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p. id profit it will always be to the interest of owners of private orchards 

 to make a point of testing new varieties in a small way. 



In the meantime the following are recommended under different 

 headings : — 



Among summer ripeners : 



• Ear^ Ripe,' ' Yellow Transparent,' and ' Oldenburg ' thrive under 

 all conditions, and 1 Chenango ' and ' Summer Rose ' are fine varieties for 

 the amateur grower. 



For autumn : 



• Maiden Blush,' 1 Buckingham,' and ' Wagener,' are what the bulletin 

 Balls "cosmopolitan" varieties, and ' Bonum,' 'Fall Orange,' and 1 Tol- 

 man 1 have k< commercial value." 



For winter : 



'Arkansas/ 'Gano' or 'Via,' and 'York Imperial' are good cosmo- 

 politan varieties, and w 7 here the soil and climate are suitable select 

 'Albemarle,' 'Pippin,' ^Yinesop,' and possibly 'Lawyer.' — 31. L. H. 



Orchard Report. By Geo. A. Koyner (U.S.A. Hart. Soc. Virginia, 

 Pccport 1902, p. 240). — A six-and-a-quarter-acre Apple orchard, trees 

 three years old when planted, yielded the seventh year 200 barrels of select 

 Apples, the ninth year 325 barrels, the eleventh year 460 barrels, the 

 thirteenth 575, the fifteenth 768 barrels. A barrel contains about 

 2} bushels.— C. H. H. 



Orchids and Sphagnum {Rev. Hort. Beige, xxviii. No. 5, p. 101). 



M. Arnould Wincoz, in a paper on 'The Nutrition of Orchids,' describes 

 the virtues of sphagnum and peat as retaining in their pores the necessary 

 gases for epiphytal Orchids. Protection must be provided against insects 

 in the sphagnum, as their excrement and dead bodies supply the principal 

 check to a successful cultivation of epiphytal Orchids. He describes the 

 insecticides and method of usage. — Q. H. 



Orchids, African (Not. Konig. Bot. Berlin,m. p. 237, March 1903).— 

 Kranzlin describes the two new Orchids, Habcnaria myriantha (Krlinzlin), 

 from (lerman East Africa, and Polystachya appcndiculata (Kranzlin), 

 from Cameroons. — M. W. 



Orchids : Benefit of Association with other Plants. By G. T. 



Grignan (Rev. Hurt. May 1, 1903, pp. 198-9).— In connection with the 

 theory that bacteria play an important part in Orchid nutrition, a case is 

 cited where, a wild hardy Orchis, Orchis latifolia, being planted. by the side 

 ■ I weakly exotic Orchids, vigorous growth resulted in the latter, but only 

 temporarily, as the (). latifolia could not stand exotic conditions. An 

 ' ease is, however, cited of a Sjuranthes autumncdis seedling 

 King en a tuft of Tris flotentina which had been thrown away; and 

 this Orchid is specially difficult to grow, the hint was taken, Iris 

 1 *■ tituted, being smaller, as associated plant, and thenceforth 

 i flourished even better than in a wild state. Other rebellious 

 "peciea also yielded in like manner.— C. T. D. 



