542 



GA RDENERS' MA GA ZINE. 



August 20, 1898 



Cymbidium lowianum at Clare Lawn. 



Few East Indian orchids of such decided merit deserve to be classified 

 as " cool " as the subject of this note, and few of the whole natural order 

 give such profitable and continual good results under a cool treatment. 

 Cymbidium Lowianum was sent home by Mr. Boxall, V.M.H., to the 

 Messrs. Low, of Clapton (now of Enfield), in 1877, he having collected 

 it in Burmah. Thus, it will be seen, it has just attained its majority as a 

 resident in our glass houses. Like most other tropical orchids, or, 

 rather, those coming from a tropical country, it was naturally assumed 

 to be a lover of a high temperature, little information regarding the 

 altitude at which it was found, climatic and other conditions, being 



Therefore, it was left to experiment or accident to determine its 



In our case success is due to 



given. .... 



proper position in our orchid houses. 



experiment, a large plant being placed m tne House the whole batch now 

 occupy fully a year before the others were removed to it. That they are 

 at home may be seen by referring to the accompanying illustration, 

 reproduced from a photograph. When our ten plants were in bloom, in 

 1897, there were one thousand and sixty flowers. This season thev were 

 much better, the same plants producing one hundred spikes, bearing in 

 the aggregate one thousand six hundred and twenty-eight flowers. One 



supplv should be gradually increased as th* 

 time should the water be withheld for Ion* thoSh 0 ^ advances - At no 

 and moist atmosphere in which they a« «^ g V. Wl ^ t0 . the c <*>« 

 moist for a long period. Plants that have no X 5011 Wl11 re ™ain 

 should be supplied with weak liquid manure esoTriT^ this s *2 

 are forming. Shading is always\s^ " hen k tbe bulb * 



end of September whenever the sun shbes T ori X h« in?? 

 manner. Air in abundance is always given exrentmaVT a direct 

 after the plants have been disturbed at SSffitt ab ° Ut , Slx 

 closed about five, and remain so until about : «*ht^£? ^ ^tors are 



As will be seen from the foregoing remarks, the chief points t« 

 remember ,n the cultivation of Cymbidium Lowianum are a cool te m 

 r e ^ e ' T T a r 0I ^ and a,r y atmos P h ere, combined with shade and food 



never attack our nlam* 



excepting that in the spring, when the spikes are young, green-fly some 

 times tries to secure a foothold, but is easily removed with a damp ! 



- hast Sheen. w< H Y QV«G 



CYMBIDIUM LOWIANUM, AT CLARE LAWN, EAST SHEEN 



plant— the central one in the picture— had twenty-seven spikes, averaging 

 wh rh" u!v each - Another P' a "t carried seven large spikes, one of 

 n^l c ,J ad , thl *! y ; s . ut lar & e » well-developed flowers, and most of the 

 others thirty and th.rty-two. The house in which they are growing is 



Wit J . I i ■ t - ermed a COGl ferner y 5 here > in the gardens of Sir F. 

 f*rSE I • ' U , 1S called the Rock House, owing to the majority o* 

 rvmhi^f' 118 P " ted in or Sromng on artificial rockwork. The 



Xr trtTnfZ m k P °^ ? dee P P ans > dr °PP ed into P° ckets for med by 

 other pots or pans bedded in an d surrounded by th? artificial rock oV 



pagls^fTheTlRnl^L^'r^ by us have been Previously given in the 

 SSful orchid?s a ?hi^ MAGA f NE ' but as access with this" grand and 

 fc^Sm £w SS 1 much t0 be desired > there wil1 be no harm in 

 ^^^S^^J^l I" the first place, I may as well 



winters ; but this low decree ami degreeS . °/ freez,n & P oint ,n severe 



Any Dottins? 



Campa 



MIRABILIS. 



A new species of campanula, and one of undoubted horticultural valuft 

 IS certainly very much of a novelty nowadays when nurserymen beg" _ 

 despair of obtaining new plants of merit other than by hybr.d.s.ng. * 

 week, however, we figure a very distinct species, that has beer > «»<w 

 forward by Messrs. r, i^v^J onrl Smut. Wokintr ; this is Campw»» 



Jackman;ana sons, ificate fro* 



July 2). Cpj«5; 



Woki 



broadl 

 brighter 



on the 



of May. 



topdressing 



are used, as the'y produce "such"* 6 C '° P ro P ortlon to tne s,ze of tR e plants 



which in a small pot would neither^T c l uantit,es of t hick flesh y r <*>ts, inflorescences than have yei beenle'en in this country, 

 plant food for their development r °° m ° r a f uffic,ent quant.ty of plants are well established 



with drainage material on S The P ots are about one-third filled _ _____ ■ 



pottmg material is placed to W - some of the rougher portions of the 

 parts of lumpy ^ d fi , «p , t f ree Tne compost consists of equal 



farmyard manure, and sSfe about a sixth P art of well-rotted 

 keep the mass porous. \>rv ? t ,i COarse silver sand or brok en crocks to 



"logins, ine panicle or spike is erect, and brancneu_ s -.«-- 

 base ; the flowers are numerous and handsome, of large size, ana 

 bell-shaped. The colour is very pale blue in the tube, but o a 

 shade at the spreading five-lobed mouth. A few hairs are J*"^ tha t 

 sepals, corolla lobes, and on the stems of the plant. W e ™ d '™ 

 very small plants will flower, consequently, we may exp 

 inflorescences than have yet be ' 



Perpetual Strawberries will form the subject 



iscttssion 



roots 



disposition. 



knowlcdg 



