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THE GARDENING WORLD 
July 30, 1892. 
Sawbridgeworth, for Peaches and Cherries neatly 
done up in boxes. A stand of Carter’s Daisy Pea 
was exhibited by Messrs. J. Carter & Co , High 
Holborn, showing its dwarf fruitful nature. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
Orchid Growers' Calendar. 
Masdevallias.— Plants that were not repotted in 
the spring, should be seen to at once. We have 
succeeded in growing this brilliant cool house Orchid 
equally well whether the plants were potted in spring 
or at the present time, and in giving preference to 
August it is because there is not so much to be done 
in the way of potting at this season. The greatest 
care must be exercised whenever it is done, so as not 
to break the point of the roots, as Masdevallias do not 
throw out rootlets like Odontoglossums, Cattleyas, 
etc., should the point be damaged. Good peat with 
not too much of the fine shaken out, sphagnum moss 
in equal parts, and silver sand suits them well. Some 
growers use leaf soil with good effect, but the leaves 
should not be very much decomposed. Use as small 
a pot as seems consistent with the health of the 
plant and the quantity of roots it may have, and do 
not cover the rhizome. When finished the plant 
should be about an inch above the rim of the pot if 
a 6-in. pot is used, and so on in proportion. Very low 
potting does not suit them, as they like good drainage, 
Red thrips are very troublesome pests which infest 
these plants, and unless they are kept under by fre¬ 
quent dippings in tobacco water, will soon cause them 
to dwindle away. 
Lycaste Skinnerii is now growing fast and 
should receive liberal treatment by affording the 
plants guano water. This is an Orchid of easy culture 
and will grow under various modes of treatment, but 
does best when grown cool. Do not starve it, 
however, or it will not grow well anywhere. 
Maxillaria venusta, now in flower, helps to 
brighten up the dull season. This does best when 
grown cool, and on that account should be grown by 
amateurs. 
L.elia anceps.— We can now see how many of 
the white ones are going to flower. We have a few 
spikes, but not so many as we expected from the 
large growths made. Spikes on the dark ones are 
very plentiful, and enough has been seen of the 
white ones to tell us pretty plainly that to do it well 
it must be trea.ed very liberally indeed. The plants 
that are flowering are all grown in baskets suspended 
high up, close to the glass, and the leaves almost 
touching it. On the plants grown in pots and 
standing on the stages, although close to the glass, 
there is not a solitary spike. These will, when the 
potting time comes round, be put into baskets and 
suspended with the others. 
The Weather still keeps very cold, which 
necessitates the fires being kept going during the 
night in the warm divisions, with a good circula¬ 
tion of air. It is much better to keep the tempera¬ 
ture up by having recourse to fire heat with air on, 
than to do so by closing the ventilators. The fires 
need not be large ones, just enough to make the 
water in the pipes warm, so that the temperatures 
do not fall below those given in a previous calendar. 
— C. 
Eulophiella Elizabeths. 
It is seldom necessary to establish a new genus for 
the reception of a new Orchid, but this has been 
found necessary in this case. The pseudo-bnlbs are 
somewhat similar to those of a Catasetum and bear 
numerous scars of the fallen leaves. The arching 
flower stalk bears a raceme of numerous blooms 
apparently about the same size as those of Odonto- 
glossum citrosmum. The vinous purple flower stem 
and bracts are much about the same colour as the 
flowers while still in bud, and the outer surface 
of the sepals retains a rosy-red hue even after 
expansion. The inner surface of both sepals and 
petals is white or nearly so, and the lip has a large 
yellow blotch on the disc. Its native country has 
not yet been divulged, but it will evidently require to 
be grown in a warm house. It was introduced by 
the Messrs. Linden, Parc Leopold, Brussels, and has 
been named in compliment to Queen Elizabeth of 
Roumania, who is known in literary circles under the 
title of " Carmen Sylva.” There is a coloured figure 
of it in the Lindenia, pi. 325. 
Bulbophyllum barbigerum. 
As the season again comes round for this interesting 
curiosity to bloom it proves as novel as ever. The 
flowers individually are neither large nor have they 
bright or attractive colours: the great feature of 
interest is the heavy beard of relatively Jong, black 
hairs on the moveable lip which keeps swinging up 
and down with the slightest breath of wind, and 
looks more like an animated being than a plant. The 
precise object of this movement we have still to 
determine, for there is yet much to learn of the ways 
of nature. A plant was flowering the other day in 
the Orchid house at Kew. 
WHAT TO DO IN THE GARDEN, 
Eucharis grandiflora. —Pots of this plant de¬ 
sired to flower during the winter months should at 
present be encouraged to make good growth, for 
upon the strength of the foliage will depend the 
ability of the bulbs to flower strongly. 
Gardenias. —Sturdy little plants of this can be 
obtained by the end of autumn if cuttings of fairly 
ripened wood are taken off now and put into bottom 
heat, either artificial or that obtained from ferment¬ 
ing manure. Growths should be selected with two 
or three shoots, so that they will practically be little 
plants when they are rooted. 
Selaginellas. —Several of the Selaginellas that 
are found very useful for decorative work, and which 
are very liable to damp off when they get old and 
very dense, should be propagated now with the object 
of fresh young stuff for winter work. This might 
include S. Kraussiana and its varieties, S. apus, and 
some of the more quickly growing forms of S. 
Martensi. S. apus under ordinary conditions is often 
difficult to keep through the winter, especially if the 
plants are old ; but the difficulty can be considerably 
lessened by making up a few pots or pans of it new. 
Ixonas. —Nice young plants of this can be ob¬ 
tained now with a little bottom heat, to be grown on 
for cut flowers next year in conjunction with older 
and cut-back plants. Young plants are desirable for 
this kind of work, as by potting them on a vigorous 
growth can be obtained and larger trusses of bloom 
than from old plants. They are very serviceable for 
indoor decoration when carrying from four to nine 
trusses each. 
Camellias. — Plants that have now completed 
their growth for the season may be advantageously 
potted on at this stage if the state of their roots re¬ 
quires it. Good fibrous loam and peat in equal pro¬ 
portions, with some small lumps of charcoal, some 
finely crushed bones, and sharp sand, proves a use¬ 
ful compost in which to pot them. 
Pot Roses. —Any repotting that may require to 
be done can be more advantageously effected at this 
time than later on, because the fresh soil can be per¬ 
meated with roots before the fine weather is over, 
and the plants will be in a better condition for 
forcing than when potting is done late. 
Cinerarias and Primulas. —A sowing of seeds 
of Cinerarias for late flowering may still be made. 
The earliest batch should by this time be in 60-size 
pots, or some of the more forward of them in 48's 
even. Good fibrous mellow loam enriched with a 
good quantity of well-decayed cow manure and leaf 
soil will form a suitable compost for them. Both 
they and the young plants of Chinese Primulas may 
enjoy free exposure during mild and cool weather, 
but protected when heavy storms of wind and rain 
prevail. Shade from direct sunshine if the latter is 
at all powerful. 
Vineries. —The vineries from which the fruit has 
been gathered should be kept freely ventilated night 
and day. The terminal shoots may be allowed to 
ramble at their freedom, and likewise the laterals so 
long as there is plenty of room for the foliage and 
for the young wood to be properly exposed to light 
and air so that it may get thoroughly ripened. The 
laterals must be judiciously shortened back when 
there is any liability of undue crowding. Water the 
borders with clean water before they get in any way 
too dry. Successional houses, especially where the 
Grapes are not in a very advanced condition, should 
be assisted with fire heat. This will be all the more 
necessary if we have a continuance of the cold and 
wet weather which has hitherto characterised the 
greater part of this month. When the sun comes 
out bright and strong, the heat can of course be 
turned off till the sinking sun gets less powerful. 
Monallo Cherries—The fruits on the early 
varieties of Cherries grown on walls having been 
gathered, the nets used to protect the fruits from 
birds will now be at liberty to be transferred to the 
Morellos, now commencing to colour on north aspect 
walls. Before doing so the trees may be inspected 
to see whether they are clean and free from black fly 
to which they are very subject. If little is the matter 
with them a forcible syringing from the garden 
engine will be sufficient, otherwise an insecticide con¬ 
sisting of strong soap suds to which some tobacco 
juice has been added may be used before netting the 
trees. 
Winter Spinach.—Make a sowdng of this vege¬ 
table during the first week in August. The lines 
should be 15 in. to 18 in. apart if full justice is to be 
done to it. 
Coleworts.—Breadths of Coleworts, popularly 
termed Collards, should be planted out at once ; the 
ground is in capital order as to moisture, and the 
plants will soon get established and grow away 
vigorously. The Rosette and hardy Green are 
amongst the best ; but some growers prefer certain 
of the ordinary Cabbages as substitutes for Cole¬ 
worts. 
Broccoli, Savoys, and late Celery.—For the 
first two of these subjects it will be unnecessary to 
dig the ground if it was well prepared last winter or 
spring. Clear it of weeds, make out the lines, and 
plant. The latest crops of Celery may be got in ; 
dig out the trenches, and put some good manure in 
the bottom, and plant out the Celery forthwith, 
watering if the weather should prove dry. 
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©Intuarp. 
We regret to record the death, which took place 
somewhat suddenly on the 16th inst., of Mr. Joseph 
Ellam, superintendent of the University Parks at 
Oxford, aged 53 years. Mr. Ellam was for many 
years gardener at Bodorgan, in Anglesea, where he 
made for himself a good reputation as a master of 
his art, and raised the famous little early Cabbage 
which will keep his memory green for many a year 
to come. On the death of Mr. John Fleming he be¬ 
came gardener to the Duke of Westminster at 
Cliveden, and subsequently went to Oxford to take 
charge of the University Parks, a post which well 
suited his failing health and singularly quiet un¬ 
assuming disposition. 
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Questions sdd snsroeRS. 
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London.” 
Names of Plants. — W. M.\ The shrub is Neillia 
opulifolia ; the red flower Astrantia major ; and the 
white one Sidalcea Candida.— Omega : The yellow 
flower was the dwarf Helenium (H. pumilum), it has 
no special popular name ; the other the Crowned 
Campion (Lychnis coronaria). 
Watering Plants when dry. — Omega : It would 
be unwise to water plants in a dry state with very 
strong liquid manure, as the roots would be likely to 
suffer owing to the strength of the manure ; but if 
the soil was moderately moist, then the manure 
would undergo further dilution and be harmless. 
The soil if very dry might be moistened a short time 
previous to the application of the liquid manure, and 
nothing serious will be amiss. When liquid or any 
other concentrated manure is given too strong the 
acids and salts contained in it have the effect of with¬ 
drawing moisture from the interior of the roots, the 
latter being unable to appropriate it because too 
strong. 
Seedling Peas. — J. S.\ There is no necessity for 
pulling out those seedlings which do not appear to 
possess any special merit, for the good ones will not 
be in any way influenced by them. Pea flowers arc 
no favourites with bees, either because they possess 
no special attraction for them, or because the bees 
are unable to obtain access to any food that may be 
there. At all events Peas can dispense with any 
extraneous aid to set their flowers, for they' are self 
fertilising, and the blooms last but a short time in 
full beauty, as the pollen soon takes effect. Any 
number of varieties may therefore be grown together 
with little fear of inter-crossing. In some varieties 
at least the lower petals forming the keel of the 
flower never open. 
Cutting Bracken.— Omega : The fronds now 
being full grown and fairly well hardened it may’ be 
cut at once, and if put in little heaps after a day or 
two to prevent it from getting brittle, it will be less 
liable to crumble to pieces when being used than if 
