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THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
j., 3 ^. By careful selection of 
- 'V'd forms as parents, and by 
> k.urcro«iDg, simply woriderf^ 
• have been made both in the 
. .'flowers and the bewitchingly 
blotches that overlay the 
and toiwtitute the great charm 
. r/ thr home-raised varieties. Ait 
1 . -0 sees many of these gems, 
y reason for not mentioning their 
*£- difficulty that would arise in 
. which should be omitted. There 
but little need to urge the culti- 
f Joiitegloesums, for surely no one 
■rrbids at all can long resist their 
for attention. The old favou- 
• -tfum grande never fails to 
- appeal, and other good mem- 
'^iiily are O. triumphans and O. 
- Passing along from house to 
' .te-book in hand, the names of 
•d. richly ooloured cattleyas. 
holes or sprays. At the time of our visit the 
calanthes, of which large quantities are grown 
at Cheltenham, had not long been potted, but 
they were starting well away, and showed 
tvery sign of dping as well as could be 
wished. There were some grand spikes of 
the handsome Cymbidium Lowianum, and 
plenty of other subjects to make their respec¬ 
tive houses bright and attractive. 
In bringing these notes to a close reference 
must be made to the splendidly developed 
greenhouse plants for which Messrs. Cypher 
and Sons are so famous, and are nowadays so 
rarely met with in nurseries. Probably 
almo^ every reader of the Gabdeneks’ 
Magazine has at some time seen the magnifi¬ 
cent statices, ericas, bougainvilleas, and 
clerodendrons this firm has for well nigh 
half a century exhibited at the leading shows, 
and it will therefore be no surprise to read 
that at the nurseries there are lofty houses 
filled with these and with big palms, and 
dron fallax, and among the smaller furnish¬ 
ing plants so useful in the groundwork of 
ornamental groups, that elegant little Japan¬ 
ese shrub, !Nandiua domestica, was particu¬ 
larly noticeable, although many another 
littie decorative plant would, were it not for 
the overwhelming power of the orchids, have 
been deemed worthy of mention in a notice 
of the Cheltenham Exotic Nurseries. 
Visitor. 
WINTER-FLOWERING 
BEGONIAS. 
Plants of the B. Gloire de Lorraine group, 
having been slightly reduced at the top after 
flowering and rested, will, if given warm, 
moist, and shaded conditions, now produce 
plenty of young growths from- the base. 
Discard stem cuttings, and select clean fresh 
growths from the base of the plant. We 
A DIJJPLAY OF CALAimiES IN MESSRS. J. CyPHER AND SONS’ 
NURSERIES. CHELTENHAM:. 
' -gol< 
Ir .-b,! is an orchid 1 
" ' of hlo^m indeed, eil 
- •' 
• • mn may ®nt of 
. littte tnri 
: **yv«d8, also, 
whilst 
richly-coloured crotons, together with plenty 
of young plants coming along to take the 
place of the specimens that sooner or la'^r 
must succumb to the wear and tear inf- 
separable from repeated journeys to and from 
shows, and to meet the ordinary r^uirements 
of business. There is an irresistible mag¬ 
netism about these big, shapely specimens to 
anyone who remembers even the closing days 
of their glorious reign, when no gentleman’s 
establishment was considered furnished with¬ 
out its collection of such plants as we have 
mentioned, and when no man was considered 
a good gardener who could not propagate, 
grow, and train either ericas, azaleas, dipla- 
denias, or ixoras. It is good to know that the 
art is not yet dead, for, at any rate, Messrs. 
Cypher can produce specimens as of yore. 
There were some massive specimens of An- 
thurium Wardi, Ixora Duffi, and Cleroden- 
prefer to root them in sand* as recommended 
for euphorbias, always inserting more than 
are actually required, so that we may have 
a sufficient number of those that will grow 
freely and break naturally. They root 
freely in a short time in the propagating 
case, and may then be potted singly in 
small 60’s, using great care not to damage 
the young roots, nor to pot too firmly. If 
space permits they may be kept close in the 
propagating frame for a few days after 
potting. Afterwards they should be grown 
in a shaded house, preferably on a damp 
base, in a temperature of 65 degi-ees bv 
night, rising to 75 degrees in the day, with 
a rise by sun beat after closing; syringe 
the plants, and remove the shading in the 
afternoon. On mild nights throughout the 
growing season we prefer to allow a little 
ventilation. H. Prime. 
