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in use as with, us ; but, like every other new movement, 
there will be a world of opinions for and against it when 
we come to read of the glories of Kensington Gore. 
Of all the new plans that I have heard of since blowing 
heat into hothouses out of bakers’ ovens was explained to 
me, I like that best with which Mr. Kish has begun the 
new year with—I mean his details of the actual weekly 
work done, or ordered to be done by himself; it is like 
the bird in the hand against oue in the bush; he and I, 
and all of us, might beat the bush for calendars and 
weekly works, and yet miss the best points owing to some 
turn or change in the weather. It is twenty-three years 
past last autumn since Mr. Loudon suggested the very 
same thing to be done in the “ Gardener’s Magazine ” by 
a rising writer of that period ; but the said writer did not 
then embrace so many departments of gardening in his 
practice as would warrant him to try such depth in fresh 
water. Besides, there were more water-bailiffs at that 
time to take up an adventurer who missed his footing, 
or made a false step from the lawful track, and there was 
too much of the rough-ready style of gardening work, 
which was then thought not to be fit subjects for the 
public ear. But a great change to the better has taken 
place on the subject of our calling since then, and even I, 
who have been up to the elbows in much before now, 
will read with pleasure and interest all the details of what 
had to be done last week, and what was brewing for the 
next in a first-class garden. What, then, must be the 
advantage to all the rest who are on the watch, and wish 
to go in first-class training about everything they take in 
hand or mean to do in their own gardens ? But the most 
curious turn in the subject is this coincidence: it was 
just in the midst of such another frost, and just twenty 
years since that the first weekly calendar for gardening 
was written in England, and by Sir Joseph Paxton. 
Touching the loss of our fellow-labourer, I shall gladly 
give my vote and ail my interest in favour of Mrs. 
Errington till she is elected a pensioner on the Gardener’ 
Benevolent Institution, and I shall take it as a persona 
favour to receive proxies on her behalf. D. Beaton. 
STOYE OKCHLDS. 
(Continued from page 221.) 
GROUPED LISTS OE SELECTED SPECIES. 
In the following catalogue I have given the names of such 
species only as have either large, showy flowers, or flowers pro¬ 
duced so numerously as to make a good display in the mass. In a 
botanical point of view, all Orchids, however small their flowers 
may be, are worthy of culture, but for general purposes or 
ornament, or for exhibition, the greater number of species are 
almost useless. Fortunately there are handsome-flowering species 
enough to fill any houses that may be devoted to them, especially 
if they are well grown into moderately-sized plants. I venture 
to say that there are not a dozen collections in all Britain that con¬ 
tain all the species in my selected list. I shall place them in 
groups according to the modes of culture they require. 
1. Stove Orchids that should be Gbown in Pots in a 
compost of fibry peat, sphagnum moss chopped fine and sifted, 
the dust thrown away, and the whole mixed with small pieces of 
charcoal. 
iErides affine 
roseum 
erispum 
Eieldingii 
Larpentse 
maculosum 
odoratum 
purpuratum 
quinquevulnerum 
Scbiederii 
suavissimum 
virens major 
Angroecum eburneum 
caudatum 
Anguloa Clowesiana 
uniflora 
Ansellia africana 
Bulbophyllum Henshalliij 
Lobbii 
Brassia caudata 
niaculata * 
venucosa 
Wraj ii 
Burlingtouia fragrans 
v< nusta 
Catasenim stratum 
callosum 
citvinum 
cristatum 
lamiuatum 
Russellianum 
Catlleya Aclandiae 
amethystina 
bicolor 
Candida 
crispa 
superba 
elegans 
Oattylea granulosa 
Ilarrisoniae (new) 
guttata 
Harrisonii 
intermedia 
labiata 
lobata 
Leopoldii 
Loddigesii 
maxima 
Mossise 
superba 
Pinelliana 
Regnellii (new) 
Russelliana 
Schilleriana concolor (new) 
Skinneri 
Ccologyne cristata 
fuliginosa 
Gardneriana 
speciosa 
Cymbidium aloifolium 
eburneum 
giganteum 
pendulum 
Cycnoehes chlorochilum 
Loddigesii leucochilum 
pentadactylon 
Cyrtoeliilum flavescens 
hastatum 
maculatum 
mystacinum 
stellatum 
Dendrobium aduncum 
aggregatum 
albosanguineum 
Blandyanum 
coerulescens 
calceolaria 
chrysanthum 
ebrysotoxum 
clavatum 
Dalhousianum 
densiflorum 
roseum 
Falconerii 
Farmerii 
fimbriatura 
formosum 
Gibsonii 
moniliforme 
moschatum 
nobile 
majus 
Paxtonii 
sanguinolentum 
secundum 
taurinum 
transparens 
triadenium 
Veitchianum 
Wallickianum 
Dendrochilum filifolium 
Epidendrum aurantiacum 
cini abarinum 
Hanburii 
macrockilum 
album 
roseum 
phoeniceum 
Sckomburgkii 
vitellinum 
Galeandra devoniana 
Grammatopliyllum multiflorum 
tigrinum 
speeiosum 
Houlletia Brockleburstiana 
Huntleya meleagris 
2. Stove Orchids that 
Huntleya violacea 
Leptotes bicolor 
Lselia acuminata 
albida 
■aneeps 
autumnalis 
Brysiana 
einnabarina 
flava 
Perrinii 
purpurata 
Lycaste aromatica 
cruenta 
Skinneri 
Maxillaria tenuifolia 
Miltonia atro-rubens 
bicolor 
Candida 
Clowesiana 
Morelliana 
spectabilis 
Odontoglossum Cervantesii 
citrosmum 
grande 
hastilabium 
Insleayi 
membranaceum 
Pescatorei 
pulchellum 
Rossii 
Warczewiczii 
Oncidium ampliatum major 
Barkeri 
bica’losum 
Cavendishianum 
divaricatum 
flexuosum 
lanceanum 
leucochilum 
luridum guttatum 
microchilum 
ornithorhyncum 
papilio 
major 
phymatochilum 
pubes 
pulvinatum 
sphacelatum major 
unguiculatum 
Saccolabium ampullaceum 
Blumei 
majus 
curvifolium 
guttatum 
miniatum 
retusum 
Schomburgkia crispa 
marginata 
tibicinis 
Tricliopilia coceinea 
Candida 
suavis 
tortilis 
Yanda Batemanniana 
ccerulea 
cristata 
gigantea 
insignis 
Roxburghii 
ccerulea 
suavis 
tricolor 
Warrea tricolor 
Zygopetalum cochleare 
crinitum 
Makayi 
maxillare 
stenochilum 
rive Best in Baskets lined 
with moss, and filled with the same compost as described above 
for those in pots. 
Acineta Barkeri 
Humboldtii 
Barkeria eP'gans 
Skinneri 
spectabilis 
Brassavola Digbyana 
glauca 
Perrinii 
Chysis aurea 
bractescens 
ltevis 
Limminghii 
Coryanthes macrantha 
maculata 
Cymbidium devonianum 
pendulum 
Dendrobium amcenum 
Cambridgeanum 
Devonianum 
macranthum 
macrophyllum 
onosmum 
Pierardi 
Dendrobium Pierardii majus 
pulchellum 
Epidendrum rhizophorum 
Gongora atro-purpurea 
bufonia 
maculata 
tricolor 
Icnischi 
nigrita 
speciosa 
truncata 
Stanhopea aurea 
bucephalus 
Devoniensis 
eburnea 
graveolens 
insignis 
Hartiana 
oculata 
quadricornis 
saccata 
tigrina 
Wardii 
