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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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make capital flowering pseudo-bulbs the second year. To accom¬ 
plish this it will be necessary, if they break well, to give them 
another season more material in which they can root. Healthy 
roots are attached to the other two samples, and pans may be filled in 
which they are to grow and flower until the material is again 
decomposed or the plants become crowded. The pans for these 
should be about three parts fllled with drainage and the plants well 
elevated above the rim. A few wire pegs may be necessary to 
secure some of the plants in their places. 
After plants are divided they should be transferred to a structure 
that can be kept moist and the night temperature about 60°; under 
these conditions they soon establish themselves and commence root 
activity and growth. Although this is considered a cool house 
Orchid and is often recommended for cool houses, we have always 
found them to succeed best when assisted to make their growth in 
heat. The warmest corner of the Cattleya house is a capital place 
for them. 
For a time Coelogynes will flourish in loam and sand, 
but we do not favour this material, because from the large 
quantities of water required during the season of growth it 
quickly becomes too decomposed for 
their well being. Those, however, 
who can command no other material 
need not despair of growing these plants, 
especially if they incorporate plenty of 
charcoal with it and a little leaf mould. 
The last they certainly like, but it has 
the same fault as the loam. The best 
material, however, is good flbry peat 
used in a rough state with charcoal and 
crocks added freely, sphagnum moss 
being used near the surface only, so that 
this can be removed and renewed an¬ 
nually. These plants succeed in wire 
baskets suspended from the roof. The 
flowers are so useful that they deserve 
to be more largely grown in this position 
for yielding flowers in a cut state. 
Pleiones, 
These are growing freely and do well 
on a shelf in almost any warm house ; in 
fact we have found them succeed as well 
in the stove as in the Orchid house. If 
grown in small, shallow pans they may 
be suspended from the roof. In such 
positions care is needed in watering. 
From the present time they must not be 
allowed to become dry. When in vigorous 
growth and rooting freely the pans may 
be dipped twice a week in weak liquid 
manure. Care is needed not to use this 
too strong or harm will result. The 
liquid used should be diluted with warm 
water so that it can be used in a tepid 
state. Soot water in a clear state is also 
beneficial for these charming Orchids. 
When in vigorous growth it is a good _ . , i 
plan to surface the pans in which they are growing with sphagnum 
moss, which greatly assists in the retention of moisture about them, 
Phaius gkandifolius. 
This old but useful Orchid, so often despised by those who are 
ever on the look out for novelties, proves to be an invaluable plant 
for conservatory decoration. If kept on the dry side while m 
these structures the complete rest while in flower is very benehciaJ. 
Those that have flowered may be repotted. The whole of the old 
soil may be shaken from their roots and the plants placed in a 
compost of loam, peat, sand, and a little decayed manure ; good 
leaf mould may be substituted for the peat. The pots need only 
be drained on the same principle as would be followed for Crotons 
or Drac®nas, and the plants should be potted half an inch nelovv 
the rim of the pot instead of above it. After potting they should 
be placed where a moist stove temperature can be given them. 
Care is needed at first not to give them too much water, and the 
syringe should be used with caution. If the plants are kept wet 
and injudiciously syringed the young growths are certain to become 
spotted and disfigured throughout the season. If scale is noticed 
on the leaves sponge them thoroughly before potting.— Orchid 
Grower. 
DeNDROBIUM NOBILE. 
The specimen from which the enclosed photograph is taken is 
3 feet wide and 2 feet 3 inches high, and has 600 distinct blooms. 
The compost I have used is two-thirds peat and one-third dried 
cow manure ; it has been in the basket three years, and last year it 
was admired by many visitors. 
I have another specimen placed in a basket, at the same time 
in the usual Orchid compost, but this bears no comparison to the 
photographed one. The conclusion I have come to is that cow 
manure may be beneficially employed (as far as basket plants are 
concerned) for other members of the Orchil family. Thinking it 
may interest some of your many readers I have forwarded this 
brief account,—B. Eveleigh, Gardener to J. Perkins, Esq., The 
Cottage, Stoke, near Coventry. 
[The photograph represents a handsome healthy plant, bearing 
very fine flowers, and the variety is evidently an excellent one.] 
Cypripediijm insigne in New York. 
An illustration has been forwarded to me depicting a house of 
Cypripedium insigne, as grown by Mr. W. G. Kimball, Rochester, 
New York, and which shows 500 remarkably vigorous looking 
plants bearing 2500 flowers. The plants are grown in small pots, 
because they are found to flower more freely than in large ones. 
FIG, 35.—CHELMSFORD WONDER APPLE. 
and in good peat and sphagnum, with ample drainage, and a night 
temperature of 55° for winter. They are found to be “ as easy to 
grow as a Lettuce.”—L, 
APPLE CHELMSFORD WONDER. 
Since it is generally admitted there are by far too many varieties 
of Apples in cultivation, new forms must possess some distinct feature 
of merit to be recognised by the Fruit Committee of the Eoyal Horti¬ 
cultural Society. The Apple in question, as may be seen by the illus¬ 
tration, is of imposing appearance, keeps sound till the present time, 
and is of good cooking quality. Chelmsford Wonder was accorded an 
award of merit last year, and the tree was said to be a good grower 
and free bearer. The following is Dr. Hogg’s description of this 
Apple :— 
“ Fruit large, roundish, with blunt ribs ; skin smooth, deep yellow, 
almost golden, marked with broken streaks of crimson over its entire 
surface. Where the fruit is much exposed to the light it has more 
colour. The surface is strewed with russet specks. Eye half open, with 
erect, somewhat divergent segments. Tube funnel-shaped; stamens 
median. Flesh tender, crisp, juicy, and sweet, with a somewhat brisk 
aeidity. Cells open, abaxile, ovate; codlin-like. An excellent late- 
keeping Apple, in use up till March,” * 
It was placed before the Committee by Messrs. J. Saltmarsh & Son, 
Chelmsford, who are distributing trees for planting. 
