NOTES AND ABSTKACTS 



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recommended novelties are ' Baiser de Flore,' ' Etoile de Mer ' ' Explor- 

 ateur Charcot,' 'Fee Orientale,' 'Imbroglio,' 'Marguerite Terminet,' 'M. 

 d'Argenee ' and ' Soleil de Minuit.'— C. T. D. 



Nicotiana, Hybrid. By N. Vallet (Le Jard. xxii. 524, p. 379 ; 

 December 20, 1908). — Attempts are being made to produce hybrid 

 Nicotianas that shall bloom freely throughout the summer, and be resis- 

 tant to sunshine. The most successful results hitherto obtained have 

 been by grafting hybrids of N. Sanderae and N. affinis on to N. colossea, 

 and these grafted hybrids have been induced to flower at a height of six 

 feet, the lower part of the plant being the natural growth of N. colossea. 



F. A. W. 



Orchards, Starting* Young*. By W. H. Munson, W. E. Eumsey, 

 and F. E. Brooks (U.S.A. Agr. Exp. Sta., West Virginia, Bull. 116; 

 April 1908). — This valuable contribution to fruit culture covers the whole 

 area of work dependent on the formation of a young orchard, and deals 

 with the general cultivation, mulching, cropping, pruning, and the control 

 of insect and fungoid pests after the actual planting has taken place. 



E. F. H. 



Orchid Portraits.- 



recently : — 



Angraecum sesquipedale 



The 



following- 



orchids have been figured 



Brassocattleya x Sandhaghensis 



B. -c. x Susannae. 



Bulbophyllum Dearei . 

 Cattleya Mossiae var. Mariana 

 *C. Mossiae var. ' Gatton Park ' 

 Coelogyne asperata 



C. cristata . 

 Cynoches peruvianum . 



Cymbidium insigne Sanderi 

 Cypripedium x Chapmanii . 

 C. insigne var. ' Grand Monarch ' 

 C. insigne var. ' Gwynedd ' . 

 C. spectabile 

 C. x ' Venus ' 

 *Dendrobium acuminatum 



I). Bronckartii 



D. x chessingtonense 



D. nobile virginale 



*D. Sanderae 



Gard. Chron. 1909, i. p. 399, fig. 

 177. 



Orch. Bev. 1909, p. 241, fig. 19. 

 Flor. Exchange, 1909, p. 529 ; Orch. 



Rev. 1909, p. 137, fig. 11. 

 Journ. Hort. 1909, ii. p. 147. 

 Amer. Gard. 1909, p. 1216. 



Gard. Chron. 1909, ii. p. 34, fig. 15. 

 Gard. Chron. 1909, ii.p. 75, fig. 31. 

 Gard. Chron. 1909, i. p. 309, fig. 

 133. 



Journ. Hort. 1909, i. p. 415. 

 Journ. Hort. 1909, ii. p. 75. 

 Gard. Mag. 1909, p. 375. 

 Gard. Mag. 1909, p. 375. 

 Gard. Mag. 1909, p. 494. 

 Orch. Bev. 1909, p. 145, fig. 12. 

 Gard. Chron. 1909, ii. p. 150, 



fig. 64 ; Gard. Mag. 1909, 



p. 659. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 8252. 

 Gard. Mag. 1909, p. 394. 

 Gard. Mag. 1909, p. 394; Orch. 



Bev. 1909, p. 200, fig. 15. 

 Gard. Chron. 1909, i. p. 374, fig. 



163 ; Gard. Mag. 1909, p. 621 ; 



Orch. Bev. 1909, p. 209, fig. 17. 



