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HE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
(JULY 18, 1874, 
of chaste and beautiful flowers high over the foliage 
There are some strikingly beau- 
ra Barkeria crea 
others, and a very com- 
The following were 
in flower :— Baan M. pant bape M. ignea, M. 
coccinea, mabilis, and several others ; Epiden- 
i j wing remarkabl ly how it 
Here, also, is the beauti- 
rchid, Disa “granditors doing well, and 
pone Senger es vigorous spikes ; tes in 
Bar Same Sm ce L. alba 
Next we came to a small span- roofed Odon Carn 
house, with wide stage on both sides of the cen 
walk. The roof is shaded with the bara stow 
Rose, Maréchal Niel. It is undoubtedly finest 
Rose 
for glass work in cultivation. Itis. here allowed 
. to make Sithe wo wood the gro ; 
al Easter every | this new w a 
bloom, and I was informed that this one plant pro- 
duced no th flowers last s After 
less pring. 
blooming i it is much reduced by pruning, and started 
into h. Every raring season cha ast it vies wot 
p- 17). some se. 
— of the late Mr. Dawson’s Orchids, especially a fin 
Pathe thee end a mator pr V cit tchianum, which is per- 
aps th st beautiful of all oe 
hich 
A 
hat: to ne he ee variety that has ever iestad 
in Eng at petot yee. of Dicatenionam 
of Backhouse), Lælia autumnalis cP ey of Back- | 
house), and L. autumnalis superba ; my aang 
crinitum roseum, i leum, Z. rostratum 
The n next is the mem eg it is“ narro 
and span-roofed a descent of four t steps sik 
below the —this floor is l 
faat 
ow 
the foliage of the plants, 
There were somewhere over 
aes F 
and! yi y seem to se te hs 
um niveum, a fine variety of 
ower, C. Parishii, T. Veitchii, the 
oral i in flower, and many othe 
was to 
every directi tion, 
In the terki koke ness first pe Laer that caught 
attention was the | of Cœl 
C. crispa, Warscewiczi 
tie of C. bey brane two Lelia aan 
ap others. Several ig of Cattleya 
Dowiana were s has been found 
-~ rather a difficult plant to r Teei Tere I noticed it 
i delicata, se 
was hanging close to the glass, and P in m 
pai and under this treatment it seems to do 
noticed O.lontogtossum 
tsten 24 yards long, fr 
as made since imported. 
use contains also a fine collec- 
he 
tion. The ollowing were in aie = thyrsi- 
florum, D. = anum, dixan- 
thum, D. f um e dantet: D. "MeCa boii man 
rs fo 
tting at t = the plant 
can be well done by any one who possesses a hou 
se 
eat and a Pea kept up that will grow 
Cucainhers all the ge und. 
The East Indian howe oat perhaps the cream 
of the aliati The centre table is covered wit 
la thy masses o = Two Aerides Field- 
e 
iga antea magnifica 
vii, very large plant e — 
eria sin 
| dense fine 
a large vigorous 
plant ; man s of V.t and uavis, and 
good plants of V. ccerulea, V, ccerulescens, V, De 
soniana, in flo Amongst the Sacc 
- curvifolium, with two good spikes; S guttatum 
Holfordii, et varieties of 3S. viola- 
ceum, tiful and deliciously scented white 
varie soni. this were also ten 
Pleiones are amongst the most love y 
and deserving of Fae to by all who 
Nothing can excee 
flowers, and they possess Ars adva 
grown and occupying little siini 
a large span- 
to the cultivation of Camellias 
plants ; the Camellias are, 
es 
plants grown, 
have a stove. 
een markings of the 
tage of being easily 
roofed house, devoted 
and other greenhouse 
ouse Muscat cupy a portion of 
the roof, on the opposite side Black peled Doth 
carrying a heavy promisi crop. e, hanging up 
close to the glass, were a number of plants of Cattleya 
citrina and Dendrobium | eanum, with 
| little to protect them from the sun gee 
here to ripen the growth already complet 
seem quite at rik a the trea 
carriagt sfam u b ia house from 
the patty is fla abode on o with a broad irregular 
oar of shrubbery filled with quantities of all the best 
an ch a 
entalis 
splendid specimen of Thujopsis boreilis, conspicuous 
for its fine colour and way in which it has stood 
the continuous nipping foa. of the p t spri 
unscathed icea dis, Abies Douglasii, Pinus 
i the glaucous-leaved Picea (the 
true plant), Pinus monticola, Picea (Gordon’s 
disti nd h ; P. Pinsapo, a gi 
do variegata these -backe the 
healthy green kia of the 
coniferous 
a fine effect, which was still father 
by large quantities of all the best 
rieties of Rhododendrons an + On each 
iage drive are planted alternately, 
a few se apart, Irish Ye a 
the latter, ev. 
well with the riin 
Yews. Standing out on the 
large plants of 
in flower, contras 
growth of the Y a 
$ Not 
ar 
plan 
Abies 
plants of Abies gases, I0 feet high. 
ese is an arbour composed of re 
of the e crimson Boursaul grafted 10 
Pigh, wink light chains attached to the ee of 
a 
the iron sn that supports it, and w 
the roof by bei 
a circle of lo 
ground, the 
branch 
meter, of various tints, and. 
composed of seven broad Seas the w 7 
bya egHe Te 
several p 
forms of Coniferze, such as Cu 
dula argentea 
. wsoniana aurea variegata, 
osa 
; Taxus squarrosa, Thuja nam er 
Retinospora Íasiocarpa, Thuj opsis Standishii, 
ibe axus hingtoni 
[z 
other pegy m are, in not bei 
generally as the 
a 
| 
: made 
‘mites and which was supposes è before 
interest can be derived all the year round, aftordi g 
something in flower, from the Chr 
first greets the dawn he in 
unassuming Michaelmas Daisy, that bids farewell to 
hundreds of the new 
Taak Primrose (Primula japonica) in fine eee r 
r. an is crossing these in every possible way. A 
His experiments are not yet complete, but the results pi 
so far £ 
PN. S 
a good deal preconceived conclusions upon the 
subject of Ci T. Baines, i 
Reports of Societies. 
vo rn et aie ; 
So 
eas, 
a of 
dered the 
t 
experien in drying these plants sa err 
Alluding then to Melons exhibited an and grown with their — 
roots in y Mr. Berkeley remar! 
r spotted variety w. Be 
the Tr Truffe of Alessandria, Tuber 
when cut, resembled 
Passing then to the objects shown before the Floral 
Committee, Mr. Berkeley 
C. fragilis 
hich was supposed to be a hybrid be- 
and C, = pumila alba, The pretty 
