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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
J UNE 23. 
cried out lustily against the game then carried on with 
this pretty flower, and all my prophecies have come to 
pass respecting them, and 
Now some one must raise a warning voice against 
Pansies in Pots. There were dozens of them at this 
Show, capitally grown; nothing could he better, but, 
with the exception of three or four sorts, they were not 
worth notice. Nothing, except the Belgian Daisies, last 
May twelvemonth, did ever I see so trumpery brought 
to an Exhibition before. My next-door neighbour 
made out a bed of them this spring from self-sown plants 
in the shrubbery, and none of his plants are nearly so 
bad as some at this exhibition. 
There were not a great many Stove Plants, only a 
few Eraucisceas, Ixoras, Clerodendrons, Alamandas, 
Stephanotis, Vincas, Hoya Bella, Rondeletia, and a few 
more of that stamp. But Heaths were plentiful, with 
other greenhouse plants, such as I named from the May 
show, with a good sprinkling of Chinese Azaleas, of 
which Coronata comes the nearest to Mirabilis , which I 
take to be the best of the race in colour, and Exquisita 
is certainly the best marked one. There were two pro¬ 
mising seedling Azaleas here, Striata formosissima, and 
Gladstanesii formosa, in the Picotee style, white ground 
dotted with red, but the red is dull and powerless. 
None of the orange or copper-coloured ones ought to be 
crossed with whites—they never give a clear, clean 
stripe, or dot. There was a very fine Slatice of the 
Arborea kind, called Halfortlii, and there were three 
boxes of the Aquilegid glandulosa , from Mr. Grigor, all 
the way from Forres, I supposed; but the long journey 
made them look very sad. 
Last of all came the Orchids, and they were grand 
indeed ; they, the Roses, and Fancy Geraniums, took the 
lead, but the Roses, being at the Park on the previous 
Wednesday, were sadly knocked about, while the j 
Orchids seem to thrive in gadding about from place | 
to place. I see no use whatever in bringing sucli 
plants to the show as cannot be seen except through dull 
glass ; if there were white mice under these bell-glasses, 
we might have a chance of an occasional peep when 
they moved about, but, as it is, you must guess that 
there is something under them too good to be seen at a 
show. There was a fine, large, new Cattleya, from 
Santa Martha, of the Mossiie section, bluish-white, with 
a fringed crimson lip; and the new Lcelia, called Pur- 
purata, which some took to be a Cattleya last year, has 
much improved, and was now fine indeed. The little 
Cattleya AcJdandii was in two collections. I have not 
seen it these five or six years, and it seems difficult to 
manage, for the plants are very small now; the sepals 
are dull green, barred with brown, and the lip an ex¬ 
quisite purple—quite a little gem in its way. Acineta 
Humboldtii, with ten or twelve long spikes of flowers 
hanging down. A new species of Huntleya, with one 
flower only, not so large as Violacea, but in that way, 
and of a more decided colour. Cyprypedium Immile, 
from North America, I never saw so well-bloomed be¬ 
fore; it is not very gay in colour, but belongs to a very 
interesting group which few gardeners can manage 
well. There was a move worth imitating at home with 
L<nliacinnabarina —six flowering shoots made into three, 
by tying two and two together, the top flower of the 
second shoot reaching the bottom flower of the other, so 
that the three looked double the length of flowering 
Sobralias, with five, six, and fifteen flowers fully ex¬ 
panded. The old Calanthe veratrifolium, with twenty 
flower spikes. Acrides odoratum, with twenty-one 
spikes ! and one of A. affinis, with twenty-two. 
A. roseum, ten spikes. Saccolabium guttatnm, with nine 
spikes. Burlivgtonia venusta, not often seen, and not 
much when seen; small white flowers. Dendrobium 
secundum, not often seen either, but very pretty. Vanda 
Batemcinii, with five open flowers on a long spike, that 
will be in prime at the July Show. Anguloa Clowesii, 
with three large yellow flowers, and Vanda Teres, are the 
principals of those I did not name last May, and the 
rest must stand over for another week. D. Beaton. 
ORNAMENTING ECONOMICALLY A 
NEGLECTED GREENHOUSE. 
( Continued from page 105.) 
In gazing upon new plants, we cannot help being 
struck with their beauty, all the more radiant to many 
minds because novel and exotic. When, however, the 
thirst for the merely novel leads to the neglecting of the 
really beautiful, merely because it is old-fashioned and 
common, w-e think there is as clear an indication of a 
morbid and diseased taste, as there is evidence of a low 
tone in morals and right-hearted feeling, when indivi- 
i duals neglect the tried friends of their early days, to 
give their attention to the butterfly flatterers and the 
self-interested protestations of the passing hour. De¬ 
lightful though it be to trace the beauties of a striking 
novelty in flowers, in vain do we look for the associa¬ 
tions of many of our older favourites, which seldom 
; beam upon us, even from the cottage windows, without 
! unfolding a panoramic view of persons and circum- j 
| stances linked and identified with the more prominent 
i points of our individual histories. 
When last treating of this neglected greenhouse, the 
remarks were chiefly confined to the treatment of plants 
1 in possession, and the raising of other desirables from 
seed. To-day, J will chiefly confine myself to showy 
plants that can easily be raised from cuttings, and which, 
in general, can easily be obtained, if not already in 
possession. I am the more inclined to this, as, from the 
tenor of several correspondent’s letters, an additional in¬ 
terest is evidently felt for those plants which the proprie¬ 
tors have raised and cultivated for themselves. To save 
repetition, I may here remark, that everything mentioned 
as being raised under a liandlight, or in a hotbed, will also 
be successfully propagated under a bell-glass in the 
greenhouse, but that, in the generality of the cases, 
either more care will be necessary to keep up a moist 
atmosphere, or more time must elapse before the cutting 
takes the place of a plant. 
Tea, China, and Fairy Roses. —W T ho would find fault 
with some nice little flowering-plants of any of these 
from November to June? An average temperature of 
45® at night, with arise of from 10° to 15° during sunshine, 
would keep a great many of these in bloom in winter 
and spring. If this should appear moderately early in 
June, as the season is late, there will be plenty of time 
for propagating a stock. The first thing to do, is to 
make up a little bed of light sandy soil over a foot of 
warm dung, if it is to be bad, and over clinkers and 
rubbish, if the dung is not to be bad, and have the bed 
large enough to receive from one to several handlights. 
In tact, prepare it as you would do for Pink cuttings. 
Then examine the Rose plants, and you will generally 
have no difficulty in finding young shoots, either with¬ 
out flower-buds, or too thick to give them room for 
expansion; select those from two to four inches in 
length ; cut them, with a sharp knife, close off to the 
stem whence they proceed; and, after rubbing-off a few 
scaly matters at their base, insert them firmly, one inch 
apart, in the sandy soil; water them well, cover with 
the glass, shade from sunshine, sprinkle the foliage 
when necessary, and pot singly when fairly growing. 
For want of a liandlight, use a bell-glass over a pot, ; 
and set it during the day in a shady part of the green¬ 
house. These, in small pots, will yield you some nice 
flowers the following season. 
Double Wallflowers. —These should be propagated j 
