740. 
THE T GARDENERS ‘CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 1I, 1875. 
terate Hops by giving them scent or colour 
by drugs, while the cutting of Hop-bines grow- 
ing in a plantation is made felony * without 
benefit of clergy." 
Phillips, in his History of Cultivated Vege- 
Zables, draws attention to the fact that the Hop 
is the only native plant that is under the con- 
entered, on pain of a penalty of 40s. per acre. 
In the same Act an additional duty of 34. in 
the pound was laid on all Hops imported over 
and above other duties ; and Hops landed before 
entry and payment of duty, or without warrant 
for landing, are by that Act to be forfeited and 
forfeit Z5 per cwt; 
134, per lb., and the Customs duty 
now reduced to £1), was, in 1860, ex Bs 
revenue from these two duties alone ainounted 
in the year mentioned to the sum of £79,439. 
Both as из vi апа exports Hops are of con- 
siderable ce; in 1872 the former 
ro ug i 135,965 ovs while the quantity 
хро as 31,215 C 
Although the chief us use : of the Hopi is that con- 
beve p 
race. it has been 
Be 
г 12241 
Cloth 
of considerable strength i is made from the fibrous 
eeded in a similar 
dition of paper ce 
has also been direchur s this as to most o 
od; in 
* buds or first Lc ” were used 
although that author regarded them as * more 
toothsome than nouri Nube Ef B. i 
СФ 
Стата 3 MAXIMA, Zindl. 
There is an Old tale, for private Seer i et 
we рас t alt ogether » аот Cattleya ч, Lind 
a plant only ob ce, in 1851, by th the. verme. 
wicz. "T is just now is right moment to look into the 
be seen 
ttleya maxima was published ы. Me late Aur 
aco as early as Ua 4 1831, from af 
by Ruiz and Pavon 
several 
avid Don, but aie the 
possessor um, very grand for his time, and 
rich in plants with shining leaves, which Mr. Aylmer 
Bourke Lam n 
If we pest ү time (1831) when it was described, 
the description I and our excel- 
lent Warscewicz 
ory for m» 
is lip is — in the M m Cattleya un- 
ng, t e lobes scarcely 
es Veste ved 
vel of the 
If ther sketch I could rimis the 
reprisenbation ed owers, 
perhaps of more, sin 
nothing but an enthusiastic EN of C. ma 
e t Warscowicz 
understood to do some justice Mos ur 
That is the actual state of the ба 
int i n. M. 
hope of co 
just gathe wed at M. Warscewicz’s M locality, at a 
very low level epo the sea—a Cattleya. He has bee 
ect a very ins ans i quantity, and 
European 
have written dow 
Ortgies copiis of the two sketches of Warsc 
wicz ; copies of the same may also be seen at Kew in 
Dr. Lindley’s herbarium, ere, however, no doubt 
LR "me mistake of Mr. Skinner, what I call 
axima " is named Warscewiczii, and the gorgeous 
t said to come from Quindios, M. Wallis 
hin ng i 
bering. дэй Ње plant. in fruit only. may this Mis 
excep — be forgiven for not having sent dry 
specimens. Z7. С. Rchb, 
ONCIDIUM BIFRONS, Lindl., supe} ЁЎ. 7] 
ks for E eoe g Christmas 
as Brow 
he et could not be 
the enumeration is 
n 
will іону о ше 
my young iri 
i itself, I have known 
t is No. 56 ncidium in dley's Folia. It 
is described once more іп my Bettrege Orchid. Cen 
т., p. I9. may be found in Walper's Annalen, 
i, 727. Even in the yaa? it is byno me 
such an unfrequent g as Mr. Brown suggested, 
aving been mentioned NT р. 84, c. xyl. 178 
р. 560; 1871, р. 6 874, vol. i, p. 
1875, vol. iv. tim last lé Maid 
р —the time before i 
of a wonderful pope (ctm ун: t by Mr. О. О. "We 
rigle 
After all these statements I n regard myself d | fa 
guilty. 27. С. Кей. f. 
FINISTERE.* 
orrespondent, T.," completes the 
Мүк account jJ his peregrinations through that 
noble department, inistére, и. the somewhat 
** unfortunat 
regret that i ely” 
Secun аА, ies by the бю 
that ''it is something to have trodden spots 
once the sanctuaries of those mythical A 
perso: 
Where “С. T." finds his authorities for the eres 
of his Gallic priestesses I know not, unless it is 
Strabo’s account of the ** hieron " at the mouth of the 
River Loire (Ziger flumen), which I need hardl 
is some distance from Finistére and the land of the 
Agnotes, Osismii, and Corisopiti, where a colony of 
grass-widows held orgies; whilst, again, the mighty 
Druids, the priests of the Celtic race, erected no 
sanctuaries whatever. 
However, there are some relics still standing, 
+ | Perhaps Gallic, but certainly not erected either by 
ids or priestesses, i i 
Б, Сышыш) iO MU. ** cultores i 
rum et veneratores lapidum " in the remote corners of 
y, and the symbol ofthe cross has been 
рео оа ed don аз. 
lip. | Е 
engraved upon many а menhir which the pia 
have worshipped and would drame cross Or no cro: 
ii m ге will be found to have existed 2 
o long ago, if even i a чы ie actually exist now, in 
out- of-the- i» places in Ireland, Wales, and Corn 
1 forward a (drawing of five menhirs which form a 
quon of an ‘‘alignement " at Jeuré, on the promon- 
y of Cr rozon, mentione 
ч Commerce a sufficiently primitive inn 
ar to which are the eke s lines of 
amorpholiths a «үрү» arrange the form of 
а Swastica- like cross. Beyond are P standing stones 
é, which are represented in my drawing, and 
n e numerous little but solid e ai 
mills of which your correspondent makes fun. So 
ese nie are tolerably ancient, and everything 
is coast is atttibuied to Zes Anglais. The 
Ish. 
Camaret, ne i 
alignments overlookin ng th 
ing that they form 
=) 
e skeleton (unfinished or de- 
stroyed) of a Gallic io җа en to con- 
viction, 2.е., every conviction that d ot involve 
Druidic hu umbug. From Fret nag ме to Brest 
there is a steamer plying, which coasts along lle 
where is a powder factory; by Qué 
its fortifications ; and by sows save = Pre: 
rod 
then to Brest, S. P. Oliver, Capt. R 
GREENHOUSE PLANTS—XXVIII. 
THEIR CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT. 
CORREAS.—The varieties of these plants mostly 
grown are hybrids raised by crossing the New Hol- 
land or New South Wales species, the best originat- 
ing from the scarlet-flowered C. 
with the green.flowered C. virens. 
colour—from scarlet to deep crimson in the 
with a green of lighter-coloured band near the apex of 
the flower. are very free-growing plants, of 
easier to manage than m 
tries. e free flowerers, different varieties 
coming in bloom from April until the close of the 
tici med ds unacco ountable, a 
r 
shuts out from general cultivation in our green 
many plants that might e ge adm tage be gen 
oftener dis 
The ‚ being comparatively strong rooters, 
will succeed po potted i in either peat or loam, but, where 
the form in ity it is pre- 
ferable ; ydo used too and t 
—— A — so as not 
one 
insure porosity when th 
mpra in it, but to maintain this сойо 
n for years, 
with ordinary care they will last long. They should 
er ubjected to any reduction e ball, or 
shaking out process, со tly i 
if procured any time after their 1s 
hs ani ci pem wintered use with a 
tem f from 38? to 45° in the night. Give 
through ys winter as much water to the soil as 
do not make so much many 
i Lo кер: it is not advisable to sitet giving 
th than one shift during the year. It is 
em about i 
