December 17,1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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more often disappointment follows, as in your own 
case. 
Watering a Peach Border.— C. Gordon ; Naturally 
the Peach border will require much less water now 
than it did during the period when the trees were in 
full growth, and drawing heavily upon the moisture 
in the soil. Borders keep damp for a long time at 
this season of the year, very little moisture being lost 
Other than that taken away by evaporation. You 
must not take this to mean, however, that the soil is 
to be allowed to get quite dry, for under such circum¬ 
stances the delicate root fibrils would suffer. On 
the other hand if you gave the trees a good watering 
when about half the leaves had fallen there will be 
no need to give any more until the spring. 
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LANDSCAPE EFFECT. 
Visitors to the shows of the Ulster Horticultural 
Society, at Belfast, frequently have an opportunity 
of studying the handiwork of Mr. C. McKimm, cura¬ 
tor and superintendent of the Botanic Gardens Park 
of that town. Mr. McKimm has, for the sixth time, 
so arranged an extensive and elaborate group so as 
the vicinity of the water. Anthuriums, Crotons, and 
Ferns also furnished some handsome bits of colour 
contrast, the green foliage acting as a foil to the in¬ 
tense colours of the Crotons. Besides the lake, cas¬ 
cade, and rocks, there were wooden bridges over a 
running brooklet, and wild fowls were represented, so 
as to complete the semblance to a quiet and secluded 
scene. 
The whole assemblage of plants and structures 
covered an area of ioo ft. by 50 ft., and the entire 
planting was carried out in one day, namely on the 
Monday before the show, which opened on Tuesday, 
and continued next day. Altogether the exhibit was 
unique, and attracting, as it did, a great amount of 
public attention, Mr. McKimm is to be congratu¬ 
lated upon the general excellence of his work. 
MESSRS. STANLEY-MOBBS AND 
ASHTON, SOUTHGATE. 
Great has been the admiration of Orchid growers 
with the lovely forms of Laelia pumila and its 
varieties, recently exhibited by this firm. Numerous 
forms carried fine, bold, well marked flowers of great 
Part of Group Showing Landscape Effect. 
hundreds of grand, established, semi-established, and 
likewise imported plants, just the sort one would like 
to handle. The same may be said of Odontoglossum 
Alexandrae, in various stages. O. vexillarium, O. 
Roezlii, O. madrense, and O. Pescatorei attract 
one's attention. Of the former there are enormous 
quantities; also the hitherto rare Brassavola digby- 
ana, which is in great request by the hybridist. All 
the leading Cypripediums are well grown and repre¬ 
sented ; the same may be said of Dendrobiums, 
many of which, like the former, are nicely in flower. 
Grand and huge specimens of Cymbidium are very 
attractive; in fact, every kind of Orchid»worth grow¬ 
ing is represented and receives attention that suits 
it, judging from the grand condition and robust 
health the plants are in. 
The firm is constantly receiving from their collec¬ 
tors large importations from various Orchid 
countries. To meet the convenience for establishing 
these, they are erecting some grand span-roofed 
Orchid houses on the most approved and practical 
plans, that will greatly add to the necessary accommo¬ 
dation. We trust their enterprise will meet with 
the reward all Orchid importers ought to receive, 
that is, plenty of customers for the new, good, and 
to produce a certain landscape effect; and each time 
the arrangements and effect have been different. 
The accompanying illustration represents a view of 
his " landscape effect ” at the Chrysanthemum show 
last November. Various Cycads and Pandanads 
were used in suitab’e places, some of them being 
prominent objects in the illustration. Stenocarpus 
Cunnioghamii, with its long, curiously lobed leaves, 
and the hoary-leaved Metrosideros tomentosa were 
used with good effect, their chief merits being the 
contrast in colour and form they made with other 
subjects. 
In what represented the colder regions various 
Mosses, Heaths, Ivy-clad Pines and withered leaves 
were used to give the desired scenic effect. In 
warmer and damper places were various Palms and 
Ferns, the latter represented by fine plants of 
Nephrolepis davallioides, N. d. furcans, and N. 
philippinensis, the latter being a good deal used in 
covering the “ living ” rockwork, which Mr. McKimm 
introduced some twenty years ago. During the 
summer months Fern screens are used for this 
purpose. 
Near the lake and cascade were specimens of 
Cyperus alternifolius, Bamboos, &c., some of which 
may be noticed in the illustration. Many of the 
bolder species of grasses produced a natural effect in 
substance and in great variety. Their enormous 
size also rendered this species one of the most 
beautiful of Orchids for winter flowering. Being 
small in growth the plants take up very little room. 
They do well in pots, pans, or baskets, suspended 
from the roof; and, as seen here, are objects of great 
beauty, for they are in flower by the hundred. This 
importation is, undoubtedly, one of the finest ever 
introduced into this country. Occasionally grand 
white forms have cropped up, which are very rare 
and valuable, forming, as they do, a lovely contrast 
with the dark coloured forms. 
Orchids are extensively grown here and well done 
also. Cattleyas and Laelias are in strong evidence, 
many being in flower, and innumerable quantities in 
spike, bud, and sheath. Noticeable is a grand batch of 
Cattleya Harrisoniae, many in flower, and grand 
varieties also. Very fine is Cattleya gigas, with as 
many as four flowers in a spike. Cattleya labiata 
and its varied forms are well represented ; also C. 
Mossiae, C. Mendellii, C. Schroderae, and C. 
Trianaei, by the hundred, well grown and sheathing 
freely, thus indicating a grand display of flower in 
store for the future. 
Laelia purpurata, L. tenebrosa, L. barpophylla, 
and L. flava, in great quantities, are well grown. Of 
Oncidium varicosum andO. tigrinum there are many 
distinct species and varieties, that now find a ready 
sale with those interested in their culture.— 
Urbanus. 
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MR. BARR IN AMERICA. 
Mr. Peter Barr had been doing the Rochester 
parks, U.S.A., in company with Superintendent 
Laney, Assistant-Superintendent Dunbar, and other 
prominent horticulturists of that New World city, 
when a Democrat and Chronicle reporter, getting wind 
of his whereabouts, forthwith stalked and button¬ 
holed him on November 14th last. After giving 
a laudatory and historical account of Mr. Barr 
together with an account of his past and 
present doings, and future programme for a period 
extending over three years, during which he intends 
engirdling the globe, not in forty minutes like Puck, 
but leisurely, the reporter allows Mr. Barr to tell 
his own story about the American Parks,as follows :— 
“ My next stop after doing the Yellowstone was at 
Salt Lake City, but there is nothing therein the way 
of parks. At Kansas City, Mo., marked advances 
have been made. When they have laid out the 
bluff, graded and planted it and constructed boule¬ 
vards, as is under contemplation, they will have a 
