. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. g the most useful of any for cutting for vases orbouquets. Celosias in groups by themselves are very showy,and they have a still richer effect when mixed with suchstrikingly beautiful foliaged plants as Amarantus Henderi,A. sahcitolms, and A. tricolor. Of these feathered Celosiasthere are a great many varieties, ranging through the differentshades of colours from lilac to crimson and from yellow toorange. Almost each grower has his own specially good strain,distinguished either by its superiority of vivid colourino-
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. g the most useful of any for cutting for vases orbouquets. Celosias in groups by themselves are very showy,and they have a still richer effect when mixed with suchstrikingly beautiful foliaged plants as Amarantus Henderi,A. sahcitolms, and A. tricolor. Of these feathered Celosiasthere are a great many varieties, ranging through the differentshades of colours from lilac to crimson and from yellow toorange. Almost each grower has his own specially good strain,distinguished either by its superiority of vivid colourino-, size,or profusion of bloom. Among the finer named sorts are thefollowing :—C. pyramidalis aurea, golden ; C. p. ignea, crimson ;C. p. aurantiaca, orange; C. p. plumosa aurantTaca,variouslycoloured. One and all of these produce feathery-lookingflowers of great richness and beauty. Indeed, few plants aremore striking or more useful in the stove during the winterseason, or more highly ornamental in pots in the conservatorythroughout the autumnal months than these pyramidal. Pjiamidal Cockscomb (Celosia pyramidalis) NOTES ON ORCHIDS BY A I began cultivating Tea in Caohar, writes a correspondent in The Gardener, I have noticed some very fine Orchids, such asDendrobiams of different kinds, Vanda teres, Ccologynea, Cymbidiums,Saecolabiumg, and Aerides, the latter by the hundred, especially and A. o. roseura, and the observations I have made inreference to these lead me to think that the majority of East IndianOrchids at home are grown in too hot a temperature, especially inwinter. If I had again to deal with Orchids in Great Britain, Iwould make my minimum in winter from 40 to 13 at night, andallow it to go up to 80 during the daytime, but only with February the night temperature could be raised to 50°, that isto aay, it the plants showed signs ot starting. Here mostly all theOrchids flower during March, April, and May, and up to the la
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