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GARDENERS’ 
CH RONICERB. 
[DECEMBER 18, 1875. 
ano pe but also the particular variety. 
Great differences of habit exist in different 
varieties, and our practice should be regulated 
accordingly. 
Before leaving this subject, we may point to 
it as an illustration of one of the things that 
might be done in connection with our horticul- 
tural societies, and especially in case of that 
which, by virtue of past services, if not of present 
repute, takes the leading ресе among the horti- 
information, by affording the means of discussing 
particular topics, but how much more effective 
and the living 
example in the shape а ees 
where poem the А operated o 
under discussion 
—— WE have received from Messrs. HAAGE 
& Scnuipr, Laune. of Жи, рз. e opes 
of a new type of d 
WINII, and which not only show cons азмы variety 
Vena but represent also four pada стреа differing, 
а seem, k winii major 
hed habit with large 
heads reached 
but they were 
about dbi inch i in depth. The leaves a га Ta 
with an acute point, and t e-ne Kas 
colours of the flowers olde s fe дада Scarlet, 
range-yello rple, sulphur, and white, 
iped flowers, including suc ch 
white with purple flakes, purple with 
white pe yellow with crimson Sirene cud with 
purple flakes, &c. Others labelled Z. D were 
described as аза ng of dwarf compact- bete н habit 
"- reg tea etg d ; the flow ere 
nical cately double, неву differed from 
the others in n beng пао ар. 1j inch across 
and і in full double, with a 
high. ite 1 
and included ч сн ие sulpl свй оед range, а ке КЕЯ 
ог three shad 7. 
5, вя erm n,a hybrid feed SEIT een 
canum) and Z, elegans, and is 
natant It is abundantly ишо їп 
character from the beautiful double forms of Zin 
ns now becoming popular, and, so far as can 
from cut flowe 
| form of Zinnia is 
o merit. 
smooth and “A a glossy somewhat liver-coloured red ; 
rplish 
The RoYAL AQUARIUM AND SUMMER AND 
WINTER DEN SOCIETY, West т, pro 
holding a series of grand d fruit shows on 
the following dates:—April 12 and 13, forced 
Rhododendro: Azaleas, . Lili &c. ; 
and ІІ, Roses in pots, greenhouse Azaleas, Falms, 
and other suitable plants for 
Ма 31, stove and ise plants, fruit, 
&c.; 6, Roses, dimer able Sections 
tions is “£2500. 
— On and after January Hosius len France 
that country 
cards, 114. 
; ed papers, 
documents, and patterns of 
r 2 ounces ; registration fee, 44. 
Unpaid letters from dune e will be charged 54. per 
half-ounce on 
REUTER's telegram from Madrid states 
that the the PHYLLOXERA has made its appearance in the 
едг of Tarragona, and also in different parts of 
ortugal. The Spanish Agricultural Council was to 
poco Ra ut tas to consider the best means of 
the Progress ess of this. 
ue Minore dips cd. 
‘two mon cet rN ct 
Mr. SMEE can possibly say 
or bad nmi 
| Some wicks be 
science and of botanical "agro ki hs defer further 
comment until that report is befor 
—— The English ji eun at ie recent COLOGNE 
EXHIBITION have ved the ards made to 
them, some of w "Hon as the iris of porcelain 
and 
. CARTER & Co, 
негу Ир ай W аР grass се» КРИ by 
them 
sA GRAY writes to us that the PASSION- 
LOWER mentioned in DARWIN's Climbing Plants, as 
e 
Р. acerifolia, is real ycyoides, the former 
name having been attached to the plant by an over- 
sight. rites t h everal times 
vertical to a horizontal Mn make a sweep of 120° 
in half that ызын of seconds. 
—— Messrs. VEITCH & Sons have now bloomed 
the double 
PLENISSIMA it might be 
be, what indeed the dried s Masini. had al 
us occa x to believe, a pe T a plant, gs z 
superior to the or geh 
single tier o Зам the a 
branched paidin and all Ше ыгар» b рег 
their quota of coloured bracts, ranches 
- ME m their axils. 
This Бовоар роеѕ оп rel i in 
e, heads have vm seen to acq 
pens of i$ 15 bites n due time submit to 
our readers a figure of this sapa acquisition. 
m 
In a paper lately read before the ie iety of 
Arts, is, Mr. A= D SMEE called attention to the 
danger пей in eatin g Watercress ‹ or salad 
d mance v ith se VÉ, = as that sewage may 
the germs of the duree caede poison, the 
wage for a period o 
The paper elicited 
ing pertinent remarks from Mr. W. 
I write to say that I am prepared fully to endorse 
Sakis that you (Dr. LETHEBY, the Chairman] or 
against арго жы laid-out 
and, as u know, I 
en done so 
wed 
Fames 
S Yet it remains a fact both from а chemical and a 
"entirely purifie e o ona large scale, — iu properly гры 
ducted irrigation—that is, ma the s 
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e than the typical bein. 
swamp which I have heard You so often and so 
fully condemn 
* All land irrigated en sewage de o to be drained. 
t The surface ought only to be mo d, above 
all, not by focis ng the чы ole of a fase field sideways 
out of one big psi ien little E little out of a great 
number й an 
ug t to o be applied to grass for some 
оша da days before ber 
oa tobe Боа on land that is con- 
e they are harvest 
** If thesi snis are followed no Des of any sort can 
or does a o not see why a certai 
n number of 
rules of "this kind d should n ot he draam d up, up, and magie 
tion had been applied up to the time of picking. 
—— M. JEAN SISLEY is са for the fol. 
lowing statement in Ze ateur de la Région 
; "He tells us that an — plant col- 
lector (not named) in the island o Catherine, 
eae Ss after having gathered all Pur Orchids that he 
wed the rest and threw bue into the sea. 
Other 
that he gives are that e collector rarely 
T “ à et 
Still 
[ "d 
een rd э чын fortunately, ў like io 
eod 3C to be applied to root crops for 
y suspect the irriga- 
adopt, and E in spite of the known perils of the 
e, and do enrich our stores with so many 
(у = 
no longer send out iri 8, it leave that business 
to the nurserymen alon 
—— Among the Orchids in flower at Kew we find 
the fol following :—Saccolabium calceolare, very pretty, 
with dense spikes of yellow flowers, their lips touched 
imson ; Calanth with other varieties 
m 
of vestita ; C. Veitchii ; Dendrobium tetragonum, among 
ream of the curious ; endrum variegatum, 
Kok from the marks of dark chocolate ; Oncidium 
crispum, and the finer form kn ; O. abor- 
PM a | remarkable and attractive Черта; ; О. cucul- 
latu . triquetrum O. cheirophorum 
тета ms, the i куна is a white form 
of O, Roezlii ; har are was Se i nconspicuous yellow 
lines at the base of the lip to prevent its being a pure 
elf: othe ао bictonien . Uroskinneri, 
and O. Феба: Sophronitis militaris, fine forms of 
Lycaste Skinneri, Zygopet etalum Mackayi, Cypripe- 
dedium Sedeni, C. ezlii, in — for nr two 
pin -—, C. longi erat stum, C. con 
color, C. insigne, and the fine Түз orm, ай 
Pliilenopaids are always epresente : : there are now 
P. grandiflora and P. 
Uu 
— 
— urious discussion arose lately in the 
Quee censland AN mbly, earn from the Rock- 
colon ; another 
for stock. The members hes seem ы Pus ad some 
en all bu | 
out tof the Bill for ie present, with the view of in- | 
it "Bill; ALSH © 
t Mr. 1 
"the mitte did ` 
really legislating | 
M persevered with his 
ed to ene 3 
ords “ Scotch Thistle,” Mr. GROOM 5 tating hi | 
protested — proceeding when 
miss know wh с Bu nts they bie 
inst. However, Mr. GRO 
Bil, and ‘diated the House er 
the w 
LN prt available for in rode ^t the bewildered — 
legislators. | 
—— a ere is perhaps no more effective ornament 
ves than well-grown Po1NSETTIAS, but un- . 
sionally the subject of disease. 
specimens 
a 
affected, in which the u 
arg 
per leaves, instead of being 
of a beautiful clear scarlet, are 
ott er wi 
pinkish spots, oi more or less shrivelled, suggesting 
at first sight eid of thrig is n 
however, ape S that mischievous insect, and 
though we have found one or they are in 
such small qu: asto make it quite certain ns 
they have nothing to do with the conditi 
ofthe plants. Here and there the milk а, 
and in the dried glob we adiat- 
ing s ular bodies full of ules whic 
seem to have been expelled with the milk, after the 
fashion of th hich are common in so 
gum, as, for ple, in G In 
milk itself we find a trace of such bodies, and also o 
that the cuticle was 
resence, and if so i 
< 
knowing 
h or of an i ееп 
itis impossible to form any opinion on the subject. 
; , however, are ny: 
t 
extraneous matter, М. 5. В, INe breid learne 
