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Saltan's Favourite, a very pale rose, which would he worthless hot for the 

 deep pink stripes, and the number of fUwers on the large spike. 



Lady Sale, deep red, suffused with purple, and a light eye. 



Victoria Alexandrina, very large bells, of an intense crimson, neatly set on 

 an immense spike. 



Queen Victoria, pale pink, bright red stripes ; good bells, compactly ar- 

 ranged. 



Von Schiller, salmon pink ; good in everything. 



Florence Nightingale, pale pink, with carmine stripes. Fine. 



Single Blue. 

 Bleu Aimable, violet shaded blue ; fine bells, beautifully arranged on an 



immense spike. Not a finer Hyacinth in cultivation. 

 Bleu Mourant, fine bells and spike. 



Argus, blue, with white eye, the tube bright indigo; fine bells and spike. 

 Charles Dicken3, grey shaded with blue ; large spike and bells, and so 



finely set as to be handsome. 

 Leonidas, clear blue. Fine. 



Regulus, pale blue ; fine waxy bells on a very fine spike. 

 Madame Coste, deep biue ; only moderate-sized bells, but fine large spike. 

 Grand Lilas, azure blue, but rather pale. Very fine. 

 Lord Palmerston. much in the way of Argus, not yet let out. 

 Thorwaldsen, one of the best of forms, with the loveliest of marbled blue 



bells of immense size on a rather small spike. 

 Porcelaine Sceptre, porcelain blue, deeply shaded. Good. 

 Nimrod, light blue ; nice spike : fine bells. 



Single White. 



Queen of the Netherlands; fine bells on an immense spike. A fine white. 



Madame Van der Hoop, a very fine white ; large bells and fine spike. 



Snowball, fine in form and substance, of the purest white, with large bells 

 and spike. One of the finest Hyacinths out. 



Pais de t'Europp, charming white, so pure and decided ; rather small bells, 

 yet very closely arranged on an immense spike. 



Fair Maid of Denmark, a splendid white ; large bells and fine spike. 



Alba Maxima, pure white ; large bells, closely set on a large spike. 



Victoria Regina, fine white, and fine every way. 



Miss Burdett Coutts, creamy blush; large bells of good substance, and 

 immense spike. A most beautiful kind. 



Gigantea, blush ; would be nice bells (though large enough now} if the 

 petals were wider, instead of peculiarly narrow ; fine spike. 



Lady Franklin, blush ; large bells on peculiarly long footstalks, forming an 

 immense spike. First-rate. 



Grande Blanche Imperiale, blush, with rose stripes ; fine bells ; good spike. 



Seraphine, another blush, with narrow petals, but a number of bells suffi- 

 cient to form an immense spike. 



Elfrida, beautiful creamy blusb; large well-6haped bells, closely set on a 

 long spike. 



Single Black. 



General Havelock should be good, and it really is a magnificent purple 

 changing to black, with fine closely-arranged bells, forming an immense 

 Bpike. A fine Hyacinth, if not the finest in cultivation. 



Prince Albert, fine bells, closely set on a nice spike. 



La Nuit, deep purple black. Fine. 



Von Humboldt, purplish black, with white eye. 



Lamplighter, purplish black, with a white eye. 



Single Yellow. 



Ida, a really good yellow. Fine. 



San Francisco, deep yellow, charming. 



Victor Hugo, fine bells and spike, but not worthy the name it bears. 



Due de Malakoff. straw, instead of yellow, with a stripe of lake on each seg- 

 ment. Very fine bells, neatly arranged on an immense spike. 



Aurora, straw again ; the tube splashed with pink, the segments with pink 

 of a deeper h le in stripes ; smallish bells, yet forming a nice spike. 



Soiling van Holland, creamy yellow, shaded with an orange all but red ; 

 moderate bells closely arranged on a fine spike. 



All the Hyacinths named are first-class, and are as easy 

 of management as commoner and next to worthless kinds. 

 There are some, however, that are specially adapted for 

 early forcing, as L'Ami du Coeur (single red), and a few 

 others ; but the majority of the single varieties may be had 

 in bloom any time after Christmas by potting them suffi- 

 ciently early, so that the pots become well filled with roots 

 before they are brought into a house with any great heat. 

 In my next article I shall proceed to the treatment of 

 Hyacinths as regards soil, potting, &c. — G. Abbey. 

 (To be continued.) 



PACKING OECHIDS FOE IMPORTATION. 



"Orchidophilus" will find all the information he re-4 

 quires by referring to page 8 of Mr. B. S. Williams's " Orchid- 

 Grower's Manual," published by Chapman & Hall. 



Mr. Williams says, "brides, Saccolabiums, Vandas, Angrse- 

 cums, and similar plants that have no fleshy bulbs to sup- 

 port, are best imported after they have become established 

 on flat pieces of wood, so that they can be nailed to the sides 

 of their travelling case." In his opinion " Orchids should be 

 sent away from their native country during the dry season, 

 which is when they are at rest." 



He has received " plants in good condition from India in 

 close boxes packed in dry soft shavings, while on the other 

 hand," he has also " seen many spoiled in that way," which 

 he attributes " to their not being packed in a proper state." 



I should think charcoal dust would not answer, as in conse- 

 quence of its having a heating tendency (?) it would be in- 

 jurious to the plants, causing them to sweat and rot. 



Once more, to quote from Mr. Williams's interesting 

 Manual. " The best time of year for receiving Orchids in 

 this country is, if possible, the spring, in order that they 

 may have the summer before them to get established." — 

 W. B. d'A., West Moulsey. 



REMOVEABLE GREENHOUSE. 



The following is in answer to " Hekefokd," who wants a 

 moveable greenhouse, span-roofed, 22 feet long, 14 feet wide, 

 and asks questions accordingly. 



Had it not been for the words " span-roofed greenhouse " 

 we would have recommended Sir Joseph Paxton's houses for 

 the million. For a house, however, of the usual shape — say 

 the above length and width, and 6 feet high at the sides, and 

 11 feet at ridge, we would proceed as follows : — Obtain three 

 pieces of oak 4i inches square, 14 feet long, and lay them 

 across, one at each end, and one in the middle, on ground 

 well firmed, and coated with tar. These will form the foun- 

 dation, and keep the house from spreading. On the sides 

 fix pieces of timber 4 inches square, and on these and the 

 two end foundations fix studs, of the necessary height at 

 the sides to reach the wall-plate, every 3i or 45 feet apart. 

 Connect the two plates, by rafters, with a double ridge-board, 

 10 inches between them, and the skeleton of the house is 

 finished. Screws well greased should be used instead of 

 nails. Sashes to be fixed in the same way, front sashes 

 also ; and all sashes fixed. Sides and ends to be formed of 

 wood and glass — wood say 2£ to 3 feet high all round, of 

 one-inch board, screwed to studs, and for safety two-inch 

 thin pieces screwed along the joints. Ventilation should be 

 given at the sides by shutters or wood flaps ; at top by 

 swinging-boards, between the double ridge-board, and rain 

 prevented from entering by a cowl above with open sides. 

 The three sleepers for the side sills to be below the ground 

 level, inside; the centre table or stage to be made in separate 

 pieces and moveable, from 5 to G feet wide ; path all round 

 to be from 2 V to 3 feet wide, side shelf 1 A foot wide all round, 

 except at the doorway. The hot-water pipes should be be- 

 neath the shelf, or small stage, the shelf supported by 

 brackets on upright studs in front, and small columns in 

 line with the pathway. Heating may be effected by a small 

 portable cylindrical boiler placed inside at the coldest end, 

 and a small space shut off to prevent any dust getting to 

 the plants on lighting the fire, clearing out ashes, &c. For 

 common things a good iron stove would do all that was 

 needful, but the boiler and pipes will be better. Nothing 

 should be sunk in the ground, lest it raise a landlord's 

 question. 



VISITS TO GARDENS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. 



MESSES. PAUL & SON'S, CHESHUNT. 



Long ere the Rose became, as it now is, everybody's flower 

 — when Hybrid Perpetuals were unknown, and the floricul- 

 tural world had not been taken by storm, as it has been, 

 by generals, dukes, fair dames, princes of the blood, &c. — 

 Rivers, Wood, Lane, and Paul were names ever associated 

 with the Rose ; and even now, when the number of growers 

 for sale has been so largely added to, and rosarians abound, 

 these names still retain an honoured position. One feels 

 in going to them that there is all the difference between 

 these and many of their competitors that there is between 

 one of the venerable churches of our land and a spick and 

 span new one built after the designs of Gilbert Scott. The 

 one may not be quite in order, there are things that con- 

 tinually remind you of age ; but despite of the trim neatness 

 of the new, the faultlessness of its architecture, the brilliancy 

 of its appearance, you rather like the old better. It was 

 with somewhat of this feeling that I a week ago found 

 myself on the way to fulfil an oft-repeated invitation to visit 

 Mr. Paul at Cheshunt. Having a few hours to spare ere 

 leaving for Colchester, I trusted myself to the tender mercies 

 of the Great Eastern Railway, and reached my destination 

 on one of the hottest days we have lately had. I did not, 

 of course, expect to see much ; the long-continued drought 



