128 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Plant Effect of Winter, &c. 



Smilax aspera .... Foliage killed, but breaking from the ground. 

 Ercilla spicata .... Points killed ; breaking very strongly. 

 Ceanothus Marie Simon . . Uninjured. 



„ Gloria de Versailles . Killed. 

 Escallonia Ingrami . . .All strong autumn shoots killed ; breaking 



well from summer growth. 

 Grevillea rosmarinifolia . . Hard hit ; breaking. 

 Eucryphia pinnatifolia . . Uninjured. 



Khynchospermum jasminoides . Quite uninjured. [It has been full of blossom 



all the summer of 1892.] 

 Azara microphylla . . . Uninjured. 

 Choisya ternata . . . Uninjured. 

 Carpenteria californica . . Uninjured. 

 Lonicera caprifolium . . Uninjured. 



The ordinary Jasmines, Honeysuckles, Clematis Jackmanii and others 

 of its class, Clematis montana, and Roses, &c, are of course uninjured. 



There is one plant which Mr. Leach did not mention and 

 which I have not, but which should, I think, never be absent 

 from any collection of Climbers, and that is Clematis flammula. 

 It blooms in August and September, and though the individual 

 flowers are small they are produced in such multitudes as to 

 make the plant look almost like a sheet of snow, and it scents 

 the whole air round for — I was going to say miles, but that 

 would be exaggeration, but for a long distance indeed. 



ORCHIDS FOR A COOL HOUSE. 

 By the Rev. E. Handley, M.A., F.R.H.S. 



[Read July 12, 1892.] 



When you casually mention that you are a grower of Orchids, 

 the general public put you down either as a " Croesus " or a very 

 extravagant individual. The prevailing idea is that Orchids are 

 not only expensive to buy, but that the cost of cultivation is 

 such as to put them beyond the reach of most amateur gardeners- 

 The object of this short paper is to show that this is not the 

 case. Some Orchids may be obtained and grown at no greater 

 cost than ordinary greenhouse plants. 



I. Orchids are expensive to buy. 



This idea is engendered in the public mind by the reports, 

 which from time to time appear in the public press, of Orchid 



