232 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
(AtGust 2i, 1875. 
this series, is distinguished by the flower-heads being 
with narrow Pew -shaped one- sage ar ame 3 b 
6 inches or more in length, 
duc nyA © deserving a place 
e A. cyanophylla is an exceedingly hand- 
e species, ‘with long blue-green glaucous phyl- 
lodes, from = n River district of Western Aus- 
Ha It at all « rub, and luxuriant specimens 
lays sie thes from 6 to 12 inches in length. A. sali- 
ing to Mr. Ben 
varieties b this, te first of which is most deserving of 
notice А, argyrophylla of the Botanical 
Magazine, t. age and i in cludes A. bombycina, fi; 
in ape and Fazie s Flower s Garden, i 
specimens cyan to a golden-yellow. We saw 1 
ng of the most lovely golden yellow. 
uth, not фк Aus ralia, as 
emis isa 
very different кросса, with long Rand branches, 
clothed with numerous broadly нарис slightly 
curved dus а чы less than in length, 
and large f It is 
AR aca ji dry 
Ck VAR 
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А. кее 
as well i in ‘the lowlands аз in the hi nds th 
Victoria,” also in 
is another variety with narrow phyllodes, from the 
nth series is designated the Бирсу, 
fro a ы of the phyllodes cas de и" 
а nerves rarely ished with ree Rande oa 
(except some with broad phyllodes wii: and thus dinin- 
ished from the lurin of 
phyllodes, very esemb. rue leaves, espe- 
ps those of a Smilax on T and in Fielding 
Gardner's Sertum it is figured under the name of 
_smilacifolia, A native of Western Australia ; 
dia a ai thick ‘th 
without a magnifying glass. This 
akos dy A. S OPENA. one of m eas 
ber tree 
and A. pendula, the only tim f the immense 
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series of the Fhuliodinem, 33 
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Bentham азаа the series we arrive first at the ee 
of the є ces 
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phyllodes Зум from Lor oblong to oblong-lanceo- 
late, and even t; "ax in e variety mucronata, and 
in length from 2 to 6 in 
The diferent бооз оа from Moreton Bay 
w , A. sophor cro 
southward : two so æ and mu ata, are 
among andsomest of the Tasmanian species ; 
the former was in өк, їп 5 men- 
1805. we 
tion the group Stenophyllæ, on acco of the re- 
markable long narrow phyllodes of its im which 
attain from 6 to 12 
lage broad phyllodes, € are sometimes as muc 
we [sin long and a: inches broad. 
words now ae he Australian species, 
in which the leaves € ү аы ariably bipinnate, for some 
manian forms are шөт! Ё. in the more fa бн parts of 
the kingdom, an n if they are cut to the ground 
by unusually severe fost ey row up again 
from the гоо! ociating with other plants 
pate ornamental foliage, either in the conservatory, 
- m in su 
esu 
Albizia чест from West Austra 
Not to m 
ls, v which are 
the globular kei a eas arrang racemes or 
clusters. spectabilis is E SiS of New 
es, and was introdu 3 
me shrub, Sine se leaves а dir into 
to py E of pinnz, each pinn icit four to 
ht pairs of leaflets. The Гаты of Чы A. 
s pairs of pinnze, and tent Agree 
pairs a мма to fach pinna, dark green above and 
pale s common near coast in 
изын апа antimis Mme Victoria to New 
South Wales. It was first introduced in 1784, мы 
its more- nde ivation. In A. decurrens 
А innze (eight to 
pairs, or rarely fewer), and very 
The specific name is — from 
the ang "s a5 aloes winged branches, A very har and 
species a tree of considerable PAG * som 
localities ; ; "it T the k 
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group is, Prat th A. dealbata, which is very n 
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spru ngu up again. In more fav 
south-west it will ем not е 
According to а recent report іп ш e Jornal of the 
: иша], Societ ideis a certain 
vepres of two pairs = agre each ipei of two 
pairs Both are co noes Sao 
m cultivated irate, flow lue in an ordinary 
greenhouse towards the end of winter or at the begin- 
ning of spring. 
REMARKS ON THE FRUIT 
CROPS. 
rdy fruit last s 
TUE reds 
us injury, as 
анбек набрана 4 
bullfinches, which came in droves, ¥. Æ. Goodacre, 
Llvaston. 
e fruit crops here and in this district are 
above меде nearly all kinds E лыр 1. Тһе 
heavy and continuous rain has, of c rendered , 
large quimtily of small fruits quite iid pples, 
on o 
them, as they promise to be very fine. JV. Wildsmith, 
Hechfield. 
—— In consequence of the late severe winter and 
the long eid excessively cold sprin 
year the үн! Я х нч 
ina: fruit of all k was carried beyo e: he usual 
period of aS «А Кы visitations, and hence we have 
y t crop of al inds of fruit , and I 
and fresh and within 
iu e the dg tii h 
making rapid progress, w which I put an im- 
колы, эң А to by dredging A trees with fresh у 
ime, The Gooseberry grub we are almost free of ; 
a ndi. we 2 the bushes стар April w ith 
soot and wood a when w ry crops are 
nd good, but pa a fortnight Me. yi Westcott, 
—— The bloom on fruit trees this year was good, 
except not bercion ; ; but nights being very cold, with rain, 
is the only reason they did not set 
their fruits. and ч ricots are 
protected from spring frosts with us by common 
fishing-nets. Often we put them on double. 
They admit plenty of asi and air, and the trees 
genera? set their fruit well. АП vill fruit Е 
doors is very late in this neighbourhood. W. Halle 
Cos. rington $ farii Bridgw 
w gardens have very p.d crops, which is diffi- 
account for, Fruit trees in general are ver 
clean, and swellin ing the fruit well E. Simpson, Wrot- 
tesley, Wolverhampton. 
MR. WARNER'S ORCHIDS. 
ABOUT the middle of May last Mr. Robert Warner's 
house of Vandas presented the appearance which the 
accompanying illustration (fig. 53, p. 235) recalls. Like 
the display of Cattleya Mossize, consisting of Ll blos- 
soms, to which we drew attention at the e (see 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1864, 553), the display of "andas 
FIG. 49.—TILE BLOCK FOR ORCHIDS. 
was a sight long to be remembered, The conditions 
s which they were. grown, and which, perhaps, 
in 
Mr. Warner will da 
ог the benefit of our readers, w re evidently s 
i deli ted in; but one Mis we ascertained—they 
SERE 
onal considered necessary. a nar- 
row lean-to of about 30 feet long. On the Баа, stage 
occupied by these Vandas there were, when we saw 
FIG. 50.—TRAP FOR WOODLICE, 
them, fifty-seven noble spikes of flowers. Some of the 
plants—none of w were large specim bore as 
many as four spi and there were from ten to 
thirteen well-develo on a spi 
The best ydg wart Le 
wintered іп а much cooler en than is 
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