The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . lt which I. for one. would like to realise. J. S. Callas.—I saw a fine batch of these plants atBurghley a few days since flowering profusely. Thepots ihty were in were 9 and 10 inch, and they werestanding on turves over some hot-water pipes in anintermediate-house. Mr. Gilbert has lost faith inthe planting-out system, and keeps his plants in opine the cold summer of injuriously affectedthose that were planted out last season, the ab-eence of sun-heat having caused a correspondingscarcity
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . lt which I. for one. would like to realise. J. S. Callas.—I saw a fine batch of these plants atBurghley a few days since flowering profusely. Thepots ihty were in were 9 and 10 inch, and they werestanding on turves over some hot-water pipes in anintermediate-house. Mr. Gilbert has lost faith inthe planting-out system, and keeps his plants in opine the cold summer of injuriously affectedthose that were planted out last season, the ab-eence of sun-heat having caused a correspondingscarcity of flowers. We planted out our roots, andthe treatment has been as usual, and although thefoliage could not look better than it does, the plantsare not carrying so many flowers as in former yearsW, H. Divers, Ketton HaU. ORCHID ROOTS EATEN.—I have frequently seenOrchid routs gnawed and injured in a mannerbeyond my power of accounting for as the work ofany of the insects in the house familiar to n)e. which you refer is the Embia, of whicli weillustrations at figs. 31 and 115. give. Fig. 34.—OHCuiD Ruoi,-, fatkx bv the kmdia,
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