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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COIIAGE GARDENER 
[ June 18,1885. 
in print. I have tried the pruning system on several different kinds of 
Orchids with equal results. I have some Dendrobium densiflorum which 
have been pruned annually that have growths on them over 2 feet long, 
and which have had as many as eighty flowers on one raceme. They 
were not the puny clusters we see at the shows, but racemes from 15 to 
18 inches in length. I suppose Mr. Baines would like me to take some 
of these to South Kensington for him to look at also. If any of your 
each end with running ornaments and finials to each ridge, the general 
effect of which is very pleasing. Ornamental moulded pilasters with 
suitable caps and bases face each mullion, the cornice and transum 
being also in complete harmony with this arrangement. The brick 
foundations on which the building stands are about a foot above the 
floor line, thus giving somewhat more than the usual height to the sashes. 
Each of the three entrances to the winter garden has a separate vestibule, 
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readers feel interested in the culture of these plants I shall be pleased at 
some other time to give my mode of treating them.—H. C. Prinsep. 
THE WINTER GARDEN, FOLKESTONE. 
At this famous marine resort a spacious winter garden has just been 
erected for the South-Eastern Railway Company at their Royal Pavilion 
Hotel. The general character of the building can be at once seen on 
reference to the accompanying view, and this will enable our readers to 
follow the description we purpose giving. It will be seen that the struc¬ 
ture is built on what is known as the “ ridge-and-furrow ” principle, 
and consists of seven spans of various widths, the centre one being 
31 feet and surmounted by an octagonal lantern. The frontage is about 
168 feet, and the general width about 51 feet. The roofs are hipped at 
and one of these is connected with the hotel by a glass corridor, thus 
enabling visitors to enter without exposure in any kind of weather, a 
boon which will be gratefully appreciated by those in delicate health. 
The building is warmed by two of Weeks’s patent duplex upright 
tubular boilers. The hot-water apparatus is fixed in chambers below the 
floor line, covered with an ornamental iron grating, and so arranged that 
an even temperature can be maintained in the most severe weather. 
That necessary adjunct, the boiler house, is placed at one end of the 
building of which it is made to firm a part, being a glass structure in the 
same character. 
The interior has been laid out as a promenade interspersed with beds of 
a suitable design, having ornamental edging. These beds are planted 
with ornamental shrubs and plants, and when fully established will 
present a most effective and charmiDg feature. 
