THE 
OCTOBER 3, 1874.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
421 
by the suspected Bushgirl, and these were pe iyo to 
me for at ther report. The fleshy parts of the root- 
e 
re 
stocks being absent would a gon in itself tọ afford 
extra presumptive pro oot against the girl; for dooi 
the active part o = herbs bad been disposed of for 
some nefarious purpos 
. Gray goes on to sag the result o: experiments 
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up pemg on coction of N Torzea, which 
proved fata Dr, Pappe, in his Flore 
Capensis Het @ Prodromus gives one or two alarm- 
es of poisoning by the bulbs Moraa 
ing instan 
ollina, in seie ot ea the result was fatal 
PETERBOROUGH HOUS E, 
FULHAM. 
isi the n of the present year tue, was shown at 
of the meetings of the Floral Comm a magni- 
ey specimen a theftruly regal Medinilla magnifica, 
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> 
(e 
several times been prre sd some anaes Orchids, 
one Ang 
of which, a fine specimen of secum sesqui- 
pedale, was figured in our mns gt r, p. 255. 
There is here nice collection of Orchids, and 
of other plants, which w e- 
t freely in two Popnas 
and there is a a Oi lot of fru 
= first Pant. “that came under our notice oc Save 
he end, oor, of a fruiting Pine stove, and 
its pame A is a T most luxuriant description, a 
bears five bunches of from ten a dozen 
each. In this house, on the roof on either side, a 
low enough dov s not to shade th ines, the 
richly goers Des us ase 3 nd Alla da Hen- 
dersoni furnis of bright colouring, latte 
pecially being parton i arly lavish of its golden floral 
wealth. Th dis wenger of the Vanilla is in th 
fast Indian anani ent of a half-span Orchid- 
house, {under prne a of theffroof. This is a fine 
av 
Smooth drat are two good _— to vineries 
on the Paxton principle, now, of o , almost 
enuded of fruit k anew Fig-case, covering a a fine old 
o s ed) the Brown Turke a l 
mprove The kitchen 
arge, pene Ü consequently or aly the pra 
uits and vegetables ah 
s a warm lover A a ig d 
of plants i 
e of Ho wood Park, Kent, it m may r 
abl ved be expected tha at its kapi will be ow Hh 80 
in every respect worthy of so liberal a 
mol ct of horticulture, 
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Fic. 87.—MEDINILLA MAGNIFICA AS GROWN IN THE GARDENS OF W, TERRY, ESQ, 
which, as a matter of course, readily gained from that | 
body its highest note of admiration—a Cultural Com- | 
mendation, The plant was only in a 12-inch pot, yet 
the diameter of its branches measured 7 feet, and it 
was nearly th measurement in height, an 
carried about eighty racemes of its glorious flowers. 
It was shown r. Fairbairn, then gardener to W. 
Terry, Esq., - Peterborough House, Fulham, and 
now prese taken at home, mote after. 
a the plan the 
rtrait, 
Our ‘lesation Be 87) sh 
positio! ant linang which it en and now 
occupi: amy =. te ants being $ tephanotis 
Dn, and Allamanda mreny ome greed Be with 
remarkable luxuriance on the roof; and some good 
i of Gardenias, ie flowers of wick are 
ways ` in demand choice young plats of the ne 
Crotons, erns, Marantas, ee, | 
and such AES plants as the Cacao (Th 
Cacao), which i : 
(Mangifera — the ae plant (Piper nigrum 
now in flower Cowon plat (Gasp) Še. ; 
while in a tod Bt 
a 
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| 
Rea melt a artet Te name of ote WEST INDIAN FRUITS. 
ner in a a (Concluded from p. 400.) 
collection aof "Tandas and ppuan Denisas, PLACED near the line of the tropics, the Bahamas 
an er Orchids requiring the tempera sci sf a 4 possess a climate that admits of the growth of the 
Tadia. Ties The nex nt s | fruits and vegetables of both zones, though a 
the Cattleyas, a capital lot ey siaa M Behind t e | not favourable to t cu roductions of either. 
two houses are others devoted to cool Orchid, 0 one | gardens around Nassau, the capital to the 
containing bere sally Odon Niginani, Oncidiums, | gr islands, the St any other 
&c., the others sdackgalty Phalzenopsis. These four | northern fruits are intermix th the most delicate 
houses contain the nucleus of a rich collection, which | inmates of the English hexane Altho ote 
some day ma aaron their mark on the exhibition | in their natures as the positions of the countries to 
rales. Aw fie half-span roofed structure a duty | which t they me po ly appertain, the Pitch Pine, 
as a greenhouse, and cont aii of the N t, overshadows 
ains aie Heaths 
on the as — pr in r at thi 
orth American foresi 
its fallen cones with ae ‘fruit of 
ander the. itis said, can exceed the 
les 
ming 
ap ae 
the soil 
when 
