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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
[ February 28, ls»P. 
Rainfall at Corella. 1879-88,” by the Ven. Archdeacon Wynne, 
I’.R.Met.Soc. 
CANKER AND GRAFTING. 
It was not my intention to waste any more ink on the subject of 
canker, because it is quite evident that we shall end about the same as 
we began, by everyone enjoying his own opinion. But as I notice a 
reference to what I have before written on this subject on page 131 I 
cannot well resist the temptation. This in practice comes so near my 
experience that I have no doubt as to the beneficial results. But what 
docs Mr. Gar rod and others do when they head down a badly cankered tree ? 
Just this. We get rid of the bulk—perhaps all—of the vermin at the same 
time under the operation, and I have proved that without grafting the 
new growth of the same sort hept free from vermin afterwards will do 
equally as well as a new sort put on the stock. When I can look on 
some of the healthiest of orchard trees which have been in the same 
soil, the same drainage, the same climate, and all other conditions for 
forty years without canker, I am compelled to look into the cause of 
young trees cankering before they have even begun bearing.—J. Hiam. 
CYPRIPEDIUM T. B. HAYWOOD. 
A hybrid Orchid exhibited by Messrs. Yeitch & Sons on the same 
occasion as C. Lathami is that of which a reduced representation is 
FIG. 2G. —CYPRIPEDIUM T. B. HAYWOOD. 
given in fig. 2fi. This was obtained from a cross between C. Drurii 
and C. superbiens (Veitehi), and though not superior to either of 
its parents, it has neat and pleasingly marked flowers. One of the 
characters of C. Drurii is preserved in a marked degree—namely, 
the dark central lines in sepals and petals, which in the hybrid 
assumes a purplish hue. The rounded dorsal sepal have also 
secondary smaller and fainter radiating veins of purple and green 
on white, something in the way of C. superbiens ; the petals have 
numerous purplish dots at the base, and the lip is suffused with 
soft purple tint. Neither of the species named as parents have 
been much employed in hybridising. C. Drurii is one of the 
parents (with C. niveum) of C. microchilum ; it was employed with 
C. villosum in the production of C. Winnianum, but these are not 
very well known. C. superbiens was, however, employed with 
C. Stonei in the production of the famed C. Morganim, and with 
C. barbatum in producing C. superciliare, also a handsome 
hybrid. 
CYPRIPEDIUM LATHAMI. 
An extremely interesting hybrid Cypripedium was shown at the 
recent meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society by Mr. Latham, 
the well known Curator of the Birmingham Botanic Garden, by 
whom it was raised a few years since. It is quite distinct, and 
shows the characters of the parents so clearly that there can be no 
doubt that a cross was effected. The species employed were 
C. villosum and C. Spicerianum, both familiar Cypripediums, now 
in the majority of collections, and the result has been an enlarged 
C. Spicerianum, the strength of the other parent being manifested 
in the greatly increased flowers and vigorous growth. The dorsal 
sepal, as can be seen in the woodcut (fig. 27), has much of the 
C. Spicerianum character, the peculiar undulations on the upper 
margins of the petals also resembling that species. The lip and 
general contour of the flower are suggestive of C. villosum. The 
plant shown had not many flowers, but it is said to be very free, 
and is likely to become one of the useful winter-flowering 
Cypripediums.—C. 
ORCHIDS FLOWERING IN FEBRUARY. 
One of the useful qualities of many Orchids is the fact that 
they flower at a time when the attractions of houses are not too 
numerous. An example of the diversity that can be obtained in 
February is afforded by the following list of Orchids flowering in 
Messrs. J. Laing & Sons’ Nursery at Forest Hill. 
Cattleya Triar 
alba 
„ „ rnargina'a 
„ ,, Warscewiezi 
„ „ ,. delicati 
„ ametbystogloBsa 
Dendrobium Ainawertbi 
„ crassinode 
„ Ba*b( r'ana 
Pi raidi 
„ primulinum 
„ „ giganteum 
„ nobile 
„ „ eoernlescens 
„ ., peidulum 
„ Waidianum 
„ „ gigantcum 
Deudrochilum gkimaceum 
Coelogyne erktata 
Cymbidium eburneum 
,, Lowianum 
Cypripedium Argus 
„ Boxa li 
„ Ha' risianum 
„ insigne 
Cypripedium Liwrencianum 
Labia harpopbi 11a 
Lyeaste Skinr.eri 
Maslevallia Hairyana 
„ Liu deni 
„ ignea 
„ tovaiensis 
„ tr angularis 
Odontog’ossum Rossii 
„ „ majus 
„ „ rubescens 
,, A1 xandne 
„ Cervantesi 
„ Ocrstedi 
„ „ majus 
„ Pes'atcrei 
Occidium bar'-atnm 
„ cucull turn 
., cri ntale 
„ on itliorbynchum 
„ refl-xum 
„ fplendidum 
Phajus g anaifolius 
Pbalsenopsis rosea 
,, Stuait : ana 
KNIGHTSHAYES COURT, TIVERTON. 
This newly erected mansion is the Devonshire residence of Sir 
John II. Amory, Bart. It is commodious and picturesque in appearance, 
and is situate in the midst of an undulated and well-wooded park, two 
miles north-west of Tiverton town, and it is half an hour's pleasant 
ride from Exeter through the green and fertile Exe valley. The park 
is said to be (lie oldest in Devonshire. The trees are very large and 
luxuriant in growth ; they consist main y of majestic Oak, Birch, Beech, 
of large dimensions ; Scotch Pine, extra large and fine ; with here and 
there large flat headed Thorns and spreading Chestnut trees. The 
grounds are extensive, well laid out, contain much interesting variety, 
and miles of winding and well kept gravel walks. They contain several 
fine specimens of the Cedar of Lebanon, Cedrus atlantica, Cc.drus Deodara, 
I’icea Pinsapo, very handsome ; Liriodendron tulipifera (the Tulip Tree), 
and Weilingtonia gigantea, 70 feet high and as straight as a gunbaml, 
having a stem between 7 and 8 feet round at 3 feet from the ground, 
and furnished with healthy foliage from base to summit. I may here 
state that the natural soil in the park and ground is a deep reddish loam 
resting on a stratum of yellow clay. From the new gravel walk, 7 feet 
wide, from the Court to the church, and known as “Church Walk,” a 
fine view of hill and dale, wood and water, including the ancient and 
industrial town of Tiverton southward, is obtained. Making a detour 
of the grounds we enter a horseshoe-like valley at the base of tie 
beautifully wooded slope a short distance west of the Court. This is a 
charming and sequestred spot, through which flows a quiet stream, 
on the banks of which luxuriate Osmunda rcgalis and other choice 
British Ferns, flowering shrubs, including Rhododendrons in variety. 
Leycesteria formosa, a shrub not so frequently met with as it deserves 
to be, and large well-flowered bushes of the Syringa and Guelder Rose, 
Weeping Ash, &c. The semicircular pathway, which the gardener, 
Mr. Peebles, made and subsequently grassed through one of the sharply 
sloping home-woods in the direction of the gasworks last spring, is an 
addition to the many pleasant and enjoyable walks at Knightshaycs, 
several of which have been made by Mr. Peebles, and which, like the 
one in question, serve to show that he has not forgotten his early and 
extensive training in the work, and in landscape gardening generally. 
Before quitting the park and grounds I must not omit mention of 
the grand avenue of trees from Tiverton entrance to the Court, and the 
row of stately Elms in the direction of the kennels, together with 
several fine specimens of the narrow and broad leaved Evergreen Oak, 
Quercus Ilex, and Desfontainea spinosa. From the terraces opposite, 
and contiguous to the south frtnt of the Court, on which there aie 
several large squarely trained specimens terminating in a point of 
English Yews growing in large boxes, there is a bold expanse of velvety 
lawn unmarred by a single flower bed, sloping somewhat sharply in a 
southern direction to the park, and flanked on either side by trees and 
shrulis of great age and beauty. The Court, as viewed from the 
