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lia? not injured the corms, but I do not as yet see any signs of Lemoine’s 
hardy race making their appearance, and should they turn out to have 
been killed by the winter they will be a doomed race. In point of 
beauty they cannot touch the gandavensis hybrids, and if in the one 
point on which their superiority has been extolled they fail few of us 
would care any more for them. It will be necessary to keep the beds 
well weeded, and this should be done by hand ; a hoe must nof be used, 
as there may be several which have not pushed through the ground, and 
a snip of the hoe might settle them for the year. Nothing more need 
be done to them for some time. 
Pansies. —1 have never had a better bloom than this season, and 
they were at the end of May in full beauty. I only grow Fancies, and 
some of them are of exquisite beauty and great size. Some we grow in 
pots, and I should imagine that those in the open ground stood but a 
poor chance this season. My plants have only been allowed to have 
three or four growths. They have been kept free from weeds, and as 
.5Don as the flowering is over I plant them out in a shady place, not 
to be fine, to apply one or two doses of liquid rcanure. I do not think 
there is any use in giving it later on. What is wanted is to give vigour 
to the coming flower, and when the bud is formed this seems to be 
almost too late ; and now that we are experiencing stormy weather it will 
soon be washed into the roots. When the buds are formed then dis¬ 
budding must begin. This is a point where amateurs who are not 
exhibitors too often fail, and yet they go to an exhibition, see Roses 
which have all been taken from disbudded plants, and wonder their 
garden does not supply them with equally good ones. The season must 
be a backward one, let us hope it may be a good one.—D., DoaL 
L^LIA HYBRIDA ARNOLDIANA. 
At the last meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society classes were 
provided for Orchids, and it was a surprise to many that in those 
specially devoted to amateurs there were no entries. In an ordinary 
Fig. 93.— LfiELIA HYBRIDA ARNOLDIANA. 
trader the drip of trees. I do this before the plants contract rnildew, as 
they are apt to do if kept under glass too long. In this position they 
remain all the summer, and in the autumn they are taken up and 
divided, and although this seems a lazy method, yet I have found with 
these Fancy Pansies that it answers very well. 
Ranunculus. —My beds of the Persian varieties now look uncom¬ 
monly well. I was in great doubts about them some time ago when we 
'Were experiencing such dry and unkindly weather ^ but the abundant 
rains completely altered their appearance, and they are now looking as 
well as I ever had them. 
Roses. —Ah 1 who shall say what Roses are to be this year ? ^ At 
present they are pushing away as if meaning to make up for lost time. 
It will be necessary now to look out for the worm i’ the bud, and there is 
no way of getting rid of him but by single combat. He must be searched 
cut and syringed to death. Another point is, where Roses are required 
way without offering either medals or money prizes several collections 
are obtained, and it can only be supposed that after the great orchidic 
effort at the Temple a rest was required. 
An open class was also provided for seedling Orchids, a silver-gilt 
Flora medal being offered, and though only two were shown they were 
both of an exceptional character. One of these was depicted in last 
week’s Journal of Horticulture, and a figure is now presented of the 
other, Lmlia hybrida Arnoldiana, for which Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. 
Albans, were awarded the silver-gilt Flora medal and a first-class 
certificate. 
This Lselia is the result of a cross between Laelia purpurata and a 
variety of Cattleya labiata, the seed having been sown in 1881, so that 
the plant shown with five pseudo-bulbs and leaves of different sizes is 
