few of C, Eldorado cut of à Yer; 
