February il, lb9§. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
as well. We have seen that hard-wooded and soft- 
wooded subjects in infinite variety may be grown in 
it for a number of years, by being repotted or left 
without that operation. Some plants may be grown 
in ordinary compost for a considerable number of 
years. It remains to be proved how long they may 
be grown in Jadoo Fibre, but as far as is known at 
present the material may last as long as ordinary 
soil, by growing the plants in it that do not require 
frequent repotting. Since it first began to be used 
cultivators have discovered that it is a suitable 
medium in which to root various plants. Jadoo may, 
therefore, be made to take the place of cocoanut 
fibre, as well as sand and sandy soil in the beds of 
the propagating pit. In this respect it has been 
found very useful for Vine cuttings, as well as a fer¬ 
tilising material for Vines in the open vineyards in the 
countries where such are grown. In the same way 
it is largely used in the cultivation of Tobacco in 
America. Other uses may yet be found for it. 
PLANTS RECENTLY CERTIFICATED. 
At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
on the 31st ult., the undermentioned awards were 
made :— 
Orchid Committee. 
LaeLia anceps amesiana Crawshay's var.— The 
pseudobulbs of this variety are elliptic, and of great 
thickness. The sepals are suffused with a soft rose, 
while the petals are ovate, pale at the base, and in¬ 
tensifying to purple towards the tip. The lip is the 
most striking feature of the flower, the terminal lobe 
being intense purple or maroon-purple ; the side 
lobes are deep purple, and the interior of the tube 
is lined with crimson. It is the finest form of L. a. 
amesiana, and the plant shown by De B. Crawshay, 
Esq. (gardener, Mr. S. Cooke), Rosefield, Sevenoaks, 
carried four flowers on a spike, this being as far as 
we know the first time that L. a. amesiana in any of 
its variations has done so. First-class Certificate. 
Cattleya Trianaei Ernest Ashworth, Nov. 
var. —The sepals and broadly ovate petals of this 
choice variety are white. The tube of the lip is 
blush-coloured externally and internally towards the 
base. The throat is pale yellow, this being sur¬ 
rounded by a white line at its outer end, thus 
separating the yellow from the intense purple of the 
expanded lamina, which in turn is edged with white. 
Award of Merit. E. Ashworth, Esq. (gardener, Mr. 
Holbrook), Harefieli Hall, Wilmslow. 
Epidendrum umbellatum. —The leaves of this 
very singular looking species are ovate, short, and 
rigid. The upper leaf is connate by its edges, so as 
to form an open, funnel-shaped cup, from the centre 
of which springs an umbel of several flowers, of a 
peculiar, sub-transparent green. The sepals and 
petals are narrow, while the emarginate apical lobe 
of the lip is so reflexed and hidden that it requires 
looking for. The side lobes on the contrary are of 
unusual length, revolute at the sides, and diverge 
widely in the form of two sides of a triangle. 
Visitors were much struck with this peculiar Orchid. 
Botanical Certificate. Messrs. Stanley-Mobbs & 
Ashton, Southgate, N. 
Cypripedium Miss Louisa Fowler, Nov. hyb .— 
This beautiful hybrid has been raised from C. 
chamberlainianum, crossed evidently with the pollen 
of some finely spotted form of C. insigne. The 
dorsal sepal is ovate and richly blotched with 
crimson-brown on a clear greenish-yellow ground. 
The petals are nearly straight (not twisted), undu¬ 
lated at the edges, broader than those of the mother 
plant, and of a rich glossy brown. The lip is deep 
rose and also polished. Award of Merit, J. Gurney 
Fowler, Esq. (gardener, Mr. J. Davis), Glebelands, 
Woodford. 
Cattleya Trianaei Memoria Lindeni, Nov. var. 
—The sepals and petals of this variety are of a soft 
rose ; and the tube of the lip is a shade or two darker. 
The great feature of the variety, however, is the 
intense glowing crimson, and expanded lamina, which 
is handsome and raises the variety to the first rank 
of forms in this particular species. Award of Merit, 
Messrs. Linden, Parc Leopo'd, Brussels. 
Masdevallia Curlei, Nov. hyb. —The general 
appearance of this hybrid may be gleaned from the 
fact that M. macrura and M. tovarensis were its 
parents. The flowers are white, but they have the 
long tails characteristic of M. macrura. Award of 
Merit. Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, (grower Mr. W. 
H. White), Burford Lodge, Dorking. 
Cypripedium wiertzianum, Nov. hyb .— This form 
was derived from C. rothschildianum crossed with the 
pollen of C. lawrenceanum. Ihe leaves are large 
leathery and green, like those of the seed bearer. The 
upper sepal is cordate, shortly acuminate, and white, 
with numerous rich crimson-purple veins. The 
petals have a half twist, and are spotted with black 
in lines, the brown-purple veins being fainter. The 
lip is very large and dark purple. It is a very hand¬ 
some hybrid. Award of Merit. Messrs. Linden, 
Brussels. 
Floral Committee. 
Lapageria rosea The Knoll var. —The flowers of 
this magnificent variety are of great size, being 3f in. 
long or more, spreading at the mouth and of a rich 
rose-red or scarlet. The interior is spotted with 
white from a little below the apex downwards. The 
variety flowers profusely in a cool conservatory. 
Award of Merit. Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, 
(gardener, Mr. W. Bain). 
Acalypha godseffiana. —The leaves of this 
Acalypha are ovate and green, margined with a 
border of varying width of yellow, fading to creamy- 
white with age, but always very decided or distinct. 
The plant is naturally dwarf, bushy, and of the 
easiest culture. Award of Merit. Messrs. F. Sander 
& Co., St. Albans. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee. 
Apple Lady Pilkington. —The fruit of this new 
seedling Apple is oblate and about the size and shape 
of that of Dumelow’s SeedliDg. The skin is yellow 
and lightly suffused and mottled with red on the 
sunny side. The eye is seated in a moderately wide, 
crisped cavity, and is half open. Award of Merit. 
Southport and Churchtown Botanic Gardens, 
Lancashire. 
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THE PLANT HOUSES. 
The Stove. 
If the present spell of cold weather lasts there will 
be a little work to do in the way of firing, for the 
cold east winds take a good deal of theheatout of the 
house. If the blinds have been left up it will be 
advisable to lower them at night time in order to 
assist in keeping up the temperature. It is wonder¬ 
ful what a help, even a thin covering, is in this way. 
Aquatics. —The present is a capital time for see¬ 
ing to the cleaning out of the tank, and the re-pottiug ( 
where necessary, of its occupants. Special care 
must be taken with plants that have been standing 
in the water, for when taken out and stood on a dry 
bottom, they are apt to suffer from the sudden cut¬ 
ting off of the abundant water supply. 
Nymphaeas. —These charming water plants like 
to be re-potted annually,for they delight in arich soil, 
and cramped as'they^are in pots in a tank, they are 
not like their relatives in the mud at the bottom of 
a pond or stream, where fresh sources of food are 
continually being brought to them in the shape of 
fallen leaves and other matter. In turning out the 
plants a careful search will have to be made for the 
tubers, for some of the plants have a knack of drop¬ 
ping their tubers nearly to the bottom of the soil 
close to the drainage, whilst others, again, will be 
found very near to the surface. The best compost to 
use is good loam, which has been stacked for at least 
six months,with alternate layers of cow manure. Fail¬ 
ing this, an attempt must be made to mix the loam 
and the cow manure together, five parts of the 
former going to one of the latter. 
Caladiums. —The tubers started the second week 
in January are now commencing to grow nicely, and 
in the course of another week or ten days will be 
ready for potting up. A second batch should be 
started without delay. For the commoner sorts shal¬ 
low boxes maybe requisitioned,and the tubers laid in 
in cocoanut fibre refuse. In this they root freely and 
well, better, in fact, than they would do in soil, 
but a little discretion must be used in watering, for if 
too much water is given the tubers will be liable to 
rot. The rarer and more precious sorts had better 
be placed separately in small pots, for there is then 
less chance of them becoming mixed. A strict watch 
should be kept upon the labels or there will sure to 
be a few mistakes as to names presently. The pots 
and boxes should be placed in a temperature of 
about 60" Fahr. In this, growth will be fairly 
speedy. 
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The propagation of scarce sorts may easily be 
effected now by dividing up the large tubers, and 
pottiDg or boxing up the pieces. Another plan is to 
allow the tubers to start first, and make a little 
growth, dividing up when this has taken place. In 
this case care must be taken with the divisions, and 
they must be kept warm and close in a propagating 
frame. A sharp thin-bladed knife is required, and a 
clean cut must be made, otherwise rot will set in, 
and there will be serious losses. 
Annual Potting. —In about another week’s time 
a start should be made with the annual potting. It 
is a good plan to give the permanent inhabitants of 
the stove a thorough overhauling in the spring. 
Many of them will not want to be shifted, for Palms, 
Crotons, Cycads, etc., will stay in the same pots for 
years together, providing the drainage be in good 
working order. A little cleaning of the drainage at 
the commencement of the season is often of the 
greatest importance to the plant. Top-dressing, too, 
may be carried on to a limited extent where a proper 
shift is not considered to be desirable. Some plants 
will have entirely out-grown their pots and require 
to be put into larger ones, whilst there are sure to 
be some others that will be benefited by a shift 
backwards, i.e., into smaller pots, in order to favour 
the production of roots of which they may be 
deficient. In a mixed collection of stove plants 
there are always some that are sickly, and these, if 
they be worth anything, the adept plantsman will 
want to nurse back to health and vigour. 
Meanwhile, a sufficiency of materials should be 
got in readiness, so that once a start is made the 
work may go forward without hindrance. A supply 
of good turfy loam should be got in, and if it is too 
wet, dried, and then chopped up finely. For very 
particular plants the fine particles of soil may be 
shaken out, to some extent. Peat, also, should be 
pulled, and leaf-soil cleaned and rubbed through the 
sieve. Half the battle consists in adequate prepara¬ 
tion.— A. S. G. 
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CAN IVY LIVE AFTER THE STEM 
IS CUT? 
In events there are two consequences, an immediate, 
which is easily seen and recognised, and one in the 
distance unperceived. 
This phenomenon leads to false reasoning and 
causes persons to consider their moral beliefs and 
material interests as contradiction. •’ Fiat Justitia ” 
after cutting so many Ivy stems through, and seeing 
so many others cut, resulting in sudden death, can¬ 
not possibly conceive otherwise, does not trouble 
himself about it, and calmly reposes in peace. 
Now I never questioned his practical facts, nor am 
I astonished at the beauty and faculty of the plan. 
Nay, I expect to see such observations continued 
and extended. I simply pointed out a back door, 
when prospecting a limited botanical company, 
unlimited, and demurred to the superfluities of 
sudden collapse, parading over the cut living ex¬ 
amples spoken of. 
“ F, J.” found it very convenient to chop, mutilate, 
and italicise certain parts of my last, and skip over 
intermediate and connecting links, which militates 
against him. This is not fair to me, the subject, nor 
to those two virtues, fidelity aDd justice, of which we 
should try to have a large share. If anyone reads 
my last all right he or she will find there is neither 
begging nor unbelief about it. It was .simply a 
question of existence when cut, of the leafy plant 
above the cut. 
It was a certainty that the Ivy mentioned by me 
formed roots on the perpendicular plane, and derived 
its sustenance therefrom, probably prior,but certainly 
after the cut. How could it be otherwise, as it 
passed beyond to the north gable. 
There were then no spouts, no gutters, under or 
over the eaves, until about twelve years ago when 
the property changed hands. It was clipped and 
faced yearly at the end of April, as every good Ivy 
should be; and when I passed out of the smaller 
into the larger size of breeches, I invariably had this 
job to do, and hence my observations and deductions 
that the claws between the nodes (joints) are true 
roots, and are capable when crossing upwards over 
a layer of lime (all favourable conditions being 
equal, that is -in the spring of the year when the 
claws' joints are soft—warm and moist)—of passing 
out of the aerial into the food-containing seams of 
the building, and nourishing the plant. I thought I 
