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Stoye and Greenhouse Plants. 
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. 
Forest Fruit Trees and Roses. 
John Downie Crab Apple. 
(Pyramid and Standard.) 
Stocks Unequalled for Quality. 
Catalogues Post Free on Application . 
j o h!T 1> ow N I E, 
Nurseryman and Seedsman, 
144, Princes Street, EDINBURGH. 
PUNT HOW. 
BARR’S HARDY DOUBLE CHINESE 
PAEONIE?. 
STRONG PLANTS. 
12 io 12 choice named varieiies, 10/6, 15/- and 21/- 
25 in 25 „ „ 21/-, 30/- and 42/- 
BARR’3 HARDY SINGLE CHINESE 
PAEONIES. 
STRONG PLANTS. 
12 in 12 choice named varieties, 10/6, 15/- and 21/- 
BARR'S TALL FLAG IRISES. 
STRONG PLANTS. 
12 in 12 choice named varieties, 5/6, 7,6 and 10/6. 
25 in 25 ,, „ 10 6 and 15/- 
Barr's mixiu'e (unnamed), p.r ioo, 15/- ; per doz., 2/6 
BARR’S HARDY CLEMATIS. 
STRONG PLANTS. 
12 in 12 handsome hardy sorts, 15/- and 21/- 
BARR’S HARDY PLANT CATALOGUE 
fuliv de-crib'S all the best PAEONIES, 
IRISES, DELPHINIUMS and other 
Hardy Perennials suitable for present p’auting 
FREE ON APPLICATION. 
BARR & SONS, 
II, 12 k 13 King St., Covent Carden, 
LONDON. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man ’’—Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1900. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Thursday, September 27th. — Rayal Horticultural Society's 
Show of British-grown fruit, at the Crystal Palace (3 
days). 
he Favourite Flowers in a Surrey 
Garden. —In our last week’s issue we 
dealt chiefly with hardy flowers or those 
that weregrown in the open during summer 
at Burford, Dorking, the beautiful seat of 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.; but on this 
occasion we propose reviewing a few of the 
favourites grown under glass, and mostly in 
flower on the occasion of our visit. Lapa- 
geria rosea and L. r. alba seem to be always 
flowering on the roof. A fine strain of 
Celosia pyramidalis in scarlet, crimson and 
purple colours was flowering on the stages, 
and was notable for the dense and large 
plumes terminating the main stem. Glox¬ 
inia Chiswick Red was flowering for the 
second time this season in the cool and freely 
ventilated conservatory, without having 
been shaded in any way. In another cool 
house were some grand varieties ofCannas, 
includ.ng Comte de Bouchand, richly orna¬ 
mented with scarlet blotches on yellow ; 
Armenia, rei, margined yellow ; Partenope, 
rich orange and like the last belonging to 
the same type as Italia ; Barbercan, crim¬ 
son red; and Mdme. Louis Druz, dwarf, 
crimson-red. All these are modern varieties 
with large flowers. Eucharis burfordiense, 
raised here,, is seldom without flowers, 
which are highly ornamental and useful for 
cut flowers. The propagating pit contained 
an assemblage of various subjects, including 
Caladiums, Acalypha sanderiana, A. god- 
seffiana, Gesnera fulgens in several beauti¬ 
ful varieties, Pavonia intermedia kermesina, 
Tillandsia Lindeni, Lagerstroemia Flos- 
reginae, and well grown plants of Adiantum 
farleyense. 
Havinggone through the general collection 
of favourite flowers we were placed in the 
hands of Mr. White, the Orchid grower, to 
inspect this highly specialised class of 
plants, some of which are in bloom at every 
season, thus keeping up perennial interest. 
In the Cattleya house Dendrobium Dearei 
had been flowering for six weeks. Cattleyas 
are grown here in great variety, and 
amongst them a plant of Cattleya bowring- 
iana carried nine sheaths, and C. Mossiae 
Wageneri, five sheaths. A shelf is filled 
with specialities in the way of hybrid 
Cattleyas. Laeliocattleyas are great favour¬ 
ites,some or other of which are almost always 
in flower. Fine plants are Lc. Sir Henry 
Greenwood, Lc. intermedio - flava, and 
Lc^ Duke of York, the two latter being in 
bloom. The rare and striking Eulophiella 
peetersiana was making fine growth in a 
long basket. The Vandas are numerous, 
tall and healthy. The hybrid V. Miss 
Joaquim stands 8 ft. to 10 ft. high. Three 
spikes on two plants carried twenty-one, 
fourteen and twelve blooms respectively. It 
was a hybrid between V. teres and V. 
hookeriana. Cypripedium Morganiae bur¬ 
fordiense has much broader and more 
finely spotted petals than the type. 
Odontoglossum crispum and others in one 
of the cool houses has made fine growth with 
healthy foliage of a dark green colour. 
Splendid growth has also been made by O. 
Edwardi, O. aspidhorinum, O. mulus and 
O. coronarium. There is evidence that 
Odontoglossums may be grown for many 
years without deteriorating, for several of 
O, crispum have been here since 1879 and 
1880, and O. mulus since the former year. 
A large panful of Sophronitis grandiflora is 
strong and healthy; while the bronzy- 
yellow flowered S. rossiteriana is starting 
into growth nicely. 
The intermediate house had interesting 
lessons to offer, and contained a wonderful 
variety of flowers for the end of August. 
Prominent amongst them were Cypriped¬ 
ium Charlesworthii; a variety ofC. purpur- 
atum having a nearly black lip ; Brasso- 
Cattleya lindleyana, supposed to be a 
natural hybrid ; firre plants of the delicately 
coloured Sobralia lucasiana; the creamy- 
white S. leucoxantha, with a lemon blotch 
on the lip; and S. xantholeuca, with wholly 
yellow flowers, and which have kept up a 
succession since May. All of these Sobral- 
ias are strikingly handsome when in bloom. 
Many cultivators find Vanda caerulea a 
troublesome subject, but Mr. White finds 
that suspending them on rafts makes a differ¬ 
ence upon their health in a single year, and 
the roots and foliage in a few years acquire 
a wonderful development. Plants stood on 
the stages soon become spotted, but the 
change of position closer to the glass with an 
abundance of air soon shows the treatment 
that suits their natural requirements. In 
another part of the same large house Platy- 
clinis filtfera carried over 100 of its slender 
spikes as if the plant were hung with golden 
filigree. It is kept in an intermediate tem¬ 
perature all the year, and had been flower¬ 
ing for a month j reviously. The darkest 
blue variety of Dendrobium Victoriae 
Reginae we have seen has been flowering 
on a raft since the end of May. As many 
as fifty flowers have been open at one time. 
Flowering in the same house were uch 
interesting things as Laelia longipes, 
Epidendrum elegantulum, Miltonia vexill- 
aria Leopoldi, with its triangular, maroon- 
crimson disc ; a fine dark M. moreliana and 
a grand plant of Epiphronitis Veitchi, about 
a foot in diameter and all one piece. 
Epidendrum Endressii, about 18 in. high, 
has also made remarkable growth for this 
species, usually considered difficult to grow 
successfully. Epidendrum linkianum, E. 
equitans, and Eria velutina may be re¬ 
garded as miniature pets. The same may 
be said of Pholidota imbricata; but 
Coelogyne Veitchi is a graceful plant with 
long pendent racemes of white flowers and 
yellow bracts. 
Cattleya gigas made a fine display in the 
small Cattleya house recently ; but on the 
occasion of our visit Epidendrum alatum, 
Cattleya gaskelliana, and C. g. albens 
odorata were still in bloom. The flowers of 
the latter were white, with the exception of 
a faint blush on the centre of the lip, and 
agreeably scented. A bold flower was C. 
speciosissima, with pink sepals and petals 
and marbled with purple on a paler ground. 
The sepals and petals of Laelia amanda 
were pale purple, with a tubular lip of a 
darker hue. Dendrobium album, as usually 
seen, is not very ornamental, but here the 
white flowers were plentiful and well set off 
by the evergreen foliage. Both Cypripe- 
dium Stonei and C. S. platytaenium were 
flowering finely in the East Indian house. 
The broad petals of the latter, heavily 
blotched with brownish purple on the upper 
