+ o Then 
каруу, 
hi 
778. THE: 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
(DECEMBER 18, 1875. 
Cordilleras of the TT especially of that D we 
the chain from Veraguas to Golfo Dulce, and i 
prim xcu n that clothes the sides of the V 
of Chiriqui, as well the rocks that Sier the 
Chiriqui "Viejo, which аі through the Potrero del 
Volcan. 
A more convincing proof is given of the money 
value of those plants by the following extract from the 
Gardener? Chronicle of London, Oct. 9, by the 
names m b 
ities, but the prices in English shillings are plain 
enou 
ecies named Cattleya Dowiana refers to 
beautiful species with magnificent flowers which grows 
in Costa Rica, and bei oduced into notice 
pany, is named after h 
= about £20. The Carles “all of which are у 
uch pick in England, abound in Chiriqui as s well 
as ii Oh Odontoglossums and Cypripediums ; one pla 
ofthe former brought 22 guineas. The total bent 
realised by the sale was over 10,000 dollars, 
HOW TO GROW LILIUM 
AURATUM. 7 
SoME time since, when noticing the garden and 
pleasure-grounds at Duneevan, the residence of James 
McIntosh, Esq., which are charmingly situated on the 
slopes of Oatlands Park, near Weybridge, in Surrey, 
overlooking the windings of the Thames as it takes 
its tortuous course from Chertsey to Walton, we men- 
tioned the splendid examples of Lilium auratum 
there to be met with, and which exceeded in the per- 
fection of their development everything we had else- 
where met with. The illustration (fig. 159) which 
we give at p. 781, prepared from a photograph with 
which Mr. McIntosh was good enough to favour us, 
will give some idea of the manner of their growth, 
and will show how exceedingly beautiful they become 
when thus planted in congenial homes. Not only are 
the plants conspicuous from their stately and massive 
proportions, but the profusion and size of their 
blossoms are astonishing, and the perfume they throw 
over the Imost overpowering, 
Тһе garden, as we have terio dee mentioned, is on 
aged and the t is somewhat rapid, so 
| эн the mansion 
country x 
siderable part of the picturesque home pleas 
vir died үч 
h and 4 feet in diameter. Ther 
es Albertiana 
and bea 
arative кые 
also contains 
some grand monum n an aged but 
noble heme of Lebanon, in a towering Larch 80 nx 
high, and in a gnarled and venerable Oak, a remnant 
of the Oatlands Park of other days, which has a stem 
23 feet in circumference 
The = glade of Р kept turf sic forms the 
main portion of this ple richly fur- 
nished with clumps of "Rhododendrons, which thrive 
amazi ingly, and e for Me like e vener- 
able o A 
темагъа: 
і inches, 
heads of magnificen rover, which in y cases 
individually measure a foot upwards w when fairly 
One plant during the past se 
two stems and about two 
this number or more upon 
size of the heads of flowers on some of the 
vigorous stems was from 2 feet 6 inches to 3 feet wide, 
by an эы depth, and these, it may 
in their 
aze of course planted in peat, сабит 
= 
Soil, more- 
ue Мур 
РТ while at the edge of the а а COH 
Кое 
LEER 
subsoil a cool, moist sand ; while, from the inclination 
of the surface, n is little or no ris 
nant moistu grr gers therefore, just 
meet the wants of the Talie; of which, indeed, their 
luxuriant growth be 
drons, e plants are 
wn 
ot 
ather eriod 
is something rem inherent, seeing 
that the bulbs are planted out, and all receive "similar 
we saw them in the early part o 
with the majority of the plants, some 
ite gone enda and others had scarcely 
reached - Жа of half-grown buds, while some of 
those then in bloom were pd dit bloomed out, others 
were in their full glory, and others again just com- 
mencin he bloomi eel must 
Fa iw x from July far into the a I 
may ed that the situation is fe markably 
sheltered, d hence well suited for d endurance of 
the splendid heads of blossom. 7. Л: 
Florists' nid 
DRESSING CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES.— When 
in the North, at the close of me month, e attention 
was called to a corresponden ich had appeared in 
the Fournal of Horticulture, "following the n: dd 
at South Kensington, on the subject of *'dressin, 
MA and I was urged to „Ж 
rise (it was put to me in a much 
more err fora) | the remarks of ** D., of Deal," 
had excite 
since obtained the d in марг the 
керин» is to be found—of which, from circum- 
stanc need not detail, I had previ dot been 
мадай лым. though i 
return to my old 
express, not merely the surprise o 
friends, but my own profound astonishment and e 
at the strange jumble of paradox and fallaci 
assumptio ns and assertions set forth by *''D., of 
-— 
of Deal," were a young and inexperienced 
бс “he might be allowed to pass, in the confidence 
“that 
his would be 
knowledge ; as he proclaims t 
grower, on ой, for more than thirty years, and for 
j a very fr 
contributor to floricultural literature, we are cut off 
rom hope on that score, and I feel constrained, there- 
you 
ower to be the same. 
Neither could dmm Ball, nor, what is far ene геа 
Ball’s master—the m; f most of us in flori 
iri peor such a marvel nor губе У the К Vet art 
of the dresser make that good which in itself is 
radically bad. 
Coming from one who should be an eei yr ae it is 
= aes о be told, as ‘ of tells us he 
ered to who 
those days, and I do not see how they could be 
fuller. с Іа 
the 
petals hung tus the repe. v were disqualified ; but 
now а ma als may be 
*anyhow or nohow,’ but the magic art of the dresser 
transforms it.” 
My only remark on this paradox ical assertion, 
t be to assure your readers that ** D., of Deal,” is 
аву mistaken. Тһе flowers of the present day are 
not larger or fuller йна those of thirty у sin 
the has ever to 
number of petals—and there has 
“any relaxation in the rules for determining the merit 
less ee or flowers in glor pacc e e 
save in the 
d + 
logically "d his side of the question—but then had 
he been logical he would have written, on such a 
subject, sot: at —by assuring us that one who can- 
not dress his flowers (Carnations and  Picotees) 
“ would have no more chance” against one who could 
do and dress them well, **than would a try dress- 
maker, beside M. Worth or Augustu: born, even 
though they e 
same materials to work with. 
Лу» we decline to 
ignorant taste and abilit 
and prefer t 
submit ourselves to the 
gh they have the ** sam кпе materi: 
ith." And I assume if *D.,o 
Deal," were called to Co s or even $6 receive a visit 
from my lord, his bishop, h 
follow the direction of a Bond 
matter of dress, than the ignorant dictum of a country 
bumpkin. 
ore curious than singular, but it is a fact, 
that the асбе < dressing p- Mm on and Picotee 
has never been impugned, s o have 
been either entirely i ignoran 
therefore, pita started from premises 
without foundation in fact, or from facts so miscon- 
ved and misconstrued a s to lead to inevitable error, 
M ^I s desires to - the question 
onk in “all its broadness, I refer him to the Florist, 
Fruitis 
р. 30, he will 6 rge 
І can speak with as much we 
Dodwell, 11, ee am Т ead 
Cla apham, Dec 
Larkhall Ri ise, 
Natural History. 
Томтітѕ,—Тһе — иы ЧИ EM 
Lane is - id very unusual occurrence, M easily 
to be accounted for, as the Titmice ра аге 
sedentary birds, and do travel far except their 
ily rounds in the woods an in of 
aily ro 
ch. and they generally return to the same roost- 
ing place, pose it is not likely they were congre- 
t 
fi migration, although it is 
ible E driven oy he 5 пеи which 
E mentions, might receiv: уво о their 
mbers as they reached fresh localities— ion 
our birds ot 
e" except in e рне саа severe weather. But 
here a question arises. Were the birds cann such 
a direction as would take them out of reach of the 
orm nu 
the 
the following spring, when тут 
erse for the е of 
itmou datus) may be seen during 
the autumn and winter r months i in flocks of ta twelve to 
sixteen, and fly from in searc inse 
and are kept together | BF their continual chirping. 
ast year I saw a flock of about thirty individuals of 
this species, which I should think was two families 
united into Th ti 
(P. major), coal tit (P. ater) and the blue-head 
ecies (Р. in smaller com- 
an four together, 
cs of th 
Gardeners’ Ch: ^ January 4, 1845, mentions a 
flock of the great titmouse of twenty or thirty indi- 
Monona on а end of grass-plot infested with t 
m 
maining species are much rare 
navy the regotz. If any other reader of these pages 
notic: ees anything like Mr. Lane (as indeed I have M 
ould us his experience, also if Mr. 
Would kindly еду to my questions so as to ee » 
history tah relating to this interesting bran natural 
em it a favour. A, A. Rolfe, 
s 
Hotices of Pooks, 
Milk in Health and Disease. 
S Newman, Devonshire 
= FR ed 
Smee DUUM cible pulito aie I 
| Cited. brochure. In it are recorded the results of of his Es 
