June s, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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England, and also at one of the Regents Park exhibitions. 

 At our request, Mr. Charles Turner sent photographs of 

 several plants, one of which is reproduced on this page. 

 This plant is not so completely covered with flowers as 

 many of the others were, and for that reason it is rather 

 more interesting, since the foliage which appears between 

 the flowers gives them distinctness of outline, and helps 

 them in every way by furnishing relief and contrast. The 



do this plant much better than they can in England, and this 

 is remarkable in that the standard works on Orchids seem to 

 insist on an equable temperature the year through, and it is 

 the more surprising that witli our extremes we can succeed so 

 well with a plant enveloped in mists and rain for tlie greater 

 part of the day in its Soutli American home. We have one 

 advantage over transatlantic cultivators in the tobacco-stems 

 that are so easily obtained for the purpose of keeping down 

 thrips, a pest to which Miltonia vexillaria is specially subjected. 



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^'S- 34- — Pelargonium, Amethyst. — See page 226. 



variety in the illustration is known as Amethyst, a very 

 dwarf and floriferous sort. The top petals are deep 

 maroon, beautifully edged, and the others are a rich 

 purple. — Ed.] 



Miltonia vexillaria. 



'T'HE picture of a fine variety of this plant in Garden and 



-'- Forest for May i5tli reminds me of the ease with which 



Uiis Orchid may be cultivated in American gardens. I was 



told by a distinguished English visitor the other day that we 



Our plants were invested when received, but a few dustings of 

 tobacco in the axils of the leaves and tobacco-stems spread 

 under and round the plants as they grew, soon cleared them 

 of insects, and insured good, clean, healthy growth. This 

 Miltonia is another of thoseOrchids that can be counted onto 

 increase both in size and value each year. If carefully placed 

 in the coolest house in the summer months, and at the cool 

 end of the Cattleya house, where a temperature of fifty to fitty- 

 five degrees can be obtained in winter, shaded from briglit 

 sunshine at all times, except in the depth of winter, they grow 

 without difficulty. 



