July 3, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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ANEMONES, &c, 
the best strain of anemones extant, home 
GROWN ROOTS. 
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Planting. Post free. Address:— 
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LINCOLNSHIRE. 
TEE LIVERPOOL SHOW. 
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“UNIVERSAL" HORTICULTURAL MANURES, SPECIAL 
COMPOSTS, and FERTILISING MOSS; also a group of 
plants growing in their Composts and in Fertilising Moss at 
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See Advertisement in the General Official Catalogue. 
SPECIALITE. 
For COARSE SILVER SAND & ORCHID 
PEAT of the very best qualities sentl 
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CATALOGUES AND ESTIMATES FLEE. 
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ER MAJESTY, THE BENNETT ROSE, 
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Descriptive List free on application. 
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SEEDS OF PRIZE FLOWERS. 
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Prize BEGONIA HTBRIDA GIGANTEA — Handsome 
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Prize CINERARIA—Various colours, mixed, Is. 6 d . & 2 6 
Prize CYCLAMEN PERSICUM—Various colours, mixed, 
Is. 6 d . & 2 6 
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Prize PELARGONIUM.2 6 
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mixed .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 16 
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FERNS A SPECIALITY. 
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WHITE l_ 1 L, Y 
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CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Advertising, Science of.... 692 
Amateurs'Garden, the_ 696 
Chrysanthemums . 694 
Clematis, Beauty of Wor¬ 
cester . 693 
Coke Breeze, Dangers of .. 692 
Denbies, The . 694 
“Distinct” .692 
Flower House, the. 692 
Gardeners’ Calendar, the .. 700 
Lilies, Notes on. 695 
PAGE 
Oncidium macranthum . . 701 
Orchid Show, Mr. Bull's .. 701 
Orchid Notes and Queries.. 701 
Orchids, on pruning. 691 
Phalaenopsis Marbc . 701 
Plants, hardy, in flower .. 694 
Roses, Garden. 692 
Scottish Gardening . 695 
Y’isitors, Foreign . 692 
Walls, old . 693 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1886. 
On Pruning Orchids.— Much has been said 
and written on this subject, but nothing has 
transpired to cause us to alter our opinion, that 
the practice, as the extreme advocates of it would 
have it understood, is rather one for the hobby 
rider, than for the steady practitioner. Y\ r e 
are, however, far from wishing to disparage the 
fine specimens of pruned Dendrobiums -which 
have been grown in several places, or to attempt 
to qualify in the least the credit Yvhich the 
result of their skilful manipulation should bring 
to the growers; at the same time the plan of 
culture recommended by them contains so many 
critical points and requirements not available in 
most places upon Yvhich success or failure 
turns, that unless with those who are very sure 
of having the wherewithal to carry out the 
regime prescribed, it had better be left alone; 
in fact it had better be avoided under any 
circumstances in general practice, as the utmost 
that the pruners have proved, is that with some 
Dendrobes, &c., it may be done, and still good 
plants he secured, but not better than the 
unpruned ones to say the least of it. 
Let us take for example that grand specimen 
of a pruned Dendrobium nobile, 4 ft. across, 
and bearing 630 floivers, which Mr. Prinsep 
exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society, 
in April, 1885. Mr. Prinsep is not only the 
best grower of such specimens, hut also the 
most honest we hai'e met with, for in detailing 
the treatment he gave the plant, he told us he 
began the practice as a matter of coni’enience 
in the first place, cutting down to the base their 
flower-hearing pseudo-bulbs, because they were 
more shoivy for use in that way for indoor 
decoration. He ivas all the more inclined to 
do this because he had found that by special 
treatment, he could form and make up the just 
springing pseudo-bulbs for flower hearing the 
next season. This treatment is after the bloom¬ 
ing plants have been cut down, only the feYV 
non-flowering pseudo-bulbs' and fresh starting 
growths being left (end of April, beginning of 
May) to place them in a hot moist house of 80° 
to 100°, which often rises to 120° Fahr. by sun 
heat, and then being freely watered, the pseudo¬ 
bulbs are rapidly formed, and in the first week 
in September they are finished, and are then 
removed to a cold airy house which often falls 
as low as 45° Fahr., to ripen their growths. 
