The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . of Wales, vigorous, andof a rosy-crimson colour, which is very pleasing;Carmine Empress is of stiff habit, compact, and Makch 9, 1889.] THE OABDENERS CHBONICLE. 801 small in the leaf, and has (lowers of a fine rich andblight carmine, and is one of the prettiest of thered double Primulas. Tinted Venns must not beforgotten, although its colouring (white, freckledwith pale red and pale reddish-brown) will probablynot commend it to all people, but it is, neverthe-less, a distinct form, and serves well as
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . of Wales, vigorous, andof a rosy-crimson colour, which is very pleasing;Carmine Empress is of stiff habit, compact, and Makch 9, 1889.] THE OABDENERS CHBONICLE. 801 small in the leaf, and has (lowers of a fine rich andblight carmine, and is one of the prettiest of thered double Primulas. Tinted Venns must not beforgotten, although its colouring (white, freckledwith pale red and pale reddish-brown) will probablynot commend it to all people, but it is, neverthe-less, a distinct form, and serves well as a relief. Okchids in Flower at Messrs. Backhouses Nurseries, was a fine lot of Cattleva Triauic in bloom crispum, 0. maeulntum, O. sceptrum, O. Edwardi, andO. nebulosum. Tliei-e were also observed among.^tCypripediums—Lowii, Maiilei, Sylhelense, Sallierii,caluiuni, gemniiniferum in Hower ; and in the samehouse a fine plant of Cadogyue cristata /. C. STEAM-HEATING, kc. History has been said to rejieat itself, and thisraay possibly be said to be the case as regards the. Fig, 55,—babnabde?ia bosea: flowers rosy-lilac, (see p. 300.; recently in the Cattleya-hoase at the above-namednurseries, many of them were very fine varieties,broad in petal and sepal, and with the labellum richlycoloured. Of other Cattleyas noticed were , C. Enchantress, C. tricolor insignis,C. Backhousiana. C. eboracensis, C. aperta, and In the same house were some very finewell sheathed lot of plants of Lselia purpurata,from which fine varieties are expected lateron. As showing the strength of the plants Imay meotion, on measuring some of the leaves, Ifound them to be fully 18 inches in length. In thecool houses there were numbers of Odontoglossumsin variety in flower, including fine varieties of O. heating of horticultural structures by steam. Manyyears ago steam heating was introduced as animprovement upon heating by the old fire flue, whichit was expecte
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