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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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with purple, and with a yellowish crest in the centre. The pseudo-bulbs 
are flat, oval, and ribbed. It is a striking form, quite distinct from other 
Odontoglossums. 
- In the entrance corridor of the same nursery Lapagerias are 
flowering abundantly, the long wreath-like shoots of red or whits flower s 
associating very beautifully trained over the roof, walls, and pillars. 
The stock of young Lapageria alba plants is also a large one, and they 
are looking extremely well, clean, healthy specimens from one to two 
years old. Some of the former are flowering, hut the latter are found 
the most satisfactory, and the largest flowers are generally produced by 
vigorous two-year-old plants. 
- The bright sunny weather of the past two months has ass'sted 
in maturing the Amaryllis Bulbs in an exceptional manner, and such 
finely ripened samples give the best promise of a highly sati factory dis¬ 
play next season. In about a month’s time the foliage will be cut off, 
but already there are some varieties so far advanced that it could be 
spared without any loss. There is much difference in this respect in the 
varieties, some being nearly always growing. 
- The extensive stock of Hybrid Rhododexdrons is still yield¬ 
ing meritorious novelties, three now in flower being Queen of Yellows, 
clear yellow with red stamens, Distinction, pile rosy salmon, and Rose 
Perfection, soft clear rose, twelve blooms in a truss. They are all single 
varieties, but the flowers are of good size and shape. 
- Gardening Appointment. — Mr. Alfred Bishop, late head 
gardener to Mrs. Davidson of Abbotsford Park, Burgess Hill, Sussex 
(which he left through the death of his employer), has succeeded Mr. 
Wick-on as head gardener to R. Burrell, Esq., Westley Hall, Bury St. 
Edmonds. Mr. Alfred Bishop is the eldest son of Mr. W. Bishop, nursery¬ 
man, Ac., Hemsby, and late head gardener of Bylaugh Park, East 
Dereham, Norfolk. 
- A correspondent states that “the celebrated traveller and 
botanist, Dr. Schweinfurth, who has just gone to Berlin to attend the 
Colonial Congress, has lectured there on the Kew Botanical Gardens, 
which he characterised as the finest in the world. Kew, he said, is the 
Botanical Foreign Office for all nations, for it is the centre of all 
botanical news from all parts of the world.” 
- We are informed that the Lewisham and District Floral 
Society will hold their annual Chrysanthemum Show at the Ladywell 
Public Baths, Lewisham, on November 12th and 13th. Mr. Henry Drake 
is the Honorary Secretary. 
Mr. E. J. Lowe, Shirenewton Hall, Chepstow, has sent us a 
box of interesting Seedling Flowers, and remarks:—“ I enclose some 
blooms of hybrids ; first, Anthemis tinctoria x Chrysan’hemum stratum, 
producing a large buff yellow bloom and having the habit of Anthemis 
tinctoria (the seed bearer), this I have named Sulphur Giant. A single 
pointed-petal Dahlia (several blooms) named Vishnu, the most distinct 
and showy Dahlia that I know, and most prolific bloomer. A bloom of a 
single Dahlia (white with yellow centre) also very showy, named Metis, 
Hybrid Mimulus (hardy). M. lu.eus X M. cashmerianus (of gardens), 
by far the most brilliant hybrid that has yet been raised. These I enclose 
for your inspection, they have been seen by many florists and botanists 
and greatly admired.” The seedlings are distinct and beautiful, the 
Mimulus being uncommonly rich in colour and varied in markings. 
- Mr. W. Piercy, 89, West Road, Forest Hill, S.E., sends us three 
home-raised Seedling Chrysanthemums which have been obtained 
from seed saved on the Continent. The varieties are named Blanche 
Columbe, pale sulphury wh te of medium size and free ; Piercy’a 
Seedling, bronzy yellow, bright and neat ; Pierre Veifiel, bronzy red. 
They are somewhat like others of the early- flowering type, but the tint j 
are good and clear. 
- “ The occupation of a farmer,” writes “ W.,” “does not 
in all cases seem to be a profitable one, if many cases occur like the 
one brought to light in a morning contemporary. A farmer of Spalding, 
which is about ninety miles Lorn London, sends to one of the principal 
markets four tons of early Potatoes. They were sold for £5. The rail¬ 
way company first had their sbar’, which in this case came to £3 7s. 10J.; 
then the commission agent £1 10 j . ; while the farmer, the producer, ob¬ 
tained the remaining 2s. 21.” In another case it was mentioned that a 
firm was sending goods to Liverpool at a cost of 27s. per ton, while 
similar goods were being sent to much more distant parts of the con¬ 
tinent for 11a. per ton. 
- Mr. Charles Payne, gardener to E. W. Nix, Esq-, The 
Gardens, Frashurst, Dorking, writes, “ It may be of interest to numerous 
readers of the Journal of Horticulture to know that we have a plant of 
Lapageria alba growing in an intermediate house, and bearing a spray 
between 6 and 7 feet long, with 111 flowers and buds on it. Seventy of 
the flowers are now open. It is flowering at every leaf at the top of the 
shoot. The plant is in a pot, and has been flowering for several 
months.” 
- A Cucumber Grower for Seed des’res to state for the 
benefit of others that he has this year devoted a house to the growing 
of seed of Telegraph for the trade, and that he ad pted the new or non 
ventilating system. His house, over 100 feet long and 13 feet wide 
was a sight; fine straight fruit hanging on both sides cf the roof of the 
span as thick as they well could, and 18 inches to 2 feet long, made 
a splendid picture photographed. He goes on to say, “ I had to smear 
the glass thinly in hot weather with whitening brought to the con¬ 
sistency of limewash with skim milk to keep the foliage from scorching, 
which it did most in the afternoon, from four to six o’clock. The 
flowers were carefully impregnated, the fruit swelled well, thickening 
and knobbing fairly well, but ripened tardily. As they turned yellow 
they were cut and placed in a pit in the full sun, and the fruit matured 
very much more quickly than under the shaded ro f. I had a quantity 
of seed fully one-third le3S, however, than when I grew the plants under 
an unshaded roof and with ventilation on the old system, and what makes 
the mo t difference is that as I sell the seed by the ounce and it doe3 
not weigh heavy my profits are proportionately reduced. The seed 
seems to have good germinating power, but whether the grower will 
find the plants as satisfactory as the seeds are to the seedsman is 
matter of experience. What is the experience of others on this subject? 
I had the house full of Tomatoes one year, and they paid better than 
Cucumbers, but this year I expected something extra from such a remark¬ 
ably grand show of fruit.” 
- “A Traveller” sends the following note :—“ I have just 
returned from a visit to St. Neots, and in a stroll whilst there through 
the grounds of Mr. Isaac Hall at Eynesbury, who farms 150 acre 5 , 
have seen a large field of Onions, followed by Parsley sown with the 
Onions, acres of Cucumbers, Wood’s Ridge, not much smaller patches of 
Vegetable Marrows, enough to make anyone wonder where they all go t', 
acres of Runner Beans wbh a bevy of damsels at work gathering the 
pods, and was told Royal Ashleaf Potatoes had been grown between the 
rows of runners ; Brussels Sprouts in breadths larger than most kitchen 
gardens, sturdy plants beginning to button ; equally large expanses of Red 
Beet and Parsnips, acres of Jerusalem Artichokes, with pickling Onions 
and Red Cabbage enough, anyone would think, to supply a town. But 
this is only a little of what is grown about St. Neots. Mr. John Hall, 
Eaton Socon, farms 250 acres ; the Messrs. Marshall perhaps more, to 
say nothing of smaller growers, and that the gardening stretches right 
away 1 1 Sandy and Biggleswade—a veritable land of vegetables of the 
highest quality, grown principally for and consumed in the great centres 
of industry of the west and north. Scarcely a weed is to bs seen, 
nothing hut high and clean culture.” 
- Oranges from Australia.— The experimental consignment) 
from Sydney and Adelaide have been sufficiently successful to afford 
encouraging prospects of a large traie, and the British public, with this 
addition to existing supplies, will be able to obtain Oranges all the year 
round. The enterprise which has achieved this result originated with a 
colonial bank, and the first consignment, per the John Elder, came to hand 
from Adelaide in April. It consisted of 1000 cases, and succeeding 
steamships have brought several more, in lots of 400 and less. The 
Oranges are not conveyed in the lefrigerating chambers, but as ordinary 
cargo, except that care is taken to allow the air free access to them. They 
are packed in cases, the majority of which hold 160, although some have 
con'ained GOO. Each Orange is wrapped in paper, and on the whole the 
cases when opened are in fair condition. J uly and August are expected 
to be the two months when the Australian Oranges will be in chief 
demand. These that have been cold in this country already have not all 
been kept in London, the first consignment having been purchased on th; 
behalf of c untry dealers, but the greater portion of the later cargoes fount 
its way to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, where the fruits are being 
