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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
` [Marcu 26, 1887. 
all those fine spring plants: some of white and 
violet here are very large, 2} inches across the 
bloom, measured without stretching, as a gentleman 
would, or 3 inches as a tailor would. es bes ig are 
foot across each way; they are pot w diis 
heat underneath—a method pratised 
When too thick in spring the е 
In a few rim this uai is Cine- 
eyes a 
terrible spectacle. Fancy, if they were ail of the 
colour of Melton Sree what a noble sight ! 
mply long igne of flat zinc 
ШНА. ап these vould be im 
pro ved is bending up the sides, so that they А 
н pushed into the ground. Watering over the 
Gladiolus beds is made easier by pipes laid all over 
the suut but it has to be completed with water- 
cans. 
Delphiniums and Gaillardias are here in vogue, 
and the best English hybrids have come from here. 
in aes and potted and placed in the fram 
mentioned, and pmi Roses, 5 "cbe 
мс аге EE dug in by the pie 
So now I have told you all abo the Kelway 
Jini " Al this i is the work of one man's lifetime. 
Is it not a splendid result? Where will it end? 
This x er repe in wr тер to nin 
ш, dio sen all o the 
orld, -— given xem to esie e of people. He 
is is still i in vigour, and I hope will live to give us many 
more glorious things. It is not too late for him to 
укы мер tr magical wand the dark blotches of 
ratus is most delicate varieties, or 
to sat the yore spot of Saundersi on his Swords of 
Fire. ope is, that his work, so nobly 
begun, shall continue to increase an enlarge 1 his 
urn thanks to James Kelway. Frank 
Miles, бы мй. Bristol, 
P.S.—I must add a e 7 because since writing 
this letter much important rmation per turned 
up. In answer to questions aay suggested by Mr. 
y has raked out of his Е 
memory the following facts. 
He read at Manchester Museum a tract of Dean 
о? his crossing the Gladiolus, The extracts he made 
have got stored TN and he will be able to find 
them: some one may meantime search and extract 
the p е е Gladioli. 
Now w e got completely at the origin of 
Gladiolus fif ed = Herbert must have 
new laurels added to his 
In his соса published i in 1837, he says: 
as not Certain he had succeeded i in crossing 
the i psitta cina) is 
Probably among his EER was gandavensis, 
which he had not then seen i 
t does he do with the Here EES 
In August, 1875, Mr. Kelway met at the Руна 
` show the Rev. G. W. Manning, rector of Little 
€ and of St. 
te garde 
and failed to bloom it. 
Houtte, who, ge tried to flower it at Ghent, sent 
it to the Cape, where р flowered. It was 
to this coun try ^b t i 
commerce and тото the seedling gandavensis, from 
the Latin for Ghen 
1874 Mr. Keiwiy visited M. Souchet at ber 
ирег, and he told him he had commenced 
ig the Gladioli, cardinalis, blandus, and bes 
1834; with pollen from the hybrids he 
produced seedlings which flowered in 1845. Mr. 
Kelway cannot speak French nor M. Souchet English, 
so they wrote down questions to each other, and 
ere 
owe an unacknowledged debt. I eed 
proved to my own satisfaction, if 
Dean Herbert raised the жы Daffodil, Sir Win. 
introduced in 1789, 
d жаша (psittacinus) in 
830, so not much time was lost by Herbert. Now 
the only thing we do not know for certain is what 
was the one parent of gandavensis, psittacinus being 
the other. I presume it was not а species, but one 
of his own ыы» 
һаз always been averse from using the 
pollen of such spec 
this would be a degradation, so it remains for o 
рери to = hybrids from С. communis, which 
ight be easier wn by humbler minds. Mr. 
res e is strongly of opinion that the Lemoinei 
strain has nothing to do with G. к, ve is 
G. purpureo-auratus crossed m G. cardinalis 
some other s species. This pm having а 
succeeded in raising сайыл from gandavensis 
varieties crossed w urpureo-auratus, though he 
was the first to make the effort. I think Dr. Hogg 
once showed me at the Royal Horticultural a lot of 
Gladioli half gandavensis and half either communis 
or byzantinus. F. M. 
THE ORCHID HOUSES. 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS. 
HUNIAS, if starting to grow, should be shaken out 
and repotted, the pots should be well drained by 
placing a ке; = moss above the crocks ; i punt 
grow well in f а пе 
of peat d an dation of a few А беш Oak 
a and coarse sand; do not с the d ce as 
nias require plenty of water w e pot is 
filled with roots : at that period a little фа сч manure 
water, given once & week, will help them on quickly. 
n potting strong bulbs should be selected and placed 
on the surface about 3 inches apart, each one being 
made secure to a Wake; water should not be allowed 
to lodge in it. This Orchid likes as m sunlight 
and heat as do many of the Dendrobiu 
Lelia anceps is starting to grow an da xd receive 
RARE, potting or E is necessary, а 
st about equal of peat-fibre and 
Ы е the pots 
ocks and 
= ө; їп мае ә po flowering bulbs. 
үз X 
5 моо ths 
now, and should be repotted. No doa t many 
rdeners have their own favourite compost for these 
plants, and put great value on it; but I think 
success ipe d depends upon the house and position 
they are in when growing. y 9 potted Calanthes 
in different ways, and grown 
their appearance did not frm an 
following micis will be sufficient for them Nb 
parts loam and one of fine peat, an d to this a 
little coarse sand and leaf-mould. 
TEMPERATURE, 
The following temperatures should be maintained 
at this period o year: к=» opem 
,50°—60° F.; Cattleya-house, 60°—70° Е t 
lidisn-howsé, 659—759? Е, The two latter will not 
suffer any harm if allowed to rise 10° with suncheat 
rovided that ventilation be given. C. Woolfo 
Downside, Leatherhead. 
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THE GLADIOLUS. 
TING time is ч ig hitherto the weather has 
g, and in this 
Mr. Kelway’s system of planting 
cannot be done so carefully as we are able to do it 
degeneration of the highly-bred garden varieties е4 
С. gandavensis, and every word of it has been 
written as the result of my own experience. Further, 
we are told that “ Turnips and Cabbages are equally 
affected by bad seasons, and the Gladiolus is as 
these;” and yet in the face of this 
as state d at 
Iti is n za) потоне 
was named John Standi 
Florist and چوا‎ ~ 1872, 
zi the ccm of it, it ыда with him, and 
never sent sei obese to this I had 
ert Tea Certificates for new E 
8 
deners’ Chronicle, recommended t also re- 
marked on the fund of рее excitement there 
is in watching the flowering of t Ы" Е 
proportion of the seedlings will p as good, an : 
f or to the parents ; for, be it understood, 
advocate the crossing of well chosen parents: with- 
out this the unir of improved varieties would be 
noticed. He says :—“ Mr. ‘Kelway i 
tinct person еей orist." Why? Bec d 
cross his fine garden eir s of G. gandavensis wi 
, 0 
seedling се {һе а 
right a popular point jh vie 
makes ed у” леги, Не вїаїез that Max 
edli from Sounder were reje 
lin's seedlings pott. 
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seedlings ; 
and Pus i 
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ade from 
a bec are new see 
as been made, 
M gre y ыйда as the bes 
as the best by the Floral d 
aca minority 
he same opinion. Theart flowers 
find quite as ak n m 
