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GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
'Marcu 19, 1887, 
but one plant of this species, and that was a ina 
6-inch pot, and by the side of this rarity (as it was 
i а Warneri, 
m in pr С it was considered а 
very successful fe 
Wh bates ваќ 1860, Messrs. Hugh 
greater A of this grand lot were soon disposed of 
of Blackburn, amongst others, obtained 
time С. Т. Dodgsoni 
C. T. Osmani flowered in this 
These two varieties will always be con- 
на famous, on account of the prices they fetched 
when Mr. Dodgson's plants were sold off, the former 
realising 185 guineas, whilst Osmani fetched 210 
ineas. During the past few years large numbers 
im 
ge colour. With such recom- 
arative entren 
tity, and will always give pleasu 
for since it blooms when scarcely any others of the 
labiata section are flowering it asserts its own supe- 
riority at a time when Orchid blooms are most 
iated. 
The flowers may be truly described as being 
amongst the finest forms of Cattleya, and the Lelia 
harpophylla was particularly large, and the colour 
i sum Rossi variety is the erubes- 
cens of some rd the markings being of a 
ti & decided manner with 
Aude C. Triane blooms some 
flowers of Lelia harpophylla, now flowering very 
ау with us, the "individual om of this much 
le Lelia cinnabarina rm and colour; 
they а however, а а. тоге e pointed, and the 
lip is much lighter than the other portions of the 
fl 
up las 
winter the glass has seldom 
species are now flowering well. Another plant of 
almost the same shade of colour is Epidendrum 
vitellinum majus, also in bloom. 
Cologyne cristata Lemoniana is well een’ 
here. We have four plants in flower, and are 
pleased with it. Its purity and ug ght lemon зң 
are very attractive. I enclose a spike with six 
ms on it. 
Amongst a large batch of Odontoglossum Rossi 
majus we have flowered many чараны forms, both 
as regards size and colour only one has а 
peared, having the distinct онака, of the one I 
send (I ps tied it to a good fi 
You will n 
the whole of the labellum is pure white, 
dently not a mere freak, as all the flowers on the 
-plant have come exactly similar to the spike sent, 
W. Swan, Howick House, Preston 
PLANT PORTRAITS. 
v rem LawsnERGUE, Z/lustration Horticole, 
1887, t. 
АР Crowzsit, Lindl, Revue de l Horticulture 
Belge, March. 
ODODENDRON н Vicia vm T Horti- 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA. 
GREVILLEA ROBUSTA. 
Tuts is a very useful greenhouse perennial; it is 
l habit, producing from the 
groups. Seed of it can be sown this month in sandy 
soil, covered lightly with some of the same descrip- 
tion, and then placed in heat, placing over the pot 
or pan containing the seed a square of glass, and 
a it some moss: should germi- 
1 
n fiv 
The pluie кай be potted off singly into small 
60's с direct have made ап inch or two of growth, 
puttin he glass, and should 
be an and shaded from bri ght cR for a few 
days until the roots have t the new soil, 
afterwards «ана them into 4 and 6-inch pots as 
room a - у 
leaf-mould (about three parts of th 
of the latter), with the addition of a little coarse 
sand. This should be made firm about the roots in 
potting. 
WINTER-FLOWERING BEGONIAS, 
If cuttings of the most useful varieties of winter- 
flowering Bego nias, beue ng fuchsioides, ауык 
multiflora, Ingrami, manicata, nitida alba, semper- 
florens, and Ба a аге taken during the present 
month and inserted in 48-size pots filled with light 
root; after which, if they are potted off singly into 
small 60-size pots, watered, and put back in heat, 
shifting them subsequently into 4-inch pots and 
ill make nice useful plants for sup- 
stove during the winter 
necessary, they w 
plying cut flowers in the 
months, H. W, Ward 
PHAIUS GRANDIFOLIUS, 
Ica send =~ out all that Mr. Smythe, of Basing 
Ра р. 217, of this fine Orchi 
spikes on it. I have to-day wii 1) measured 
hree spikes, the lengths of which are respectively 
42, 44, and 46 inches, with frui talis to eighteen 
looms open, and a 
open. They have been in flower since the third 
week in January, and will remain effective for some 
weeks to come. When the plants have done flower- 
ing they are put into an ordinary stove, repotted in 
oam and peat in equal parts, with а 
little well- Bri cow-manure, and a plentiful quan- 
tity of coarse sand. The pots m well drained, 
and the plants well supplied with Бы. The onl 
rest we give them is by placing the plants іп а lower 
temperature, as winter and short days advance giving 
less water. Directly the зеро begin to open their 
flowers they should be taken nd ичсе the that 
is never allowed to get to a big perature than 
60? by fire-heat. J. Wilson, inne Жа, ыйа, S.W. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS, 
Cut-back plants of th h I bjects 
which were not repotted as soon as they made a 
eouple of inches of growth, should not now be dis 
turbed at the roots, but instead, should have the 
surface-soil worked off the plants, and rather deep 
round the edge of the pots, afterwards replacing it 
loam, leaf-mould, and horse-droppings, 
the latter two, Train the shoots neatly to sticks, 
using only as few of the latter as are absolutely 
to give shape and support to the plants. 
placed 
Cuttings inserted this month in sandy mould, 
in heat, will soon They should be potte 
singly into 3-inch pots, E acu them A 
6-i е ones, nd by s ing the iios s to е 
that hes flower during 
flowers are large, of 
colour from white to crimson, bluish-purple, алаи 
with white, vice versd, &c. H. W. Ward, 
COLONIAL NOTES. 
هھ‎ 
THE ОСЕ ЕА OR LOOFAH. 
Is there not some mistake about this in the sho 
кс (p. 594, Gardeners’ КҮЛ, November 6, 
886) on “ Luffasin Japan " Luffa, or pum 
"E is used as а flesh-brush, is tel to be 
gula. Is i 
m these 
two kinds, and "E them both growing here. Being 
on a visit to the “ Old Country ” in 1884, after an 
absence of ten ye ears, I had an opportunity of noticing 
sale i in chemp shops, and found 
e kind, viz., L. elite, 
very different, that of L. cylindrica having a smooth 
skin, which peels off clean from the vascular portion, 
eaving it in good order, without iine the out- 
side fibres. It is too bitter in taste to use asa vege- 
ble. L.acutangula has a rough adii with longi- 
tudinal furrows and sharp pire. or edges from end 
to end; this rough skin does not peel off like the 
other, but breaks into small pieces, clinging to 
brous portions. ull-grown fruit is of 
e same length as that of its congener, but is much 
much again of the 
fruit, before the vascular portion is proper ly 
is an excellent € quite equal to the best 
> eri It is grown here for that pur- 
not "muflciently m John F. , 
‚мет Gordes British Guia 
New ZEALAND. 
ee rley.—The word “ Beverley “ Bever,” 
aa “ley " friendly—is И — 
0 hk seat of Arthur Perry, Esq 
gentlemen to whom this part of New P яі p 
much, and who is one of the greatest patrons of hor- 
ticulture in this island. 
'The main approach is by а broad sakh en 
curved to make the ascent easy, and to 
ciently 
a feeling 
b 
insignis has literally o = 
extent, that its total eradication is almost a n ; 
ra t and more — 
flowers that in some instances he 8 
himself and personally superintends реф in their 
early stages of growth. | ' 
of the chief features of this garden is its 
ay or the vo 
valuable collection of m for MÀ eme b ostia 
flowering. He gita 
ner, Mr. Knowles manages са 
Mer e api im he best reir ien of 
the tuberous Begonia on e side of the equator. 
In the Tropical-house are many genera, 
to be seen in most Euro exhibiti 
jas ае 
"ел 
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