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THRE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[Aucust 8, 1874, 
untidy nests, as straws, rags and tags are an 
abomination ; but they would be fed, and they 
would keep the Roses clear of caterpillar and 
aphis. We should have great enjoyment in the 
birds, and we should mutually watch and trust 
each other. 
Then the alleys must not be far from the 
house, at the same time retired from the main 
paths, for the birds must not be disturbed, nor 
the Roses pulled by every idle passer-by. 
North and South would rigs the direction of the 
summer alley, so that the Roses and “ Honey- 
suckles ripened by the sun” (Much Ado eae 
Nothing, act iii., s. 1.) would get the m 
and evening rays. e leaf-alley Sak be 
planted according to the ‘Gtetion of the pre- 
valent wind i in each district, avoiding anything 
to a funnel or extreme draughts. 
Thus we can step out at all hours in any 
weather or season, without any ceremony. 
F. G. TM, Wardie Lodge, 
New Garden Plants. 
ALFURORHALLIS SCAPHA, #. 5p.* 
“A Pleurothallis !” the reader will say sneeringly, 
“ Oh yes—a Pleurothallis.” If it had the name of 
Restrepia it would be hi 
raceme with 6—8 flowe: 
Perera but in lieu of four 
The flowers are 
The inflo: eal 
have been favoured with a good inflorescence 
Sola Mri J. Day. H. G. Rehb. fe 
DENDROBIUM Bee ty delin n. spt 
-A very prett much like Dendrobium 
Bullenianum, but distinct in the shape oF the lip, Aes 
“to os of the co dt 
wers Se ar E 
d with p 
he mara 
r a genes) pps 
"that of D. ae eE aa b with 
‘Yohei fom ie Stuart Low. Æ. G. Rchb.f. 
: obtongs seiko ph 
ae i transversa- in ungue basin versus ; columna 
; ore ea: laciniis lateralibus triangnlis; lacinia postica : 
_Subulata, antro parvo antic basi su pra rostellum. 
icillata. 
Fi Pseudobulbis dense aggregatis depresso sphæricis_ multi- 
vaginis 
sit in thE diie 
Holy the i proceeds :—‘** ‘Bat ideed the 
true reason 
years ago at Mr. Stevens’ rooms, looks like a dwarf 
attleya Mossiæ. The sepals are rather narrow, pallid 
alpine coloured ; the petals nearly equal ; the lip ofa 
similar ground colour, Pa a zi 
orange from the tip of o 
aaa 
Q 
b 
and from thence to 
d 
the Bae of the T The small column is whitish, and 
a large violet spot on its front. The flower is 
šoikenist larger than that of C. Skinner yet the 
parts are thicker and narrower. It might perhaps be 
compared to a e aimee Lelia grandis. ia 
colours, pe let. pallid, and the oran 
- Nees ad and the Mee et Lai a a quite un A 
Tae to thank Mess tch & Sons for this 
novelty. H. G. Rchò. 
3 
DIGGINGS FROM OLD MINES. 
ANCIENT THEORIES OF VEGETATION. — Th 
Rev. John. Lawrence, of Yelvert ak in ee 
ae aes 
sG rasa aes published b y Bernard Lintott between 
the Temple gates, Fleet "Street, in the year 1714, 
thus tells us kow to inoculate with Tarigan the 
plain-leaved Jessamine iea nhen ga plain Jessa 
mine tree spreading itself into two or three branches 
rom one common stem near the root, into any one of 
the branches, in August, inoculate a bud d taken fr 
baer hd -striped l Siae ne wh 
inter ; and in 
ips its shoots, vi wi 
leaves tinged with tem even on the other 
not inoculated, till 1 à es in reese, oer 
hole . tree, 
the w ree, eve! 
shall be att beaut ig striped thanks f ie 
merits of 
me testimony to variegation] 
is not material 
ting its virtue to the ‘opposite 
ches, hi hate the pee itself an zet ie out.” 
Marvellously poten’ been in 
may here k 
eo for too Iag A a 
a 
he or 
shoot which you make choice of for buds to inoculate 
ting), b 
immediately Abs wie Whether it was found 
that some of their potency pose out our author 
by i Fe Same yet even in that little time 
it will have com ed its virtue ap 
and the tree will econ entirely s iit. ow- 
to case with ol t 
ever, was not ) 
such 
be the 
chor, who wa philosopher, does not, therefore, 
doubt the case of the Jessamine, but, on the contrary, 
sets himself to discover the cause of the diffe 
It is a somewhat singular coincidence, i a ka of 
remarks in the Sorter? Choice some time ago, 
offering mechanical so! ifficult vane 
relating to the aaia "of vegetable tissues, that er 
Lawrence ex variable effects of inocul. 
at difference seems to be plainly 
leaves ose 
bus ; apice longe racemoso sub tapiti amaeo i 
Setaceis ovaria pedicellata hispida sabiei iu us ; para a 
triangulis tri-quinquenervosis ae _hispidulis ; tepalis lineari- 
“uninerviis ; labello ĉo rdato 
columnæ triseta. — 
+ eyi Hibin Cattleyæ Tad mm 
racemo bifforo; sepalis 
ligulatis acutis, lateralibus deflexis ; tepalis cuneato itai 
: labello amplo medio tril lobo, labis lateralibus ahaa. 
is ; tog antico semioblongo obtuse acuto, sinubus inter 
lobos crispis; columna trigona, antice valde excavata, andro- 
clinio Geaa immerso. 
wrote The 
the venrem sia Pai of the pa rt| 
Will he kindly say w 
e N 
worked out, and fresh deeper ape in this direction 
ea Sah rdly fail to yie eld s rofitable return, 
rn experimentalists might Mab" much — 
ollow the lead of this aid,  clearsighted wi 
Some years ago Mr. Thomas Rivers, ot fa hal ridge- 
worth, chiefly, it k jiinember rightly, at the sugges- 
of Mr. Dar 
a eee other experiments on other or 
pe remember seeing a repor 
tisis. Tf not tr oubling our venerable friend too much, 
ibly he would kindly inform us how far h 2 
ence confirms the inoculative force na ME se buds, 
rmant, cry ae It would be im 
state the time "at which the opera setian was performed, 
and also the time of ivf or T when the buds were 
pei from th ee of tension 
m ave at neap-tide. Darwin 
in his chapter on bud variation (vol. i., chap, 11, 
Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication) 
is not very explicit on t int. Num-rous in- 
stances indeed of n or sport’ among 
flowers, fruits, and leaves, are given, but the causes ate 
ot made clea e , however, is 4 — 
and others given 
Chronicle The great ciety is to get reat: 
ofichanae induced by budding. I donot deny the 
of form, size, and colour ; these are obvious 
edonsive a while they refuse to come at the Bidding 
f they, . or ae greater 
ms, come without am 
fi How, o 
soir such circumstances, can we distinguish betvi« Dye 
tree, a hundred 
golden sport : 
or instance, a Yew 
old “possibly, showed a true 
the 
stocks below inoculated with the golden 
tint? Or is it contended that, in in order to such an ad- 
give important ony as re © this condition 
yim s [The 
tisfactory of this nature is think of the re 
Thik oeat referred to in these columns, EDS.] 
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