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JOTIBXAL OF HORTICULTIfEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



r Jane G, 1865. 



favourite for upwai'ds of twenty years. But if so, it may well 

 be asked. How came it to pass that it was never recognised ? 

 For a full reply to this very natural inquiry. Mi-. Bateman 

 referred to a most ingenious article in " Bonplandia," by the 

 younger Eeicheub.acb, to whom all the credit is due of having 

 solved a great botanical puzzle, and proved to demonstration 

 that the Cuitlauzina pendula of Lexarza is none other 

 than the Odontoglossum citrosmum of Lindley. This idea 

 had more than once occurred to Mi-. Bateman, but the 

 character assigned by Lexarza to the flower-scape — namely, 

 that it is destitute of bracts could not be reconcOed with 

 this view. The Odontoglossum which Lexarza had met with 

 had large inflated bracts, whilst in 0. citrosmum they are 

 very minute, and at long intervals. It now became a question 

 ■what name the plant was to bear, and however much he was 

 opposed to meddling with established names, he did not see 

 how, in justice to Lexarza, they could do otherwise than adopt 

 the specific name of pendula, more especially as the plant 

 was the only one of nearly ose hundred Odontoglossums 

 that has the flower-stems strictly pendulous. Odontoglossum 

 pendnlum then let it be to all time to come. 

 Eighteen new members were elected. 



PELAEGONirji Show, June 3rd. — This was held in the 

 eastern conservatory arcade, where there was a fine bank, 

 both of show and Fancy varieties, 140 feet in length, in 

 addition to which there were collections of stove and green- 

 house plants, and numerous boxes of cut Koses. For twelve 

 distinct kinds Mr. J. Fraser, Lea Bridge Eoad, was fibrst 

 with large finely-gi-own plants, in splendid bloom, of Festus, 

 Sylph, James Lodge, Candidate, at least 3 J feet across, and 

 in fine bloom ; Bracelet, Fairest of the Fair, GtiiUaume 

 Severyns, Leander, Lord Clyde, a match plant to Candidate, 

 and very telling as a scarlet ; Rose Celestial, Beadsman, and 

 Lillie. Mr. J. Ward, gardener to F. Wilkins, Esq., Ley ton, 

 was second with good well-bloomed plants of Pline, a fine 

 orange scarlet, Osiris, Eugenie Legereaux, a beautiful free- 

 flowering white variety. Peacock, Prince of Hesse, Viola, 

 Achille, Leo, The Bride, Spotted Gem, Picnic, and Etna. 

 For collections of six the same exhibitor was first with Lord 

 Clyde, Madame Furtado, Kestor, Rose Celestial, Bracelet, 

 and Patroness ; Mr. Cox, gardener to Capt. CahUl, Southall, 

 was second ; and Jlr. Donald, gardener to I. Barclay, Esq., 

 Knott's Green, third. Mr. Weir, gardener to Mrs. Hodgson, 

 Hampstead, was also an exhibitor. In the Nurserymen's 

 Class for the same number, Mr. Fraser, was first with 

 Eoselcaf, very bright in colour, crimson. Empress Eugenie, 

 Sanspareil, Excelsior, Prince of Prussia, and Pizarro, all of 

 them nicely grown. 



Class 4 was for six new kinds of 1S64, and here, too, Mr. 

 Fraser was first. They consisted of John Hoyle, a finely- 

 formed orange red, marked with crimson, with a dark top, 

 edged with rosy carmine, altogether a very fine flower; 

 Profusion, soft, rosy pink, dai-k blotch in upper petal 

 broadly margined with crimson, white throat, a very 

 pleasing variety; Eozine, rose, with a conspicuous white 

 throat, upper petal maroon, edged with crimson ; Coast- 

 guai-d, somewhat in the way of Viola, but with a much 

 smaller blotch in the upper petals ; Exhibitor, rose lower 

 petals, white eye, and reddish maroon top ; and Rosy Gem, 

 rose and c-rimson, spotted in all the petals. 



For a single specimen plant, Mr. Fraser had a first prize 

 forDesdemona, vei-y large and beautifully covered with bloom. 



Fancy Pelargoniums, though scarcely so large in some 

 cases aa we have seen them, were, nevertheless, well grown 

 and in profuse bloom. Foremost came Mr. Fraser, the only 

 competitor in the Xursei-ymen's Class for nine, with re- 

 markably fine plants of Delicatum and Bridesmaid; the 

 othere, Lady Craven, Cloth of Silver, Clara Novello, Eoi 

 dca Fantaisics, Hebe, Celeste, and Multiflora were also good. 

 For these a first prize was awarded, and in the Amateurs' 

 Class for six, a similar position was taken by Jlr. Donald, 

 Knott's Green, with compact well-bloomed plants of Cloth 

 of Silver, Decision a, distinct dark kind. Lady Craven, 

 Delicatum, Rosabella, and Queen of the Valley. Mr. Cox, 

 gardener to Capt. Cahill, was second ; Mr. Weir third. 



For six Fancies of IbG-t Mr. Fraser, who was the only 

 competitor, had a first prize for Ann Page, Edgar, Mrs. 

 Dorling, Mrs. Ford, all of Mr. Turner's raising; Princess 

 Alexandra (Fraser), after Cloth of Silver, but with more 



colom-, and Blair Athol. The plants, of course, were small ; 

 but not so the fine single specimen of Delicatum shown by 

 the same highly successful cultivator, which was npw;u'ds of 

 3 leet across, and a mass of bloom. A seedling Fancy of 

 1SG5, called Mrs. Brewer, resembling Princess Alexandra in 

 colour, and Faro, a show kind also of this year — a soft bright 

 rose with a white throat and maroon and crimson top, were 

 also shown by Jlr. Fraser ; but the gem of the seedlings 

 was Charmer from Mr. BuU, scarlet, the eye white, with a 

 violet tinge round it, and two strealvs or feathers rimning 

 up to the scarlet ; the upper petal with a dark blotch and 

 broad, painted, crimson edge : this received a first-class cer- 

 tificate. Sparkle, more of a rose colour, but somewhat in 

 the same way, was also a pleasing flower. Mr. Bull also 

 showed several other seedlings, as well as a large collection 

 of new Zonale Geraniums and choice Pelai-goniums. 



Of miscellaneous objects Messrs. Lee sent a nice group of 

 stove and greenhouse plants, including a large specimen 

 of Dicksonia antarctica, Draca?na Cooperi and indivisa, Alo- 

 casia mctaUica, the graceful Davallia tenuifoha, Oreopanax 

 dactyhfolium, &o., and some flowering plants. From Mr. 

 BuU came also an excellent group, consisting of Dracaenas, 

 one of which, D. rubra, was bearing racemes of violet flowers. 

 Palms, a good plant of Platycerium alcicorne, the silver- 

 variegated Peperomia arifolia, Gleichenia spelunca», Arau- 

 caria glauca, and a new erect-flowered Gloxinia, A. Bonnai-d, 

 white, with a rose centre cu-cle, mottled with a magenta 

 tinge. Of Roses several fine boxes of cut blooms were 

 shown by Blessrs. Lee and Mi-. William Paul, to both of 

 whom extra prizes were awarded. Among those from 

 Messrs. Lee were fine blooms of JIi-s. Rivers, Victor Verdier, 

 Madame C. "Wood, and Gloire de Dijon; and of the latter 

 variety a box containing two dozen beautiful blooms was 

 shown by Sir. W. Paul. Another box from the same con- 

 tained single trusses of the yellow Noisette Celine Forestier, 

 each averaging eight blooms and buds, or some half a dozen 

 fully-expanded blooms. In addition these Mr. W. Paul had 

 beautiful examples of Madame Palcot, Madame Villermoz, 

 Jean Hardy, and Souvenir de la Malmaison. Blr. Paul also 

 exhibited Beaton's new Geraniums. Mi-. Catleugh, Chelsea, 

 contributed LUium auratum, with blooms about 7 inches 

 across ; Mi-. Ingram, gardener to Her Majesty, Frogmore, 

 a fine Smootii Cayenne Pine, very good May Duke Cherries, 

 large and fine British Queen Strawberries, and Prince 

 Arthur, a conical-fruited sort ; and Mr. Miller, gai-dener to 

 Earl Craven, Combe Abbey, Hybrid Cashmere and Combe 

 Abbey Hybrid Melons. 



From Miss Macdaniel, Upper Norwood, came a frame of 

 dried flowers and foliage, with the colours preserved, and 

 which had much the same effect as a painting. Among 

 them were Pelargoniums, Forget-me-not, Adiantum, and 

 golden Gymnogramma; and the whole had a very pretty 

 appeai-ance. 



WIEEWOBMS. 



I BEE that one of your correspondents is greatly annoyed 

 by wireworms. As no man in the kingdom has suffered 

 from them more than I have or laboured hai-der to destroy 

 them, and I trust I now may say I have thoroughly succeeded, 

 it is possible that my experience may help him. 



I have taken 140 of these crusty -villains out of^ a singlo 

 Lettuce, and at one time my land so swarmed with them 

 that not even a Tomato could live. Every known, sup- 

 posed, problematic, Utopian, or maniac remedy was tried. 

 Mustard seed was sown, and they fed upon the root ; lime 

 scattered broadcast, and they lived in the lumps ; rape-cake 

 drilled in, and they throve upon it; salt, soot, gas tar, 

 chloride of lime, in which last they lived quite happily in a 

 bottle and made jolly ! In a word, I can sooner tell what 

 was not tried than what was. 



My firm conviction is that cultivation alone can destroy 

 them. Especially during April and May, when they coino 

 up in the imago form, let the surface never rest. Again in 

 the early autumn, when they change their skins and are aa 

 soft as a slug, incttmhere tempus arairo. In a hard winter 

 they burrow to o depth of 2 feet and more ; you can do 

 nothing to them then. At the end of February they begin, 

 and we must begin at them. 



For three years I could grow nothing small, not even 



