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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
I December 2 r, 1838; 
flower spikes will advance rapidly. Directly the first flowers are 
open gradually harden them to cooler treatment before they are 
taken to the structure in which they are needed to do duty. Be 
careful to keep the soil dry at their roots. Give no more water 
than will retain their foliage in fresh and healthy condition. When 
water is needed apply it tepid. The plants are liable, when in 
flower, to attacks of brown aphides. Remove them, if they 
appear, with the sponge. 
CCGLOSYNE CRISTATA. 
Plants that were grown in a warm house, and have had a 
lengthened rest in a temperature of 50°, will be pushing their 
flower spikes rapidly. In order to provide a succession of these 
flowers introduce a few of the plants into a temperature 10° higher. 
The remaining portion of the early supply can remain where they 
are for the present, while later grown plants may be rested in a 
temperature of 45° to 50°. Do not overwater those at rest ; give 
only sufficient to keep the pseudo-bulbs plump. 
THE ODONTOGLOS3UM HOUSE. 
Watch diligently for slugs in this structure, for they are gene¬ 
rally a source of great annoyance at this season of the year. Every 
effort to destroy them should be made, for if left alone they will 
soon do a large amount of damage now that the flower spikes are 
appearing freely on 0. Alexandiae and 0. Pescatorei. We have 
found a light syringing of petroleum and water, 1 oz. to 4 gallons 
of water, syringed on the stage amongst the pots, a capital plan for 
driving slugs from their hiding places to seek more genial quarters, 
when they can be captured. After syringing, if plenty of Lettuce 
leaves are laid about, they will quickly take possession of them, 
when under ordinary circumstances they would not have touched 
them. Dry cotton wool placed round the growing spikes proves a 
good preventive against slugs, but directly it becomes wet it is 
no hindrance to them. The best way to catch slugs is to examine 
the plants with a light about an hour after it is dark, after 
thoroughly damping the stage and pots.— Orchid Grower. 
The Christmas Holidays. —In consequence of the pages of 
this issue of the Journal having to be prepared for press nearly a week 
in advance, the publication of many valuable articles, including notes on 
new Chrysanthemums, Orcharding, Grapes, Auriculas, and various other 
subjects, must of necessity be deferred to a future issue. We thank 
all our correspondents for their co-operation in enabling us to complete 
two issues of the Journal of Horticulture in one week. 
-At the dinner of the Cardiff Chrysanthemum Society 
recently there was a good attendance of members, representing the chief 
gardeners in the district. The Secretary, Mr. C. R. Waldron, stated that 
the balance in the bank after all expenses were paid is £49 3s. 9J., a very 
satisfactory condition. 
- New Fancy Pansy, Mrs. B. Wynne.—M r. John Downie of 
Edinburgh sent me in the middle of November a bloom of this very 
fine seedling of his, which is, I think, to be sent out in spring. It is a 
grand flower in form, size, and substance, rich - in colour, with an im¬ 
mense clearly cut blotch.—W. D., Solihull. 
- Many of the Salvias are useful for culture in pots during the 
winter months, and one of these, which is not so frequently grown as 
others, is Salvia leucantha. It is of bushy habit, bearing long 
narrow leaves and tall spikes of white flowers, the calyxes of which are 
woolly and of a soft mauve tint. This Salvia is very free in flowering) 
and in contrast with the bright S. splendens or the beautiful blue 
S. Pitcheri it has a capital effect in a conservatory. 
- In such an exceptional season as the present so many plants 
have been recorded as flowering out of doors that some gardens have 
presented quite a spring-like appearance. We have had plenty of 
Primroses, some Violets, and other plants in flower for weeks, but one of 
our favourites is Sternbergia lutea, which has been bearing its golden 
flowers for some time past, but is now losing its attractions. A small 
bed is formed of the bulbs, and, as every one flowers, they produce a 
good effect if planted rather closely together in rows. They are dwarf, 
the leaves narrow and dark green, the flowers peeping up amongst them. 
—L. W. S. 
- In addition to the letter on seedling Sugar Canes in another 
page, the “Kew Bulletin ” for December contains information on 
the Inhambane Copal (Copaifera Gorskiana), several other species of the- 
same genus in Africa also affording copal. The tree produces a hard and. 
valuable timber, but it has not been long known that it yielded copal of 
commercial value. Specimens, with fruits and seeds, were introduced 
to Kcw by Mr. Heathcote in 1886. Several hundred seedlings were- 
raised and despatched to many of our tropical colonies. The cultivation 
of Rice in Bengal is the subject of an article. To the Silkworm Thom. 
(Cuchania triloba) a chapter and illustration are devoted. Jamaica 
Indiarubber (Fosteronia floribunda) and Ramie (Boehmeria nivea) are- 
also treated upon. This number completes the volume for 1888, com¬ 
prising 298 pages, and dealing with a variety of subjects of special im¬ 
portance to those interested in colonial resources. 
- The Royal Meteorological Society has published its- 
Meteorological Record ” for the first quarter of this year, containing 
the monthly results of observations made at its stations, with remarks 
on the weather by Mr. W. Marriott. The Society commenced the organi¬ 
sation of stations on a uniform plan in 1874, and these were supple¬ 
mented by another class of stations, termed climatological, in 1880- 
Since 1881 the results have been published in a separate form under the- 
above title. A map of the stations is issued annually, and shows that 
they are fairly well distributed, except in Wales. In addition to the- 
monthly results, tables of daily rainfall are given for a number of 
stations, and of the daily temperature and sunshine in London and the- 
suburbs. The monthly values published by the Registrar-General are- 
also appended, and the whole forms a valuable record of the meteoro¬ 
logical statistics of England and Wales, issued well up to date. 
-At a meeting of the French Meteorological Society" 
on November Cth, M. Lemoine presented a summary of the rainfall- 
observations of the basin of the Seine in 1887. He stated that the 
rainfall was everywhere below the average ; in the Department of the. 
Seine-Inferieure the totals for the year were the lowest in a series of 
twenty-one years. M. Renou stated that the late M. HervAMangom 
having expressed the wish that his observations made at Ste.-Marie-du- 
Mont should be published, Madame Mangon had handed them over to- 
him for publication at her expense. M. Renou presented a note on the 
temperature of October at Paris since 1757. He pointed out that during; 
the last 130 years the month of October presented either a low or a high 
mean every twenty or twenty-five years. Means as low as that for 
October, 1887—viz., 44T°, were very rare. Since 1757 the lowest 
averages for October had occurred in 1784 (45‘3°), and 1817 (45T°).— 
(Nature. - ) 
- Some reference was made recently to a note published respect¬ 
ing a collection of Botanical Objects from Corea sent to the Kew 
Museum, and the following further particulars are interesting. “ Some- 
of the hand-screens presented by Mr. Watters to the Kew Museum were- 
given to him by the King, and are of much finer workmanship than those- 
that are purchasable. The oil-steeped paper tobacco-pouches and hat- 
coverings are a close imitation of oilskin ; the latter, which when 
opened is cone or tent-shaped, is used by all classes except the peasantry, 
even including the soldiers. The Corean boy’s kite, which is also made-: 
of Brous3onetia paper, consists of a piece of paper about a foot square- 
with a circular hole in the middle, kept in form by thin strips of 
bamboo ; a thin string is attached to each corner and brought together- 
and connected to a single string, which is wound upon a wooden wind¬ 
lass. The perfection of splitting bamboo into thread-like strips seems to- 
be divided equa'ly between the Chinese, and the Coreans, judging from 
a remarkably fine example of a blind which forms one of the exhibits.. 
These very fine blinds are said to be used only by high mandarins, and 
the coarser kinds by the lower classes. Another illustration of very fine- 
work is in the utilisation of split rattans in the manufacture of articles- 
of clothing, an undershirt and cuffs of very open ornamental workman¬ 
ship being made entirely from this material, which is both soft and 
pliable. These shirts are said to be used next the skini in hot weather to- 
prevent the outer shirt adhering to the body.” 
- Tomatoes.—I have been growing about half a- dozen sorts of 
Tomatoes in a good-sized house, and on the centre fiat stage we planted 
in a shallow bed of turfyjsoil and manure, and many wonder that they 
do so well on so little soil. The side stages are filled with plants in pots, 
all in 6-inch and 8-inch, with no manure under them, only occasional 
manure waterings and plenty of water. I grow Hackwood Bark Prolific, 
