August Si, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD, 
839 
Ami, pink; and large plants as well as vigorous 
young specimens of Marechal Niel. The famous 
plants which produce the well-known large blooms 
are grown in another nursery some distance off. In 
pots beneath the Roses here we noted floriferous 
specimens of Erythrina Crista-galli, double rose 
Oleanders, and the orange - flowered Oestrum 
aurantiacum, so useful for covering the pillars of 
greenhouses and conservatories. The Rose Nur¬ 
sery is at some distance from that containing the 
Dahlias, and is well furnished with a large assort¬ 
ment of all the leading and standard varieties, both 
hybrid perpetual and Tea Roses. The dwarf Roses 
are grown upon the Manetti and on the cultivated 
Briar. Mr. Walker also grows a collection of 
climbing Roses, Noisette Roses, and the new Poly- 
antha Rose, Turner's Crimson Rambler. He also 
grows a quantity of pot Roses, Moss, China, and 
Bourbon Roses, the latter of which being peculiarly 
an autumn-flowering race. The leading Carnations, 
Picotees, Cloves, and Pinks are grown rather exten¬ 
sively. Fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, and 
hardy herbaceous plants are also features of the 
nurseries of which Mr. 
Walker has several in 
more or less widely sepa¬ 
rated localities. 
selves placed in these circumstances are too often 
told, when they ask for an alteration ; "Why you 
kept out the frost last winter, why not do it again ?'' 
A short Act of Parliament making it compulsory to 
put efficient heating apparatus into glass houses, 
where hired labour is employed to attend to the fires, 
might easily be framed, and if put in force would 
lighten the burden of many deserving men, who 
really ought to have similar protection to that 
afforded to factory hands. Cannot some private 
member be induced to bring in a Bill.— IV.G.B. 
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A GARDEN INDEED. 
The gentle William Cowper, in his pleasing and 
meritorious poem, "The Task,” says that 
" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too," 
and if, in any place, this is more truly to be seen, it 
is at Hillside, Cumnock, the country residence here 
of Hew H. Crichton, Esq , W.S. Certainly never 
did some three imperial acres or so of ground show 
so fair and beautiful a flower garden before, or such 
an array of the most perfect greenhouses which it is 
in their own far-off and native "climes of the sun.” 
We speak not here of the vineries, where the most 
luscious Crapes cluster and grow, nor of the large and 
costly house recently erected, where the most delicious 
Pears and Plums grow under glass, safe from pierc¬ 
ing beak of plundering bird, or the ravages of 
wicked or venomous wasps. The tool-house is, 
perhaps, the most perfect and complete in the king¬ 
dom. Everything required for the garden and 
greenhouses is to be found there, all of the best 
quality and construction, all arranged in the most 
perfect order, all, like everything else, in the most 
faultless condition, which, with the garden and 
greenhouses, show how excellent, cultured, and 
extensive Mr. Crichton's taste is, and also that in 
Mr. M'Donald he has one of the most skilful and 
painstaking gardeners who is anywhere to be met 
with all the country over. Some two years ago Mr. 
Andrew Carnegie, who has seen so much of the 
kind and in so many lands, and who has an excellent 
and a most discriminating eye for all that’s fair and 
beautiful in nature, pronounced the Hillside garden 
to have been the most beautiful he had ever seen ; 
and such was the opinion 
expressed by Mr. Carne¬ 
gie’s equally observant 
and highly accomplished 
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VANDA 
SANDERIANA. 
When this singular and 
magnificent Vanda first 
flowered in thiscountry.it 
gave rise to a considerable 
amount of excitement 
amongst Orchid growers. 
The size and beauty of the 
flowers still appeal to all 
lovers of Vandas, or 
Orchids generally, each 
time it comes into bloom. 
We noted a very fine 
variety of it the other day 
in one of the East Indian 
houses, in the nursery of 
Messrs. J Veitch & Sons, 
Chelsea. The upper sepal 
and the petals were pink, 
spotted with crimson at 
the base. The large lateral 
sepals are yellow with 
bronzy-purple veins, and 
constitute the most con¬ 
spicuous and attractive 
part of the flower. The 
accompanying illustration 
will give an idea of the 
form of the flower and the 
distribution of colour, but 
only the flower itself can 
convey an impression of 
its striking and beautiful 
appearance. The absence 
of a spur to the lip, and 
the transverse arrange¬ 
ment of colours, place 
this plant close to Arach- 
nanthe Cathcartii. 
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LOOK TO YOUR BOILERS. 
The time of year has now come when these should 
be examined, and every thing in connection with 
them aid their settings requiring attention should 
be taken in hand without much further delay. But 
it is not this which we especially wish to draw 
attention to in the present instance. Inasmuch as 
the inadequate h ating power of an enormous num¬ 
ber of heating apparatus scattered about the country, 
results in many instances in most provoking losses, 
and entails upon those in charge of them an amount 
of anxiety and labour to an unreasonable extent, 
it is not going too far to describe it as a 
positive act of cruelty. Numbers of men have, 
during a severe spell of frost, to sit up to the small 
hours of the morning, and, indeed, in some instances 
the livelong night, in order to keep the frost out. 
We submit that this, in addition to a fair day’s 
work, is a state of affairs which would not be toler¬ 
ated outside of the gardening profession, and which 
will never be entirely altered unless by legislative 
enactment; for the unfortunate ones who findthem- 
wife .—Cumnock Express. 
possible anywhere to find or set eyes upon. As all 
great poets are said also to be prophets, then surely 
Edmund Spenser must have the Hillside gardens in 
his prophetic e}e when, three centuries ago, he thus 
wrote in his great and immortal poem, " The Fairie 
Queene," 
" No dainty flower or plant that grows on ground, 
No arboret with painted blossoms drest 
And smelling sweet, but there it might be found 
To bud out fair and throw her sweet smells all 
around." 
Outside, the ground is laid out in the finest and most 
graceful figures, and filled with some forty thousand 
plants of many various kinds, whose colours blend 
in a way which pleases the eye of taste in the most 
perfect manner possible. The greenhouses, as we 
have said, are numerous, each, generally, having its 
own kind of plants. In some, the flowers are every¬ 
thing, and they are as gorgeous as profuse, and the 
colours made to blend with the most wonderful good 
taste. In ethers, foliage is the all in all sought after, 
and obtained to the fullest extent which could be de¬ 
sired ; and in all the most costly and fair tropical 
plants and flowers grow as well as they ever can do 
ORCHID NOTES & 
GLEANINGS. 
By The Editor. 
The undermentioned 
awards were made by the 
Orchid Committee of 
the Royal Horticultural 
Society onthei3thinst.:— 
Cattleya Eros, Nov. 
liyb .—The seed parent of 
this magnificent and re¬ 
markably distinct hybrid 
was C. Mossiae crossed 
with the pollen of C. 
walkeriana, which has 
given both its shape and 
colour to the progeny. 
The fusiform pseudobulbs 
are 2 in. to 3 in. long, and 
like those of the mother. 
The sepals are soft clear 
rose, while the ovate 
petals are somewhat 
darker. The tube of the 
lip is wide open in the 
upper portion like that of 
C. walkeriana, and the 
side lobes are soft purple. 
The terminal lobe is bifid, 
reflexed at the sides, 
twice as large as that of 
C. walkeriana, and dark 
purple. The hybrid is a 
handsome and rare acqui¬ 
sition to its class. First- 
class Certificate. Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, 
Chelsea. 
Cypripedium massaianum superbum, Nov. 
hyb .—This is the result of crossing C. Rothschild- 
ianum with C. superbiens, and is remarkable for its 
great size. The leaves are light green, tessellated 
with a darker hue. The upper sepal is white, tinted 
with green in the centre, and lined with brown and 
purple towards the sides. The long petals are 
yellowish, fading to white at the apex, and densely 
spotted blackish-purple. The huge lip is deep 
purple. First-class Certificate. Thos. Statter, 
Esq. (gardener, Mr. R. Johnson), Stand Hall, 
Manchester. 
Dendrobium Phalaenopsis hololeucum, Nov. 
var .—Unlike D. P. album this is pure white with 
exception of a purple anther cap, and is certainly 
very choice. First-class Certificate. J. T. Holmes, 
Esq., Beechen Cliff, Bath. 
Vanda caerulea.—A remarkably richly-coloured 
form of this was exhibited by E. H. Woodall, Esq., 
St. Nicholas House, Scarborough, First-class 
Certificate, 
Vanda sanderiana 
