THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



addition to his collection of Tea Roses on the seedling 

 brier, a little glass 'accommodation, may have Tea 

 Roses in bloom almost all the year round, and 

 thus have the command of cut blooms during nearly 

 every month. 



A. large cultivator of Tea Roses, who grows them 

 largely for cut flowers, keeps a nursery bed of budded 

 plants constantly in reserve, to draw from it plants 

 when required. These are planted out in the month 

 of May on a border facing the East, and protected at 

 the back by a belt of trees, which shelters the plants 

 from westerly gales. Now, cultivators of Roses are 

 sometimes recommended to plant their Tea Roses on 

 a South border, but we are informed that it is an 

 erroneous notion to do this, as the flowers get scorched 

 up before they can thoroughly expand, from being in 

 the full blaze of the sun in the hottest weather. When 

 planted on an East border, they get the morning sun 

 only for a few hours, which is all they want, as it is 

 much better for them to be in the shade during the 

 afternoon. 



The ground is well prepared for planting in the win- 

 ter months, it is thoroughly trenched, and enriched as 

 may be necessary, and thrown up roughly for the frost 

 to act upon it. Roses for planting out in this way 

 are best grown in pots for a time, as they move with- 

 out any check, and generally so much better than 

 when lifted from the open ground. Up to the end of 

 July all the buds are kept pinched off, the result being 

 that the plants bloom all through the remaining 

 summer and autumn months, and very freely and finely 

 too. If early frosts threaten, a little bracken or any 

 suitable litter thrown among them, is all the protec- 

 tion they require. 



The glass structure, to which we have referred, 

 comes in very useful to have Tea Roses in flower from 

 February onwards ; if the house be heated with hot 

 water, Tea Roses can be had nearly all through the 

 season, when there is an absence of bloom in the open 

 grounds. 



The best varieties of Tea Roses for planting out in 

 the open ground are, the Old Devoniensis, Catharine 

 Mermet, Rubens, Madame Falcot, Madame Charles, 

 Madame Camille, Madame Willermoz, Safrano, Isa- 

 bella Sprunt, and Goubault. All these are charming 

 varieties, doing remarkably well on the seedling brier, 

 and blooming with great freedom and continuously. 

 It would not be difficult to add to these varieties, but 

 those named can be fully relied on for the purpose 

 named. 



LiELIA ANCEPS ALBA. 



Under this heading the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' calls 

 attention to this new orchid as now flowering in Mr. 

 Bull's collection at Chelsea. It is described as " one 

 of the most charming of new orchids," and it is further 

 stated that " its peculiar characteristic is the purity 

 of its white flowers, which equal those of a Phalas- 

 nopsis, and whose texture may be compared to that of 

 Lapageria alba ; except the dash of yellow on the disk 

 of the lip, it has not line or dash of colour, but stands 

 out in spotless purity. It has ovate, ribbed pseudo- 

 bulbs, shorter and paler than those of the type. The 

 single oblong leaf is thick and firm in texture, and the 

 flowers are large for this species, and remarkably 

 spread out, measuring across the expanded petals 4 

 inches, and from tip to tip of the sepals 5 inches, the 

 sepals being linear-lance-shaped, the petals broader, 

 and the lip with an oblong undulated front lobe. All 

 the parts, except the disk, being of a brilliant opaque 

 white, forming a very handsome flower, one indeed 

 which will bear comparison with any other orchid 

 known, and then it is a cool orchid. It comes from 

 Mexico, where it is very rare, from a locality upwards 

 of 8000 feet above the sea, where the cold is intense, 

 and where it freezes every night — in the cool season, 

 we presume — so that icicles two to three feet long are 

 found hanging from the neighbouring pine-trees. 

 The plant grows mostly on precipitous rocks, rarely 

 on trees. It must be seen to be appreciated, there is 

 something so captivating in its dazzling whiteness." 



INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBI- 

 TION FOR 1880. 



Some progress is being made with this great object. 

 It is said that an Executive Committee has been formed 

 out of the Preliminary General Committee appointed 

 some time ago, and that the Working Committee are 

 to prepare a Scheme and Schedule of Prizes for con- 

 firmation. Probably this important work will be 

 undertaken early in the present year. The Committee 

 are wise in deciding to get to work early, as the present 

 dulness in trade will be an obstacle in the way of get- 

 ting in subscriptions ; and on no account must the 

 Exhibition of 1880 fall below that of 1866. 



Messrs. Sutton & Sons 5 ' Amateur's Guide in Horti- 

 culture,' just received, fully maintains its well-earned 

 reputation. ^ 



