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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
Nov. 15th, 1884. 
THE 
(Dvxbitr (Srnfocrs Calendar. 
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Orchids at Major Lendy’s.—Sunbury House 
being within a stone’s throw of Sunbury Weir, on the 
Thames, it is but reasonable to suppose that Orchids 
ought to thrive well there and a visit proves that such 
is the case, for considering that the collection excludes 
nothing that is pretty, no matter how small flowering 
it may be, nor any plant on account of its being con¬ 
sidered a bad grower, the Sunbury House collection 
may fairly be described as being composed of some 
healthy specimens, many of them being unique. 
Every collection has its specialities, and Major Lendy’s 
shines principally in Phalfenopsis, Odontoglossums, 
and Cattleyas. 
Of Phalfenopsis there is a grand lot of healthy 
plants embracing all the obtainable species. At 
present in flower are many plants of P. amabilis, and 
some P. grandiflora, as well as P. violaceum, P. cornu- 
cervi, P. Lowii, P. rosea, and P. rosea leucaspis. In 
the same house is a fine show of Cypripedium concolor, 
C. niveurn, C. Spicerianum, and other warm-house 
Orchids, and a fine pan of Anoetochilus Lowii which 
has borne hundreds of its small flowers on a few tall 
spikes. 
The large Cattleya or intermediate-house is now 
■well-known for its varied collection of sturdy Cattleyas 
and Lfelias, and for the curious collection of Oncids, 
whose long flower-spikes are so effective when trained 
over the arches and other supports of the house as 
they are here, as well as for the many curios there to 
be found. The flowering end of the house has for a 
centre-piece a fine Yanda coerulea with a spike of 
fifteen large, blue flowers—a great beauty; some 
smaller plants of it being around, together with well- 
bloomed specimens of Lfelia Perrinii, Lycaste Deppei, 
L. aromatica, Yanda suavis, the curious Catasetum 
ochraceum, and some well-flowered Dendrobium 
formosum giganteum. 
The new Odontoglossum-house is a great acquisi¬ 
tion. It is a roomy lean-to, 20 ft. in width, built 
against the long span house in which the 0. 
vexillariums, Ac., are grown. The house is a light 
comfortable-looking one, and the plants seem quite 
at home in it. It contains a great quantity of 
Odontoglossum Alexandrfe, 0. Pescatorei and hybrids, 
of which but few are now in flower, but enough is 
already in bloom to make a fair display, when aided 
by the good examples of Oncidium varicosum, 0. 
ornithorhynchum, O. Forbesii, Odontoglossum hebrai- 
eum, 0. Uro Skinneri, 0. blandum, the autumn 
flowering 0. vexillarium, LseUa pumila, Burlingtonia 
decora, &c. Major Lendy is continually making 
improvements, and he considers the matter of perfect 
top and bottom ventilation in the houses to be of the 
first importance to the Orchids. 
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GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENE¬ 
VOLENT INSTITUTION. 
Xixdlt insert my second list of subscribers. You 
will observe that I have more than doubled my first 
week’s work. Who dare say Heaven is not ready to 
help gardeners, if they will only wake up and try to 
help themselves ? 
£ s. cl. 
Mr. B. Dawes, Gardener, Temple Newsam, 
Leeds . 0 10 6 
Miss Pindar, Mainstone, Ledbury. 1 0 0 
Mr. Bowen, Gardener, Mainstone, Ledbury 0 5 0 
Eev. J. Buckle, Aspperton, Ledbury ... 0 10 0 
C. Biley, Esq., Putley Court . 10 0 
C. Lea, Esq., Parkfield, Worcester (second 
donation to this fund) . 5 0 0 
J. D. Perrins, Esq., Great Malvern ... 5 0 0 
Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Ledbury ... 10 0 
Basil Masefield, Esq., Ledbury . 0 5 0 
Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart., M.P. 110 
A. Buck, Esq., Worcester. 0 5 0 
Mr. A. Ward, Gardens, Stoke Edith ... 0 10 0 
C. A. Hewitt, Esq., Hopend, Ledbury ... 10 0 
Donations on First List . 17 0 6 
£34 7 0 
IF. Coleman , Eastnor Castle, November 12th. 
[We have much pleasure in adding two guineas to 
Mr. Coleman’s list.— Ed.] 
FAWKES’S IMPROVED BOILER. 
Me. Fawkjes, of the firm of Crompton and Fawkes 
(late T. H. P. Dennis & Co.) of Chelmsford, has 
recently introduced several improvements into hot- 
water boilers, which, with the aid of the annexed 
illustration, a section of the boiler, may be thus 
described :—The boiler has a flat front so that it can 
be easily built into a wall of a greenhouse, similar to 
some other boilers; in this way the feed door, door for 
regulating draught, and smoke flue are all outside the 
house, and consequently no fumes can injure the 
plants. The front is backed by a fire tile, by which 
means excessive radiation of heat into the open-air is 
prevented. The boiler stands on a flat fire tile, in 
order that the true slow combustion result may be 
obtained, as the air -which is required to maintain 
combustion is only admitted in front of the fuel 
instead of underneath, so that complete control is 
maintained over the rate and manner of combustion. 
Not only so, but in consequence of no ash-pit being 
required, a boiler occupying the same space as other 
ordinary boilers, will of course contain a much larger 
furnace area and heating capacity. As will be seen, 
the back of the boiler is inclined, so that there is a 
greater tendency for the hot gases to impinge upon the 
water-way, than if the back were parallel with the 
front. In addition to this, by a very slight modifica¬ 
tion of the ordinary smoke flue cap, Mr. Fawkes 
prevents all possibility of dow T n draught. The boiler 
has also the merit of being extremely cheap. 
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FLORICULTURE. 
Chrysanthemums at Slough. — Mr. Turner 
has probably never had a finer display of Chry¬ 
santhemums than this season fills three of the 
houses in the famous nursery. The large ridge 
and furrow greenhouse is filled with Japanese 
and large-flowered varieties, the former largely pre¬ 
dominating, and by their strange fantastic forms 
and brilliant colours making a fine contrast with 
the more regular-shaped and less brightly tinted 
section. The Camellia-house contains a noble 
bank of flowers, sloping from back to front, and 
resplendent with monster blossoms of the gayest 
colours. The v T ell-know 7 n Eose-house, from which so 
many triumphs of cultural skill have gone forth to do 
battle for the great florist, is this season better 
arranged than heretofore, the long banks of flowers 
on either side of the centre path having been sunk 
some 12 ins. or 18 ins. lower, so a‘s to bring the blooms 
well under the level of the eye—a very great improve¬ 
ment. 
Mr. Turner has a very complete collection of sorts, 
and grows about 1,200 plants for his annual show. 
White varieties, specially grown to provide cut 
flowers for Christmas, are also a speciality here, 
but if the mild weather continues, it is doubtful if 
they will not this season be over before they are 
wanted. The Slough collection this year contains 
many of the older sorts, which had somewhat 
dropped out of the lists, especially in the reflexed 
section, which is a move in the right direction, for 
there is no gainsaying the beauty of most of them, 
and the public taste leans towards the Japanese and 
reflexed flowers in preference to the incurved section. 
Jean d'Arc, a new incurved flower, sent out last 
year, is very pretty, white with a shade of blush; 
Eve, also white with a golden centre, is seen in 
fine form; as is Bendigo, the fine pure yellow 
sport. George Stevens, sent out last spring, is very 
good, crimson-chocolate, slightly incurved in the 
centre, with the back of the petals yellow. The new 
Lord Alcester, a fine incurved primrose sport from 
Empress of India, also proves a sterling novelty. 
Crimson Velvet is an old sort, but well worth growing 
for its rich crimson colour. The fine bronzy-hued 
Lord Wolseley, a sport from Prince Alfred, claims 
admiration for its fine large incurved blossoms. 
Chevalier Domage, one of the brightest of yellows, is 
a fine old reflexed variety. Mount Etna is a red 
Pompon, or rather we should say of the lately 
fashionable crushed-strawberry colour, and very useful 
as a mid-season flowerer. Among the Anemone- 
flowered varieties, Fleur de Marie may be noted as the 
best white, and a good one to grow for late work. A 
very pretty flower is lie Japonaise, a Japanese variety 
with pale purple-lilac blossoms, yellow in the centre. 
Madame Blanche Pigmy, also Japanese, is a fine white 
for cutting, as when it gets old it does not show its 
centre like Elaine. 
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CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOWS. 
The National.—When the executive body of the 
late Borough of Hackney Chrysanthemum Society 
decided to reorganize that thriving association of 
Chrysanthemum lovers on the basis of a National one, 
and thus to considerably extend then - sphere of 
operations, they could scarcely have anticipated that 
their first show at the Westminster Aquarium, under 
the new regulations, would have so completely, as it 
has done, confirmed the wisdom of the step they have 
taken. The re-organization of the Society has not 
only broughtja considerable increase of subscriptions 
into the Society’s coffers, but has also brought to the 
Society’s Show a larger number of exhibitors, with the 
result that a better Show 7 than that held on Wednesday 
and Thursday last has never been seen in the 
metropolis. 
The limited space at our command precludes the 
possibility of our giving anything like full details of 
this admirable Exhibition, so that in these remarks 
we must confine ourselves to those features which 
seemed most to attract attention. 
In the section devoted to Pot Plants, the highest 
prizes were given in a class for the best arranged 
group covering a space of 100 square feet, and the 
highest award was won by Mr. Harding, gardener to 
J. Starling, Esq., The Chestnuts, Gunnersbury, the 
Treasurer of the Society, with a very fine bank, 
consisting almost exclusively of Japanese varieties, 
good in quality generally, and well set up. Mr. 
Starling’s gardener was very closely run for the 
premier position by a member of the Committee, 
Mr. N. Davis, Lilford Eoad, Coldharbour Eoad, 
Camberwell, who, as became so good a florist, showed 
in his group by far the larger proportion of incurved 
varieties, all of excellent quality and effectively 
grouped. 
Of the trained specimens of Large-Flowered Yarieties, 
we may safely say that in the days when Adam Forsyth 
used to come out so strong, better specimens and 
more of them were seen than were on view here, but 
we do not say this with a view to disparage the 
specimens both of large-flowered and Japanese 
