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Garden and Forest. 



[October 29, 1890. 



Louise Bonne, Beurrg Uiel, Pitmaston Duchesse, Doyenne du 

 Cornice, Glou Morgeau, Fondante d'Automne, etc. 



With the Fruiterers' Company, the British Fruit Growers' 

 Association and the Royal Horticultural Society earnestly at 

 work as they are, the capabilities of England as a fruit-produc- 

 ing country ought to be fully tested. 



Manure' for Orchids. — I once asked a famous Orchid- 

 grower his opinion of the wisdom of those growers who rec- 



Glasnevin, has gone much further than this, and has used it 

 for many epiphytal kinds with almost invariably good effect. 

 In a paper which he prepared for the Scottish Horticultural 

 Association, Mr. Moore relates his experience in testing Or- 

 chids with a chemical manure known as Fish Potash. This 

 he used for various species of Cypripedium, Dendrobium, 

 Ccelogyne, Lycaste, Maxillaria and Sobralia, all of which were 

 so much benefited that he determined to make further experi- 



Fig. 66. — Hypericum prolificum. — See page 524. 



ommended the use of strong soils and manures for various 

 Orchids. His reply was : " They may or may not be right; but 

 of one thing I am certain, every Orchid without exception 

 may be grown in peat or sphagnum, or the two combined." 

 Professor Reichenbach was opposed to the use of manure in 

 any form for Orchids, and I will remember his warning when 

 he saw cow-manure water being used in our Orchid-houses 

 for damping down in the evening. But it was long ago proved 

 that for such Orchids as Pleiones, Phajus, Calanthes and sim- 

 ilar terrestrial Orchids, manure is beneficial. Mr. Moore, of 



ments — fish-potash guano becoming " a regular article on the 

 Orchid-bench at Glasnevin." He found that Anguloa Clowesii 

 and Houlletia Brocklehnrstiana showed most marked improve- 

 ment in growth when fed with this manure. The Houlletia, 

 he says, " has always been more or less a puzzle to Orchid- 

 growers. Some grow it cool, some warm, and but few really 

 succeed with it — that is to say, succeed in growing and keep- 

 ing for any considerable period nice, healthy, flowering speci- 

 mens, and I confess I had not been one of these; in fact, . I 

 despaired of getting it to grow in a satisfactory manner. But 



