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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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twelve pips deep. One smaller fruit is ripening, produced by a 
rootless sucker inserted only ten months ago. Is not this going to 
beat the record ? We pass by lines of Tomatoes. “ Ah, yes !” 
remarks the American, “ we can grow and sell them at half a 
dollar a bushel, and you can’t beat that, I guess.” No, our price is 
about 6d. a pound, rather than 6d. a peck. A house—a long case 
of cordon Pears—will be a feature of interest in a year or two, 
and useful withal, as the best of fruit will be a practical certainty. 
We have a glance, just a glance, in the plant houses, and note the 
same health and cleanliness that prevail in the fruit department. 
Nepenthes were luxuriating, the not often seen N. lanata thriving 
and pitchering well. Everything is grown for castle and palace, 
and the choicest and best plants have to go on great occasions. The 
long conservatory was gay with many flowers, including one that 
would not be thought “ valuable ” enough by many a parvenu. 
It is a Godetia, the seed of which Her Majesty brought from the 
Continent; the flowers crimson with white rays—a really effective 
variety, and notwithstanding its simplicity, perhaps because of it, 
found favour with the Queen. 
We could only look at, not through, the kitchen garden of 
fifty acres, for we have yet to see the terrace, and arrive just 
in time to view from the battlements of the majestic castle the 
sun sinking behind the distant hills. We look down on the 
dizzy depths, peering between the tree tops into the grassy 
dells and beautiful slopes below. We walk round the horseshoe 
shaped terrace, and admire the beautiful enclosure in which 
flowers, ornamental shrubs, and statuary combine to produce an 
altogether charming effect on the smooth emerald turf. The 
long walk, or avenue of magnificent Elms, stretches far away, its 
dignity not being lessened in the first faint suffusion of twilight, 
and we pass through the precincts into the town. 
Now, Mr. Palmer, we have shown you the best we can of what 
we think great and good in park and garden scenery, and of 
English garden culture in its broadest aspect by a master in the 
art. Are you satisfied ? “ Yes, perfectly ; it is fine all through and 
good all over ; the under man has to admit himself beaten, and 
you are at the top this time anyhow. But don’t forget to call 
on me in Buffalo when you are passing.” 
Thus ended our Anglo-American day. Our friend will not 
forget it when in his far-away home, while those who formed his 
escort will long remember with pleasure his genial company and 
naive comments. We all join in a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. 
Harry Turner for his good guidance, and the indulgent reader will, 
mayhap, not object to this narration during holiday time. 
CyPRIPEDITJM X WiNNIANUM. 
Tins charming hybrid is the result of a cross between C. Druryi 
and C. villosum, the former being the pollen parent. A plant of 
it was exhibited by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons at a meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society on February 14th of this year, and 
the Orchid Committee deemed it worthy of an award of merit. 
The bloom is a harmony in brown. The petals are deep brown on 
the upper part, lighter below, with a broad central stripe. They 
are rather blunt and incurving, as shown in the illustration (fig. 12). 
The lip is light brown, and the dorsal sepal purplish brown, edged 
with lemon, and margined with white. 
Phal.rnopsis tetraspis. 
Although introduced into English gardens from the Andaman 
Islands by Major-General Berkeley twelve years ago, and described 
at that time by Reichenbach from a plant flowered by the late 
Mr. John Day as “a very free-flowering species, bearing a rich 
panicle of ivory-white flowers in the way of P. violacea, delight¬ 
fully fragrant,” this Phalaenopsis is, says a writer in a recent 
number of the “Garden and Forest,” rarely heard of amongst culti¬ 
vators. There were several plants of it in flower at Kew a short 
time ago. Each flower was 1^ inch across, with broad, fleshy, pure 
white sepals and petals, and a narrow, hairy labellum blotched 
with yellow. According to General Berkeley this species grows 
on Mangrove and other trees in muddy swamps at the extreme 
end of the creeks where the water is fresh, and where the plants 
hang from the branches a few feet above the water, growing with 
extraordinary luxuriance. 
Pleiones. 
These charming little Orchids are invaluable where cut flowers 
are required. Considering they are so easy to grow it is surprising 
we do not see more of them. Anyone possessing a warm green¬ 
house or stove need not be afraid of disappointment. The pseudo¬ 
bulbs after flowering should be allowed to rest a short time, but 
FIG. 12. —CYPRIPEDIUM X WINNIANUM. 
never be quite dry. When the young growths are about inch 
long the pseudo-bulbs should be taken out of the pot and separated,, 
carefully removing all the old compost from them, cutting the old 
roots to within about an inch of the pseudo-bulb ; the portion left 
serves to keep them firm in the pot. They must be carefully 
washed to clear away any traces of scale, to which pest they are 
very subject, and which is very troublesome if allowed to ruu on 
the young leaves. 
The compost I use, and better results cannot be desired, ir 
good fibrous peat and chopped sphagnum with a liberal proportion 
of nodules of dried cowdung and charcoal, and a good sprinkling of 
sharp sand mixed well together. Six-inch pots half filled with 
potsherds are employed. The pseudo-bulbs, five or six according^ 
to the number of young growths, are potted firmly, raised above 
the rim of the pot. Afterwards place them in a temperature of 
about 50°, and keep them damp but not wet until the new roots 
have reached the sides of the pot, then an increase of heat will be 
advantageous. We are always careful not to wet the leaves, or 
they will soon become spotted and will decay prematurely. As 
growth advances the pots are occasionally plunged in weak liquid 
manure up to the pseudo-bulbs. Continue this about twice a 
week until they have swelled ; they will then require less water,, 
and may be placed in a cooler part of the house. In due course 
the leaves will ripen and fall, and the flower buds appear.— 
Specialist. 
SPRAYING VERSUS INSECT PESTS AND 
FUNGOID DISEASES. 
The question is no longer “ Shall I spray ? ” but “When and 
how shall I do it ? ” Such is the heading of a leading article of a 
paper received recently from America. Agriculturists and horti¬ 
culturists are now fully realising that they must fight hard against 
the ravages of insect pests and fungoid diseases if they wish to 
ensure a remunerative crop in field, garden, or orchard 
Fruit trees. Vines, Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Om)„ are alike 
