. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. , in fact, if any faultis to be found with the landscape gardening atWalmer Place generally, it is for the rather severeformal character that has been adopted. Thisfeature is even apparent in the kitchen-garden,which above all other places should be one ofutility and not of ornament. The kitchen-garden issupplemented by a smaller one at the north endof the estate, and here are also situated the glassstructures, but these are not extensive. Theycomprise a vinery, plant-house, conservatory, andpropagat
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. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. , in fact, if any faultis to be found with the landscape gardening atWalmer Place generally, it is for the rather severeformal character that has been adopted. Thisfeature is even apparent in the kitchen-garden, which above all other places should be one ofutility and not of ornament. The kitchen-garden issupplemented by a smaller one at the north endof the estate, and here are also situated the glassstructures, but these are not extensive. Theycomprise a vinery, plant-house, conservatory, andpropagating pits. The plants are such as furnishflowers for cutting, or as are of decorative valuein the residence. Everything is maintained ina high state of excellence at Walmer Lodge, thegrounds and plants being in the best possibleorder. Mr. F. Sparks, the present gardener, hasteen charged with the care of this estate formany years past. DENDROBIUM PAECUM. This singular little Burmese species has slenderpseudo-bulbs furnished with generally two-flowered infl.orescences. The flowers when mature. Fifi. 13:J.-FL0WFKS OF DENDROBUH PAKCCMWITH MOVABLE SPRINGLIKE lAUELLUM. are rather over ^ an inch in length, and of veryremarkable structure. The yellowish - greensepals and petals, the former of which are ex-panded below, fit closely togethei-, and foriu ahood over the column, from the base of which, onthe upper edge of the menturo, the labellum isdelicately hinged and curved upward at the base, so that the singularly stalked labellum in theearly stage of the flower juts out from the centre, as seen in the upper pair of flowers illustrated.The cuneate marginate front of the lip in thisstage is nearly flat. When mature the labellumhangs point downward, the front being concave.If the flower is gradually turned so that the label-lum is made to assume a more horizontal positionit quickly moves over to the column as thoughattracted by a magnet. The action would carrythe head of an insect moving o