May )3,1895. 
JOURKAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
455 
“ That plant has teen constantly in flower since last Temple 
show,” said Mr. White, pointing to a specimen of Epidendrum 
Wallisi, and what could we do other than make a note of it ? 
There must have been many hundreds of individual flowers, and 
more remarkable still is the fact that there are yet many to expand. 
Equally interesting is a plant of E. Stamfordianum, carrying 
thirteen handsome spikes. Going now from fine plants to fine 
names we have E. Frederici Wilhelmi, which may safely be said 
FIG. 79.— ODONTOGLOSSUM RtTCKEEIANUM SPLBNDENS. (Sm p. 454.) 
to have a distinct German twang with it. Two more only were 
noted—namely, E. bicornutum and E. Randi, both of which are 
charming. _ 
With one or two others we must draw to a close, Vandas 
suavis and tricolor are grown in such a manner as to allow one to 
say that they are perfect, as also are the V. teres. In addition to 
those enumerated there are numerous kinds that ought to be 
accorded a position, but space forbids. Let us hope that when 
next we make a pilgrimage to Burford Lodge we shall find Mr. 
White less busy, and also that we shall have no Temple show in 
the foreground to preclude our giving the amount of space that is 
so thoroughly deserved.—W. 
Dendrobiums and Cattleyas. 
Please inform me how Dendrobiums showing for flower should 
be watered, and whit temperature ought to be maintained. Must 
the stems be syringed occasionally ? I should also like to know 
if establishing imported Orchids, or those which get into a bad 
condition, is a chance operation. I have been trying to re-estab¬ 
lish a Cattleya, but there is no sign of a root, although I keep the 
crocks moist. What more can I do?—W. C. 
[Dendrobiums when showing for flower, especially the section 
with long cylindrical stems like pseudo-bulbs, ought not to have 
much moisture, either at the roots or in the atmosphere, until the 
flower buds can be distinctly seen, after which a little more is 
necessary. Many of the deciduous species, such as D. Wardianum 
or D. Bensoniae, D. crassinode, or even D. nobile, must have very 
little water until the growths are well advanced and are com¬ 
mencing to root. The evergreen kinds, as D. densiflorum, 
D. thyrsiflorum, or D. chrysotoxum, will need more, or shrivelling 
of the pseudo-bulbs will take place, thus weakening the plants. The 
stems during hot weather may frequently be lightly syringed with 
advantage, especially at closing time, but never until the buds can 
be seen nor after these are showing colour, the former tending to 
the production of growths instead of flowers, the latter causing 
spotting of the blossoms. They must never be syringed on dull days 
or watered more than i* absolutely necessary. A suitable tem¬ 
perature will be 60° by night, 70° to 75" by day with sun heat. 
There is a great difference in establishing a newly imported 
Cattleya and resuscitating one that has got into a bad way under 
cultivation. The former plants have a good deal of innate vigour, 
and are simply shrivel’ed for want of heat and moisture ; the 
latter, on the other hand, has perhaps borne years of ill-treatment 
and gradually got into a weakened condition, from which they 
seldom recover. Cattleyas and Lselias are possibly more diflBcnlt 
to bring round from this condition than any other Orchid, and it 
is often the best plan to throw them away, procuring healthy 
plants, which may be purchased at a very reasonable rate. If, on 
the other hand, your plants are newly imported you have only to 
carry out the instructions given from time to time in this Journal, 
and with a little patience all will be well. Very often the growths 
come in advance of roots, and when the former are a couple of 
inches in length you may place a little peat and moss over the 
crocks, watering carefully at first, and screening the plants from 
bright sunshine.]_ 
APPLE BLOSSOM. 
Now that signs are becoming apparent of the vegetable and 
fruit garden being made more than it has been a place for sweet 
flowers, the need of studying the capabilities of the Apple as a 
decorative subject is forced on us. Whether employed as espaliers, 
bushes, or as standards, those selected for borders by the sides of 
walks will require to be carefully chosen. I planted the sides of a 
400-foot walk three years ago, and the trees are now sufficiently 
grown to be most effective, and at the same time to show that for 
this purpose one good variety is better than a number. While I 
write the flowers are studded thickly from base to tip of the little 
trees, and without break from one end of the row to the other. 
If more than one sort had been planted, and the various shades of 
blush and of white chosen, it would have been necessary to have 
arranged them so as to have the whole mixed in the same way all 
through ; and, above all, to plant those only that would flower 
simultaneously. 
There are, however, some kinds, free and certain croppers, that 
also stand out in a prominent manner for the beauty of their 
flowers, and it is from these that particular portions of the garden 
ought solely to be planted. No varieties are more beautiful than 
Lord Suffield, Keswick Codlin, Manks Codlin, Adams’ Pearmain, 
and Cornish Aromatic. The first and last named have large 
flowers, the other smaller, and each possesses something of the 
beauty of the wild Crab. There are many varieties with blossoms 
of a faint blush which are also very beautiful ; some of these have 
flowers of a very large size. Amongst the best I name Stirling 
Castle, Warner’s King, Ganges, Loddington, Ribston Pippin, and 
Tower of Glamis. Those white, or almost so, are, as a rule, not 
so effective as the blush kinds, and of course they, in the degree that 
the white is pure, differ in an essential manner from Apple blossom 
as a shade. Ribston Pippin is sometimes white. Early Julyan 
nearly so, as also Lord Grosvenor, but this is not certain every 
year to flower profusely. Duchess of Oldenburg is fine, but the 
finest white of all is Devonshire Quarrenden. Its long shoots 
are wreathed with clusters of pure white. This, with Keswick 
Codlin, Lord Suffield, Adams’ Pearmain, and Manks Codlin are the 
finest out of a very large number grown here. 
I have seen it somewhere remarked that green-skinned Apples 
possess coloured flowers, and highly coloured Apples white 
blossoms. This, indeed, obtains to some extent, but it is not a 
constant rule. Queen Caroline and Lord Grosvenor are examples 
of white-flowered varieties, and Irish Peach of a blush kind. 
There are a number of late-flowering sorts that come in towards 
the end of the Apple-blossoming season. These are certain 
croppers. They include Fearn’s Pippin and Court Pendu Plat, 
though their flowers are not effective ; Alfriston, pretty; Northern 
Greening, the blooms of which when expanded are flat and not 
cupped like other Apples ; Stewart’s Seedling, a very dark flower ; 
and Nelson’s Codlin, perhaps the most attractive of all the late- 
flowering kinds. Rymer has the largest blooms of all the Apples 
we grow ; the tree, moreover, scarcely ever misses a crop, but the 
foliage is so early that the clusters are almost hidden. Some 
kinds, again, produce flowers that are, to say the least, not very 
attractive. Among these are such popular sorts as Worcester 
Pearmain, Winter Hawthornden, and Ecklinville Seedling. 
I may be allowed to note the great beauty of the strictly 
decorative Apple, Pyrus Malus floribundus, which has much the 
darkest flower among these.—B. 
TWICE TEN THOUSAND TULIPS. 
No ; “ alliteration’s artful aid ” is not brought into requisition 
in the headline for the purpose of effect, nor as a mere freak of 
fancy, but because it represents a simple fact in condensed form, 
which, being interpreted in prosaic amplification, means that 
20,000 Tulips were seen flowering in the Long Ditton nursery of 
