April 11, 1889. J 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
293 
One great aim of raisers is to get seifs without a notch in the petal, 
but as yet few are without it. Striving for an ideal is always 
praiseworthy, but Nature and man sometimes differ as to what is 
really perfection. 
I have now ended what I had to say on stage Auriculas. The 
Alpine variety did not come within my plan, as I neither admire nor 
•grow them. I will perhaps at some future time give a paper on 
the raising of seedlings, of which I have had a pretty extensive 
experience. It gives me great gratification to know that my Auricula¬ 
growing friends in different parts of the country have been interested 
in what I have written, and I have valued their kind letters very 
much. 
The following list contains varieties which the beginner 
may choose from with confidence that they are good. All can 
be readily procured from friends, or in the market at reasonable 
prices :— 
Green Edged. — -(Leigh's Colonel Taylor, Simonite’s F. D. 
Horner, Traill’s Prince of Greens, Traill’s Anna, Stretch’s Alex¬ 
ander, Beeston’s Apollo, Oliver’s Lovely Ann, Smith’s Lycurgns, 
Smith’s Lord John Russell, Booth’s Freedom, Cheetham’s Lanca¬ 
shire Hero, Campbell’s Admiral Napier, Ashton’s Prince of Wales, 
Dickson’s Duke of Wellington, Howard’s Lord Nelson. 
Grey Edged. — Kay’s Alex. Meiklejohn, Headley’s George, 
Lightbody, Sykes’ Complete, Waterhouse’s Conqueror of Europe, 
■Cunningham’s John Waterston, Campbell’s Confidence, Kenyon’s 
Ringleader, Chapman’s Maria, Chapman’s Sophia, Fletcher’s Ne 
Plus Ultra, Lightbody’s Richard Headley, Kent’s Queen Yictoria, 
Headley’s Stapleford Hero, Lightbody’s Robert Traill, Walker’s 
•George Levick. 
White Edged.— Walker’s John Simonite, Read’s Acme, Heap’s 
Smiling Beauty, Taylor’s Glory, Hepworth’s True Briton, Light- 
foody’s Countess of Dunmore, Lee’s Earl Grosvenor, Ashworth’s 
Regular, Gairns’ Model, Lightbody’s Sophia Dumaresque, Camp¬ 
bell’s Robert Burns, Lightbody’s Fair Maid, Summerscale’s Cathe- 
rina, Lee’s Bright Yenus, Traill’s Beauty. 
Selfs. — Spalding’s Blackbird-, Horner’s Heroine, Spalding's 
Metropolitan, Turner’s C. J. Perry, Sims’ Eliza, Smith’s Garland, 
Campbell’s Onward, Kay’s Topsy, Lightbody’s Lord Clyde, Martin’s 
Mrs. Sturrock, Campbell’s Pizarro, Sims’ Vulcan, Campbell’s Lord 
of Lome, Smith’s Formosa, Simonite’s Mrs. Douglas ■—-J. M., 
Dundee. —(Dundee Courier.) 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS AFTER FORCING. 
Many are curious to know what use can be made of Asparagus 
roots after forcing, and the same anxiety is often felt in connection 
with Strawberry plants that have been forced. The answer may 
foe varied according to the value of the variety forced and the 
■stock at command for producing a further supply of plants. This 
spring, for instance, our stock of forcing plants includes 200 of 
Noble, a variety of much value in the market, and one not 
likely to become too abundant for some time. To force this and 
then throw it away would not be regarded as economical practice, 
•as the plants if retained and planted out would yield plenty of 
runners or new plants next autumn, and if liberally treated they 
would also bear a profusion of fruits in the summer of 1890. He 
would therefore decide to look well after all our forced plants of 
Noble or any other new variety of decided merit, but old varieties, 
of which there are plenty in the open quarters, and from where 
abundance of young plants may readily be secured, need not be 
kept after being forced. Indeed it will not pay to keep them, as 
they do not possess any advantages not found in the main planta¬ 
tions, and as more space is generally wanted about this time the 
'best way is to throw away the bulk of tbe plants as soon as the 
•fruit is gathered. 
Even in the best hands forced Strawberry plants are apt to 
become infested with red spider or some other insects by the time 
the fruit is ripe or gathered, and if not carefully looked after they 
may gain a footing on Vines and other plants to such an extent 
that they will prove very troublesome throughout the whole of the 
season. In cases where the plants are retained for further use 
they must have a little extra attention after the fruit is gathered. 
To turn them straight out into the open, as is often done, will 
■check them severely—so much so, indeed, that the summer will be 
well in before they grow again or recover, but if hardened or exposed 
gradually and kept in frames for a time they will be ready for 
planting in the open about the same time as the Pelargoniums aro_ 
planted in the flow'er beds. If carefully treated in this way they 
will begin to emit runners some weeks in advance of the ordinary 
open air plants, and these are valuable as affording young plants 
for forcing again the following season. These plants develops and 
gain maturity sooner than the other runners, and are consequently 
better adapted for early forcing.—A Kitchen Gardener. 
DHNDROBTUM PIERARDI. 
Dendrobujm Pierardi, though one of the oldest cultivated 
membeis of the family, is also one of the most useful, for with 
ordinarily good attention it grows and flowers freely, producing long 
FIG. 16. —DENDROBIUM PIEF.ARDI. 
drooping pseudo-bulbs crowded with flowers, ft rming perfect flora 
wreaths. The engraving (fig. 4(1) prepared from a photograph of 
a plant at Birdhurst, Croydon, under the charge of Mr. J. 
Gregory, is an excellent example of what can be accomplished 
with this plant if it be afforded liberal treatment. There are 
several specimens in baskets, but the principal one in the centre had 
pseudo-bulbs exceeding 4 feet in length, which in several instances 
bore flowers from base to tip. In such condition as this it is a 
most graceful and beautiful Orchid, the large funnel-like lips pale 
creamy white, with rosy tinted sepals and petals, contrasting 
charmingly. The plant succeeds well in a basket of moss with a 
little peat suspended from the roof of a warm house, and may be 
ranked amongst the most easily managed Dendrobcs. 
