Kovember 13, 1884. ] JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
examined, the end of the shoot will be found quite hollow, nothin" 
but the bark being left for an inch or more. If, however, the 
examination be made early enough, and we keep oa cutting the 
empty shoot till we arrive again at the pith, we shall probably 
nave the satisfaction of killing, as we approach the pith, a 
yellowish grub. I have never hatched this out, but fancy from 
its appearance that it is the larva of a beetle. So far as my 
experience goes, only one egg is laid in each shoot, and where 
there are a number of Briars placed for budding. Almost every 
shoot may be thus affected, but will probably be unnoticed as of 
no consequence. However, if I find one amongst my Briars, I 
begin to search round and destroy all 1 can see. A leaf fading 
at the end of the shoot is a tolerably certain indication of the 
piesence ot this unwelcome little visitor. 
^The mildew has not with me appeared so early, neither is it 
3.S with some of your correspondents. I am 
a raid Mane Baumann must be put down as very susceptible to 
Its intluence. President Willermoz is another Rose that yields 
early, also Oomtesse de Serenye. With me these Roses dispute 
the palm tor succumbing to its inroads, and Camille Bernardin 
^eads closely on their heels. “ A. F. M.” talked of Prince 0. de 
Kohan having degenerated with him, now Camille Bernardin 
as served me the same. I used to place it very high up. I 
cannot do so now except from memories of the past. “ T. W. G.” 
writes or Jules Finger as one of our best H.P. autumn bloomers. 
1 have grown it several years, and never yet had a respectable 
bloom, summer or autumn. Capitaine Christy is much superior, 
although, as I have already remarkel, it is with me a dis¬ 
appointing Rose 
By-the-by, a friend of mine, a capital Rose-grower and very 
successful exhibitor, says he does not mind a bit of mildew, as it 
checks the growth and hardens the wood. Is there any virtue in 
this idea P Even with this, the look of it is so dreadfully de¬ 
pressing, I fancy the “remedy worse than the disease.” 
_ I have scarcely noticed this season, and very 
little 01 a disease that one of our nurserymen wrote to me about 
a year or two ago, and which he then said he had found traces of 
in almost every stand of Roses throughout the latter part of that 
season. This is to be noticed on the under surface of the leaves, 
and ^e plant affected soon loses the healthy aspect of its foliage 
and becomes yellowish. On inspecting the leaf it looks to the 
naked eye as if it had been peppered. With a pocket lens much 
ot this black proves to be the black tops of a yellow fungus. 
Interspersed with the black are the yellow spots, as I believe the 
early stage of the black. This year I have not seen much of this, 
but last year I had more, and it is a difficult thing to do anything 
tor, as nearly the whole of the foliage appears affected. Should 
it appear early it will prove a great detriment to the beauty of 
the blooms, for healthy foliage is an essential to success in 
obtaining good flowers.—Y. B. A. Z. 
EUCHA.EIS AMAZONICA. 
There are few flowers that are more useful or more appreciated 
at all seasons than those-of Eiicharis amazonica. They are used 
extensively in church and house decorations, for bouquets, wreaths, 
crosses, and other devices, The}'^ have become so popular ^now that 
they are grown in most places where there is a plant stove. As a 
rule, however, it is in few places that we see them really well grown. 
Even in some of our best gardens, with every appliance for their 
cultivation, they do not succeed as they should ; while, strangely 
enough, in some places they grow vigorously and flower freely with¬ 
out apparently any trouble to the grower. I know some gardens 
where they do not succeed under ordinary treatment, and yet the 
gardeners have tried everything they could think of to make them 
grow satisfactorily. In some instances the plants were turned out 
of the pots, divided, and potted in fresh compost, and the pots 
plunged in bottom, heat, and in others the plants were placed in 
different positions in the house to see if that would have any effect 
in making them grow, but the results were not what were desired in 
either case. 
Some growers place their plants in cold frames or pits for a short 
time during the summer to rest, then withhold water from them, 
and allow the leaves to flag, with the idea that this treatment will 
ripen the bulbs and make them more floriferous. I do not think it 
is beneficial to the bulbs to allow the leaves to flag for want of 
water. 
I am sometimes inclined to think there must be varieties of 
Eucharis amazonica possessing stronger constitutions than others, 
seeing they do well in some places and not in others under similar 
treatment. Here I find no difficulty whatever in growing and flower¬ 
ing them freely. Nurser 3 ^men and travellers who visit this garden 
tell me that the Eucharis plants here are the finest they see anywhere, 
and I have never seen better myself, whether for size or free habit 
of blooming. Perhaps I should state the dimensions of some of them 
to give an idea what they are like. I have at present six 14-inch pots 
as full as possible. The plants in each measure 6 feet through, and 
the individual leaves are from 2^ to 3 feet long, and from 7 to 
8 inches broad in the centre. The plants in each pot produce from 
four to five dozen spikes of bloom at one time, and this they do twice 
a year, and each spike has from five to seven large flowers ; besides, 
they are selaom without a few blooms all the year round. 
The treatment they receive is very simple. The pots are well 
drained, and the bulbs are firmly potted in a heavy red loam, with a 
mixture of leaf mould, crushed bones, and river tand. In growing 
the Eucharis I think success depends in a great measure in shifting 
or breaking-up the plants as little as possible, and in giving them 
abundance of liquid manure and soft water at all seasons when they 
require it. The plants here are never plunged in bottom heat, and 
some of the best of them have not been shifted or broken up for the 
last seven years ; and I do not think anyone could desire to have 
better results than those obtained here under this system.—A. 
PETriGREW, Castle Gardens, Cardiff. 
ANTHQRIUM SCHERTZERIANUM. 
Tins is one of the best flowering stove plants in cultivation, and 
some years ago it excited considerable attention when in good con¬ 
dition at our early summer exhibitions and in private gardens. There 
can be no doubt that it is a popular plant at the present time, but it 
is somewhat surprising that it is still represented in gardens gene¬ 
rally by a few specimens instead of by dozens or scores, as it 
deserves to be. 
I cannot discover why such a fine and useful plant has not been 
brought into greater prominence. It cannot be on account of the 
difficulty that attends its cultivation, for with ordinary care it is one 
of the easiest of plants to grow. It is by no means less beautiful 
or useful than many plants that are used by hundreds for purposes 
of decoration. Its bright scarlet spathes have indeed few equals 
either upon the plant or when cut and tastefully arranged with a 
spray or two of M ddenhair Fern in a vase. There is no comparison 
between this plant and the very finest forms of Masdevallias, which 
are now so popular. Certainly the latter require only a cool house,., 
while the plant in question must have stove heat while making its 
growth, but the gorgeousness of the Anthurium more than com¬ 
pensates for the difference in this respect. Perhaps the true cause 
is the high price which has been maintained for really good varieties. 
This may be the chief cause, combined with the length of f me- 
required before a stock of plants can be raised by dividing the 
crowns or from seed, which is not very freely produced. Seedlings 
have been moderately cheap, but very rarely have they proved equal 
to the finest forms, but many of them are nevertheless worth a place- 
for all practical purposes of decoration. 
In addition to the decorative beauty of this plant in the stove 
while in flower, it should be largely grown in those gardens where 
Orchids form a chief feature of interest. There is a great scarcity 
of bright scarlet floweis amongst these plants, therefore the bright 
and curious spathes of this Anthurium, as well as its foliage, are 
admirably adapted for associating with them. During the early 
spring months, when Dendrobiums and Cattleya Trianm and C. Mossim 
are plentiful, a number of well-flowered plants of Anthurium staged 
amongst them give to the house in which they are arranged a very 
effective appearance. Not only can these plants be employed in 
stove temperatures, but they are not injured by standing for a time 
in the conservatory, or any structure where the night temperature 
ranges between 45° and 50°. When these plants are employed in a 
low temperature, however, it is necessary to prevent cold draughts 
striking directly upon them, and care must be exercised in keeping 
them moderately dry at their roots. 
Not only can this Anthurium be had in bloom during April and 
May, which appears to be the usual time under stove treatment, but 
it can be had in bloom during the dreariest months of the year and 
in succession for at least six months. This renders it doubly valuable 
for decoration. Its great value for the embellishment of our plant 
houses, however, is the fact that it can be had in flower to brighten 
and beautify these structures when Poinsetlias, Euphorbias, Centro-, 
pogon Lucianus and other winter-flowering plants are over, and there 
is little left until Begonias can be brought into flower in sufficient 
numbers to render warm houses attractive. 
To flower these useful plants well they should not be subject to 
stove treatment the whole year or they will only throw up their 
spathes oddly and but few of them. When growth has been com-, 
pleted, say at this season of the year, the plants should be removed 
from the stove to a temperature of 55° for a week or two, and finally 
to some structure kept about 5° lower. This will induce the plants, 
to rest thoroughly, by which they are very much benefited, and not 
