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south, east, and ivest he must grow what his various customers 
require. It is, however, a mistake to suppose that he recommends 
kinds “which are least profitable to the gardener” purposely ; on 
the contrary, he grows them in his trial ground alongside old stan¬ 
dard sorts. Sown under the same conditions and at the same time, 
and consequently so far as that soil or locality is concerned he is 
probably in a better position to judge of their merits than the man 
who sows them as a succession crop in a garden. I do not know 
'whether “J. L. B.” has grown Duke of Albany, but if it crops 
with him as it does here he must make an exception in its favour 
■when condemning exhibition Peas. 
Finally, to show how opinions vary, I should take exception to 
one name contained in the small list of Peas (only five), page 556, 
for I consider Hundredfold one of the poorest Peas we grow ; and 
what should we do without such old friends as Kentish Invicta, 
Little Gem, and Veitch’s Perfection, which in my judgment is 
dhe best of all Peas except Prince of Wales, or the newer acquaint- 
•ances American Wonder, Duke of Albany, and Stracagem. 
-Potatoes would supply matter for a long article. Practical 
gardeners can best help in reducing the excessive number of names 
in vegetables by seconding the work of the R.H.S., and giving 
publicity to names which in their opinion are synonymous, and also 
by indicating their locality and soil when they give selections, so 
that the reader may know if he is under similar conditions.— 
A. H. Pearson. 
This is an excellent Orchid, and does very well with us in the 
plant stove with a mixed collection of plants. We have two 
plants of this variety. One is grown in a pot in a compost of fibry 
peat, with a liberal addition of charcoal. This plant each year 
makes two and three new growths about a foot in length, and 
regularly opens its beautiful flowers—occasionally two, but more 
frequently three on a spike—early in December. The flowers are 
very lasting, as one plant when in flower is in the house for a 
month ; after being returned to the stove the flowers remain quite 
:fresh for a fortnight longer. The other piece is grown on a raft, 
but the growth is much shorter and weaker, the flowers conse- 
-quently are much smaller, 1 therefore think it requires pot culture. 
During the growing season the plants are watered when dry the 
-same as others. When growth is completed only sufficient is applied 
to keep the growths plump until the flowering period is past. 
■Colour of flowers, sepals, and petals pale rose tinged with lilac, with 
light rose lip marked with yellow. Native of Brazil. 
CY-AIDIDIUJI eburneuji. 
This also does well in the stove. Perhaps I ought to state 
the temperature during the winter months ranges from 60° to 
'70° ; during very cold iveather it frequently runs down to 55° 
by morning, and owing to the close proximity of a high wall 
it seldom reaches 70° during the day, never exceeding that 
figure. During the summer months it ranges from 65° to 80°. 
Cymbidium eburneum is singularly handsome even when out 
of flower Avith its graceful curved foliage. It flowers with us 
in January, and lasts in perfection four or five weeks, being in 
the house the whole time. The floAvers are about 8 inches long, 
:and carry from four to eight blooms each ; colour pure white, Avith 
a blotch of yelloAV in the centre of the lip. This Ave groAV in peat 
and charcoal. Last year they were surfaced with living sphagnum, 
which improved their ; appearance materiaUjq and the plants are 
this year flowering better than usual. Whether this sphagnum is 
accountable for the improvement or not 1 cannot say. This species 
is well supplied Avith water all the year round.— Handy Andy. 
Yanda Amesiana. 
This pretty species is proving a A'ery valuable addition to our 
winter flowering Orchids. It has been in great beauty for the last 
seven weeks in the collection belonging to Edward Ellis, Esq., 
Manor House, Wallington. There is half a dozen fair sized plants, 
four of which are carrying two spikes each, the others having three 
spikes. One of these has sixteen leaves, and branching spikes, 
with more than a hundred buds and blooms, the total being 260 
blooms. They have been grown by IMr. T. A. Glover, the gardener, 
in the East Indian house, but he has them now very tastefully 
-arranged in the Cattleya house along Avith Oncidium varicosum, i 
0. tigrinum, Calanthes, Saccolabium giganteum, Odontoglossum 
Oersted! in a pan with three dozen blooms, Cypripedium Sedeni, 
0. Maulei, Dendrobium Ainsworth! roseum, Lralia autumnalis, 
besides others, and dwarf plants of Poinsettias, &c. 
Angr.ecuai SaNDERI.A-NUM. 
A STRONG plant of the above commenced in June, 1888, to 
throAV a spike which is now 3 feet long and continues to groAV, 
but there is no more sign of it floAvering than there was six mouths 
ago. The plant has not suffered in the least, and there is now 
another spike 18 inches in length and double ithe thickness of 
the oldest one. The latter has progressed very sloAvly since the 
other started. 
Lycaste plana. 
In the same garden are some well bloomed examples of the 
above, the largest has thirty expanded blooms. There appears to be 
as much variety in this species as there is in L. Skinneri, for the 
flower.s on the various plants are in no instance exactly alike, some 
having much darker sepals than others, and the markings on the 
petals and lip vary considerably. I have sent a bloom each from 
three plants for your inspection.—G. W. C. 
[The varieties of which floAvers were sent were well marked, 
and one in particular was very distinct, the sepals being unusually 
dark.] 
Vanda Kijiballiana. 
One of the smaller growing and small flowered Vandas, that 
named above, is yet well worthy of notice and a place in Orchid 
collections. The floAvers are about the size shown in the illustra¬ 
tion (fig. 6), and their chief beauty consists in the contrast 
between the pure Avhito sepals and petals and purplish violet lip. 
They are freely produced, and as they stand well should prove 
useful for cutting ; they Avould be charming for buttonholes. 
Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton, were awarded a certificate for this 
Vanda at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on August 
13th, 1889. 
NOTES ON EARLY ENGLISH HORTICULTURE. 
(^Continued from 2 }age 441 last vol.') 
I IIAA'E already referred to the influence exercised in England 
by two great gardeners of France—viz., Le Notre and Quintinye, 
one of these distinguishing himself in ornamental, the other in 
useful gardening. Of Le Notre, indeed, it has been asserted that 
he may bear the title of the prince of gardeners, so much excite¬ 
ment being caused throughout Europe by the new style he intro¬ 
duced, and certainly there never was any gardener who led men to 
as enormous an expenditure. The outlay upon Versailles alone is 
reputed to have been considerably over a million of our money, 
and he laid out many magnificent seats beside in France and else¬ 
where. Quintinye’s less showy work was done in a different way. 
His book on the management of fruit and vegetable gardens, Avhich 
passed through so many French editions, was much read in England. 
Its translators were Evelyn, also later London and Wise, He had 
frequent intercourse Avith English gardeners, but refused to settle 
in this country though invited. At Cashiobury, the seat of the 
Earl of Essex, one of the noble patrons of horticulture in the 
seventeenth century, Le Notre was employed to lay out the park, 
and trees, presumed to have been planted by him, are yet to be 
seen. Cashiobury was distinguished in addition by its flower 
i garden, said to haA'e Been one of the earliest arranged after the 
