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rest

even here, they display a restless faculty

of invention, fully equal to their

powers of imitation, and

....

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we

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NOTES.
The
first

meeting of the year of the Royal Horticultural Society

will

be

held at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on January 14th, when
the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of twelve o'clock, noon.

The

next meeting

is

on February nth.

have received a very pretty hybrid from the collection of Mrs. F. L. Ames, Boston, Mass., a seedling raised by Mr. W. Robinson between C.
Boxallh

We

and one of the

montanum forms

of

C. insigne.

hybrid

between these two species was mentioned

under the name of C.
five

at p. 74
it

of our last volume,

least

X Madame
we

de Curte, but

has also received at

is

other distinct names, and

are uncertain which

the original one.

The

present one resembles C. Boxallii more than the other parent.

pallida, described
J.

Another flower of Cattleya labiata

last

volume, comes from the collection of

W.

page 7 of our Arkle, Esq., West Derby,

at
is

Liverpool.

Curiously enough, this season there

a broad crimson streak

either side.

on the centre of the disc, and two or three small streaks on Last year these were absent.

flower of a hybrid Cypripedium comes from

H.

J.

Ross.

Esq.,

of

Florence,

which
?

is

Inlkved to have been raised from C.

Dauthieri

and C. prsstans #, though curiously enough it is almost an exact reproduction of the former, both in shape and colour. The chief difference is that the dorsal sepal is rather narrower and with rather more

Rossianum

Mr. Ross alludes to the Cypripedium X Ashburtonias with double- flowered spike mentioned at page 375. and states that his P^nts are all doubleflowering, except

when

quite recently divided.

The

peculiarity probably

arises from excess of vigour,

and affords evidence of good culture.

Others

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frequently produce double-flowered scapes.

IE IV.

Cypripedium Spicerianum has

been known to produce a three-flowered scape, but occurrence is excessively rare.

we

believe such an

Mr. Ross also alludes to a variety of Cypripedium insigne called Pynaertu, which always produces double-flowered scapes. It has long stems and large blooms, in the way of C. i. Maulei. Mr. Ross considers it one
of the best,

and thinks

it is little

known

in

England.
the collection of

Another white Cattleya labiata has

just flowered in

R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham. The flower is pure white with the exception of some yellow in the the throat, and thus is the variety C. 1. alba. It is out of an importation from Messrs. Sander.

fine flower of
is

Vanda

ccerulea from the collection of

W.

P.

Burkinshaw,

4$ inches across its broadest diameter. Mr. Barker, the gardener, remarks that they have a much better one (presumably darker)

Esq., of Hessle,

which flowers every year in May and June. handsome form with Messrs. Charlesworth and presume the character to be permanent.
Laslia

We
&

have seen a similar very Co., of Heaton, Bradford,

anceps

is

one of the best of winter-flowering Orchids.

Mr.

Hamilton, gardener to Hamar Bass, Esq., Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent, grows it very successfully. He uses no shading, and remarks that, although this has a tendency sometimes to make the leaves pale, a little soot and lime strewed on the beds underneath soon make the leaves dark green again. They flower very freely under this treatment. L. a. Hilliana and the large
richly-coloured L. a. grandiflora are enclosed.

At the Alderley Edge and Wilmslow Horticultural Society's Show, held on November 29th and 30th, fine collections of Orchids were exhibited from the collection of E. Ashworth, Esq.,

Mr. Holbrook), and from that of (gr. Mr. Worre), forming quite a feature of the Show.
Messrs. Charlesworth

Wilmslow (gr. Dr. Hodgkinson, The Grange, Wilmslow

Harefield Hall,

&
in

Co., Heaton, Bradford, send a fine flower of

Odontoglossum tripudians

which the ground colour of the

lip is

white

ultimately changing to light sulphur.

Oncidium cheirophorum is a very- charming little autumn-flowering species, which succeeds well in hanging pans in the Cool house, its dwarf panicles crowded with pretty yellow flowers being very effective. A fine example comes from the collection of C. Winn, Esq., Selly Hill, Birmingham, the panicle bearing nine side
branches with flowers larger than usual.

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A
fine flower of Cattleya

Lueddemanniana, eigh< inches

across,

is

sent
a

by Messrs. Hurst & Son, Purbagc Nurseries. Hinckley, together with fine Odontoglossum Rossii majiis. and others.
Cypripedium
insigne
hybrids,
collection of

X Leeanum
with
dorsal

giganteum, the
sepal

finest

of the Spicerianoconies

i\

inches

across,

from

the

W. Thompson.

Esq..

Waltham Grange.
I..

Stone.

Mr. Stevens
fine five-

also encloses half-a-dozen

named

varieties of i.;elia aneeps.

and a

flowered spike of the beautiful natural hvbrid

X Gouldiana.

The

plant of Sophnmitis pteroearpa

in

the collection of
last

W.

E. Ledger,
has
again

Esq.. of

Wimbledon, noted

at

page 100 of the

volume,

flowered well, producing twenty-one flowers on five racemes.

fine flower of

Cymbidium Tracyanum comes frem

the collection of

W.

P. Burkinshaw, Esq., of Hessle, and a rather darker one from Messrs.

Sander.

The

latter is said to be

from Upper Burma, thus confirming the

previous records.

A
of R.

fine flower of the rare Miltonia Phalaenopsis

I.

comes from the

collection

Measures, Esq., of Camberwell.

punctulata (Rolfe) in the same collection

The unique plant is now flowering

of Pleurothallis

very freely,

all

the old growths with leaves producing blooms as well as the

new

ones.

The

leaves are covered with a remarkable white mealiness.

collected by Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliott on Mt. Ruwenzori,

The Orchids
Over

Tropical Africa, have proved very interesting, the great majority being new.
forty species

have been described

in the

Journal of Botany by Mr.

Rendle, the most remarkable being Epipactis africana.

OBERONIA MYOSURUS.
This very curious
Messrs.
little

plant has just flowered in the establishment of

Hugh Low &

The

Co., of Clapton,

probably for the

first

time

in

cultivation.

leaves are terete, fleshy,

and covered with minute greyish

Iris.

pustules, instead of being equitant, like a small

The

flowers are deep

buff and very minute, but densely arranged in a cylindrical spike.

reflexed sepals

The
whose

round into a number of curved hairy teeth, giving it also as much the appearance of some strange insect as of a flower the aid of a lens, however, being required to show its remarkable structure. It is a native of Nepal and Burma, and was described in 1830 (Lindl. Gen.
margin
is

and broken up

petals are
all

practically hidden

behind the

lip,

&

Sp. Orsh. } p. 16).

R. A. R.


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DIES ORCHIDIANiE.
I

note with

particular pleasure the

so admirably figured in the last

two beautiful examples of good culture two numbers of the Review. Mr. Woodall's
its

Vanda ccerulea

is

superb, and his notes on

culture should be read by

It is

every grower of this useful autumn-flowering Orchid.

well that a

photographic illustration of the plant to which a First-class Certificate was awarded should be preserved. Similar mimrks must be made with respect
to Mr. Bennett-Poe's beautiful plant of Selenipedium

caudatum

Wallisii,

which deservedly secured a Cultural Commendation.

to note that these

It is further

interesting

satisfactory

results

treatment

by
I

were both obtained by rational

imitating as far as posible the essential conditions under

in

which these plants grow

followed, present.
believe that

a wild

failures

Were this rule more frequently would be much less frequent than at
state.

from subjecting plants to conditions which they have not been accustomed to in a state of nature frequently through ignorance hence they refuse to thrive, and often die
cases arise
outright.

The

majority of

such

There

is

nothing remarkable

in

this,

for

even
:

in a

wild state

plants only thrive where

the conditions are suitable

elsewhere they are

crowded out by a host of competitors.

unsuitable conditions.
for themselves,

The

cultivator

may

protect his

plants from the struggle for existence, but he cannot

make them grow under

safely be affirmed that
is

Some

people

like to find
it

out the proper treatment

and frequently succeed, but

may

a knowledge of the essential conditions under which a plant grows surest and quickest guide to success.

the

cannot avoid alluding, especially as it has a distinct hearing on the preceding remarks, is the frequent appearance at recent meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society of those quaint and
I

Another matter to which

beautiful plants,

the Pescatoreas and their

allies.

It

used to be remarked

and even when they succeeded for a time they would suddenly go back for no apparent reason. Then it came out that Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son had succeeded in growing them for years, under conditions which have been detailed in the Review, and that others who had adopted a method of treatment in accordance with the conditions under which they grow naturally also found no difficulty with them, and now that their culture is no longer regarded as hopeless, I hope
lor long,

that no one could

grow them

to see

more of them in the future. They are a particularly interesting group, and seem to keep growing and throwing up occasional flowers
throughout the year.

made by Mr. Burberry

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some time
ago, that importers ought to furnish
:

more information about the habitats of new Orchids than at present and this could easily be done without disclosing the localities where they grow, if these must sometimes be kept secret. It seems to be thought that because a plant is a Dendrobium
or an Oncidium, people will

know how
in a

to treat

it.

But

once found

New
in

Guinea Dendrobium resting

it:

Cool house with D. nobile, and the

treatment killed

Oncidiums, they grow almost from sea level the Tropics right up to the zone of Cool Odontoglossunis in the Andes.

and as

to

know what happened when Odontoglossums were grown in the stove, and what would befall Oncidium Lanceanum in the Cool house hence I fully endorse Mr. Burberry's remarks. The information would be much more
all
;

We

useful than that

sometimes furnished when

new

treiiul

is

distributed, to
it

which

have alluded on more than one occasion.

is

Happily

does some-

times appear from other soure.es, and

always welcome.

Several

times
in
I

lately

have called attention to the rapidly growing

of

confusion

the

names

hybrid

Orchids,

and also

suggested

remedy, and

note with pleasure that a correspondent of the Garden offers " During the last four years," Sielh remarks, " at similar suggestions.

500 new names have been added to the Cypripediums, and it is a question whether these are all sufficiently distinct. Take for example. C.
least

Ceres, C. Fascinator, C. Medea, and C. Marchioness of Salisbury, the result

of crossing C. Spicerianum and C. hirsutissimum.

it

Surely,

however distinct,

might have been considered that the original name of the cross, C. Charles

Richman, should have remained. My experience is that out of fifty plants obtained from the same pod of seed one could get, at the least, forty varieties, some with a few more spots and others a shade or two darker in colour.
Is this,

however, sufficient distinction to merit a new name

The Orchid

Committee seems to think so. I am quite aware of the difficulties under which the Committee are placed, but they have a code of rules which appear
to

be followed as

rules are

reference

much in the breach as in the observance. I believe the laid down that all exhibits shall be named in Latin, and a given to the botanist who has described the plant. This latter

part might certainly be cut out in respect to hybrids, for the

Kew

authorties

decline to deal with them, but in the case of species they are always willing
to render every assistance.
If

the Latin naming was strictly adhered to,

it

and unnecessary names. The Committee, by setting their faces against complimentary and useless names, such as Charles Canham, the Hon. Mrs. Astor, &c, would benefit all lovers of
would do away with
useless

Orchids."

Here

is

a promising addition to the ranks of our Rational Nomenclature

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I

League, and

readily forgive

him
I

for getting
I

little

mixed.

Indeed,

if I

touched Cypripediums often

Fascinator, and

fear

should get mixed myself.

I

Ceres,

Medea

areall right, but not the others. Still,

can furnish the

necessary illustration. C.

Charles Richman,
(or

Meteore,

X Leysenianum,

Francois Peeters, and

holds good

X Marchioness
all

Countess) of Salisbury (both

having been recorded), are

derived from C. barbatum and C. bellatulum.

The moral
names the
proper

all

the same,

though
if all

cannot quite endorse the

different

remark about the

result

Latin naming, for

had received

Latin

would have been

just the same.

My own

views that the

name of this hybrid is C. X Richmanii are already on record my readers may adopt them or not as they please and I consider all

the others either

synonymous

or varieties
all

only

the latter
test of

if

distinct

enough, but
side by side.
I

question whether

would stand the

being grown

endorse,

The remarks about complimentary names in the vernacular except when applied to florists' flowers and according to florists'
I

methods.
is

note with pleasure the i^Towan^ feeling against a system which

of hopeless confusion,

rapidly bringing our nomenclature into a state

and as the Review affords a medium for the publication of the results achieved by the hybridist. I hope to see a corresponding improvement in the
future.

CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE.
A
J.

series of a dozen flowers of Cypripedium insigne has been sent by Mr.

Coles from the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq.,

The Woodlands.
in

Streatham, to show the remarkable range of variation

11

the so-called

montanum " forms introduced by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. some time ago. They are cut from a house containing upwards of a thousand blooms. The numerous fine varieties which have appeared during recent years were enumerated in these pages a year ago (pp. S-n), when a series somewhat similar to the above came from the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury. The present series does not contain any of the named
forms previously mentioned, but shape and colour, and especially
it

shows

wide range of variation both

in

in

the size and arrangement of the spots.

One
in

large form has the dorsal sepal i\ inches broad,

in

and some of the spots

the centre are over J-inch

diameter.

Another smaller form has

few only along the centre the spots quite

numerous quite minute dots on the lower half, a being somewhat broader. A third, smaller still, has
confined to the base of the sepal, while,
the lower half of the the spots are large

minute and

in a fourth,

they are suffused over

same organ as a brownish stain. In another example and chiefly arranged along the centre. One rather bright

form, in which the petals and lip are rather dark, bears a two-flowered scape,

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and of the remainder no two are alike in the size and arrangement of the spots. The ground colour also shows a certain amount of variation. A fine photograph of the house above mentioned has since been sent by
Mr. Measures.
Several distinct forms also
Esq.,

come from

the collection of H.
large flower with

Gurney Aggs,
sixteenth-

Pippbrook, Dorking.

One

is

the disc of the

;i

dorsal sepal regularly covered with

numerous small dark spots

of-an-inch in diameter.

The white extends

at

scarcely a fourth of the distance

from the apex, and the spots

radiatum, the

the base are

somewhat
is

continent.

This

might be called variety punctatissimum.

markings being arranged

A second
in lines,

very near the variety

which

extend a

little

bejond the middle, and towards the base are also connected by transverse lines. A third has numerous rather large blotches very regularly arranged, which extend to within half-an-inch of the apex. A fourth variety is distinguished by the pale colour of the spnts. which are hardly as numerous as usual and of a light dusky brown. Four others are good, but less distinct
spotted forms.

A fine

variety called C.

i.

atratum, very nearly allied to the variety Bohn-

hofianum, has been sent from the collection of \V. M. Appleton, Esq., of

Weston-super-Mare.

It

has

a large basal

area wholly suffused with bright

brown, which, along the centre, almost reaches the white apex.
last-named varietv the green zone surrounding the brown
in
is

In the

broader than

the present one, and of uniform width.

very pretty form closely

approaching var. Chantini, but more closely spotted, also comes from the

same

collection.

A
Esq.,

very fine light yellow form from the collection of

W. Thompson,
It is

Walton Grange, Stone, has been

i.

sent by Mr. Stevens.

almost

identical with C.

Chantini
is

in

shape, with the dorsal sepal 2^ inches

broad, but the colour

quite, obliterated.

totally different, as the spots are almost,

though not
this
is

Several yellow forms are

now known, and

not

quite like anything

we remember

to have seen.

Mr. A. Dimmock, traveller for Messrs. Sander, writes that the finest collection of Cypripedium insigne in America is that at Rochester, New

York, brought together by the late Mr.

some

truly remarkable forms.

largely for cut flowers,

florist

W. S. in New

Kimball, which includes

York grows

this

species
in the
is

wry

and has probably the largest collection

It

world, and this season will be able to cut ten thousand flowers.
excellent

an

plant for this purpose, as the flowers are very durable, lasting
left

almost as long in an ordinary room as when

considered,
it is

on the plant.

All points

the best of autumn-flowering species, and the recent imporits

tations have given a great impetus to

culture.

THE ORCHID HFAlEl

NOTICE OF BOOK.
The Orchid Hybrids
:

Enumeration and

Classification of all hybrids

of Orchids.

By George Hansen. Jackson, Amador County,

London, Dulau
Carlstrasse.

California, 8vo., pp.257.

&

Co.,

Soho Square.

Berlin,

Friedlamder

&

Sohn,

same vocation. " While one man is engaged to prove the extent of this mundane sphere, another, his neighbour, is planting the potatoes, which serve as his food." Mr. Hansen has both proved his own existence and indicated his vocation or, at all
all

We

cannot

follow the

events, one of them, for he seems to

philosopher, and preacher,

all

in

combine the rale of historian, critic, one, though we can hardly undertake to

prove the assertion within the limits of a short notice.

For

this the reader

must go
its

to the

book

itself.

Indeed,

with the words, " First notice,"

contents.
title.

we might almost head our remarks were we to attempt a complete review of

however, will be readily inferred from

Its general character,

the

was

leeeivmg additions up to tne present time, un which can easily be imagined when he sorrowfully alludes to himself as one " who has not seen an Orchid for years." The first 75 pages consists of various introductory matters, and the remainder of an enumeration of the various hybrids known, forming altogether an encylopiedia of valuable information respecting hybrid Orchids. It is dedicated to Dr Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S.
It
is

"" UUUJ

of the work was collected in 1884, when the author actively engaged among the subjects of which he treats, and has been

The nucleus

to the latter part of the

work

that one

naturally turns for a

justification of its existence,

and we may at once say that with two rather important exceptions Mr. Hansen has done his work well. Taking Cypnpedium, for example (omitting Selenipedium, which is very properly
kept separate),

we
of

find over seventy pages

devoted to

it.

First

comes an

alphabetical

list

synonyms with
;

their equivalents (this

we should have

placed at the end)

;

then one of the species used in crossing, with the resulting hybrids and, finally, a list of the hybrids themselves. As to the information given, we may take the first hybrid raised as an example : "Calanthe Dominii, Lindl. (Masuca ? X furcata). Dominy,
for Veitch,

Exeter, G. Ch., 1858, i., p. 4. fg. Bat. Mg., t. Seed obtained 1854, 5042. flowered 1856." This is full and concise (though the "i" in G. C. reference is unnecessary, and one has to think a moment before discovering that "fg." means " fig."). And this leads us up to our first
little

grumble.

The

author

the great majority of cases uses this style of reference : " G. Ch., Oct. 23, '86" (Cattleya X calummata), O. R., Oct. '94" (Cattleya X Hardyana). If one wishes to turn up the original information he must
in

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cither search through the whole

number, or turn to the index, both of which involve a great waste of time, and the latter is not always successful, as we have frequently proved. If a reference is given, the page should
always be added.

The author
of
is

says, "

My

citations vary

from

the rules of botanists."

Let him at once disabuse his mind of this idea.

They are only the rules Our next objection

common

sense and convenience.

a strong one, for in his treatment of generic

hybrids the author has been particularly unfortunate.

He

observes

"

have handled the material on hand without creating any new names." We wish we could congratulate him. On the contrary, all the hybrids between
Cattleya and Ladia, which ever since 1887
are

we have

called Lselio-cattleya,
if

transferred to Catladia

Phaio-calanthe becomes Phalanthe (as

hybrid between Phalamopsis and Calanthe

is

wen

intended)

Sophro-cattleya
Brasso-cattleya

changed into Sophrolcya

anil

Zygo-colux into Zygolax.

for

also

becomes

Brassoleva,
is

and

Epicattleva
nearly
it

is

substituted Epileya.

Epiladia, however,

retained (note

how

resembles the preceding

word), as are also Epiphronitis, Sophroladia, and Habenariorchis.

result is over eighty

The

new names, which

are absolutely unnecessary, and Rolfe,"

in all of

even misleading.
described
?

Where, for example, is "Cathelia albanensis, And the same may be said of all the references given,

which the plants are mentioned under other names. The author elsewhere remarks, " If a cross has been given the name formed by combining the terms of his parents no matter whether it has .been done rightly or do not try wrongly accorded to botanic usage uphold the name

...

and re-christen it." It may be Mr. Hansen's opinion that some of the hybrid generic names might originally have been more abbreviated, but his

own remarks shonld have prevented the perpetration of six new generic, But if he must indulge in and over eighty new specific, synonyms. And if s and Haborchis ? abbreviation, notwithstanding, win not C p Ladio-cattleya is too long why stop at Catkelia, when Laeleva is so much
I
i

1 1 i

shorter

It fits

Epileya admirably, and the similarity to Ladia would give

no trouble to those who can appreciate the subtle difference between Sobralia and Sobraleya (to be mentioned presently). Then we get a batch of new names for supposed or reputed generic crosses, as Cysepedium (between Cypripedium and Selenipedium), Epidrobium (Epidendrum and Dendrobium), Odopetalum (Odontoglossum and Zygopetalum), Schombletia (Schomburgkia and Bletia), Sobraleya (Sobralia and Cattleya), Sophrovola (Sophronitis and Brassavola), Zygocidium (Zygopetalum and Oncidium), and Zygodendrum (Zygopetalum and
Dendrobium).
Respecting the
first

the author remarks

all

: "
I

If

propose to

order under this combination-name

those attempts at cross-fertilisation

of species of the genera Cypripedium and Selenipedium,

do not see why

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the fact that not one of all those attempts has ever produced a flowering plant should interfere with my proposal." take precisely the opposite view, and we think the very facts adduced should have prevented such a

We

proposal ever being made. Names should not be given to commemorate mere " attempts "-^and some are nothing more, for on flowering one or two of them have proved to be empty traditions. It is only when such plants actually flower that one can be certain that a bona fide cross has been

and only then should a name be given. Odopetalum is thus justified :" Seedlings raised by Veitch, of Chelsea, between Zygopetalum Mackayi and several Odontoglossa have turned out to be simple Zyg. Mackayi." Odopetalum is therefore simply Zygopetalum Mackayi. Can anything be more absurd ? Some of the other reputed crosses
effected,

The author alludes to" The attack clature by the French savant who committed the horrible Miltoniopsis (do not et us mention his name)." But we will desist, or we may discover the stick created by Mr. Hansen to beat himself with. We should, however,
ike to hear the
lines.

equally appantional.

may prove upon momen.

remarks of the French savant when reading these remarkable

matter, together

The introductory portion contains much interesting with some that is either personal or that has
matter of the book, and some of this ought to have-been omitted.
alluded to d,d space permit. pass unnoticed, and that is
ecic* in
tie

no relation to the subject we think would have better-indeed,

Some of the points we should like to have One remark, however, we cannot allow to
regard

where the author, in alluding to the Orchid very complimentary terms, makes an assumption with to

which there is not the slightest foundation, either in substance or fact, but which need not be mentioned further. In conclusion, we may add that apart from the points above mentioned Mr. ansen has produced a very valuable book, which
service to those
ot course, ,s not

initiation of that work, for

who

are in any

way

interested in

be of the greatest hybrid Orchids. This,

will

endorsing every

detail,

from the merits of a work which contains so useful a summary of the results attained by the hybridist, we only wish the author had not given us so much to object to. Had he accepted the " advice and guidance " which he alludes to with " pleasure," a good deal of it might have been avoided.

though we have no desire to detract

ERIA BIFLORA.
Although described
appear
1851 (Griff \tul Hi n ,,wr N ""-- <" p. 302) tin... nperfectK
in

"

r 1

1
!

1; 1

therefore interesting to nott

J.

Elwes, Esq., of Coles

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bourne, Gloucestershire.
is
It

n
Cylindrolobus, which

belongs to
tliree

tile

section

characterised by having two or

In
tile

coloured bracts at the base of the

very short recemes.

present species the bracts are orange-} ellow in

lone;,
is

colour, reflexed, and about three lines

and the (lowers whitish-yellow.

about
six incites high,

and of about the same

has been found both
at

size.

The
its

plant

and each
species

pseudobulb bears several of

short

two-flowered racemes.
in

The

Mergui,

in

Tenasserim, and

Sikkim.

R. A. R.

CYPRIPEDIUMS WITH IDENTICAL NAMES.

The
beginning of the year 1890 appears a suitable time to place before

your readers an "up-to-date" record of those Cypripediums and Selenipediums, which, though differing from each other, have received identical

names.

propose to
I

take them

alphabetically,

offering

explanatory-

remarks as

proceed.
there
are

To
C.

begin with,

two Cypripediums
S.
;

named Adonis, both

hybrids, one introduced by

Messrs. B.

Williams

&

Son, parentage

Spicerianum

C.

X Harrisianum 3
its

the other, generally

known
5

as Ingram's variety,

was exhibited before

318).

the Orchid

Committee by C.J,

Ingram, Esq..
Curtisii 3
(0.

in

September, 1893,

parents being hirsutissimum

It.. I., p.

The name album was

given by Aiton

in

1789 to a North American

Cypripedium, and on the 13th August, 1895, C. J. Ingram, Esq., showed a hybrid Selenipedium under the same name raised from S. X leucorrhodum !

and S. Schlimii 3 (0. pedium and the other

although the
latter are

A'.,

III., p. 287).

In this case, one being a Cypri-

a Selenipedium.

confusion

is

hardly likely to arise,

too frequently described under the

too,

name Cyprithe

pedium.

Mr.

Rolfe,

discards the

name album,

for

former,
I.,

restoring the
p. 268).

name

Reginae, as given by Walter a year earlier (0. R.,

Cypripedium X Alfred Bleu was described in the Kane Horticole as having for parents C. ciliolare S and C. insigne Chantini 3 (0. A' I., p. 93I, while another, C. X Alfred Bleu, with parentage C. X Crossianum
3, appears in the Gardeners Chrmkk (1895, Surely, a mistake of parentage in the latter case. In the Orchid Review, vol. I., p. 32S, you will find C.
?

villosum

i.,

p.

370).

amabile,

raised by

M. Alfred Bleu,

of Paris, from C.

X X

javanico-superbiens ? and
i.,

C. Hookers:
C.

3, while the Gardeners' Chronicle U895,

2

p.

370) records

X
C.

amabile (Page) as C. Boxallii

C.
I.

Dauthieri 3

Bellona
raised

is

name

given by R.
?

Measures, Esq., to one of his

,

hybrids,

from C. villosum

and C. Spicerianum 3

shown

in

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

(0.
A'.,
I.,

November, 1893
Citron., 1895,

p. 374), $

the cross from C. Spicerianum

L, p. 207).

and more recently by M. Jules Hye to and C. X Sallieri Hyeanum 3 (Card.

hybrid should return to
its original

This

latter

was exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Co., 26th Sept., 1893, as raised from C. tonsum ? and C. Spicerianum 3 (0. A'., I., p. 350), while another of the same name, but with parentage purpuratum KimballiCecilia

C.

anum

Spicerianum
(1895),

appears

in

E.

Bohnhof's Dictionnaire da

Orchidus

Hybrides

and also

in

one of Messrs. Charlesworth's

Catalogues for the same year.

Are there two distinct C. X Charles Goudoin's ? The Orchid Review (vol. I., p. 154) quotes one from the Orchidophilc (November, 1892, p. 337), and records the parents as C. X Harrisianum and C. insigne Chantini,
while Mr. Williams, in his Orchid Grower*' Manual (7th edition, p. 243), gives C.Charles Goudoin" a cross between C. insigne punctatum violaceum and C. x vernixium." Probably they are the same thing, and the record of

parentage doubtful.

by M. Moens (0. A'., II., p. 59), has for its parents C. Spicerianum ? and C. x vernixium 3 but C. X Claudi appears in Mr. E. Bohnhof's book as Spicerianum 3 X insigne Wallacei 3 There seems to be some confusion between the names C. X delicatum and C. X delicatulum. M. Jules Hye appears to have given the former name to a Spicerianum hybrid (Card. Chron., and 1894. II.,
,

C.

Claudii, raised

p.

728),

Messrs.
as C.

Lewis*

Co., of Southgate,

inform

me

that their hybrid exhibited

its

delicatum on October 14th, 1895, has for and C. barbatum, Warnerianum. Doubtless this
C.

parents C.
is

Dayanum

last

identical with

delicatulum, Rchb.

f.

The name Eurydice seems

to have found favour with hybridists, there

being no less than three Cypripediums so named. First we have C. X Eurydice, from C. X Leeanum superbum 3 and hirsutissimum 3 of M. Ch. Vuylsteke (0. A., II., p. 61) then one of Continental origin from C. Boxalln S and Spicerianum 3 (Card. Chron., 1895, i., p. Ig9 ), and, lastly, one from C. Hooker* 3 and C. Spicerianum 3 of American origin (Card. Chron., 1895, -, 550).
, ,

P-

again a case of Cypripedium and Selenipedium, the former being from C. philippinense S and ciliolare 3, or the reverse cross to C. x Alfred Hollington, the latter from S. X cardinale ? and S.
it is

With Finetianum

caudatum 3 (0. R., III., p. 102). C. X Gibezianum appears as venustum S X villosum 3 according to Ltndema (t. 425), and as villosum ? x insigne 3 in the Gardeners' hromdc 1895, 1., p. 370). Doubtless the same thing, but with parentage
(

not strictly recorded.

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13

We

next

come

to

a Cypripedium and a

Selenipedium each
?

named

giganteum, the former from CXSallieri

3 (0. R.,
S.
I.,

Hve.umm

and C.

X Harrisianum

p. 316),

and the

latter

from S. caudatum Uropedium s and

X grande 3 (0. R., III., p. 77). The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society

ivol.

WTL.

p. ccxlvi.)

records

Cypripediiun

gloriosum

from C.

insigne

Chantini
p.

and C.

Io

grande 3, and the Gardeners' Chronicle 11N95, i.. name attributed to Hye from C. Lawrenceanum
Again we come
America, on
tile

JooHias one of the same

and C.
viz.

X
:

Harrisianum 3

to

name which
in

has been chosen by hybridists

in

Continent, and

our

own

island,
in 5

Hebe.

Two
(I.,

are
p.

in all probability the

same, the one recorded

the Orchid Review

319)

as

from C. Hookcne
I.,

Measuresianam

ami C. Lawrenceanum 3
ii.,

(0. R.,

p. 319),

and that of the Gardeners

?

Chronicle 11X94,
,

p.

318),

from C. Volonteanum

and C. Lawrenceanum 3 both coming from K. The American C. X Hebe is, however, quite distinct, I. Measures, Esq. being from C. Spicerianum 2 and C. Stonei 3 (0. R., I., p. 119), while '' Spicerianum and that of M. Jules Hye-Leysen is said to be derived from
.

C.

X
C.

Sallieri (0. R., III., p. 27).

X Hera

received a First-class Certificate in 1892, being derived from

,

C.
to

X Leeanum s and C. Boxallii 3 but the name was afterwards changed C. X Adrastus, under which new name it was Certificated in 1894. A
J

hybrid from C. Spicerianum

of R. H. Measures, Esq.,

and C. villosum 3

raised in the collection

was previously named C. X Hera by Mr. Rolfe

(Gard. Citron., 1890,

i.,

p. 105).

C.

X Hermione was

the

name chosen
.

for

my

seedling from C. Spicer-

ianum $ and C. barbatum Warneri 3 and the same name was given by M. Jules Hye at a later date to one of his batch of seedlings from C. Spicerianum 2 and C. X Sallieri Hyeanum 3 [Card. Chron., 1895, i p.
207).

With regard X Eyermanianum

to the
var.

first, I

am
C.

content to adopt the nomenclature C.

(0.

Hermione

R.,

should

undoubtedly be written

22K while the second aureum, or C. X aureum var.

II.,

p.

Hermione.
C.

Horneri was raised in the collection of Colonel Marwood from C.

Boxallii ?

and C. Argus 3

(0. R.. vol.

II.,

p.

80),

and Messrs. Charles-

worth, of Bradford, have

C. Argus

in their

catalogue for 1895 C.

is

Horneri from

villosum, evidently a mistake, as this

the parentage of C.

Bum named x 5eleni] have on my list five Cypripediums an hybridum, and I record them here, although I scarcely think hybridum should be used as a specific name. We have C. X hybridum from villosum C. X hybridum 2 X barbatum 3 (Will. Orch. Gro. Man., ed. 7, p. 266) from C. Stonei S and C. barbatum 3 (Gard. Chron., 1895, i., p. 201) and
I
: ;

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4
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,

three mentioned

Mr. E. Bohnhofs Dktimmirc (1895) fromC. Boxallii? and C. insigne Chantini 3 C. Boxallii ? and C. Spicerianum 3 and from
,

Haynaldianum ? and C. Spicerianum 3 The Selenipedium is from S. caudatum roseum 9 and S. X conchiferum 3 and was raised by Messrs. Sander (p. K., I., p. 326). [Curiously enough, none of these is the original C. X hybridum, figured and described in November, 1875 (Fl. Mag., n. s.,t. 187) as a Veitchian hybrid, derived from C.barbatum 2 and C. Stonei 3 Soon afterwards it was described under the more suitable name of C. X euryandrum (Card. Chrm., 1875, ii., p. 772), under which it
C.
,
.

-Ed.]

KlMNAI.I) YoiNG.

STANHOPEA WARDII VENUSTA.

Two
remarkably
fine

plants of Stanhopea Wardii have flowered in the

collection of E. A. Bevers,

Esq., of Oxford, of which photographs and

to Lindley's variety venusta, char-

flowers have been sent.

They belong The

acterised by uniformly deep orange-yellow flowers, the dark blotches

on

the

hypochil having vanished.

had three racemes, each bearing ten flowers, and the other two racemes with the same number of flowers. A third has also bloomed well. They were purchased last spring at a sale
best plant

of plants, of the late Mr. Boton, of Tew Park, being turned out of a Vinery with various ordinary plants. If one may judge by their vigour, the situation

must have suited them

striking plants,

admirably.

Stanhopeas are
rloriferous,

undoubtedly very

and

if

well

grown very

though the flowers are

unfortunately rather fleeting.

collections,

and deserve

a little

They are. however, included in many more attention than they receive at present.

BRASSIA LEWISII.
It appears that this pretty
little
is

species,

which

flowered

with

Messrs.

W.

L.

Lewis

&

Co., in

1893,

a native of the

Amazon

district, for a

Brassia which has flowered in the collection of John \V. Arkle, Esq., of West Derby, Liverpool, proves identical, and of this Mr. Arkle states that it was imported from the Rio Negro district with a lot of Cattleya luteola, C. Eldorado, and Galeandra Devoniana, The original record was : " Its exact habitat is not known, but the plants were purchased from .nan who
a

collected
(Sfira,
I.,

them when searching

p.

for

Cattlevas,

and who has since died

This definite information is very interesting. It is a graceful little plant, and Mr. Arkle remarks that the pseudobulbs are four mches long by one inch broad, and not thicker than a paper-knife.

IQO ).

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THE HYBRIDIST.
Another
raceme.
pretty
little

hybrid from

Cattleya

Bowringiana has appeared

Laelio-cattleva

in

Messrs. Veitch's establishment, of which

we have

received a two-flowered

The

pollen parent

was a form of

elegans,

and

the hybrid

is said to

be quite intermediate between the two parents.

is

The
all

flower most resembles the seed parent, a peculiarity which the hybrids from this species.

seen in

The

sepals

and petals are z\ inches long,

and the
is is

latter J-inch broad,

the colour being bright rose-purple.

The

lip

rather closely rolled round the short column, but on being flattened out seen to be distinctly, though not very strongly, thtve-lobed. The front
is

half

rich crimson-purple, of a tint closely resembling the pollen parent,

and the centre of the disc bears

each side lobe
strong
will
is

several similar lines, while the base of

little

white.

It is

a very pretty

plant,
is

and when

it

becomes
both the

probably bear numerous flowers, as

the case with

parents.

CYPRIPEDIUM X
This
is

Amksi.i:.

a large

gardener to

and very pretty hybrid raised by Mr. W. Robinson, Mrs. F. L. Ames, from C. tonsum ? and C. Fairieanum 3

from
for

have received a flower through Mr. A. Dimmock, traveller Messrs. F. Sander & Co.. who has just returned from the States. It is
in

whom we

quite intermediate in structure, though

colour

it

most resembles the

seed parent.

The

dorsal

sepal

is

broadly ovate-orbicular, 2 1 inches long

by 2 inches broad, and bears about twenty-one narrow purple-brown stripes on a light ground. The petals are deflexed. undulate. z\ inches long, and
very similar in colour, except that the nerves are
less

distinct

and bear a

few small spots on the

2

disc.

The

lip is

most

like C.
;

Fairieanum. but

inches long, and suffused with light purple-brown

It is

while the staminode

list

most resembles the other parent. of C. Fairieanum crosses.

an interesting addition to the

Cypripedium X Calypso yar. Armstkongiantm.

This very handsome hybrid was raised
in

the collection of C.

Winn,
J

Esq., Selly Hill, Birmingham, from Cypripedium Boxallii atratum

,

and

C. Spicerianum magnificum 3 and thus is the reverse cross of the original C. X Calypso, which, however, has been several times recorded under
different

names.
is

The
with

present form

has the general shape of the original

one, but

markedly

different in

having the greater part of the dorsal sepal

purple.

strongly suffused

reddish

The

rest

of

the flower

most

resembles C. Spicerianum. the petals being undulate and much spotted at the base, though darker in colour, the lip also darker, and the staminode

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

puce-purple, with slightly paler margin and deep yellow

Cypripedium x Symondsi.c.
hybrid from the collection of H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence, another of the batch which unfortunately lost their labels in the
little

very pretty

from Castagnola. It is, however, precisely intermediate between C. venustum and C. purpuratum, and, as Mr. Ross verywell remarks, is evidently derived from these two species. The dorsal sepals have almost the shape of the latter, but is very little reflexed at the sides, and has about fifteen green nerves on a white ground. The petals

transfer of the Orchids

combine the characters of the two parents, being purple with a slightly brownish hue, except at the greenish base, and with numerous dark purplebrown spots on the basal half, as seen in C. purpuratum. They are also
well

neatly ciliate.

C.

The lip and staminode also bear much resemblance to purpuratum. The characters of C. venustum are apparent enough

modified details of the flower, and are probably more apparent in the foliage, which we have not seen. It is a very pretty little plant, and is dedicated by request to Miss Margaret Symonds, eldest daughter of
in the

Mr. John

Addington Symonds.

AN AMATEUR'S NOTES.
The
Calanthes
still

maintain a good show, though some of the earlier ones

are getting over.

Cypripedium insigne,
still

too,

is

past

its best,

though some

and the hybrids maintain a good show, C. X Leeanum being one of the most effective. But the plant of the month par excellence is Ladia anceps, of which a series of white and several coloured varieties impart quite a gay appearance to the house. A good plant of L. autumnalis and another of L. x Gouldiana are also veryperfect,
effective.

of the later ones are

The
out,

chaste and beautiful

little

Masdevalli;

now coming

and some of the old scapes, which were not cut off, are flowering well as the new ones. The fine old Zygopetalum intermedium is expanding, and one of the most striking plants in the house, besides being deliriously fragrant, and of the easiest possible culture. Odontoglossum Rossii and O. pulchellum are now expanding, while quite a number of
other things are showing signs of renewed activity. With the gradually lengthening days which will soon be upon us an increasing variety of interesting things will require our attention.

Amateur.

THE ORCHID REVIEW. CYPRIPEDIUM x SIAMENSE.

The
group figured to-day
is

17

a particularly interesting one, representing the

natural hybrid Cypripedium

of the last

siamense (whose history was given at p. 20 volume), together with its two parents. In 1889 Messrs. Veitch
aspect of being a natural hybrid between

wrote" No Cypripedium havingthe

species"
(Man., IV.,
p.

two recognised species has ever yet appeared among importations of the
70),

but at

the

present

time

four

such

are

known, C. X Littleanum and C. X Kimballianuin having appeared last year. C. X siamense (fig. 1) originally appeared in the collection of R. H.
Measures, Esq., of Streatham,
in 1888,

among

plants of the original importa-

Fig

2. C. CALLOSUM.

callosum var. sublasve [Card. Chnm.. 1888. i.. p. 5511. remarking " It might be supposed to be a natural hybrid, but I do not believe it M. Regnier would have brought the other species." A year later it appeared with M.J.
. . .

Garden, of Paris, and

suspected.

ndependently described under

9,
i.,

its

present

name

(Rolfe, in Card. Ckrtm.,

p. 192), its

hybrid origin not then being

ce of these facts afterwards

Subsequen

lants appeared in other collections, generally

unexpectedly

came

out

among C. callosum. The when Messrs. Hugh Low &

sign

Co.
ii

duced another species

in

quantity, together with C. callosum.

In

plant flowered out of this

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

its

importation, which Messrs. Low, without knowing

name, considered

might be a natural hybrid between the two species in question, and the subsequent identification of this plant with C. siamense put the whole matter in a totally new light. The accompanying illustration is reproduced
from a photograph taken by Mr. l'Anson, and shows how well the characters of the two very distinct parents are combined in the hybrid, which is fairly
intermediate in character.

We may

now

ask some of our hybridists to

demonstrate experimentally what must be obvious to every one. The experiment of crossing these two species together would be at once very
simple and very interesting.

C. callosum
1885, by

(fig. 2) is

a well-known plant, introduced from Siam,

in

M. Regnier, of
in

Paris,

and was described

ii.,

in

the following year

(Rchb. f

Card. Chron., 1886,

p. 326).

It is

closely allied to C. bar-

batum and C. Lawrenceanum, but is readily distinguished by its falcate petals, and different foliage. C. Appletonianum (fig. 3) is the mysterious second parent whose
absence probably prevented Reichenbach from guessing the truth about what he called C. callosum var. sublaeve, and in any case his remark above cited is suggestive. Its original' appearance is uncertain, and it would be interesting to learn whether M. Regnier did not actually obtain it in his
original importation of C. callosum.

was said to differ in the flowers, and in the absenceof tessellation in the leaves. It was described as C. Appletonianum (Gower, in Garde,,, 1893, i., p. 95), afterwards becoming C. Bullenianum var. Appletonianum (Rolfe, in Orel,. Rev., I., p. 135). It is
it

forms out of this keeping ? The earliest record appears to be in 1893, when a plant flowered in the collection of W. M. Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare, said to have been introduced with C. Hookers, from which

Did no one flower supposed poor importation which possibly were thought not to be worth

probable that the recorded origin of this plant is erroneous. At all events it has been introduced in quantity by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., from Siam, together with C. callosum. C. Poyntzianum (O'Brien, in Gard. Chron., 1894, 1, p. 36), which appeared in the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., of Liverpool, is identical, and also appeared among imported plants of C. callosum (Orel,. Rev., II., p. m.,
54,

5J)

The botamca

stat| s
,

)f

thls

plant

,s

little

uncertain.

The

flowers are
to

very similar to those of the

Bornean C. Bullenianum. owing

which
as at

it

was made a variety of

it,

yet

the leaves are remarkably different, and as the an aberrant form of C. Bullenianum,

new

facts

show

that

it is

not

first

a closely allied species, or what is often termed a subspecies. A question of this kind can never be decided without a full knowledge of the facts, and a comparison with the allied forms. The leaves closely resemble C. callosum. The staminode is small, and the incurved
it

seems to be to consider

supposed, the best course


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apex of the dorsal
is

,9
is

peculiar.

The

inflorescence

occasional^

two-

flowered, as in the present example.

Thus

the history of this group of plants

is

is

particularly interesting,
it

and

if

the last-named

not of great decorative value

('.

should find a place in

all

representative collections.

the dorsal sepal, especially,

plant.

is

x siamense most resembles this parent, but much modified and it is a more attractive
:

All three usually flower in the winter or early spring.

THE SPOT DISEASE OF ORCHIDS.

A very important paper on the above disease, by Mr. G. Massee, of Kew, appears in the last number of the Annals of Botany (vol. ix.. pp. 421-429,
t.

which the vexed question of its origin is set at rest. Allusion was made to the matter at page 130 of our last volume, but it now appears that the disease is not due to a fungus, as was then supposed, but to causes which to a great extent are under the control of the cultivator. The
15), in

investigation

was

at

first

commenced with

the

preconceived idea that a

fungus was the cause of the mischief, but when various experiments had
failed to

demonstrate

its

existence a search was

made

for bacteria,

and with

like results.

Efforts were then

made

to induce the disease in healthy plants

by inoculation with the expressed juice from diseased spots, but with no

more
It

success,

and

this

was accepted
'

as evidence that the

malady was of

non-parasitic origin.

has often been contended that

spot

'

was due

to atmospheric con-

and Mr. Watson now suggested a sudden chilling of the plants as a probable cause. Experiments were therefore made with a view of testing this. A plant of Habenaria Susann;e. perfectly free from spot, which had been growing in a temperature of 75 to 8o F., was covered with a bellglass, on which cold water from a tap was allowed to flow for twelve hours.
ditions,

during which time the temperature under the glass ranged between 41" and

45

F.

Some minute

particles of ice

on one occasion had

first

been placed

upon the upper surface of the

drops of water.

leaves,

and on a

later

one some minute

Twenty-four hours

after

the experiment microscopical

examination showed that wherever a minute drop of water had been

whether formed by melting of the

appeared, showing
all

particle of ice or

not a

diseased spot
'

the microscopic characteristics of true

spot,' but

wherever the leaf remained dry no such damage was observed. These spots were examined at intervals, and within four days every phase of the disease

was observed.

Additional experiments showed that

a fall of at

least
'

F.

from the previous average was required to induce the formation of spot,' and consequently that plants previously grown in a high temperature were the

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One
other cause of irregularity in the appearance of the

most susceptible.

spots proved to be the relative

amount of moisture in the plants, those saturated with water being much more readily affected than those comparaThese
results

tively dry.

were corroborated

in

the garden, both with the

and with some species of Satyrium, which became affected with spot when a spell of cold weather succeeded the excessively hot weather of the early summer.
in question,
' '

Habenaria

The
At
first

disease

first

surface of the leaf,

appears in the form of minute pale spots on the upper sometimes few and scattered, at others more numerous.

they are not conspicuous, and likely to escape observation unless specially looked for, but they soon assume a pale brown colour, and gradually
increase in size, sometimes becoming confluent. The tissues are completely disorganised, and owing to the collapse of diseased cells beneath the epidermis the surface of the spot becomes somewhat depressed.

Mr. Massee's summary

is

practically as follows

:-The Orchid

disease

of non-parasitic origin, the initial cause being the presence of minute drops of water on the surface of the leaves at a time when the temperature is exceptionally low and the roots copiously supplied with water. The effect of the chill produced by the drops of water under the above conditions is to cause disorganisation of the cells of the leaf underlying the drops, and the disappearance of the chlorophyll, which is followed by the precipitation of tannin and other substances, forming a globular sphere
is

known

as

'spot'

and eventually the complete disintegration of the cells. It is mainly caused by the three following conditions :-(l) too high a temperature, (2) too much water and not sufficient air in contact with the roots, and (3) watering or spraying with a falling instead
cell,

in

each

of a rising temperature.

shows the appearance of the diseased tissues, and the spheres within the cells which were at first mistaken for the vegetative phase of a
plate

The

species of Plasmodiophora.

Thus

it

would appear that the malady

is

of a totally different nature to

the Vanilla disease (Supra., III., page 51), which is a true parasitic fungus. On the diseased tissue known as spot,' a saprophytic fungus is sometimes found, but as it is incapable of obtaining a footing on a healthy leaf it
'

be settled
to the

of the above will be obvious to everyone, and Orchid growers will be grateful to Mr. Massee for the light he has thrown on this muchdebated question. It makes all the difference to know whether we have an infectious d 1S ease to deal with, or whether it is only a question of maintaining a healthy atmosphere by careful stoking, ventilating, watering, and damping down, especially in the early part of the year. A point now remaining to
is

The moral

whether
cause.

all

the spot-like diseases of Orchids can be assigned

same


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NOVELTIES.
Dendrobium curvtflorum,
Aporum, with unusually
in 21

Rolfe.-

species belonging to tbe

J.

section

large flowers,

which flowered with Mr.

O'Brien

October, 1892.

The

flowers are white,

with a faint suffusion of pink

on the back of the

terminating
It is

sepals,

and

a in

yellow line
front.

in

deeper blotch
.1

down the centre of the lip. They measure \\ inches lone;.

1895, p. 281.

believed to be

native of Sikkim.
i

/\7<c Bull.,

Cirrhopetai-UM comi'ac CM. Rolfe. A small species with pale strawcoloured flowers, which bloomed at Kew in September last. It was found at Panga. in Tenasserim. and was sent by Mr. C. Curtis, of the Forest
Department, Penang.Kew Bull., 1805, p. 281. Tkias vitrina, Rolfe. An interesting addition
genus, whose history
pale
is

to this singular
a

little

ah ntical with the preceding. The sepals an of

allusion

very

shining

green

in

to

which the name

is

given

and the

Hull.. 1895, p. 282. and lip are marked with reddish brown. CoiLOGYNE Veitchii, Rolfe. A native of Western New Guinea, introduced by Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, through their collector. Burke.

petals

Km

It

received a First-class Certificate from the

Royal Horticultural Society

in

August
in

last.

The

flowers are pure white, without any markings,

and are

borne

long pendulous racemes.

AVtc

Bull.. 1895, p, 282.

Polystachva KlKKtl. Rolfe. A di>tinct little plant sent from the Mombasa district by Sir John Kirk. It flowered at Kew in June, 1894, and during
the present year.
It is allied to P. lip is

Lawrenceana, Kranzh.andbearsawhitish
light purple.

green flower whose

p. 282.

margined with
Rolfe.

Kcv. Bull., 1895.

1

Lueddemannia TRILOBA,

Afinespecies of this remarkable.cvnus.

latter occasion receiving a First-class

which flowered in the collection of and again in November, on the

Certificate.

Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in July last,

The

flowers are deep yellow, with

some reddish brown markings

reddish purple on the sepals.
differs

at the base of the lip.

It

and

;i

light >uffu>ion of

was sent from the Andes by Mr.

F. C.

Lehmann, and

from the
p.

two previously known

Card. Chrtm., 1895,
ii.

in the details of the

p. 713, fig. 118.

lip. Kew Bull.. 1895,

283

Catasetim uxcatum,

Rolfe.

A species introduced with Cattleya labiata.

in several collections.
It is allied to

from Pernambuco, which has flowered

half as long as the sepals

C. albovirens, Rodr., and has bright green flowers, the lip being galeate and

and petals, and the apex curved. Both sexes have appeared with Messrs. F. Sander & Co.Kew Bull., 1895, p. 283. Catasetum apertum, Rolfe. A species allied to the Ecuadorean C. macroglossum, Rchb. f., which flowered in the collection of Sir Charles Strickland, Bart., Hildenley, Malton, in September, 1S94, and again a year


22
later.

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The
sepals
lip

and petals are

light

apple-green with a few minute brown

spots,

and the

yellmvish green, densely spurted and suffused with

warm

shining brown. Habitat not known.

introduced Scelochilus carinatus, Rolfe. from the Andes by Mr. F. C. Lehmann, and flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in September last. The sepals are light yellow, the petals maroon purple with a white margin, and the lip whitish with maroon-purple blotch at the base of the reflexed limb. Kew Bull.,
1895, p. 284.

Kew Bull., 1895, p. 284. An interesting little plant,

Saccolabium hainanense, Rolfe. Closely allied to the Himalayan S. gemmatum, Lindl., but with broader flat leaves. It was introduced from Hainan by the Rev. B.C. Henry, and was sent from the Hongkong Botanic Garden to Kew. where it flowered in March last. The petals and dorsal sepal
are lilac-purple, and the rest of the flower white.

Kac

Bull.. 1895, p. 284.

CULTIVATION OF ODONTOGLOSSUMS.
Much
to

has been said with regard to the cultivation of Odontoglossum

its varieties
;

cnspum and

and perhaps a few notes

will

be acceptable, as
a

my

practice at Arddarroch.

We

received an importation of 4,000 plants

of O. crispum here in April, 1894, and most of

them were potted up

in

mixture of polypodium-fibre and sphagnum moss in equal proportions, the material being chopped up with a chaff-cutting machine. The larger plants

were put into as small pots as convenient for the size of the plants, and the smaller ones placed in a bed of the same material. They were placed in a house facing north and south, the former being placed on an open stage, well up to the glass, which I find a great advantage to all Orchids, especially

Odontoglossums.

they were watered very sparingly, only receiving a thorough soaking once in four weeks, but were syringed over-head on fine days until the pots were filled with roots afterwards only receiving water
first
;

At

when thoroughly

dry.

Under

this

treatment

find

they thrive satisfactorily.

As regards the potting of established plants, I do not bind myself to any hard and fast rule. I like to pot a plant when it needs potting, but just after it commences to grow as it is then sending forth its new roots. September and October I find the most suitable months for this operation,
;

as

it

is

then

when most

of the plants are starting to grow, and they then

have timetoestablish themselves before the hot sun appears.

in potting

Odontoglossums

in spring, for

find that

do not believe disturbing them at the

I

roots at that time of the year is hurtful to the plants, as they have no time to get re-established before the hot weather sets in. The material I find best for established plants is good peat and sphagnum moss in equal pro-

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portions,

23
is

mixed

in

the above way.

Polypodium
I

fibre

all

very well for

imported plants, but

for established plants

perfer

good

peat.
:

After being potted they are

very carefully

watered
I

giving

them

;i

thorough good soaking, and no more

until quite dry.

rind over-watering

very injurious to these plants, especially after potting, and during the winter

months, when, the outside atmosphere being damp, they do not dry up the

same

as in

summer

time,

when more
at the roots,

air

and
is

light

is

given.

At that time
is

they need a good supply

and a thorough good soaking

a thing
I

given
I

on each occasion.
have found
it

Feeding with manure

do not

practice, as

no advantage.
is
:

Damping down
is

done very
as
I

carefully,

and during the winter months

is in

it

ceased altogether

find the

watering of the plants gives sufficient

about four or
five

moisture until wateringtime comes round again, which

days.

During the summer time they

get a

thorough damping down each

morning, except on wet days when the outside airis charged with moisture,

and on hot days tiny are doused over-head about two p.m. with " Stott's fertilizing sprayer," which I find a very useful thing in Orchid houses. I give plenty of air, both top and bottom, during the summer, both night and day, and in winter our bottom ventilators are seldom closed, except in severe weather, when the cold wind is blowing strong, and on a very mild day the top ones are open too. find OdontoI
glossums enjoy plenty of
In regard to shading,
air.

we

use the ordinary tiffany blinds on rollers.

We
down

commence

to

shade about the middle of February, but as the season

tiffany
I
is

advances the ordinary

not sufficient to keep the temperature

on hot sunny days, and

in the

like to
<>f

put a good coating of white-wash on the

glass about the beginning

Jum\ leavingthe roller blinds up a little later morning and drawing them up a little earlier in the afternoon. This
is

whitening
sufficient

washed
until

off

again in September, after which the blinds give

off at the

shade

they are taken

in use
trial to

end of October.
I

As

to the

lath blinds

which are

on the Continent and other places,

form any definite opinion
I
:

have not

given them sufficient

having only tried

them

at the

end of

last season.

think, however, that they will prove to be

a great acquisition.

As regards temperature.

try in

summertime
it

to

keep as near to 60
fall

Fahr.

as possible in the day-time, allowing

,

at night to

to 55

but in winter-

time 55 by day, and 50 at night, excepting on severe nights, when I do not mind it falling down to 45 providing the atmosphere is kept dry. Odontoglossums are subject to a good many pests, the worst being
.

yellow thrip

but

have no

difficulty in
I

keeping

it

down by

the frequent

use of " Campbell's fumigators," which

have used

for the last three years.

For the

last

two years we have not had a

single thrip

on any of our plants,

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

which we grow about 20.000, but before using " Campbell " they gave great
I

trouble.

have often seen another pest

in

the form of a fungus, which

attacks the under part of the leaves and turns them yellow, but the frequent use of "Veitch's Chelsea blight," applied with a sponge, keeps it down.

mixture of soot and lime thrown about the house once a month, have proved a great help.

Failure in the growing of Odontoglossums in my opinion is due to overwatering, too much moisture in the atmosphere during cold weather, and

not sufficient shading in summer.

G. Roberts.
Arddarroch, Gareloch Head, N.B.

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR JANUARY.

Bv H. A. Burberry, Highbury, Moor Green, Hirmingham. have now entered upon another year, and let us hope a most successful one to Orchid cultivators, to the Orchid Review, to importers and collectors, and, in fact, to all interested in the Orchid world. The temperatures should be allowed to remain as advised for last month,

We

The Cool House. Day,

50
;

with sun, 60"

without sun, 50 to 55

night,

morning, 45 to 50

with sun, 65 to 70 without sun, 6o night, 58 to 6o morning, 55 to 58 The Warm Hous E .-Day, with sun, 70= to 75 without sun, 65 to 70 mght, 60 to 65 morning, 6o. Attend well to the atmospheric conditions of each department, as it is a mDst important matter, especially at this time of year, when the outside
; ; ;

The Intermediate Houses. Day,

conditions are often

indicated above
is

so variable.

Observe that the degree of warmth

maintained as nearly as possible, and use these figures as a guide. It is not possible, of course, to always do so exactly, nor is it absolutely necessary. The thermometer will fluctuate a few degrees, higher or lower, and this will do no harm in fact, it occurs in a state of nature.
;

Do

not

let

the atmosphere

become too moist or stagnant, and, on

the

other hand, avoid excessive drought. When much fire heat is required, the air, and the plants also, are apt to become too dry if not watched, and the tendency counteracted by a judicious application roots
'of

and about the house. Generally speaking, once a daj will suffice for damping down this month, but on certain mild damp dav's ,. will be better no to do so at all. Where the hygrometer is in use it should show from one to two degrees of evaporation in the coolest houses before damping the paths, and in the uther departments two or three degrees.

water

,,,

the

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Let
it

25

be borne in mind that spot,

rot,

and other forms of decay are

likely to

supervene

if

the conditions are too wet, and at the

same time

cold, therefore avoid such

conditions

if

possible.

use the latter phrase

advisedly, for well do

know

that in spite of the utmost endeavours of the

is

mostpainstakingpersons.it

not always possible to steer quite clear of

in

those unsuitable conditions which favour the development of disease

some form or another.

appear
to

There are many

matters,
but

details in

management which may

claim the
hours

be

trifling

which,

notwithstanding,

attention of the most careful culvators. and often, too. at

when most
it

of the world

is

asleep.

It is

a great thing to
it,

know

the exact cause of spot,

to escape

and the conditions which induce

altogether.

but

it

is

no easy matter

The

best safeguards are to have houses built and heated on

strict

the most approved principles, coupled with

and never-failing attention.

in

Drip from the

roof,

sudden

falls

of temperature, and water on the leaves

cold weather must be studiously avoided.

The

question regarding ventilation at

this

season

is

rather a delicate
will

one, which

must not be spoken of

at

random.

Everything

depend

upon the structure of the house. It can safely be said that if there are spaces through which the air can pass, through the over -lapping glass not
fitting

closely, or

by any other means, the ventilators

;

will scarcely

be

in

request this

month

in fact there
If,

is

a likelihood at times of having too

built.

much
it is

air

without them.

on the other hand, the houses are closely

frequently advantageous to admit air through the bottom ventilators,

in a larger or

smaller volume according to the mildness of the weather.

The
side

top ventilators should also be used in the Cool house on the leeward

when

the outside temperature

the pipes to temper the fresh air

air is the life

not below 45 maintaining warmth in and to produce a better circulation. Fresh

is
,

and soul of these

is

plants,

but be careful just now, especially

is

when
At

leaving for the night, for the weather

apt to change suddenly before

of a good thing.

morning

and

it

better not to have too

much even

this season

the year just

we may perhaps just review the successes and failures ot Each year has its lessons, and something will have passed.
I

been learnt and added to our experience.

can

safely say that

have had

another proof of the truth of the old saying that we should leave well alone. It came about by removing our Phalamopses from their accustomed place,
but the result
little

was not

satisfactory,

and they are now re-instated

thing
is

in their

hot,

span-roofed

house.

The same

now unavoidably

happening to the Barkerias, which, owing to building operations, were removed from their sunny position in a lean-to, and their appearance is not so smart as formerly. Barkerias will only grow well when suspended fully
exposed to the sun and syringed copiously when growing, but
season they should be kept very dry.
at this resting

We never could get

Miltonia spectab-

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ilis

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

and M.
s.

Moreliana to grow

freely

and look happy

until they were

for

transferred to the East Indian house, which proves to be the best place

them.

We

have

still

main' conquests to make.

For example, Oncidium

Phalamopsis a sweetly neat and pretty species does not grow well, and if any kind friend would say how to succeed with it, he v/ould not only have

my

best thanks, but

It
is

believe of

many

other readers of the Orchid Review

likewise.

species

happens sometimes that the proper cultivation of a certain If a plant which has discovered more by accident than design.
to
cultivate

proved

difficult

should

suddenly

improve,

the

differences
experi-

between the old and the new treatment should be noted, and further

ments followed.
in

few, or more, plants in delicate health are to be found

is

every collection, and the cause often

to.

that

not understood or not attended

find out,
plants,
if

If the

some simple want is either former, the best method is to

possible,

the right place and the proper treatment for such

and then they may recover and grow strong. Proofs are not wanting that the simple open woodwork staging is to be preferred to that which is closely constructed, and the air thus prevented from circulating freely between and round the plants. Of course, with open stages a little more time is spent in damping down, and the plants also dry more quickly,
but
I

think most growers will agree with

necessarily dry quickly.

me

that an Orchid, to

grow

well,

must

The chief work this month will be to keep the plants healthy, by giving them as much light as possible, by keeping the temperature and atmosphere
as
genial

and pure as circumstances

will

admit, and by

paying

great
to to

attention to cleanliness, and freeing the plants from the numerous pests which they arc liable. In other words, I may say the best work to do is

maintain intact the vigour which the plants already possess, and be content. must not expect free growth in these short dark days when the internal

We

atmosphere, do what mistake to try to force

we
it,

will, is

more

or less vitiated,

and

it

is

a great

either byrepotting or an over exciting temperature.

at rest.

Many

Orchids should

now be

Speaking of repotting, there are a few which may now be proceeded with. The first are the Pleiones, which have passed out of bloom. These should never go longer than two years without be being done. They may

grown
light.

in pots, or

suspended
latter,

be attained with the

shallow pans, but success is most likely as Pleiones are very partial to an abundance
in

to of

chopped sphagnum moss and peat, well HK" in equal proportions, and add a little loam and silver sand. In this amp"*' plant the bulbstaking great lea"j care not t injure the new rqots

Employ

a mixture of

about an

inch

space

between

each bulb, and securing them

in

their

position firmly

by means of small pegs. half below and half above the compost.

When
The

be bulbs should finished the

crocked receptacles should be

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2;

with clean broken pots, so as to leave room for about two inches of compost, which is sufficient. Do not over water, but keep the compost just moist only, and give them an intermediate temperature.
be a few of the Cypripediums which ma) be repotted or top-dressed as the case may demand. I refer to the kite autumn and
will also

There

winter flowering kinds which have passed out of bloom. The compost recommended above for Pleiones is also most suitable for these. Cypripediums should be repotted once in two or three years, or oftener, supposing they become pot-bound.
large,

The pots and nothing

in

is

better

must not he

t,.

but just a

reasonable size

proportion to the sue of the plants.

They must be
drainage.

crocked to one-half their depth with clean If the pots are large they are better crocked higher in proportion.

quite clean, and

Always place a layer of clean sphagnum over the drainage before rilling in with the compost, which should be pressed in moderately linn, without
breaking the roots,
the rim of the pot.
finally leaving

the surface even and slightly raised above

in the least

Should the plant then be

unsteady

it

should

be firmly supported with neat sticks, otherwise the roots are prevented from taking a grip of the new material. Keep the compost just moist only until the

new
a

roots are

showing

activity

Masdevallias
as

may

also be repotted now.

This

is

one of the best times,

will

new batch

of roots are pushing forth, which

will

delight

in

new

become re-established. Peat and sphagnum moss in equal proportions suit them best. See that they are made quite steady, and water very carefully for a time. Cold and a damp atmosphere produces black marks on the leaves, which is most unsightly, and spoils the handsome foliage. A temperature ranging between 50 and 6o is best, it should not fall below 50 if possible.
soon

compost, and the plants

Repotting Orchids, as

when done
and
this, as

it

known, cannot be done with impunity, as must be done thoroughly, whereby every root is disturbed,
is

well

may
;

be expected, always gives a check to growth

the former
in
if

for a

longer or
if

shorter period
at the right,

performed
is

at the

wrong

time, and the latter

is

which

most cases
to

when

the plant
it is

finished blooming,

and again commences

different
in

grow. Therefore
the right time.
as
that
it

a matter of great importance

is

to catch each plant at

this respect,

Top-dressing, however,

quite

is

not in the least necessary to disturb the

required
fresh
is

roots by so doing.
surface,

All

is

to carefully prick off the old

which not only gives a much smarter appearance, but is very beneficial, as the sweet compost about the roots seems to impart renewed vigour. Such plants as will not need
material,

and replace with clean and

repotting during the coming season

earliest

may

accordingly be top-dressed at the

convenient opportunity, which

there
is less

will

save a good deal of time later

on,

when

to spare.

Odontoglossums and Oncidiums may be

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Vandas, Saccolabiums,

done, likewise Aerides,

others.

Phalamopses, and some

having been watered very sparingly (luring the winter, and occupying a Cool house averaging about 50', and a position near a ventilator so as to receive an abundance of air, will now commence to shew
signs of growing

Disas

more

freely.

Still

continue to keep them

moderately

moist only at the roots, until the days lengthen and more air can be given, when water must be applied in larger quantities. The best time to repot Disas is immediately after they have passed out of bloom in August. The compost should be sandy peat surfaced with sphagnum moss.

The

flower sheaths of

some Cattleyas

will occasionally lose their greenis

ness and

become

quite dry long ere the flower spike

due.

This

fact often

occasions uneasiness on the part of the cultivator, who imagines that the flower spike is already doomed, or will be unable to push itself up when the time comes round. No fear, however, need be entertained in that direction, as the spike, if the sheath is not interfered with, will come just the same. Should the fleshy sheath, however, turn pulpy just at the time the flower spike is pushing up, then it is better to cut off its top, so as to admit the air to the young tender flower buds, otherwise thev sometimes decay. I am extremely sorry to learn from several quarters that the Cattleyai
fly is still plentiful.

So

far

as

am aware

it

is

with a view of killing it. I have heard of a house of Cattlevas bring fumigated every night with tobacco paper for twelve months, whirl, had not the slightest effect upon the fly. I have often wondered how the Cattleyas looked at the expiration of the twelve months. Possibly the new " XL All fumigating insecticide " might kill them, but I strongly suspect that they are too securely hidden away from its fumes. There would be no harm in
especially so with newly-imported specimens, for then, before they are potted, the fumes could thoroughlv penetrate the mass and possibly have the desired effect. Having no fly here to deal with, I have had no occasion to try the above method. The only way that I know

quite useless to fumigate'

hying

,t

at intervals,

and

at present of
its

stamping out

this

much-to-be-dreaded pest

larva,

is

and
S

by destroying

for the benefit of

new

subscribers

may

here repeat previous

instructions.
ltS

young break or growth is about kT Kh aS becomes h ^ ^normally thick at the base and tapers some" nat more to a point than usual, the growth afterwards making but little progress. When such growths are observed they sh be cut off, and. en oone, in its centre the young grub will be found less in a more or
''"'

nCe
'

may

If
breed

be detected " h,n

'

'

infeste7 infested growth be overlooked,

^ Tt

"
&
'

;uld

^'^ much

this w;1 >

='

""
'

"''eek
'

to their

lwr "< to the plants prevented.

e

Should an

and the msee,

,0

maturity, a great

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

amount
of

29

damage

will

be done for another year.

When

baying newly

imported Cattleyas look well into them and search for imperfect pseudobulbs and examine them closely to see if the fly has been the cause of the mischief, and if so, a hole will be found somewhere near the base of the
crippled growth, from whence the
fly

escaped on reaching maturity.

it

It

does not follow that the plant is still affected, but should be kept under strict surveillance.

is

probably

so,

and

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
Barthoi.ina pectinata, R. Br.Bot. Mag.,
t.

7450.

Catasetum Christyanum, Rchb. [.Gard.

fig.

Chron., Nov. 23, pp.617.618,

104.

Cattlkya x Mantini.Jcmm. of Horl., Nov. 28, p. 503. fig. 76. Cymbidium longifolium.Gard. Mag.. Dec. 7, p. 783, with fig. Cypripedium x Marchioness op Salisbury.Jovm. of Hart., Dec.
p. 527, fig. 79.

5.

Dendrobum Treacherianom,
57i,
fig-

Rchb. lJourn. of Hon.. Dec.

Chron., Dec. 14, p. 713,

19, p.

87.
fig.

Lueddemannia triloba, Rolfe. Card.

118.

Miltosia VExii.LARiA. Gard. Chron., Dec. 21, p. 743, fig. 125. Selenipedium X Dalleanum, Andre. Rev. Hurt., Dec, p. 548,
Trichopilia brevis, Rolfe.Gard. Chron. Nov.
.

fig.

30, p. 641,

fig.

105.

ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL

Street, Westminster,

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
at

At the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting

the Drill Hall,

James

on November 26th last, Orchids were exhibited in rather smaller numbers than usual. th-ni^h several interesting things were

The

President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.,

for

Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr.

White), received an Award of Merit

platycolor, raised from C.

the fine hybrid Cypripedium

It

concolorand C. Stonei platytamium.

bore an
rose.

inflorescence

of three flowers and one bud, cream white flushed with

petals.

and with numerous minute purple dots on the sepals and

received a Botanical Certificate
for

He

also

Arundina chinensis

lA. Philippii).
(gr.

T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester

received an

Mr. Johnson),

Award of Merit
in

for a fine

variety of Cattleya

marantina,

which the petals were a good deal

Dowiana called marbled with rose, and the

3 sepals

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

somewhat suffused with a coppery tint. He also sent Cypripedium X plumosum (C. barbatum X C. X oenanthum superbum). G. E. Palmer, Esq., Springfield, Trowbridge (gr. Mr. Richman), received an Award of Merit for the pretty hybrid Cypripedium X Madeline (C.
bellatulum

C. Argus), with yellowish white flowers tinged with

lilac

and

spotted with purple.

others.

He

also sent

C.

Seegerianum, C.

Dibdin, and

F.

W.

Moore, Esq.,

Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, received

an

Award

of Merit for Masdevallia Chimajra aurea a form with large patches

of yellow on the lateral sepals, and a Botanical Certificate for a fine form of

Calanthe versicolor, Lindl.

fine

He

also sent

Odonloglossum prastans and

sent a
petals.
fine

the

yellow Phaius Blumei Bernaysii.

Clark, Esq.,

S.

Oak
of

Alyn,

Triana;, with crimson feathered

Wrexham, mark on the

form of Cattleya

The Marchioness
C.

Londonderry,
Court,

Plas Court,

N.

Wales

(gr.

Mr.

Gribble), sent Laslia anceps.

J.

Lucas, Esq.,

Warnham

Horsham

(gr.

Mr. Duncan), showed

Cypripedium X wafnhamense.

Swinburne, Esq., Corndean Hall, Winchcombe, sent Cypripedium Wallaertianum (C. X Harrisianum X C. villosum).
J.

T.

W.

W.

Temple, Esq., Leyswood, Groombridgr

igr.

Mr. Hristowe), sent

pretty hybrid Cattleya called C. X Miss Williams (C. Harrisoniana X Gaskelliana), with rosy lilac flower and a crimson blotch on the lip also a fine form of Cattleya labiata.

Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), sent fine spikes of Barkeria Lindleyana and Ladio-cattleya X William Murray.
Sir F.

cut

Messrs. Veitch

&

Sons. Chelsea, exhibited

cdiare, together with its

two parents, E.
of Merit.

ciliare

Epidendrum X Wallisio5 and E. Wallisii 3 the

,

hybrid obtaining an

Award

They

also

received a

Botanical

Certificate for the singular but brilliantly-coloured Rolfe.

Dendrobium subclausum,

Co., St. Albans, received a Silver Banksian Medal for a fine group, including a fine series of hybrid Calanthes, as C. X bella,

Messrs. F. Sander

&

Bryan, C. X Olive, C. X Florence, C. X Harold, and C. X William Murray. Also the handsome Pescatorea Lehmanni, P. KlabochoruBS Bollea Schrcederiana. Aganisia Miltonia ionoptera, Brassia Lewisii, Schroedenana, Odontoglossum bictoniense album, Sophronitis grandiora, Lad.a autumnalis alba, Habenaria Susanna:, ,'F.onia polvstachya, Der.drob.um X Leeanum, hybrid
'

C.

Bulbophyllum

crassipes,

some

fine

Cypnpediums, Phaio-calanthe
latter

Arnoldiana, and P.-c.

Berryana, the

an interesting hybrid derived from Phaius Humblotii ? and Calanthe Masuca $ with bright rose-coloured flowers intermediate in shape.
,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Messrs.

3,

Upper Clapton, sent several interesting plants, including the rare and handsome Oncidium X hematochilnm, Phalaenopsis X intermedia Portei, some hybrid Cvpripediums. eic.
Co.,

Hugh Low &

Messrs.

Linden,

L'Horticulture

Internationale,

Brussels,

showed
a

Cattleya maxima, and the handsome Catasetum First-class Certificate being awarded to the latter.

splendens imperiale,

meeting of the year was held on December toth, when a good number of interesting exhibits were staged.
last

The
The

President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), sent a fine specimen of the rare Dendrobium Treacherianum, bearing three

racemes and twenty-three flowers, to which both a First-class Certificate and a Cultural Commendation were given. A noble specimen
of Angnecum

pertusum, with eighteen racemes, also received both a Botanical Certificate and a Cultural Commendation. Masdevallia macrura also received an

Award
both

of Merit, while

Mormodes Lawrenceanum and Masdevallia pachyura

Certificates.

Other exhibits were Bulbophylhim grandiflorum. Dendrobium Ccelogyne and La;lia rubescens, with its white

gained

Botanical

Baron
to

Sir

H. Schroder, The

Dell,

Egham

(gr.

Mr.

Hallantine),

sent a

very fine collection of cut Cypripediums, representing sixty different kinds,

Banksian Medal was awarded. Among the more striking ones were C. insigne Sandera, and C. i. Sanderiana, C. X T. B. Haywood, and a fine variety of the same, C. X Arthurianum, C. X Mrs.
a Silver

which

Canham,
a

&c.

was also sent. J. T. Bennett-Poe, Esq., Holmewood, Cheshunt, received Banksian Medal for a very pretty group, including a number of
(

The

rare

rel.^vne Arthuriana

Silver

beautiful

Calanthes, a very fine form of Lycaste Skinneri, a form of Lselia autumnalis with white side lobes to the lip, and a fine plant of Vanda ccerulea with richly-coloured flowers, to which latter a Cultural Commendation was

awarded.
Barri Crawshay, Esq., exhibited a fine form of Oncidium tigrinum, to which an Award of Merit was given.

De

G. S. Ball, Esq., sent a particularly good Cattleya labiata alba, Cypripedium insigne Sandera;, and another charming yellow firm, with traces of
purple spots on the dorsal sepal, called C.
F. \V.
i.

Ballianum.

Moore, Esq., Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin. sent Oncidium

Esq.,

pictum.
T.
Statter,

Stand

Hall,

Whitefield,

sent

Ladio-cattleya

Tresederiana, a good form of L.-c. X elegans, and several fine Cypripediums, including C. X Leeanum superbum, C. X L. giganteum, C. X plumosum, C. X Xiobe, C. X Ariadne. &c. T. YV. Swinburne, Esq., Corndean Hall, Winchcombe, sent a pretty

32
little

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

group
of

Cypripediums,

including

C.

Swinburnei,

C.

S.

magnificum, C. Spicerianum with ten flowers, fine forms of C. insigne and

C.

X Leeanum,

C.

Indra, and C.

X Lady

Hutt.

H. Tate, Esq., Allerton Beeches, Liverpool, again sent the remarkable form of Cypripedium insigne in which the upper and lower sepals are alike in size and colouring. It appeared in one of Messrs. Sander's importations in 1892, and is evidently permanent.

W.
sent

C. Walker, Esq., Percy Lodge,

Laslia

Winchmore

Hill

(gr.

Mr. Cragg),

Oncidinm prgetextum,

rubescens, and Cypripedium Charles-

worthii with curiously twisted sepals.

Messrs. James Veitch

a
Silver

&

Sons, Chelsea, staged a choice group, to which

It

Flora Medal was given.

included Cvnibidium Traceyanum,

Lfelio-cattleya

Pallas,

L.-c.

X Lady

Rothschild, a fine hybrid from

,

'

Lselia Perrinii ?
Harrisii,

and Cattleya Warscewiczii 3 the pure white Calanthe X raised from C. vestita Turneri and C. X Veitchii, and others.
each received an Award of Merit.
Co., St. Albans, received a Silver Banksian Medal

The two
for a

latter hybrids

Messrs. F. Sander

&

good group, including a number of fine Calanthcs and Cypripediums, Odontoglossum nevadense, O. X Wilckeanum, O. X aspersum, Helcia

sanguinolenta, Phaio-calanthe

Arnoldiana, and others.

Messrs.

W. X

L. Lewis

&

Co., Southgate, received an

Award

of Merit

for

a fine hybrid

and C.
Messrs.

Cypripedium called C. X Ashtoni, derived from C. selligerum majus 3

.

riliolare

Hugh Low &

Co.,

Upper Clapton,

sent a

good group,

including

Cycnoches chlorochilon, two good forms of Cymbidiuni giganteuni, and

Messrs. B. S. Williams

&

Son, Upper Holloway, included a good group

of Cypripediums, in which C.

X Pitcherianum and

others were conspicuous.

CORRESPONDENCE,
W.
E.
[..,

&c.
is

Wimbledon.

The

small pale form of Sophronitis grandiflora

first

probably

bloom on an imported plant. Next year it may be different. Liclia pricstans, and not absolutely synonymous with I., pumila, though closely allied. Eulophia pulchra. Dendrobium linguiforme is small an Australian species with
white flowers, hich should be grown on a block and treated like other Australian
species.

undeveloped, especially being the

Odontoglossum Munnewellianum, small. A. M. IS., N. Devon. Cypripedium Victoria-Maria;. G. H, California. There seems no reason platyto suppose that Cypripedium Stonei ttrnium is a natural hybrid. specie 5 It is probably an abnormal peloriate ondition of the though i, seems difficult to explain pel" the cause of the peculiarity. On one occasion one of a flower reverted back to the normal form.
1

W.

J.

R.,

Maghull.

Many

thanks.

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James
will

Street,
at

Committee

meet

Westminster, on February nth. when the Orchid the usual hour of twelve o'clock, noon. The Annual
is

General Meeting of the Society

held at 3 p.m., at 117 Victoria Street, the election of Council. Officers, Fellows, &c.

foi

With

the hope of encouraging individual effort and original research, the

silver or silver gilt,

Council of the R.H.S. offer medals,

for the following
(1)

according to merit,

(amongst others)

best introduced Orchid not previously shown at any of the Society's meetings. Two classes one for Amateurs, the other Open.

The
The

and shown by an Amateur, with record of parentage, &c. not previously shown at anv of the Soeiotv's
1

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raised in this country, with record of parentage. not previously shown at any of the Society's meetings. Open.

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The above
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Special Prizes

Society in 1896, except at

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lie

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winnerwill be announced at the end of the season. All entries for the above

must be made before 11.30 a.m. on the morning of the show, on a Form, which may be obtained of the Clerk at the table. As many
as possible should be given about the exhibits.

Spccuil
details

flower of

tlie

pretty

little

Soprolaelia

beta,

which was described

at

P ;l KC 333 of our second volume, has been sent by Messrs. James Yeitch ec Sons. It was derived from Ladia pumila Dayana ? and Sophronitis

34 grandiflora 3
,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

and the flower
is

about intermediate between them, both

in

shape and colour.

the raiser.

similar

remark may be made about the plant

it

itself,
is

according to a note from Mr. Seden, who,

is

hanllv necessary to add,

Flowers of the beautiful Dendrobium

Cattleya

X euosmuin

virginale,

and

of

X Pheidona
it

are also enclosed, both of

which have been

previously

recorded in these pages.

of which

The
it

latter is the reverse cross of C.

Dominiana,

may

be considered a marked variety, differing

in its beautifully C.

veined

lip, in

which respect

shows the influence of the pollen parent,

form of Odontoglossum crispum, sent by Messrs. Charleswoji & Co., has very broad sepals and petals, which makes the flower almost a complete circle. The petals are pure white, but the sepals and lip have a
fine

few reddish purple blotches

in

the centre.

At a meeting of the Linnean Society, held on December roth, Mr. R. A. Rolfe, A.L.S., gave an abstract of a paper entitled "A Revision of the genus
Vanilla," in which
fifty

species were enumerated, seventeen being new,

in-

cluding
tall

previously confused with older forms. They were described i forest climbers, some of them leafless, generally of rather local distrib*
five

though the genus was found almost throughout the tropics. Tropical America could boast 29 species, against 11 in Asia, and 10 in Africa. Sis American species yield an aromatic fruit, and three are known in commerce, though only the Mexican V. planifolia was largely as an economic
tion,

cultivated

plant.

The author

outlined the morphology and

its affinities

mode

of fertilisation of the

genus, together with the species were

still

and geographical distribution. imperfectly known, and it was even now

Some

of

uncertain
as

which was the Peruvian plant mentioned by Humboldt eighty years ago yielding aromatic fruits. The paper was illustrated by 'a series
drawings.

of

beautiful

form of Cattleya Triana has

bee,, sent

by John
well

S.

Moss.

Esg
the

of Bishops

Waltham, the segments being broad and

It

shaped, and
lip.

colour bright rose-purple, with a darker front lobe to the

and

a bright

orange-yellow throat.

approaches the variety Atalanta.

Cypripedium x Sy ndsiie, described at page i. is now sent from the collection of H. distinct J. Ross, Esq., and, as suspected, shows a
combination of the characters of C. venustum and C. purpuratum, ttjj characteristic markings of the former being .specially prominent on the upper surface, though somewhat modified by the influence of the other parent.

leaf of

THE ORCHID RE VIE IV.

A
is

jj

series of articles
in

on " Natural Hybrid Orchids," by Mr, K. A. Rolfe,

the Gardeners' Chronicle for January 25th, from which it appears that as long ago as [878 Visiani had called attention to the probable hybrid origin of Orchis x suaveolens, now known as Nigritella x suaveolens,

commenced

Phalaenopsis

intermedia was the

first

recognised hybrid
its

among

tropica]
in

Orchids, and Lindley correctly indicated

origin

and parentage

1853,

before any artificially raised hybrid bad flowered.

Catasetum X splendcns punrtatissinium.

last

ilesrrihed

at

page 85 of our

by having the petals densely covered with minute reddish-brown dots on a yellowish ground. A similar form lias appeared in the establishment of Mr. W. Bull, oi Chelsea, except that the
is

volume,

characterised

minute dots extend round the limb of the

gal. air lip.

A good form
and
('.

of Cypripedium

X Williamsianum comes
It

from the collection

of F. M. Burton, Esq.. of Gainsborough.

,

is

derived from C. villosum ?

venustum 3 and was exhibited at a meeting of the R. II. S. on February 12th. 1S95, under the name of C. X refulgens a,, ml. Chrm., l &95> '-, It most resembles the former parent. P- 210). A second plant of the same name is a synonym oft'. X Adonis, and owing to the identitj of

name

the present one has also been confounded with

this

[Hansen

Orcli.

from the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool, has almost all the usual purple-brown absent from the lip. while the petals and dorsal sepal are
Boxallii

very curious flower of Cypripedium

typical in colour.

A good

ordinary form

is

sent with

it.

Messrs. Hurst

&

Herbage Nurseries, Hinckley, also sends the latter, together with a fine flower of C. B. atratum, in which the dorsal sepal is vi rv huge and very richly coloured.
Son,

ANGR.ECUM BISTORTUM.
A PLANTof this
collection of E.

singular

little

species

t-,:<prn

I.,

p.

178) has appeared in

the

H. Woodall. Esq..
flower.

Scarborough.

Mr. Woodall remarks

that

it

branches freely from the lower part of the stem, making quite a pretty

plant
at

when
in

in

full

It is a

native of Lag.-, and originally flowered

January. 1893. Its great peculiarity is the way the' tip of the spur usually remains tucked into the axil of the bract, thus compelling the spur to double up into a loop as it elongates. This, however, is not invariably the case, for if the spur frees itself it then becomes straight, and the question is which is the normal condition.

Kew

ib

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

DIES ORCHIDIANjE.
interesting experiment

An

is

being

in offering a series of special prizes

made by the Royal Horticultural Society for new plants of [896, " with the hope
and original
research."

of encouraging
things,

individual

effort

Among

other

Medals are offered

for the best

introduced Orchid and

for the best

home-raised seedling, both in -pen classes and in others limited to amateurs. The competition will be ofa novel character, as it is to extend throughout tl e year, with the exception of the Temple and Crystal Palace shows, and "the judging is to be bj points, which will be duly kept and recorded, and the winners will be announced at the end of the season." I also note that
" as

many
:

details as possible should

be given about

tin:

exhibits, a.

fulness

and exactitude of information may decide the prize

points

in

case of equality
all

of

but "the Committee reserve the right to withhold

or any of

sidered worthy of marked honour."

are not necessarily limited to limitation is that the plants shall not have
ot the Society's meetings.

novelties of 189.6, as the only

been previously exhibited

at any

rather interested in this novel competition, open for future developments. ' The
I

am

and

shall

keep an eye
is

word

New,"

for

example,

mentioned
is

in the conditions,

denned.

With

new

be interesting to observe how the term respect to introduced Orchids, will it be limited to
it

and

will

bomM
j

species

or will varieties of well-known garden plants be also admitted

rca

thlvTJr
p
oput
it

f'^P
1

ecia %'

what steps
is

will

be taken to ensure

that

by recent
respect to hybrids,

the competition to be limited

?

new

crosses, or will varieties of existing hybrids be also eligible

Is

in

another way,

the competition
C. bellatulum,

Between

C barbatum and

still

open

to further crosses
received

which have alreadv

'

of-_., nforced or other

,

ThC POmt " a " important one The les drawn up by the Societ^v'omenclature Committee ie ys some few years ago probably cover SOmeof these noinls ,.j ;. W l P

'"

-ii

ha "Cresting to note whether they

are
I

sse rules
>

have not always been observed,

as

recur to this subject as occasion arises.

one- ha point out, but in a competition of this kind no -"Ch laxity should be allowed, ami I w d suggest that exhibits not staged accordance with these rules should be disqualified. shall doubtless I

ot
1

Cypripedium X MarchionJ Salisbury, and as it has a distinct bearing on the above question I may e tus remarks. " How is it," he asks, ' that the Orchid Committee
to

correspondent again calls

my attention

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

3]

should have recognised this name, and awarded a First-class Certificate, wh< n they changed the name of another plant of identical parentage from C. X Meteore to C. x Charles Richman before granting a similar award ? "
unable to answer this very pertinent question, but it is satisfactory to note that others beside Ar^us have their eyes on this question.
I

am

Last month
the Garden,

called attention to

some remarks of a correspondent

all

of

commending the

principle of considering

hybrids from the

same two species as forms of one, ami now the Gardeners Magazine also endorses the same idea, remarking that it is a gnat pity that this system is ii"t generally loll,, wed in naming hybrid Orchids, instead of the many eonfusing names given to the numerous seedlings produced from identical
parentage.

And.

by

way

of

illustration,

it

alludes to

Cypripedium

Charles Richman, raised from C. barbatum ami (. bellatuhmi. as having been before the Orchid Committee on four different occasions, each time

under
outset,

different

names.

The Orchid Review has adopted

,,

this

view from the

favour,

and with such a growing concensus of improvement must inevitably result.

pinion in

its

some

CYPRIPEDIUMS WITH IDENTICAL NAMES.

[Continued from page 14.)

The name Juno occurs

(K. II. Measures' List,

first

as a species from the Philippine

Islands

anum
List

2
,,f

May, 1890), and again as a hybrid from C. Fairieand C. callosum 3 ). according to the Royal Horticultural Society's
p. 327).

Plants Certificated, but the reverse cross as given in the Orchid

(I.,

Review

The name Kimballianum

As a
is

species

it

and as a hybrid. should be written C. prsestans Kimballianum, but the prefix

omitted.

also appears both as a species

too frequently

The hybrid
C.

probability
(0.
A'.,

derived
p.

from

X Kimballianum, in Rothschildianum 9 and C. Dayanum

is

C.

all

III.,

271).

W.

R. Lee, Esq.,

showed C. X Leo
i..

at

the Drill Hall. 16th January.

1894 (Gard. Ckrom, 1894,

p.

84),

the

parentage

being

doubtful,

but

believed to be a cross between C. Spicerianum and C. villosum, while in a Catalogue of Messrs. Protheroe & Morris, 24th September. 1895, C. X Leo
is

offered, with

parentage C.

and C. Spicerianum 3 (0. A'.. I., p. 326), and Messrs. VV. L. Lewis & Co. named the cross from C. Lowii ? and C. Lawrenceanum 3 C. X Macfarlaneanum, but seeing the probability of confusion by its similarity to the first-named, they promptly changed the
?

Sander used derived from C. x calophvllum

Messrs.

X Wallaertianum 2 X insigne the name C. X Macfarlanei for

Chantini 3
their

hybrid

38

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

to C.

name
C.

quotes C.

x Patersoni. Mons. A. de Lairesse, in his Catalogue, x MacFarlanei as from C. callosum x Spicerianum.

the
?

No.

4,

x miniatum was
Spicerianum
I.,

name
C.

given by M.

[ules
.

Hye

to his

prettv
as

hybrid C.

x
.

Fairieanum

the

same parentage

C. Niobe 10. R.,

!7I1

and accordiDg to the c.arden, 19th January,

(1895,
i.

1895, and the Gardeners

Gimmick

p.

Igg)

Messrs
?
in

Sander have
insigne 3.

given the same

name
of C.

to a hybrid from C. Curtisii

and C.
,.
:

The parentage
(vol.

x Northumbrian
,

is

recorded

the Orchid
,

ReM
M(:5srs
.

1 p. 294) as C. calophvlhm,

insigne Maulei

Charlesworth, in their 1895 Catalogue, mention C. from C. calophyllum J and C. X Lathamianum

X Northumbrian

as

calophyllum ? and C. x vexillarium 3 Two hybrid Cypripediums have been

Robert,,

T. Stutter, Esq., for his hybrid from C. philippinense ? and C. bellatulum 3 (0. A'.. III., p. ,27), and Mons A. de Lairesse in his Catalogue, No. 4, quotes C. X Phcebe from C.
.

C.

x Phoebe

is

the

name chosen by

exhibited under the

,

one

name
3
.

of C.
is

from

C.

hirsutissimum

and

Germinyanum

C.
-

villosun,
(
|,

C.
,

X X

msigne Wallace! 3, is a variety of C. X Alcides (0. R., II.. p. ,74). S apP h '. fromC Lo * and C. barbatun, 3. is recorded as , V >h Veitchian hybrid ,n the Gardeners
-

10. R.. II..

,,,,,

thu othcr fr(>m

irs , ltlss

and

Chronicle

,,.

i..

Charlesworth

,,

200,. while Messrs.

Sappho
C.

x Savageanum from
P
I

of Heaton, Bradford, have , '. from C. Lowii s and C. superbiens 3

.

,'s,,,

(a,alo K e C. X
3 a
i.,

seco d
r,

:.="- ?--'"::'; <- - - -* V"'

v

GarA-Mm" Chronicle 1895. P- 370), parentage C. x cenanthun, superbum J x Spicerianum J. S fr m barbatum " Crossii 2 and C. Godefroy* /.was , ,, n xh.blted by ,, Messrs. James Vcitch * Son,, on the x 3 ,h December, zS 94 Whi e an ther h >' brid als bearing the name C. X Sir'i
,!
,

'

\u with

"I aVageanUm r 0"led

'

C.

x Harrisianum

s>

rSiSed b>

M '""in

S ''" k"' r
the

and C. Spicerianum lV Tr '"" there is "l'l'

: 1

'

ii"7L 7 z,M, ^"f7"' r C m

Sander
latter

'"'*
'

"d
*

m "'
C
-

S^rf
'

ianl J
(

has been referred as a variety of S. Pr PedlUm X VeSta fr m

'

T ^""^^--''-.S. T
arS in
*

nUS

fr

niveum
<

and

ins '8 ne tbi

hU

';

'"*'''''

CWfe
/,.,

l895,

P-

MO),

HoissLuiun, ..
,,... p. 77,. i

Tins

x
C

Brvsa ,.

x Harrisianum

and C. Spicer-

l8 95,

i-,

p. 201).

'

'

C
"

X ^""landianinn,

from

C.

ean,hn,

,--,

THE 0KCH1D REVIEW.

appears
in

catalogue of Messrs. Sandei

?

&

Co., and C.

ianum from C. X wrnixium

by .Messrs. Charlesworth.

and C. x HarrisiaDum t,

CYPRIPEDIUM

SIAMENSE.

note with pleasure that the experiment suggested at page 18 of our last issue, of proving the origin of this plant by crossing Cypripedium callosum

We

and C. Appletonianum together, has been made

Voting. Esq.. of Scfton Park. Liverpool, and
great interest.

in the collection

of Reginald

we

shall await the result with

in

Mr. Vonng. fortunately, had both species

flower,

and

at

once made the experiment.

THE HYBRIDIST.
L.i:LIO-i ATTI.KYA

X G HISI.AIX

l.t:.

A photograph and

coloured sketch of a very pretty and most interesting

hybrid has been sent by M. A. Van Imschoot, of Mont-St.-Amand, Gand. It was obtained by crossing I .alia harpophylla with the pollen of Cattleya
amethystoglossa, the seed being sown
only,
in

1809, producing a single plant

which has now flowered.

It

distinctly

combines the characters of the

especially in

two parents, though the influence of the Ladia preponderates,

the vegetative organs.

The pseudobulbs
a single

are

mother
is

plant,

and bear

oblong

leaf.

much stouter than in the The inflorescence at present

and

two-flowered.

The

sepals and petals are lineardanceolate in shape,

cream-yellow

in colour,

with a few traces of minute rosy dots derived from

side lobes of the lip are closely

C. amethystoglossa.

The

wrapped round

the column, and the front lobe spathulate-obovate, and veined with reddish-

crimson from near the apex down into the throat, the ground colour being
cream-yellow.

The

influence of the pollen parent

is

chiefly seen
the, flower.

in
It

the
is

modification of the various organs and in the colour of

very promising thing,

and

will

probably improve as the plant becomes

Cypripedium x Orpheus vak. Youngianum.

Cypripedium derived from C. callosum 9 and C. venustum 3 has been received from the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., of Sefton Park, Liverpool. It is the reverse cross of the one
fine

flower of a

hybrid

called

C.

X Orpheus, which was

raised

by

Messrs.

Sander,
is

but

is

sufficiently distinct to deserve a varietal

name.

The

dorsal sepal

broadly

ovate-orbicular, nearly

two inches long, and with about 19

to 21 light green

nerves on a white ground.

The

petals are

_>i

inches long, nearly straight,

4o

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

re, Id ih

bright green near base, passing to

ciliate,

-purple

l,

iwa

,1~

1.

a p. \. strongly

and with

five

wart-like spots

on each upper margin ami two

('.

or three

on the lower ones.

The

lip

has almost the shape of

venustum, and
a

bears a trace of the characteristic markings of that patent on

light purple-

brown ground.

The staminode
is

is

rather

more

ilk,'

('.

callosum.

The

influence of the pollen parent

sepal, as well as in the

strongly

marked

in the colour of the dorsal

shape of the

lip.

LVCASTE X SCHU-XHKl NNliNSIS.

\\ e

have received a flower of a seedling Lycaste from the collection

Earlscliff,

of

G. S. Ball, Esq.,
iana.

Bowden, Cheshire, which

ami
I.,

is

believed to have

resulted from a cross between L. Skinneri

It is
first

macrophylla Measurespage 5101

the
at
j

remarkably

like L.
it

our

volume,

though

X schtenbi unnensis, described at may not have arisen from

is

same
first

parentage.

The second

parent of that

little

doubtful.

It

was

thought to be L. gigantea, but failing to see evidence of this in the hybrid, and thinking L. Schilleriana (which we have seen confused with it) more likely, we suggested it as possibly the other parent. should like to be

We

able to

compare the two hybrids again,

for

they certainly bear a good

deal of resemblance to each other, having the sepals and' petals strongly suffused with rose-pink, of a glaucous hue, and the lip covered with minute

crimson dots.

The above

identification

may

be regarded as

provisional

CYPRIPEDIUM
The
original

ENFIELDENSE VAR. SUFFUSUM.

Cypripedium X enfieldense was raised in the collection of A. J. Hollington, Esq., of Enfield, bv Mr. Avling. from C. I.awrcnceanum ! and C. Hooker* 3. The same cross was made in the collection ofF.|
Burton, Esq., of Gainsborough, and on flowering received the name of C. X suffusum. A Bower has now been sent by Mr. Burton, which shows that it chiefly differs from the original in having the dorsal sepal almost
suffused

throughout with reddish approaching C. Hooker*, in shape

purple,

and the petals

...ore

nearly

and colour.

Another of the
in

seedlings
flower,

ako sent shows more of the

and
is

influence
('.

nearer the original

is

ofC. Uwrenceanum x enfieldense. thus showing

seedlings out of the
,11

the

that variation

which

so often observed

among

leaves are very strongly tessellated, as are very handsome. The

same capsule both parents, and all the

16

fort*

variety suffusum, however, is much more richly coloured than the other, and thus deserves a varietal name by which* distinguish it. The scapes are rather tall, as in both parents. By mistake the parentage of nrs< this plant was g.ven at page of our , 75 volume as C. Lown J X C. Hooker.e

J.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

.1.

DENDROBIUMS FROM BURY.

A SERIES
O. O.
of beautiful Dendrobium (.huts
Esq.. Bury, to
lias

been sent from the

e.ille.-tinn "I"

show the kinds now in bloom. They include D. crassinodc. I). l-uidlavammi. the handsome natural hybrid 1). erassinodi-Wardianum (also known as I). X mclanopthalnium). seven
forms of D. nobile, and a very pretty seedling from the same whose history is not stated, but which is apparently D. X Ainsworthii roseuin. Anion};
the forms of D. nobile are several mentioned
last
in

Wrigley.

the acconnt given in our

to

volume
II.,

(pp. 147-150). together with

I),

one we do not remember

It is

have

met with
{supra,

before, called

n.
Hi:.

Rajah.
12).

much
of

like

D.

n.

albiflorum

pp.

11 j,

n5

but

instead

the

segments
a

being
very

pure

white

they

are

lightly
I

Bushed

with

delicate

pink, giving

pretty effect.

the

lip

Thi sepals an, petals are slightly shorter and broader, hut convolute in the same way.
(limn,

A seedling Cyprip.
form of C.
evidently a form of C.

believed to he from C.

lelianthiuil

and a
It
is

X Harrisianum

-possibly Dauthieri

is

also enclosed.

Creon, but

less richly coloured,

and

at present

smaller, though possibly not yet fully developed.

A
It
is

HYBRIDIST'S NOTES.
Vitality of Pollen.
its

currently believed that Orchid pollen retains

vitality

for

a long

time after removal from the [lower, but few actual experiments seem to be

have had four pods of good seed from pollen removed from the Bowers two weeks and more previouslv namelv,
Cattleyas
I

With Ladias and

L. Perrinii

C. labiata, plus L.-c. elegans alba, 14 days

:

C. Gaskellianax
:

intermedia, 17 days

C. Percivaliana
:

velutina. 18 days

I.,

purpurata

C. intermedia, 30 days

L. grandis

C. intermedia, 33 days.
:

At the same
in

time
seven

have

failed

ill

thirty trials with pollen 15 to 30 days old

:

twenty-

trials at

30 to 60 days

and fourteen

trials

ho to tbo days.

Will not some of our expert hybridists give as

of

many

instances as possible

good pods from pollen used three weeks or more after removal from the flower, and let us know if any particular condition- as todrvness, darkness, and ventilation, or the reverse seem to lie of importance in keeping the

pollen alive.

have generally
in

us,

,[

paper packets,

ill

small tin box, and

found no advantage
capsules
till

enclosing the pollen in nearly air-tight gelatine

it.

ready to use

Peri.hi or Ripening of Seed.

I

note a great difference in the time required to ripen seed-pods, accord-

ing to the species of pollen

made

use

of.

It

seems

to tend

towards a mean

42

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

in the

between the normal ripening time of the two parents, as shown examples given below.
I

cannot give the average time

for

each species with

its

men pnlkn,
given
is

not

having experimented
all

in this line sufficiently.

is

The average
tor
will

that of

my own

crosses,

and hence

apt to he too high

:

the quirk-ripening
the-

kinds and too low for the slow ones

hut

it

illustrate

point made.
least

Only good pods have been considered thousands of plump seeds.

those

containing at

some

The

seed parent

is

given

in

the left-hand column, and the pollen

parent

in the middle,

each being followed by the average period of ripening of uncrossed capsules (where this is known), stated in months. The right-hand

column shows the actual period of ripening of the hybridised capsules, some cas< , three examples being recorded :

in

POLLEN PARENT.
C. Tris
C. amethystoglossa
,,

HYBRID C
4J

m.

8|m.

labiata
...

.2j
?

m.
tn.

Ji

m. ">

Lueddemanniana
,,

M
m. m.
14

i ,.

luteola

9
I.J

of,

.,

Percivaliana

15 in.

Schrcedera:
..

14

m.

Walkeriana
5t m.

ii'm.
7*,. 9*.

L. anceps

Dayana
7\

14 in.

harpophylla + rlava

C luteola
Triana:

m.

i.ii

m.
15*. 17"'-

9 m.

16. m.
14),.

"im.
?

velutina L. anceps

9i "'

5l m.

9t

pods, so far, have been of Bletia verecunda X Schomburgkia t.bicinis, i weeks, and ? the same X L. purpnrata, 6 weeks. The former seed began to germinate in considerable numbers, but was then lost of the latter, I have one : out odd-looking plan, a tiny bulb growing of the top of another of equal size-the lower one bearing root-lihres and the upper one a minute leaf. The seed was planted si* months ago.

The soonest maturing

Oviedo,

Florida,

U.S.A.,

Theodore

L.

Mm*

January Ijth, 1896. [These remarks are very interesting, and we o send us their experiences.

others will be induced

in

What

is

the real

-."nods of ripening between crossed and uncrossed capsule, seems a. " LM "' t """ " ful <l -""K see ttnee ,,,,,,,,,,
1

meaning of the ^nation

THE ORCHID RE HEW.

ing of the latter
is

43

fairly

midway between

that of the two parent-.

These

are C. Triana- crossed with

aniethystoglossa.

with luteola, and with L.

is
it

aneeps

and C. Percivaliana

L. anceps.

In five others the period

longer than that of either parent in some considerably so- from which
is

The four cases in which the period of maturing of the pollen parent is unknown cannot be cited either way. Further experiments might explain awav some of these apparent discrepancies. The seedling Bletia verecunda X Ladia purpurata we shall hope to hear of again. We would suggest that a number of flowers of some common species should be crossed with different things at the same time, ami the results recorded. We should be glad if Mr. Mead will kindly explain the phrases L. IVrrinii X C. labia t a plus L.-C.

evident that further observations are necessary.

elegans alba " and "C. Trianae

to

L. harpophylla + flava," which

we

fail

understand.

Ed.1

NOVELTIES.
ClRRHOPETALl M RoTHScHN.DlANl M. O'Brien. A very fine was exhibited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild at a meeting
Horticultural Society, on
cateIt
is
(

species which
of the

Roval

tctober 15th last, and received a First-class Certifi-

allied

to C. ornatissimum

and C.

Collettii,

but has larger

flowers with

much
Gard.

longer

tails,

and the prevailing colour crimson-purple

believed to be a native of the
hills

with some yellow markings.

Darjeeling.
L.hi ia
Citron.,

It is

beyond

Now

2j. 1895, pp. 608, 609, fig. 102.

X Finckkniana

vak. Schrcedeioe.

A beautiful

variety,

which

appeared

in

the collection of Baron Sir H. Schroder, the Dell,

Egham, and

said to differ from the original type in having a few thin purple lines at the

base of the lip only, the rest of the flower being pure white. O'Brien in

Ganl. Ckrtm., Dec. 28, p. 762.

EpiDENDRUM Bakhkyam'M. Kran/1. A

green flowers, nearly two inches
Lindl.
It
is

species bearing umbels of large

in

diameter,

much

like
111

thoseof E.
the collecti

latilabre,
f

native of Costa Rica, and flowered

M.

W.

l'.arbey. of

Chambesy. Geneva.

Hull.

Ihrh. Boiss. III., p. 607.

plant, with very

RoDRIGUEZU INCONSPICUA, Kranzl. A Costa Rican

small

whitish

flowers,

which flowered
refers Lindley's

in

the

same

collection

as

the
it

preceding.
a

The author
it

Trichocentrum candidum to
it,

as

synonym, but

does not bear the slightest resemblance to

either in

habit or character, that plant being a true Trichocentrum in every respect,

except that the spur

is

nearly obsolete. Bull. Herb. Boiss., III., p. 630,

44

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A short time ago

some pseudobulbs of Cattleya labiata from a collection in North Devon, which were badly affected with the Cattleya fly, and now others come from Tynemouth also some of C. Triame. The plants were purchased from comparatively recent importations, and it is probable that tin: pest was thus introduced. Various measures have been
received
;

THE CATTLEYA

FLY.

tried to exterminate the pest, such as regular

weekly fumigations, washing

parts,
It is

the plants with

fir-tree

oil,

and rutting out and burning infected

it.

but without getting rid of

difficult to

The

plants are otherwise healthy.

know what remedies

to apply other

than those already suggested

[mpra, III., pp. 183, 215, and 288), and a better knowledge of the habits of the insect would be useful. Smoking is manifestly useless, except when the
perfect insect

comes

out,

for

the larva; are perfectly protected by the

enveloping tissues of the

fir-tree oil.

pit mt,

and the same may be

kill

said for

washing with
if
if

Slight funiigati 011s will

ii

the perfect insect,

and

the time
necessary,
in

appearance were fcnov during this period. Cuttinj j

of
its

these could

be given nightly,

off

and burning the affected parts, but

tin-

cases

this

would mean
for

rr imitating

plant considerably.

some One young

pseudobulb sent,

examp le. shows

in. less

than

five

small circular holes

where perfect insects have t imaged, though otherwise there is very little to show the presence of the en emy, and onU a person who lias had experience of the insect would have previously detected it. Yet when the holes are
seen,

the insect has gone,

evil.

and

renewal of the

Cuttin g off

probably laying eggs elsewhere for a and burning this pseudobulb would have
is

done no good,

on maki ng sections, the cavities where the larva; lived are all found to be empty. On the other hand, the bulb and leaf, though a little damaged, are still ci ipable of carrying on the nutrition of the plant. Another shows an xternal swelling, but no hole, and in this the white
for,
1

larva: are

found within the cavity. In this case burning would have been effectual. If such ;; g were punctured with an awl. and then a little

tir-treeoil injected

'-,

i-

of a spraver. with a -lender

11

etrd

tnhc which

v
.'

""
11.

''

A! >-

'"-'

detected

1,1

time.

It

would

a,. pear

that

if

the

young growths they soon become swollen, and the of the enemy is soon manifest but if the pseudobulb is already
aid

the very

ed. the

mischief
>

is

not so easily detected.

The eggs

arc'

also laid

1,8 roots

? Rail-like swelling quickly appears, which can be th comparatively little damage to the plant.
is

when

lsect

known

as Isosoma

Orchidcar

and we have collected

what
te.

information seems to be on record respecting it for a Meantime, we should be glad if those who are troubled with
little

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

it

45

would be interesting to know in what Way it most attacks the plants, what time the perfect insect emerges, if more than one brood a ytsar occurs, and especially any measures which have been successful in stamping out this troublesome pest. A knowledge
It

would

relate their experience.

of

its

habits would he of material service in battling with

it.

CULTIVATION OF CYPRIPEDIUM BELLATULUM AND

ITS
I

ALLIES.

no not think that any hard and fast rule can be laid down as to the best Way of growing Cypripedium bellatulum and kindred species, but as someone has been kind enough to say that I " grow bellatulum and its allies
really well,"
I

will state as

briefly
J.

as possible the course of treatment

First, as to potting material,

adopted by
peat and

my

gardener, Mr. T.

Poyntz.

a mixture of loam, nodules of limestone, and old

mortar rubble

is

used,

sphagnum moss being dispensed

all

with altogether, which compost

Godefroya;, and niveum are

reported as having been found on limestone

rocks, this treatment appears reasonable enough.

With regard

to watering,

Mr. Poyntz has recourse to dipping that

in

is,

he dips the baskets and pots

which the plants are growing, so that the water just comes up to the base of the leaves, and this is only done occasionally, when the material has become excessivelv dry. Water getting into the axils of the leaves is so destructive to this particular class Cvpripedium that he abstains entirely from watering overhead. I am aware that this method of supplying them with water is not according to nature, as they could not be so
T

supplied iu their native habitat, but there they are not covered with a glass
roof,

and probable the son and

air

soon dries up the moisture deposited on

the plants bj rain showers.

Cypripeditims concolor, Godefroya;, and niveum

all

do best with me

in

a stove temperature, on that side of the house away from the direct rays of the sun and the way in which a plant of Cypripedium Godefroya; has
;

flowered regularlv with

me

since

iSSN the way

a
all

Cvpripedium concolor has

recovered from almost deal!; and become

sturdy plant, and the general

appearance of

my Cypripedium

niveums.

bear testimony to the efficacy

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

ORCHIDS OF
A coNSinKKAnLK number of
the
first

1895.

novelties citlu

flowered or were described for

time during 1895, both of species and hybrids, and if each succeeding year diminishes the chances of discovering showy garden plants among
is

the former, this

fully

counterbalanced by the steady progress attending

the efforts of the hybridist, whose achievements during recent years have

been remarkable

in

many

respects.

we may commence with the remarkable Bulbophyllum grandiflorum from N'ew Guinea, long known to science, which flowered for the first time in cultivation in March last, in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence. Bart. Dendrobium speciosissimum, now
introduced species
described for the
first

Among

time,

is

a remarkable

Bornean

species, allied to D.

formosum, which was discovered by Sir Hugh Low on Kina Balu in 1851, and has now been introduced both Low & Co. and by Messrs. Sander, both of whom also drobium sanguineum, introduced by Messrs. Low
remarkable for
lived.
its

his ascent of Mt.

by Messrs. Hugh
flowered
it.

Denis

from

Labuan,

crimson flowers, which, unfortunately, are rather shortCirrhopetalum Kothschildianum, the finest species in the genus,
in

flowered

the collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, at Tring Park. Ccelogyne Veitchiana is a species with pendulous racemes of pure white

flowers,

introduced by

Messrs.

James Veitch & Sons.

Lueddemannia

trdoba

one of Lehmann's introductions, which flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., as is also Odontoglossum aspidorhinum.
is

Cypnpedium X Littleanum

which flowered the collection of H. Little, Esq., of Twickenham, and was figured described in these pages. Cymbidium X Kimballianum is a reputed
\

is

a remarkable natural hybrid,

natural hybrid

appeared with Messrs. Sander.

Bollea Schrcederiana

also appeared with Messrs. Sander,

Angracum
velutinun,

Eichlerianun

and

stylosum, Batemania peruviana, Lycaste Dyeriana, Maxillana Mooreana,

some

others.

Dendrobium
e

and

Cryptophoranthus
of

oblongifohus flowered with Messrs. Charlesworth

Dendrobium

&

Co., Trias disciflora,

inflatum,

additional

varieties

splendens with Messrs. I Messrs. Hugh Low & Cc

Catasetun

ad the remarkable Luisia Cantharis

Several interesting botanical novelties flowered at Kew, as Catasetun Lemosii, Bulbophyllum pteriphilum, Ornithidmm nanum, Angr*CU smith,, Pleurothalhs rotundifolia, and Eulophia deflexa. Lanium Berkelev, flowered with Major-General Berkeley, Oncidiun, panduratum with Wclbore S. Ellis, Esq., Maxillariaparvawith C. Ingram, Esq., and Cirrhopetalum g acilhmum with T. R. jarvis, Esq., of

nscnootianum and Sarcochilus

crassifolius

Megaclmium flowered with M. A. Van

Chelmsford.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Imschoot, of Ghent
:

47

Notylia brevis and Cirrhopetalum Whitei with Sir Trevor Lawrence. Bart. Polystachya villosa. Cryptophoranthus minutus.
:

Sarcanthus auriculatus. and three species of Cirrhopetalum. with Mr. |. O Bnen. Some of these had flowered on previous occasions, but were now
described for the
Varieties
first

time.
species are continually appearing, the most

of well-known
last
in

remarkable of

year being the beautiful Cypripedium bellatulum album.

the collection, of Sir Frederick W'igan. The distinct buff-yellow variety of C. insigne called Laura Kimball, from the Kimball collection, may also be mentioned, while various others have been recorded
in

which flowered

our pages from time to time, which we have not space to enumerate.

Turning to the hybrids we find a rather extensive list, and here again we can only enumerate the more interesting and remarkable of the numerous forms which have appeared. The prize for the best hybrid of the year was
secured by X. C. Cookson, Esq., with Phaius
?

X Cooksonse

(P. grandifolius

Hmnblotii 3). Dendrobium X Murrayi mobile 2 X albosanguineum 3 ) and D. X Astra:a (luteolum J X crassinode 3 also came
P.
)

from the same collection.

Laslio-cattleya

X Darwiniana

(L.-c.

X
2

elegans Turneri 2
)

X maxima

X L. xanthine 3 came from the collection of C. Ingram, Esq. Cattleya X Lady Ingram (Eldorado ? X Dowiana aurea 3 and C. X Cecilia (Lawrenceana 2 X Trianaj 3 are
)

and

L.-c.

ELsteadensis (C. bicolor

two other beautiful forms from the same

Messrs.

collection.

hybrids to

James Veitch & Sons have again added several remarkable the list, two of the more remarkable being Dendrobium X illustre
2

(chrysotoxum

pulchellum 3) and Phalsenopsis

Luedde-violacea.

Other striking forms are Cattleya x Eros (Mossia: 2 X Walkeriana 3 ), X Eurydice (labiata J X Aclandia 3 I, Uelio-cattleya X Lady Rothschild (L. Perrinii 2 X C. Warscewiczii 3). L.-C. X Myra (C. Triana 2

C
X

L. flava 3

),

L.-c.

X Eunomia
(L. Perinii

(L. pumila
2

Havana

C. Gaskelliana 3
),

).

L.-c.

x Semiramis

C. Gaskelliana 3

and Calanthe X

Masuco-tricarinata, besides several good Cypripediums.

Among the fine hvbrids raised b\- Messrs. Sander may be mentioned Cattleya x Fowled (Leopold! 2 X Hardyana 3 and C. X Miss Measures (Lueddemanniana 2 X velutina 3 Lielio-cattleya X D. S. Brown (C. Triana; 2 X L.-c. X Schilleriana 3), and L.-c. C. G. Roebling (L. PUrpurata 2 X C. Gaskelliana 3), Sobralia X Amesia; (xantholeuca S X
)

).

Wilsoni 3

),

and

several fine Cypripediums.

is

Masdevallia
collection of C.

X Leda
Winn,
Hultoni

a pretty little

hybrid from M. Estrada:

and

M. Arminii, raised by Captain Hincks.

Est].,
,7

Dendrobium X gemma, from the was obtained by crossing D. aureum 2 and

and
Seleninedium

0. superbum

X Finetiamim, from

the

48
collection of

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

M.
.

F.

Finet,

is

descended from S.

cardinale
in

and

S.

caudatum 5

Two

other L;elio-cattlcvas were described

(L.-c. elegans

these pages
),

namely. L.-c.

X Trentonensis

collection of the

Hon. C. G. Roebling,
h.iv.

X L. pnmila 1 and L.-c. X Andreana (C.

J

from the
bicolor

L.-c.

elegans). from the collection of

M. Fournier, of

Marseilles.
collections
:

Several Cypripediams

also been recorded

from private

during the year, ami glancing back through our pages we note the following C. X Henry Graves C. Lawrenceanum ? X C. X Marshallianum 3),
I

from the collection of H. Graves, Esq.: G. X Louisa- (possibly derived from C. x Leenaum and G. X Ashburtonia), from R. lc Doux, Esq.; C. X St. Hilda (Boxallii $ X Curtisii 3), C. X conco-callosum and C. X
calloso-niveum, from R. H. Measures, Esq.
:

G.

x Hurrellianum
;

(Argus

from G. G. Roebling, Esq. C. C. barbatum and C. tonsum), from H. J. Ross,

Curtisii i
).
;

Curtisii

C.

selligerum majus

<? ),

X Rossianum (derived from Esq. C. X Vannera: (C. from W. Vanner, Esq. C. X

;

Atropos (C.

X Ashburtona: expansum
:

x X

Reginald Young, Esq.

and others.

C.

purpuratum $ ), from Mabelia; var. Lord Derby,

C.

which flowered

the collection of T. Statter, Esq., is the finest of the hybrids derived from C. superbiens J and C. Rothschildianum 1
in
.

The foregoing are among may have been overlooked in

to be either

the principal novelties of the year.

this rapid survey, but others,

few

which are known

synonyms

omitted, both

among

or varieties of existing forms, have been purposely species and hybrids. Synonymous names are in-

creasing far too rapidly.

EPIPHRONITIS
sent by Messrs.

VEITCHII
handsome
little

of this

plant has been

Janus Witch & Sons. Its history was given in our first volume (pp. 6, 29 i), hut we may again allude to' the remarkable way in which the character of the mother plant has been lost. It was obtained by crossmg Sophronit.s grandiflora with the pollen of E pidendrum radicans,
the latter as

many
is

feet

high as the former

is

inches, yet the influence of the

Sophronitis
offspring.

only apparent in the

much dwarfed
is

habit of the hybrid

The

structure of the flower

precisely that

of

Epidendrum

radicans, enlarged to r} inches diameter across the petals,

and the colour

would have guessed t received a First-class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society cJune j 4 th. 1890. We should like to see what would be the effect of
ieversing the cross, as well as of again crossing the Sophronitis with pollen of the present hybrid. The result in either case would certainly be

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

LjELIO-CATTLEYA
The
phi it depicted

49

X
i

INGRAMII.
'

in
ii 1

our
the

ill

ustration

lit;- 4

a very

beautiful

hybrid

Mr. Bond

C. Ingram,

Esq., Elstead House.

Godalmi ng, from Laeli a pumi la Havana 5 and Cattleya Dowiana aurea J. It was ei .hibited at a n leeti.iR of the Roj al Horticultural Society on August
i)th.

i8g z,

when

it

r
"

First-c lass

Certificate.

It

possesses

[in

unmistal able combina

be seen

the chart ctcrs of the two parents, as will

in

by the Must ration,

to

which.

however,

the sepals

and

petals

appear

be white

nstead of rosy-IB auve

peculiarity

often
s>

seen
pol-.

in

photographic represen rations of this and

allied colours.

The

and

7.
some
of the character

Petals are larjje of the

and broad, and

al>

p.
t

while taking

Lalia parent, shows

in its rich
It
is

shape and

coloration.
a

influence of the Cattleya. both in resembles the its dwarf habit it most
plant,

mother plant.
seedlin-s raised

very

h:

me

and one of the best of the

illustration is

from L. pumila from a photograph taken hv M

times the peduncles bear a

ana.

Our

reproduced

!\\nsoi
flo

Upper Clapton.

Some-

mple of

So

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

LiELIA ANCEPS

AND

ITS

VARIETIES.

Orchids are more popular in gardens than Ladia anceps, and its varieties have now become so numerous that a connected account of them
will

Few

probably prove

interesting
in

to
this

our readers.

(Vein

whom

numerous

forms

have been received

and preceding seasons.

On

former

occasions we have treated other popular and variable species in the same

way, notably Cattleya Trianae and C. labiata, Cypripedium insigne, and

Dendrobium

nobile,

and we have the

satisfaction of

knowing that these

in

lists

have been much appreciated.

Ladia anceps was originally described and figured
Bot. Reg., XXI.,
t.

18.55

<L'"dl.

in

1751), from a plant

which flowered

in

the establishment

of Messrs. Loddiges, of

Hackney.

Two

years later the variety Barkeriana

appeared, after which

came

a long interval of about thirty years before

Dawsoni came
present time.

to light in

series of brilliant

and about ten years later commenced a acquisitions, which has been gradually growing up to the
1868,

The
lip,

typical form has rose-purple sepals

and
7
>

petals,

and

much
a

darker
lighter

the throat
1.. a.

brio" pencilled with radiating purple lines on

ground.

morad

'<-

<

..

1892,
: .

ii..
,.

()

>

is
,

synonymous.
differs
It
frorn t

Var. Barkeriana
in

~I,:>!.ii. r,.

/,<.,...

,,

M7 ly

he
in

type
the

having the petals very

Scottiana {Will.

little

broader than the sepals.

flowered

collection of G. Barker, Esq., of

Orel,.
All,.,

Birmingham.
,.

VII..
little

325),

n:lv

be described as a good
It

form of the type with flowers a

darker than usual.

flowered with

W.

A. Scott, Esq., Nunfield, Dumfries.

f.

ex Will. Orch. Cr. Urn., ed. 7. p. 430) is described -- having long dark-coloured sepals and petals, the former white at the base, and the front deep pnrplt Var. lineata (O'Brien in G. C, 1895. ii., p. 7M) is a richly-coloured form, in which the basal halves of the sepals are white, with some clearly-defined chocolate lines. It appeared in the collection of' Lord Rothschild, at Tring Park.

Var. obscura (Rchb.

Protheroeana (O'Brien in G. C. 1896, i., p. 4o) is a brilliantly-coloured form, with the sepals and petals white at the base, and the petals with a flame-like crimson flush on the outer halves. It flowered in the collection of Joseph Broome, Esq., of Llandudno.

Schceders (Rchb.

f.

in

G.

C,
;

(887.

i.,

p.

7,) has flowers light

rose

wil

rose-purple tips to the petals

purpk^and

the sale lobes being bordered with roseIt

the front lobe deep purple.

flowered with Baron Schroder.

Ballantineana (G. C., ,891,

i.,

p. 86)

has the flower lightly suffused with

THE OR CHID
crimson-rose, a
little

EEI1EIV.

deeper on the petals, bee

It

ing ,piite dark at the tips.

litiion

and the

lip rich

crimson.
t.j.

flowered in the collection of

Schredet.

F.C.C.,
The forms
(p. 34) are

R.H.S..Jan.
I

1891.

Var. grandiflora
colour, but has

Will. Orch. Gr.

Man.

ed.

fi.

p. .451) is typical in
i..

form and
6g.
17.

much

larger

Bowers.G. C,

1888,

pp. 105.
1)

07.

called Chamberlain's var. (0. K.. III.,

p.

and Rosefield
very

rar.

very similar.
1895, i p. 67,
fig.

Crawshayana (Journ. ofHort.,

15.

12)

i,

large,

flowered rose-purple Conn allied to the preceding.

1805.

F.C.C.,

RMS.,

Jan,

Var. leucosticta (Kchb.

f.

in

G,

C,

[885,

which the

petals are irregularly streaked wi1

collection of Mr. Greenfield, of Dunstable.

Var. radians (Kchb.

f.

in (i.e.. r88S..

i..

p. 298)

is

unieh

like

the

pre-

ceding, but has a white space at the base of the sepals ami petals.

Oweniana
the
collection of
p.

(C,

C,

1892, ii p. 744I

is

a richly-coloured variety, in
It

which

segments are conspicuously flaked with white.

569, Bg. 77.

llouered in tin
Hart.,
r8o2,
ii.,

G. D.Owen, Esq., of Rotherham. -Jmmt. of

(G.

Dawsoni

C,

1868, p. 27)

was the

first

white form, and appeared

It

in

the collection of T.

Dawson

Esq., at

Meadow Bank. Glasgow.

has very

broad, proportionately short petals, and a large deep purple blotch on the
front lobe of the lip.Q. A.,
I., t.

44.

Var. vestalis (Kchb.

f.

in

G.

C,

1880,

i.,

p.

126) approaches the prelip

ceding

in

shape,

but

has the front lobe of the

It

white,

the purple

pencillings on the side lobes alone remaining.

flowered in the collection

of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.

Hollidayana (O'Brien
has a shorter, broader
front lobe.
lip.

in

C.

C.

1894, i p. 166)

is

near Dawsoni, but

with a carmine-crimson blotch on the square

Amesiana (O'Brien
details of

in

G.

1888,

ii.,

p.

660) has the shape and other

It

Dawsoni. but the petals have

in

a purple feathered tip.

ii- P- 5<>5.

appeared

with Messrs. Sander.>ra. of Hort. 1895.

Var. alba (Kchb.
f.

fe

73-

an albino, having lost the In shape it has been purple pencillings on the side lobes of the lip. compared with Dawsoni, but there is a similar form with comparatively virginnlis narrow petals which goes under this name. An albino called with F. A. Philhrick, if ""rii. Hon.. 1887.I, 42. fig. 7), which appeared

G. C. 1879.

i.,

p. 10) is

of

p.

Ksq.. of Bicklev. has also petals 1} inches broad.

Schrcederiana (Kchb.
lobes are veined with

f.

in

G.

C,
It

1885, i p. 34*)
lip

is

a very large pure

white form, with the petals and front lobe of the

purple.

very broad.
collection

The

s.de

flowered

in

the

of Baron

S2

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A..

Schroder. 0.

X.,

t.

473. L.
in

A.

Hyeana, Lindmia, V..

t.

266,

is

Ashworthiana (O'Brien

G. C, 1894,

i.,

p. 103, fig. 10)

has almost the

lip is

shape and other details of the preceding, but the front lobe of the
sparingly pencilled with purple. F.C.C., R.H.S., Jan. 16, 1894.

Var.

munda (Rchb.
lip.

f.

in

G.

('.,

1886,

i.,

p.

298

it is

said,

would be

Schrcederiana, were not the yellow colour confined to the three keels at the base of the
It
f.

flowered with M. L. Kienast, of Zurich.

in

Stella (Rchb.

G.

('..

1886,
lip

i..

p. 136) is
little

near Schrcederiana. but the

It

petals

and front lobe of the

(..
('.

are a

narrower.

flowered

in the

collection of
in

Hill.

Esq..

{
till-

Nottingham, and immediately afterwards

.1..

that

ofC. Ingram, Esq., of Godalming.0.

[890,
1..

VIII.,

t.

329.

Mr. Catt

{<:. ("..

p. 239),

thinks

identical with vcstalis.

Williamskna (Sander ex Will.O. Gr. Man., ed, 6, p. 353), is rather smaller than the preceding, and wholly white, except the purple veins of
the side lobes.

appeared with Messrs. Sander. 0. A.. IV.. t. rep. Sanderiana (Rchb. f. in G. ('., 1885, i., p. 1401. has longer and narrower
It
is

sepals and petals than Dawsoni, but

much
i.,

like

it

in colour.

It

appeared

with Messrs. Sander. Reichenbachia,

Var. amabilis (Rchb.
f.

ser. 1, II.,

t.

56.

in G.

C,

1888,

p. 104) is said

to

have a

little

purple marking on the front lobe and angles of the side lobes, the petals being broad. It may come near the preceding. It appeared with Messrs. Sander.

(Rchb.
mailer than usual,

p.

445)

is

described as bavin?

white, with the tips of the side lobes light

either side of the

colour and two reddish purple stripes on

mid

rppeared with Messrs. Sander. na (Rchb. f. in G. C, 1886,

i.,

p.

298),

it

is

said,

would

be Dawsoni, but for the rosy hue of the fine broad petals. "1" the lip are also tinted with rose. It flowered with M. Zurich.

The
L.

side lobes

Kienast, of

Will. 0. Gr. Man., ed. 6. p. i5 i) has the sepals and petals white, stained with rosy purple, and the lip suffused with reddish-purple.
(

Var. dehcata

p y8) is described as ne ar Dawsoni, except that the petals are narrowthe side lobes of the lip bordered with rose and the front lobe wholly red-purple. It flowered in
f.

Calvertiana (Rchb.

in

(,.

( '.,

,s S

,.

j, ;

the collection of J. Calvert, Esq., of Woo, Green Var. blanda (Rchb. f. in G. C, ,885, ,.. p. *o6) has the sepals and petals white with a light rosy hue, and the front lobe of the lip warm purple. It
1

linear Calvertiana, and flowered 01 Sydenham.

Percivaliana (Rchb.
f.

in

the collection of

W. Cobb,

Esq.,

in

G.

C,

l88 3

,..

p. tio)

has the sepals and

ThE OKCHID REVIEW.

53

petals light rose-purple, the side lobes tipped with amethyst-purple, and the front lobe deep purple. It appeared in the collection of K. P. Percival,

Esq., of Southport. 0. A., VI.,

\ ar.

t.

256.
i.,

rosea (Rchb.

f.

in

G.

C.

1880,

p. 104)

has light rose sepals and

It

petals, the

margins ofthe side lobes and the front lobe rather darker.
the establishment of Mr.

appeared

in

W.
i.,

Bull, of Chelsea. -<;,m/e.

1884,

Hilliana (Rchb.
nearly white,

f.

in lip

G.

C,

1881,

p. 168)

has the sepals and petals

It

and the
A.. IV.,

bordered with

light rose.

appeared with Missis.

Sander.0.
lip light
i.,

t.
f.

146.
in G.C., i88j,
It
i.,

Veitchiana (Rchb.

p. 2741.

has sepals and petals white,

mauve-purple.
fig. 7.

appeared with Messrs. Veitch.Gnfe, [884,

t.

446,

Var. holoehila (Rolfe in '.'. (.. 1891, i.. p. 426) is a remarkable peloriate form, in which the lip is entire and petal-like, and the flower pale rosy-lilac

throughout.

It

appeared

ai

Ig

importations of the

Liverpool

Horti-

CYPRIPEDIUM
A
flower of this

ATYS VAR. RUBRUM.

a note

handsome

variety has been sent by F. M. Burton, Esq.,

Highfield,

Gainsborough, together with

on
,

its

history.

It

was
at a

obtained from C. venustum S and C. Hookera: 3

and was exhibited

meeting of the R. H. S. on November 14th, 1893, under the name of C. rubrum, though the name seems to have been omitted in our report.
was, however, recorded shortly afterwards (Gari. Chynn.. 1893,
ii..

X
It

p. 74'-

Then it was described as C. X Burtoni by the late Mr. Gower (Garden, XLV., p. i,Si). who thought C. Lowii was one ofthe parents, which, however. Mr. Burton corrected (I.e., p. 206). The leaves much resemble those of C. Hookera, and the scape is rather tall. The flower also is most like
this parent,
in

but the dorsal sepal has about nineteen light green nerves, as C. venustum, the shape and ground colour approaching C. Hookera:.

petals are very similar to the last-named, but are flatter at the base. This part is light green, which gradually passes to the most brilliant purple-

The

crimson

in

the apical third, the middle being spotted with dark brown.

has the shape and veining almost of C. venustum, though the latter The staminode is 'S partially obliterated by a suffusion of bronzy brown. about intermediate in shape, and approaches the lip in colour. It is a welllip

The

shaped and brilliantly-coloured flower, and much the best we have seen from
Mr. Burton writes that he fully approves of the name above adopted, and thinks that it is based on the right principles. About twenty plants were raised, which commenced flowering when four years old.
this parentage.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CYPRIPEDIUM CONCOLOR VAR. LONGIPETALUM.

A very
collection

remarkable form of Cypripedium concolor has appeared

of

in

the

R.

Brooman White,

Esq.,

of

Arddarroch,

in

which the

petals are unusually long

and narrow, being i\ inches long.

The

colour

of the flower

is

light yellow, as in the type,

and the dorsal sepal broadly

lightly

elliptical-oblong, \$ inches long

by i^ broad, the lower half being

in a

reticulated
line

with light purple-brown nerves

all

front,

and a narrow dark

along the centre: spotted

petals each

over with
line

rather lighter shade behind.

The
a

have a narrow dark

spots

down

the centre in front, and

few similar

small

near

the

base, while behind the

dots.

nerves are

covered with rows of minute

long,

purple-brown

The
in

lip

is

ij inches

and

light yellow,

with a few minute purple dots

It
is

in front,

and numerous
shape, but
is

ones on
evidently

the
a

side

lobes.

remarkably distinct

variety of

C. concolor. with

which

the

foliage

agrees.

It

was obtained as an imported plant about two years ago.

R. A. R.

CYPRIPEDIUM
WITH

LITTLEANUM.
and
figured at
in

respect to this remarkable natural hybrid, described page 209 of the last volume, Mr. Hansen remarks,

"Such

nat.

hyb. was

cultivation at
I

Sander

&

Co., St. Albans, in

p. 255).

l,S,S

water colouring of which

quite certain
lost,
?

took at the time " (Orch. Hyb.,

Is this identification

If so,

where

is

the plant

now

So

fine a

thing would hardly be

but

Mr. Little's plant being an imported one. obtained from Mr. Tracey, of Twickenham, precludes the possibility of the two being identical. It would

be mteresting to know the precise historv of the plant alluded to, and to see the drawing. If M r Hansen knew of any record, he would have mentioned it, and it is desirable that the identification should be confirmed.
.

A CURIOUS CATTLEYA.
Mai
I

be permitted

labiala

which has

re

xainted for
:

in the sa

parts,

made up
sep

of

t'

is.

two

The back

side

and a column with two stamens. petals are normal in colour, shape, and
petals,
lip

wo

side sepals

and the

the place of the latter.

are wanting, a lower sepal taking

The
like a

nches long, perfectly straight

long club, and bea

shape somewhat

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

in a line

J5

with the two sepals (anterior and posterior), two perfect anthers. Curiously enough the anthers are reversed, both facing inwards, the two column-beaks Ira/A) touching but free, overlooked by two column-wings, one on each flank, the hinges of the pollen-caps being as far apart as
possible.
I

fail

to find any trace of a stigma, but the overy

is

one-selled,

The

following diagram will pern ips show

al

glance the position of

S
I

Sepal.

Petal.

Anther.
its

might also state that the flower came alone on

;

pseudobulb, and
is

without the usual sheath while another pseudobulb on the same plant bearing two perfectly normal flowers.
Personally,
I

wish to thank Mr. Rolfe

for

his

very interesting and

in the

suggestive article,

"The

Structure of an Orchid Flower,"

Review.

When we

see in

December the great family of Orchids so many varied and

wonderful structures, each, apparently, being the means to an end, we cannot but wonder ;,7;v and hew thev came to be nnd although we may not yet be able to know why they exist, yet, thanks to modern research
;

upon the
able,
in

lines a

adopted by that great

to

naturalist, Charles

Darwin, we are

came about: and by tracing the descent of the present-day Orchids to their probable source the simple monocotyledon we are able to get a little nearer to that more
measure,
they

know how

remote, but none the less interesting

of
life.

question, the origin of

all

forms

Charles C. Hurst.
Burbage Nurseries, near Hinckley.
seems highly probable that the organ called the "lower sepal" was the median petal unmodified into a lip, the more so from the fact of
[It

stamen occupies the position of a sepals and the j, it would appear that both the lateral corresponding stamens of the outer whorl i.e., the side lobes of the lipwere suppressed. The alternative would be that these organs respectively
an
additional

there being

stamen:

and as

this

were confluent
especially

in

one, and the median petal absent, which

that

is

less likely,

when one remembers

and

3 are branches of the cords

which feed the lateral sepals. It is a very curious and interesting flower, which we should have liked to have seen. Ed.]

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR FEBRUARY.

The
temperature ami general management of the plants for the present
be as

month should
permit.

recommended

for

January, namely

: by

treating them
will

as liberally with

air.

warmth, and moisture a- the outside conditions

weather
for

Up

to the time of writing, the

its

January has been

quite exceptional for

mildness, enabling us to apply fresh air

it

than usual at this time of year, a fact which

is

more freely needless to add must

too. considering

promote
its

a health)

and beneficial
nature,
is

effect.

The atmosphere,

good average amount of sunshine and light. Of course, as the days lengthen and the light increases so may the thermometer gradually rise, and a little more moisture be supplied, which will tend to encourage new growth. But by all means let everything in this direction be done gradually, or the result
tolerably clear, resulting in a

mild and

damp

may be
relied

the reverse of satisfactory, for the weather just vet

is

not to be

upon:

and

spell

of

lovely

warm

spring-like

weather may be

followed by another of almost Arctic severity. It is at such times that those plants, having been utuli.lv hastened into growth, receive a check from which thev sonv tun. - ... vcr fnllv recover.

The

successful wintering of the plants in

all

departments necessarily

depends largely upon the health and stamina No which thev possess. plant can remain vigorous if the compost in which it is growing is decayed,
for

follows that the roots also will be more or less derived and when this is the case, a ven little drruwhl w,!l .me .,< 'h.,=,innit
.

Slze.

To

achieve

this,

neither excessive drying up

in

the winter

is

desirable,

nor excessive watering during the

summer

all

that

is

required being a com-

mon-sense method of treatment, which is one of moderation at all times, avoiding anything approaching coddling Under or excess in any direction.
such circumstances strong plants will thrive, but
it is

the sick mes which give

,

months, unless specially cared for. By sc u;1 y of illustration let us sll| lave two I attleya.one is in vigorous health with plenty of roots in goo sound sweet compost, the other a weakly specimen having little or
:

no roots, although
necessary.
In
it

in

this ease

the

compost mav likewise be

all

that

is

all

bad before
all

was

probability the latter plant has' been allowed to get too repotted, vvherebv its period of convalescence wall be
It is

greatly prolonged.

only natural that such a "lint should

demand

at

times more attention

For

;,,

little

more water during the

The orchid review.

resting season

37
:

would be required, or

it

would

shrivel badly

it

would want

cleaning and freeing from scale and other pests move frequently than the
strong one: and
It is
it

eoidd not withstand

s^.

much

bright sunshine. \e.

pal.

such

plalilts, that
<

by some means or other have got down below

if

that

must have

special attention
It is

they

Lire

to survive

and again take

ti>

their

places in the fro nt rank.

therefore anything but good practice

hide

them from view by placing them away behind other plants, in order to give the whole a be tter appearance, for unless these weakly plants are seen
frequently, they invariably miss that extra attention so urgently needed for
their recovery.

They

should,

if

possible, be placed at

some convenient
they

place,

so that their waints can be the better supplied.

The short-bulbed Mexican Ljelias are now made a bold show for the last two months, and
more
useful family for mid-winter work, that
for if not,
is.

past:
it

have

indeed

is

not easy to

name

supposing they are well

grown;

they are not nearly so satisfactory.

On

the whole

we

grow them pretty successfully, though there are one or two species which

we would
L.

fain

furfuracea,
is

grow and flower which seems an

lirst

better.

The

chief of these

is

that lovely

especial slow one to grow

(lower,

properly.

L.

anceps

easilv

in

freedom of growth ami

and

think

it

must

also take first place in point of beauty, especially the lovely white varieties.

January we had here out in bloom between 50 and 60 spikes of the latter varieties one fine plant producing 19 spikes

During the second week

in

with a total of 73 flowers, an average of nearly four flowers to each spike. Several, however, had live full-sized flowers, the smallest number being three.

This plant, of course, looked very handsome, and

the whole of
varieties of the

it it is

needless to say that

the bo spikes mingled with

the

few remaining coloured

same species made a very hue show indeed. I should, however, here remark that all of the white Ladia aticeps do not yield flowers in such abundance. The above are the long-bulbed variety, having very dark green foliage and a bright coloured lip, I think generally known to
the trade as L. a. Sanderiana.
this distinctive

We
which

mark on

the

lip,

have also other varieties not having have are equally rlorifcrous. but all
foliage.

the

long pseudobulbs and dark green

There
short

white

varieties

which bear from one

their value,
.r,

to

two flowers on
a

a spike on)

very

much from
anceps
if

and these have

much

typical

mil,

id leaf.

The

cult ure of the

Me *ica
me :st

the Uelias,isontl

whole, easv,

treated in
t

requirement accordance w ith their very simple

There must
for the

be

to. 3

much

nursing
1

coddling, noi

they be starve

want of

or other simple

or re-basket

when
r

required.

new growth

rathe r

the last

made

such as repottii where tl hav e occasionally see n some pseudobulbs. vert overhanging tl
tecessaries of
life,
'

sides of the pol :, the

out into spa r :ew roots growinr

;

.vllere

they soon

58 or later

THE OK CHID REVIEW.

come
to grief.

The

ordeal of flowering to such plants

is

most

exhaustive, and they soon afterwards collapse.

I'nless I.adias have overis

grown
furnish

their pots or baskets,

once

in
all

about three years

else that is required

often enough

to

new materials throughout,

being a top
in

dress-

ing every year.

What

is

intended to be done to them, either

the

way

of

repotting or top-dressing
well

may

be done during this or next month.

little

It is

known

that the

Mexican Lielias require but

water during winter

ins

end can

lie

attained the better

if

the plants are suspended near the

glass.

The great and beautiful family of the Dendrobium is coming on apace, and will for some time hence do good service in Where the Show-house. good growth was put on last year, and afterwards well but wisely ripened, the flower buds will now be m a more or less advanced stage. Do not force or hurry them forward too much, the majority of the late winter and spring flowering kinds come much better and finer 'if allowed to come along
quietly

temperature of about 60 receiving just enough water at the roots and atmospherically to keep the pseudobulbs plump. With the bulk of
,

ma

Dendrobes

it

is

yet a

little

too early to do very

much

repotting, but there are

instances where a start can be

1

made

so as to get as inanv as possible off hand.

he seedlings yet too small to flower may be done and started gently into growth. There will doubtless also be others which are not intended to
gth or size, which could also be done,
1

as

denied

safe after flowering is over.

Orchids be done with scrupulous care d the new roots take well to the com-

and
rth.
sllsp. nd,
,1

genial,

between 60 and 70 so as Dendrobiums generally do best

'

when kept
fibrous peat in norous

back pseudobulbs render

propaga

more reliable eptacles. Fresh sphagnum moss and the best of equal proportions is the most suitable compost The
1

good culture

is

little

-en

ice

off,.,-

.,1

,...

.,.:..,

....

n, , fourth year,
r.

the plant.

These old pseudobulbs

will mostly

vrilP in 1

Igths of about three inches,

'

and

laid

on sphagna"

'"""' '" S '" a " PI; "" S r, s,lUi "K- "liirl, may be called cuttings. a out twoyears be sufficiently large to again replace with the parent
'

supply of fresh healthv vonng stock. necessary to form large specimens. rowing Dendrobiums there are mostly a few that are inclined to
"

e to the cultivator i 3 101x

u ss depee<
.

Mng muu

j, soos ed

THE OKCIIJP REVIEW

to decrease in si/r than to

59

grow
is

larger,

which

is

needless to say extremely

direct

annoying.

Such behaviour
it

not always distinctly traceable to any

is

cause, although
it

cannot be questioned that there

a cause.

have known

arise through keeping the plants back too

in

very cold temperature,

order to

much, which necessitates a make them bloom much after their

will

accustomed time.
persistently defy
all

Hut whatever may be the reason such plants

attempts at coaxing into a better frame of mind.

Per-

haps

it

may be

a 1). nobile or

one of

its

numerous progeny, or

it

may

lie

some other species

best of

quite different.

It

will

doubtless be potted up in the

compost, be given the best of positions, and subjected to the most Perhaps new careful watering, yet even then it still remains obdurate.

growth

will

duly "show, which would indicate that matters were

all

right.
fate.

bat suddenly thev

damp

off

others
is

mav

follow,

and

suffer

the

same
will

Before the growing season

quite over,

however, the plant

have

forming one or two puny small pseudobulbs. with a oao spending number of roots. When you get such a plant and it should survive
succeeded
in

the winter,

it

is
it

useless to waste time

by trying to grow
all

it

in

the usual

manner.
of tin

Take
in

out of the pot. cut off

the dead roots, separate each

a shelf or

bulb at the base and lay them on

damp moss on

somewhere
will spring

.ml

way

the warmest house.

Keep the moss

little

well supplied with water new-

during the summer, then from some part of these old bulbs

growths which

will

by autumn make nice

will

afterwards be placed together and

new bulbs, and these may soon make a good plant again.
Cattleya just
useful species,

The foremost representative of the labiata section of now is Cattleya Triana; and its varieties, a most beautiful ami
but one, unfortunately, owing to ing but
little
its

favour

in

London

being so very susceptible to fogs, rindgardens. as they generally fail thereto expand
it

their blossoms.
It

Apart from tins

is

one of the

freest to

grow and flower.

repotting or soon commences to root and grow after blooming, and the top-dressing should not then be very long delayed. Tht

intermediate temperature
flower on the whole
the
first
i

is

only required.

C. Perciva
I

.ugh the

is

verv rich

and

pretty, cannot.

think, be

compared

to

named

for general usefulness.

One

thing very

much

against this

species

rily.

and very
the plants
is

oiften~ too, in
hillv colli

country places, even after

witl
1
,',.

making average SWed pseudobulbs

failur.
is n.'t i

mod
ra
1

si

oaths

are ke

il

er

Of d inn when throwing up

coiir,. the
..,

great

if

their spikes, but there

it

always a

\-,','
is

.',',, ',

,v,

'il,

,i

fails to

erne, which makes

appear that C.

Percivaliana
Triana;.

even more

susceptible to

atmospheric conditions than C.

which lend themselves kindly to There are a large number of Oncidiums stronger than Cool house culture, making growth there much freer and

60

THE OkCHlb REVIEW.

when grown in more warmth. 0. serratum is one of these, and is now in flower. In growth it is very like 0. macranthum, and requires exactly the same kind of culture, growing at the coolest part of the house. They succeed best in pots on the stages, and should he potted in sphagnum moss and fibrous peat in equal parts, and at almost any time during the This is after being year, when they can be caught in the right condition. relieved from their immensely long and exhaustive flower spikes, when they
again

commence

to push

up growth.

When

in

robust health these Orchids

are a refreshing sight to see, such fine green health)- foliage

and psendowatering

bulbs do the)- make, and such a bristling mass of roots do they send forth.

The treatment
them with
for several

is

exactly the

same as

for other
:

cool Orchids

great care during the winter

letting the
at

compost appear dry

days before giving water

and
to,,

to get the

atmosphere over moist bv

same time taking care not which frt-.ni.-ntK dan, nil," down
the
:

abundance of
superbiens,

air at all

times

when

the outside weather will admit.

0.

O.

trilingue,

O. lamelligerum, and O. monachicum are very

thrips at

Kt-ep

down aphides ami

all

costs.

find

the best thing

is

L. All fumigating insectidc, as there is no fear of injury to either foliage or flowers. I use it in every house in accordance with the
directions issued,

Richardson's

and have not observed any bail results from its use. Neither the plants nor the atmosphere should be over dry when fumigating is intended, and once doing is generally sufficient to kill all insect life. Attend to the blinds for summer shading in time, so that they are
ready for use

when

required.

ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM SULFUREUM.

A FINE
flower of a beautiful

sulphur-vellow

variety

of

O.lontoglossuin

crispum has been sent from the collection of K.

Ilrooman White Esq., of

.ther
s

form, quite similar as to colon also enclosed, and a flower of ( ).

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

61

AN AMATEURS NOTES.
The Dendrobiums
are

now coming on

in

force,
141

and

series

of

I).

Mobile.
I>.

Wardianum, and crassinode brighten

fimbriatum oculatum, D.

tbe

bouse,

together with

X Cassiope.and some

other of the beautiful hybrids

in the spring

which now make such an addition to the collection

Ccelogyne cristata has also begun to unfold
species
its

months.

beautiful flowers, ami this

and

its

varieties will be a feature of tbe Cool bouse for

some weeks.

while Cattleyas Percivaliana

Laelia

anceps

in

a series

and Triana: must also be added to tbe list. of purple and white varieties, together with
tovarensis,
still

Sophronitis grandiflora,

Masdevallia

Calanthes. ami several

others mentioned in previous notes are also

a

flowering well, together with

in

number
useful

of

good Cvpripediums. which undoubtedly stand

plants,

the front rank

as

winter-flowering

and

will

be

increasingly SO as

time

goes on.

Odontoglossums are now throwing up strong spikes, and a lew are already out, including 0. pulchellum and the beautiful little (). Rossii, which hangs side by side with Sophronitis grandiflora, and produces a most effective
Phaljenepses are also progressing favourably, and. if tbe fog keeps off, will soon commence to flower, though some buds have dropped already and from this cause. Hitherto the weather has been unusually favourable,
contrast.

everything

is

looking very promising for the coming spring.

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
Angr.eci-m Sakderianum.Journ. of Hort., Dec.
26. p. 5911.
fig.

01.

Calanthe x GIGAS,Journ. of Hort., Jan. 9. p. 25, fig. 4. Catasetum x Imperials.Gari. Mag., Jan 25, p. 51. with fig. Gari. Clmm.. Jan. 4. p. ij. tig. 2. Cattleya abut* (two-leaved). Cypripedium x Allanianum superbum. Gari. Mag., Jan. 18,
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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

ZYGOPETALUM
A raceme
Messrs. James Veitch

LEUCOCHILUM.
recorded as having hern derived from
.

bearing four flowers of this very distinct plant has been sent by

&
?

Sons.

It
'/..

is

Zygopctalum Mackayi
of the

and

Burkei 3

though, as

in

one or two other

is

supposed crosses from

/..

Mackayi, we believe that Z. intermedium

intended, these two plants having

flowers of Z.

somehow become confused

in

together.

The

leucochilum are over 2} inches

diameter, the sepals and

petals light green, lined along the centre

and spotted near the margin with

violet

dark brown, and the

lip

white except for the numerous striations of

on the

crest.

The

face of the

column

is

also closely striated with violet.

The

flowers are deliriously fragrant.

It is fairly

intermediate in character,

but most resembles the pollen parent in character.

ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL

At

HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY.
line this

the opening meeting of the year, on January 14th. there was a display of Orchids at the Drill Hall, James' Street Westminster;
being largely due to the mild open weather which prevailed. The President, Sir Trevor Lawrence,
Bart..
\\ bite),

Harford. Dorking
Silver

Igr.

Mr.

given.

staged a magnificent group, to which In the centre was a splendid

Flora

Medal was

specimen of Ladia

some
plant

twenty-five spikes, to which the special

X Gouldiana with award of a Silver BanksW

also given
to a noble

Medal was made.

of

Cultural

Commendation was
;

Lycaste plana

Measuresiana

and

Botanical

Certificates to

*'"""' Cypriped'ooi X
E.
s

Masdevalha ludibunda, M. striatella, M. polvsticta, and M. p. purpurea. The group also included a number of Ladia anceps varieties, the rare and nCidiUm X Whea,leyanum " cucullatum. a fine inflorescence of Odonto nogossum coronanum miniatum, Masdevalha cucullata, Dendrobium
'

Lawrebel, C.
others.

Morgan,* burfordiense, and

Ashworth.
a
lis,!.,

x Leeanum
Wilmslow

Albertianum, C. X
Holbrook),
fourteen

Harefield

Hall.

loucc

(gr.

Mr.

very fine

collection

of cut

Cypripcdiums.

including

Backhoiiseana. and Ladia X Finckcniana. with and a wh,te form of L. anceps.

its

the group.

Silver Banks,.,,,

two parents' L. albida Medal was awarded to

MeaSUreS

Bronze Banksian Medal for a pretty little group. nch J SpeClmen of Vand Amesiana " with ten spikes, the remarkibl If W vpnpedium venustum Measuresianum, C. X Olenus, C. X ( -.L^ Calypso superba, Odontoglossum X Humeanum, Lycaste Skinneri, L. S.
'
.

a,,.'' '"'wed n)

'

Es 1a

Abridge

Lodge,

Camberwell

(gr.

*'

^
,-

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

alba,

,,.

and Oncidium cheirophorum

Botanical Certificate being awarded

to the latter. S. Courtauld,

Esq., Rocking Place, Braintree

igr.

Mr. Wright), sent

very interesting group of MasdevaDias, to which a Bronze Banksian Medal was awarded. It included M. fblvescens, M. hieroglyphica, M. leontoglossa,

M. pictnrata, M. striatella. M. velifera, M. Wageneriana, M. x Gairiana, M. X Heathii, M. X Hincksiana, M. abbreviata and M. caloptera, the two latter each receiving a Botanical Certifl, ate.
C. Ingram. Esq., Elstead House. Codalming
Igr.

Mr.

llondi.

tvnr,l

Awards of Merit for a fine form of Cattleya Percivaliana, called Ingrain's var., and for Ladio-cattleya X Cicero (C. intermedia x Ladio-cattleya J

elegans Turneri 3

1,

the latter a very pretty form,

somewhat resembling
in

L.-c.

Schilleriana, but with the lip approaching C. intermedia

shape.

and the sepals and petals light blush. Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, Egham
an Award of Merit for

igr.

Mr. Ballantine), received

hybrid

Vanda X

Charlesworthii, a pretty natural

at

between V. ccerulea and V. Bensoni, which was described

pug,'

322 of

T. Starter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gr. Mr. Johnson), received an Award of Merit for a handsome form of Cvpripedtuiu X Calvpso.
called
full}'

Stand Hall

variety, with the dorsal

its

sepal covered with

purple over

two-thirds of

surface.

He

also sent
9

C.

pretty hybrid from C.

Ashburtonae

and C.

X Ceres, and a very X Numa 3 called C. X

.

The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park

(gr.

Mr.

Hill),

received a

othborough, Tunbridge Wells

V sr.eeum

sesquipedale,

thgate igr.

Mr. Whiften), Bent

Sauderiaua, and Cypripcdiutn

achmore

Hill (gr. Mr. Cragg),

igden. sent a flower of Cypri-

Epiphr

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

X
a

insane Sanderianum, C.
which
received

Lathainianiim, and

others.

Special awards

were Riven to the following:The pure white

albiflora,

Phaio-calanthe

Sedeni

First-class

Certificate,
2

Selenipedium

Schrcederse
Wallisii

candidulum
I

(S.

Sedeni candidulum

S.

caudatum

an

Award

of

Euryades, a spotted and a

Merit.

and two forms of Cypripedium X purple one, also each received an Award of
Merit,

These,
1".

it

would appear, are forms of C.

Adrastus.
received a Silver Flora
white

Mes3TS.

Sander

&

Co.,

St.

Albans, also

Medal

for a fine group, containing

Dendrobium Johnson*, the pure

Lycaste
Skinneri,

Ladia anceps alba, and

others,

L. lanipcs. Odonto-

glossnm X aspersum, O. Rossii, Phaio-calanthe

Arnoldise superbum, anda

number

of good

Cypripedinms.
?

Among
.

the latter was a pretty hybrid

from C. Curtisii

and C. concolor 3
A. R.

called

Minnie Ames, with

pretty
S

yellow flowers tinged with light rose: C.

Said Lloyd (Godefroyae

venustum 3

|,

C.

Smith (callosum 2

Driiryi 3), C.
),

Henri

Vander-Straeten (C.

Mrs.

Canham

C.

X Leeanum 3

&c.

Mr. \V. Bull. Chelsea, showed three well-flowered examples of Cattleya Walkeriana nobilior, and fixe Hue plants of the pure white C. Trianie alba,
the latter receiving a First-class Certificate. Messrs. Httgh Low & Co.. Upper Clapton,
to

staged a very effective group,

Banksian Medal was given. It contained a beautiful example of Cymbidium Traceyanum, a von line Cvpriperiium X Olen.is. C. Sanderianum and others, together witli other showy Orchids. Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son. Upper Holloway also received a Silver Banksian Medal for a fine group f Cvpripediums", with Calauthe
a

which

Silver

together

bella,

Lycaste mesochlasna, and a few other showv things. Messrs. Heath & Son. Cheltenham, sent some good forms of Cyripedium Leeanum, and others.

CORRESPONDENCE,
L*lia anceps alba,
L.
a.

&c.
autumnalis alba.
L.
I

rosea,

I.,

S">'h1 typical

form

L^

of the varieties of Ueliaanc

.-

-C.

II.

fooLd,

Cam<:ya

shM p

" y " Cm

^
I

tertbl, pest where

it

ha, obtained

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NOTES.
meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill Hall, James' Street. Westminster, during March, on the 10th and 24th respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of
12 o'clock,

Two

noon.
of an Orchid house at Eaton Hall, Chester, the residence of the
in

A view
last,

Duke of Westminster, appears

the Gardeners' Chronicle for January 18th

in

as a supplementary plate, showing various autumn-flowering species

figure of a fine

group of the beautiful Dendrobium Phalsnopsis, as

is

grown by Mr. James Cypher, of Cheltenham, Magazine for December 28th last <page 841).

given

in

tl:

Three forms of the handsome Selenipedium X pulchellum, described

at

page 166 of our first volume, have been received from the collection of W. Vanner, Esq., of Camden Wood, Chislehurst. The one considered typical
has the flowers nearly white, with the front of the
suffused with light rose.
lip

and

tips of the petals

One

called variety

candidulum has the same parts

very light blush, and the hairs at the base of the petals reddish purple. The flower is also larger, and, altogether, is a very beautiful nearly white
form.
epical

The

variety

rubrum has the

petals

front
red.

of the
All

halves

of the

rosy

and the margins and The are very handsome.

lip,
is

resemblance to S.
that the parentage

X
is

Sedeni var. leucorrhodum

different.

remarkable, considering

Odontoglossum Cervantesii decorum has five-flowered raceme of been sent from the collection of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain. M.P.. the individual inches in diameter-an excellent measuring 2}

A hue

flowers

example of good culture.

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A good form
of Cattleya Percivaliana from the collection of F. Hardy.
lip
is

Esq., of Ashton-on-Mersey, in which the front lobe of the colour to the rest of the flower, namely light rosy purple.

similar

in

The

throat

is

of

the usual deep orange colour.

It

may

be called C. Percivaliana

var. bicolor.

Referring to the note at page i of Cypripedium X Ashburtonffi with twin-flowered spikes, Mr. W. Wallace Lun't, of Boston, Mass., writes to say
that the

phenomenon
at

is

of quite frequent occurrence in his small collection,

and that

the

present time

he has

in

flower the following,

all

with
C.

two-flowered

scapes

: C.

barbattim.

C.

callosum,

C.

insigne.

Spicenanum, C. venustum, C. X vexillarium, and C. X Lathamianum. Excellent photographs of C. callosum and C. X vexillarium in this state
are enclosed, and

show that the plants are strong and

well cultivated.

photograph showing three flowers of Selenipedium X Schrcedera all expanded together on the same spike is also sent from the same collection, and is interesting because the older flowers frequently fall off when
;

when

quite fresh.

The Cypripedium
our
last

We

volume must wait

is

insigne with abnormal flowers figured at page j6i of not flowering this season, as we learn from Mr. Appleton.

until next

winter to see

if

the peculiarity

is

permanent.

two-flowered raceme of Lycaste Skinned has been received from the collection of H. Gurney Aggs, Esq., Pippbrook, Dorking, and it is interesting to note that this is the third successive year in which the same thing has occurred. There are also seven single-flowered scapes on the same plant. It may be due to excess of vigour, caused by good culture.
very pretty form of Cypripedium X Macfarlanei, called variety giganteum. has been sent from the collection of W. P. Burkinshaw. Esq.. of Hessle, winch the dorsal sepal is over two inches broad, and the rest of the flower proportionate. C. It is a seedling from C. Spicenanum and X calophyllum, and the character of the former is especially conspicuous. A very hne form of C. villosum and Dendrobrium Findlavanum giganteum

come from

the

same

collection

DIES ORCHIDIAN^E.
"f
'
!

artiC ' eS
'

<W,'Tr ^u ""'""' hllVL

mention the mportant results obtained bv Mr. Massee in his investigations on the " Spot Disease of Orchids " (page" 19) It is always an important

Wh ' Ch a PP e:,reti in th e last two numbers '"terested me a good deal. In the first place

of the

would

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

matter to

6,

the nature and habits of an enemy, otherwise, in groping about in the dark, all one's energy may be uselessly thrown away. Much difference of opinion has been expressed as to the nature of this disease,

know

and those who contended

for its fungoid origin

had

at least

some

plausible

reasons for their opinion, but it is now clear that the real cause is a sadden chdl when drops of moisture are on the leaves, and that the fungi after-

wards found on the spots are only there because the decaying tissue affords a suitable nidus for their development. In this respect tin v differ from the
Vanilla disease,

which

is

a true parasite.

It

is

interesting in this connection to

note

that the late

Mr

Williams always contended that the disease an.se from wrong and was not infectious. Many years ago he wrote in his On

Manual The
that
it

spot

is

the dread of Orchid growers.

Some
a

assert
in.

is

infectious, but this

in

we do

not believe.

Indeed,

we should have

hesitation

placing a plant infected with spot amongst

quantity of

was seldom troublesome under proper treatment. And it is further interesting to find that it was Dr. Lindley who first suggested the cause of the mischief. When at Hoddesdon two Phalamopses became affected with spot in the winter, and a leaf was
also pointed out that
it

healthy ones."

He

sent to Dr. Lindley,

who

replied "

'

that the plants had been kept too moist

lost

during the cold dark days of winter' a reply which we have never since
sight of.

was a sharp winter, and these two plants had been kept wet by placing the bottom of the block in which they grew in a pan of water to keep off the cockroaches." Mr. Williams specially
quite right, for
it

He was

deprecated too

heat and moisture, as " under such exciting management they [the plants] are apt to become spotted and get permanently into a bad state of health so high a in short, the least chill, after growing in

much

temperature,

is

liable to

induce disease."

It is

quite clear from these remarks

"hat Mr. Williams thought was the cause of spot, and Mr. Massee's experiments not only confirm this opinion, but also show the precise wa)
in

which

it

is

brought about, which

is

important, and goes far to indicate a

it.

remedy,

or, at all events,

how

to prevent

I would next Cattleva Fly noted at page 44. of aUode to, if only to point a moral from the preceding paragrai Who have it should try to find out all they can about it, for there is sound

The

serious outbreak

sense in the concluding lines of the article just alluded to. I have had no trying. experience with the pest, but the remedies suggested seem worth to Stamping the pest out is obviously the proper course, if one only knew how the affected s about it. A friend suggests the advisability of burning

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

is

stock and buying more, but, apart from the expense there
that the

the possibility
it

new stock may

also be affected, for

I

it

appears that

comes

with

imported plants.
in

Better,

think, to try

and

find out all about

its habits,

which case a remedy would almost certainly suggest itself. An should be kept on newly-imported plants, or those who have hitherto
been troubled with the pest

eye not

may suddenly

discover

it

in their collections.

The

article

on " Cypripediums with identical names

in

"

(pp. II and 37)

is

very suggestive, and indicates the growing confusion

of hybrid

the nomenclature
one

Cypripediums,
Mr.

to

which

have

alluded

on more than

occasion.

Young must have

list,

exercised a good deal of patience and

I

industry in compiling the

to collect

and

rather think that should he undertake

it

the Cypripediums with identical parentage he will find

still

greater task, to say nothing of the difficulty our Editor might ha\ e in nndin? space for it, without displacing more important articles. If it only brought

about a better state of things the space would not be wasted, but the question is whether those who stand most in need of such an article would
take the trouble to consult
it.

The one clear thing

is

that this rapidly growirf

confusion ought to be checked.

it

is

not

alone in

Cypnpedium

that

mam

unnecessary names

are

continually being given, for I frequently the see references to this fact in Rtview. Only last December I noticed that such a well-known plant B Eulophia guineensis had been re-described under a new name, together with Catasetum incurvum. In a similar way I see that the well-known

La;ho-cattleya

X
is

names, which
of

elegans has been re-describe'd under at least four different suggestive of a great deal. An article on the Manufacture
instructive,
if

Synonyms would be

not altogether entertaining reading-

nation of this kind

naccessible. but
I

is

generally so widely scattered

"ill >"

witli

variety the characters of each like'

all

arranged'

in

son.ethiii"
"at

sequence,
events,

it

letermine. pretty nearly,

any doubtful

more of such

ttsefa]

lists in

the future.

my

present budget,

would allude

to the interesting

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69

Hybridist's

Notes "

contributed

by

Mr.

Mead.

Both

the

subjects
profit-

treated of are important ones, on

which further information might

ably

he contributed

by others who have made experiments.

And now

that attention

has been specially called to these points, additional obser-

vations are sure to be

made.

It

is

very curious to find that the influence

of the pollen parent should be seen at such an early stage as the ripening of the embryo, though such a thing miglil
lint

perhaps have been expected,

in
its

the subject of hybridisation

is still

almost

infancy.

BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW.

In

the

recently issued

Hand
it

List of

Orchids cultivated
rich

at

Kew,
all

it

remarked that while the collection contains representatives of

beautiful

the most

and popular

species,

is

more

particularly

in

others winch

at first sight are

not particularly attractive, though, on careful examination,

most of them will be found to possess no small degree of charm and

interest.

There are many collections in which a few of these so-called "Botanical Orchids" are grown, and a few notes respecting those in this representative collection may. perhaps, serve to draw more attention to a somewhat neglected but very interesting class of Orchids, many of which
grown, very
floriferous.

are easily

and take up but

the
size or

little

space, though they

are

often

somewhat
their

deficient

in

colour of the

flowers as

more favoured brethren. Armed with a good quite fying glass, however, some of them are found to possess charms these unsuspected by the casual observer, and when grown in masses, as
compared with
plants should be,

magni-

many

of

them

are very attractive.

all

Perhaps the term

those which for various reasons "Botanical "may he include. 1 are not generally cultivated, and these only it is intended to It is hardlyusual showy species are, of course, equally well represented. public open to the inspection of the necessary to add that the plants are

be held to include

visitors. every afternoon in the week, and attract a large number of the houses in walking through Perhaps the most charming thing noted racemes -as a pan of Hemaria Dawsoniana. bearing several of its dainty variegated of white flowers, which are no, less beautiful than its elegantly think botanical Orchids, but I leaves. Some would deny it a place among >ellow an variabilis. ... both it= it can fairly Maxillaria be admitted. and M also M. ochroleuca purple varieties, was flowering very freely, heir descriptive of porphyrcstele, whose names are both equally

peculiarities.

the Orm.thithe preceding are the latter afford a curious contrast. Allied to cui diums. of which O. densum and O. confertum are two

The dark purple column and

light

green.* segmenU

ol

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

With few exceptions the species of
Pleurothallis can only be termed
like a

botanical Orchids, and here were the curious P. immersa, something

small P. Roezlii, but with the peduncle united to the leaf for a considerable
distance,

and

P. longissima with long

racemes of green

flowers.

Also two

whose flowers are remarkable for closing at various times of the day or night, and the curious little Scaphosepalum ochthodes, formerly referred to Masdevallia, were bearing numerous racemes; also
or three species of Stelis,

Masdevallia melanopus.

Of Restrepias were the curious R.

ophiocephala,

together with R. maculata and R. elegans, the two latter invariably being
attractive.

Of the Dendrobium group may bo mentioned the

pretty

little

Australian

D. Kingianum, and the very curious Megaclinium falcatum, while Erias included E. velutina and E. cristata, the latter bearing two-flowered racemes
of white flowers from the axils of yellow bracts, the lip also being yellow.

Tainia penangiana and T. latifolia were flowering freely, with the Philippine Pholidota conchoidea. Epidendrum was represented by E. fuscum and E.

Spondiadum, the
little

latter

P. juncifolia.

with light purple flowers, and Ponera by the curious Among Saccolabiums were S. hainanense and S.

Mooreanum candidulum, while Gome/a was represented by G. crispa. Of Cypripediums may be mentioned C. Bullenianum, C. Victoriaand the interesting natural hybrid C. X siamense, also the Brazilian Selenipedium Sargentianum, though these are perhaps not more botanical than some other things not included in these notes, which might have been
Maria;,

considerably extended by the inclusion of plants which are more generally

cultivated.

CATTLEYA LUEDDEMANNIANA VARIETIES.

The
handsome Cattleya Lueddemanniana was given at the page 272 of our last volume, and we an account of may now give different varieties which have been described, some of which are flowering
history of the
at this season.

mentioned is the one called C. speciosissima Lowii by M r V Anderson (Cm/. CI,,;,,,.. 1868, apply p. 404). but the description seems to byto an entire importation of something like a thousand plants brought to Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. from be considered Venezuela, and thus may

The

first

'

represent C.

Lueddemanniana

generally,

and not any particular

variety-

The

form, description given seems to refer to an average or 'fairly typical of which a figure is given in Kcichmbachia (ser. 2, I., p. 71, t. 34).
\ ar.

Buchanan.ana

(C. speciosissima var.

t.

Will, and T. Buchananiana,

in

Moore

in Orel,. All,.,

VI.,

261)

is

a fine

form, which appeared

the

collection of J. Buchanan, Esq., Morningside. petals are rosy lilac, the

latter

Edinburgh.

The

sepals and
of

being three inches broad, and the front

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

the lip rich magenta,
1)
I

Jl

which extends down the centre uf

tile disi
it

lKtwi.cn

the

two

light

Yellow blotches.

Thus
in

upproi.

li.

th.

typical

form very Dearly.

f.

Var. Regina (C. speciosissima Kegina. Rchb.

p.

Card, (hron., [884,

i.,

J72)

is

a very large form,

which appeared
is

in

the collection of Sir Trevor

Lawrence. Hart.. Burford. Dorking, and

described as having the ovary,

lip
1-

column, sepals and petals of a rich purple colour, while the

deep

mauve with the usual

Var.
p.

Yellow- spots.

Reichenbacli described

it

as one of the

grandest Cattleyas ever seen.

Malouana
t.

(C. spsciosissim

var.

Malouana, Lind.

in

Lindtnia,

I..

p.

yg.

47) appeared in

the establishment

Compagnie Continental
-trial, d.

front of d'Horticulture, of Brussels, and has rosy magenta Bowers, with the

the lip

somewhat spotted with

a darker tint, and the disc similarly

almost obliterating the usual Yellow blotches.

Var. Ernestii (C. speciosissima var. Ernestii, Will.
p.

Orel,. C,r.

Man., ed.

7.

186)

appeared

in the collection

of

T.

Statter,

Esq.,

of Whit, lid, I.

with Manchester, and has deep magenta Bowers, the lip profusely spotted deep mauve. Thus it must come rather near the preceding. Var.
I.,

splendidissima

(C.

labiata

var.

brilliantissima,

Card.
I

Wurld.

collection ofW. pp. 569, 570, with fig.) appeared in the amethyst, deep rose flowers, with an Downside, Leatherhead, and has lobe of the the petals, and the front purple feathered blotch at the apex of

Hp maroon-purple.
Var. Roebhngiana
(Orel,. Rev., III.,

p. 98) *PP eared

in the

Hect,on of

C. G. Roeblmg, Esq.. of Trenton,

New

jersey.

The

petals are

tnches

of the purple stain along the nuddle broad, and light blush pink, with a crimson. upper half, and the front lobe of the lip rich purple a > st Chro,,., 1886, .., p. 554' Var. Schrcederiana (Rchb. f. in Card. Schroder. 1 he collection of Baron beautiful form, which appeared in the Mossi* Re.necke.na in pom Dell. Egham. and may be compared with C. colour of the also the ground of colour. The sepals and petals are white, -. number of mauve purple lip, but the front lobe is broken up by a

whtle the disc

is

also striped with rosy

lilac

on

^ge-veil ow
...

d.sc.

was imported by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., who in 1S85 Certificate for it at the Orchid Conference a charming 6
Var. alba (Orchidophile,
1886,
p.

J.
albino,

which
cep, on

3 5)

been imported bv M. Godefroy-Lebeuf.

..r^...

It is

pure whrte ,< .<h

..r^

.^^

,.,,..

fr..

v.wi^r^

:t

v^r:r^::^v;::'^::^:r:.^."i:

,jt

Autlr-nshaw, Manchester.

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of

tftE OliCIIll)

REVIEW
sent from the
in
collection

A magnificent flower of the typical form has been W. S. M'Millan, Esq., Maghull, near Liverpool,
and the

which the
which

petals are

barely under3 inches broad,

rest of the flower equally woll developed.

in

Mr. Robertson, the gardener, writes that the house

are

these plants

grown

is

42

feet

long by 12

feet

broad, and 9

feet high,

and

that the

plants are suspended in teak baskets in the centre of the house, together with Cattleya Warscewiczii, Dowiana aurea, Triana, and Lielio-cattleya

elegans,

and that Cattleya Lueddemanniana

is

placed nearest
rapidly,

to the

ventilators.

When

the plant starts

it

grows very
is

and

flowers as
kept

soon

as, or just before,

the young bulb

also
i:i

finished.

The

plants are

very dry in the

summer and

winter, but twice a year, in springand

Lath
Last
three

autumn, a considerable quantity cf tree leaves is placed in the house. roller blinds are used for shading, but a good amount of sun is given.
year the plants grew and flowered twice, and this winter they are

weeks

earlier

than

last,

so that a second

flowering

is

again anticipated.

The

plants are certainly

last

and two sent

grown with great success, as the present Hotter year amply testify. This habit or' growing and flowering
time
has also been observed elsewhere.
It
is

occasionally a second

magnificent Cattleya

when

successfully grown, ami deserves

more

attention.

DENDROBIUM SARMENTOSUM.
This pretty
collections,
little

Upper Burmese Dendrobium has now flowered

last

in several

and on February nth

Messrs.

Hugh Low &

Co., of

Clapton Nursery, received a Royal Botanical Certificate for it from the Horticultural Society, under It is a the provisional name of D. fragrans.

Shan States, Upper Burma, and is one of those mentioned by Mr. R. Moore in his interesting paper on the Orchids of the Shan States (Supra, III., mil" pp l6 g- 172} as having been found withi n about 30 of Lake Inle ,l.c, p. I;i) r Lewis & Co., t
of the
. .

native

flowered with Messrs

of Southgate,

January. 1895, and shortly afterwards with Mr.J.Moore, of Bradford and this year with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co.. as above mentioned, and at Kew. VIt is allied to D. barbatulum, Lindl., and Fytcheanurn, Batem., but in Dits branching habit reminds one of Falconer,, except that the about growths are flowers are
;

in

the

sue of

more those of D. Fytcheanurn, and the

lines
flo

erect.

The

sepals, petals,

and

front lobe

the lip are white,

numerous hght brown radiating

aS '"

and the basal part of the

lip very light

green with
disc is

U
'

on the side lobes.

The

WJ

barlKltul "

Th"T'

The

we r s

are almost as fragrant as

violets-

le is gi\e-n in allusion to the

sarmentose or very twiggv

habit.

R. A. R-

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;;

DENDROBIUM FARMERI AND

A (.hud
species,
ileal

D.

PALPEBRyE.
during recent

of uncertainty has been

latter lias again

felt

as to the limits of the above two

in

and as the

appeared

cultivation

years a few notes about

them

will

probably be interesting.

Dendrobium Farmeri originally flowered with \Y. 1". ('.. Farmer. Fs.p. of Nonsuch Park, Cbeam, Surrey, in March. [848, when it was exhibited
at the
a

Horticultural Society's rooms,

in

Regent Street, and was awarded

densifloruni.

Silver

Banksian Medal.

It

had been received from Dr. McClelland, of

in

the Calcutta Botanic

but,

Garden,

the previous October, as

1>.

proving different, was figured and described by l'axton \\lag. of Bot., XVI., p. 241, with plate). Various other figures subsequently appealed.

but for a long time nothing

was

stated about the habitat, though

it

is

now

known

to be a native of the eastern part of the lower

In

Himalayan zone and

the Khasia hills, also

the

forests

of

Moulmein.

The

stein* are quad-

rangular,
petals

and the flowers borne in long pendulous racemes, the sepals and being more or less deeply tinged with pink, and the disc of the lip

deep yellow.
D. Palpebral appeared shortly afterwards, having been received from

Moulmein by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, who flowered it in November, 1849, and shortly afterwards it was described by Dr. Lindley (/en. Hart. Soc., V., p. ;;). a was compared with D. densifloruni, but is nearer I).
I'armeri,

little

having similar stems, but the racemes are shorter, the Bowers are smaller, the sepals and petals white, and the lip not so broad.
in allusion to
It

The name was given

hairs, like

the base of the

lip

being fringed with

In
at

eyelashes.
in

Plant

which flowered

was discovered by Thomas I.obb. the houses of MM. Jakob Makov & tie.

i860

l.iege.

was figured and described under the name of D. I'armeri var. albiflomm <E. Morrin BOg. Hort., X.. p. 321, t. 21). which apparently belongs to
D- Palpebral
it

Nothing further was stated

as to

its

origin.

Subsequently

was also figured in Flore de$ Stmt (t. 2,461). 1" 1868 another plant. which had been introduced from Moulmein by Messrs. Hugh Low A < " (Regel, was figured and under the name of D. Farmeri album
described
Gurten/tora,

XVII.,

p. 321,

t.

595).

and

this is precisely identical

with

I).

Palpebra: in every respect.

Mouhnen, In 1864 a plant flowered at Kew, which had been sent from by the Rev. Mr. Parish, and was described and figured under the name of D. Of this Mr. Parish Hag., t. S4SI-)
Farmeri var. aureo-flava. (Hook. Bot. and I). remarked : " What if I were to say that Dendrob.um Farmer, know both of them extre. I ? chrysotoxum were one and the same There is no mistaking the
'ing

had them

'

without the flowers.

Two

days ago, on going down

into

my

ga rd.n.

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I

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

believe

was astonished, and could hardly

my

eves, at seeing a panicle

of

the golden flowers of D. chrysotoxuni

proceeding from the hulbs

is

of D.

Farmeri

the only difference being that the labellum

here rather more

pointed, and not so round as in

D. chrysotoxuni."
lip

Sir William Hooker

different
finally

pointed out further that the fringe of the

in the

was

also essentially

two species (and, he might have added, the bracts

also),

concluding that the

new form was

quite distinct from D. chrysotoxuni,

but

only a yellow-flowered variety of U. Farmeri.

Although so
Farmeri,

distinct from

D. Farmeri at the

first

glance, further examination

fails to reveal
it

any
is

other

important difference beyond the colour.

Like D.

a very

handsome

plant.

K. A. K-

DENDROBIUM
The
are

ROLFE.E VAR. CANDIDULUM.

Rolfea audits handsome variety roseum
are

history of

Dendrobium x

given at pages

113 and 114 of our second volume, where also both

figured.

A most
It

beautiful white variety has

now appeared
I),

in the collection

of T. A. Gledstanes, Esq.,

Manor House, Gunnersbury, which maybearthe

nobile,

above name.
the

was obtained as an imported

in

ami agrees

witli

two above named

having

lost the

characteristic

maroon

blotch of D.

of the nobile, only retaining the crimson-purple radiating lines at the base side lobes, and a paler stain between them. All the rest of the flower is p"

white, with the faintest tint of pale sulphur on the lip. The pseudobulbs are slightly flattened at the sides. appeared as an The variety roseum also imported D. nobile, and presents the same arrangement of colour on the
lip,

while the apex

is

the suffused with rose-pink, together with the whole of

sepals

and

petals.

hybrid, raised

The original D. X and named by Messrs.

Rolfea;,

on the contrary,

is

an

artificial

F. Sander

&

Co.,

who

D. state that

primulinum

and D. nobile J were the parents. It has precisely the same arrangement of markings at the absence base of the lip, and the same cannot of the characteristic maroon blotch, and, from this circumstance, one
9 the avoid the conclusion that the two hybrids from wild varieties are also same two species, which are known That they to grow together in Sikki.11.
Jile
is

clear,

and the various

plants,

ment betweer the wild

1

ificially

raised
little

plants are too obvious

agreepollnts of to be

overlooked.
particularly
to

All three
s. a,

arming
s

on accor
experi
nobile as

purity of colour.

make

and the W It would be worth

present one
"
'

furt her
I)

varieties of

may

be amici pated.

choi r with these two species, using the hybn rents. Other examples of the wild

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CATTLEYA TRIAN^E AND

We
have again
received
a
series

ITS

VARIETIES.
very

of flowers

of this

polymorphic

Cattleya,
existing

and may attempt to point out their relationship varieties, of which we gave a complete account at

to the

numerous
of

pp.

114 1111

our last volume.

The

majority- have flowered

out of recent

importations,

and may not be absolutely identical with the

but at
all

forms previously

named,
one
in

events they closely resemble them,

It is

so far as the descriptions

is

enable us to judge.
of the

hardly necessary to add that this Cattleya

at

most useful plants flowering

this
in

season, as

it

is

represented

almost every collection, and frequently

numerous forms.

Three forms from the collection of E. A. Bevers. Esq.. "f Oxford, may first be mentioned. Yar. tricolor has the front lobe of the lip crimson-purple.
the disc yellow,
petals

and the

rest of the flower white.

lip,

Var. I"

lias

the sepals

and

deep blush, with purplish-rose

Var. delicata
is

which becomes decidedly

paler at

the undulate margin.

well

know

11

as having uniformly light

blush flowers, except for the yellow disc.

From the

collection of

John Powers.

Esc].,

Swanswell, Coventry,

a form responding to var. Backhouseana. The sepals and petals arc light blush pink, and the latter have each a crimson-purple somewhat flamed
blotch at the tip.

The

front of the lip

is

also crimson-purple.
S.

Three other

fine

forms have been sent from the collection of John

Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishops Waltham. One has blush pink sepals and petals, with the whole of the front lobe of the lip and ape.x of the side
lobes rich purple-crimson, the throat being of the usual pale colour, with

the yellow disc or very near it.

much

reduced.

This we should

refer to the variety fulg.-ns.

Another has sepals and petals blush

pink, the latter being

over 2\ inches broad, and the front lobe of the lip rosy magenta, the disc The third form being slightly veined. It may be referred to var. formosa.

remarkably open lip," even to the base, which gives additional prominence to the disc, which is yellow with a whitish margin. The front
lias

of the
certain

lip

is

purple-crimson.
this

If the

open

lip

proves constant,

we

are un-

which variety

can be referred

to.

collection splendid flower" of the beautiful albino. C. T. alba, from the of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, has the petals two inches

broad, and the lip equally well developed the rest of the flower of the purest white.

the throat deep yellow, a.id

all

very prettily with blush segments and the lip form, coloured, comes from the collection of R. B. Macbean, Esq., of Lancaster. A zone of white occurs round the deep yellow disc and inside the narrow It is Pink margin of the side lobes, while the front lobe is purple-crimson.

rather small

probably not yet fully developed.

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NOTICE OF BOOK.
Hand-List
of

Orchids

cultivated

in

the

Royal

Hardens.

Knc.

London.

Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery' Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode.

1896.

l2mo., pp. 225.

is in

A SERIES of Hand-lists of plants cultivated at Kew tion, and the last issued is devoted to Orchids.
the species, varieties and

course of preparapreface occupies

of

The

twelve pages, and the remainder consists of an alphabetical enumeration

the collection, with the authority, native country, and as often as possible a reference to a published ti^urcfor example Acinkta BABKEKI, Limit. Mexico. Bot. Mag. t. 420J and thus

hybrids

in

will
It is

be very useful to those

who

are in

any way occupied with

is

Orchids.
for

printed on one side of the paper only, and thus space

if

:d afforded

additions,

and

fifty

The list contains about 200 genera, garden hybrids. The preface contains much interesting
necessary.
is

ecies,
ratter matta

about the collection, from which the following

extracted.
from essentially different f
.

The
perhaps
Its

collection of

Orchids cultivated

at

Kew

is

any, at least in this country, in the possession of a private collector, and

its

only

rival
is

main object

Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. as botanical, and to represent the family Orchids in

is

that of the Royal

ehensive a

way

as possible.

The

scientific

interest

attaching

to

Orchids

very great.

Hut even as regards form thev can only be

difficulty,

studied

from dried specimens with great

and

as regard:

and their varied

contnvss-fertilisation

which thev exhibit

theveannot be studied

in

the dried state

While the Kew collection contains representatives ofallthemostbeautifi d and popular species, it is more particularly rich in others which at first si ght are not Most of these. attractive. particularly
at all.

however, on careful ex amination will be degree found to possess no small

of

charm and

interest.

Orchids have beei 1 continually cultivated at

Kew

from

their earliest

introduction into this country. The varied fortunes which have attended the collection practica llv reflect which has been the history of the progress made in the art of gro win" Orchids mditions. mid r titi In the first editlo n of non-British specie Alton's
'
1

Hartus Kc
Sir

cn-.i-.

is

are

enumerated as

ci:

L.vated

J. a have scarcely seen am one except i ' species of this genus (Epidendrum), nor dry state, before the ear at Kew, 1787, when E. cochleatum flowered j was it till October. ana 17 92, that E. fragrans, of Swart/, exhibited its rich elegant bloom in the s iame collection. species are to At present, several seen flowering in the mentioned spring and autumn." In the work just Phaius grandifolius wa s figured and described under the name of Liniodorum

at'

Kew,

E. Smith wrote.-''^

TUB ORCHID KEVIEIW

Tankervillia:.
it,

77
it

peculiar interest attaches to this plant because

was

in

and

at Kevv, that, in 1802,

Francis Bauer,

who was

" resident draughts-

man
the

for fifty years to

the Royal Botanic Garden." discovered and figured

cell,"

"nucleus of the

an

all

important body, the

in 1833.

first

description of

which was published by Robert Brown

By

the time the second edition of the llvrlus

/\V,. cj/wn

was

issued, in

1813, the

number

of exotic species

had grown to

84. belonging to 30
-,

em,

1.0

few being and natives of the West Indies. East Indian, South African, and Australian. Roxburgh sent a nuiubei of species from India early in the present century, and of these John Smith

the majority being epiphytal

wrote:

"I

found growing

in

iSjj. on a shelf above a

called the
its

title,

against

tin-

back wall in what

was then
freely,

propagation house, the

Aeiides

growing and flowering

roots clinging to the back wall, as also

Saccolabium guttatum. There were also plants of Dendrobium Pierardi and D. cucullatum flowering freely, which had recently been brought home
from Calcutta by Mr. Pierard."
At this period, with the
1

sceptions abovesoil

mentioned, the Orchids at

to the

Rew "were

potted in

common
1

and plunged

rim

in a

tan bed."
to

According
1823 and

John Smith

{Records, pp. 229, i.j"

"

Between the years

1825 a considerable number of species wire received from Trinidad, forwarded by Mr. David Lockhart. the Superintendent of the
garden, amongst which were the
Papilio,
first

plants of Stanhopea insignis.

Oncidium

Lockhartia elegans, Catasetum tridentatum, [onopsis paUidiflora, and others, all of which were epiphytal, and many of them being sent growing on portions of branches as cut from the trees, which, being accompanied by instructions from Mr. Lockhart as to how they should be treated, led
to the successful cultivation of epiphytal Orchids."

of the house which now forms the east wing 1845 the span-roofed Tropical Fern House was erected on the site of an old stole, and Sil and 1,1, MiniWilliam 184b as " occupied with a rich
In

Hooker described

it

in

able collection of orchideous plants (of which a

gnat proportion was pre1,1 This gift was recorded by him sented by Her Most Gracious Majestvl."
'844 as the entire and

Woburn Abbey, which, on being Bedford. Her Majesty was gracioush

:

formed at of orchideous plants valuable collection Dukeol offered to her by the present
to the pleased to accept and to send

of the K-val Gardens at Rew." Continuing Sir William Hooker's account to " the handsome slate staging so large as "ouse centre is filled with a look thus enabling the visitor to admit of a raised walk through the centre, the ratters over Ins head, and from down upon each side of the house, while ep.phyte filled with trop.cal on either hand, are suspended wire baskets another and cooler 5 open As the house in question blossom epiphy tabled to remove the splendid
I

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

in

heated atmosphere, and thus preserve them

In r8a6 the collection

beauty

for a

much

longer

the Rev. J. willed his splendid collection of OrcHAeee to the Royal Botanic Garden." According to John Smith (Records, p. 235) " in 1848 the number of species cultivated at Kew amounted to 755. and in 1850 to 830." By the same authority it is stated in 1864 to have been Four years later the 638. Botanical Magazine records about 400, but in r872 the number of species

was further " increased by the noble Clowes, of Broughton Hall, near Manchester, who

bequest of

and

varieties in cultivation

the collection has steadily

was 85 1, belonging to 138 genera. Since then increased, and in 1891 a list of those which

flowered in the previous year, 766 in number, appeared in the Kew Bulkta. Speaking of hybridisation it is remarked : " The great range of species

which

Kew

has at
it

its

command

suggests attempts of this kind.

And

in the
will

genus Disa

has produced crosses which are easy of cultivation and probably become popular as ornamental plants."

LYCASTE

IMSCHOOTIANA.

"

This handsome hybrid was described at page 8 of our first volume, and may be remembered that there was some doubt about its parentage. hug from Lycaste Skinneri, but nigrescens was sa;
Maxillaria
t" be the
,

ollen parent.

We, on

the other hand, could see no evidence

<

we

uui iouna strong indications of the influence of Lycaste cruenta, whictl had no doubt was the other parent. M. Van Imschoot has now written

confirming this opinion by documentary evidence. He has discovered among his records that both the above named crosses were made, but that it was the cross with L. cruenta from which L. X Imschootiana was obtamed, not fromthe other, as wasat first thought. This is very satisfactory rom every point of view. M. Van Imschoot sends a flower from Unoriginal pl Mt together with one from Mother seed] Qut of the same batch, which has decidedly larger and paler sepals of the
,

flowers.

The

are nearly 2 | inches long by Qver |nch broa(Jj while the -h. eleh longer and proportionately broader. The ground colour latter i olour instead of lijdit ivll,,w. and dots the purple-red

may be m v"b

called variety pallida. ailed

nT

ded
'

The ktter which

'

<="- *

little

nearer to L. Skinneri,

Both show the most unmistakable evidence of L. cruenta, both " in the shape and colour of the lip, and sepals and petals. They are certainly very handsome.
1
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CYPRIPEDIUM NIGRITUM.
Siimi-

time ago Messrs.

Hugh Low &

Co., of Clapton, imported a Cypri-

pedium from Borneo, which they suspected might prove new, as it differed in the foliage from any of the known species from that island. It has now
flowered,
is

and although quite

years ago,
is

different from
is

any of the well-known species,

stillprobablynotnew.forthere
still

one Borneahonewhich, though described

fourteen

practically

unknown.

The

following

is

the

original description :'!

A Bornese
Leaves

introduction of the

New Bulb Company,

virens.
light

Lion Walk. Colchester.

like those

of Cypripedium

green, with darker reticulations.

The

flower

comes near
a

to that of Cypri-

pedium barbatum. The colours are those of odd sepal is oblong, acute, not almost

very dark variety.

The

circular, thus coining nearer that of

Cypripedium purpuratum. The veins stand much nearer to one another. Thepetalsare much narrower, and the marginal warts stand partly over
the middle to the apex.

The equal

sepals form a very narrow body.

lip.

There

are obscure warts

on the

stalk of the

Staminode

like that

of Cypri-

pedium barbatum. but with intermediate small teeth in front, and longer angles on each side of the dorsal sinus. Thus it is near Cypripedium
barbatum. but
',

it

appears quite distinct." Rchb.

has anywhere lingered

f.

in

Gard. Ckrm., 1882,

p. 102.

Whether
I

this plant

in

cultivation
it

is

doubtful,

at all events I

have never been able to ascertain what

really was.

though
at
all

believe that Messrs.

Low

have now re-introduced

it.

Their plant,
:

events, has leaves closely resembling those of C. virens

is

the dorsal sepal

much

smaller than in C. barbatum, with which the species can perhaps

best be

compared

the petals are

much

narrower, and the warts extend

fairly well

"early to the apex:

and, lastly, the staminode agrees

with the

above description.
'"ore apparent than

There are one or two discrepancies,

real,

but these

may

be

happens that the tirst flowers produced after importation are somewhat abnormal, and it is most unlikely
for
it

frequently

there should be in Borneo characters above pointed out.

difficulty

that

two

different species each possessing the

We

have here another example of the

of identifying a species from an imperfect description, when Unoriginal specimen is carefully hidden away so that no one can possibly refer
<<>

it.

If

there should be any one

plant,
I

who saw

the original C. nigritum, or

will

who

knows of any existing

for

hope they

help to clear the matter up.

under the circumstances the above identification can only be a provisional one, and there is another curious form in cultivation rather near ( barbatum. but with a very narrow dorsal sepal, which was at first thought
-'.

o be abnormal,
is

and of which no one seems

will
in

to

know

the native country.

It

to be

hoped that materials

time be forthcoming to

settle these

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

In
colour,
it

doubtful points.

Messrs.
in

Low's plant much

resembles C.

barbatum, but

is

not equal to

point of beauty.
R. A. K.

AN AMATEUR'S NOTES.
to the genial weather,

and

a host of beautiful Orchids are

now in
yet.

fuil

bloom.
in

Cattleyas Trian* and Percivaliana have

several light

been very good, the

is

former

and dark

varieties,

and the supplv

out.

not over

good

C.

Lueddemanniana has now come

glossa,

and some

fine trusses of C. amethyst...

which

is

a noble plant

when

well grown.

The two

Laelias now

in

flower are L. harpophylla nopsis Schilleriana, P.

and L. glauca, and both are

very' good.

Phalsas

Aphrodite, and P. Stuartiana are as

is

beautiful

they always are at this season, and the former, especially,

superb.

the greatest show! and include several forms of D. nobile, some magnificent Wardianums, D. Findlayanum, Dluteolum, D. Hildebrandii, and among hybrids D. X Ainsworthii. X Leechlanum, X Cassiope, and X chrysodiscus, are now the best. Three fine pans of Coelogyne cristata, with its beautiful varieties alba and Lemoniana. form a charming trio. I cannot imagine an Orchid better worth growing than this, for it gives very little trouble compared with the display it mate
are
at this season.

The Dendrobiums

now making

Ada aurantiaca
a

invariably blooms well about this time

of
its

year,

and

is

plant which evervone should possess, on

account

of

unusual colour.

Oncidium splendidum, O. tigrinum, and Lycaste mesochlsna are also flowering well. No one who has a warm house, or even an ordinary stove, should be without some plants of the good old Phaius grandifolius, which never fails to throw up some fine spikes every season, and when wJ grown is a really noble plant. P. maculatus, too, on account of its spotted rayes is worth growing, and is now in flower. Aerides Vandarum and
good to be overlooked just now. ine Odontoglossums are coming on well, and include some good forms ot O. enspum and luteopurpureum, O. hybrids gloriosum, and the natural U- X Andersonianum and O. x Wilckeannm. together with many of * Mexican species, as maculatum, Krameri. CErsted,,. nebulosum, I'"'- l.< Hum. and K ssi i, the two Cochlioda free y
l
'

'"

'

''

'""" -l>inum are also too

"sea

also very good.

nul T
thaTT
matter

""5
u

The spring-Howcring Cvpripcdmnis are coming of Ca " SUm ""> Aorus being alreadv out. A larp
:
'

^ ^^ ^

bri " iant thi " KS are

ff

aCqi " S,tlon

thro "'" "P 'B'v- nd "'" ^Kthen, E lphiella Elisabeth*, and these will
:

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Si

CATTLEYA TRIANjE ARKLEANA.

The
subject of our present
illustration
at
\

Fig. 5)

is
j

tin-

beautiful

Cattleya

Trianje Arkleana. which

there pointed out,
it

was described

page 10

of our last volume.

\V.

As
a

flowered

in tin- collection of

John

Arkle.

l'.^|..

West Derby, Liverpool, from an imported

tional in its

plant,

and proved quite excepundulate-

brilliant

colour.

Its

perfect shape and beautifully

petals

and

lip are

seen in the annexed photogi a ph. which was kindly sent

its

by Mr. Arkle with the original flower, and

dimensions may he inferred

when we

state that the petals were fully 2}

inches broad.

The colour of
and the from

the sepals, petals,

and base

of the lip

is

beautiful blush pink,

lobe of the

lip

which colour extends round the glowing purple-crimson,

apex of the side lobes and right into the throat, completely obliterating the As regards colour .t " yellow blotches so characteristic of this species. Mr. Arkle now saturata. comparable with the brilliant C. Warscewiczii form and writes, that the flowers are again expanding and are the same ,n from It was imported colour as last vear, but, he thinks, a little larger. leading bulbs, two of which Popayan, and is a good robust piece, with three
carry-

Cattleya It was the hrst only one. each two flowers, and the third obta.n.ng so Triana; Mr. Arkle acquired, and he must be congratulated on

82

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

it

exceptional a variety, for

is

as

good

in

form as

it

is

brilliant

in

colour.

Last year he obtained a number of others

all

imported plants which

it

have not turned out quite so well as they should have done, owing,
thought, to a spell of
off their bulbs,

is

warm weather which

set in just as they

It is

had

finished

when they again started into growth. season they will settle down and do better. We do
a similar

hoped
if

that

this

not

know

others had

experience with this species last season.

THE HYBRIDIST.

remarkable series raised by

Captain Hincks, of Richmond,

a

Yorks..

to

whom we

are indebted for a

photograph and a two-flowered raceme.

but, unfortunately, there
is

Itrsa

seedling from

M. abbreviata,

little uncertainty

about the other parent, though a glance at the flower shows a multitude * those remarkable iridescent violet hairs, which can only have come from M. Veitchiana or some hybrid derived from it. Hincks made two Captain
crosses with

M. abbreviata, using the pollen both of M. Veitchiana and X Chelsoni, and sowed seeds from each cross, but is uncertain fromwhW

M.

the present seedling

M. X amabilis S and M. Veitchiana 3 and we are inclined to think that M. * present Chelsoni rather than M. Veitchiana parent of the was one
,

was derived.

from Chelsoni was obtained

of of the flower is only because of the small size Mpresent one, for we fail to trace anv other direct influence of point, amabilis in it. this doubtful Further experiments perhaps, settle

seedling.

This, however,

may.

and the cross with M. Veitchiana, at all events, should be repeated. ' taller, habit, the plant most resembles the scape is m' abbreviata. though those and, at present, only two-flowered. The flowers, too, approach
this parent in shape,

though modified

in

size,

shape,

and

colour.

T"

the sepals are eight to nine lines long, divided to the middle, and

ta'B

.. about two lines longer still. suffused The sepals inside are strongly orange-yellow, very little of which is one, but apparent on the dorsal >l are densely covered with hairs of the remarkable iridescent violet characterVeitchiana, while on the inner are the angles of the lateral ones

istic

purple spots of M. abbreviata, but more maroon in colour. white. and lip al so resemble those beinR of this parent in shape, the former '' and the latter much " spotted with maroon-purple on a yellow ground. a very pretty little plant and remarkable because the parents belong'" " such different sections M**1 first of the genus believe it is the raised from a species of the Amanda- or \I oolvsticta "roup.

peB15 The

We

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A
in

R,

very

Masdevallia x Shuttryana vak. Chaubrrlainii. handsome variety of Masdevallia x Shottryana has been
Hon.
J.

raised

the collection of the Right

Chamberlain, M.P., by Mr. Barberry,

which we have received a flower. The original type, as may be remembered, was obtained by crossing M. caudata Shuttleworthii S and M. coccinea Harryana 3 and flowered in 189a, , the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. The present one is the reverse cross, according to a Inf. *om Mr. Burberry, and is a gnat improvement on the original. The perianth measures 1 inches long, and 1 is divided to the middle, while the
of
,

are rather longer than this, the dorsal one being The 2J inches long. flower is about intermediate in shape between the parents, and the coloui is light rose-pnrple, except on the dorsal sepal, which is whitish yellow, vein,.!
tails

and suffused near the margin with

light

rose-purple.

Tins organ much

resembles M. caudata in shape, and some minute darker sp-ils on the lateral sepals show the influence of the same parent. The petals and Up are intermediate in character. It is a wry pretty hybrid, and received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society on February nth last.

Cypripedium
This
F.
is

Lloydia?.
in

an interesting

little

hybrid raised

the establishment "f

^-q,.

Sander and Co., St. Albans, from Cypripedium Godefroyie 5 and C. venustum 3 of which we have received a flower from the collection of R- H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham. The vegetative organs
,

we have not
the whole
it

seen.

The

flower

is

quite intermediate in shape, though on

plant.

most resembles the mother

The

dorsal sepal

is

mate.

acute, concave, over 1^ inches long,

lines

and with about nineteen

light green

on a pale whitish ground, and a few traces of purple spots on the nerves. Petals oblong, 2 inches long by ten lines broad the ground colour
:

I'ale

yellowish white with a

few dull purple blotches and

in

many minute
suffused.

spots,

mostly on the nerves, and

petals,

some

cases

slightly

Lip

"Wong, equalling the

nerves, except

and whitish yellow with greenish yellow

dull purple.

round the mouth, where they are

Staminode

reniform, apex obscurely tridentate, colour yellowish, veined and suffused with dull purple except round the margin. The characters of the pollen

Parent are most strongly represented in the dorsal sepal and in the veimng of the lip. It s a verv distinct little plant.
i

Masdevallia

Curlei.
Esq.,

pretty hybrid raised in the collection of A. Curie.

Priorwood,
leaf

Melrose, N.B., from scape most resemble

M. macrura

and M. tovarensis 3;

The

and

the seed parent

the latter

is

10 inches long,

and bears

one or two nearly white flowers, with a few minute purple dots on the face, a slight blush The column, lip, tint at the back, and pale greenish tails.

THE ORCHID REVIEW

and bases of the petals' show some purple spots and stripes, as in the seed parent, whose influence is less aparent in the flower than in the vegetative organs. O'Brien in Card. Chron., Jan. u. 40.
p.

CALANTHE ROSEA AND

Some
a
A. Worsley, Esq., of Isleworth.
for sale at

C.

RUBENS.
in

interesting facts respecting these two species have come to light series of plants which have recently flowered in the collection

of

A batch

of imported bulbs was

offered

one of the auction rooms, and was purchased by Mr. Worsley. A number of them began to push up spikes, and on flowering, proved to be the well-known old C. rosea, to which it was then thought all belonged.

Other plants pushed up

species

later,

and these proved

to belong to C. rubens,

of

comparatively recent origin.

An

interval

of

over a month

elapsed between the flowering of the two species, which are so much alike that until the very different flowers appeared no difference was observed. C. rubens is a native of the Langkawi Islands, lying off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, whence also Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. have obtained C. rosea, and these facts probably serve to fix the origin of the batch of bulbs obtained by Mr. Worsley. Of course the two species are thoroughly distinct, for C. rosea has an entire lip, while in C. rubens that organ is strongly four-lobed. as in C. vestita and both are charming little plants
:

when

well grown.
first

C. rosea was
originally

discovered by

Thomas Lobb.

near Moulmein,

and

flowered with Messrs.

James Veitch & Sons in December. 1851, b* described and figured by Dr. Lindlev, under the name 0<

Limatodes rosea (Paxt. PI. Card., III. p -- t 81) The Rev. Mr. Pari-h also found it in the same locality. and"sent plants to Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., one of which was figured 53'"' in the Botanical MagazifU (t.
In 1881
P- 309),
it

was transferred toCalanthe by Beutham (/ra. and has rightly been known
as C.
localit

l.iim.S,*.. XVIII-I

rosea ever since,

am

not

aware that the Langkawi

:

such a distance from the original habit

in

1890 by Mr. Ridley (Gard. Chrm., 1890.^ P- 588) from specimens brought from the I an-kawi Islands bv Mr. Curtis and plants were sent to England, which in due time flowered, and those which flowered with Mr. described by Worsley are identical. plant

C. rubens

was described

me

The

in
i

1892 under the

p. 488)

name

of Cahinthe vestita

Fournieri (Gard. C*"*'

must also apparently be referred to the same. It >* from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, with the record that it had flowered wh M. Fourmer, of Marseilles, and had been introduced f">n>
1892,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Borneo, though

85

as to the latter
I

point

am now
its

convinced that some

evident affinity with
I

mistake has been made.

G. rubens,
identical.

originally pointed out

which

had not then seen, and now

is

think

the

two ate

In this case the species

very variable in colour, for there were

two n.se-pink forms, one darker pink, one blush, and one pure white, and
the

two

latter

may
in

be termed varieties delicata and alba.

it

The

flowers arc

smaller than
relation
it

C. vestita, to which

is

nearly allied, though the exact

bears to this and allied forms

still

remains

a little doubtful.

R. A. ROLFB.

A TRIMEROUS CYPRIPEDIUM.
A VERY
ip.

curious

flower
is

of Cypripedium
in

Harrisianum,
for

sent

by

Mr.

Steinmetz, of Bruges,
2j8l.
It is

noted

the Gardener's Chronicle

February 22nd
I

described as having three sepals (the two lowc

The ...luiun. detached one from the other), two lateral petals, and a lip. staminodes, which is the most remarkable feature, has three shield-like Darwinian notatx 1. A 2. ami A .). "f representing the outer stamens. A and three perfect anther-bearing stamens corresponding should that all the viz., a 1, a 2, and a t. It is remarkable been "f the us have been thus developed, as the lip appears account for the presence of A difficult character, in which case it is
:

and

would be interesting to know wh to stigma was developed, and whether each stamen was traced conditi very instructive, but the Abnormal flowers are frequently

3 as separate organs.

It

11

of the

present one

is

rather a mystery.

ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM AUREUM.

A Mos,
the
collection

from crispum has been -en, brilliant variety of Odontogram (.range. Stone by Mr. Walton
of \Y.

Thompson.

Esq..

Stevens, which

mav

above. be referred to the

a. exhibited by F. A. Philbrick. Esq.. of Bickley. -c. and received a F.rs Horticultural Society in February. ,884, and petals deep lemo ' cate. It is described as having sepals ^ two broand the lip yellow, former being spotted with brown, <*sc"bes <he one nw^ This practically spots on the anterior part. does^ February. .883, but which Mr. Stevens remarks flowered in

The ongina a "-ting o

pUntwa
h,

a.

"-ng

>^

remember

to

have seen

it

since.

Mr.

P^ ?

name on June 12th. 1.94 Merit for one bearing the same does say, as the po.nt differs from the present one we cannot
have been recorded.

^
it

ho .

far

no. appear

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

SEASELL'S PATENT ORCHID BASKET.

Improvements
ments
for

Orchid baskets now chiefly take the form of arrange preventing the water supplied to the plants from running off at
in

the sides without passing through the compost, and thus failing to do its proper work. It is partly in order to avoid this that dipping the plants has been so largely practised, though there is the further reason of wishing to avoid the dripping of water on to the plants growing beneath, which is

an equally important matter. West Patent Orchid Basket,

Some time ago we gave an

in

illustration of the
of the

which, by an ingenious arrangement

top and side bars, the water was deflected inwards, and thus was obliged to pass through the compost. Messrs. Edward Seasell and Son, of Sheffield,

Fig.

6. Seasell

Patent Orchid Basket.

send us a specimen of end their Patent Orchid Basket, the same in which is secured by a different arrangement, the namely, of making the top of Basket out of one solid piece of teak, in which a large circular saucers aped opening is made, something like the rim of a pot. The basket is well and substantially made, and the above illustration will give a good idea of its general character. the It is claimed that by its use not only must water thoroughly moisten left the compost, but corners being
on,

prevent the loss of water by too rapid evaporation gives entire rigidity to the basket, and also J HOW Show!lUSt

that the four

top while the solid

facilitates the

potting of the

V .Novnii

reCe ' VedaCertificat

.,-

=fMeritatthe

Sheffield

Chrvsathen..m>

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Rj

THE CATTLEYA
In

FLY.
l.afia

1890

got

the

above

fly

with
pest.

some imported
I

[uirpurata.

ami

can

feel for

anyone who has the

tried

fumigating, lighted randies

at night,
I

cutting off infected pscudobullw and piercing with a needle where

at

saw the young growths had got the grab

I

work, but found these methods

new pseudobulbs get full grown. and by drawing a soft hand up and down them could detect where the grub was located, by feeling a slight and often a decided protuberance on the pseudobulb. This we cut open with the smallest knife we had. and got out
were of no use whatever. then
let

the

from one to

five
is

grubs,

some of which were straw colour and

others dark

even quite easy to find the grubs by this method, without looking at the bulbs. By observation we got to know when to expect the beautiful they ale flies to come out and caught about twenty, and very

brown.

It

when newly out of the bulb;

ings.
If
I

it

is long,
I

should get the

fly

again,

with a blue body and yellow markshould not wait for its coming out,
bit,

but pierce the protuberances with a very fine carpenter's

I

as

knife

The time when got the flies out of makes a rather clumsy looking hole. come out between the Lselia purpurata was just after this period, and they 10 and ii a.m., when the sun is bright and warm. Hamu '"*' J ami:s Hvkki.ev Gardens.
'

DENDROBIUM RUCKERI.
This rare but pretty
originally published
S.
is

little

Dendrobium
It

is
it

now
is

.1

ring

freely

at

Ke

from plants recently sent from India, and

erroneous.

now

origmally
in

evident that the locality flowered ir. the el I.-.,,.,, of

plan, remarked A Manilla Lindley (Bo/. AY .. XXV., Mix., p. > who handsome, It is sweet-scented, Rucker. whtch has lately flowered with Mr. is flowers, the Up of which and distinguished by its clear nankin-coloured was figured Immediately afterwards .. a little stained with rose-colour." presume it to be one 01 . author added- "We
,.-

Rucker

Esq.,

of

Wandsworth,

.4J.

was described by Dr.

(/.c.t.60),

is to b, although no trace of it Cumming's discoveries in the Philippines, CaU.u,wev*, A drawing from found allgnTdried specimen,,

when

the

. Khasia hills, besides which . shows it to native of the a by M, feet elevafon with at Nimbong, in Bhotan, at 4 oo he general nab* It has locality. doubtful

effectually dispotes of I.ind.ey's

ofU.l ut lum.towh.ch
>

it

is

smafler flow allied, but has most

regularly striped
stroii'dv J
-

w,

up narrower segments, and the side lobes of the fe

reddish brown.

1.

The

r.i virt line of the lip central

,

vdlosc.

it

is

in

teresting to be able to

dear up

its history-

A.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR MARCH.

Bv H.
A.

lirRBlRKV. Highbury, Moor Ciecn. Birmingham.

The temperature for the month should The Cool House. Day, with sun,
night, 55
;

range as follows
6o to 65
;

:
to 60
:

without sun, 55
to 75

morning, 50 to 55
night, 6o to 65

The Intermediate House.

65
to 70
;

Day, with
.

sun, 70

without

sun,

morning, 58 to 6o.
with sun, 8o to 85:
without sun,
70 to

The Warm House. Day,

75
;

morning, 65 The days are now lengthening and the light becoming stronger, thereso fore we may gradually increase the supply of water at the roots without
night, 65
to 70
;

much

fear of

bad

results following.
all

Ventilate freely on
especially in the

suitable occasions, both night

and day, more

east

Cool departments.

Beware, however, of the piercing

cultivator

winds, which are accompanied sometimes by bright sunshine, running

the

thermometer up rapidly, and ofttimes prompting the

on too much
air.

to put

Rather than do this use the

roller

blinds,

which should

now be in position, and at the same time keep the ventilators closed. The season of growth is now at hand, and, with more solar warmth, the When this is plants will soon begin to push out new roots and growth. seen they may be re-potted or top-dressed. Increase the supply of moisture atmospherically by thoroughly damping down twice daily, morning and evening. Repotting may now be said to have commenced in earnest on every hand are to be seen plants which require attention, and many others
;

are hastening

on to that goal, therefore

see, are If

it is

necessary to be on the

alert to

keep pace with the times.

The Anguloas,
good time to do
is

which pushing forth new growth and flower buds,

it

appear simultaneously.
it,

is

necessary to repot

them

this

month

is

for

if left

until they

growth have passed out of bloom the

far

advanced, which renders repotting irksome and dangerous.

These

grow best in pots, and the compost should consist of two parts of good lumpy peat to one part of sphagnum moss. After repotting, the plants should be watered with care, enough being given to keep the compost just moist, until the roots have commenced to take hold, when they may be
plants

watered more

freely,

and given occasional doses of weak

liquid

manure

unti

the pseudobulbs are matured, when they should be well rested throughout the winter in the coolest house, well up to the light.

Thunias, too, should now be repotted. about four strong bulbs to a 32-siired
pot.

They are best grown

As each bulb will have
be

in pots,
its ol

roots

removed

entirely away,

it

will require to

made

firm in

its

posi" "
ol

by the aid of a stick thrust

in the compost, which should be a mixture

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

fibrous peat,

S
full

loam and

silver sand.
in

Let the pots he drained half

with
little

crocks,

and press the compost

moderately
six

firm.

(live

hut very

water until the new growths are about

inches high, which will tend to

After

keep the pseudobulbs dwarf, and generally ensures free blooming.

this

water

may

be given with greater freedom, with

little

weak manure
such a house
in

water occasionally.
as the

Let Thunias be grown

in the full sun. in

Mexican or Cattleya house, or they will also grow well anil strong the wannest house, hut they are not quite so reliable to Hocr.

An eye should be
rest:
is

given to the Habenarias. which have

Urn

enjojing

they will soon

now push new growth

if

from the crowns, and when this

Seen to he taking place thev should be repotted.

They
a

are best anil

most successfully managed

big

grown

singly in small put-,

large no being

enough

for

one large tuber.

Let the crown of the

filled

tub. a be level with

the rim of the pot,

and

let

the pot also be

:

up

level

to its rim with

broken crocks, peat, and sphagnum moss

the plants well

water carefully

at first,

and place

up

to the light in a

warm

genial house, such as would suit so will

tin-

Dendrobes that are just starting.

As time and growth advances

plants delight in a larger supply of water.

Bolleas, Pescatoreas, Stenias, Warscewiczellas, and such like Orchids,

many

of

which

will

now

be passing out of flower and

breaking anew to

form fresh growth, should

There are be attended to and repotted. some very beautiful and most interesting things amongst them, especially and in the two first named genera, but they are not the freest of all to grow,

now

hence they have fallen out of cultivation somewhat.

well generally requires a
little

To

get

them to do
point,

management.

The most important

them, and this must be sought or an for in the warmest house that is, cither the East Indian House, prettyordinary stove at a part which is rather shady and which keeps
however,
is to find a suitable position for

regular in temperature
hut

and

is

naturally moist.

Bright sunshine

is

harmful.

sometimes kept so heavily shaded as IS they do not require to be matters. supposed, especially when their position suits them in other equally Thev tnav either be grown in pots or in baskets, and both answer The pots should be crocked well, though of the two I prefer the former. stick crocks and charcoal, a stout three-parts their depth with quite clean steady the plant can be made should be fixed firmly in the centre, to which sphagnum moss-I never use well elevated above the rim. so that the base from where the new peat to up con.cally to its

^d

roots
freely

these-may be built appear. Thev are fond

growing good supply of water when of a

Of " nuv then get quite white and crisp before water is applied weather should in which the course this last is one of those little matters
he the principal guide, as with
all

during the summer, but during winter will take

much

less,

fact the

other Orchids.

90

THE OK CHID REVIEW.

Let the
before the
such
or

The deciduous Calanthes must not be potted up too early. new growths get an inch or two long first, and that will not be
beginning of next month.
as C. Masuca, C. veratrifolia

On
and

the other hand, the evergreen kinds,

others, should either be repotted now

is

held over until the flowering season

past about May

or

June.

These
loam,

Orchids grow best

leaf-soil,

if

potted up in a good rich compost, such as fibrous

and lumpy peat mixed together.

The

pots should be thoroughly

the

well drained nearly three parts their depth, so that

water of

which
the

they like a good supply during

roots.

summer may pass away

quickly from

They

are best

There are

grown in intermediate temperature. a number of other Orchids which are

best suited with

exactly similar treatment to that

which the Dendrobiums best enjoy, and which have been resting with that genus during the winter in intermediate temperature such will again be moving into active growth and must not now be neglected. These are the Mormodes, Catasetums, Coryanthes and
;

Cycnoches.
same.
in

The
are

culture these genera require

is

nearly identically

the

They

all

most

likely to give the best results

house, and in a very light position. never be allowed to get sour for want of renewing;

the

Warm

grown in The compost

if

baskets

should
years

certainly

two

should be the outside limit, in fact,

of giving

think

it

is

better to

make
it

a practice

new sweet materials

for the plants to root in annually.

is

Such
well
to

would be the best safeguard against their deterioration, which

avoid, for

when

this takes place

some trouble

is

experienced before they

are

again brought to a sound state Employ the of health)- vigorous growth. best ,f fibrous peat and sphagnum moss in equal proportions, and make
quite sure that the plants are tied firmly to sticks, or to the wires of the baskets, or they shake about when being handled, and the roots are unable to get a firm hold, which is most undesirable. The above cultural remarks will also apply to the Chysis, which are just starting to grow and will soon be showing their flowering spikes. Re-basket the plants after blooming-

Of

the pretty
;

blue

Acacalhs

cyanea

similar

remarks
is

may
good

be made,
!

>h<HiM

materials.

Xow

also a

repot Pha.uses of the grandifolius type, also the Eulophia guineensis. The compost advised above for the admirably, evergreen

and they should be given the warmest house Continue to repot or re-basket s any of the Dendrobiums that need it " soon as possible after they have passed out of their flowering stage, and
afterwards place
gradually

Cahnthe-

suits

them

them

in their

proper growing quarters, where thev

will be

mured to more warmth and moisture as the spring advances. U- tormosum is a very handsome Orchid, and comes in verv useful during the autumn months. and It is not an easv one to keep in good health, must have plenty of warmth pans to do so. It should be grown in small

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

or baskets,

91
It is

and suspended

at the hottest part of the house.

Inst to

re-basket, or to pick out the old

this

compost and supply

D.
Dearei.

fresh annually,
forth.

and
1).

should be done just as the new growths begin to push

Lowii.

D.

Bensonire,

D.

bigibbum,

1).

Maccarthite,

I),

macrophyllum, and
pretty

D.

Phalaenopsis require similar treatment.

in flower just

very

and very cool-growing Orchid

It is

now

is

Odontoglossum
(

aspersum.

a natural hybrid between O. maculatum and

>.

R.issii.

Tin:,

hybrid varies very

in colour, whilst

much

in detail, like its

parents,

some forms being

washy

others have a groundwork of a beautiful golden

yelk, blotched and barred with bright chestnut-brown, and these are
great acquisitions to the group.

Calendar a few beautiful Oncidiums which love the temperature of the Cool house. There is another section of the same genus which I would here mention as doing best in the same department,
I

mentioned

in

my

last

supposing one important point be

are kept dry after flowering in

strictly observed,

and that

is

to see they

the autumn, and throughout tin

winter

which brighten up the house with their vivid colours in the dull autumn and early winter months, when there are but few other things in bloom, such as O. Forbesii, O. crispum, O.
months.
I

refer to those lovelv species

varicosum,

and
all

its

large

variety,

Kogersii,
last

O.

tigrinum,

and

O.

t.

unguiculatuni.

With

the exception of the

two. these are best grown

suspended, and
little

moisture.

during the season before mentioned must be given but They will now, however, begin to grow, and will require

more water, gradually supplied.

root disturbance, but this

They

are Orchids that

in

do not take

well to
it

must be done about once

in

two years, as

is

most important their roots should be kept

This operation should be done when
high.

a sound, healthy condition. the new growths are an inch or so

cnstata.

One
and
it

of the most useful Ccelogynes very easily cultivated.

repotting.
It is

is

the old and well-known

is

much when
of the pot
in
it

Unless the pseudobulbs

about too best not to pull this species are growing over the run
it.

will scarcely ever require to be taken out of

hut

simply 6U

any hollow places with fresh peat and moss, without which the plant wonld in time get loose and shaky, presenting a more or less starved
It will appearance, and small under-sized growth resulting. have finished flowering and will be starting into growth, and this

now
is

soon

there-

fore the best

time to do

it

up.

Ccelogynes delight in a

liberal

supply of
liquid
rest

water during the growing season, with frequent supplies of weak long dry manure. completed they should have a After "rowth is

throughout the winter months, or they Mexican and Cattleya house temperature
as indeed
it

fail
is

to

bloom

satisfactorily.

The
I

the most smtable for C. cnstata.

for

is

for most of the genus;

instance C. Sandenana,

gz

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

(".

Massangeana,
others,

fuscescens,

('.

cotrugata.

('.

barbata, C. ocellata and most

C.

though C. Dayana, C. speciosa, C. Parishii, C. pandurata. and

little

asperata are the better for a

more warmth.
all

Be

careful

still

with the watering of

past
few-

Orchids, especially those

kinds

which have
speaking
there
is

for

the

months been quite dormant,

it

Cenerally
for until
rely
little

all will

require an increase, but

should be very gradual,

until

greater activity with the roots

and growth, and

I

we can
a

upon more assistance from the outside conditions of the weather,

will still suffice to

keep the plants healthy-.

I

have written
so

a good

dial
1

on watering because have attempted

am

convinced

it

is

a most important
previously
as

subject.

to deal with the

matter

to

enable

readers to form an idea as to the quantity of water required at the various

seasons of growth.

But

find

it is

no easy task to write down

fault

instructions

that are not absolutely free

from the

of being liable to be misunderstood

by beginners
artificial

in

Orchid culture.

It is

be of those lessons which cannot one

taught by theory- alone, but requires a certain

amount

of practice before

the

requirements of an Orchid can be known. When once this is grasped it is soon seen how perfectly simple it is, and the cultivator will then withhold or apply water without hesitation or delay, whereas previously

he paused in timid doubt, not knowing what was right to do.

thing else
it is

Like

every-

so simple to

do when one knows.

For those

who

do

not

understand, the happy medium policy is the best one to adopt, for > keeping too dry there is a danger of starving, and this is equally as bad as keeping too wet. I don't know if I have ever stated exactly my own practice in watering,

but

if

not

it

is

through fear of misleading.

winter months one day in the week only is here set aside for and during the summer we allow two generally Saturday days, which are Tuesday. Most plants on those days are found to require water, and have it without stint Some but of course there are always exceptions. frequently. not want it so often, while others require to be examined more sim* Ladia crispa (sometimes known crispa) is very as Cattleya spec"* in growth to Ladia purpurata, and should be grown with that having the same treatment in exception every respect with the and in the time in repotting, growths

watering. W
During

as

it is

much

later in

making up

its

flowering.

The new pseudobulbs

it

are now only half-way advanced

to the"
flower-

completion, consequently
after

must be about August before they can

winch

is

the best time for repotting.

The will now- be starting to grow. have been kept very dry since November, in fact the pseudobulbs help* shrivelled a little, which is not really desirable, though it cannot be sometmaes. Continue to keep them on the dry side until the flower sp*' appear from the centre of the new growths "which will be shortly,

Odontoglcssum citrosmum

pb*

M*

THE ORCHW REVIEW

afterwards
it

moiv water should be given. Cattleya Warneri is now well advanced, and may lie watered as soon as looks dry. hat with Warso
which
little
is

wiczii,

just starting to grow,

l>c

it

is

different, as

it

i^

shy flower.
three
either Iv
If in

and but

water must

given until the new growths are tw

is

inches high.

C. Gaskelliana

also breaking well

and

should

repotted this

month
at

or

left

over until immediately after flowering.

bad condition

the root thev would be best A^no now.

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
Aeranthus grandiflorus, Lindl.Gari.
fig.
:

Uog., Nov. 30,

p.

764, with

Orch. Alb.,

t.
I

514.
t.

BlFRENARIA

YKIAXTI1 ISA, Kehb. f.Bot. Mag.,

74(0.

Cattleya x Mantinii. Gari. Mag., Feb. N. p. 83, with fig. Cattleya Tkianj; alba.fount, of Hort., Feb. 6, i>. 113, Bg. 17. Cypripedium x Gertrude Holuncton. foum. of Hort., Jan.
J. fig1.

2,

p.

Cypripedium x James Buckingham.- -Joum.

fig.

of Hort., Feb. jo.

,..

159,

2J.

Dendrobium luteolum.fount,

14.1of Hurt.. Feb. 13, pp. 142.

fig-

J'-

Lycaste Smeeana, Rchb. I Orch. Alb., t. 516. Odontoglossum crispum Ashworthianum.Gari. Cknm., Feb.
PP- 196, 197,
fig.

15.

26.

Odontoglossum maxillare.Gari.
6g.

Mag., Feb.

22. pp. 116,

117. with

Odontoglossum Schlieperianum flavidum.Orch. Alb., t. 515. Renanthera Storiki, Rchb. S.Orch. Alb., t. 51.5. Vanda Sanderiana, Rchb. f. Garden, Feb. 1, p. 88, with fig. Zygopetalum GautierlGarden, Feb. 15- P- IlS ' '"5.S-

DENDROBIUM NOBILE AND

A
series of beautiful forms of Dendrobium
collection of O.

ITS

VARIETIES.

O. Wriglev,

Esq..

Bridge

the nobile has been sent from Among those Hall. Bury.

described at pages 147 to 150 of our last

varieties

volume may be mentioned the

together with four other large pulcherrimum and Sanderianum, head of and richly coloured forms, two of which probably come under the

D. n

giganteum
m-,b,l,s.'

. n.

from the collection of

W.

a magnificent flower

nch broad.

j| inches across the petals as broad same collection, has the D. n, elegans, from the

of Hessle. P. Burkinshaw. Esq.. fully an petals, which latter are

9* but a
little

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

shorter.
are also

Three or four other large light-coloured forms enclosed, showing that the plants have been very well grown.

curious form has flowered in the collection of R. Ashworth,

in

Esq.,

which half the flowers have the inner angles of the lateral sepals stained with maroon. A smaller number on the same plant have only one sepal so marked, and the remaining fourth are without these markings at all. It presented the same peculiarity last year.
hp-hke colouration of the lateral sepals is characteristic of the variety burfordiense, though we believe the peculiarity is constant in that form. The forms of this popular and useful species are becoming rather umerous. Some others have been received, but call for no special remark, bein g only good
;

Newchurch, near Manchester,

I his

ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL

The
display of Orchids at the
Drill

HORTICULTURAL
Hall,

SOCIETY.

James Street, Westminster, on February nth last was a very good one, and above the average for this particular season, doubtless owing to the mild weather which prevailed. A ber ot Awards were made, and, singularly enough, two exhibitors each received an Award of Me for the old Cypripedium villosum, which has
previously been overlooked.

The

Preside

group, to

Lawrence, Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White'. which a Silver Hanksian Medal was given.

included a fine basket of the beautiful with its pretty

rose-tinted
flowers,

Dendrobium X
and
a

burfordiense, covered

Uominianum, Masdevallia X

splendid

specimen of D. X
villosum

Fraseri,

aureum, and four others to which Special Awards were given. A fine specimen of Pleurothallis Roezlii, bearing numerous drooping racemes of arge vinous-purple flowers, received a Cultural Commendation, and three others each secured an Award of Merit. These were :-Masdevallia X Henrietta; (M. ,gnea ? x M. caudata Shuttleworthii 3 ), with salmon-pink flowers, vemed with a darker tint Dendrobium X pallens, a very
;

M. melanopus, Cypripedium

delicately-tinted flower, of

which D. Findlayanum is said to be one parent, and Cypripedium villosum, of which some fine examples were shown. <ne K.ght Hon. Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Moor Green, J.

zzi t.
rorri

<gr

of

^ W
u

-These
2

t t tr Masd
er
"

very interesting h >- brids

ise

ellia

M "d*a
-

X Shuttrvana Chamberlanu (MShuttleworthii'*), to which an Award X Andromeda (D. X ""* ** f rm ***

Amsworthii

ir

g,eD

U*cUaloT,

and Dendrobil

flowers tinged whh K u witn pink pink,

^TTJ and

"^'^

I the disc of the lip purple.

THE OKCHW REVIEW.

95

The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Hill Award of Merit for a fine plant of Houlletia tigrina bearing two racemes,
one with two, the other with four flowers. Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, Egham
fine
(gr.

Mr. Ballantine) showed

t).

Odontoglossum X

Andersonianuin, and the magnificent

crispuin
It

nobilius, with

seventeen beautifully blotched flowers on the spike.

this species ever seen,

is

one of the best examples of

and deserved the award

made
R.

to
I.

it

of a Silver flora Medal.

Igr.

Measures. Esq.. Cambridge Lodge. Camberwell

Mr. Chapman),

received a Silver Banksian Medal for a good gruup. including

Dendrobium
a

X Dominyanum,
coloured Cattleya

D. nobile Ballianum, Saccolabium bellinum,

Triame. t'vpripedinm X Pegasus
a very pretty hybrid.
('.

richly.
?

,('.

X Leeanum
C.

X
ol

C.
C.

X Morganiae

3).

x Olenus.

Leoniie.

X Calypso superbum. and

C. villosum. the latter receiving an

Award
tine

Merit.

E. Ashworth. Esq.. Harefield Hall, Wilmslow. staged of cut Orchids, to

vcr\
I I

-roup

which a

Silver Banksian Medal

was given.

Denbrobium X Wardiano-japoniciun. and a tine Cvpri|>ednun called C. X Leysenianum (C. barbatum Warnerianum 1 X C. bellatulum 3 ), one of the numerous forms of C. X Richmanii. to which a special Vote of Thanks was given. Park Koad. Streatham (gr. J. T. Gabriel, Esq., Elmstead, Leigham
plants of

Mr. Guyett), staged a group of finely-flowered specimens of Coelogyne

cristata. to

which

a Silver

Banksian Medal was given.

Fran Ida Brandt, Villa Brandt. Riesbach. Zurich, received an Award of

Merit for a very fine Odontoglossum Rossii rubescens.
three A. J. Hollington, Esq., Forty Hill. Enfield (gr. Mr. Ayling), sent good Cypripediums, called C. X Mrs. Fred Hardy iC. superbiens t X C. with bellatulum Annie Ayling (C. Curtisii ? X C. concolor 3)

),

C.

rose-coloured petals densely dotted with dark purple, and C. X James Buckingham (C. X enfieldense ? X C. bellatulum 3 ) a line rose-parple
flower spotted with chocolate, to

which

latter

a.i

Awaid

of Merit

was given.
Mr.

H. Woodall, Esq.. St. Nicholas House. Scarborough igr. Hughesl. sent a good plant of the pretty orange-red Odontoglossum retusum. to which a Cultural Commendation was given.
E.

W.
Cragg),

C.

Walker Esq., Percv sent Dendrobium speciosum.

Lodge,

Winchmore
received

Hill

(gr.

Mr.

which

Botanical

Certificate.

Moore Esq., Roval Selenipedium Klouschianum and

Certificate being given to the latter.

F.

W.

Botanical
Maxillaria

Gardens,

Glasnevin,

sent

porphyrostele, a Botanical

T. Statter, Esq.,

Stand

Hall, Whitefield, Manchester

(gr.

Mr. Johnson),

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Cypripedium
(C.
exul, C.

sent a form of

X
9

amabile, C.

Bragaianum), and

x Jamesonianum

Arthurianum

C.

X Leeanum

superbum

i).

Messrs. James Yeitrh

&
a

Sons, Royal Exotii

Silver

Nursery, Chelsea, staged

It

very fine group, to which

Flora Medal was given.

included

Epidendrum

Wallisio-ciliare,

some splendid firms

of Cattleya Triara,

Saccolabium violaceum Harrisonianum, Phaius Blumei, Dendrobium X splendidissimum grandiflorum, I), x YVardiani-japonicum. I). X Cordelia

and D.

C. flavescens, Selenipedium
var.

x Dromio

(S.

cardinale
C.

X
lo

caudatum

Uropedium

),

Cypripedium
3
.

X Germinyanum,

grande, and C.

X Lathamianum

Messrs. F. Sander
for a fine

&

Co., St. Albans, also received a Silver Mora Medal

Klabochorum and P. Lehmanni, Phaiocalanthe X Arnoldia, Phaius X Cooksoni, Dendrobium X Sibyl, D.X Vannerianum, D. x Curtisii (D. X Cassiope S X D. aureum 3 D.
Pescatorea
),

group, including

Johnsonje,

anceps Schrcederiana, L. a. Sanderiana and L. a. Hollidayana, Lycaste Skinneri alba, Cattleya Triame alba and others, a fine Cypripedium X Rothschildiamim. Trichopilia sanguinolenta, Oncidium
cheirophorum, &c.
Messrs.
including a

Ladia

Hugh Low &

Co., Clapton Nursery, staged a very pretty group'

number of good Phakenopsis Schillcriana and P. Stuartiana. Cynorchis Lowii. Cymbidium Lowianum, numerous good Cvpripediums, and Dendrobium sarmentosum (Rolfe), a a prcttv little species to which Botanical Certificate was given under the name of I), fragrans.
Messrs. B. S. Williams

&

Son. Upper Hollowav. also received a

Silver

good group, in which Cvpripediums figured largely, together with Ladia glauca and the beautiful Pescatorea Lehmanni. and Messrs. Heath & Son, Cheltenham, sent Cattleya Trianae Ernesti,
for a

Banksian Medal

another

brilliant

form,

Dendrobium Findlayanum

giganteuni. a very
a

fine

form of Phalienopsis Schilleriana, and P. X Yeitchiana, hybrid between the last-named and P. rosea.

most

interesting

CORRESPONDENCE,
' '

&c.
i

''

asrard.

he Odontoglossum

is

curiouslv abnormal, and

I).

doubtful.
J.

Jhe

Dendrobium maybe considered

a pale form of

X Rubens

B., Hessle.

H.

G,

Ladia anceps Ilarkeriana. Haslingde Troy,

A- R.

S.,

more

hereafter.

hitbV
'

Cyl"" ipediUm

fair"'.r i'caT p
G.

**!*
Many
thanks.

very large spots.

b venus.um, good C.

California.

Will reply as earl> as possib|e

Shall not be lost sight
of.

">

R- Y., and others.

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Two
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Horticultural Society will be held dating

will

Committee on the 7th and 21st respectively, when the Orchid

meet at the usual hour of 12 o'clock, noon.

Attention has sometimes

gradually become tinted as the flower becomes Esq.. labiata appeared in the collection of R. B. Macbean, Ccelogyne last, which, we are informed, opened as white as

open white but called to Cattleyas which been An example of I older.

.

in

November
but

crista!:,,

t.nt. reached a decided lavender became darker every day until it finally d.d not develop the colouring matter It is evidently not an albino, though

before the flower opened.

A
at

flower of the

charming
first

little

Dendrobium X Roeblingianum,

described

page

of our
j.

Right Hon.
fertilised

wo par

characters well combines the with the pollen of D. nobile, and raisers. ~.. .. ..,u 1 were and Manda t*M>n> the Pitcher
.

Chamberlain,

he from the collect,,,,, ,, volume, has been sen, seedhng from D. Rocta* is a It M.P.
of

Rappart, E collection of D. B. ^' determined abnormal, are sent fron, the certa.n.y peculiarity, cannot be Cheshire, winch, owing to the O. between O Hal.n and .hough they may belong ,0 a hybrid
f

Two

Odontog.ossum with both hp flowers of a curious

/ ^*~
rerj
6-

-de*-

was as at

first
it

supposed.

The

crest of the

l.p

onl>

feveloped, but

may behave

differently at
t,

another tone ot no^

-friv

A very

fine flower of

Odontoglossum

'"teopurpureum with nearly white ground,

*** ongmaiu

of O. or the Bogota form

ues

under

this

98

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

of Arddarroch,

name, comes from the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq.,

measuring i\ inches across the toothed petals. The sepals are wholly brown except at extreme apex and base, and the petals very heavily marked.

Odontoglossum X Andersonianum, from the same collection, is also very fine, the segments being seven lines broad, and well blotched on a pure
O. X Wilckeanum splendens has the segments long and narrow, and the petals much undulate. The ground colour is white, and the
white ground.
large blotches deep red-brown.

now flowering in the collection of H. Ross, Esq., of Florence, bearing as many as ten J. It is rare in racemes, with numerous flowers open at the same time.

large plant of the

handsome Arachnanthe

Cathcartii

is

and does not always succeed as could be wished, but when grown properly is a very striking object. It has a rather rambling habit.
cultivation,

The remarkable Poggio Gherardo variety of Cypripedium X Dauthien in the same collection is also bearing eight flowers, and is really a beautiful object. The history of this interesting sport is given at page 20 of our
second volume.
collecCattleya Triana: delicata has been sent from the plant tion of John T. Arkle, Esq., West Derby, Liverpool. It is from a

fine flower of

imported a year ago, and the raceme bears three flowers.

of the beautiful C. T. Arkleana, figured at page 81,
is

Another

flower

and also enclosed,

shows precisely the same character as

last year.

Most forms of the charming

dotted with
purple,

little

Cypripedium niveum
from the

are

more

or

less

but

flower sent
is

collection

of Colone
is

Marwood, of Whitby, by Mr. Horner,

a

an absolute albino, as there

not

speck of purple anywhere.

It

was

as about a year ago imported

concolor.

have received a splendid inflorescence of twelve flowers of Cattleya is aurantiaca from the collection of E. A. Beveis, Esq., of Oxford, which

We

one of

six

borne by the plant.

orange-colour, and quite perfect.

species
is

The A complete account

flowers are of the

most brink"'

handsonw of this

Those who""" given at pages 83 and of. our last volume. 99 should cross obtain the beautiful natural hybrid Cattleva X guatemalensis this species with C. Skinneri.

Two
one

very good forms of Cattleya Triana;

come from the same

Io.

collect'""t

fairly typical,
lip.

the other a large delicate

purplish blush form, with

pale margined

which may be referred to the variety

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is

gQ

A four-flowered raceme of a most beautiful form of Cattleya Schradera sent from the collection of HamarBass. Esq., Byrkley, Burti
Mr.

by

Hamilton.

The

flowers

are

nearly pure
light

white,

with just

the

faintest trace of delicate blush,

and the usual

orange

disc.

The

petals

are 2} inches broad,

and the

lip beautifully undulate.

A richly-coloured flower of C. Lueddemanniao*

collection,

isalso sent from the

same

united to
venation.

which has the peculiarity that the dorsal sepal is completely one of the petals, and yet retains its characteristie texture and
It is

probably an accidental malformation.

in the collection of

Among

the European terrestrial Orchids

H.

J.

Elwes.

Esq., Colesbourne. Gloucestershire, are

some good forms

of On-his militaris.

O. longicruris. and Serapias Lingua, of which we have received examples.

They

are very pretty little plantsand succeed well, the latter inrreasingfieeK

Some

fine

flowers of Miltonia Roezlii and

its

variety

alba

are

also

enclosed, together with the

charming
flowers.

little

Pleione humilis

tricolor,

and

Cymbidium madidum with 32

and beautiful form of Cattleya Trians not mentioned in our list at pages 114 and 199 of our last volume is the variety lilacina, now flowering in the collection of Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, Egham. The front of the lip is lilac-purple, the disc yellow, and the rest of the
distinct

flower pure white.

Cypripedium insigne Sanderar. yet we have received a beautiful flower from the collection of E. H. Woodall, Esq., of Scarborough. We suspect it has been grown very cool. The

The middle of March

is

late for

flower

is

of a brilliant clear yellow.

Mowers of the
Lloyd,

beautiful
p.

William Cvpripedium X Cycnides and C. X our

last

noted at

504 of

volume, are again

sent

from the

collection of

different R. H. Measures, Esq., of Streatham, to show how from C. X th ey are, although said to have been derived both are Swanianuin and C. bellatulum. Mr. Measures remarks that the former

shows so

much

of C. barbatum, both as to the records.

in

some the leaf and flower, that

doubt must be

felt

collection of Skinneri comes from the magnificent flower of Lycaste long by E. A. Beveis, the sepals are 3* >nches Esq., of Oxford, in which r I* inches broad, and the petals and lip equally well developed, the latter former strongly the front lobe of the suffused with rose-purple, and

">uch blotched with rich crimson.

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DIES ORCHIDIAN.E.

A RATHER
Gardeners'

interesting
Chronicle

question

is

raised

by Mr. James Douglas

of

in the

for

February 29th, respecting figures

Orchids.

Speaking of Stanhopeas, at page 264, he remarks

Haseloviana
in the Bot.

:" The

figure of S.

Mag.

for

January, has again brought to

:

my

mind

an idea which has been there before

these coloured plates
it

whether or not in the production of would not be better to have the flowers photo:

graphed

in the first

place

and
itself,

if

not the flowers, because they are to be

coloured, certainly the parts of the flower that have not to be coloured, and

the drawing of the plant

alluded to, are
I

sometimes given. In the plate the tops of the column and the pollinia in two positions
which
is
(

make

these

the Rev. F.
flowers,

comments because I had some excellent photographs from D. Horner some three or four years ago of Stanhopea tigrina
plates of

and they certainly were very different from the coloured long ago. and the modern ones do not seem to be any better."

have nothing to say as to the particular plate in question, though

I

with respect to photographic representations generally

think there can

be
II

no doubt as to their superior accuracy, as compared with drawings.

practice, at
all

events, very few artists succeed in giving the

perspective of
like

the flower and the relative

that

amount of

degree of accuracy seen in

light and shade with anything an average photograph, and even

the

outlines

and proportions of the different parts of the flower in many recentl) published drawings leave much to be desired. Some time ago a friend brought me three figures from the horticultural journals of a new hybrid
Cypripedium,
all

drawn from the self-same flower

(there being but

one),

and
that

all

were
:

different,

both from each other and from a photograph

of the

said flower
ali

indeed, evidence derived from the text

was

required to sho

were intended to represent the same thing.

Of course my remarks

are

intended to apply to

illustrations

in

Mart

and white, because no process of photographing colours has yet promising e " a perfected, though some recent experiments have yielded
'

How

far

photographing the plants

first

and colouring

them

after"

would succeed is perhaps doubtful, though I am perfectly certain th camera that was ever made would give representations at all hk e M figures that I could the number
mention, a certain Eulophiella

among

process

of reproducing colours horticultural works.

by photography would

revolutionise

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Even
in the

,,

matter of reproduction

in

black and white

many

photo-

graphic illustrations are very imperfect, because of a difficulty inherent to the process namely, that ordinary photography does not give different
colours in their proportion as seen by the eye,

some coming out too

light,

and others too dark.

But much of

this

difficulty

can be obviated by the

use of isochromatic plates

Even without these useful accessories photographic reproductions are generally more recognisable and more life-like than drawings, and it is interesting to note how rapidly phoscreens.

and coloured

tography

is

coming

to the front for all purposes where accuracy

is

of prime

importance.
series of

And

in this

connection

cannot avoid alluding to the valuable

in

photographic illustrations which have appeared

the pages of

the Orchid Review,

which should convince anyone

of

the

value

of the

process generally.

Two

or three times

have had occasion

to

mention the
t'.

series of

named

hybrids derived from Cypripedium barbatum and

bellatulum, the last

time as recently as February (pp. 36, 37), and

to the list.

now
last, I

see another addition

In a report of an exhibit by Sir Trevor Lawrence at the Royal

Horticultural Society's meeting on 10th

Cypripediums, C.

: " Among the X barbato-bellatulum (barbatum Warneri X bellatulum)

March
read
' '

was certainly the brightest of the Charles Richman class." (Gard. Cknm. March 14, p. stf.) This name is given in accordance with the botanical
rule of

naming hybrids at
is

all

events with the exception that the

the

name

of

the pollen parent

I

put

last in

compound name,
will

instead of first and

rest.

now hope

that this

much-named hybrid

be allowed to

After

being baptised a few times in Latin, a few more in the vernacular, and nowaccording to the canons of botanical nomenclature, one feels inclined to ask

CATTLEYA TRIANjE SUPERBA.

* verv

of form of Cattleya Trianie has been sent from the collection B. Rappart, Esq., Lisca'rd. Cheshire, in which the petals are four inches
fine

rose-p.nk. long by over with the sepals, of a deep 2 inches broad, and, The front lobe of the lip is rich crimson-purple, and the throat deep yellow. & ^ brighter in colour than the type, as well as much larger, and may be opened a called C. T. superba. on the same plant which Some flowers A fortnight earlier are said to have been even larger than the one sent. as a small light-coloured from a plant which arrived form is also sent, seedling on a now flowered for the hrst time on It has piece of C. T. alba. a bulb tiv developed. e nches long It has not ye t properly
j .

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NOVELTIES.
Restrepia
sanguinea,
f.,

Rolfe.

A
&

pretty

little

species

allied

to

R.

pandurata, Rchb.

but with wholly crimson flowers, excepta small yellow

area at the base of the column

and

lateral sepals.

Columbia by Messrs. Charlesworth

flowered in

was introduced from Co., Heaton, Bradford, with whom

It

it

November last. Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 44. Dendrobium ouadrilobum, Rolfe. A species of the

section Cadetia,
flowered

sent to

Kew

by F. A. Newdigate, Esq., M.P., of Nuneaton, and

in the collection in

October

last.

The
is

leaves are small for the section, and

the flowers large, uniformly pale whitish-green,

in allusion

and with a

four-lobed

lip,

to

which the name

it

given.

Though

received

with other

Dendrobiums from Australia,

is

suggested as probably a native of New

Guinea, or one of the adjacent islands.

Kew

Bulletin, 1896, p. 44.

BULBOPHYLLUM LONGiscAPUM, Rolfe. Sent

Curator, Botanical Station, Fiji,
It
is

to

Kew

by Mr. Yeoward.
last.

remarkable in having a
lip.

and flowered in November long scape and short raceme, and a

in 1891,

long

attenuated

and the

lip,

flowers are light green, except the foot of the column which are red-purple, the latter passing to yellow at the apex.

The

Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 45. Bulbophyllum MACROCHILUM, Rolfe. A Bornean

Bulbophyllum attenuatum, Rolfe. Another
to the

species allied

to
45-

the preceding, collected by Dr. Haviland, but not yet in cultivation p.

curious species

allied

two preceding, introduced from Borneo by Messrs. Linden,

it

Brussels,

who

flowered

in

October, 1892.

The

maroonare veined with sepals

purple on a lighter ground,

and

same suffused with the the rest of the flower

b)

colour.-A>u- Bulletin. 1896, p. 45.

Laxhm subulatum. Rolfe.-A Messrs. F. Sander & Co., from the

differs

curious

little

plant

introduced
Brazil,

province of Minas Geraes,

from the three other species of the genus by

smaller flowers, the latter being pale green, with a the sepals. Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 46.

little

leaves an its subulate ,n of pm k suffusion

Epidendrum atrorubens. Rolfe. A

purple
flowers,

dark Mexican species with

d re^-

belonging to the section

irlinm. Encyclium, and

allied al

selligerum,

Batem, and E. plicatum, Lindl. It flowered Linden, Brussels, in October 1892. Kew Bulletin. 1S96, p. 44a, Lin*' Spiranthes metallic.*, Rolfe. A species allied to S. picta, wje but with the perianth segments and the lea * - only about half the size,
peculiar olive-brown

th

Messrs-

or metallic

shade, frequently bearing a

n '""

o|

smaller spots.

It first

flowered with Messrs. Veitch in 1882.

The o

'^
I)r
,

are light green, with a whitish lip.

Km

Bulletin, 1896, p. 4 6
is

Macopes Sanderiaxa, Rolfe.This

the

described b) plant


THE ORCHID REVIEW.
Kranzlin,

,o,
to

under the name of Ancectochilus Sanderianus, but belongs

It is allied

another genus.
Miq.), but
is

to

M. argyroneura, Rolfe (Hasmaria argyroneura,

foliage. A'.';. lUdldm. iSyh.
p. 4;.

very different

in the

Holothkix JoHNsrosi, Rolfe. An East Tropical Afn, collected at the Upper Mlanje Platean, nearZomba, by Sir H. H.Johnston.
It
is

allied

to the

South African H. condensata,

Solid.,

but

has large)

flowers

anda five-lobed lip. -Kew Bulletin, [896, p. 47. BULBOPHYLLUM ORTHOGLOSSUM, Kranzl. A species

of thl S

group, allied to B.
of

mandibuiare, Rchb.

f.,

which flowered in the

collection

M. Wendland, at Herrenhausen, Hanover.

The Bowers

are large

and
li

yellowish-green, with numerous brown stripes on the sepals and petals,

is

a native of the island of Sarangni, and was discovered by

M. Midiolit/.

one of Messrs. Sander's collectors.

Card. Chron.. March

14. p. 32G.

GALEANDRA DEVONIANA.
A plant
of this species, in the collection of H.
J.

Elwes, Esq.. Colesbourne,

flowers,

Gloucestershire,

has produced a splendid raceme of ten

which
it.

indicates excellent culture on the part of Mr. Lane,

who

has charge of

Many people

find

it

difficult to
it

proper treatment

but

is

grow well probably through not giving it striking plant when it does succeed, and

Schomburgk speaks of the stems as sometimes from five to six feet high. Some notes on its culture were given at pages 281 and 284 of our last volume, and Mr. Lane has obligingly sent the following note on his treatment :

The plant was purchased

in the

in flower of
It

Mr. James Cypher, of Cheltenham'

spring of 1894.

was
into

rested during the

summer

in

the Cattleya
in

house,

and when starting

growth

in

the

autumn was potted

mixture of peat, sphagnum, and charcoal, and placed in the East Indian I house in a rather shady position, where it grew strongly and gave The same treatment was raceme of eleven flowers in the spring of 1895,

given the following season, but the plant

for,

is I
I

not quite so strong this spring,

as you will see,

it

has ten flowers only.

in this, that
I

think

my

treatment differs from

that generally

recommended

do

not give a large

amount of
quantity

water during the growing season, as

find the plant

make

a small

of roots in proportion to the top growth, also as the plant makes Its growth overduring the dullest months of the year it is never or rarely syringed I give head, as I think is usually recommended to be done rather heavily. the ^ough water during the resting season to keep the growths plump and they on the young growths 'eaves green. As the leaves are developed plant may be I find the ones. gradually

away from the preceding Propagated in the same way as Thunias, by P'eces and laying them on growing sphagnum.
fall

into cutt.ng old stems up

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

DENDROBIUMS
Dendrobiums
are

IN

SEASON.
of
this particular season.

emphatically

the

plants

especially the varieties of D. nobile partly derived from

it.

of which

\v<

and the numerous beautiful hybrids haw received numerous examples from
of Cheltenham,
are

different correspondents.

series of flowers sent

by Mr. James Cypher,

particularly well grown,

nobilius, splendens,

and include several

fine varieties of

D.

nobile, as
in

pulcherrimum, Cypher!, pendulum, and Cooksoni,

a magnificent D.

the best condition

Wardianum with

petals l\ inches

broad, two forms of D. fimbriatum oculatum, one darker than the other

together with D.

Ainsworthii, D.

X Leechianum, and

D.

Apollo.

X A. roseum, some giant The course of treatment

forms of D.
followed by
at

Mr. Cypher, by which such splendid results are attained, was detailed P a ges 53 to 55 of our last volume.
Messrs.

Hurst

&

Son, Burbage Nurseries, Hinckley, send a very

tint

flower of D. n. nobilius,

from the original form, having short and

:

broad
n.

very dark segments, as figured at t. also D. 214 of the Orchid Album Cooksoni, D. X Leechianum, and others, together with a good flower

ol

D. infundibulum. very fine Dendrobium Wardianum comes from the collection of 0. 0. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, inches in which the petals are over l\ broad, also D. nobile giganteum, and two very good forms of D.

Phalsnopsis, a plant which

the season,

is

always beautiful, though more

useful later

in

when

it

has fewer rivals.

The
of R.

delicately-coloured D. nobile Ballianum

comes from

the collection
with

Ashworth,
large

Esq.,

of

Newchurch, near Manchester, together

is

several others.

amount

of variation

seen

among

Drecent importations of

nobile,

and many of the forms do not correspond with

those already

only described, but in order to avoid a multitude of varieties we think that the more distinct ones should receive distinguishing varietal names.

CYPRIPEDIUM
A

LACHESIS.

received leaf, flower, and photograph of the above hybrid have been from the collection of Liverp L Reginald Young, Esq., of Sefton Park. together with the following Crossianum note :_ A flower of Cypripedium X

establishment was crossed by my gardener, Mr. Thos. Poyntz, wit the pollen of C. X marmorophyllum, in January, 189.. In January, 1S9* 8tH the pod having ripened, On the the seed was sown on its own pot.

m my

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June, l8g{,

my

gardener
h;ul

disci >vered

eja'

seedling only.
in

huMin aiming
to
all

tin

sphagnum, which

become

luxuriant

growth,

anil

the seedling at that

time was already several months

1st

old.

The

first

flowei

was partially open

evidence of
its

March, 1896."
in

The

flower sent

shows
('.

distinct
I'.

parentage:

general shape. perhaps, being most like

mar

rophvlluin. while the characters of C.

It is

Hooker* and
sepal

vcniistiun are

easily traced.
less

a bold and well-formed flower, though the colours are

decided than could be wished.

The
a

dorsal

is

bright green with

about seventeen olive-green lines, and

are light green at the base

broad while margin.

The

petals

and

light purple at tin' apex, the intervening part

being nerved with purple-brown on a lighter ground, and with a very few

purple-brow

11

spots.

The
;

lip

is

veined

all

over with purple-brown on

.,

rather lighter

ground

and the staminode

large,

round except

at

the apex,

and suffused with light purple on a pale ground. All the segments are short and broad, and of good substance. The leaf is green, and rather obscurely
tessellated.

We

should suggest crossing

or C.

it

again with some vei\

datk

flower, as C.

X Creon

X Harrisianum

superhum.

NOMENCLATURE OF HYBRID

CYPRIPEDIUMS.

The parentage of Cypripedium X Lachesis (C. X Crossianum J and C. X marmorophyllum <f ), suggests an interesting question as to the ming
11;

of certain possible hybrids, as detailed below.

Tracing

it

back to the species

from which

it

was derived, the parentage may be thus

(

tabulated

X Crossianum

C.

Lachesis,;
(

X marmorophyllum

venustum 3 (Hookers 5
|

3 |barbatu

hybrid are the component parts of this this it will be seen that Now other hybrids insigne, } venustum, and i barbatum. i i Hookera, might easily be raised from the same four species in identical proportions,

From

as

shown

in

the following table

:
.
, I

x Ashburtoms

barbatum

|insigne 3

(a.)

C.

?i

JX Atys 3
I

[Hookera 1 venustum 3
1

barbatum

calophylhim
3

|Venllstum 3

<bl

C.

X
in

':

X Echo
I

(Hookera: ns igne 3 \
i

The

reverse

cross

Produce seedlings of the same

in Place of

course above instances would, of either of the be used or C. X Cassiope might composition,
instead of C.

C.

Atys, C.

X amethystinum

X marmorpnyllum

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

or other

orC. X Meirax
calophyllum.

barbatum X Venustum hybrid

in

place of C. X

Query

Should the products of these various crosses be

varieties of
it,
-

considered
entirely

synonymous with C. X Lachesis, new names ?

[A very curious question
to
is

or be entitled to

Reginald Young.
it is

raised in the above note, which

not easy
certain

answer absolutely.

It

has previously been pointed out that

in different

definite results
cited,

might be obtained
in

ways, as

in

the cases above

especially

and bearing

mind
it

the well-known variability of hybrids,

of secondary hybrids,

seems quite probable that certain seedlings

of the
like

hypothetical crosses a or b might be

more

like
;

C.
it

X
is

Lachesis than

other seedlings out of the self-same capsule

and

even possible
it,

that

they might be so identical as to be indistinguishable from

latter case, at all events,
florist's sense.

and

in the

a separate

We

are inclined to
if

name would be meaningless, even in a think many secondary hybrids are not

only those which showed some distinct improvement on their predecessors were named and recorded these plants might be treated

worth naming, and

in the

same way

as florist's flowers,

case of crosses between distinct

which they undoubtedly are. In the species primary hybrids we think ever)

improvement or not, and all whether an subsequent seedlings should come under the original name, a distinct varietal name being added where such a course seems desirable. If this course were from consistently followed we think the records might be kept free
distinct cross should be recorded,

much

confusion.

Ed.]

ODONTOGLOSSUM
This
striking form

ANDERSONIANUM BRADSHAWIIat

was exhibited

the

Royal

Horticultural Society

meeting on March loth last, by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., and has since passed into the collection of Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate. J.
differs lineoligerum, but one known as O. X hebraicum segments in having the ground colour and all the entirely bright yellow, sepas narrower and much acuminate, the lip being l inches long, and the

is

most

allied to the

two

inches.

The spots on the lower halves of the sepals and

petals
;

numerous, red-brown, and somewhat elongated or line-like, as in the above named. It flowered out of a batch of Odontoglossum cnspum,
of the

oro

'

though
In

the

shape
is

numerous hybrids between that species and O. g lono characters of the former are less apparent which cirrhos bears a remarkable resemblance to 0.
,,

however,
grows.
It

a
s

native

of Ecuador,

far

away

from

where

cr ispuin

a very pretty variety.

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Io;

THE HYBRIDIST.
DENDROBll'M X KlNGIANO-SP)

An
in

interesting hybrid

was

raised

some years ago by

the late Mr.

Spyers,
I),

the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.,

,

Kurford, Dorking, from

speciosum 9 and D. Kingianum 3 and a good plant was exhibited at ih. Royal Horticultural Society's meeting on March loth last. Looking at Mr. Hanson's book we find the record at p. iqS Dendrobimn kingianimispeciosum (Kingianum ?) White,
22nd, "9j."
trace
it

for

Lawrence, Dorking. K.H.S..

M.ir. h
fail

How
in

this record
it

was obtained we cannot say and we

in

but

any case

is

incorrect.

No meeting was

held on

the date

and the record does not tally with one from Mr. White himself, which accompanied a raceme of flowers, and which was taken from a note book
given,

kept by Mr. Spyers.

The
I),

plant distinctly combines the characters of the

two parents, those of

that species, as
long,

speciosum being particularly

well

marked

in

the
in

vegetative organs, though the pseudobulbs are considerably smaller than

would be expected.

The racemes are about

flowers,

six to

nine inches

which are white, three-quarters of an inch long, and borne on longish pedicels. The lip is time-loin d. and

and bear from nine to twelve

all

marked
lines,

over with light purple spots and streaks, arranged

It
is

in

radiating
little

the front lobe being verv broadly rounded.

an interesting

plant,

and

is

apparently very

floriferous.

ZvGOPETALUM X PERRENONDI.
This

handsome
It

hybrid Zygopetalum

was

exhibited
last,

at

the

Royal

Horticultural Society's meeting on

of Brussels.

March loth

by M. A. A. Peeters,
,

was obtained from

and purple-brown

Z. intermedium 5 and Z. Gautieri 3

and well combines the characters of the two parents.

are ij inches long,
in colour,

The

sepals

and petals

except at the base, which is light green. The lip is broadly obovate and rett.se, slightly longer than the sepals, 1 4 inches broad, and wholly suffused with purple, with darker violetThe crest is whitish with Purple radiating nerves, and quite smooth.

numerous purple ridges, and the column wholly deep purple. hybrid. are fragrant. It is a richly-coloured and handsome

The

flowers

Dendrobium X WlCANI.E.
A very charming hybrid Dendrobium has been raised in the collection I) Sir Frederick Sheen, by Mr. Young, from Wigan, Clare Lawn, East nobile J and D. signatum we have received the two-flowered J, of which
of

measure shape of the former, and The flowers have the general litt e but the segments are a ii inches across their broadest diameter,
raceme.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

sulphur.
is

narrower, and nearly pure white, with just a trace of very pale
except at the tips of the petals, where there
lip is

a faint flush of pink.

The

more open than

in

D. nobile,
is

like

the sepals and petals

in colour, except
is

that the area round the disc

pale primrose.

The

blotch

rather smaller.
tin
it is

and not quite

certainly

so dark as in

D. nobile.

All these

modifications shew

influence of D.

signaturn,

and

as both parents are very floriferous,

very promising thing.

in

The
is

cross was

made

in

March,
first

1891,

the seed

sown

April.

1892.
little

and the flowers now sent are the

plant

ones

produced.

This charming

dedicated to Lady Wigan.

Dendrobium x Harold.
This
Esq.,
is

a very pretty hybrid raised in the collection of X.

C".

Cookson.

Cakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, by Mr. Murray, from Dendrobium Findlayanum t and D. Linawianum 3 The pedicels are nearly three
.

inches long, and rosy in the upper part,

and the sepals and

petals rosy except

near the base, which

lip

is

paler,

and the petals

at this part nearly white.

The
white.
of

has a pink disc and rose-coloured apex, the remainder being nearly

It distinctly

combines the characters of the two parents, though

those

D. Linawianum are the best marked throughout.

The

long pedicels should

make

it

very handy for cutting.

Dendrobium x Kenneth.
This
is

a very pretty hybrid

Dendrobium, raised

in

the collection of

N.

C. Cookson, Esq.,

Bensonae
nearly

$>

Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyns, by Mr. Murray, from and D. Maccarthia; 3 The sepals and petals are pure white,
.

two inches long, the former

lip

five

and the

broad, latter seven lines

and the
a large

i| inches long by seven lines broad, very acute, and white, with
blotch.

was made in sown in July of the following year. Although the flowers sent deal modified in shape, as compared with D. Bensonai, the
cross
the pollen parent
is less

maroon

The

May, 1889, and

the seed

are a good
influence of

apparent than

in

most

cases, but

may
at

be traced
first

the shape of the sepals

curious were
it

and

petals.

Their colour might

appear

known that the union of purple and yellow often yellow white, as in so many of the forms where the of D. X Ainsworthii. charming of D. aureum is invariably is a very lost. The present hybrid iot thing, and received an S. on March Award of Merit from the K. H.
not

give

Another very handsome hybrid has been raised

Messrs.

in

James Veitch
,

&

Sons,

from

Epidendrum

the establishment E. Wallisii? and

Endresio-Wallisii 3 thus being a parent spe cross back to one of the art of the original flowers The hybrid. The result is very interesting.

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borne
in

io.>

terminal racemes, as

in tile pollen parent, but air

<li

larger,

and

show more of the character of E.

pale ring
of the

Wallisii.

The

sepals and petals are

rah

dark brown, and spotted with dark red-brown, each spot having a narrow-

round

it.

There

is

also a small whitish area

at

the extreme base

at

segments.

The

lip is white-,

with a yellow area

the base

and

number of rosy-purple spots. The habit is neat, as in the pollen parent. The racemes bear three to five flowers. A good plant was exhibited at tin
meeting of the R. H. S. on March ioth
Certificate.
It is
last,

and received

First-class

now-

in

Messrs. Yeitch
in
lip

now

the rich collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. send us flowers of a remarkable variety of the same.
entirely light yellow, and
tin-

which the sepals and petals are

agrees with the type.

disc of the
In other

nearly half red-purple, partially arranged in radiating lines.

it

respects

It is

very pretty and strikingly distinct.

and

illustrates

once more the

variability of secondary hybrids.

CATTLEYA
I

FLY.
in

THINK your correspondent who wrote

fly,

the

March number on the

I

Cattleya

has not discovered the true

fly

or grub.

have, unfortunately.

had a long and bitter experience of both, and have inspected many pupae, from which my gardener has hatched out the perfect insect. The fly is enclose a dead specimen with this small, shining-black, and very hard. I
letter.

other species Furthermore, although we have Lslia pnrpurata. and

in

growing
Lselia to

the infected Cattleya house,

It

we have never known

a single

be attacked.

distinct appear then that there are two would

the enemies to be dealt with, one ravaging the Cattleyas, and the other
Lslias.

growths, fumigated, and trad have cut away hundreds of infected ever, almost as far off the end as every known remedy but really we seem I shall boy no while the vitality of the plants has been seriously impaired. more Cattlevas of the enemv have vanished.

We

until all traces

Herbert MnxiNOTOH.
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

some previously [The insect sent is a small black fly. ou Tvnemouth, and we have no received from Mr. F. Koeslin, of
exactly tdentical with
'

as Mr. Hamilton at page 87 the true Cattleya Fly. The fly alluded to by he else, but whether founeion Ualia pnrpurata, is evidently something We other, we cannot say cause of the mischief, or a parasite on the

hope that those

fail

who can throw any

further light

on

this

.natter

to

do so. Ed.]

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CYPRIPEDIUM
Tins
curious
species

VICTORIA MARINE.
to

was

introduced
it is
it,

cultivation

soon

after

C.

Chamberlainianum, to which

nearly allied, and, indeed, for a time it was

thought probably a variety of

case.
It is

which, however, appears not

is

to be the

very similar in habit, but

more robust grower, with

taller

scape and differently coloured flowers.

In both the leaves are oblong, and

obscurely tessellated with two shades of green.

The

scapes are

erect, and

bear numerous broadly oblong, obtuse, conduplicate bracts, which, as well as the flowers, are developed in succession, the same scape remaining in
flower for a long period,

though generally only one or two

flowers
is

are

open

at

the same time.

In the present species the dorsal sepal

broadly

elliptical-oblong,

an inch long by
margin.

nearl y as broad, and light green with

cream-yellow

The
long,

petals

are

linear-oblong,

much

twisted,
the

ciliate,

about
with

ij

inches
light

and

light
lip

green
is

suffused

near

margin

very

purple.

The

oblong,

subcompressed
yellowish green

at the sides, l4 inches long,

and very

light green

with

and margin, and the staminode ovate-oblong, subobtuse, hairy at the base,

the colour olive-green.

large

As these
it

characters have proved constant

it

in a

number

of

plants

is

evident that

must be considered
nearly allied.
It

species
is

distinct

from C. Chamberlainianum, though

also

native of Sumatra, though from another district,

and was

introduced

Messrs. F. Sander

&

Co., of St. Albans.

R. A. Rolfe.

AN AMATEURS NOTES.
The
additions to

my

Orchids

in flower for

number the present month

are
still

'

a score, besides

which some of those previously mentioned

keepm,

up a succession of bloom, especially Ccelogyne cristata, Cattleya Ina t as among Odontoglossum Rossii, Dendrobium nobile, which I consider

most valuable Orchids

I

for

keeping up a succession

sea at this of flower

Dendrobiums just now occupy the first place, and among must enumerate the beautiful D. Devonianum, whose pendulous

the add " ms stern^

monihforme, can are literally wreathed with flowers, D. primulinum, think is J I ferum, Jamesianum, and the beautiful D. X Venus, which t00, unsurpassed among hybrid Dendrobiums. Cattleya Lavvrenceana. [f put in an appearance, and two or three forms of Masdevallia Chimera, * ^ some plants of Chysis bractescens are now at their best. This, I ' j.^ a very attractive Orchid when well grown, and its flowers are almos
Eulophiella Elisabeths;

is

now

well in

flower,

and

will evidently

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a

,,,

good Orchid

for the

Warm
else,

house, where

it

succeeds well.

Ii

is

verj

distinct

though not hi.. numerous, and last well. Cymbidium eburneum is as good as it always is. and Maxillaria Sanderiana, Cyrtopodium Andersoni, and Epidendrum
flowers,

from anything

and the

evectum are
distinct,

now

flowering

well.

Angnecum

citratum

is

verv pretty and

and the ranks of Odontoglossum

arc swelled bv s,,m,' good plants

>.

of O.cirrhosum, a very graceful species.

Miltonia cuncata. ton.

flower-

Additions
exul,

among

("ypripodiinns worth noting arc

C.
by

hirsiitissiinuin.
.

concolor and niveum, and these are being followed

a

and among them the hardy species C. pubesccns.

are already out.

flower or two of which

i

This species

is

well worth growing in pits, which

it

an he

brought into the house

kinds, and.

when

in flower, as

is

so distinct from the

tropical

moreover, very handsome.

BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW.

One
of

the

most interesting of the numerous botanical Orchids now

flowering at

Kew

is

Bulbopyllum barbigerum, which

will doubtless

form

centre of interest for

point out

some weeks

to come.
lip

It

is

hardly necessary

now

to

how

quickly the long hairy

responds to the slightest breeze,

down when the ventilators are open, as if endowed with mobility on its own account. The sensation a plant of it caused at one of the Temple shows will long be remembered. A plant of the curious
and pops up and
Australian

Dendrobium

teretifolium

is

also flowering well, with

flowers.

its

pendulous

habit, whip-like leaves,

and graceful racemes of white

I),

parcum

With braching habit and small yellow-green flowers, and I), secundum with one-sided racemes of pink flowers, may also be mentioned, while other allied

Cirrhopetalum csespitosum and the curious little Trias picta. There are several Odontoglossums which are only botanical Orchids, and of these O. ramulosum is bearing a raceme of its small yellow and
Plants are

brown flowers. The rare Mormodes Hookeri has a raceme of its deep purple flowers with hairy lip, and Maxillaria Houtteana two or three of its brilliant
red flowers.

Other interesting plants are .Eonia polystachya. Regans, Xvlobium corrugatum, Amblostoma tridactylitum, Cymbidium madidum, and Trichocentrum triquetrum, the latter a striking little plant w h iris-like habit and large light yellow flowers spotted with orange.

Lockhartia

pretty Holothrix Lindlevana, sometimes known as Tryphia secunda, ,s a and deeply H le Cape racemes of small white flowers species with erect

!bed

lip.

p elexia macu!ata and

p. olivacea are also both

now

in

flower.


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the orchid review.

the
Pleurothallis

In

group

may

be

mentioned the curious Octomeria

flowers,

juncifolia, Pleurothallis gelida

with numerous erect racemes of green

the curious

little

Scaphosepalum swertisefolium, also Masdevallia

Benedicti

and M. triangularis, both flowering very freely. Some of those mentioned last month (page 69) are also still in flower, and the above are the principal
additions at the present time.

NOTE ON PERIODS OF RIPENING OF

The
following are results from a large

SEED.
Vnlas
seedling*

number

of observations, and may be

at

interesting in connection with Mr.

Mead's notes

page

41.

hare been obtained,

ripe,

it is

not right to

assume that the seed was

taken from cases
in

either good or
the seed

and the

results given here are all

:

which

produced healthy plants

Calanthes

4 to

months (dozens of examples).

Cypripediums-ftom
Selenipediums-in
all

7 to 13

most cases 10 to 1 1 (hundreds of examples). examples cases a much shorter time than Cypripediums (scores of
months, but
in
1

Dendrobes from 9
Masdevallias 4 to

to
7

months,

in

a usual
i(j

way

14 to 15

(many

scores of examples).

months (probably
to 17

dozen of examples).
in

Odonloglossums 12

months (two cases only

which plants have been

raise )

1'hajus 6 to 9 months (several examples).

period opinion that the careful observation I am strongly of see necessary to produce fertile seed depends on the period usual with the period bearing parent, and that the pollen parent has little to do with the

From

necessary for the seed to ripen. v

X. C. COOKSON.

Oakwood. Wvlam-on-Tvne.

SEEDLINGS OF DENDROBIUM NOBILE.

At page
volume a note was given on a batch the collection of N. C. Cookson, Esq., of Wylam-on-Tyne, obtained > ' n. CookS crossing Dendrobium nobile nobilius with the pollen of D. *' were oVasa From the same seed-pods some good forms of each parent
168 of our
last

of seedlings

in

together with a series of forms grading down to ordinary D. nobileof these plants passed into the collection of F. H. Moore, Esq., of Liverpo

and the first flower produced was noted at the same time, though thro some confusion with the others it was mentioned as an ordinary form wb* ^ D. nobile. This year the plant has produced eight flowers, one of
again sent, and
is

almost identical with D.

lips as in that.

almost metamorphosed into

the n. Cooksoni, remarkable 1 is very

petals

that

a series of forms should have been obtained

seed-po from the same course they are not hybrids, both parents being forms of D. nobile-

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MASDEVALLIA ROSEA.
Opg
present
illustration represents a beautiful specimen
of

MasdevalHa

rosea from the collection of

Major General C. B. Lucie-Smith, The Acacias.

Worthing.

Some

notes on the method of culture employed

wen

given

at

page 154 of our second volume, and

we may

here further remark that daring

'he

summer months, from

the end of

May

to

about the beginning

of

October, the cool Orchids are grown in sheltered places in the open a.r, with the 'hose loving the placed in a small court-yard, most shade being

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

They
are placed on a stage
erected
health.
the

entrance covered by a canvas screen.

over a border planted with hardy ferns, and are in the most perfect

During the

rest of the

year they are cultivated in a small house, and

in winter.

temperature kept rather low, sometimes falling to 40

are the conditions under

These

which the above specimen was grown, and the photograph indicates very clearly that the treatment is suitable. A plant of
Masdevallia racemosa had also nine growths and 135 leaves.
Other
plants

which succeed

well

under this

treatment are

Epidendrum

vitellinnm.

Cochlioda Noetzliana, various Odontoglossums, Oncidiums, and

Masdevallias.
ccerulea
others.

Cattleya citrina, Ccelogyne cristata, Cypripcdium insigne, Yandas

and Kimballiana, Sophronitis grandiflora, Lielia majalis.and various

The

open-air shelters

in

which these plants are grown

is

are fitted with

rays

skeleton frames on which light canvas shading

stretched, to break the

is

of the son, and the keen winds

when the weather

rough.

The
of the

results

prove that

if

care

is

taken to keep together the species which require

similar
coolest

treatment, especially with regard to sun

and shade, many

after
it

Orchids

will

grow and flower abundantly, year

Ecuador, where the climate

year.

Masdevallia

of the coolest-growing species in the genus, as

occurs

hi:-

is naturally cool.

We

have

to

thank the gallant Major for the photograph.

DIPHYLLOUS CATTLEYAS.
In a recent issue of the Orchid Review (vol. III., p. 37). l note that ! J" monophyllous pseiraV think it remarkable that a Cattleya usually producing
descrip-

bulbs should at times

We have five cases of this yM tion here in the Cattleya house, and I have photographed and sent other prints of two of these, the larger plant being C. Gaskelliana, and the
come two-leaved.
C. labiata (vera).

Allow
in

me

to tender

you

my

hearty

of your appreciation

work as demonstrated

the Review.

Edward
South Lancaster, Mass., U.S.A. nuch obliged for the photograph-, winch
,

0.

_ CT Orp".

the observa-

v occasionally

develop

group.-- Pseudobulbs always monophyllous.- which would have been^t Mr 1'. HWhen expressed as "Pseudobulbs normally 111. mophyllous." we s 5 P ec Moore first called attention to a diphyllous bulb of C. labiata ^ that he had a plant (s#n. IU " P
of the hybrid C.

Victoria-Rcgina
(lower,
It
,.

'

%.

when he afterwards immediately saw it to be typical C

1),

but

sent bulb,
labiata
',.,.,,;',

and

'" 1

l'

"""',

possible that is quite

,li

;,,,,,

pado

species of the labn.ta

..,,

',

1V

v develop

hyllos

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115

HYBRIDS OF IDENTICAL PARENTAGE.

I

(JUITE agree with

"

Argus

"

in

his

remark that

it

is

time that the too

common

practice of giving

new names
I

to hybrids of identical parentage

1

should be checked.

The

list

he suggests would.

am

sure,

be too long for

reproduction in your pages, and

do not think

it

would be of an\ practical

good as a preventative.

seems to me that what has already been done cannot now be remedied, and it would be useless to point out the names of
It

those most guilty in this respect.

fault

It

also

seems immaterial whether

in

tin

has been intentional or simply committed

is,

ignorance.

The point

now

how

best to

remedy the

evil fur the future.

It

surely

would not be asking too much

to request the Orchid

Committee
in all

to decline to take notice of hybrids presented under

new names

eases

where hybrids of the sane parentage have been previously recorded.

the task of keeping a correct
a
list

And

for reference,

showing

at a

glance whethei

hybrid of such and such

parentage has already been named, should not

see

be beyond their power.

crosses

With such a record it would be easy to have been made, and the names given to the production,
might
also assist in this work.

what

bidders

of gardening papers
I

was pleased to note that you have recorded Sander's hybrid Cypripedium x Said Lloyd as C. X Lioydiie. I think there are obvious objections
to

naming Orchids

after living people, whether ladies or gentlemen, unless

latinised.

Leaving out other obvious considerations, there is the possibility of wishing to add a varietal name, and such additions as expansum, rubrum.
nigrum,

&c, &c, would

not appear well after the

name of a lady. Reginald Young.

Sefton Park, Liverpool.

CYPRIPEDIUMS AT KEW.
The
is

following note on the collection of cultivated Cypripediums at Kc extracted from a letter published in the Gardeners Chronicle for Feb. 15th.

last

(page

20J)

There

are

sixty

species

of

Cypripedium

(including

Selenipedium) ,n the collection, and, except only the rare C. Faineanum, Of the hundreds of these are all that are known to be in cultivation.
hybrids
vear,

now known

(in

the

list

published

in

the Gardener*

Chronicle last

February

represented at Kew.
in

During the the small private houses, where the conditions are more

thirty-two are are 522 enumerated), only 16, p. 199, there species are kept winter the more delicate
suitable than .n

specialty 'he large houses are admitted: but anyone to which the public Of these interested is permitted to see the plants in the private houses.

fourteen species

and seven hybrids

are in flower.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR

The
temperatures given
is

APRIL.

By H. A. Burberry, Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham.

last

month should

still

be maintained.

The

weather

sometimes very changeable and trying this month, which necessitates watchfulness and consideration in the matter of ventilation, so that the plants may not receive a sudden check caused by too much cold

air

on the other hand, by insufficient air. shading, or moisture. Shading from bright sunshine must now generally be adopted for all Orchids except those in the Mexican house. Damping down
blowing directly upon them
;

or,

should be done twice daily in

all

departments.

Thrips and Red Spider must be well kept under from the beginning, by employing remedies already advised. For the former fumigate with XL.
All

vapourising insecticide,

and

for

the latter sponge

frequently with

Kilm-right, or soft soapy water.

The repotting of any Orchid should be pushed on with when

to be in the proper condition,

it is

seen

which, with but few exceptions,

roots are just pushing out.

is

when new

growth

is

appearing and

new

After repotting

always expect the plants to shrivel to some extent, but prevent them from doing so as much as possible, by giving extra attention in such matters as
protection

from the sun, keeping the surroundings moist, and

slightly

spraying the surface of the compost and the foliage occasionally,

established.

until re-

This
plants.

is

the most suitable time of the whole year to buy newly-imported

If

purchased

now
first

they start to grow almost immediately, and season as others which are quite

wi

often do as well the

established.

Cattleya labiata,

see,

has again passed under the

hammer at

Protheroe

taken should not be When received, they be at once into the Cattleya house, for fear of the Cattleya fly, which may Let all dea lurking concealed within the mass of old roots and bulbs.

&

Morris's in large quantities.

and other rubbish be trimmed away, and the remaining foliage an pseudobulbs washed with a wet sponge then, if possible, let them be place ki in a house which is being fumigated will probably with XL. All, which any fly that may have escaped. Much of this pest has, I believe, late)
roots
;

been imported with this particular species. They may afterwards be taken where to the Cattleya house and placed on the stage in an upright position,
water should be supplied to the roots not too frequently at first, in r pseudobul s that they may resuscitate gradually, but surely. Soon the
will
r

become plump, and directly new growths and roots are appear"",' should be potted up and treated as same treatmen established plants. The
should be practised with
all

'<?

other species of Cattleya when newly

''"P

01

^'

and

would

advise growers

who

intend

increasing their

collec 10

THE OR CHID RE

IE

II.

with newly-imported plants to do so during the spring or earlv summer.

An importation of another grand Orchid has. I observe, latch place, in the form of Vanda Hookeriana. This species, like Vanda
which
of the
it

taken
teres.

closely resembles in growth, delights in a moist and sunny part

warmest house, near the glass, and copious syringing during the growing season. Even when inactive in winter it should not be allowed to become very dry. The base of the steins should be well secured in crocks,
nearly
"I

up to the rim of the

pot. leaving
will

enough space only

for a surfacing

sphagnum moss, which

soon grow.

The long and

in

slender stems

will

then require the aid of sticks to support them

careful not to deluge too freely

an upright position.
until
is

Be

when newly imported,

also arrived.

new

roots

begin to push, after which the risk of swinging them too often

remote.

fresh

consignment of Vanda ccerulea has

would advise

growers against tampering with this -or, indeed, any other species of Vanda by cutting away the leafless stems when life remains in the roots

that are

still

attached.

This

is

sometimes practised

in

order to bring the

green leaves lower

down

to the pot, to

make what

is

supposed to be a more
is

handsome-looking plant.

In such a procedure there

The stems and

possible.
I

live roots

may, however, be sunk

these

in

no common sense. the pot as low as is

:

prefer

for

Vandas perforated pots

to the roots, which
I

the air then has

is

access, in a

more or

less degree,

to

some extent

necessary, they having previously been exposed.

rather large size, so that the stem
Fill

also prefer pots of a

may go

to the

bottom without crushing.

small, nearly level

up the pots with mixed crocks and charcoal broken

with the rim, working

them

over with a layer of about an

surface well in between the roots, and then down. inch of sphagnum moss, pressed firmly

moderately well are beneath the moss should be kept for a supplied with water. Thus the plants are started, and will do well

The

roots

that

time.

Ultimately they grow

taller,

and

will

make a mass

of aerial roots,
still

which cannot be lowered beneath the moss if those already there are that Vanda living and it is not good policy to do so. It is at this stage the wants ccerulea first commences to deteriorate, and will surely do so if
;

that the Place the plants together, so them several roots (not the foliage) may be well moistened by syringing Vanda ccerulea will grow well under times daily with tepid rain water. little the summer, removing to a general Cattleya house conditions during be winter, when it should also warmer but well-ventilated house for the

of these aerial roots are neglected.

kept fairly moist at the roots.

... spectabths which the name of Miltonia Amongst other arrivals I notice will also in a warm house, but b best grown in baskets or pans suspended The be* c m do fairly well in intermediate temperature. ff uld here mention parts.
fibrous peat

<^

and sphagnum moss

in

equal

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

have made new pseudobulbs.
If

that newly-imported Orchids should never be allowed to produce flowers

until they
Laelias,

allowed to do
will

so, Cattleyas and

Dendrobiums, Odontoglossums, aad others,

will

occasionally push

a spike immediately they are received, but such spikes should be at once

removed, or the plant

become

so

weakened

as to be almost beyond

The deciduous kinds of Calanthes are now at a right stage for reHaving been potting. They should be done annually without fail. kept dry since flowering the new growth will be an inch or so high, sturdy, and healthy, with plenty of new roots pushing from the base. Let the compost be three-fourths good turfy loam broken in small pieces, and the remainder leaf soil and coarse silver sand. The pots should be drained about half their depth, and not over large, but of a reasonable size in
comparison to the bulb or bulbs which they are intended to hold.
They

may

either be

grown
are

singly,

or two or

former.
firmly.
facilitate

They

most

likely to

prefer the I more in one pot grow well and give best results if potted
:

Pot to about half an inch below the rim of the pot so

watering.

as to
little

Let the base of the pseudobulb be inserted a beneath the surface of the soil, and secure it in its position by a
thrust into the
soil.

stick
will

The compost,

of course, at the time of repotting

be somewhat moist, and the plants should require no water for about a week. Afterwards they should be watered about once a week for a fewfoliage be gradually increased as the becomes stronger and the roots more plentiful. Let Calanthes be grown in

weeks, after which the supply

may

the warmest house

'"

and well up to the

light

a shelf

is

a good position
before

them.
using.

If

the pots are

new they should be

well soaked in

In our Mexican house the repotting, top-dressing, and the putting everything straight, is now practically finished, and as a reward the roots
Our that are pushing forth are seen to delight in the new sweet compost. chief aim when repotting is always to get the new roots to enter compost as soon as possible after showing, because then not only are they

out of harm's way, but are capable of rendering much more assistance to end the plant than when exposed. attaining this With a view to e endeavour, if possible, to get the rhizome oft well up to the

new compost

tire last-made pseudobulb, so that at roots of the least the newly-made M year may enter, and those the plant of the following year or two before again repotted may have a fair When the plants chance of doing so.

large specimens this task

and can only is not easy of accomplishment, the. done at the cost of a good patience, for deal of time and comp generally to be divided into a piecemeal and again reformed c if handsome looking plant, without burying the back pseudobulbs-

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

possibly be avoided.
It is

119

against Nature to smother Orchids up by placing

:

the back

pseudobulbs beneath the compost

tile

although
it

admit
!>

at

time*,

owing

to

peculiar
it.

formation of the plant,

cannot

altogethei
to git
ttir

avoided.

Avoid

however, as much as possible, and

to
lie

try

rhi/ome from the oldest to the newest pseudobulb

neatly but firmly

well
in

upon the surface of the compost.

department.

Schomburgkias

grow

this

Ladia superbiens has

just
if

passed nut of bloom, and

necessary.
It

is

starting t" grow.

and should now be repotted

as Cattleyas or Lselias.

should bedone
is

in

the sameinannei
if

Schomburgkia

Tibicinis

best

managed

grown

in

and suspended. The Barkerias, too. should l>c suspended in this sunny house, and must be made firm in their pans with moss, after which the grower is powerless to train the new roots into the moss, or to
a pan or basket,

cause the

young breaks to appear at the base of the old pseudobulb. Thc\ more frequently come half-way up, and the roots will start from the same
pushing straight out into the
air;
is full

point,

consequently

they

an

1111

straggling growers,

and

all

they require

sunshine close to a ventilator

daily.

and abundant syringing

flowers of
small,

when

growing two or three times

labour bestowed.

The

some Barkerias, however

is

well the plants are cultivated, are very

for

and give but a poor return

the best, and
is

perhaps the only one that I the as being really worth growing. It has flower stems only a foot long flowers are brilliant in colour, closely set together, and of good substance,

Lindleyana

The true B. can recommend

:

Let no Orchid be passed by during the potting season if it can be possibly be avoided whose roots are in a badly decomposing compost. If a doubt should exist it is better to err by doing on the right it than the reverse, as when repotted we know that the plant is
lasting a long while in perfection.

only for a time, and the To a plant will soon recover, and again make good healthy growth. the general practical grower of course there is no hesitation, a glance at enough to condition of the surface roots, and the colour of the foliage is
side,

and although

a slight

check may

result

it

is

>now

linn

what

is

going on beneath.
the present month
will principally
Ik-

Our work here for as far with the former, and finishing Cattleyas and Dendrobiums, beginning we possibly can with the latter. Before its expiration most of the C Triana: will be finished, also C. Dowiana aurea. C. Bowrmg.ana. C. sufficiently few others that may be Rex. and a
Ladio-cattleya

amongst the

elegans,

advanced.

Always give good drainage. between should be worked well in the compost of peat and sphagnum moss down with firm by pressing it the roots without breaking them, and made
I

am an

advocate

for firm potting,

a stick.

Firm potting
in shallow-

is also best for

Dendrobiums.
1

Many

oi

grown

few pans or baskets, therefore but

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

The
very pretty Trichopilia suavis
is

now producing

its

flower spikes,

and

all

the species of this genus, including those formerly called Pilumna,

are best

grown
if

in

a shady part of the

Mexican house, or

in the Cattleya

house, and

treated exactly like a Cattleya will

grow

well,

and keep

free

from that black disease which often takes them

off if

kept too wet

or cold.

The same
grown
in

conditions are also necessary for Burlingtonias, which should be

baskets near the light, as also should Cattleya citrina.

No

doubt
of

this species is best

grown on blocks of wood.

or,

The

best blocks are made

living apple

or pear,

failing

these,

plum, whitethorn, the common

dogwood, or maple
ordinary deal

may
it

be used in a green state.

Next

in

order come
If

blocks of teak wood, which resists decay

is

and fungus

for a long time.

used

should be charred before using.

to a cool frame facing north, or otherwise they must have a specially cool place selected for them in the Odontoglossum house. They may now be freely supplied with water throughout

Disas

may now be removed

the

summer, and care must be taken to keep them quite clean and
I

free

from insect pests.

should

have discontinued growing Vanda Kimballiana in the Cool house, finding that the Intermediate house temperature suits it better.
It

now be

given fresh

will also

grow well in Odontoglossum retusum

C. vulcanica gigantea.

moss and plenty of moisture. V. Amesiana The pretty little orange-coloured the same house.
is

now

in flower

and also Cochlioda Noetzliana

well in the

We

find all

these grow thoroughly

coolest house.

Some
species,

kinds of Cypripedium,

when newly

imported, are not so easy

to

establish as others.

Haynaldianum. and such-like C. Stonei, C. Lowii, C. They should be kept often give some trouble to keep from dying.
water had
occaroots should be moistened The < for a time. better be withheld from the leaves The system o upright.

well shaded in a fairly moist house.

sionally, but
is

best to set the plants on

damp

moss, propped

laying

them about on the

is

stages, or

suspending them by

an their heels

syringing them,

not to be

commended.

plants must be continued as they

The repotting of the establish flowering. Wj commence to grow after

the compost be of good

fibrous

lumpy peat and sphagnum moss, mixing

and pot
firmly.
insert

Never roots into the new pot without first freeing them from the old materialsDendro buim The disbudding of aerial growths from the pseudobulbs of has previously been advised. correspondent, aSB A question from a whether or no they should be removed, reminds me that others may f^ u>^ of Dendro be uncertain in this matter. " Some newly-imported plants
silver sand,

loam and

the old ba

nobile have broken into

points of the old bulb=, j from the base." Providing a reasonable quantity of growths appear the base and such is mostly must be remov the case those from the top

growth

at

many

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

If there is

in
growths to the nmnbei
In-

no

life

at the base, then leave the aerial

of one to each pseudobulb.

best simply laid

In such a case, however, the plant would

it,

on moss, so that the roots could enter

If

and not ! potted

rarity,
tin ><

up properly until the following year.

growths,

the plant

is

top

when they
thumb

appear,

may

be propagated by taking them

off

when
first

about two inches long, with a heel of the old pseudobulb attached, and
potted in
pots,

when they

will

make

nice

little

pseudobulhs the

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
Cattleya Percivaliana Ingram's var.Jam.
pp. 128, 129,
fig.

of

HorU,

Feb.

17,

26.

Cattleya Schrosderjb.Jam. of Hon.. March 12. p. 221). fig. .17. CVMBIDIUM X LoWlO-EbCRNEUM Gari. Mag., March 21. p. 19O,

with

fig.

Cypripedium
6g.

Mastersiahum Gari.

Mag..

March

14,

p.

[66,

with

March Sani.ek.amm. Kchb. (.-Card. Ckrm., Cypripedium

329,
fig.

14,

p.

45.
of Hart.,

Dendrob.lm X L.EECHIAHUM.-/<*m.
Dendrobium
fig.

March

.2.

p.

22,,.

WARDIANUM.Joum.

of

Hort..

March

12.

p.

237.

40.

Dipodium paludosum, Kchb. f. Boi. Mag.,

t.

744-

Epidendrum X elegantulum.-/.
fig.

of Hort..

March
.

.6,

p.

25..

46

Gari. Citron., March 21,

p. 361 .

fi

K- 49-

Feb

oEE 'iS
,

SCUKUM.-^

*,

W
.

^
*

hg
"

rf x k,- P,tt.anlm.-GW. ODONTOGLOSSUM X WlLCKhAM M rii ha.

fig.

World, Feb. 29,

.

PP. 413, 414. with

Phaio-calasthe X

albiklora.->. of Hon., Sedeni

Cnro,,, Feb. 29, pp. Chro,,,

"wLea plor.da.-G.*.
n g- 30.

-4.*.
Feb.

STAHIOPEA OCULATA GUTTULATA.-G.rn*.

29,

* f **
p.

^'Jycopetalum X PERRENOKW.-C*.

Ckro,.,

March .

367,

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ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL

Tin
ki

HORTICULTURAL
Orchids
at

SOCIETY.

was an exceptionally

tine display of

the Drill Hall, JamesSociety

of

street,

Westminster, on March loth, when the Royal Horticultural

third meeting for the present

held

its

season,

exhibitors to the number

thirty putting in an appearance.

The
given.

President,

Sir

Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking

(gr.

Mr.

White), staged a particularly fine group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was
It

included several beautiful Dendrobiums, as D.

Thalia (D. X

Ainsworthii

X D. nobile

nobilius),

D.

Luna, D.

X The

Pearl, D.

Euterpe,

D.

X melanodiscus, D. X

Ainsworthii. D. cruentum, D. nobile, and D. X

)

Kingiano-speciosum (D. speciosuni 2 X D. Kingianum 3 with several racemes, C. X barbato-bellum (C. barbatum Warneri ? X C.bellatulum 3 )C.

calloso-bellum, and

a very remarkable variety

of C.

conco-Lawre
yellow,

called

Janus, in which one petal and half the dorsal sepal were
the
rest

was purple: C. Rothschildianuni, Lsliocattleya X Thetis (L.-c. X exoniensis X L. pumila), two plants of the handsome Cattleya Triana Leeana. Calanthe X Stevensii, a well-flowered plant of Camaridium Lawrenceanunl, Epidendruin X Endresio-Wallisii,
of the

while

flower

&c.

The

following

received

Special

Awards : Cymbidium X

LowioFirst-

eburneum, said to be the reverse cross of C.

class Certificate;

X eburneo-Lowianum,

Dendrobium X Clio (D. X splendidissinium grandiflorum X D. Wardianum), Award of Merit and Brasso-cattleya X Lindleyana
:

(Rolfe), a splendid plant

with eighteen flowers, Cultural Commendation. T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gr. Mr. Johnson),
fine

showed a

group of remarkably well-grown Dendrobiums, Silver Flora Medal was given. It contained the beautiful
n. nobilius,

to which a

D.

nobile

Amesia:, D.

the beautiful D.
hybrids.

Statterianum, and other forms of that species, Rolfe*, D. X splendidissinium grandiflorum, and other

D,

n.

W.

Vanner,

Esq.,

Camden Wood,
Medal

Chislehurst

(gr.

Mr.

Robbins),

received a Silver Banksian the handsome Phaius

for a neat

Cooksoni, P.

group of good things, including X Martha;, Odontoglossum X

Wilckeanum, Calanthe Regnieri, good forms of Cattleya Triana, Coelogyne cristata Lemoniana, Cypripedium X Calypso. C. X Creon superbum,
Ladia
harpophylla,

Dendrobium

luteolum.
others.

Sophron.tis

grandifiora.

Cymbidium X eburneo-Lowiaimm, and

Arthurianum,
a very richly

Odontoglossum

crisp"'"

blotched form, received a First-class

Certificate,

and the pretty little Dendrobium velutinimi, a Botanical Certificate. Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, Egliam (gr. Mr. Ballantine), sent
spikes of several magnificent

cat

Orchids,

Banksian a Silver and received

Medal.

It

included the magnificent and unique Odontoglossum Pescatore.

THE ORCHID KEVJEIV

Veitchianiun.
thi'

la]

handsome

().

crispum Rex. a large spike of Odontoglossinu

Schroder, a large ami very nchlv-colourcd
i-

brevifolium. Calanthe

X Baron

hybrid,

i\\ and a form of the same with lighter .Inured Norman C. Cookson. Esq., Oakwood. Wyl un-on- T\ m
ll

i-.

<gr.

Mr. Murray),
of

exhibited a

number

of beautiful hybrids, to

live

of which Doris,
a

Awards

Merit

were

given.

These

were

Lselio-cattleya

charming thing
Doris (1. c. p. i|Ji v

described at page 7Q of our second volume, Dendrobiuni

D.

x Cassiope
3
5

virginale, D.
), ).

dulce,

Oakwood
a
.

variety (D.

annum
?

I).

Linawianum 3
Maccarthia:

and D. Kenneth
D.

(said to be

from D. Bensona
form
obtained

and

I>.
1'.

Harold,

pretty

from

and D. Linawianum 3 was also shown. Charles Winn, Esq., The Uplands. Sclly Hill. Birmingham (gr. Mi. Armstrong), was awarded a Silver Banksian Medal for an excellent group, including Dendrobium Wardianum, L'pland variety, remarkable for the
Findiayanum
unusually large blotches on the
collection of
lip.

a very

good Cattleya Triana-. ami

a tin.

Dendrobiums, including eight fine forms raised in lh Sir F. Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), exhibited Miltonia Roezlii splendens, a very large and richly-coloured form, with twenty-eight flowers, to which a Cultural Commendation was given. A
good Dendrobium nobile, good plants of Ccelogyne sparsa, the fine Selenipedium X Perseus superbum, and the pretty hybrid Dendrobium

X Wiganias (D. nobile De Barri Crawshay,

richly-coloured form.

D.

X signatum

Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks

(gr.

Mr. Cooke), received

an Award of Merit for Cattleya Trianaj Crawshayana, a large and very

Welbore
received a

S.

Ellis,

Esq.,

Hazlebourne, Dorking
for

(gr.

Mr.

Masterton),

Cultural

Commendation

well-grown pan of Ccelogyne

Duncan), showed Lucas, Esq.,\Varnham Court, Horsha C.J. ertdtcate a fine plant of Dendrobium Kingianum, to which both a Botanical ( Ax. and a Cultural Commendation were given, also Cyrtopodium punctatum. sent a twoMount, West Derby, Liverpool, \V. Arkle, Esq., Holly
J.

flowered spike of the

8l),

handsome which, however, was rather

Triana.-Arklca.ia (figured at page Cattleya

past

its best.

E.Ashw-orth,Esq.,HarefieldHaU,Wihnslow(gr.Mr.Holbrook...--e,,tth.
pretty

hybrid Dendrobium X Findlayano- Wardianum

promismg
(gr.

thing.
I,

Liverpool Gledhill, Sefton Park, J. Crossfield, Esq., exhibited a beautiful Cattleva Triana alba.

Mr. Barklex

Godalming (gr. Mr. Bond), sent C. j. Ingram. Esq.. Elstead House, whose parentage was not recorded Cypripedium X viridiflorum, Glasnevm, sent the cunous F. W. Moore, Esq., Royal Botanic Garden, Oncidium saltabundum.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW

R.
I.

Measures,
sent

Chapman),
callosuni
2

Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. and C. X Wottoni Cypripedium X Winnianuni

Esq..
(gr.

Mr.
(C.

C. bellatuluni 3 )

The Hon. Mrs. Packenham, Fordingbridge

good
varieties of Cattleya Triana;.
Kalli.

Mr. Church), sent some

Pantia

Esq., Ashtead

Park,

Epsom,

exhibited a small yellow-

flowered Sobralia, since called S.luteolum, Rolfe, a form of Odontoglossum

X Andersonianum, and O. X

Rossii rubescens.
(gr.

The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park

Mr.

Hill), sent Cypripedium

Morganias from one of the original plants.

G. \V. Rovve, Esq., Claremont Drive, Timperley, Cheshire, showed

beautiful white

the

Dendrobium nobile Amesise.

Dendrobium
nobile

A. Warburton, Esq., Vine House, Haslingden, sent

Warburtomanum.
Messrs. James Veitch
to

&

Sons, Chelsea, staged a remarkably

fine group,

which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It included Dendrobium X Cybele and D. X C. nobilius, D. X Euryahis, D. X /Eneas (D. japonicum S X D. crystallinum 3 ), D. atroviolaceum, Cypripedium exul, C. X
Germinyanum.C.Victoria-Mariie.C.

X Winnianuni, C. X
to
),

microchilum.Lslia

harpophylla, and L. glauca, a good Trichopilia suavis, Ccelogyne enstata

alba, &c.

First-class Certificate

was given
3

(E. Wallisii $

E.

Endresio-Wallisii

Epidendrum X elegantulum about a handsome hybrid

intermediate between the two parents, and an

cattleya

Award

of Merit to Laehooriginal,

X Doris

var.

Xantho, the reversed cross of the

and much
to

lighter in colour.

Messrs. F. Sander

&

Co., St. Albans, staged a group of fine things,

which a Silver Banksian Medal was given. It included Phaius X Cooksonl, P. X amabihs, P. X Martha, Spathoglottis Kimballianum, S. Lobbii, Lycaste Skinneri leucoglossa, Angraxum sesquipedale and A. Humblotn, Odontoglossum Pescatorei, O. X Wilckeanum.O. luteopurpureum, Ccelog)
cristata alba,

Anguloa magna), Maxillaria sanguinea, and various Dendrobiums and Cypriped |ums of hg t The curious little Dendrobium glomeriflorum, with sessile heads
anchorifera,
'

Vanda Bensoni

uniflora (Syn. A.

al a

pink flowers, almost like clover heads, received a Botanical Certificate^ Sibei Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Upper Clapton, also receive Banksian Medal for a fine group, including good forms of Cattleya Trans. Devomanuni, Cymbidium as

Lowianum,

several

good

Dendrobiums,

Hildebrandii,

primulinum, cretaceum,

nobile,

crassinode,

Findlayanum,
i

superbum, and Phalamopsis, Odontoglossum gloriosum, and various f of O. crispum and O. X Andersonianum, Miltonia Roezlii, Cypripe diun

forms

Winnianum, C. X T.
Mr.
J.

Bond, &c. Cypher, Cheltenham, also received a Silver Banksian Medal

W.

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fine

115

group, in which well-grown Dendrobiums were conspia s. 1). ;is X Rubens, D. X nobile Cypheri, and other fine forms of D. nobile, and hybrid!

from

it.

and

its

contained Epidendrum xanthinum. E. X O'Bricniaiimn. two parents, E. radicans and E. evectum. and some nice plants ol
It also

Odontoglossum blandum. M. A. A. Peeters, Saint

including Miltonia

Gilles. Bruxelles, sent several very line thing*,

Bleuana, M.

B. nobilior,
at

and the
page
29(1

interesting
"I

Cypripedium x Harrisianura virescens, described

volume.

our

last

First-class Certificate w.is given to Miltonia

lip.

X Bleuana
..I

anrea.

with clear yellow markings at the base of the

the

and an Award
intermedium

Merit t"
t

handsome Zygopetalum X
).

Perrenondi

('/..

/.

Gautieri 3

Mr.
flower.

W.

Bull.

Chelsea, sent Lycaste Skinneri alba with

me) luge
plant
of

Messrs.

B.

S.

Williams S

Son,

Upper Holtoway,

lent

Catasetum discolor vinosum. Messrs. John Laing & Sons, of Forest

in

Hill, also included a

few Orchids

a collection of miscellaneous plants.

At the meeting held on March 24th there was again a very brilliant display, the various groups staged containing numerous examples of

Dendrobium
Cattleva

nobile and

its

varieties

and

hybrids,

many good forms

especially

of
tin-

Trianas,

and

numerous

Odontoglossmns,

of

between O. crispum and O. gloriosum. We must content ourselves with noticing the more remarkable examples in the various
series of hybrids

F.

Hardy, Esq.. Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey

igr.

Mr. Stafford),received

a Silver Flora

Medal

for a brilliant group, consisting largely of well

grown
D.

plants of

Dendrobium

nobile and

its

varieties

and hybrids,

a well-flowered n.

plant of D.

Schneiderianum receiving
fine plant
;

a Cultural

Commendation.
1). n.

Bailianum, a
special

of

I),

nobile nobilius, and

Amesife deserve

mention

also a good Odontoglossum

x muhis and Cypripediani X

magnificent Cattleva Trianae
also sent a flower

Swinburnei niagnilieiim.

An Award

of

.Merit

was given

to the

Reine des Beiges exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, who

of Ladio-cattleya

exoniensis curiously out of season.

to

similar

Award went

Odontoglossum crispum Evelina,

a variety

regularly spotted with red-purple

and beautifully undulate, exhibited by

H. Schroder. for H. Mason, Esq., Shiplev, Vorks, received an Award of Merit Masoni, a very richly coloured form, with Odontoglossum X Ruckerianum a raceme of sixteen flowers, and a similar Award for O. X Humeanum This plant was remarkably well grown. excellens with very dark sepals.
Sir

Baron

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in

bearing a raceme of seven flowers,

recognition

of

which

Cultural

Commendation was
Odontoglossum

also given.

Coradinei

Rosefield

var.,

from the
of Merit.

collection

of

De

Barri Crawshay, Esq., also received an

Award

The

raceme

bore thirteen fine flowers, three inches in diameter across the

petals, the

ground colour being yellow, and the blotches large and few
one only being found on each petal.
Maxillaria lepidota, from the collection of

in number,

Welbore

S. Ellis, Esq., which

thirty

received
flowers.

Botanical
Cultural

Certificate,

was

well-grown plant with

Commendation was

also given to a remarkable plant

Odontoglossum crispum, bearing a panicle with ten branches, and an aggregate of sixty-five flowers. It belongs to the branching type originally described by Lindley, with rather small white flowers.
of

fine

Cattleya was exhibited from the collection of C. Ingram. Esq.,

?

of

Godalming, derived from C. Lawrenceanum

the reverse cross of C.
referred.

and C. Mendelii 3 and

,

thus
be

William Murray, to which, however,

it

must

Dendrobiums came from the collection of N. C. Cookson, Esq., two of which received Awards of Merit, namely, D. X Murrayi, described at page 166 of our last volume, and D. X dulce picturatum, a remarkable form in which the flowers were marbled or variegated throughSeveral beautiful

out

with

purple

on

lighter

ground.

I).

Astrea

and

D.

nobile

burfordiense were also noteworthy.

Cypripedium hirsutissimum Stand Hall

T. Statter, Esq., received an
the
dorsal
sepal

var.,

from the
It
is

collection of

Award

of Merit.

a very dark form,

green

being

deep

purple

brown except the narrow

var.,
is

Odontoglossum X excellens, Kosslyn

a First-class Certificate

large

and handsome

form, with broad segments, from the collection of

H. T.

which Pitt. Esq., to

was

given.
collection of John in diameter

Dendrobium Wardianum grandiflorum, from the

Gabriel, Esq., of Strcatham,
is

across the petals, and the

lip

a gigantic flower. 4j i\ inches broad.

inches

We may

also

mention Cypripedium
I.

X
;

Olenus and C.

Wottoni, from

the collection of R.

Measures, Esq.
;

nebulosum from Odontoglossum

O, X Andersonianum from J. W. Esq., Elmet Hall, Leeds; Phaius Wallichii Mannii from Pantia Rail'. Esq. and a good Dendrobium Chambers, EsqX Ainsworthii from A. H. Grading, Esq., of Stanmore
;

KHa*

Dumfries.
trade collections contained several large and excellent represented. which most of the plants which flower this season were well at

The
Mr.

groups,

in

W.

Bull, of Chelsea, staged a very large

and showy

group, to

1C

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

a Silver Flora

1*7

Medal was given.

Uroskinneri.

It

contained
a

a tine lot
(>.

of

Odontoglossnm-.

including Edwardii,

Kossii.

tine

x Wihkcanum. good
sarcodes.
(

forms of O.
Cypripcdimii

X Andersonianum, good
exttl,

plants of Trichopilia

C.

Charlesworthii.

Oncidium
tilings.

attleya

Schroderae, and a large nnntl>er of otlter showy

Janus Veitch an excellent group of fine tilings, among which we noted Dendrohinin atroviolaceum with four racemes. I). IVarei, a well-flowered I). Devonianum,
Silver Flora
also
to Messrs.

Medal

went

a fine Bifrenaria

Harrisonae, Cypripedium Chamberlainianum, several tine

cirrhosiini, with
a

forms of Cattlcya Triame. Odontoglossnm

raceme

in
:

which the three expanded flowers had each two sepals and two petals onh An Award of Merit was given to also a number of their beautiful hybrids.
lattleva Schroderse caloglossa,
in

which the
Heaton,

front lobe of the lip

an

unusually large blotch of rich purple.

Messrs.

Charlesworth
for a fine

&

Co.,

Bradford!

received

Silvei

Banksian Medal
Lindeni,
Rossii,

group, containing Odontoglossums ramosissinuim. Pescatorei, Hallii. cirrhosum, anil others; Maxillaria
sarcodes.

Sanderiana,

Oncidium

Masdevallia
(a

falcata.

Cypripedium
deep

villosum aureum, Lycaste Skinned eximia

fine

flower,

with rerj

good forms of Cattleya Trianae, &c. Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Upper Clapton, also exhibited a line group. containing the usual showy things, in which we noted PhaUenopsis Sanderiana and P. X intermedia, Cypripedium Victoria-Maria!, Mormodes Dentigrinum, Trichopilia suavis, Oncidium Papilio, and numerous good
crimson
lip),

drobiums, Odontoglossums, Cattleyas, &c.

Albans, staged a group of fine things, the curious including Anguloa uniflora, Cymbidium Lowianum concolor. and Dendrobium platycaulon. very fine forms of Odontoglossnm sccptrum

Messrs. F. Sander

&

Co.,

St.

O.

x Wilckeanum,

good specimens very good Oncidium spilopteium,

"1

others. Dendrobium aggregatum, Zygopetalum crinitum. and numerous DevonTwickenham, exhibited a good Dendrobium Mr. H. A. Tracey.

ianum. with

a pseudobulb

yard long, and crowded with flowers: also

Eria confusa and Phalxnopsis Stuartiana.

ORCHIDS AT MANCHESTER.
The Spring Show the Town Hall on March
Dendrobiums
was held Botanic Society of Manchester of the Roval
I

at

;th

and

14 th.

when Orchids, and

in excellent

especially

were exhibited

in large

numbers and

cond.t.on,

several well-known exhibitors being represented.

We

can only afford space

to note a few of the

more remarkable

exhibits.

128

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

group from E. Ashworth, Esq., included a superb Dendrobium X splrndidissimum grandiflorum, which received a Floral Commendation, one
pseudobulb bearing thirty-six flowers.
very
fine,

A fine

D.

X Schneiderianum
and a

also was

as well as Lycaste Skinneri, Cattltya Trianse,

selection of

Odontoglossums.

The collection from T. Statter, Esq., included a splendid plant of Dendrobium nobile Amesia;, which received a First-class Certificate, also
various other
brilliant

Dendrobiums, sonic good Ccelogvne

cristata, a

splendid

Cypripedium

southgatense

superbum,

and

the

dark

C.

hirsutissimum Stand Hall variety.

A group
some
good

staged by H.

contained a fine

Weetman, Esq., of Little Haywood, Stafford, Dendrobium X Dominianum, some fine forms of D. nobile,
and
a
brilliant

Odontoglossums,

example

of

Oncidium

splendidum.
Mr. Munson exhibited a fine lot of Odontoglossums, including some good pans of O. Rossii, O. X elegans, O. crispum, Cochlioda vulcanica,

and

Platyclinis glumacea.

S. Hinchcliffe, Esq., of Hale, staged a fine group, including

some good

Oncidium sarcodes, Cymbidium Lowianum, Odontoglossura Harryanum, and others, and some good Dendrobiums and Cypripediums. Mr. J. Robson received a First-class Certificate for a light-coloured Dendrobium nobile. He also staged some good dark forms, some fine D.
of
crassinode,

plants

Cymbidium eburneum, Phalamopsis Stuartiana, and others. Mr. James Cypher sent some superb Dendrobiums. Cattleyas LawEpiden-

renceana, Triana; and Lueddemanniana, Cypripedium villosum,

drum X O'Brienianum, E. xanthinum. &c Messrs. Heath & Son sent a very fine Dendrobium
Horum, Cypripedium Rothschildianum, C.
a fine
Cattleya Triana:.
Sec.

nobile grandi-

Swinburnei, C. Argus Moensii,

fifteen

Cymbidium X Lowio-eburneum with

flowers,

some good

CORRESPONDENCE,
'
'

&c.

Hamburg. Ruckenanum.
I':.

Schomburgkia rosea and Odontoglossum

Andersonianum

var.

r. A.,

< )

C. Schrcederie, the latter very good. li B. Met!.. Uncastei. A form of Odontoglossum x Andersonianum, with very fe*sp Bury. Cypripedium nigritum. seems remark-

West Derby. Cattleya Triana; and

OW,

Dendrobium FindUyamim
'

in the

unusually short and

much

swollen nodes, but the flowers are

fairly typical-

Co.,

of Heaton,

Bradford,

and

will

Marcheit:. Orchids formed by C. (-hail" ., .cn purchased by Messrs. collection be distributed by them. The
sales e acouired at the

ot

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The
Drill

next meeting of
Hall,

tht!

Royal Horticultural Society

Westminster, on

will

be held at

tin-

James
will

Street.

May

5th.

when

the Orchid

Committee

meet

at the usual

hoar of 12 o'clock, noon.

The Great Animal Rower Show of the Society will be held in the Inner Temple Gardens, Thames Embankment, on May 19th, 20th, and 21st, when the Orchid Committee will meet an hour earlier than usual, namely,
at 11 o'clock

Medals

will

As usual on this occasion, be awarded according to merit.

a.m.

number of

Silver

Cups and

tine richly-coloured flower of

Cypripedium

Ledouxia: (described at

page 117 of our first volume) has been sent from the collection of R. le Doux, Esq., West Derby, Liverpool, and much resembles a tine form of C. X Creon. Mr. Archer thinks that the record of C. callosum being one parent
is

correct, as

some

of the seedlings

show

distinct warts

on the petals, and

the foliage is about intermediate between that species

and C.

Harrisianum.

Cypripedioms with twin-flowered scapes (pp. Archer also remarks that it is common in the collection just named, especially
Referring
t,>

in

C. callosum, C.

barbatum, C.

Ashburtona:, C.

Louisa:, C.

Daviesianum, and sometimes C.

Harrisianum.

very curious flower of Cattleya Mendelii has been sent from the

Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ash ton-on- Mersey, which has only two sepals, two alternating petals, and a straight column with two
collection of F.

anthers, which again alternate with the petals, and thus stand opposite the
sepals.

The

colour

is

light blush.
it

Every bulb on the plant

is

said to be

crippled.

We

suspect that
last

may

be out of the importations alluded to at

page 236 of our

volume.

3o

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A remarkable
flower of Cattleya Triana;

comes from the

lip-like

collection of
is

W. Thompson,
the ordinary the flower.
lip

Esq., of Stone, in which the lower edge of each petal

completely united to the column, and thus forms a

organ above
to

and partly within

it.

giving a most curious appearance

Dendrobium Wardianuin come from the collection of Major-General E. S. Berkeley, of Southampton, in which the petals are absent, or in reality metamorphosed into anthers, for there are three anthers side by side on the back of the column. Thus they are in the same condiflowers of
tion as the abnormal flowers of

Two

D. nobile mentioned on page

nobile from

132.

Several fine forms of

Dendrobium
P.

imported plants come

from the collection of

Burkinshaw, Esq., of Hessle, including two nearly equal to the variety giganteum, and one in which the upper halves of

W.

the sepals and petals, and apex of the

lip, It

are of a peculiar purplish

is

rose,

with a slight flush of salmon colour.

very distinct and pretty, and

may A
in

bear the

name

of D. n. roseum.

very pretty form of Cattleya Triana; comes from the same collection,
is

which the flower

is

rosy-lilac throughout, except the disc,

on which

the

yellow

almost entirely confined to the radiating veins.

Several fine Odontoglossums have been sent from the collection of RBrooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, including a heavily-blotched form of O. crispum, allied to the variety apiatum, O. Humeanum aspersum, 0. X

Andersonianum lobatum, and O. X A. egregium, the last-named having the sepals and petals somewhat suffused with purple on a yellow ground and heavily spotted with dark brown, giving it a very distinct appearance.

An

X Andersonianum is also enclosed, at first sight might be taken for something else. The shape of the lip. quite however, and the arrangement of the column wings and crest, are
exceptionally large form of O.
typical.

whic

fine forms of the variable Odontoglossum luteopurpureun. from the collection of John S. Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishop's Waltnam,

Two

come

sep one of which has the ground colour of the lip quite white, and the a and petals extremely dark, the sepals having only a small yellow area apex and base.

Cooksoni has An exceptionally fine flower of Dendrobium nobile Wilmslow, w sent from the collection of Dr. Hodgkinson, The Grange,
is

one of 170 borne on a medium-sized plant, forming a magnificen

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

The development
well cultivated.

tjl
is

of the flower shows that the plant

flower of D.

very vigorous and

a,\

Wardianum giganteum, measuring

inches

across the very broad petals, and the lip i\ inches broad, and a fine Cattleya

amethystoglossa are also enclosed.

It is

interesting to note that the rare Coryanthcs Wolfii

collection.

is

also flowering

in the

same

The

history of this plant

is

given at page 264 of our

spray of Oncidium ansiferum has been sent from the collection of J. D. Hodgson, Esq.. of Xewcastle-on-Tyne. The plant came from Central America, and is marked by its large oval flattened pseudobulbs. which are

about four inches long.

flowers.

It

bears two spikes, each with about forty or

fifty

An

inflorescence of the curious

little

Australian

Dendrobium lingUK-

forme has been sent from the collection of

W.

E. Ledger, Esq., Wilton

plant, with flowers closely

Road, Wimbledon.

It is a

very interesting

little

resembling those of D. aimulum, but with a totally different leaf, being in obsolete fact oblong, very short and fleshy, and borne solitary on a nearly
pseudobulb.

good form of Cattleya Trianae comes from the same collection, the here the yellow flower being wholly light rosy lilac, except on the disc, and

blotches are replaced by a

number

of deep yellow nerves.

mentioned reference to the two-flowered scape of Lycaste Skinneri, With one has Hoisholt, of Stockton, California, writes that at page 66, Dr. A. W. A photograph of it is also enclosed. also appeared in his collection.
to be O. flower of a curious Odontoglossum, supposed A photograph and obtuse, or very the same collection. The lip is Ross.i, is also sent from hke to see .t not yet developed, and we should slightly bilobed, and possibly
at a future time of flowering.

the same the reference to a plant of page 85, Mr. Stevens writes that th, 1894, is a mistake made m name receiving an Award of Merit on June of ****"* (supra, II., p. ** 3 ), "> " ame our report of that meeting

With

respect

to

our

note

on

Odontoglossum

crispum aureum

at

being O. luteopurpureum sceptrum aureum.

fl"" Readers would do well .0

make the necessary

correction.

Several fine flowers

of

the

richly-coloured
of

Cvpripedium barbatum
Esq., of

Warneri come from the

collection

O. O. Wrigley,

Bury.

,32

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Mr. Wrigley remarks that they never flowered better than this spring. A fine flower of C. Lawrenceanum atrorubens, noted at page 128
of

our second volume,

is

also

enclosed.

It

is

slightly

smaller than

the type, but

much

darker throughout, the dorsal sepal especially being

verv richly coloured.

and

originally

was purchased at the Stand came from Messrs. Backhouse & Son, of York.

The

plant

Hall

sale,

unusually fine form of Cypripedium niveum has been sent from the collection of W. H. Lumsden, Esq., of Balmedie, Aberdeen, which measures

An

31 inches across the petals.

the petals fourteen lines.

The
It
is

dorsal sepal

is

nineteen lines broad, and

its

remarkable

for

unusual development,
of C. n. majus.

being typical

in

other respects, and

may

bear the

name

Odontoglossum X Coradinei comes from the same is collection, in which the yellow ground colour of the sepals and petals Ruckersuffused with a light rosy tint, approaching what is seen in O. X ianum. In other respects it is quite typical. The rosy tint of O. cnspum

peculiar form of

is

generally obliterated in this hybrid, and the present variety

may

be called

DENDROBIUM NOBILE ABNORMAL.

has flowered in the A large but very curious flower of Dendrobium nobile A Bitterne, Southampton. collection of Major-General E. S. Berkeley, of e segments, namely t the flowers on the plant are alike, having only four
lip,

the

two

lateral

of the dorsal sepal,

in one, as
in colour.
it

position which occupies the sepals, and a fourth organ, confluent the two petals though it apparently consists of

grows from inside the

lateral sepals,

and

is

also

much
is

brighter
is

Thus the

dorsal sepal appears to be absent.

The column

we

developed, but bears

no anther.

Whether
of

the

peculiarity

constan

remains to be seen.

One

of the flowers on a plant of Sir F.

collection

Dendrobium nobile somewhat simiW. Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, is

and
lip

in t nobilius,

as the lateral sepals

are

placed by the two united petals.

The column
is

an dorsal sepal absent, normal, the n curious, as th

is

re-

'

stamen (A
the

of the Darwinian notation)

^ ^ barren filament, reduced to a

(a
1

very

while the two lateral stamens of the inner whorl

fertile

andai,
,,

stamens of Cypripediuni) are developed, and each contain p The stigma is abnormal. This flower is very interesting, and the ana

11. 11.

qg

ment

is

such as to show clearly the nature of each

of the parts.

he

of the flowers are typical in shape.

THE ORCHID REVIEW

ijj

NOMENCLATURE OF ORCHIDS.
The
present

confusion

in

the

nomenclature

of

Orchids

is

almost

scandal, and threatens to be qui to intolerable as the

so-called
varieties

number

of hybrids

and

continually

increases.

had hoped that something

would be done by the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society but it seems to me DOW that they are among to bring order out of chaos the worst offenders, and unless they repent and change their methods, it is
:

imlikeK that they

will be able to control

the sins of others.

is.
I

As an
the

illustration of the

proceedings of what
in

after all. the

body

of

greatest authority upon the subject

in

England.

will take their

I

decisions

question of reverse crosses.

The other day

sent a

new hybrid,

X Shuttleworthii, and proposed to name it " Chamberlainiana." The Orchid Committee, however, declined to recognise it under a specific name on the ground that the reverse cross of Shnttleworthii with Harryana had already been made and named " Shuttryana." They accordingly permit me to call my plant " Masdevallia
Masdevallia

Harryana

Shuttryana, Chamberlain's variety "if

description.

have patience to use so lengthy a

On
X

a subsequent occasion Mr.

Ingram sent a new Cattleya Lawrenceana

is

Mendelii.

As the reverse cross

to

named

already "

W.

Murray."'

the

Orchid Committee appear

have refused a distinct name.

Again Messrs. Witch sent a Lalio-Cattleya Trianas

reverse cross has already been named " Doris " hybrid is to be called " Doris, variety Xantho."

harpophylla.

The

accordingly the

new

In these three cases the rule has been that a reverse cross
to a distinctive

is

not entitled

name.

The

decision

is

open to criticism, as there are very

and marked differences in the reverse crosses of different Orchids. At the same time I should be prepared to submit to it if the Orchid Committee themselves were consistent but, so far from that, I find that at the last Show a new Dendrobium hybrid was named " Clio." which is " burfordiense " has been named, only the reverse of " Lutwycheanum "
great
;

although

it

is

the reverse of
;

"duke"'
is

" chrysodiscus "

is

the reverse of

" melanodiscus "

and " micans "

the reverse of " Euryclea."

however, worse anomalies than these arising from the way in which the results of the same cross and even of the same seed-pod have

There

are,

been allowed to be exhibited under

" Aurora," and " Cybele," are
all

different

names.

Thus, " pallens,"

three

named

hybrids of the same cross as

" xanthocentron." '" Hebe," " Dido," " Rainbow," and " Luna," are

all

the same cross as

" melanodiscus." " Thalia." just named, appears to be almost identical with "

Rubens"

134

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

the latter being a cross of " Leechianum " with " nobile nobilus," and the former of " Ainsworthii " with the same pollen parent.
Is
it

likely that

amateurs and ordinary dealers

will

observe any

rule or

reason whatever as long as the

Orchid Committee permits such

gross

If possible the latitude

allowed to what are called "varieties"

is

even
every

worse than the loose treatment of hybrids.

Every nurseryman and

amateur

is

permitted at his

own sweet

will

and pleasure
is

to affix a distinctive
in

name
there

to

any plant that

in the

strikes his fancy, or

appears to vary

any degree

from others
is

same batch.

As there

no rule and no

authority, so

no

limit to the abuse of this practice.

The names
already
unscientific

thus given are frequently the same as those that have been

taken for other

;

and
all

their

They are altogether illusory and constantly growing number is destroying the value
varieties.

and meaning of
I

specific

names.

believe that in the long run everyone

quality attached to every distinctive

would benefit if some name, and if a buyer could

authentic

be certain

that in purchasing a " magnifica," or " grandiflora," or " gloriosa," he was

really getting a plant of definite character.

As it is, all confidence in these fancy descriptions is being rapidly lost, and prudent collectors have ceased to buy varieties unless they can see them in flower.

Under these circumstances,

am

tempted

to

make a

suggestion

for the

consideration of the Royal Horticultural Society and in the interest of all who take an interest in Orchid cultivation.

Committee should establish a "Hall Mark" for valuable Orchids, which would speedily be recognised by all cultivators, and which would be insisted on by buyers as a security against fraud or
It
is

that the Orchid

exaggeration.
All that

would be necessary

is

prepare that the Committee should

form of label (bearing some distinctive mark, such as the seal of the Society if it has one or the letters R.H.S.), which could be filled up as required
with the

name
label,

of the plant to which

it is

attached.

when filled up, should be granted by the Committee on payment of a small fee say, of half-a-crown to any plant exhibited at one These of the Shows, and named by the to its rules. Committee according would rules should lay down the general specific names conditions on which
This
be allowed by the Committee and grant of such names to any variety
:

hope they would

differ

which did not

this kind

preclude the strictly distinctly from

most

the type, and to any hybrid from a cross already

named.
wou that no buyer be Society had not the

The

result of

an arrangement of
hybrid or

pay high

prices for a

would variety which

THE OK CHI I>

" imprimator." and was not
professed to be.

KF.l/EII
by them
as

35
it

authenticated

being what

The growers and amateurs would send plants of novelty and merit to the Shows in order to get the " Hall Mark "
Society, since
all

special

of the

plants and varieties which could pass the test would have

an assured and increased value.

official

On

the other hand,

names which had no

approval would eease to carry the slightest weight, and would soon

be dropped altogether.
In this

way

not only would the interest of

benefited, bol

tin-

Shows

increase and the

gel
ii.l

finances of the Society he

we should gradually

of

hundreds of names which have been affixed without any kind "f authority to plants not one wit better than the ordinary type, and we should make

some approach
varieties

at

any rate to an orderly and

scientific

nomenclature of new

under the control and responsibility of an expert tribunal.

J.

CHAMIIKKI.AIN.

Highbury, Moor Green,

Birmingham.

BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW.

Several
in

of the botanical Orchids mentioned last

collection,

month

are

still

flowering

and numerous additional ones have taken the place One of the prettiest is that little gem Phalamof those which are over. It remains opsis Parishii. with its white sepals and petals and purple lip. in flower a long time, and but for the difficulty of obtaining it. would
the

Kew

probably be more widely grown.

flowering species from the

Dendrobium hainanense
of

(Rolfe)

is

a free-

island

Hainan, with

terete

leaves

and
lip.
is

numerous white

flowers

with

yellow spot on the disc of the

:

Microstylis macrochila and

M.

Scottii are also opening

their foliage

always elegant, and the large purple flowers of the former should ensure for it a place in every collection where botanical Orchids are grown.

Among Angrjecums may

be mentioned the pretty

little

A. fastuosum and

Cottonia macrothe rare A. Germinyanum. a native of Madagascar. stachya has flowers remarkably like a beetle with purple-brown elytra.

Polystachya bracteosa, which

bulbs,
is

is

remarkable for

its

dorsally flattened pseudo-

producing several racemes of greenish flowers.

Ccelogynes

Among
cosa.

C. carinata (Rolfe)
Several

may be mentioned the from New Guinea: also

now
in

curious

little

C. uniflora, and

the allied Pholidota ventri-

Maxillarias are

flower,

including the curious

M.

Leptotes aciantha with fleshy segments, M. Meleagris and M. pumila. bicolor is another little gem. which is exceedingly pretty when well grown.

36

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

the Pleurothallis group

Of

may

be mentioned

the pretty

little M.tsdevallia
;

Carderi, M. demissa, and others, also Pleurothallis cardiocrepis

and

of the

Epidendrum group Hexadesmia

E. varicosum.

fasciculata,
is

Epidendrum Linkianum,
little

and

Sarcochilus Fitzeraldi
in

a pretty

Australian species
flowers, while the
flowers.
finibri-

with some light purple spots

allied

the centre of the whit,

Cleisostoma Wendlandorum has dense spikes of small yellow

few other species

now

in flower :uv

Eria confusa, Cirrhopetalum

atum, Xylobium corrugatum, and Cypripediuni virens, the

of the least attractive of the

latter being one

group with tessellated leaves.

THE DENDROBIUM BEETLE.

You
will receive

a parcel containing a pseudobulb cut from

plant of

Dendrobium Phalaenopsis. I believe you will find it infested with a brown beetle, and its larva;, and if you carefully examine it before cutting it open you will be able to find the borehole by which the insect has entered. I shall be much obliged for some information as to the life-history of this insect, and also whether it be the same pest which attacks Cattleyas. Amongst loo plants purchased last autumn we have had to destroy many
pseudobulbs, and fresh discoveries arc being

made almost

daily.

O. O. Wrigley.
Bridge Hall, Bury.

A
Kew

the note on the same subject appears in the February number of a Bulletin (p. 62), under the title. " Beetle-larvae attacking Orchids,"

summary
by
larvae,

of which

it

may be

interesting to reproduce.

Sir Trevor Law-

rence submitted to

Kew

pseudobulbs of Dendrobium Imperntrix attacked

which were handed to Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, Lecturer on Entomology at the Forestry Branch of the Indian Civil Engineering
Mr. Blandford
and beetle lame, states that they are
beetle,

College, for report.

pretty certainly

those of a

Longicorn

some they show though

divergences from the ordinary type, probably correlated with their habitat identify in a soft stem instead of hard woody tissues. impossible to It is

such larva; positively, except when their mode of life is such any doubts but it happens that the larva of the only two known species
;

e to exclu as

an example found in the Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, where it w* u. found gnawing the stem of a Phalaenopsis from Manila, and D. Denbro known by four specimens taken alive on imported Dendrobium atro-

the genus Diaxenes live in Orchids.

These

described from are D. Taylorl,

purpureum and D. nobile, the latter said to have been ''"P 6 '1 ",, Moulmein (where, however, D. nobile is not known to grow)'"'

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

examples of Diaxenes Taylori
mein."
in

'.;;

the British

Museum

are ticketed

" Moul-

submitted to Mr. Blandford belong to either species of Diaxenes. or even to the genus, must necessarily remain unknown, but it is conjectured, from the habitat unless the beetle be bred from them of the host plant, that it will prove distinct. Should Sir Trevor Lawrence

Whether the

larva;

be so unlucky as to breed out the beetles

in his conservatory, for

Mr. Blandford
Orchids, be

would be glad

to

examine them: but,

the sake of th

recommends
destroyed.

that
If

they be carefully looked over, and the affected stems

any plants are so attacked as to be not worth saving, th. \ might be removed to a house which contains no other Orchids, and coveted with gauze netting, so as to detain any beetles which may breed out, if
desired to rear

them

for

examination.

But

it

is

most important that by

careful supervision

no affected stems

shall be

left

which

will

distribute the

Orchid house when they have reached the winged state. It might be possible to save pseudobulbs not as yet badly injured. by destroying the enclosed larvs with a wire or needle, but whether this
insect at large in the

means

is

practicable or not must be

left

to the consideration of

those

who

Mr. Blandford adds that he has described a small boring beetle (Xvleborus morigerus) which has been very injurious in some conservatories to Dendrobia from New Guinea, having probably been sent

have care of the plants.

out extensively with the Orchids by a firm of nurserymen, but they are not

present in the portions sent.

pseudobulb of Dendrobium PhaUenopsis sent by Mr. his Wrigley we found two or three larva:, and one beetle was just boring but a small brown out. It was not a Longicorn beetle, however, way

On

splitting the

whose very short antenna: are broad and flattened at the Blandford or apex, and we suspect either the Xvleborus mentioned by Mr. What we suspect may be the same insect has been closely allied species. a elsewhere as alluded to on more than one occasion in our columns and of Xyleborus perforans, and it would be interesting to clear up the history
weevil-like insect,

and some other Orchid pests, which seem to be very imperfectly this as known. These insects come home with imported plants, and as soon them out. Nurserytheir presence is detected measures are taken to stamp who find affected plants among their importations, naturally do not

men

but easily obtained care to advertise the fact, and so information is not from New Guinea there is a consensus of opinion that several Dendrobiums
:

who and the adjacent islands are specially subject to their attacks. Those them out as buy plants from this region should be on the alert to stamp spreading soon as their presence is detected, and thus prevent the mischief

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

AN AMATEUR'S NOTES.
advent of Cattleyas Mendelii and Mossiae, together with Lselia purpurata, indicate the approach of the showiest season of the year. Early
flowers of each of these are

The

now expanding, and

added to the

the group will soon forma

picture of loveliness.
Lailia cinnabarina,

The

beautiful Cattleyas citrina

list.

and

intermedia, and
are

must

also be

Odontoglossums

almost at their best, and include numerous forms of O. crispum, spotted and unspotted, white and pink several forms of O. luteopurpureum, the brilliant O. triumphans, O. Pescatorei, and several others, including the
;

hybrids O.
is

Coradinei and O.

X Wilckeanum.

Hanging from
vexillaria

the roof
of

a plant of the charming

little

O. CErstedii bearing a large number

Miltonia
its
is

which are remarkably persistent. beginning to flower, and will soon be at

flowers,

again

best, while a plant of M.

Phalcenopsis

is

also very pretty.

The
the

brilliant-flowered

group of Masdevallia
Pariatoreana and M.
fine

is

beginning to make
Chelsoni, as well
rivals

a
as

show, and includes M.

x
The

commoner
longer.

ones.

old Sobralia
its

Cattleyas in the brilliance

of

flowers,

macrantha now and will keep up a

the

succession

much
the

drawback is that it takes rather a lot of space. Maxillaria Sanderiana and M. luteo-alba are also among the additions to
Its

chief

together with Cypripedium Lawrenceanum, C. Volonteanum, C. exul, and C. bellatulum. the latter being planted in hanging pans, and in
list,

this

way seen

to better advantage.

The

best

Oncidiums

just

now

are 0.

Marshallianum, O. ampliatum, and O. cucullatum, the former being superb. A plant not always seen at its best is the old Arpophyllum spicatum, which, when well grown, is very effective, the dense spikes of rosy purple flowers being very distinct from anything else. Phalanopsis tetraspis is a
chaste and beautiful flower which will remain long in beauty, and ought to be more widely grown another species now blooming well is P. Lueddemanmana. The pretty little Helcia sanguinolenta and Diacrium bicornutum,
;

also

claim

attention.

Among
its

the

Dendrobiums may be mentioned

D.

charming little Dand the Loddigesii as among the Cymbidium more notable additions to the list. the Lowianum is now superb, and I think unquestionably the best of Cymbidiums. It would be easy though the above to extend the list,
transparens,
selection contains all the

cariniferum, with thrysiflorum, crystallinum,

Parishii,

powerful aromatic fragrance, densiflorum,

more
is

striking ones.

The
to

collection generally

now

very attractive, as not only

is

is it

gay with

flowers, but the

watch their

young growths are coming on well, and it progress, and in some measure anticipate

very interesting

the display of the

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DIES ORCHIDIANjE.
One
of

ijf

my

correspondents calls attention to the epidemic of provisional

it

names, and thinks

quite time

had something to say on the subject.

it

He

purchased some of the " new Anguloa alba magna, but when

proved to be neither new nor white, but simply the old Anguloa uniflora,

which he had known ever since he can remember.

matter of thai neither can

Yet

it

was again

re-

christened Anguloa Watsoniana," which he cannot understand

1

and for the

says,

-but he thinks " this wholesale re-naming of

.it

well-known old plants

is

nothing sh

..f

a public
a

scandal."

Now, he

we have
cannot

wonderful new Cypiip.-dium and

is

Cteloguie ,'-

nothing of others, and the question

tell

what

will

these prove to

him

at

present, but

fully

agree that there ought to be some

these
so-Called

means

of ascertaining beforehand
title.

wlnthei

novelties have

any right to the

He also suggests that dried flowers might to be obtained and submitted to some expert, who would recognise old species and thus p known plants from receiving useless new names, which are only a source of annoyance to everybody. He then goes on to ask " What is this Description says it is the best wonderful new Cypripedium Sanderse ?
:

Cypripedium for cutting purposes ever introduced, and that fnun photographs and measurements received with the plants the species is believed to be far and away the largest of the genus yet discovered. The lateral petals The pouch is are much broader than in any other Cypripede we know of.
sounds very promising, but have these photographs and other materials been submitted to an expert ? And if not. why not ? And what is this other new and magnificent Cypripedium from
unique
in

shape,

eic.

All this

the

Malayan Archipelago

The

collector says

it

is

certainly the grandest

Cypripedium he has ever seen, and should prove one of the most sensational I want productions of late years. Did he take the trouble to dry a flower to buy a plant or two as soon as I ran find oat what they are. but my

experience of Cattleya floribunda and Anguloa alba

the present."

magna

is

sufficient

for

my correspondent's questions until a future occasion meantime I commend them " When found, make a to the notice of all those whom they mav concern.
These remarks
are very

much

to the point, but

;

must leave

note of," as Captain Cuttle would have observed.

plants in question will prove

certainly

hope that the one

it

new and good, but

recent experiences are not

encouraging, and a
effect,

little

repetition of this sort of thing can only have

so far as buyers are concerned.

In the case of Cattleya floribunda

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

that a dried inflorescence

was announced

was

to be seen, and, of course, to

its

have submitted this to an expert would have led to

established at once.
authority,

identity being

And when they

are not referred to

some

independent
plant,

and afterwards prove identical with some well-known

people naturally draw their

own conclusions
is

as to the reason

and whether
in

they are the correct ones or not, the result

It
is

quite

time a decided protest

much the same was made against this

" provisional "

the end.

unnecessary

multiplication of spurious

names

called

by courtesy

and

while admitting that there

necessary,
generally.
I

may

be cases where a provisional name may be

fully

endorse the remarks of

my

correspondent on the

subject

was much interested

in
I

Mr. Young's note on hybrids of

identical

parentage, at page

hope the Orchid Committee will take the hint not to certificate old hybrids under new names. I think the Nomenclature Committee and the Orchid Committee might amalgamate with advantage,
,

n5

and

and, perhaps,

if

the editors of the gardening papers were thrown

in,

they

might together prepare an authentic list, and keep it up to date. Mr. Young's notes on naming in the vernacular have soon received a practical illustration, for I observe in the report of a recent meeting of the Royal
Horticultural Society that " PhaUenopsis Baron Schroder superba " and " Cattleva William Murray why the fulgens " were exhibited. I don't know additions were not made in the vernacular. Possibly because they would

have looked ridiculous, though

fail

to see

where the

subtle distinction

comes
able, in

in.
I

Cattleva

Murrayi fulgens or Cattleya

X
is

William Murray"
infinitely prefer-

red variety

could have understood, though the former

my

opinion.

are running side

However, now that the two systems of nomenclature by side, I suppose we shall see some interesting developAkgus.

ments.

Orchid Blooms at
for yer

Penny-a-Piece. " Onlv a penny

!

An Orchid

buttonhole for a penny

ears in

on
I

mv

Such was Cheapside on Wednesday, says

"

that grated the ejaculation

Liccnsi writer in the a

and I at ttinerary vendors frequently play "spoof," once concluded that the penny-apretty girl who was selling Orchids at a piece was at the good old purchased a game. But I was mistaken, fori
idualkrs' Giuett*.

bloom of Odontoglossum vexillarium

Gardeners

for

the twelfth part of a

shilling'

Chronicle.

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>l'

ORCHIDS AT CLARE LAWN.

Maw

interesting Orchid* were in bl

in

the collection of Sit

Frederick

Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, during a recent visit, when the following previous notes were taken, though room was not found for them in out issue. A foil account of the collection was given al page j8 of our first
volume.

lure be mentioned the Phaktnopscs, which always do well Sanderiana and though the bulk of the P. SchiUeriana, Aphrodite, and Phahenopsis were cut during February, a few representatives remained.
I

Boxallii

was well

in

bloom.

Two

plants

of

P.

Lueddemanniana were

long. Bowering very strongly, one plant having three spikes, up to 2] feet One of these was producing a young plant on the spike, while several plants A fine plan] of P. P. Stuartiana had young plants on the roots. of

SchiUeriana vestalis was over, but had produced a splendid infli The plain maj always be distinguished when out of flower, white Bowers.
as the leaves are green below,

and have fewer

spots.

Mr. young attributes

his plants of his success to not pulling the plants about, and certainlj much mass of roots quite outside of the conipo-t yet they seem to obtain are a Probably the gravel walks and the require from the atmosphere. all they and underneath serve to throw off a constant supply of moisture, plants
:

the plants attention to the ventilation and heating apparatus, with proper of almost indifferent to the compost, which consists chiefly seem to be Mr. Young occasionally syringes out the old and sphagnum. crocks rather adding a little fresh among the old crocks he also uses sphagnum,
;

a, they have been for baskets, but the plants are a picture of health, small things. Phalainopsis are grown Cypripediums and other I'nder the years.

Uthamianum, which also do very well. In flower were Cypripedium X PoUettianum, X Germmyanum, fine C. x macropterum, X politum.X very and and others; also Selenipedium X Perseus superbum Xdelicatum, The charming C. bellatuhnn album was .loin- well, growSargentianum. were and tufa. Pescatorea Klabochorum and P. Dayans ing in loose peat
also growing very well.

eight flowers.

and house were three plants of Coelogyne sparsa in Bower, In another with as many as a picture, bearing eleven spikes, and one one of them was form Triana: and SchreeJjra; were very tine, a white
Cattleyas

of the latter being particularly good.

.

up very

stronglv.

crassinode especially,

Eulophia Elisabeth* was throwing Dendrobiums were very good, three plants of D. each having six to eight flowering bulbs, and one
but one being three-flowered.
flowers,

bearing six spikes,

all

Two

plants of D.
is

luteolum were also crowded with

effective.

and

in this state

particularly

D.

splendidissimum grandiflorum and

many D.

nobile were

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good.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

The charming little D. X Wiganiae has already been described at page 107. A plant of Platyclinis glumacea bearing over sixty racemes of
very fragrant flowers was also a picture.
species not often

Comparettia

falcata

is

a pretty

one called

There were some good Miltonia Roezlii, and M. R. splendens had seven racemes with 28 flowers and buds,
five

met with.

two having

each.

The

flowers were very large, the base of the petals

lip

darkest purple, and the disc of the

very deep yellow.

The

lip

was two

inches across.

Very

interesting, too,

were Angraecum citratum,

Seleniped-

ium X Phaedra, and the singular Ornithocephalus grandiflorus. Many plants of Masdevallia tovarensis had been a sight, one carrying as many as 40 spikes, each with two or three flowers. Mr. Young does not leave the old spikes on as some do, and thinks he gets quite as good results, while the
plants keep stronger.

plant of

M. ignea was

also flowering well.

The

Odontoglossum house has been re-constructed on an improved principle, and it is hoped that the plants will show an improvement. A plant of 0.

X Wilckeanum

bore a spike of fourteen flowers.

large

number

of other

things were in flower, but were not specially noted.

FIGURES OF INDIAN ORCHIDS.

The
fifth

volume of the Annals

by Dr. G. King,

edited of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, F.R.S., contains figures and descriptions of a century of

Indian Orchids selected from drawings in the Herbarium of the Botanic

Garden, Calcutta, by Sir Joseph Hooker, F.R.S., most of them having been previously described in the Flora The drawings are British India.
of
partly coloured,

and represent species

species of

Dendrobium are figured, including D. aurantiacum, Williamsoni, Rchb. !., and one called D. Palpebral, Lindl., whose
met with
in

Eighteen chiefly of botanical interest. Rchb. f., D.

flowers

are larger than those of the plant

gardens.

D.

crocatura,

but of the Pedilonurn group with orange flowers, Phaius the others are not likely to be grown botanical collections. outside
{.,

Hook.

is

member
f.,

mishmiensis, Rchb.

is

a very pretty species with rose-coloured

in cultivation.

flowers,

which has recently appeared

f.,

Rchb. Phalsenopsis tetraspis,

Sarcochilus Berkeleyi, Rchb. f., and others, are well-known in gardens, though the great majority are not in cultivation. work will be The
invaluable as an aid to the identification of these interesting plants. A recent number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Beng" Some contains a paper by Dr. King and entitled, " Mr. R. Pantling, New Orchids from Sikkim." It contains thirty-three new species whicn have been discovered in Sikkim during the last few years, chiefly by r and Pantling. There are six species of the curious genus Oberonia. most of the species are chieflj of botanical interest.
-

THE ORCHID REVIEW,

ERIOPSIS RUTIDOBULBON.
This
fine old

M3

plant

is

decidedly rare

in

cultivation,

but

plant

was

exhibited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild at a recent meeting of th. Royal Horticultural Society, and now another is flowering at Kew, where the original plant flowered as long ago as This 1849 {fiat. Hag., t. 4437).

had been sent home by Purdie. who found it growing on tin- stem "f a palm tree in the temperate region of Antioquia, at an elevation of 4.000 to
5,000 feet, where the temperature ranged from about 05 to 75 It was the only single example he succeeded in finding. It was subsequently figured in Pescatorea under the erroneous name of E. biloba, Kind], (t. 20),
.

and

it

is

stated that

it

was met with by M. Linden associated with I'm-

pedium Lindeni, and the habitat of the latter is given as between the Cordillera of Merida and Lake Maracaybo. The habit of the plant is somewhat like that of Lycaste, except that the psrudobulbs are wrinkled,
but the flowers are numerous, ami borne on
sepals
a

long arching raceme.

pi.-

The

and

petals are yellowish with

more

or Irss hroa,! pin

in

margins, ami

the lip reddish purple on the side lobes, and white

front with a

number
is

of black spots.

In the Orchid Allium (VIII,

t.

377), basket or pot Culture

recommended, and the cool end of the Cattlcya house i- said to suit it admirably. It should be potted when the plant begins to grow, plenty of drainage being used, and care being taken not to injure the roots, as it is rather impatient of such treatment. It is a distinct and striking plant
deserving of more extended cultivation.

ORCHID GROWING BY THE ARTISAN.

What a
this

marvellous advance has been

made

in

the growing of Orchids in

country since the enormous importations have reduced their value to the

price of Pelargoniums
district there are a

and Fuchsias!
last

In almost every town or burghal

toil "

few of the " horny-handed sons of

that take to

their cultivation.

This

week the

writer has seen two collections grow-

The one was owned by John Hampson. Whitefield, a shoemaker the other by Edward Wolfeuden, Radcliffe, a stone-mason. The only access to the former's glass-house was through the workshop where John was toiling away making clogs, so much used by workmen in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire then
ing under
exceptional

circumstances.
:

through the back kitchen, and into

a yard,

where the small semi-span house

was completely filled with a variety of Orchids, some doing well. The house was heated with hot water, and it was quite pleasing to see some ntcelv-L'rown Dieces of Dendrobium Wardianum in flower, and in one or

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THE ORCHID REVIEW

two very good varieties. Dendrobes appear to be the favourite flowers with both rich and poor, and little wonder there is such a variety among them, as the flowers are lasting. Along with these were some Cattleyas, and Odontoglossum Rossii
late,

at the

one end, which has been very cheap

a nondescript
lot,

of

flowering profusely.

They were

huddled together
flowers.
his

without any semblance of order, the desire being more to get the
It

was a small house, divided into two compartments, and out of

modest earnings he has saved enough to get up a very nice collection. He began buying cheap plants, but he has gone on, and is now dispensing with his

common

plants and getting

some

of the better

articles.

As he

we must " creep before we walk." Every penny he can spare in a fair way goes to the purchase of Orchids. I was surprised to see, for instance, nice lots of Cypripedium X Leeanum giganteum in fine
said,

flower,

and one of the best, too; and also the Stand Hall variety of Dendrobium X splendidissimum grandiflorum, as well as such good things

as D.

x Cooksoni and D. X
like to see

Ainsworthii.

In the cooler division were an

excellently-grown lot of Odontoglossum crispum, and plants of that order.

One would

more orderly arranged however, they were clean and free from insects. These men read Orchid literature greedily, but they have generally a mind of their own and although they are in some measure guided by a Calendar of Operations, each has his own way with particular favourites. J. A. in Gardeners' Chronicle.
the plants
;
;

LACUNA
A plant
collection,

SPECTABILIS.
Kew
lilac,

of this rare but very pretty Orchid has just flowered in the

producing a raceme of thirteen flowers, which are pale densely speckled all over with a darker shade of lilac-purple, and the

front

lobe of the lip similarly speckled with a much deeper colour. It is a native of Central America, and was originally discovered and introduced to culti-

vation by Warscewicz. of Berlin,

It first

Nauen, flowered in the collection of Herr

spectabilis by
fact that
it

and was described under the name of Nauenia

Klotzsch (Allg. Gartenz., XXI.. p. 193), belonged to Lindley's genus Lacama. It

similar

who
is

overlooked the

a Acineta, and bears allied to

differ

pendulous raceme,

though

tin:

Bowers

in

structure.

The

and the side lobes erect and rounded, with a prominent callus between them, while the front lob,.- is broadly trulliform, again stalked, and
lip is stalked,

somewhat

reflexed.
is

It is figured at

t.

6516 of the Botanical Magazine.

succeed under the same

he

only other species

scarcely L. bicolor, Lindl., a native of Guatemala, and

treatIt

as ornamental as the present one. ment as the Acinetas.

will

K. A. K.

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45

ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM.
Oi-r present illustration represents the remarkably well-grown specimen of Odontoglossum crispum from the collection of Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, Dorking, to which a Cultural Commendation was given by the Royal Horticultural Society on March 24th last. As will be seen from
the photograph, for which
large

we

are indebted to Mr. Ellis, the plant bore a

panicle with

nine side branches beside the terminal one, and

an

a re ate of
plant,

sixty-rive flowers

indicating great vigour on the part of the

and excellent culture on the part of Mr. Masterton. who has charge of the collection. The flowers are medium-sized, white, and
unspotted.

These branching forms of the species are not common, and

it

is

interesting

46
it is

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

the one originally described by Dr. Lindley,
in 1845, from

to note that

Hartweg about three years previously, " in woods between the villages of Ziquapira and Pacho," in the province of Bogota (Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 1., XV., p. 256). Hartweg recorded on his ticket that the inflorescence was sometimes branched and sometimes not, and proposed to name the species after Dr. Lindley, which the latter
a dried specimen collected by
quietly ignored.
ally as

Lindley described

it

as

"a most

beautiful species, occasion-

much

as three feet high.

Flowers

large, yellow with purple centre."

This note about the colour was not taken from Hartweg's specimen, but from a copy by Matthews of a drawing from the collection of Ruiz and

Pavon, by their

artist Tafala.

What

this

drawing represents

is

uncertain,
are

but probably not O. crispum, as most of

Ruiz and Pavon's plants

Peruvian, and the colour bears no resemblance to any form of that

It

species.

probably represents some imperfectly

known Peruvian

species, which

will

some day be identified, just as the Odontoglossum bicolor from the same collection has been. Hartweg's specimen has a panicle three feet high, with five side branches, and about twenty-six flowers (a few of which have fallen or been removed), which were certainly white and unspotted.

The Peruvian one

affinity of

is

yellow densely spotted in the centre with purple, and

is

except for the broader segments

suggestive of

some
the

species with the

O. pardinum.

Ruiz and Pavon's drawing of Odontoglossum

accurate,

bicolor proved to be very

otherwise

correctness

of the

present drawing might be suspected.

The form afterwards described by Mr. Bateman

CAron., 1864, p. 1083) had an

as O. Alexandra (Gard.
larger white flowers
in the "

unbranched inflorescence, and

at

with broader segments.

forests of

This had been collected by Weir

9,000
feet elevation,

gloomy
to the

Santa Fe de Bogota "

and sent

Horticultural Society.

purple spot on each

afterwards as

large similar form, except for the addition of a sepal, was described by Reichenbach immediately

O.

Bluntii

(Bot.

Zeit.,

XXII.,

p.

415)-

This had been

collected by Blunt for Messrs.

Hugh Low &

Co.,

and

it

was

a plant from

the last-named importation, which had been acquired by Mr. J. Day, Tottenham, that produced the first living flowers seen in Europe. 0. crispum is the most popular Orchid in cultivation, and its varieties seem almost endless, besides which it hybridises freely with all the three 0. species with which it grows O. gloriosum. O. luteopurpureum, and

Lindleyarramand it is interesting to have a figure of the original form appeare for comparison with the numerous finer varieties which have since We have never seen so fine an inflorescence as the one here illustrated, an it certainly deserved the award given.

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M7

THE HYBRIDIST.
Phal. i:\nrsis x ARIADNE.
A\.
>i

iii.K

very interesting Phahenopsis has been raised by Mr. Seden.

<>t"

in

the

establishment

Messrs.

James Witch & Suns,

of

which we have received

in

a five-flowered

raceme.

The parents

an-

1'.

Aphrodite ? and P. Stuartthe offspring.

iana 3

and their characters are well combined

The

leaves are said to be slightly mottled.

The

sepals

and petals are white,

and of the usual shape, and the

as in that species, while

lip is as

nearly intermediate as can be: the

side lobes being less oblique than in P. Aphrodite, but the markings almost

the

front

lobe

has

subacute

basal angles, the

basal half or rather

more being densely spotted with

are half-an-inch long,

purple,
at

and the
base,

rest

white.

The

tendrils

and broad

the

but

slender above, and

sepals also bear

gradually incurved.

The

inner halves of the lateral

It
is

numerous minute purple

comparable to
five

dots, as in P. Stuartiana.
it-

very interesting addition to the group, and as handsome as

In shape
it

two parents.

is

P.

leucorrhoda.

now

well
It

known

as a

natural hybrid between P. Aphrodite and P. Schilleriana. the

first

flowered for

time when

years old.

THE CATTLEYA
As
I

FLY.

this

was unfortunate enough to get in an importation of Cat t ley a lahiata terrible pest, I have been an interested reader of the correspondence

you kindly invited on the subject, and I regret that you have had no replies of a character to relieve the minds of sufferers. Mr. Milhngton and his gardener seem to have exhausted every known remedy without success, anyone knows how to eradicate the My, surely they will respond to your call for information, and give us the benefit of their experience. The and
if first

advice
;

got in the matter was to "burn

the lot."

Drastic enough
fire

this

but one would just about as soon throw them in the

as have to

cut off every decent lead that appears, only to find that in the succeeding

lead the treatment has to be repeated, the leads always getting weaker as

time goes on.

have cut them

off

containing

pupa

in

every stage to the

I

black shining rascal just ready to get out on his deadly errand.
noticed that in the
first,

have

and sometimes the second, lead that has been taken off, the swelling at the base is so pronounced as not to escape the observation of anyone keeping a look-out, but in later breaks no such swelling occurs, and the fly is out before it is noticed. I believe this is one of
the reasons

why

cutting out

is

not so successful as

it

should be.

Mr.

Roberts, the grower at Arddarroch, sprays his Orchids very frequently with

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

weak tobacco water, and, judging from the cleanness and vigour of the plants so treated I am practising his method, and believe if I had adopted it earlier I might have had better success in the destruction of the pests.
T.
Kelvinside, Glasgow.

W.

Russell.

It is

evident from the remarks at pages 44, 87, and log that our knowis

ledge of this troublesome pest

far

from complete, and one can hardly

insect
is

avoid a suspicion that

first

more than one

concerned, especially as

it is

said to have been found

on a Saccolabium.
:

The

following

is

briefly

we can discover fessor Westwood of some white fleshy heads, found by Mr. Bateman feeding
its history,

so far as

In 1869 a
larva;,
in

note was given by Pro-

with chestnut-coloured shining

the substance of the leaves of an

Orchid, said to be a Saccolabium. Professor Westwood extracted a male and female pupa, which he referred to the Chalcidida;, and named the

Isosoma Orchidearum, remarking that it was probably a vegetable feeder, though other members of the group were insectivorous, or parasitic on other insects. He added, however, that little was known of the history
insect

of the insects which attack exotic Orchids, as collectors only selected healthy specimens. (Card. Chron., 1869, pp. 196, 252, 1230, with fig.) For a long period very little further seems to have been discovered, though
there

was some discussion as

to

whether the Isosoma was the cause

of the

mischief, or only a parasite on the view that it was parasitic

cause of the mischief,

some other insect, Mr. McLachlan taking on some Cecidomyia, which was the real and stating that he had bred both insects from galls
is

on Cattleya

roots.

It

now known, however,

that the larva; of the

Isosoma, which are white, are true vegetable Cecidomyia, on the feeders. other hand, has orange-coloured larva;. In June, 1878, a gall was found on the roots of a Dendrobium in the collection of G. E. Cox, Esq., of Leyton, and inside this was found the yellow larva; of some Cecidomyia. In 1885 a paper appeared, entitled " Galls on the roots of Orchids " (Garl
Chron., 1885, xxiv., p. 84),

when both the

In
p.

galls of Cattleya

(fig.

19) and

Dendrobium
produced
(/.

(fig.

20)

were shown.
viii.,

1890
i

all

the

figures

were

re-

short y afterward s Mr. C. V. nfirmed Professor Westwood's were contention that the larva; of Isosoma phytophagous, as he had seen them the feeding, and had bred both sexes of
505)
.

c, 1890,

KN

these are identical with those originally found on Saccabium, it is, to say the least, very curious, and suggests the question whether the Orchid on which the insect was originally found was really a Saccolabium. Next to knowing how to combat the insect when important to know with what particular species of Orchid imported, so as to be on can the alert. recent attacks It is pretty clear that
(/.
i

insect

c, 1891,

x ., p. 5g7 ).

If


THE ORCHm REVIEW.
before the re-discovery of this species.
fected,

gg

be traced to importations of Cattleva labiata, hut the earlier ones appeared

Then (\ Triana:
:

is

sometimes
this or

in-

and probably before the plants conn- home

has been sent with Lselia purpurata.
all

and cither
is

some

other

fly

It

hardly necessary to
In short,
it

point out that

Saccolabiums air from the Eastern tropics.

to

comes from, how to combat the pest when found, and also whether we have more than one species to deal with. would also he useful !o know whether the fly It comes out at other seasons of the year beside the spring. Information on any of these point-, and particularly the methods used In those who have
would be interesting

know

precisely

while the

fly

succeeded

in

exterminating

it.

would he

vei

acceptable.

LiELIO-CATTLEYA

DORIS VAR. VITELLINA.

\ Sons
the two-tlowcred

Wk

have received through Messrs. James \"eileh

inflorescence of a beautiful hybrid from the rich collection of Baron Sir H.

Schroder,

The

Dell,

Eghain. which was described about three years ago by

Mr.
xiii.,

J.

O'Brien, under the

It

name

of Laelia

vitellina

\GavA. (1mm.,

1893,

p. 365, fig. 53).

was

originally remarked that the parentage not

at,

having been recorded could only be guessed

that L. harpophylla

though the supposition was

its

was one

of the agents in

production, and Larlia

most likely the seed bearer. The author, however, added, " I have not yet had the opportunity of examining the pollinia of the new hybrid, and therefore cannot say how they stand with relation to true Ladia." This point we can now set at rest. On examining the
Perrinii probably the other,
pollinia

we

find

them

precisely as in Laslio-cattleya, that

is.

with four large

pollinia
Lselia

and four much smaller ones at the other end of the caudicles. harpophylla was evidently one parent, as is evident from the very
lip,

characteristic shape of the

is

together with the colour of the flower, but

of the labiata group

it

equally certain that

some Cattleva

was the

other, as

might originally have been inferred from the shape of the petals. There is no perceptible approach to the very characteristic Up of Lselia Perrinii or to any of the hybrids from it the deflexed apex of the lip mentioned by the

author comes from L. harpophylla, as

besides which
it

is

evident enough on comparison

may

safely be prophesied that

will

any hybrid between L. harAfter consideration of

light

pophylla and L. Perrinii

all

have narrow petals.

the facts

we

believe that the second parent

was a

form of Cattleya

which would make it a variety of Lfelio-cattleya X Doris {supra, II., pp. 79, in), to which it bears a remarkable resemblance, chiefly differing in having only a trace of purple on the front lobe of the lip. The
Trianar.

agreement
is

in the flowering period of the species

now

suggested as parents

also a point not to be overlooked.

The

flowers of the present variety are

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

a beautiful orange yellow, the petals 2\ inches long by an inch broad, and the front of the lip has a very faint trace of washed-out purple on the very undulate margins of the front lobe, while the base of the column and the

extreme base of the

exact parentage.

lip's disc are

bright crimson-purple.

It

is

certainly a
its

very handsome hybrid,

and further experiments

will probably prove

L.ELIA
lave received the flower of a

LATONA.

handsome hybrid raised in the collection \V. Thornton, Esq., Brockhall, Weedon, from Lama cinnabarina S purpurata <? Mr. Thornton states that the cross was made April, 1889, and that the seed was ripe and sown seven months later, that is in the following November. The plant has now flowered for the first time, producing a raceme of five flowers. Lslia X Latona was raised from the same cross by Messrs. Veitch, and flowered in 1892, and the present
.

one must be considered as a form of the same, though how far it diners as a variety we cannot say without being able to compare the flowers side by side. According to a figure in the Journal Horticulture (1892, xxiv.,
of
P- 353. fig- 61)

the original form has a broad pale margin to the

lip,

while in

the present one that organ is rich crimson purple from the small yellow point quite half-way along the side lobes and right up to the margin, while the petals also are flushed with purple. It is a brilliantly coloured and handsome form, but whether it can be distinguished by a varietal name

may

be

left for

the present.

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR MAY.

By H.
A. Burberry-, Highbury,

Moor Green, Birmingham.

The Cool House. The

much
injured
if

temperature of this department should now be kept as low as possible, both night and day. Cool-growing Orchids are

grown too warm.

the day-time by heavily shading. foot or so from the glass, the power
greatly reduced.

The temperature must be kept down in The blinds should always be raised a
of the sun

upon the glass being then Lattice-wood blinds are good for Cool Orchid houses, as

they are cooler than the ordinary ones. No plant in this department must now be allowed to suffer from drought, but it is unnecessary to keep the compost in a sodden condition. Let the plants each receive a thorough watering when showing signs over-

head

advantageous after rain water only should be used.

is

becoming drv. A a warm, dry day, but

of

slight

syringing

for this

purpose clear

Ventilation in abundance should

now

be

continually given.

The

cold north and east winds of the past month have

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

had the
very
effect of

15'

causing

tin-

foliage of

Odonto^lossum erispum
:

to

become
of the

much

bronzed.

This

will

do no harm
likely

in fact,

it

is

generally a good sign

that the plants arc healthy,

and

todo
at

well.

The damping down

it

houses should
a

now

be done three times daily, and

should he done well.

purpose.

good supply of water always bring

hard water can be used, the
soft

hand

for this

For damp-

ing,

being stored for watering

for

There are several cool-growing species that will he in a good condition Among them are more of the Odontoglossum repotting this month.
hi

crispuni type that have

m<i and are starting to grow.

Then

there are

many

of the cool-growing

Oncidiums

in

tit

condition, such as O. macran-

thum, O.

tigrinuni, O. ornithorrhynchtim,

().

cheirophorum, O. vancosum,

O. Forbesii, O. crispum, and any others that are starting to grow.

usual peat

The

and sphagnum moss cannot be beaten for a compost, and the potting should be done firmly. Then there are some of the small growing kinds of Masdevallia that may be repotted. This genus delights to grow in the coolest possible house
during summer, but during winter the temperature should be
in fact, the
is a little

higher

Intermediate house

is

not too high.

Too much damp and

M.

cold

the cause of the leaves dropping off or becoming spotted with black
flowering species,
if

The pretty little white autumn should now be attended to, and repotted
marks.
others having passed out of bloom.

tovarensis.

necessary, and also any of the

Masdevallias of the more showy type.

will

such as M. Harrv.ma. M.
brilliant

igiuai,

and M. Veitchiana,

now

be

making

show in this department, intermixed with the Odontoglossums, Oncidiums, Epidendrum vitellinum, and other cool species that are in
Mower.

No

fire

should

now
:

be wanted.
: ;

Day, with sun heat, 75 Like the premorning, 6o to 65. without sun, 65 to Jo c night, 65' ceding, this department will now require well shading from the hot sun, in order to keep down the temperature, and to be kept very moist by damping
:
:

The Intermediate House.Temperature

down
yet a

frequently.
little

Although

air

cannot be applied here

if

in

such large volume,

should always be kept on

possible,

and no favourable opporto pass by.

tunity for increasing this

try to

amount should be allowed

In short,

keep the above temperatures with as

much

air as possible.
it

No
is

heat
occa-

from the hot water pipes should now

sionally of an evening,

be required here, unless

is

when

it

is

cold or a frost

expected,

when

a little

warmth would be very

beneficial.

Several things in this department will

Odontoglossums of the grande type, some of the Miltonias and Oncidiums. Cymbidiums and Lycastes, Adas and the Chimara section of Masdevallia, which should never be grown cooler than this. Trichosma suavis and Maxillarias should also be repotted, and other species which may be found to grow best here
also require repottingsuch,
for instance, as the

52

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

in

do each plant at the proper time, which is, as I have said before, when making new growth from otherwise a good deal of the base, and new roots are pushing forth
always bearing
it

mind how very important

is

to

exhaustion and shrivelling takes place unnecessarily.

mention once more how very important it is to experiment one's self with those plants which fail to grow freely from no apparent
I

would

also here

cause,

and not to keep them too long

in

in

that house or position most

generally advised, for different structures vary greatly,

and

certain peculiar
it

conditions
well to

one house

may

be lacking in another

therefore

is

always

make experiments with

same house,

refractory species, carrying out such experidifferent houses, or to different

ments cautiously, and treating them to

positions in the
either

warmer

or colder, preferring to try the

cooler house or position

first.

It is

always well to

know how low

a degree
this
is

of temperature the various plants will stand without injury.

When

simplified very considerably, for it may generally be taken for granted that if no injury is received by a low tempera-

once known their cultivation

ture the plants are benefited

is

by

it.

The Cattleya and Mexican Houses

same temperature as the Intermediate
by sun heat, as these departments
the Mexican house, which,
if
;

should be kept
;i

at

about the
'

of ours.: allowing

high

d :gr

will not require SO

is

much

li

ide, especially

any shading

applied,
is

indeed; consequently, a good deal of ventilation

should be very thin demand id during brigM

avoided. from burning, which should be In this last-named house such things as Mormoiles, Ccelogynes, and some E. of the warm-growing Epidendrums, such as E. Parkinsonianum,

sunny weather,

to keep the plants

memorale, E. atropurpureum, and E.prismatocarpum should, if not already departrepotted, be done without delay. In this warm, sunny, and airy ment I have often set aside a small portion which has been extra shaded own for the purpose of trying plants which seemed loth to grow in their cases respective houses, and, strange to say, the result has been in most very successful even of the Cypnpediums
;

some of the more

difficult to

grow

have recovered there, as have also Burlingtonia fragrans, Acropera Loddlgesii, and A. armeniaca. This month
will

see another batch of the Cattleya house plants

potte

Schrceders, C. Loddigcsii, C. others C. Eldorado, C. Bowringiana, C. Lawrenceana, C. maxima, and any finish^ if it is deemed necessary. insignis have just Vanda suavis and V.
up, including C. labiata, C. Harrisoniana, flowering, wl and will be done up by replacing the old sphagnum moss so house, as a new. These plants should occupy a rather shady part of the should Aerides Fieldingii and A. crispum. East Indian House.Temperature Day, with sun, 85 to 90 wit
.

sun, 75

to 8o;

night, 70" to 75

morning,

70.

Let these

figure*

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maintained with
a

153

free

admittance of fresh
degrees

air.

If the

outside conditions
it

are such as to prevent the ventilators being opened, then

to reduce the above figures 5
all

round.

would be better Make do with as little

warmth from
however, a
day.
1).

the hot water pipes as possible.

For these warm houses,

Bensona;,
Parish ii,

little will still l>e

required during the night, and perhaps also by the exception of

a
I). I).

The Dendrobiums. with

I),

crystailimmi.

uodatum, and

few other la'e Howering kinds, anwill

now
in a

all

potted up. and are making new growth, and

henceforth delight

good deal of heat and moisture, providing, as before stated, air is not denied them. Let them be suspended in pans or baskets well up to the light, but guard just at present against keeping the compost too saturated, or the new growths are apt to damp off. It is yet rather too early in the season
to

Wardianums, which could be syringed and given a position at the coolest part of the house. Be on the alert for red spider in this department, which is sure to come, and more especially if the temperature is too hot or dry. The Corvanthrs.
syringing, unless
it

commence

is

the

I).

Spathoglottis, Catasetums, and such like species, should up, and put in growing order.

now be basketed

The mention
Patent).
I

of baskets reminds
tried
it,

me

of the

improved one (West's

and believe it is certainly an improvement on the old one, for two most decided reasons firstly, being so much lighter, and secondly, by facilitating the work of watering. There are but few Dendrobiums which can be grown in a warm greenhouse temp ratine with other greenhouse plants, but D. Falconeri
is

have now

one of

them that
water. the

will.

It

is

D. Falconeri

now showing for bloom, and should grows best when fixed to a teak wood
it

receive
raft.

more

During
should

summer when making growth

should be given copious supplies of

it

water by being syringed several times daily, but during the winter

have long intervals of absolute drought until the spring, when the flower-

buds show.
well in the
ally

D. speciosum, an Australian species,

is

another that

will

grow

same temperature, as will also D. Jamesianum, and its near D. infundibulum. The latter two kinds should be grown in small pans
question that beats
I

and suspended.

me

is

one asking "

all

How
first

to

grow Oncidium
it

Jonesianum," and

am

obliged, for

practical purposes, to give

up.

remember about ten thousands coming to

were
fine

or eleven years ago the

importation of some

this country: they all arrived in

It

grand condition, and

was new and pretty, and consequently the sale was brisk. This importation was followed by another, and yet another, till O. Jonesianum was one of the most common Orchids in the country. It seemed to possess a very robust constitution, and come away well, soon making a good big pseudobulb, immediately followed by a fine
strong healthy plants.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

its

spike of bloom from

base.

considerably less and

less, until,

But each year the new growth became and within a wry short period, but few
left alive.

plants from those thousands were

Its native

habitat was said

to

be Paraguay, where it was found growing on the top of trees, the climate being very hot a vague account at least. Whether the collector could, or
ever did give a

more

definite statement,
it

never knew, but

all

if

he did

never
far

heard

it.

have tried

in
I

all

houses and
its

positions, but have so

is

failed to find the right one.

dare say

treatment
requires

simple enough when

peculiar treatment

known.
which
it

et

it is

possible, of course, that

it

some

is

impossible for us to reproduce

artificially, in

well to leave O.

Jonesianum on

its

native trees at

which case it would be home. Perhaps, however,

some growers who have succeeded in keeping this plant alive, and as sound in health as when imported if so, it would be interesting to many to know how it is done. In the meantime I can only say how I have found it grow best for the longest period. It should be wired to a block of wood
there are
:

head downwards that

green with the bark on so
to a
It

being

new block each

year,

way of growing. If the block is much the better. The plant should be transferred about April, just as the new roots are appearing.
its

natural

then be suspended in a light position near the glass in the warmest house, and given plenty of water by syringing it. By autumn it will have made its growth and flowered, after which it should be kept very

should

dry throughout the winter, only moistening the roots occasionally. The temperature during the resting season should also be moderately warm. Pleiones are now growing freely, suspended in a sunny position in
intermediate temperature.
root, least

good supply of water at the and must never now be allowed to become dry. Syringe them at once a day. Sobralias are now showing for flower, and if at all

They

are fond of a

pot-bound with roots, will be helped by an occasional watering with weak liquid manure. Stanhopeas should now be put in larger baskets if required.

The

no crocks placed at the bottom. They grow best in a warm house. Zvgopetalums requiring repotting should be delayed no longer. The strong growing kinds like Z. intermedium should have fibrous loam mixed in with the peat and moss. Others, such as Z. Gautieri, should be grown in baskets or on the stem of
shallow
ones, having
a tree fern.

baskets

should be

They

are intermediate Orchids, and delight in a liberal supply

of water during

summer.

are Cymbidiums should be attended to as they bloom. They pass ."it of best grown at the coolest end compost of the Interne \ good house. of lumpy peat two parts, and one part of fibrous loam, with a little sand

and broken
species, to

charcoal

mixed

in

to

keep

the

l,<de

sweet,

is

the best.

Eulophia guineensis should also be potted

in the

same

grow

it

well,

is

better for the

warmth

of the East

this materials, but Indian house.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Cyrtopodiums are now starting
flower, but
if

\%%

to

grow.
is

They

are rather
it

difficult

to

the last

made pseudobulh

uf a flowering si/e

should be

made
will

do so by withholding water until the flower spike appears, which it do from the side of the new growth when that is about two inches long.
to
if

Like Odontoglossum citrosmum, the members of this family rarely flower

not compelled
in

this

way.

They may
light

be rown

in

pots, or baskets, but

should always occupy a very

position close to the glass and in good

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
i

miplora.

Gard.

<

hron., April
t.

p. 423, fig. 6a.

i'm

Randii, Kolfe, Bot. Mag.,

7470.
-

Cattleya
177,
fig.

49.

Mrs. Warri n Hook. Amer. Card., March Apparently a good C. T. delicata.

Tkias.i:.

21, p.

Colax jugosus. Garden, April 18, p. 294, with fig. Cypripedr-m X ('AKNi'siAMM.-fi.in/. Mag., April 18, p. 250, with fig. Cypripedium X Denisiaxi-m. Gard. Mag., April 4, p. 216. with fig. Cypripedium exul, Major Joicey's var.Journ. o/Hort., April 9. pp.
319. 323,
fig.

55

Gard. Mag..

April 11, p. 237, with

fig.

Cypripedium Fairieanum.Can*. World, April n, Dexdrobr-m x Clio, Tyntesfield var.Jour*,

pp. 366. 367>
fig-

p.

513, with

fig.

of Hart., April 23,

62.

Milton
with
fig.

X Bleuana aurea.

Gard. Mag.,
Gard.
with
fig.

March

28,

pp.

200,

201,

Odontoglossum crispum Arthurianum. Journ.

p. 273, fig. 49.

of Hort.,

March

26,

Odontoglossum x Pittianum.
fig.
;

Mag.. April n,

p.

237, with

Gard. World, April

18, p. 527.

A form of O. X Wilckeammi.

ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL

THERE was
7th.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
James
Street,

again a very fine display of Orchids at the Royal Horticultural

Society's meeting at the Drill Hall,

Westminster, on April

and

a considerable

Baron
large

Sir

number of Certificates and Medals were awarded. H. Schroder, The Dell. Egham (gr. Mr. BaUantine), staged
It

a choice group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given.

included the

and richly-coloured Calanthe X Baron Schroder, Cattleya Lawrenceana concolor and C. L. Vinckei, the beautiful Labia X vitellina, Lseliocattleva X Doris var. Xantho. and L.-c. X Yeitchiana. Dendrobium

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

s.

superbum Dearei and D.

comprising O. xanthodon, O. O. triumphans.
c.

Burkei, and

some handso
Hallii

flavescens with almost wholly yellow flowers, 0.

X Wilckeanum,
Esq.,

O.

elegans,

and a very
(gr.

fine

form of

W. Thompson,
a Silver Banksian

Walton Grange, Stone

for a small

Mr. Stevens),

received

Medal

group of

fine things, including a fine

Cdontoglossum Cervantesii and 0. Rossii majus, fine forms of O. iuteopurpureum, O. X Wilckeanum, and 0. Hallii, and a magnificent form of O. triumphans called Mrs. Guest, bearing a
branched inflorescence of over
tion
fifty

Ada

aurantiaca, large examples of

flowers, to

which a Cultural Commenda-

was

given.

C. Walker, Esq., Percy Lodge, Winchmore Hill (gr. Mr. Cragg), also staged a very effective group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was

W.

contained a fine plant of Cyrtopodium punctatum bearing an inflorescence of over a hundred and eighty flowers, some excellent DendroIt

given.

bium superbum giganteum, Cattleya Mendelii, C. Trianse, Lalia Boothiana, Cymbidium Lowianum, &c. Major Joicey, Sunningdale Park, Berks (gr. Mr. Thorne), showed three
very fine plants, to each of which an Award was given. These were a splendid example of Diacrium bicornutum, which received both a First-class Certificate and a Cultural Commendation a fine plant of Dendrobium atroviolaceum with several spikes, a Cultural and a large
:

Commendation
in

form of Cypripedium exul called Major Joicey's variety,

which

the white

of the sepals was unusually well developed, a First-class Certificate. F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Stafford),
several

sent

handsome Dendrobiums, including D. Falconeri giganteum, D. X Venus with over twenty flowers, and some pretty hybrids raised in the
ihich a First-class Certificate

D. Wardianum 1), a plant having large and handsome flowers, with the sepals and petals magenta purple, the former narrowly and the latter broadly margined with
splendidissum grandiflorum ?

D.

Clio

(D.

white, and the ovate-oblong disc lip white tipped with magenta, with the chocolate-coloured on an orange Dground. A pretty white form called X Clio album was also shown.

The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park

(gr.

Mr.

Hill),

showed

a well-

to spotted form of Stanhopea inflorescence, Wardii with a six-flowered which an Award of Merit was given: and the rare Eriopsis n.tidobulbon. which received a Botanical Certificate.

Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming

(gr.

Mr. Bond),
Cattleya

received

Awards of Merit for two handsome hybrids Murray var. fulgens (Lawrenceana
5

called

X WiIB*
X
The
latter

Mendelii), and
.

Ladio-cattleya

Sir

William Ingram

<!..

purpurata

Dowiana

..urea i >

THE ORCHID REVIEW

had dark rose sepals and
petals,

15;

and a

rich dark

purple fringed

lip

with

lighter veining in the centre.

The Right Hon.

(C.

J.

Chamberlain,

M.l'..
for

Highbury. Birmingham
Uelio-cattleya

(gr.

Mr.

Burberry), received an

Award

of Merit

x highburicnsis

Lawrenceana

L. cinnabarina ?),

a very

pretty hybrid with two-

(lowered inflorescence, the sepals and petals orange-coloured, tinged and

veined with purplish crimson, and

tin- lip

dark claret-crimson
(gr.

111

front.

Brooman White. an Award of Merit for

R.
Mossite

Esq.,

Arddanoch, K.B.

Mr. Roberts), received

Cattleya

l.aurc-Mossiasoft

(Lawrenceana

3 ), a charming thing with dark crimson lip.

J.

rose-pink sepals and petals and

Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), showed a splendid plant of Dendrobium thyrsirlorum with ova thirty spikes, to which a Cultural Commendation was given.
J.

T. Gabriel, Esq.. Streatham

Hill, received

a Botanical Certificate Mr. Howes

l,u

the rare and very pretty

Chondoihyncha Chestertoni.
(gr.
.

Walter Cobb. Esq., Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells

showed

Odontoglossum naevium and O. luteopurpureum nigrum, a very dark form. T. B. Haywood, Esq., Woodhatch, Reigate, showed Dendrobium
Hildebrandii album.

R.

I.

Measures,
sent
2

Esq.,

Cambridge

Lodge,

Camberwell

(gr.

Mr.

Chapman),

Dendrobium albosanguineum and Cypripedium X Ouies

(C. Hookera:

C. Curtisii 3

).

G. C. Rafael, Esq., Castle

A. H. Smee, Esq.,
fine

Hill,

EngleBeld Green
(gr.

(gr.

Mr. Adams), sent

a fine inflorescence of Eulophiclla Elisabeths.

raceme of

The Grange. Carshalton Cymbidium Lowianum concolor.

Mr. Cummins), sent a Mr. Johnson),

T. Statter. Esq., Stand Hall. Whitefield, Manchester

sent

(gr.

Dendrobium Hildebrandii album. C. Young, Esq., The Thorns. Sevenoaks

Messrs.

(gr.

Mr. Ryder), sent a fine

form of Cattleya Schrcedera.

James Veitch

&

Sons, Chelsea, staged a very fine group of

It contained choice things, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. Dendrobium X micans and D. X Euryalus, the magnificent Ladio-cattleyas

and X Pallas, the striking Lalia X Latona, Cymbidium X eburneo-Lowianum, Masdevallia X Asmodia, Selenipediums X Phsdra, X Brysa. and X macrochilum, Cypripedium X Morgania:, and others, Oncidium ampliatum majus, Lycastes Skinneri and Rossiana, Epidendrum

callistoglossa

Wallisii. Cattleya Schrcederae,

Odontoglossums, &c.

Messrs.

Hugh Low &

Co., Clapton, also received a Silver Flora Medal

for a very pretty group, containing a fine series of pink

and white forms of

Phalajnopsis

Miltonia vexillaria, together with Cattleya Schrcederae,

5a
Dendrobium
Bo.xallii,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

&c.

intermedia Portei, a magnificent spotted form of Odontoglossum crispum,

Mr. P. McArthur, London Nurseries. Maida Vale, exhibited a Rood group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was given. number It contained of good Odontoglossums, Dendrobiums, Cattleya Schrcederae, &c, and in
;i

the centre a fine plant of Platyclinis glumacea with

spikes, to

some

three hundred

which a Cultural Commendation was given. Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, also received a Silver Banksian Medal for a fine group, containing Cypripedium Rothschildianum, fine

plants of

Oncidium varicosum, Odontoglossum X elegans, Maxillaria Sanderiana, Angracum modestum, A. fastuosum, Cymbidium Lowianum, C. L,
concolor, Epiphronitis

Veitchii, &c.
effective

Mr. R. Gulzow, Melbourne Nurseries, Bexley Heath, staged an

group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was given. It contained some fine forms of Cattleya Triana;, including a splendid C. T. alba, Oncidium

Marshallianum, Ladia purpurata, Cypripedium Rothschildianum, &c. Messrs. Linden, L'Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, also received
a Silver Banksian

some
of O.

fine

good group of Odontoglossums, including forms of O. X Wilckeanum and O. crispum, a well-spotted form
for a

Medal

x Ruckeriannm,
J.

&c.

An Award

of Merit

was given

to a plant called

O.

spectabile, apparently a

form of O.

exccllens.

Mr.

\V. Moore, Eldon Nursery, Bradford, sent the rare Dendrobium

Boxallii.

Mr. H. A. Tracey, bidium Lowianum.

Amyand Park Road, Twickenham,

sent a good Cym-

There was again a fine show of Orchids at the Drill Hall on April 21st, though the exhibits were not as numerous as at the two or three previous
meetings.
President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), showed a very interesting group of rare things, to which a Silver

The

Banksian Medal was given. It included the pretty little Dendrobium cymbidioides, D. crepidatum, Masdevallia caudata, M. Arminii, a fine clump of Polystachya Ottoniana with over a hundred flowers, Eria aeridostachya, the

handsome Cochlioda Noetzliana, Maxillaria prsstans, a dark form of Odontoglossum tnumphans, and Cvpripedium X Charles Richman.

Special awards were given to the following : Fine plants of Dendrobium capilhpes and Cymbidium tigrinum, each a Cultured Commendation: Sarcochilus Hartmanni and Epidendrum arachnoglossum, each a Botanical
Certificate.

Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, Dorking (gr. Mr. Mastcrton), cewed a Silver Banksian Medal for a good group of Odontoglossums, ng varieties of O. crispum, the H^el" pretty O. X Andersonianum

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

bourne
with
var.

ij

(figured at p. joj of our second volume), a tine

a very

O. Pescatorei
itr.

much branched raceme,

a Pitt, Hs.)..

dirk formof O. triumphal)*,

Mr. Aldoua

Tin-

group also contained H. T.

verv good form of Dendrobiuni Hildebrandii.

Rosslyn.

Mamford

Hill (gr.

Silver Banksian Medal for an effective group, including Ladia cinnabarina,

Miltonia Plvala-nopsis and M. vexillaria. Epidendrum Wallisii. a Series of

good
R.

Odontoglossums,

and
Esq.,

other

show}

Orchids.

Vanda

Parisbii

Marriottiana received an

Award

of Merit.

Brooman Whin.

Arddarroch,

Garelochead, N.B.
foi

(gr.

Mr.

Roberts., also received a Silver Banksian Medal

a line Series of
file

firms of
following

Odontoglossuin crispum and 0. X Anders<jniamun.

:

three

0. crispum Arddarroch var., a heavily each received an Award of Merit (). Audcrsoiuaniiui candidum, a blotched form allied to (). c. apiatum form with milk-white ground and spots approaching those ofO. crispum in
;

shape:

and O.

Andersonianuni Arddarroch
all

var.. a

handsome form with

nstnll. received

cream-white ground covered

over with small red-brown spots.

G. \V. Law-Schofield, Esq.,

New
X

Hall

Hex

Kawt.

an

Award

of

Merit
).

for

Cypripedium

Schotieldianuin

ihellatulum

hirsutissimum 3

a very

handsome form most approaching

C. bellatulum.

the ground colour cream-white, the dorsal sepal with a green centre and some fine radiating purple-dotted lines, the petals uniformly spotted with
purple, and the lip rose-purple.

M. C. Cooke, Esq., staged a good group, including some good Odontoglossums and other showy Orchids, the centre being occupied by a fine The group received a Vote of Thanks. plant of Cymbidium Lowiannm.
F.
biuni

W.

Moore. Esq.. Royal Botanic Garden. Glasnevin, sent DendroD. cariniferuin.

the
latter

harbatulum and

receiving a Botanical

Certificate.
J.

Bradshaw. Esq.. The (.rang,. Southgate

("attic
\

(gr.

Mr. Whiffenl. showed a

good form of
Mrs.

Bank House. Accrington, sent a good form of Dendrobiuni Devonianum. F. M. Burton. Esq., Highfield, Gainsborough, sent Cypripedium X highfieldeuse, said to be from C. Lawrenceanum S and C. Driiryi (
Briggs.

Bury

De
the

B. Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield. Sevenoaks

(gr.

Mr. Cooke) exhibited

handsome Odontoglossum X Andersoniauum

Rosefield var., and 0.

hebraicutn.

W.
C.
fine

E. Ledger. Esq., Wilton Road, Wimbledon, showed the pretty

little

Australian
J.

Dendrobium linguaforme.

Lucas, Esq.,

Warnham

Court,

Horsham

(gr.

Mr. Duncan), sent a

form of Odontoglossum crispum. a very dark 0. Hallianum, and two

good forms of O.

excellens.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Messrs. James Veitch and Sons,
t'hclstii.
It
i

xhihited a very fine group,

to

which
L.

a Silver Flora

Medal was given.

contained some

fine Cattleya

Lawrenceana and C. Schrcedera, Ljelia Boothiana, L. purpurata and

Latona, Lajlio-cattleya

Pallas,

the pretty Disa

langleyensis

Cirrhopetalum picturatum,

Cymbidium X eburneo-Lowianum,
:

Dendro-

bium

veratrifolium, Maxillaria Sanderiana, Selenipedium caudatum, Cypri-

pedium X Druryi-Hookerae and others

Odontoglossums, Oncidiums,

&c.

The

following received special awards

;

Epidendrum
:

Endresio-Wallisii

superbum, First-class Certificate

Merit
;

Dendrobium X
of Merit

Wiganiae,

Award

of

Cattleya Schrcedera; eximia, a striking dark rose-coloured form with

in

some orange
Messrs.
taining

the centre,

Award

and Angraecum metallicum,

Botanical Certificate.

Hugh Low & Co., Upper Odontoglossum X stellimicans,

Clapton, staged a good group, convarious forms of O. luteopurpureum

and other Odontoglossums, some good Cattleya Schilleriana, C. Lawrenceana and C. Mossia:, Lselia purpurata, Oncidium phymatochilum, Dendrobium nobile nobilius and D. Phalaenopsis, Cypripedium X Masoni,
&c.

Vote of Thanks was given. Mr. R. Gulzow, Bexley Heath, exhibited an

effective

group of

Lailia

purpurata, Oncidium Marshallianum, Cattleya intermedia, and C. Trians,

and also received a Vote of Thanks. Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, also received a Vote of Thanks for a fine group, including Brassia Lewisii, Ccelogyne Dayana, Spathoglottis Lobbii, Dendrobium O'Brienianum striatum, Epidendrum Wallisii, some
fine

forms of Oncidium varicosum, Odontoglossums crispum and Pescatorel, Lycaste Skinneri, Miltonia vexillaria, Cypripedium hirsutissimum, Cattleya

citrina,

some good C. Mossia; and C.

Schrcedera;, &c.

Surrey,

sent

fine

Phaius

CORRESPONDENCE,

&c.

W. H.

L..

Balmedie.

O. triumphans with rather long segments.

Others

n<

Photographs received, with thanks, J. S. M. We have received the Catalogue of Costa Kican Orchids published l)> Mr about in au, of San Jose, Costa Rica. It contains some interesting information
id

the climate of the district.

We

note a plant ralkd Cattlcja

Dowiana He
or^

teresting

supposed natural hybrid

petals.

between

Dowiana and Bowringiana

C.

Dowiana with rosy marked

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at the usual

hour of

flower of the beautiful Odontoglossum crispum " Princess," to which

an Award of Merit was given by the Royal Horticultural Society on May 5th last, has been sent from the collection of \V. Vanner, Esq., Camden

Wood,
lilac,

Chislehurst.

The segments
large

are very broad, a

little

stained with

and the sepals have one

and

several small vinous purple blotches

petals.

above the middle, which are absent on the toothed

Two

flowers of a seedling Cypripedium, cut from different plants, have

been sent from the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall,

Bury.

There is a little doubt about the parentage, though it is believed to be C. barbatum giganteum crossed with the pollen of C. Curtisii, and the flowers

Thus they are the reverse cross of C. X Kerchoveanum, and should bear the same name. The dorsal sepal is broad, and much like barbatum, while the sepals are
are just what would be expected from such a cross.

spotted except at base and apex, and the

influence of the other parent.

lip

rather large,

showing the

Mr. Wrigley states that one has the leaves

much

like

C. Curtisii, and the other almost identical with barbatum.

An unspotted form of Odontoglossum X Andersonianum comes from the collection of De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks. The ground colour is pale straw yellow, deeper on the lip, and the sepals much
suffused with light purple, as in Ruckerianum, while a trace of the
also seen in the petals.

same

is

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An
inflorescence

of

Epidendrum Stamfordianum
trip

is

sent

from the

collection of

W.

J.

Woodhead,
It

Esq., Elton, Maghull, near Liverpool, from

a plant collected

by Mr. Woodhead during a

is

through the

forests and
of

swamps

of South Mexico.

a very attractive thing, and a plant

this species

which was exhibited

at the

Temple Show

a year ago will long

be remembered.

An esteemed correspondent

writes that he

is

investigating the habits

of

the Cattleya Fly on two plants of Cattleya labiata in a glass case, and

hopes before long to be able to send us the

be both instructive and useful.

results,

which we

anticipate

will

Two

flowers from

the collection of D. B. Rappart,

Esq.. Liscard,
the

Cheshire, are very near Laelia purpurata Russelliana, and one has
petals unusually flat for this species.

Cypripedium Chamberlainianum and C. \ Maris have been sent from the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq.,
spike each

of

ictoria-

Bridge

invariably show the difference between them. The latter and robust, and without the brown markings on the dorsal sepal closely petals, and the spotting on the lip, but the two species are very

Hall, Bury, to

allied.

Cypripedium exul aureum

collection of

is

an unusually

brilliant

variety from the

in

W. M.
is

Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare,

which

the
the

petals

and

lip

are bright deep yellow in colour.

also

The ground

colour of

dorsal sepal

more yellow than

usual.

It is

typical in other respects.

sent
in

A most

beautiful flower of Cattleya Mossise

Reineckeana has been

perfect from the collection of Wilson Potter, Esq., of Croydon, quite J. wit shape and of the purest white, with the disc of the lip elegantly veined rosy crimson in front and with deep yellow behind. With it is a goo

typical form of Lailia purpurata.

flower of

the

beautiful

Odontoglossum X Humeanum

excelled

and O. x Ruckerianum Masoni, to each of which an Award of Merit Mason, given on March 24th last, have been sent from the collection of H. They a Esq., of Shipley, Yorks, through Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. noted at page 125. The latter is both richly coloured and very beautitu
spotted.

wa

from the An exceptionally fine form of Cattleya citrina has been sent The s collection of Cheshunt. J. T. Bennett-Poe, Esq., Holmwood.

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16.5

ments are unusually short and rounded, the petals measuring ij inches across, by i\ inches long, and the front lobe of the lip nearly as broad as the petals. The flowers are more open than in the type, and there is verylittle orange on the disc of the lip. A photograph shows the plant bearing

A
F.

very large flower of Dendrobium nobile comes from the collection of

It

H. Moore, Esq., of Liverpool.

is

resembles a well-developed

I).

Mobile

nobilius in shape, but

are

little

lighter in colour.

The

plants of this type

known

as D. nobile giganteum.

very beautiful form of Cattleya Mossia: from the collection of Janus

Esq.,

Davidson,
throat

Summerville.
in

Dumfries,

lias

the

nnuige-yellow

in

the

and the markings

front very well developed,

and

is

equally good

MEIRACYLLIUM GEMMAE.
This very
interesting
little

plant has re-appeared in the establishment of

It

Messrs. F. Sander

&

Co., of St. Albans.

was

originally described by

Reichenbach

in

1S69 as

"a

little

vegetable gem, with a creeping rhizome,

erect leaves, like those of a Sophronitis cernua,

and beautifully amethystlately

coloured flowers standing singly.

flowered
in

It

came from Mexico, and has

1869,
p.
is

the Saundersian collection " (Card. Chron.,

to Sophronitis cernua
I

988).
I

The resemblance

remarkable

indeed,

until

examined the pollen

each.

took

it

for a

new
in

species of that genus, but

the

flowers are usually borne in racemes,

some cases with

as

many
209,

as five
figs. I

and

2.

A poor figure is given in Xenia Orckidacea, 111., p. 13, t. Two other species of this curious little genus are known,
Its affinity

both being

natives of Central America.

pute.
it

has been the subject of some dis-

Reichenbach,

who had

not then seen the pollen, originally described

as a genus of Vandea; with no affinities, and the habit of Sophronitis.

transferred
it

Bentham afterwards

Pleurothallea?,
it

placing

it

next

to

Octomeria, and Pfitzer again removed

Sophronitis on account of
erroneous.
its

to Lselise, placing

it

next to
certainly

habit
it

a position, however, which

Pleurothallege with

is

Bentham placed
it

in

some

hesitation, re-

marking that
is

agreed

in habit,

but the pollen was more like Eria.

I

The

remark, however, would apply just as well to Octomeria, and

the real position of the genus.

believe this

The

eight pollen masses are attached in

a bundle to a

common

caudicle,

but not to a distinct stipes and gland, of

rostellar origin, as in the

plant near Octomeria.

VandeK, so that both habit and structure place the The plant was awarded a Botanical Certificate at
R. A. R.

the recent

Temple Show.

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DENDROBIUM BEETLE.
the article in your last number it would appear that though the larvae of this insect are only too well known, the perfect insect is "wanted" by English naturalists. I therefore enclose one which I caught yesterday

From

hiding under the rhizome of Laelia tenebrosa. This plant was growing close to a Dendrobium Phalamopsis Schrcederianum, stem (enclosed)

showed the hole from which

showing
its

it

had
it

issued,

whose and whose leaves had shewn

its first

on
leaf

the previous day that on these

had made
feeding.

meal.

enclose a

peculiar
its

method of

This was done during the

first

escape from the chrysalis. to the Ladia, eating the leaf in the same
also nibbling the points off

night after

The next night it paid attention way as that of the Dendrobe, and
of
I I

two buds, quite spoiling them, to say nothing

think, therefore,

devouring two roots, each about half-an-inch long.

may

truly say that this beetle

pest in the perfect state as in

though beautiful, beastly, and as much that of larvadom. L. C. R. Thring.

is,

[The Beetle sent

Wrigley, but
Since
nopsis
insect.
is

is

a large and very different insect to that sent by Mr.

not yet identified. Ed.]

sent

you the beetle-infested pseudobulb of Dendrobium Phala-

(p. 136),

Most

plants attacked by this of the infested pseudobulbs were at once burned, but several were

my

gardener has found

many more

handed over
It

to

my

sister's

gardener for observation and experiment, while

others were placed under a bell-glass by

my man,

with similar objects

in view.

has been proved that the perfect beetle issues from its bore-hole during the hottest part of the day, and flies about with the greatest rapidity and ease, settling on any pseudobulb which it may care to visit. Towards evening the insects all disappear, either into their old holes or into new ones bored into fresh pseudobulbs, or into fresh portions of an infested one. I have proved that these beetles fly about my Dendrobium house, because one was found walking up an unattached pseudobulb, and my attention was immediately called to it. When I first saw it, boring had just commenced, and went on at a very rapid rate, the borings being thrown out by the hind
legs of the beetle as
ctly half-an-hour,
I

work went on.

carefully

watched the

insect for
i

lost to sight,
I

having buried

itself

pseudobulb.

From

careful observations

bores find that the beetle usually

right across the pseudobulb, until the outer skin is reached, which it never pierces, but then begins to excavate a chamber in which to produce its larvs, and the end I presume it dies there, when its task is completed.

these imperfect observations and experiments it is plain that this beetle is a very serious pest when once it has established itself in any Orchid house, for it breeds so rapidly, and spreads so much, that in a very snort time a collection of Dendrobes may be seriously damaged or destroyed.

From

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No
remedial measures have the slightest
in the
effect, for a

165

pseudobulb once bored

Ky experiments it has been proved that tinbeetle does not conhne its attacks to Dendrobium Phalamopsis, for I have had to burn three plants of I). Devonianum which were full of it, and have
end.
also proved that
it

must decay and die

will

bore into D. nobile and thyrsitloruin. and

live

in

their pseudobulbs.
I

am

doing
I

my

level best to

stamp out

this pest, but

am

very doubtful

whether

shall

succeed or not.

O. O. Wkiglev.
Bridge Hall, Bury.

NOMENCLATURE OF ORCHIDS.
The
constantly increasing number of hybrid Orchids and the consequent
multiplication of

names tends

to

make

the nomenclature question a most

It

was therefore with considerable interest that I read the very pertinent observations of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain on this subject in the May Review (p. 135), and I think that the thanks of all Orchid lovers are due to him for his timely interposition on behalf of law and order. In the course of some trenchant and pointed remarks Mr. Chamberlain lays the responsibility of much of the present confusion in nomenclature upon the Orchid Committee of the
important one to cultivators of Orchids.

Royal Horticultural Society, and

too true.

to

some extent

fear his indictment

is

but

Mr. Chamberlain proceeds to suggest the desirability of distinguishing the reverse crosses of hybrids by a distinctive name, but I venture to think
that
it

if

that course were followed, instead of bringing " order out of chaos,"

would but serve to make " confusion worse confounded." Mr. Chamberlain truly says that " there are very great and marked differences in the reverse crosses of different Orchids," and appears to assume from this that
if

a reverse cross happens to produce a distinct form,

it

is

because

it

is

reverse cross, and therefore, as such, should have a distinctive name.

This
it

rather reminds one of the old fallacy, "post hoc ergo propter hoc," for

has

been demonstrated
that there
is

many
II., p.

times, by the experiments of careful observers,

no

intrinsic difference in reverse crosses.

(See Kerncr, Sol.

Hist. PL,

Eng. Ed.

557.)

submit, therefore, that distinctive specific

names for reverse crosses would not only be superfluous, but in many cases would be positively misleading. If a distinct form appears, whether in a reverse cross or not, by all means give it a varietal name to distinguish it,
but pray
let it

retain the

one

specific

name

of the hybrid.

On

the whole.

think no better system of nomenclature could be adopted than that consistently followed in the Orchid Review,

which

is

based upon the laws laid

down by

the Paris Botanical Congress of 1867, and upon the recommenda-

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Nomenclature Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. is a simple system, at once practical and scientific, and would, I sure, meet every case and supply every need. As an illustration, I beg

qUOte herC a abStraCt f ,he four rules laid fT.! J and other " ot hybrids crosses. (For
full

dow "

fOT the ra
I.,

(1)

"The

text see Orel,. Rev.,

pp.

340-343.)
generic

sign of hybridity

'

'

and

should be placed between the

specific
(2)

names."

parentage or otherwise, should be considered forms of one, and, if necessary, may be distinguished by the addition of a varietal name " (3) " Hybrids betwe genera should receive a generic by combining the names of the parent genera." " Secondary hybrids, i.e., (4) those in which one or both parents are themselves of hybrid origin, should receive suitable vernacular or informal names, like florists' flowers." If these few simple rules had been followed Mr. Chamberlain would ave had no need to complain of such anomalies as Dendrobium X burfordiense and D. x Euryclea (reverse crosses of D. X dulce and D. X rmcans respectively). Of the others complained of, "Clio," "Hebe," Dido, Rainbow," " Luna," " Thalia," and " Rubens," would seem to be correctly named, as all of them are cross-breds or " secondary hybrids," and so come under Rule 4, each distinct form bearing a popular name, like roses, chrysanthemums, and other florists' flowers. quite agree with Mr. Chamberlain in protesting against the looseness allowed ,n naming varieties of natural species. Specific names are not admitted unless they have been properly examined and described, and varietal names should not be allowed unless carefully certified as distinct by a nd inde enden t P authority, such as the Orchid Committee of the"* l ' Slncere, y hope that the time is now close at hand when this . V exed much question of nomenclature will be settled on a sound basis once 1 trUS tHat " ' rchid cultivators will faithfully, loyally, andc and cons.stently abide '"I by the decision of the authorities.
1

" Hybrids between species should receive a Latin specific name. Hybrids raised from the same two parents, whether of hmrki

'

hT
' '

r k Burbage

v,

Charles
d

C. Hurst.

Nurseries, Nr. Hinckley.

Ch

unaIthorisd by giving awards "4i us 10 plants to not

1

C ittee "* n : me sT:

""^

eXpeCted ' ' ! occasions they have recognised them

.'*

"

regulations,

.0

named in accordance with the Society and thil ~.unly ought ~ We have not to have occurred. nMh riSednamesfo but it is difficult
entire ' y
'

theawED.]

Un ' eSS the C m

"F*,

"-

decline

to

recognise

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REGARDING CERTAIN SUPPOSED HYBRID ORCHIDS.

It
is

one of the misfortunes of botanical

writer.-; tint, in

consequence of no
this

authoritative contradiction, the

same

errors are repeated by various authors,

I

passing on from one publication to another,

was much struck with

Hybrids,

when taking up Mr. Hansen's book, The Orchid The following plants should certainly be erased as
are nothing of the kind
:

the other day.

possible hybrids, as they

Dendrobium Donnesia.. It is well known that D. formostun and 1). infundibuluin do not grow together, so that a natural hybrid between them
is

impossible.
I),

Certain botanists consider

It is

I),

infundibuluin to be a mountain

form of

formosuin.

probable that

I).

Donnesia;

is

another form.

Orchids of the same species vary considerably according to the varying

influences under which they grow.
as

The form and shape

is

of the bulbs differ,

do also the flowers.

form found
in

D. formosum
quantity
at

certainly an instance of this.

to

common

Moulmein and along the coast

of

The Tavoy
in

has the bulbs

much

swollen in the middle; the flowers also are distinguished

by their broad and lax petals.

The form

D. formosum found

the

Andamans and
different,

adjoining islands called D. formosum Berkeleyi has

much
is

thinner stems of even thickness throughout.

The

flowers are also quite

It

being more funnel-shaped, and not having lax petals.

cer-

tainly near to D. infundibuluin,

is

and

it

is

highly probable that D. Donnesia:

difficulties

a similar

island

form.

We

have quite enough

regarding

hybrids without the repetition of errors

made without

sufficient information.

D. Wattii

is

another very doubtful hybrid.

The

late Professor

Reichenbach was of opinion that D. Findlayanum

was a natural hybrid between D. Aphrodite and D. gratiosissimum, but D. Aphrodite is essentially this is absurd, as the plants grow widely apart. a hot Orchid. I invariably found this plant growing on the top of immensely high trees in the low hot plains of Burmah in company with D. dixanthum and D. albosanguineum, so that a natural hybrid might be expected between these, but up to this time none has ever turned up. D. Findlayanum is found growing in company with D. Jamesianum and
D. gratiosissimum, principally on rocky precipices under entirely different
conditions as regards temperature, and
country.
is

a plant never found

a natural hybrid
is
it

in

the low

Thus D. Findlayanum being

impossible. a mountain

Perhaps the botanists

form of D. Aphrodite, D. Findlayanum be

may
in

eventually decide on considering

the same

way

as they consider D.

infundibulum
let

and D. Jamesianum as mountain forms of D. formosum, but certainly

in future

excluded as a possible hybrid.

Among
still

the Phalaenopses

some

of Mr. Hansen's supposed hybrids are

more impossible.

Of

course, to

anyone knowing the

localities

any

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from P.
its

such hybrids are absurd.

tetraspis

Over a thousand miles separate Phaljenopsis Lueddemanniana, and P. speciosa is separated by 200
Again,

miles from

nearest allied species.

how

nearly allied to these

plants are Phalasnopsis sumatrana

to the special islands in

and

P. Marise, but they also are confined

which they grow.

The
notes.

evident disadvantages of the mistakes above

commented on

being

copied from book to book must be

It

my

excuse for troubling you with these

appears to

me

to be a mistake to repeat erroneous surmises of

the late Professor Reichenbach which never

had any
it.

reliable basis.
in

Mr.

Hansen's book seems to have been compiled with great care, and
these remarks
I in

making

no way intend to disparage

The

errors

point out are

not

his,

but are errors copied from previous works.

[We
in

think there was no excuse for including

Emeric S. Berkeley. Dendrobium Findlayanum

all

the

list

of hybrids, as the suggestion thrown out by Reichenbach in 1876

II.,

(Xen.

Orch.,

p.

210) has

not been

repeated at
all

events in any
it

important

work and
is
is

the author himself omitted

vii.,

reference to

in the

following year (Gard. Chron., 1877,

suggestion

absurd, and

it

is

At the present day the D. certainly not a variety of D. Aphrodite.

p. 334).

Donnesias

only a form of D. infundibulum, and shows no trace of the

formosum, as we should have pointed out before had we happened to have seen it. We consider D. formosum to be specifically distinct
influence of D.

from D. infundibulum, but we cannot say as

There does not appear

to be

any reason

for

D. Jamesianum. supposing that D. Wattii is a

much

for

natural hybrid, and the remark about Phalsnopsis speciosa

is

very well

described by General Berkeley as absurd.

There are a number of other plants wrongly included by Mr. Hansen as natural hybrids, even after the errors have been pointed out, of which Cattleya velutina may be taken as
an example, and we
mistakes.
ful

a mistake to repeat these Such plants might have been included in a list headed " doubtfully

agree in thinking

it

or erroneous," but are out of place elsewhere. Ed.]

CATTLEYA FLY.
I

have watched with

interest

the observations in your journal since

January regarding

and agree with you and Mr. Millington that it is the black fly, and not Mr. Hamilton's (p. 87) " blue and yellow markings." Early last year I bought established plants of Cattleya from a nurseryman, and they literally swarmed with it in all stages but, being a novice,
this pest,
;

it

was some time

it,

before
Lffilias.

discovered

it.

From

these

many

of

my old

stock

got
I

including
it,

After twelve months' careful watching

and cutting

got rid of

leaving

me many

dilapidated plants.

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This year
I

169

month
plenty.

bought a few more "fine selected" plants, and within a found I had replenished my stock of fine " black " and grubs in Needless to say, the knife went to work, and I think I have saved

my
if

bacon.
it

Wherever there
out,
its

is

a hole in an old bulb, off with

it,

and

if

you

split

up, the chances are you'll find the By or eggs, "

they get
fly

but

it

won't get at the grubs

it is

XL." will kill them only when full-grown that

its

the

eats

way

out and begins the mischief of laying

eggs elsewhere.

The curious thing is. one cannot detect how the grub gets into the new growth at least, I have failed to do so. [Eggs laid inside. En.] " Wellington."

HYBRIDIST'S NOTES.
1

Mr. Cookson's notes on the time of ripening seed at page 12 of the April number are valuable, especially since his experience differs from mine in a number of points. The time required here is doubtless shortened by the intense sunlight, this latitude being the same as that of central Egypt, and for at least half the year the sun is so powerful that it is impossible
to handle metal objects lying in
full

sunlight without gloves, their temper-

ature rising to about 160

quite comfortable.

even when the shade temperature near by is As to the warning that seeds are not to be counted
F.,

good unless they produce plants, I have rarely found seeds that look really plump and well-developed under the microscope to fail to pass through the earlier stages of germination, increasing in size five or six-fold and developing plenty of chlorophyll, which would certainly

show them

to be alive.

The exceptions have almost

all

been seeds with one parent ranked as " cool."

These swell up, but fail to take on a lively green colour, and after some months usually die without further growth. I have raised healthy plants from half-a-dozen Laeha and Cattleya crosses which were but seven and eight months in ripening seed, and in one case, C. amethystoglossa crossed with L. fiava and L. harpophylla (on the same flower), the pod ripened in 4$ months, and within six weeks of
planting the seed
I

had one plant with a

leaf three-eighths of

an inch long,
leaf.

besides innumerable smaller plants just ready to push the

On

the

other hand

some

crosses have lingered as long in the seed-pod as any

recorded in England.

The

Editor's suggestion that several flowers on the

at

same
:

plant should

be crossed

the same time with different pollen, and the time recorded,
effect,

has already been carried into

1894,
I

with the following results

In October,

had three flowers on the same spike of Cattleya Warscewiczii, and

;

crossed one with pollen of C. velutina

another with L. Perrinii, C. Bow-


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and C. superba together; and the third with C. Triana and C. Percivaliana. The first pod opened at 10 months, the second at eleven, and the third has just opened at 17$ months. The pods
all

ringiana, C. Dormaniana,

contained an abundance of viable seeds, many of which are still alive, and those of the second are quite promising in appearance. In November, 1894, with four flowers on the same plant of C. Trianie vaginalis, I crossed
;

one with L. anceps alba, ripe in 9^ months one with C. Walkeriana, ripe in 11 \ months one with C. labiata, ripe in 13^ and one with L. crispilabia,
; ;

not

yet ripe at

17

months

all

of which seems to indicate a decided

influence on the part of the pollen parent.

To

simplify the matter of records

use circular

tags cut from

letter

paper by a gun-wad
flower by a

punch each

attached to the pedicel of the hybridized

in pencil, of both

loop of thread,

and bearing the names,

parents and the date.

In the note book the completed record would read

:

as in the following example 1895-

May
The amount

15.

C. Mossiae

L. grandis

(\

5 da.)

1.

Ripe March
of pollen used
is

10, 1896, 10

months.

given by the fraction in the parentheses

by one flower being taken as unity), the "5 da." indicates that the pollen had been kept five days before using, and the " 1 outside the parentheses, that only one flower was thus crossed. Whenever the pod dies instead of ripening, the tag is removed, and if any considerable time has elapsed since pollination, the date of death is entered on its back, and at any convenient time thereafter this date is entered in the note book, a naught (o) takes the place of the exclamation point at the end of line, and the tag is destroyed. In a rough way before
the time that elapses the death of the pod gives a hint as to the amount of affinity between the species crossed, though single cases will often be misleading. My note book already contains over 1,500 entries of attempted crpsses made during the three years, and 230 apparently good pods have been gathered so far. When the pod ripens it is cut off and put in a paper bag about four by seven inches, name of cross and dates entered at the top, and dates and

(the quantity yielded

manner of planting entered below. These bags, when empty, are filed in alphabetical order, according to name of female parent, like library catalogue cards, and the further progress of the seedlings noted on them as may seem desirable, so that the whole history of every pod is on file and may be referred to at any moment. My rule is to make all the crosses possible with my material, that is, all
in

which there

is

a reasonable chance of getting

good

seed, without regard

to

probably be worthless from a commercial or even horticultural point of view. I have made also a good
crosses

the fact that

many

would

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

many
different materials

iji

of what Charles Darwin used to call " fool's experiments." as to

on which to prow the seeds, and

it

may

surprise

some

growers to hear how very regardless of precedent some of

hybrids have been, since
root stage not only
I

my

Cattleya

have raised them successfully to the leaf and

on fibrous peat and wood and earthenware, but an occasional plant has grown on corduroy and Canton flannel and linen I grew more towelling, on bibulous paper, and even on woollen fabrics.
than a hundred
leaf stage
fine little plants of C.

intermedia

Harrisoniana to the

on a small piece of woollen bed blanket, happening to get the On these fabrics growth conditions of moisture, ivc. just right for them.
is

usually

much

slower than under more natural conditions, but they escape

many
while
In

enemies, both insects and moulds, that find congenial quarters in

fibrous peat
still

and other composts, and destroy the great majority of seeds

the thalloid stage.
notes
is

in

my

former

in

the February issue the sentence above the

tabulations (at page 42)

printed so as to contradict the preceding correct

is

statement, that the given average time of ripening seed

crosses on the given
species

that of

all

my

which statement should be

flower.

the normal time for uncrossed pods, cancelled. The sign " + " is equivalent to

not

" and," indicating that more than one kind of pollen was used on the same

Theodore
Oviedo, Florida. U.S.A..

L.

Mead.

May

4th, 1896.

[The mistake alluded to

alteration

in the last

paragraph arose through a

the

little

made by

us in the arrangement of the tabulated part and the

preceding explanatory paragraph.

The

fact

is

number of months

following the parents indicated represents the average time of ripening of

crosses on those species, and the table therefore represents the amount of variability in the periods of ripening under varying circumstances, and is not adduced in support of the remark that the time of ripening of any
all

crossed capsule

seemed to tend towards a mean between the normal

ripening time of the two parents, as

we

supposed.

Some experiments

with

uncrossed capsules would be very interesting, and possibly throw light on The cases now adduced are remarkable, and we should this question. particularly like to know the result of the multiple crosses mentioned when
they flower.
will

We

shall recur to the question.

Meantime, we hope others

send us their experiences.

Ed.]

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

DIES ORCHIDIANjE.

have

frequently called attention

I

to

the

Nomenclature question,

and,

consequently,

read Mr. Chamberlain's remarks in your last issue (page 133)

with considerable interest, especially as a little discussion may clear up some of the doubtful points involved. Mr. Chamberlain very well points out that the
present confusion
is

almost a scandal, and threatens to become intolerable

as time goes on, for which he partly blames the Orchid

Committee

of the

Royal Horticultural Society,

guidance, but only put

who are supposed

in

them

have certain rules for their practice occasionally. One point which he
to

brings prominently forward

is

the naming of reverse crosses, and he thinks

is

not entitled to a distinctive name is open to criticism, as these often show great and marked differences. But
that the rule that a reverse cross then, this
is

frequently the case with seedlings out of the

same pod,

while

in

many

cases reverse crosses do not present any appreciable difference, so that the rule breaks down completely. Selenipedium X Sedeni, as raised

from the reversed cross,

is

absolutely indistinguishable, and numerous other

I

cases could be pointed out.

therefore think that the Orchid Committee

are right in refusing reverse crosses a separate name, and even a varietal

name

would only allow when there was some

distinctive character by
in
is

which such a plant could be distinguished, just as seedlings out of the same pod. Mr. Chamberlain
his contention

the case of different

undoubtedly right

in

that

some authentic
this

quality should be attached to every

distinctive

would not be the case if every reverse cross were to receive a distinct name. The two will not run together, and now that the Orchid Committee have recognised the principle I hope they will
carry
it

name, and

out

consistently

in

future.

There

is

plenty

of

room

for

improvement.

Mr. Chamberlain also remarks that the latitude allowed to what are called " varieties - is even worse than the loose treatment of hybrids.

Every nurseryman and every amateur is permitted at his own sweet will to affix a distinctive name to any plant that strikes his fancy, and as there is no rule and no authority, so there is no limit to the abuse of the practice.

With
which

this

thoroughly agree.

Hardly a meeting of the Royal Horti-

cultural Society passes without a

fail

number of new names appearing, many

of

to serve any useful purpose.

let

And what
is

is

the result

Some

one

has a Cattleya Mossias,

has, so
it is it is

not quite the same as others he labelled Mr. Blank's variety, or Blank Lodge variety. Perhaps

us say, that

good, and receives an Award, but whether or no, it catches the reporter's eye and is duly recorded. Some, it is true, are ignored possibly it is not

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thought good enough to be noticed, or
else,
it

173

may

be recognised as something
for

but a good

many do

get recorded in a useless kind of way,

even

when they

really deserve a varietal

recorded, and

when
is

afterwards

name their particular character is not some one wants to find out what Mr.
it

Blank's variety

like

he cannot ascertain, and perhaps gives

character
is

another

name.

And

even

if its

recorded the result

for
is
it

is

much

the

same

under the present go-as-you-please policy,

a notorious fact that

many
still

varieties

have several different names, and some species of Orchids

have more named varieties than there are distinct varieties to name.
they come.

And

"

The remedy suggested is that the Orchid Committee should Hall Mark " for valuable Orchids that would be recognised by
it

establish a
cultivators.

But
fulfil

seems

to

me

that the Certificates already granted by the Society

if

this

purpose to a great extent, and would do so entirely

effect.

the rules
if

supposed to be in force were always carried into

And even

the

would leave things much as they are, unless a rule were made to the effect that new names should only be given by competent experts. This would probably be the most effectual check to the present growing evil, and would ensure an approach to an orderly and

new new

idea were carried out,

it

scientific

nomenclature.

614) alludes to Mr. Chamber" It was hoped," lain's article, and I agree with a good deal that is said. it remarks, " that when the Nomenclature Committee issued its code that horticulturists also would adopt the rules, and that there would be less

The

Gardeners Chronicle for

May

16th

(p.

reason for protests such as Mr. Chamberlain

things go on as before,
this state of things,
if

now makes.
is

Unfortunately,
is

not worse.

The Orchid Committee

it

blamed

for
It

and to some extent

in

doubtless responsible.

must, however, be borne

mind

that the ordinary meetings of the

Com-

mittee afford no more fitting opportunities for the discussion of intricate for the points of affinity or nomenclatare than the House of Commons does

Teutons consideration of the racial differences between Boers and Kaffirs, and Britons, or the limitations, geographic or otherwise, between Venezuela, ComGuiana, and Brazil. One way out of the difficulty is to appoint a
arrive at mittee of experts to determine the general points at issue, and some conclusion, arbitrary or otherwise, on points of detail as they arise.

This, as has been stated, has already been done, so

sd
;

far

as generalities

but

who pays
nomencla

Who

is

to enforce

The

rules for

bias

was allowed

to over-ride scientific interests, are very

good

74

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

and
if

as they stand,

people would only follow

them

there would

much

to complain of."

As to the kinds of name

as

to be given, the

same

article observes

" It

is,

a rule, not desirable to apply to a plant a

history.

peculiarities, or indicative of its

...

name descriptive of its A name should be a

;

name and nothing

else.

It

should not be description

still less

should

it

Nothing but confusion arises from the attempt to blend nomenclature with description, and specially with the history of the plant." Now, I confess this is a strange and startling
be a detached fragment of history.
doctrine,
if it

means what
?

it

really says.

What
it

about Vanda

ccerulea, and
?

Broughtonia sanguinea
of the species

Is not

Selenipedium caudatum descriptive

Is

Coryanthes leucocorys objectionable because

?

describes the peculiarities

Does not Phalamopsis sumatrana contain a fragment of history ? These are only cases selected at random, and might be multiplied similar ad infinitum, but where does the confusion come in ? I have read
remarks before, or
should
I

should be inclined to pass them over.

As

it

is

much

like a

few examples of the names which the writer

ideal

is tilting at,
I

together with

some of the

names recommended,

for

confess that

cannot follow him.

The

writer

is

also strongly of opinion that the Latin

system of nomenthat
the

clature should not be followed in the

naming of hybrids, but

practice of the florists should be adopted.

it is

With

this

d->

not agree, and

not in accord with the recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee above alluded to. On former occasions I have gone pretty fully

into this question of the vernacular,

at present, so will
last

and have not time

to follow

it

further

merely refer the writer to pages 12, 200, and 228 of the volume of this work, which have some bearing on the question.

month's correspondent will doubtless be looking out for some remarks about the " blue Cattleya." I have seen it. It was exhibited by Mr. Smee at the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting on May 5th last
last

My

'

With admirable

foresight Mr.

Smee had pasted

it

the catalogue description

It

on a piece of cardboard, and exhibited

percaution, for otherwise
I

with the plant.

it,

was
I

a wise

should

not have recognised

and

suspect

others would have been in the same predicament. an essay on that " blue Cattleya ? "

me Will some one send

AKtas.

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175

DENDROBIUM ARACHNITES.
At
J.

the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting on June 25, 1895, a Botanical Certificate was given to a curious little Dendrobium from the collection of

Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate, under the name of D. inversum, which was recorded in the report of the meeting [supra. III., p. 253) as " about two inches high, and bore a two-flowered inflorescence of the size

and colour of Lxlia cinnabarina, with a few purple lines on the lip." It was again exhibited on May 5th last, when bearing four flowers, bat on comparison it proves to be Dendrobium Arachnites, a species described by Reichenbach in 1874. The author remarked :

"Since the time when Sir Willi. un Hooker described his unique Dendrobium amboinense, no such remarkable and extraordinary gorgeous Dendrobe has been discovered. Imagine a dwarf stem three inches high,
with shining internodes a
little

thicker at their upper ends, and then

flower with linear sepals and petals,

a long

add a nearly two inches long when dried, and

its

pandurate

lip

narrowed towards

obtuse
lilac

tip.

All these

organs

appear,
the
lip.

when
I

dried, whitish yellow,

with a deep

blotch at the base of

have only a single flower, not cohering with the stem. To judge,
little

however, from the

scars on the stem,

it

it

must be a Eudendrobium.

believe a single plant of

has been found

in

Burmah by Mr.

Boxall,
it
!

must have been filled with enthusiasm feels that the Burmese plants incline
possible not to think of
I

at the sight, since

he dried

who One
im-

to the

Malayan

type, since

it is

Renanthera

flos-aeris

(Arachnanthe

moschifera).

was favoured with the

flower and two stems by Mr.

are,
f.

Low.

Of course
ii.,

can only describe the things as they

and

am

unable to say that the

p.

stems

may

not become longer. "'

Rchb.
Manual

in

Gard. Chroti., 1874,

354.

Except as regards colour, the above description gives a very fair idea of the plant, of which nothing further seems to have been discovered for many
years, for Messrs. Veitch in their
(III., p. 18) state that

the only plant

they knew of was in the collection of Mr. Lee, at Downside, through whose kindness they were enabled to give a description. A flower preserved at

Kew came
possibly
collection
It is

from the collection of Baron Schroder been

in

June, 1887, which

as

may

have

from

Mr.

Lee's

original

plant,

the

Downside

was

distributed,
little

and only one plant had ever been recorded.

brilliantly coloured flowers.
It is

a beautiful

plant, allied to D. nutans, Lindl., but remarkable

for its very

dwarf tufted habit and large

about two to three inches high, with linear-lanceolate acute leaves, i-2| inches long, and deciduous before the flowers appear. The latter are borne in fascicles of two or three and are il inches long, deep cinnabar-orange,
with red purple veins on the
lip.

and

subequal, and the lip

and petals are linear-lanceolate pandurate-oblong and acute. Mr. Bradshaw

The

sepals

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red his plant from Burmah, and more of
se
it

may some day

appear.

Of

the original

name must be

restored.

R. A. R.

CATASETUM MACROCARPUM AND

The female
cultivation that
at

C.

BARBATUM.
are so rarely seen
in

flowers of Catasetum
it

macrocarpum

may be

interesting to record that one has just appeared

Kew on
most

a raceme with three of the other sex.

The males
at plate

are familiar

to

orchidists,

and the females are depicted

1752 of the

Botanical Register, but as

figure,

many

people
lip
is

may
larger

not be able to refer to that

very

may be added much stouter, and

it

antenna:.

and more ovoid, the ovary the column very short and stout, and without any In the present example the petals were almost suffused with
also the males,

that the

which are notoriously variable in colour in different individuals of this species and the anther was nearly half developed, showing that it was partially in a transition state. A
peculiarity of the female flowers,

dusky

brown as were

which has been recorded before,

a

is

that they

reach maturity sooner than the males, and in the present instance the second flower was the female, yet it opened advance of those,

week

in

above and below

it.

plate has been prepared for the Botanical Magazine.

The how

history of this very interesting genus and its so-called " sporting," and the females of four different species were confused under the name of
viridis,

Monachanthus
pp. 138-143).

has already been detailed

in

the Review (supra,

III-,

record that the plant of Catasetum barbatum in the collection of John \V. Arkle, Esq., of West Derby, Liverpool, mentioned at page 131 of the last volume, has again produced a raceme of female
flowers, six in

It is also interesting to

number.

It is perfectly erect,

light yellowish green, except for

and the flowers are entirely a few minute brown spots on the margins
the sepals, petals,

of two of the flowers.

The

latter are only half the size of the females of C.

it,

macrocarpum, which were formerly confounded with and lips being seven to eight lines long, and

the latter six lines broad.

The

shorter than broad, without any trace of either antenna, rostellum, or anther. Their second appearance on this plant is very interesting, as they are so seldom seen in many other species. The female of this
is

column

the one investigated and figured by Darwin as the female of Catasetum tridentatum, which I have previously shown to be erroneous. There are still many species of which the females are unknown, but it is
is

species

to be

hoped that

in course of

time they

may

be discovered.
R. A. Rolfe.

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7;

DENDROBIUM DEVONIANUM.
The annexed
illustration
is

reproduced from a photograph of the beautiful

Dendrobium Devonianum. sent by Dr. A. California, and shows the peculiar character of
well grown.

W.
this

Hoisholt,

Stockton.

charming plant when

The pseudobulbs
to

are literally wreathed with flowers,

some of

which had

be omitted.

second photograph sent, shows the entire

;ibout the

plant, with the

two flowering bulbs suspended

middle

of their length.

page 196 of our second volume, in the collection of Dr. Hodgkinson, of Wilmslow, four feet long, and bearing eighty-seven flowers, several of the fascicles bearing five each. When thus grown it is a sight to be remembered.

This most beautiful plant was discovered

in the

Khasia

Hills,

in

1835,

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by Gibson, who had been sent to India by the Duke of Devonshire to collect Orchids. It was found hanging from trees at about 4.500 fret elevation, and being out of flower it was a question whether it was worth collecting. Some flowers, however, appeared on the way home, where it arrived in 1837, and the following spring it flowered well at Chatsworth,
being figured in 1840 by Paxton (Mag. of Bot., VII., pp. 169, 170, with plate and woodcut), who dedicated it to the Duke of Devonshire. It was afterwards figured at plate 4429 of the Botameal Magazine. Lindley called it the King of Dendrobiums (Bot. Reg., Singularly

enough

this

author afterwards made

Ann., VI.,

it

XXX., Misc., p. 48). a synonym of D. pulchellum,

called
in
it

Roxb.

(Journ. Linn. Soc., III., p. 12), var. Devonianum (Walp.

distinct.

and even Reichenbach

p.

D. pulchellum
it

284),

though

reality

is

very

history

is

D. pulchellum also includes two very distinct given at page i 73 of our last volume.
ranges

plants, whose

Bhotan, the Khasia and Naga Hills, Assam, and southwards to Tenasserim. The typical form has white flowers with amethyst purple tips, and two large orange-yellow blotches at the base
of the beautifully fringed lip, but two or three varieties are known, including the albino candidulum, and one called rhodoneurum, in which the sepals and petals are veined with purple. They are very beautiful, and succeed under the treatment usually given to other species of the deciduous group.

D. Devonianum

from

SACCOLABIUM MINIATUM.
curious mistakes have been made in recording the localities of various garden Orchids, and it now appears that the beautiful little Saccolabium mimatum has not escaped this misfortune. It was described nearly half-acentury ago as a native of Java (Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1847, sub t. 26), but no one has been able to confirm the record and many years later Reichenbach added a variety citrinum, a supposed native of the Philippines (Card. Chron., 1884. xxi., p. 542), which is equally doubtful It is interesting to note that one of the plants recently sent to Kew by Dr. Watt, from the Naga Hills (east of Khasia), at 6,000 to 9,000 feet elevation, proves on flowering to be
;

Some

this species,

and as

until quite recently

is little

very

little

was known of the

Flora

of this district, there

been discovered.
B. \\ arner."

doubt that the habitat of the plant has now

was originally described as " a Java plant imported by Messrs. Veitch and flowered by both Mr. Rucker and Mr. C.
species

The

among Blame's Javan

include
state
it

Dr. Lindley, however, added that

plants,

was not to be traced and afterwards Miquel was only able to

it

Javan Flora on the authority of Lindley. Messrs. Veitch " Introduced by us from Java in 1846 through Thomas Lobb, but

,n the

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

now
very rarely to be seen in the Orchid
(Vritch

179

collections of this country

"

Man.

Orch.,

vii.,

p.

117).

Unfortunately, the localities of some of

fact well

Lobb's plants were confused a

that
is

known and

it

is

highly probable

Lobb met with

the species during his journey to Khasia.

The

species

not included in the Flora of British India, and no wild specimens are known, but considering our limited knowledge of the Flora of the district
in

question this

is

not surprising.

figure

was given

!>v

Lindley soon

after the original description

given in the

Botanical

appeared (Hot. Rig., 1847, t. 58), but the one Magazine (t. 5326), as S. miniatum is erroneous,
Lindl.,

being the allied

larger flowers.
for

S. curvifolium,

which has
fell

different

leaves

and

It is

probable that Lindley himself

one of the two racemes preserved on the sheet in belongs to S. curvifolium, and this is presumably the one alluded to as from Mr. C. B. Warner, but unfortunately its origin is not stated. The other one is carefully labelled " Java. Mr. Rucker, 27 Feb., 1847," and is the one
from which the figure was prepared, and therefore the type specimen. It is remarkable how many errors have been incorporated into the history of
this pretty
little

same error, Lindley's Herbarium

into the

plant.

R. A. R.

DRYING ORCHID FLOWERS.

A correspondent
writes asking the best as to keep their colour, and suggests

way of drying Orchid that some notes on the

If
it

flowers, so

subject in

the Orchid Review would be interesting to other readers.

preserve the shape as well as the colour, the flowers box, on a layer of dry sand, the ovary being
after
first

is

desired to
in

may

be placed

cut off to facilitate drying,

in a

which the box may be carefully

filled

up with sand and placed

warm
is

place for a few days, until the moisture has evaporated.

The

secret

to get the flower dried before the tissues

this is done,

become

at all

decomposed, and,
volume.

if

many Orchids keep

their colours very well for a long period.

at

An account
Dried

of this

method was given

page 233 of our

first

way, however, they are not so easily stored afterwards as when pressed flat, which is the method we should recommend. The flowers
in this

should be laid between sheets of porous paper of some kind

blotting paper

answers well and then placed under a moderate weight, changing the papers every day or two, until the flowers are dry. Plenty of paper should
be used, so as to absorb the moisture. The flowers can then be mounted on sheets, or stored between the leaves of scrap-books, care being taken to
arrange them in such a
gives

way

that they can be found

it

when wanted.

Some
;

varnish them after mounting, and say

it

helps to preserve the colours

but

them an unnatural shiny appearance, which we do

not admire.

'

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

amount of heat
facilitates the

certain
flowers,

process of drying

in

any

case.

Some

however such

brown

in

averted.

and other fleshy kinds invariably go drying, and we know of no method by which this change can be The process is exceedingly simple, and the way in which the
as Lycastes

colours of

many flowers such

as Odontoglossums, Oncidiums, and Denis

drobiums are preserved

for a long period

remarkable.

Two

or three
Society

collections have been exhited at meetings of the

Royal Horticultural

within the last year or so, as

was recorded

in

our pages at the time.

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.
Mr. T. L. Mead, of Oviedo, Florida, writes:" ments to try a new experiment in Orchid
rarely
I

have just made

arrangeare

seed culture.

Many
I

Orchids

when

ever found wild at other circumstances

if

less

than 30 or 40 feet from the ground, even

to favour them.

seem

So

have

built a small

platform in the top of a live oak, about 45 feet from the ground, and conveniently accessible by ladders, where 1 propose to try under varied conditions as to moisture and exposure seeds of some thirty or forty different Orchid crosses, including pods from Vanda coerulea and Cattleya citnna, which are thought difficult said that
to

manage under

glass.

It is

resident Orchid amateurs in the city of much better on the housetops than in

Mexico find the adult plants

to grow
to

the garden, with equal attention as

watering, so

have considerable hope of good results from the experiment." We shall hope to hear the results. It would be interesting to note the daily range of temperature in the two situations, and any other obvious differences which might suggest the cause of any variation in the results
I

obtained.

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR JUNE.

By H. A. Hurbkrrv, Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham.

The

temperatures given for last month should be maintained in all departments, and the shading, airing, and damping down well attended to, which is a matter of great importance. On the Cattleya and Laelia houses, also the Dendrobium and other warm
houses, the roller blinds should be removed rather early in the afternoonsay from 3 to 5 o'clock, according to the aspect of the house-and at the same time the ventilation should be reduced and a thorough damping down given. Spraying the plants also overhead is beneficial. In fact, at this season when the weather is bright and hot, a good drenching overhead with soft warm water when the house is closed is often practised with very

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

good
results.

1S1

done it is necessary to be a little careful with some few things whose young growths are in the habit of damping off.
this
is

But when

and the conditions well ;ittended to, as advised, the plants that damp are few and far between, though one or two Dendrobiums are likely to do so. particularly L). Bensona; and D. BUperbum. The houses so closed and damped down will become beautifully warmed, and
plants are healthy, however,
a lovely

When

growing temperature

will

be generated that will

heat, although
it

last

throughout the

night without the assistance of

fire

is

frequently advan-

warmth in the pipes during the night in the wannest departments, that is, the Dendrobium and Kast Indian houses. When finally closing the houses in this manner for the day, I always like to leave the ventilators more or less open at the bottom, according to the conditions of the' weather. And it must be remembered that the above treatment is good only for Orchids that require much warmth during the growing season. For cool Orchids it would be fatal. Although I have given the above method of cultivation as being a good
tageous, and even necessary, to have a slight

one

for the

encouragement of
in

free

ami healthy growth,

is

it is

not the best for

Orchids that are

flower,

that

supposing the blooms are required to

last in perfection, for

they are soon rendered spotted and useless by the

damp.
will

Even without the overhead syringing the flowers of any Orchid spot just the same if there is no warmth in the hot-water pipes during
Failing this the flowers will not remain perfect without an

the night.

abundance of air, such, for instance, as is given to the Cool house. We get over this difficulty by keeping a little house expressly for Orchids in flower. The temperature is intermediate, and is thus suitable for all except the Cool Orchids. A little heat is always in the pipes to keep down the damp, and
and not only do the flowers last a long while in perfection, but the temperature is the very best in which to grow the maidenhair fern (Adiantum cuneatum), and it therefore answers a double
the house
is

also well ventilated,

purpose, a Fern house and an Orchid

Show

house.

An
off,

illustration of this

house was given at page 241 of the

In such a house

last

volume.

how

well the Orchids are set

and what a pretty

show they make, especially at this time of year. The gorgeous Cattleyas Mossia: and Mendelii, and the not less showy Lselia purpurata, the beautiful Miltonia vexillaria, and the truly charming drooping spikes of
Odontoglossum citrosmum are only a few of those that could be mentioned. Take care that the flowers of none are left on the plants too long, so as to cause exhaustion. In this respect much depends upon the strength and condition of the plants. If strong, the fact of blooming is nothing, but
weakly shrivelled specimens,
spikes
if

allowed to bloom at

all,

should have their

removed as

early as possible

and placed

in water.
still

The

Cattleyas Mossia: and Mendelii, and others that

remain, will

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

month
take their turn at the potting bench,
required.

and have done

to them
of

what may be

The

usual compost and the usual method

potting, as before given, should be

meted out to the whole of this genus. When doing C. Bowringiana let them be potted rather high up, as the rhizome strikes a downward course, and if not well raised will soon get below the level of the rim. That most beautiful Cattleya Dowiana aurea, if not already done up and made comfortable, should be delayed no longer.
This species does not possess the vigorous constitution of many
the
others of

same genus.

Our
is

and much trouble

theless,

with careful

seem to rob it of a good deal of vitality, experienced where the air is laden with smoke, neverattention, it does fairly well. We grow ours in rather
dull winters
is

more warmth than

given to the majority,

and

also C. Eldorado, C.
;

Lawrenceana, C. Lueddemanniana, and C. Aclandia; in fact, the lastnamed does best suspended in baskets with the Dendrobiunis. C. Skinnen
is

very showy

now

in

bloom, and

is

easily

than what the Cattleya house affords. now growing apace in their position at the lightest part of the house. The flower sheaths are showing this time on nearly every plant, large and small, as though it was a species most unusual. prolific, which is rather

grown, and requires nothing more The C. Warscewiczii (gigas) are

What

can be the cause

of the particularly bright Get on with the potting generally wherever it is practicable. The Miltonia vexillarias may now be done. Unless very successful with this
species,

Perhaps as seems very feasible it and hot autumn of last year.

is

the

result

growing them into too large specimens, as it usually ends in failure. It is safer to keep them in small pots, and when a plant reaches large dimensions it is better ones. to divide it and make smaller Drain the are the most suitable about three-parts t
at

do not aim

with clean crocks, intermixed with a little charcoal. The top laye should be broken fibrous peat and fresh sphagnu in equal proportions. Raise the plants rather high, and build the compost well up to the base of the last formed pseudobulb, so that the roots may
speedily enter,

and make sure that the plant

neat
sticks
until
it

is

well supported where

necessary with

is

self-supporting.

Odontoglossum

citrosmum should also be repotted if necessary. It is an Orchid requiring but little root disturbance, and should be placed in pans or baskets in a firm compost of two parts peat and one part sphagnum moss, and suspended.
not be an easy matter to keep the atmosphere at this time of the year too moist, especially for the Cool house Orchids, the great volume of ventilation soon drying it up. Thrips, Aphides, and other pests, which are the frequent cause of so much mischief, are apt to increase rather quickly in this house at this season, and these it is absolutely necessary to
It will

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keep under at
all costs.

This department

is still

very gay.

Odontoglos
;
<

crispum and 0. Pescatorei are now seen to the best advantage. As viceable and showy Orchid the first-named can never be beaten, and

wonder
in

that

it

is

such a general favourite and grown

in

such
of this species

quantities.

Nothing can possibly look

Hallii.

mcr than
X

;i

lions,' full

bloom, as they are at the present time, intermixed with a few O. O. luteopurpureum, O.
elegans, O.

polyxanthum, O.

Coradinei,

and other yellow and chocolate-coloured species in their ever-varying hues and degrees of brightness. The culture of the whole of the above is of the
simplest character.

they may go

as

They require repotting about once in every two vears long as three but should be top-dressed annually. The

compost should be of the usual psat and moss, and the potting done somewhat firmly. They like plenty of water during the summer, but should not
be continually saturated.
If treated in

such a way, with free ventilation,

is

they cannot
particular,

fail

to grow.

But as

have said before, one thing

most
in

and must be

strictly
is

observed, namely, repotting them

when

when the new growths are one or two inches long. This may be at any time from now until the autumn months. Oncidium Marshallianum, O. concolor, and O. olivaceum (cucullatum) are others now in flower. They are best grown in pans or baskets and
the right condition, which

suspended, otherwise the culture required

other cool Orchids.
Candida,
is

is

similar in every respect to

called
like

Oncidium candidum, sometimes

its

Palumbina
O. cheiro-

now pushing
little

flower spikes.

This species,

phorum, a pretty
or basket culture.

thing that flowers in autumn, does best under pan

well in the Cool house for the

They grow

summer, but

are better for intermediate treatment in winter.

Lycastes are
be done at

now growing apace, and if they are to be repotted should They like a rather more substantial compost. The peat, once.
little

therefore, need not be of the best quality, or a

fibrous

loam can be
not over-

mixed

in.

Lycastes are also better

in the

Intermediate house during

if

winter, though they will stand a low degree of temperature

watered.

They

are frequently lost through being kept too wet, especially

L. Skinneri, which even

when

in full

growth should be watered

carefully.

L. aromatica, L. cruenta, and L. Deppei, having been well rested since their last pseudobulbs were completed, are now producing a quantity of
flower buds from their base.

The new growths

also appear

from there

these are seen they should be repotted, or they may be left over until the flowers have faded. If the latter course is adopted the new growths and roots will have grown very much in the

simultaneously, and

when

interval, consequently the

check

will

be greater.

Bifrenaria

Harrisoniae

(Lycaste Harrisonia)

same

a very pretty old Orchid, and requires about the It is not a treatment and warmth as for the Lycastes in general.
is

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THE OKCHID REVIEW.

it

particularly shy one to flower, yet

is

by no means a

floriferous one.

have never seen a specimen with a large quantity of flowers opened same time, as it produces them singly and in pairs at various times
the spring and

at the

during
better.

summer months.

have noticed

it

flowers

much

however,

if

given a long dry rest throughout the winter.

The house where moist and warm and

with
require a
little

the Phalainopses are growing must

well shaded.

The
daily.

plants

now be kept very themselves may be sprayed

warm water two or three times

more water
in

at the root.

The deciduous Calanthes will now They also delight in a good heat
Sobralia macrantha
is

now

that

they are

active growth.

now

just

commencing

and may be assisted by a little weak liquid manure. Many of the Dendrobiums, Chysis, Galeandras, and such like Orchids that have been potted up, are making good growth, and getting well rooted, and may now receive a good supply of water. Ccelogyne Dayana is now
to flower,

bearing
rather a

its

interesting spikes of flowers, three or four feet in length.

species,

It is

and does best in the East Indian house. Cirrhopetalums and Bulbophyllums are perhaps among the most curious and interesting of Orchids. They grow best suspended, and prefer rather a warm temperature. Like the Dendrobiums, they must have a good winter's rest, or they bloom unsatisfactorily. find that these peculiar little Orchids are none the better for very strong heat, such as is given to Phalamopses and some of the hotter-growing Dendrobiums, but prefer to be grown with the more temperate Dendrobes, instance as D.
I

warm growing

such

for

Diacrium bicornuturo is now in flower. It is a very handsome Orchid when well grown, and should be kept in the warmest house. By keeping it to very small pans, and giving a complete change of sweet fresh material each year, it will grow
like

nobile,

D. Wardianum, and such

species.

fairly well,

and present a very respectable appearance, though ever been known to put on such large pseudobulbs as it does

it

has rarely
its

in

native

CATTLEYA MOSSI.E GRANDIS.

Many
it is

of Cattleya Mossia: have been lost sight of, and rather difficult to recognise them again from description. There is one

of the

named forms

very marked form, however, in several collections to which the above name was applied many years ago, when it was described by Mr. T. Moore as " the largest of all the forms in respect to the size of its lip sepals and petals pale blush; lip mottled violet rose, with an irregular blush coloured edge, the base stained with buff-orange." {Card. Chron., 1864, p. 554-) A gigantic flower has been sent from the collection of Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, which the petals are over 4^ inches long by
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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

3 inches broad, the other parts being proportionate.
less

The
is

front of the lip

is

veined with crimson-purple than usual.

There

a similar

form

in the

collection of Sir Trevor

Lawrence, and one

in that

of

W.

Davies, Esq.,

Moxhull Hall, Erdington, and it is probably represented elsewhere, and will be recognised from this description.

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
ANGR.ECIM LEON1S.Joum. of Hurt., May 14, p. 439, fig. 71. COCHLIODA NlETZLIANA, Rolfe. Beit. Mag., t. 7474. Cypripedium x Creon.Joum. of Hort., May 21, p. 467, fig. 77. Cvpripedium X Merops. Gard. Mag., May 9, p. 302, with fig.

Cvpripedrm X SCHOFIELDIANUM.
g-

Gard. Mag..

May

2.

p.

283, with

Dendkobu m cv.\fnni[o[nKs. Gard. Chron., May 9, p. 581, fig. 90. Desdrobium X W1GAM2E.Card. Chron., May 2, p. 553, fig. 84. L.A5LIO-CATTLEYA X DlGBYANO-MOSSI.F.. Gard. World., May 16, p. 598,
ith fig.

MASDEVALLIA CORMCL'LATA, Rchb.

7476.

f.,VAR. INFLATA,

Veitch. Hoi.
May,

Mat;..

Odontoglossum
06
:

CRISPIN!

Aid STl M. Gard.

fig.

Chron.,

p. 646,

fig.

Joimt of Hort.,

May

28, p. 485,

80.

ORCHIDS
The
the
display

AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. of Orchids at the Drill Hall, James Street, We
at

5th May, was more extensive than

most meetings immediately

preceding the great Temple Show, and included a considerable number of

interesting things.

A small group from the collection Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), received
the very beautiful Ladio-cattleya

of

Baron

Sir H. Scroder,
It

The

Dell
(

a Silver Flora Medal.

contained

Digbyano-Mossiae, the two flowers

;

being of great
plant of

size,

and

in perfect condition

a large and

well-flowered

Dendrobium thyrsiflorum Lowii, in which the lip is cream-white with a few yellow streaks, and approaches the petals in shape a fine form of Odontoglossum X Wilckeanum, several fine forms of O. crispum, the
;

pure white O. Pescatorei leucoxanthum, Masdevallia Veitchiana grandiflora with fifteen flowers, Cypripedium Lawxenceanum Hyeanum, C. X Gertrude
Hollington, and

Vanda

teres grandiflora.

The

latter is

a very large
given.

and

richly-coloured form, to which a First-class Certificate

was

Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate (gr. Mr.Whiffen), received a J. Silver Banksian Medal for a very good group, including some good

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Mossiae

Cattleyas

and

Mendelii,

finely-flowered

Chysis

bractescens,

Oncidium Marshallianum, Odontoglossum crispum, a form of O. X Andersonianum with very yellow ground, Dendrobium chrysotoxum, and a plant of the brilliant little Dendrobium arachnites, exhibited under the name of D. inversum, and which received a Botanical Certificate last year.

W.

S.

Ellis,

Esq.,

Hazelbourne, Dorking

(gr.

Mr. Masterton),

also

received a Silver Banksian Medal for a

Ncetzliana,

good group, containing Cochlioda

a

Dendrobium Hildebrandii and its variety oculatum, and number of well-grown plants of Odontoglossum crispum.
Sir

Weetman

Pearson, Bart., M.P., Paddockhurst, Crawley

(gr.

Mr.
three

Capp), received a Silver Banksian Medal for a group consisting of

large

and well-flowered plants of Cattleya Lawrenceana, C. Schrcedene, some good Dendrobium nobile, and a fine spike of Catasetum trifidum
with over thirty flowers, to which a Botanical Certificate was awarded. J. T. Bennett-P6e, Esq., Holmwood, Cheshunt, exhibited a group
fifteen
of

well-grown plants of Cattleya citrina, grown under cool treatment,

Silver

to

which a
C.
J.

Banksian Medal was given.

Esq.,

Lucas,

Warnham

Court,

Horsham

(gr.

Mr.

Duncan),

received an

Award

of Merit for

Botanical Certificate for with a feathery very mobile

Odontoglossum Hallii grandiflorum, and a Bulbophyllum tremulum, a curious little species

lip.

Tunbridge Wells (gr. Mr. Howes), received an Award of Merit for a good plant of Miltonia Roezlii alba. T. Fielden, Esq., Grimston Park, Tadcaster (gr. Mr. Clayton), received
Esq.,

Walter

Cobb,

Dulcote,

an Award of Merit for a fine form of Lajlia purpurata called Grimston

variety.

C
C.

Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming

(gr.

Cattleya

Preciosa (C.

Sedeni (C.

Lueddemanniana ? X Lawrenceana 5 X C. Percivaliana

(L. purpurata ?

Mr. Bond), showed C. Lawrenceana t),

3),

and

Laslio-

cattleya

X Eudora
Vanner,

C. Mendelii

<? ),

the latter receiving

Robbins),
fine

an Award of Merit.

W.

Esq.,

Camden Wood,

Chislehurst

(gr.

Mr.

received an

Award
is

of Merit for Odontoglossum crispum

Princess, a

noted on page r6r. The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Hill), showed a fine form of Cattleya intermedia, an unnamed Epidendrum of the Encyclium group, with greenish white segments veined with light brown, and a white hp veined with pink, and a fine-flowered raceme of Catasetum macrocarpum, to which a Botanical Certificate

form, which

was given. E. H. Adcock, Esq., Ribblesdale, Dorking (gr. Mr. Green) received a Cultural Commendation for a fine plant of Cypripedium bellatulum with
ten flowers.

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C. Young, Esq.,
Cultural

187

The Thorns. Scvenonks igr. Mr. Ryder), received a Commendation for Odontoglossum polyxantliuin, bearing an
and an aggregate of twenty-seven

inflorescence with five side branches

flowers.
J.

F. Alcock, Esq.. Northchurch. Berhamsted. sent

Lacama

spectabilis

with two good racemes, and Cattleya citrina.

K. B. White, Esq., Arddarroch, Garelochead
igi
.

Mr. Roberts) sent

some

good spikes of Odontoglossum crispum, O. X Wilckeanum, and O. Ruckerianum.

\Y. A.

Bevan,

Esq.,

Coombe

Court,

Kingston, sent a fine form of

Odontoglossum Pescatorei with purple blotched sepals Mid petals. A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange. Carshahon igr. Mr. Cunimins) showed

Oncidium varicosum

Rogersii, also a poor light form of Cattleya Mossia:

purchased as the wonderful blue "Cattleya Guaricoensis."

T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester
sent Lajlio-cattleya
Igr.

Mr. Johnson)
),

higburiensis (L. cinnabarina 2

C. Lawrenceana S
last year.

a very vigorous hybrid, having developed two large pseudobulbs

Messrs. James

Veitch

and Sons, Chelsea, staged a particularly

It

fine

group, to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was awarded.

series of beautiful

contained a

forms of Cattleya Schrcedera, varying from blush to pink,

in

and with the orange throat varying considerably

intensity: C. inter-

media alba, C. Schilleriana, C. citrina, a fine C. Walkeriana. C. Lawrenceana, La:lia purpurata, the richly coloured L. X Latona, Laeliocattleya X Zephyra (L. xanthina 5 X C. Mendelii 1 Y quite intermediate in character. Dendrobium X Stratius (D.japonicum ? X D.pulchellum 3 ), Miltonia X Bleuana nobilior, Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Hyeanum, C.
Chamberlainianum, C.
mediate between
its

eurylochus, C.

Drurio-Hookera:, quite inter-

parents,

Anguloa

uniflora,

Lycaste Deppei, Oncidium

Marshallianum, O. varicosum Rogersii, Ondontoglossum ramosissimum, O. crispum, O. Pescatorei, Maxillaria Sanderiana, Masdevallia X Heathii,

Colax jugosus, and various others.

An Award

of Merit

was given

to Chysis

X
C.

langleyensis, a very pretty hybrid derived from C. bractescens !

and

Sedeni S

Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, exhibited a group of interesting

gemma; (Rchb. f.), Spathoglottis Lobbii, Dendrobium Bensona, D. superbum anosmum, D. Parishii, Miltonia Phala:nopsis, Oncidium varicosum Rogersii, Cattleya luteola, Odontoglossum Harryanum, Ccelogyne Dayana, Stenoglottis longifolia, with A Botanical Certificate was given to Eria tall spikes of lilac flowers, &c.
things, including the very rare Meiracyllium

bractescens.

Messrs.

W.

L.

Lewis

and

Co.,

Southgate,

sent

Odontoglossum

Pescatorei Lewisii and Cattleya citrina.

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THE TEMPLE SHOW.

Orchids
invariably

form

one

of the

features

of

the

great

Annual

Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society in the Temple Gardens, and at the ninth of the series, held on May 19th and two following days, the

was about up to the average in point of numbers, though there was little in the way of novelty, and the absence of the sterling group contributed by Baron Schroder on former occasions was very noticeable. In the
display

following report

we have endeavoured

to give the

more important

features

of the different groups, omitting for the

most part ordinary forms

of the

showier species, which are invariably represented in quantity at this season. The group staged by the President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., wasthe finest yet contributed by him, both in extent and variety, and the material

was most
and was
species

arranged by Mr. White, so that even the plants were seen to advantage. It occupied a space of about 30ft.
full

effectively

smallest
frontage,

of interest from one end to the other,

as the

common

showy

numbers and in well-grown examples of their respective kinds. Among the more noteworthy plants were a splendid specimen of Epidendrum Stamfordianum, E. Mooreanum,
represented
in

were

only

limited

E. E.

X elegantulum, the x O'Brienanum, E.

miniature E. organense (Rolfe), a fine specimen vitellinum, E. atropurpureum Randii, a fine pan

of

of

Macodes
coriacea,

Petola, Cochlioda Ncetzliana,

flowered clump of the dwarf

X Mundyana, a wellM. Wendlandiana, M. X glaphyrantha, M.

Masdevallia

M. rosea with twenty flowers, and various others; Cattleya Walkeriana with eight flowers, C. X Parthenia, and other showy species, the brilliant Lamo-cattleya X Phcebe, Oncidium luteum, O. olivaceum Lawrenceanum, O. Kramerianum, some superb O. Marshallianum, Eria
ornata, Microstylis Scottii

and M. macrochila, Maxillaria Sanderiana and M. Houtteana, Megaclinum triste and M. Imschootianum, Stenoglottis

Octomeria diaphana, the remarkable Bulbophyllum barbigerum, Pleurothallis ornata, the charming welllittle Saccolabium miniatum, a flowered Phalamopsis Lueddemanniana, P. Aphrodite, Dendrobiutn Bensonae and D. revolutum, Miltonia X Bleuana nobilior, Orchis latifolia, Ccelogyne odoratissima, fine examples of Anguloa Ruckeri and Dendrobium Bensonae, D. revolutum, D. x polyphlebium, Cypripedium X barbatobellmum, a densely spotted Odontoglossum X Andersonianum, fine forms of O. X excellens, and good representatives of most of the showy things
seen in other groups.
Altogether,
it

longrfolia,

was

a magnificent group, and richly

deserved the Gold Medal awarded to it. H. S. Leon, Esq., M.P., Bletchley Park hne group, to which a Silver

(gr.

Mr. Hislop), staged a very

contained some
excellent
Schiller-

Cup was

given.

examples of Cattleya Lawrenceana, C. Skinneri, C. Aclandia:, C.

It

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iana,

189

C.

Mossiae, Ladia purpurata, Brassia verrucosa,

Cypripedium Rothschildianuui with three fine Diacrium bicornutum, Odontoglossum L'roskinneri,

Oncidium concolor. spikes and ten flowers,

O.

maculutum.

Angraecum sesquipedale, Yanda suavis, vSx. A First-class Certificate waawarded to a large and richly coloured Cattleva Lueddemanniana Ernstii,
the
lip

being brilliantly marbled.

Sir F.
Silver

Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen

for a

(gr.

Mr. Young), also received a

Cup

very beautiful group, containing Cattleva Schilleriana, C.

fine

Lawrenceana, some
alba,

C. Mossiae, C. Mendelii, C. Skinneri and C. S.

C.

Cymbidium

Parishii,

Lowianum and
little

C.

L.

concolor.

I. alia

purpurata,

L. grandis.

and L. Digbvana. Cypripedium

Wiganianum.

Sobralia macrantha Kienastiana, the rare

bicolor.
a line
CvT.

Eria extinrtoria, Ltptotes

Masdevallia ignea

Kichardti. Milt. una vexillaria. Odonto.

glossums,
Lffilia

Awartls of Merit were given to Cattleya

Mo--!
a

purpurata Arthur Wigan, and Oncidium varicosum giganteum. and

Hotaiik-al Certilieate to

Epidendrum hastatum.

\V. S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, Dorkingfgr. Mr. Masterton), also staged

agood group,

to which a Silver

Cup was

given.

It

consisted largely of well-

grown Odontoglossum crispum, with O. X Coradinei, O. cordatum. O. polyxanthum, Cochlioda XceUliana, Oncidium Marshallianum. Miltonia vexillaria. Cypripedium bellatulum, and a seedling Epidendrum from E.
xanthinum S and E. radicans 3 a form of E. X dellense. A fine form of Odontoglossum crispum called Miss Victoria Ellis, white with a few spots on each segment, received an Award ol Merit. G. Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford igr. Mr. Davis), received a J.
Silver-gilt

Flora

Medal

for

an

effective

group, containing Cypripedium

bellatulum album with two flowers, C. Lawrenceanum

Hyeanum.

a light

and dark form of Denbrobium Phalamopsis, Oncidium monachicum. O. olivaceum, O. Lanceanum, Thunia Marshalliana, Denbrobium pulchellum, Miltonia Roezlii alba, Epidendrum Wallisii, and other showy species. Major Joicey. Sunningdale Park. Berks (gr. Mr. Thome), also received were many good a Silver-gilt Flora Medal for a good group, in which
Clouv-ii and Miltonia vexillaria, with Dendrobium atroviolaceum, Anguloa Cypripedium A. Ruckeri. Oncidium ampliatum majus, O. Marshallianum. Randii. Stonei, C. Curtisii, Epidendrum atropurpureum bellatulum. C.
Lselia cinnabarina,

Cymbidium Lowianum, Odontoglossum s. &c

Syon House. Brentford (gr. Mr. Wyethes), received a Earl containing Yanda Flora Medal for another effective group, Silver-gilt Dendrobium moschatum, D. thyrsiflorum, D. Bensona:, Oncidium teres, others, Lxlia Aerides odoratum, Odontoglossum Hallii, and sphacelatum, arranged with Cattleyas, and other showy things, tastefully purpurata,
Percy,

maiden-hair ferns.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

J.

H.

Rolls,

Esq.,

Bournemouth,

(gr.

Mr.

Purseglove),

received

Silver Flora

Medal

for a pretty group,

containing Ladia majalis,

Cattleya

Schilleriana, C. Mossise,

and various other showy species.

Hill,

M.

S.

Cooke, Esq., Kingston

received a Silver Banksian Medal

for a neat group, containing

Cypripedium

Cochlioda sanguinea and C. vulcanica, a good Rothschildianum, C. Chamberlainianum, Dendrobium

Oncidium olivaceum, Odontoglossum triumphans, O. X baphicanthum, a good Cattleya Schilleriana, and other showy species. M. Jules Hye-Leysen, Gand (gr. M. Cocne), staged a few fine things,
including a fine Odontoglossum
Pescatorei,

Devonianum,

Brassia verrucosa,

X Ruckerianum

splendens, O. crispum, 0.

and two

others,

were

Miltonia vexillaria

which each received an Award of Merit. These Coeneana, a fine rose-pink form, and Odontowith
sixteen
flowers,

glossum

Horsmanii

exhibited

as

0.

C. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming (gr. Mr. Bond), received an Award of Merit for a fine light form of Cattleya Mossia, called Chas.

Ingram.
G.

W.

Law-Schofield, Esq.,

New

Hall Hay, Rawtenstall

(gr.

Mr.

Hill),

sent a pretty hybrid Cypripedium from C. Curtisii ? and C. niveum 3, called C. X Cowleyanum Anna Louise, which received an Award of Merit.

Swinburne, Esq., Corndean Hall, Winchcombe, received an Award of Merit for Cypripedium X Corndeani, whose history is given at page zi 5 of our last volume. It is a large and striking form, and now proves to be a form of C. x gigas (C. Lawrenceanum 9 X C. X Harrisianum ?)

T.

W.

Cultural

Commendation was given

six spikes

to a well-grown plant of Odontocollection

glossum crispum with (gr. Mr. Blair).

from the Duke of Sutherland's

T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield

(gr.

Mr. Johnson) sent a

fine

Cypripedium X

Gertrude Hollington and the pretty Cattleva Mendelii

lip.

leucoglossa with blush sepals and petals and a white

M.

Moens, Lede, Belgium, sent Cypripedium X Baptisti. Mr. Botelbeerge, Melle, Gand, sent a fine Odontoglossum polyxanthum. R. Ashworth, Esq., Ashlands, Newchurch, near Manchester, sent a good
J.

Dendrobium

nobile.

trade collections, as usual, contributed largely to the display, and were generally good, though in some cases a little less crowding would have

The

been an improvement. Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, staged a large and magnificent group to which a Gold Medal was given. It contained a large specimen ot Lcelogyne Dayana, some good Dendrobium superbum giganteum, Dthyrsmorum, D. carinatum, D. dixanthum, D. Hildebrand.i, the pretty

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Habenaria rhodochila, Cochlioda Xcetzliana. Stenoglottis
rutidobulbon,

u>i

longifolia, Eriopsis

Oncidium unicorne, 0. varicosum Rogersii, 0. pulchellum, 0. cornigerum, Epidendrum ionosmum, the handsome Sobralia X Amesiae, S. macrantha Kienastiana, Cattleya Schilli -nana.

Lueddemannia

triloba,

C.

Philo, C. Skinned, a few fine C.

Mossiae, La;lia purpurata,

Laelio-

cattleya

D. S. Brown, E.-c.

Schilleriana,
in

and various other showy Orchids

Odontoglossum Pescatorei well-grown specimens of good varieties.

received
a

The

rare

and interesting

little

Meiracyllium gemma-

Botanical

Certificate.

The group staged by Messrs. Hugh Low &

rich
fine

Co., Clapton,

was

very

and

effective one,

and was awarded a

Silver

Cup.

It

contained some

Phalamopses, including P.

leucorrhoda and P.

intermedia,

teres,

Cymbidium X eburneo-Lowianum, Oncidium

Papilio.

Vanda 0. phyma-

tochilum, O. monachicum, Odontoglossum Harryanum, O. Pescatorei, and

others,

CypripediumX Gertrude Hollington, C. bellatnlum. C. liirsutissimum, X Drurio-Hookerae, Lselia tcnebrosa, a C. Lawrenceanum, C. tonsum, A Firstfine pan of Macodes Petola, and various other showy Orchids. class Certificate was given to Cattleya Mossiae Arnoldiana, a large lightcoloured form, with a band of pink down the petals and an Award of Merit to Odontoglossum crispum Lowia;, a prettily-spotted form allied to

O.

c.

Capartianum.

Messrs. Charlesworth

&

Co., Heaton, Bradford, also received a Silver

which were some very fine Cattleyas Mossiae and Schroedene, Laelia purpurata, Oncidium Marshallianum, 0. superbiens, O. concolor, and O. cornigerum, Odontoglossum crispum, and others; the rare and pretty Vanda X Charlesworthii, Epidendrum vitellinum, Lfelia

Cup

for a fine group, in

tenebrosa, Cirrhopetalum picturatum, Selenipedium X nitidissimum, &c. Messrs. Backhouse & Son, York, also received a Silver Cup for a group
of Orchids and other things arranged in rustic fashion.
fine
It

contained some

Odontoglossum crispum and

others,

Cypripedium Regime. C. Calceolus,

and others.

fine

group exhibited by Mr. James Cypher, Cheltenham, received a

Flora

Silver-gilt

Medal.

It

contained a finely-flowered

plant

of

the

beautiful

Dendrobium

Loddigesii,

some very good

Lselia

purpurata,

Oncidium concolor, O. monachicum, O. olivaceum, Odontoglossum ramoCattleya sissimum, Epidendrum radicans, and E. X O'Brienianum, grande, Miltonia Aclandia:, C. intermedia, and others, Selenipedium X
vexillaria, &c.

Messrs. B. S. Williams

&

Son, Upper Holloway, also staged a fine

interesting plants group, and received a Silver-gilt Flora Medal. Among may be mentioned Pescatorea Roezlii, Promenaea microptera, Ornithobicolor, Brassavola cephalus grandiflorus, Trichopilia coccinea, Leptotes

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Cochlioda
Ncetzliana,

Perrinii,

Vandas

tricolor

and

sauvis,

moschatum, Laelia cinnabarina, Cattleya Wilckeanum, and other showy things.

Messrs.

citrina,

Odontoglossum X

W.

L.

Lewis

&

Co., Southgate, received a

Silver Banksian
bellatulum

Medal

for a fine group,

containing a nice lot of Cypripedium

and C. niveum, C. X Lawre-venustum, C. X southgatense, and others, Oncidium sarcodes, O. hastatum, Odontoglossum citrosmum, some good
Lajlia purpurata, Cattleya Mossiie, Certificate was given to Lielia

and other showy things.

First-class

purpurata Lewisii, a beautiful

nearly white

form, whose only colour was some faint purple radiating streaks on the lip. Messrs. Linden, L'Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, sent a few

good

Orchids,

including

Odontoglossum

Pescatorei,

fine

0.

Ruckerianum, Cattleya Mossise Reineckeana, and the curious Gongora portentosa. A First-class Certificate was given to Odontoglossum crispum augusturn, one of the darkest forms yet seen. The segments were white at
the margins, but the disc of each
blotch.
It

was occupied by one

irregular purple

was erroneously

labelled as a natural hybrid.

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Habenaria S

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Novelties

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Diacrium bicornutum Cypripedium Dayanum

n

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nigritum

206 206
'97

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..

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NOTES.
Two
Hall,

REVIEW.

meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society

will

be held at the Drill

James' Street, Westminster, during July, on the 14th and 28th

respectively,
12 o'clock

when the Orchid Committee

will

meet

at the usual

hour of

noon.

very pretty form of Cattleya Mossia has flowered in the collection of

W.

Horton-Smith, Esq., of Northwich, out of a number of plants imported

It is

last year. in front

much

like the variety

Reineckeana, except that the veinings

of the

lip

are slaty blue in colour, and somewhat suffused.

Some good

forms of Lalia tenebrosa are sent from the collection of

M'Millan, Esq., of Maghull, near Liverpool, together with a very pretty form of Odontoglossum Pescatorei, much like the variety ornatum,
S.
in

W.

which there

is

a triangular purple blotch on the front lobe of the

lip.

Several very pretty forms of Odontoglossum crispum have been received from the collection of Hugh Steven, Esq., of Kelvinside, near Glasgow.

They

include the pure white O.

lip,

c.

virginale

a second with several minute

;

spots on the

and a very few

similar ones on the other segments

;

a third

a fourth with very with a few large blotches confined to the sepals and lip and a fifth large flower, and broad, very undulate, unspotted segments with unusually long segments, measuring five inches from the tip of the dorsal sepal to that of the lateral ones. All of them show evidence of
;

excellent culture.

Others from the same collection are O. Hallii with narrow segments a form of O. X mulus, and O. X acuminatissimum, Rchb. f., a rare and A interesting hybrid between O. luteopurpureum and O. Lindleyanum.
;

194

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

this

photograph of

and one of the preceding are also enclosed,

together

with a flower of Cattleya Mossia; grandis.

Two

good forms of Laslio-cattleya

Schilleriana

come

from

the
lip

collection of E. A.

Beveis, Esq., of Oxford, one

of which has the

it is

as strongly three-lobed as in L.-c.

elegans,

though

a finely developed
is

form of the first-named.

light

form of Labia tenebrosa

also enclosed.

photograph and flower of a handsome hybrid Masdevallia have been received from the collection of Captain Hincks, of Richmond, Yorks. It was raised from M. ignea Eichardti S and M. coccinea Harryana 3 and
,

thus

is

a fine variety of

M.

Fraseri.

Captain Hincks has been

remark-

ably successful in hybridising this genus, as our pages have testified from time to time.

The June number

photographs
of

of Knowledge

contains
collection

series

of

half-a-dozen
J.

Orchids

from

the

of

the

Right Hon.

Chamberlain, M.P., with a short descriptive paper by Mr. H. A.

Burberry.

The

plants represented

are

Cattleya

Mendelii,

C.

Mossia;

Wageneri,
Miltonia

Cypripedium
vexillaria,

bellatulum,

Dendrobium

formosum

giganteum,

and Oncidium Papilio.

supplementary list of hybrid Orchids, appears in the Gardeners' Chronicle

for

by Mr.
4 th

H.
(p.

J.

Chapman,

April

which, 431), in

however, we note the supposed natural hybrids D. Statterianum, and

Phalffinopsis

Dendrobium
of which

Donnesis,

speciosa,

all

should be

expunged.

recent issue of the Journal paper of the Linnaan Society contains a

entitled, "

An Enumeration

of

all

known Orchids

from hitherto recorded

Borneo," by Mr.
'

13 15). m
of

mostly

H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.S. (XXXI., pp. 261-3A which a new genus and about new species are described, 47
interest.

botanical
is

The former

is

called

Porphyroglottis

Maxwellis, and

allied to

Chrysoglossum.

the (Card. Chron., April nth, p. 45*' re-discovery of the long-lost Ccelogyne Rumphii, Lindl., from Amboina, in the Moluccas, by one of Messrs. Sander's collectors, so that the species may soon be speciosa, expected in cultivation. It is allied to C. Lindl.

The same author announces

fine species of

described and figured

(JtfofcW.

Cameroon district, West by Dr. Kranzlin under the name of Vanilla imperial'*
Vanilla from the
,

Africa,

is

K. Bot. Cart. Berlin, allied 1896, p. i s5 t. 1). It is nearly V. grandiflora, Lindl., from Prince's Island, and has yellow flowers

to

of

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

about
the

IOJ

same

size,
f.,

though

they

are

smaller

than

in

1!

V. Rosscheri,

Rchb.

from East Africa, and the petals

only half

have received from the collection of D. B. Rappart, Esq., of Liscard, a good flower of Cattleya superba, in which the sepals and petals
are distinctly veined with dark purple, through the nerves

We

bong

darkei

than the ground colour.

conMr. Rappart remarks that he growl distinctly siderable number of this Cattleya, but has not seen one so

marked

before.

flower of the large and

handsome Oncidium crispum grandiflorum

J.

has been sent from the collection of

being one out of a raceme of seven.
following year
it

T. Bennett-Poc. Esq., of Cheshunt, In 1894 it was also very fine, but the
if

was allowed

a rest, in order to counteract,

possible, the
11

tendency observed

in this species to

dwindle away.

Two

line plants of

are also flowering in the collection

ofJ.W.

Arkle, Esq., of

West Derby,

thirty-three Bowers. Liverpool, one with twenty-eight and the other with may be seen in the Kew collection, bearing a A really magnificent plant
flowers. massive panicle with seven branches and over sixty large

atropurpureum are also sent from the collection Flowers of Epidendrum fragrant in very handsome species, and is very It is a of J. W. Arkle, Esq.
the morning.

comes from the albino Cattleya superba alba A flower of the charming It ., pure Harefield Hall, Wilmslow. collection of E. Ashworth, Esq., with the yellow on the disc, and agrees white with the exception of a little of our respecting it appears at page 196 A note typical form in structure.
last

volume.

sceptrum good form of Odontoglossum A seven-flowered raceme of a Sttaten, of of M. H. Van der has been received from the collection ' d apex of the up vs h '< e which the Bruges, through Messrs. Sander, in and po w,h brown. The blotches ^ the petals much blotched and spotted
'

leave comparatively small, so as to of the petals are

much

of the yellow

ground showing.

It is

very handsome.

L.verpoo of Maghull, near collection of W. M'Millan, Esq., w.th broa irregularly streaked petals, and lip are al,
It
,

flower of a

from the Mossue has been sen^ rtriking form of Cattleya

.

"<*
nchh

a close, appearance. bands, which give it a very distinct ^er> the front of the hp Cattleya Mendelii, with C. M. Hardyana.

J^fidt

coloured,

is

also enclosed.

196

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A
dark form of Lselia tenebrosa comes from the collection
in

of F. H.
is

Moore, Esq., of Liverpool,

purple-black, so dark
is it.

which the colour

in

the throat

almost

The
our
last

splendid form of Cattleya "Warscewiczii described at page 258

of

volume fetched 14 guineas

at

the recent Arddarroch

sale.

The

plant has

now

eleven pseudobulbs.

Cattleya

Lawre-Mossise, which
157,

received an

Award of Merit on

April 7th last, as recorded at page

fetched ir guineas.

fine

form of Odontoglossum excellens

realised 25

guineas

and the best

varieties of Cattleya Mendelii

went

for 60, 50, 40,

and 30 guineas.
Mr. G. Hansen writes that he is engaged supplement to his work on Hybrid Orchids,
additions published up to October next,
either
in

compiling the second

to

intended

record

all

and would be glad

of any notes

by way of addition or correction of previous records.

The

sources

would be gladly acknowledged.

hybrid Disas noted at page 203 of our second volume are again flowering in great force in the Kew collection, together with D. racemosa and D. tripetaloides. It is remarkable how easily grown and floriferous

The

they are, and as the flowers are so lasting

we

anticipate a great future

for

ANGRiECUM FOURNIERJE.
A fine Angrsecum
Horticole for

from Madagascar
I,

is

figured

and described
(p.

1 in the Rw>>

June

under the above name

256,

with plated, which

Co., St. Albans.
It

flowered in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander

is,

&

however, the plant described a year ago from the same source, as has Angraxum stylosum, Rolfe (Kew Bulletin, p. 194), which name 1895,
therefore the claim of priority.
It is a striking species,

having the

general

habit of a large A. apiculatum,

Hook., with

much

a larger flowers, and

remarkable style-like column, in allusion to which the name was given. bears about four largish leaves on a very short stem, and long pendulous are racemes of white flowers with long curved like the rachis. spurs, which,

brownish

in colour.

though

it is

flowers approach A. Ellisii, Rchb. easily distinguished by the remarkable column.

The

f..

in

size,

R. A. R-

ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM AUGUSTUM.

It
is

said that the beautiful

at

Odontoglossum crispum augustum, which w*

page 192 as having received a First-class Certificate at the recent lemple Show, was exhibited by MM. Dallemagne & Cie, of Kambouillet. and was purchased by M. Jules guineas. Hye, of Ghent, for the sam of joo

noted

THE ORCHID REVIEW,

Various offers were
staged,

197
it

made

for

the specimen as soon as

offered the
first

was unpacked and

for
it

and Mr. Backhouse, of York,

same sum

as

M.

Hye, who, however, had made the

the fortunate possessor.
It
is

offer,

and consequently became

said to he the highest price ever paid for

an Odontoglossum.

DIES ORCHIDIANiE.
Last month
Nomenclature
Gardeners
1

called

attention

to

Mr.

Chamberlain's

article

on the
the

of

Orchids

and some
the

remarks thereon
that

made by
said

Chronicle,

and

note with satisfaction

Gardeners'

the

article

has also been reprinted

in

ifagaxiiu

Mr. Hurst also has given us an admirable article

(p.

(May 30, p. 357). on the same question

165),

and

cannot

help

thinking

that

the

publicity thus given to

the question will be the means of effecting a

much needed improvement

indeed,

think signs of

it

are already visible.

The Orchid Committee

blamed
for

of the Royal Horticultural Society has been

good deal of the confusion against which so strong a protest has been made, chiefly because of its failure to carry out its own rules and to this point I have several times called attention and I therefore note with satisfaction that at a recent meeting the Committee did refuse to recognise an unauthorised name, though at the same time
a

awarding the plant

exhibited as a

Botanical

Certificate.

allude
is

to

the

plant

new Pogonia on June

9th.

This case
be

fully

provided

for in the Society's rules.

"An award

should

made

to

any plant

that

is

considered
it

though

by the Committee worthy of such distinction, even be unnamed, or not named in accordance with preceding

by regulations, provided that, within a reasonable time, to be determined the Committee, a proper name be given. The certificate of an award made detailed in this paragraph should be

under

the

circumstances

was withheld until the plant has been properly named." A similar award made to a supposed new Batemannia on the same date under sim.lar they conditions, both the plants being referred to Kew, where I believe have since been named, and the conditions thus having been complied names. with, the of course, be issued with the proper
certificates will,

This

is

a very good beginning, and

hope the

the

Committee
done
so
old

will

invariably carry

out

the

rule

in

future.

Had

they

earlier

they would have

avoided

the absurdity of certificating the

the

Bletia

catenulata the

original species in
I

genus under

the

new name

of

B. Watsoniana, to which

alluded at p. 298 of our second volume.

large

number

of Botanical Certificates have been awarded of these

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late,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

and the award
is

Gardeners' Chronicle

(p.

sometimes considered a rather dubious one. The 614) remarks : " When a plant comes before the
Committee,
the
object
in
is

Orchid or the Floral

botanical
history,

not to

illustrate

its

but to ascertain
is,

whether,
or
is

the

judgment

of that

Committee, the particular plant

for cultural or

not,
it

worthy of commendation
not,
it

decorative
!

purposes.

If

is

may
is

still

get

Botanical Certificate

a distiction which the Committee

not competent
for the award.

to give, because unable for the

most part to assign a reason

A
is

Botanical Certificate should take precedence of all, but in practice it the least regarded." I had hardly looked on the question in this light

before.

Fancy

Sir

Trevor
a

Lawrence's

charming
to

little

Saccolabium
Committee's

miniatum
purposes

receiving
it

Botanical

Certificate

mark the

opinion that
!

is

not worthy of

commendation

for cultural or decorative

as a
is

My own

impression

is

that these certificates are intended

sort of consolation prize, to indicate that the particular plant exhibited

very pretty or possesses some very interesting feature, but is hardly worthy of general culture for decorative purposes. Such plants are often called " Botanical Orchids," and the term is pretty well understood.
I

also read the article

on

"Supposed Hybrid Orchids, by

Major-

General Berkeley, at page 167, and the editorial note thereon, with interest, for 1 have never been able to understand why some of our compilers take such delight in raking up every worthless record, long after they have become exploded fallacies, and incorporating them with well ascertained facts, as if of equal value. Several such compilations would have been vastly improved by a severe before going to the
editing
printer.

As

it

is

errors are copied from

regularity,

and

like

work to work with exasperating the every-increasing number of " provisional names,"

are only

have had a very bad outbreak of the Cattleya Fly, but I hope that the attention it has received will lead to its speedy extermination, note that one or two correspondents experience a similar difficulty to that which George the Third is said to have felt about the dumplings-namely, to account for how the apples got inside, for they cannot imagine how the grubs get inside. However, they do get inside somehow, and I think the
to
easiest

We

seem

way
of

to prevent that

is

to

kill all

the

flics

directly they

come

out.

None
so
I

Cattleya

correspondents have sent must conclude that the difficulty

my

me

Cattle)* the essay on the blue

" on a of writing an essay

it

which

is

not blue

is

a task beyond their powers, as

is

beyond

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99

THE CATTLEYA
I

FLY.
will

have

sent you another growth of Cattleya labiata, on which you

m
of

that after a pseudobulb

had been cut two eyes came away from it. one 1 have pierced with a needle and it has decayed, the other is a well rooted
eye with the
fly

inside.

In

my
Of

opinion cutting out

is

the best

way

keeping the monster down.

course, the plants are greatly weakened,

I

and some

will

not show any eye after being cut too often.

is

plants together very dry in pots, but the stage

well

during the day, and

also use very

little

shading.

damped You will

several times see

how

fine

see in the last issue of the Orchii Review that " Wellington

how the grub

gets in the young bulbs.

I,

for myself,

believe thai

whan

grown too soft the marrow of the eye brings the pest, as I cannot see after I have had a good all I have had in hand how it can be any other way. look out for the pest this season, and since January have not seen a
developed
I

fly.

remember that

in

1882

we

received Cattleya

Dowiana from San

Jose,

Costa Rica, with eyes exactly the same as those you have before you. not having done any good. Fred. Roeslis.

Tynemouth.
[The specimen sent shows two arrested growths about an inch long, The base of these from the base of an old pseudobulb with seven roots.
growths was much swollen.

One was decaying

(as the

result of being

pierced with a needle), but on splitting the other longitudinally a cavity about a quarter-of-an-inch long was found in the centre, close to the base,

containing three white grubs,

all in

the pupa stage.

The shape
in a

of the

fly

was

clearly defined,
flies

and the eyes, legs,

&c

clearly visible

under the lens,

very short

so that the time.

might have changed

to black

and come out

stage. long the insect remains in the pupa do not yet know how Some of our correspondents do not understand how the grubs get inside the pointed growth, as they cannot find the opening, but, as we have already out, the explanation is very simple. The insect is one of the gall-makers, with and lays its eggs inside the young tissues of the plant, which it pierces only a its ovipositor for the purpose. The opening is so minute that doubt, microscope would show the opening at the time, and the tissue, no young heals completely in a short time. The eggs quickly hatch, and the to grubs feed upon the tissues for a certain time, after which they change lays pupa;, and then to the perfect insect, which cuts its way out, and soon s eggs as before. The flies seen by our correspondent in January may have laid the eggs of the pups now sent, and as these might have emerged

We

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in a

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

very short time there
is

may
as

be two broods of insects in the

see cleared are up.

year, and

this

a point

we should
alert,

like to
if flies if

Our

correspondents
be

should

now

be on the

now coming

out they should

out that

prevented from laying more eggs

not a question of culture, as the

possible.

We

must point

it is

fly

would continue to thrive on

the best

grown plants

if

not exterminated. Ed.]

My

experiments on the Cattleya

fly

took, a

week ago,
I

a rather unlooked

for finish, in so far that I killed the insects before

really

had

finished

my

experiments.

Tepid water had, I found, no effect on them, but cold syringed on them prostrated them considerably. They seemed easily destroyed by introducing a lighted candle (Price's night lights) place where they are. I had them in a large glass case, and put into
evening one of these candles standing idea of mine) the following morning
;

water
to be
to the
it

one

in
I

a basin of water (not an

all

original

found them

dead
is

in the water.
I

Like most insects they seem to fly towards any light that think this process would be a cheaper

near them.

and

also safer

remedy than

repeated

smoking.

D. R. Kappart.
I

think that the

in
I

Dendrobium

beetle

comes
m>

immersed
insect than

water, but, of course, there

have seen. Promenade,

Liscard, Cheshire.

OBITUARY.

We

regret to hear of the death of Mr.

Bruce Findlay, Curator

of the

Manchester Royal Botanical Gardens, which took place at his residence, at Old Trafford, on June 16th, at the age of 61 years. Mr. Findlay was appointed Curator in 1858, having previously passed some time in Messrs.
Rollisson's

Nurseries, at

the Royal Gardens,

Kew, and and

afterwards

as

foreman

aS the Botanic Gardens of Hull In 1875 he " and Sheffield. appointed Secretary of the Manchester Horticultural Society, Botanical

at

and

his

work
in

in

connection

with

the

great

Whitsuntide

Show

at

which Orchids form so important a feature, is well known. In t88i he was presented with a testimonial, consisting of an address with a gold watch and chain, with a cheque for 1 000. Mr. Findlay been in failing health for He was some time from an internal complaint. interred at Stratford Cemetery on June 19th

Manchester,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

ioi

AN AMATEUR'S NOTES.
Last month
there
is
1

neglected to put

my
C.

notes together until too

off in the

late,

and now
in
I".

already an appreciable falling

number of showy things

are

flower.

Cattleya

Mossise and

Mendelii

being replaced

b\

Gaskelliana and C.

Warned, both

very beautiful, though the latter appears

is

to be comparatively rare.

C. Aclandiae

also flowering well,

and

i>

handsome little plant. Lselia purpurata is also being replaced by the handsome L. tenebrosa, which is now common. There is a good deal of
variation
in

the depth of colour of the flowers, but the beautiful yellow

rare.

forms
on

still

remain

Dendrobiums

are

now

largely

over,
is

but
l

the

beautiful
in

D. Falconeri forms an exception, and D. Phahenopsis

oniing

increased numbers; at a time

when

it

is

very useful.
I>.

1).

Ebrmosom,

of course, is

a few

now flowering others, among which

is

splendidly, together with

chrysotoxuin and

the pretty

little I).

Jenkinsii must be included.

plant just

Coelogyne Schilleriana
Well,

another handsome

little

now
lip

flowering

together with C. Massangeana.

its

The remarkable Nanodes Medusa;, with

purple colour,
beside
it

deeply fringed
in

and

lurid

is

now one

of the most interesting objects

the house, and

are several plants of

spikes,

Epidendrum

vitellinum bearing

many

of

its

handsome

flowers well at

and E. atropurpureum. this season, and remains

is

Calanthe
in

X Dominii

invariably

perfection for several weeks.

A good
as the

plant with several strong spikes

a

a really striking object,

It is

and

it is

one of the easiest to grow into

first

good specimen.

further interesting

of artificial hybrids.

Broughtonia sanguinea, Anguloa Clowesii,

and Vanda suavis are also flowering freely. M. Miltonia vexillaria is still making a good show, together with include, Phalasnopsis. Odontoglossums, too, are well represented, and

among
and O.

others, various forms of O. crispum, O. maculatum, O.

cordatum,
its
i

Coradinei.

Oncidium crispum

is

now

at its best,

and

great

panicles of rich

brown

flowers are very effective.

0.

Laneeannm

flowering well,
Fieldingii

and

Aerides of the smaller yellow and two or three drooping are now bearing their long Rhynchostylis retusa
called has led to the former be.ng which handsome Phaius Humblotii is also flowering
S. oculata,

spikes, resembling a fox's brush,

the Fox-brush Aerides.

well in the
S. Wardii,

The

warm

inodora, house, together with Stanhopea

and

which are very handsome while they last. mentioned C. superb.ens, Stone. Among Cypripediums may be several Lawrenceanum, barbatum, and Curtisii, Parishii, Volonteanum, does not by hybrids, as among those making the best show. The above any means exhaust the list of Orchids in flower, but includes the majority
of those which are most conspicuous at the present time.

Amateur.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT ON ORCHIDS.

The
the

following article appeared in the Daily Mail for title " Most Rare: Flowers that cost lives

May
to

6th

last, under

secure,"

and

is

sufficiently

amusing

for reproduction in

our pages.

It

might have appealed

under the title" The

Romance
it,

of Orchidology."

When

you think of

it

is

strange that the Orchid should find so many

admirers, and be raised by them on a pedestal high above every other flower that grows. It is curiously shaped, true, and its petals are richly hued, but it gives forth no sweet perfume, for when it is not scentless its

odour

is

unpleasant.
all

Still,

the fact remains, the Orchid

is

the rarest and

exist

most valuable of

flowers.

There are some

varieties, even, that

only in tradition, and have been seen only by savages in the dense forests where they grow.

tropical

Yet so great
flowers

is

the pecuniary reward

are continually risking

for

these rare and wonderful

their
lives
is

that

men

and losing

in the
fever-

attempt to obtain the plants which produce them. haunted jungles that the most prized

For

it

in

and

rarest

Orchids are

to be found.
their

Another thing that makes these rare bulbs worth many times
weight
in gold is that

after

the Orchid hunter has returned triumphant,

perhaps dying, to the coast, the bulbs must be watched and tended unremittingly on the long voyage home, and even then they may die before they have produced more than a single flower, or even none at all. The rarest of all the varieties of Orchids are the blue ones, and the list
of these

when those which exist only in the tales of Orchid hunters are taken into account. One kind, the blue Calanthe, is said to grow in Burmah. The variety has been much sought after, but
without success, as the country
tigers
in

is

short indeed, even

which

it

grows

literally

swarms

with

and robbers.
single

specimen of the blue and white Cypripedium is known to have reached England, but it has not yet flowered. It was found in Western Borneo, by a hunter named Ericcson.
In searching for this flower

deep

kneediscoverer for days followed a path mud, through a swamp, and at night slept standing, proPP*
its
it

agamst a tree. When he reached the coast with his treasure some months to recuperate, and the last heard of him was again plunged into the unknown
in

took him

had that he varieties

>

search

of other rare

Orchids.

In the Solomon gr* s Islands is the home of a species of Orchid, which there in every hue. But there cannibalism is still all but uncheckedOrchid hunters who have ventured there aver that the natives when they offer human the* sacrifices to their gods garlands of load the victims with

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

gorgeous blossoms.
these flowers
still

Until spear or knife or flame ends the victim's

their colours

life
li.-i

hang or twine about him,

Ins spurting blood.

u'roume.

and deeper hued with

It

Another valuable species only reached civilisation less than a year ago. grows somewhere in the Western part of Mexico, exactly where the

Indians, from

whom

the specimens were obtained, will not

It

tell,

for

th.v

regard the flower as sacred.

took two years and a vast ainouni

it.

and diplomac)

to bribe these Indians to part with seven bulbs of

There are many other would give any price for.

rare varieties

which a score of

rich

There died about a year ago a famous Orchid hunter

But before he died he told of a wonderful Orchid which
Brazil,

nani-'d b'osterman.
In

said

edited

in

and which

it

had been the ambition of

his

life

to secure.

Landing on the coast of Brazil, a few degrees south of the equator, he met a native chief, who told him of a "village of the demon Sowers" to tinwestward. Further questioning convinced him that the "demon Bowers"
were Orchids of the rarest and most wonderful kind, so he decided to find this " village " at any cost. The chief warned him, vowing that to approach the flowers was certain death, but it only served to make the Orchid hunter
the more determined.

He had

travelled through forests about six weeks,

and was calculating that in a fortnight more he should be in the neighbourhood of the "village of the demon flowers," when, one afternoon, three of the his forward guards threw up their arms, and with a cry fell senseless to
the heavy, noticed a peculiar sickening odour pervading advance with heated air, and quickly gave the order for the other men to they lay. caution and drag back the three fallen ones from the spot where They did so, and returning, reported that they had seen through the forest,

ground.

He had

little

further on, the vast " village of the

demon

flowers."

started Portuguese interpreter.the Orchid seeker Accompanied only by his

aga.nst 'he awful forward, their mouths and noses muffled as a safeguard men had beer the spot where the three odour. They managed to reach could see a hundred yards

down, but could go no further. They anc Orchids. Trees, undergrowth, ahead of them a great mass of brilliant than They were ol thing were loaded down with them. <lrv unci that he was, any Fosterman, experienced collector
stricken

overpowering of awful, sickening, of seeing. But, like a barrier, the wall that ,f they little way, knowmg odour rose between. The two retired a could reach those flowers their fortunes would be made. have been a brilliant orchids might But it was of no avail. The mass of them was concerned. The mirage painted on the clouds, so far as reaching
"village"
circuit of

was perhaps
it,

an acre in extent,

and the twe-made^a complete

At
last,

but everywhere

awful odour.

almost cryi

204

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

it

with the bitterness of his disappointment, Fosterman gave

up and

returned

with his companion to the rest of his party.

The odour was simply

curious fact that, though

the perfume of this vast mass of Orchids.

It

is

many Orchids

are almost scentless, the handsomest

millions of

ones have a most unbearable smell.

in

When

them

arc

collected

a small space this stench, as can easily be imagined, becomes

simply

intolerable

and

is literally fatal

when long

inhaled.

Returning to London, Fosterman told this wondrous tale to someofthe rich Orchid collectors, and an expedition was organised to go in search of

it.

Fosterman was

ill

and could not

go.

The

expedition found the exact

spot,

but they gave up in despair of ever being able to more than feast their eyes upon the flowers through their field glasses. And there, somewhere in the

depths of the vast tropic forest, they remain to this day.

HOMALOPETALUM JAMAICENSE.
A vkkv remarkable new genus
last

of Orchid

is

figured and described

in the

number of Hooker's lames Plantarum (t. 2461), under the name of Homalopetalum jamaicense, Rolfe. It was found growing sparingly on the
Mountains, Jamaica, at 4,000 to 5,000
feet

trunks of trees in the Blue

elevation,

by Mr. W. Harris. It is a plant of very dwarf habit, and, except having creeping rhizomes, closely resembles the Brazilian Pin*

hypoleta, Lindl.
six perianth

The

flowers, however, are very different in structure,

the

segments being nearly alike in shape, and the anther and The pollinia almost as in Tetramicra, next to which it must be placed.
great peculiarity of the plant
is

that the staminodes are not united

lip,

to the

median

petal,

forming the side lobes of the

pair but consist of a

which falcate-oblong erect auricles or teeth at the base of the column, to they are partially united. Thus the median petal is not modified into lip, as is usually the case in this order, but is like the lateral petals, i

allusion to

which the generic name

is

given.

that Gardeners' Chronicle, in alluding to this plant 70S), remarks (p. " whether the staminodes as " ever enter into the composition of the lip. stated, is a matter for further enquiry," which suggests a doubt in the writers mind as to whether the side lobes at allof the lip are petaloid staminodes

The

home

actually reverted to perfect stamens * stamens, thus giving three perfect the top of a straight column. In every such case the side lobes of the were absent, and the median shape, colour, petal was like the lateral ones in and texture. Had the two and the UP additional stamens been present

on this point are given at pages 364 to 367 of the last and examples were given of flowers in wind, the side lobes of the
details

volume,
lip

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

remained normal
it

,05
stair

would have shown

that the additional

reversions of petaloid staminodes of the outer stamina] whorl, bat of the inner whorl that is of the two staminodes which form the wings or. teeth
;

of the column.

But a

careful examination

proved that they belonged to

the former.

In short, these organs had reverted to an ancestral condition, and, of course, could not do duty as staminodes at the same tune. It w.ialso

shown that the normal stamen may occasionally become

petaloid as an

abnormal condition.
Darwin, in a chapter on the " Homologies of the Flowers f Orchids
in his Fertilisation of Orchitis "

has shown

how
lip

in

many Orchids

he traced the

vascular bundes of the side lobes of the

ateral

to the cords

which supply the

.11

stamens (not to the one from which the middle lohc they occupy precisely the position of the lateral stamens .f the
.

outei whorl
ilogous with

of a

lily

or other monocotyledon, proving that they are

In

them, but modified into petaloid staminodes.

labellum
is

Darwin obsei

formed of one

petal, with

whorl, likewise completely confluent.

two petaloid stamens of the outer I may remark, as making this fact
tin

more probable, that

in the allied Marantacca.

stamens, even the

fertile

stamens, are often petaloid, and partially cohere.

of the labellum explains
especially the
its

This view of the nature

large size,

its

frequently tripartite form, and

that

other petals."

manner of its coherence to the column, unlike The above facts leave little room for doubt as
It

of the

to the origin

of the organs in question. of the

lip,

may

further be pointed out that

the wings

column are sometimes as but no one doubts that they

lily

truly petaloid as the

side lobes of the

with the stamens of

are staminodes, and pefectly homologous Cypripedtum. or with the lateral stamens of the inner

whorl of a

or other monocotyledon.

DIACRIUM BICORNUTUM.
An
interesting note respecting this beautiful Orchid
is

given by Mr. \\

E.

Broadway, of Grenada, in the Gardeners- Chronicle for May 2nd "On boulders and bare stumps, which would otherwise be bare and unsightly objects about the Botanic Garden and the Government House Grounds, clumps of this most lovelv Virgin Mary Orchid have been planted, and are now in full blossom (March 23th, 1S90I. The pure white flowers
delightful and column-base, fill the air with a aroma, and these, massed together in profuse numbers, form a very effective We have a ght, glistening in the sun as though covered with frost.

with dotted and streaked

lip

specimen which

differs

somewhat from the ordinary white

in this respect,

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that
its

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

flowers are purple-tinted,

and the

lip

divisions narrower.

The

flower stems are dark-coloured throughout, and, in consequence, show up the white bracts distinctly, and thus it resembles D. indivisum. In the other the peduncles are green. The sheathing leaf base has purple lines, the white form green ones. D. indivisum, growing beside its ally, presents a miserable comparison its puny white flowers are quickly
;

followed by seed-pods.

D. bicornutum

is

a feature of Government House

its

Grounds during the early months of the year, when large numbers."

flowers expand

in

CYPRIPEDIUMS NIGRITUM, VIRENS, AND DAYANUM.

Some
very interesting information has

come

to light

respecting these

three

species.

history of C. nigritum was given at page 79, and shortly afterwards it also flowered in the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, out of a batch of imported purchased

The

Bornean Cypripediums
C.

from Messrs.

Hugh Low & Co.

And now both

Dayanum and

C.

virens

have flowered out of the same

lot,

thus affording evidence, as Mr. Wrigley

very well points out, that the three grow together. The leaves of C. mgntum and C. virens resemble each other so closely as to be almost indistinguishable, and out of flower the two might be gathered as a single spec.es, but those of C. Dayanum are much more strongly tessellated.

nearly allied to the Javan C. iavanicum, and, indeed, is sometimes considered as a geovariety of it. It is, however, a distinct graphical form.

Tottenham.

appeared as a single plant among an importation of Cypripedes from North Borneo. 1858, made by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., whom it was acquired shortly afterwards by the Mr. John Day, of
late
I, is

C.

Dayanum was

discovered on

by Mr. (now Sir Hugh) Low,

nursery- of Messrs.

Mount Kina
sent
it

Borneo, Ball., in north-east

to the
>

who

with some pitcher plants

Hugh Low &

Tottenham, acquired the box containing the entire stock of both. A few of the Lypr.ped.um only survived, and one of them flowered in the summer of i860 It remained very rare in gardens Messrs. Peter
until

Co., at Clapton, from

whom

Mr. Day,

Veitch and F.

W.

1879,
in

when

Burbidge again obtained

it

when the same region,

collecting for Messrs.

The above
to

James Veitch & Sons.

interesting,

hand and, considering how

it

especially in connection with the " f '"i respecting natural hybrids in the genus which has recently come
little is
is

facts are

these plants grow,

advisable to

known of the conditions under place them on record.

which

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

20;

BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW.

One
is

of the most remarkable Orchids

now

flowering

in

the
lip

K.

collection

the South African Bartholina pectinata, which has the

in

broken up into

seventeen or more radiating linear lobes, lilac-purple

colour.
it

Owing
a

to

a fancied resemblance of the lip-segments to the logs of a spider,

called the Spider Orchid.
It is
soil.

has been
single

about four

incites Inch,

and bears
is

cordate leaf close to

the

Masdevallia muscosa

remarkable on

account of

its

mossy peduncles, and the

is

habit of the lip closing up suddenly

when
after

little

tubercle near the base'

touched, but gradually opening again

is

a short time.

The arrangement
and
its effect

evidently connected with the

fertilisation of the flower,

would be to temporarily imprison

M. hieroglyphic.
also
XI. peristeria.

an insect which crawled over the tubercle.

M.

triaristella,
is

M. demissa, and others are

compact
tuft,
is

now

flowering.
its

Xiegacliniom

minutum

completely covered with

curious flattened

racemes; Spathoglottis ixioides

bright yellow flowers.

a dwarf Himalayan species, with pretty

is

Cryptochilus sanguineus
a tube,

remarkable

for

having

the sepals united into

whose colour

is

indicated by the specific

a very graceful and pretty little plant with a XI. aciantha bright crimson lip, and flowers very freely when well grown. has green flowers with remarkably persistent rigid segments. Among
Maxillaria sanguinea
is

Polystachyas

may

be mentioned P. bulbophylloides, exactly

like

small

Bulbophyllum
bracteosa.

in habit,

Cirrhopetalum

P. zambesiaca with yellow-green flowers, and P. gracillimum is an elegant little thing with nearly

crimson flowers, the lateral sepals being very long and narrow. Platyclinis is represented by P. abbreviata and P. longifolia, and Pleurothallis by P.
unistriata, P. rotundifolia.

and others.
lip;

Bifrenaria Charlesworthii

is

a rare

Brazilian

species with
;

hairy

Luisia

cantharis
is

has flowers exactly

resembling a beetle and Erycina echinata very seldom seen in cultivation.

a curious Oncidium-like plant

Among Oncidiums may be mentioned

and O. virgulatum
;

and among Other interesting things are teosum, E. equitans, and E. virgatum. Phalamopsis Esmeralda, Promenasa xanthina, Gomeza planifolia, the pretty
Cola*
jugosus,

O. Harrisonianum, O. urophyllum, Epidendrums the pretty little E. brae

Gongora

gratulabunda,

Pelexia

maculata.

Catasetum

some of Lemosii, Saccolabium longicalcaratum, and various other Orchids,

which are seldom met with
in private collections.
is

We

are glad to find

that more attention

being paid to these so-called

where more attention is We know being paid to them than was formerly the case, and there are so many which are quite more showy brethren, and also as easily their
botanical Orchids.
of several collections

as interesting as

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

as floriferous, besides taking

grown and

up

less space.

They

introduce variety
exhibited by
realise

and those who saw the splendid collection Sir Trevor Lawrence at the Temple Show will be able to
deserving of cultvation
)

into the collection,

how

the

best

of

them

are.

They should

be grown
it
is

good-sized clumps, in order to get the best results, and

only

thus

grown one can form an idea what they are

really capable

of.

A FRAUD IN THE ORCHID TRADE.

the most extensively

cultivated,

is

Odontoglossum

crispum.

every year many thousands of this plant are imported from Colombia for the English market. It is no secret that the most famous type is that of Pacho, and this is becoming more and more scarce, and consequently more
expensive to collect
in its

native habitat.
it

When

it

is

mentioned

that tie
are the
the

Pacho type
procurable

is

in

should be stated that inferior types great abundance other than in the Pacho region. Thus

the most prized,

inferior types

abound
In

at a distance of

two or three days' journey

from

England there are some expert O. crispum growers, who can, as a rule, distinguish the Pacho forms from the worthless forms but even experts are sometimes at a loss to distinguish the legitimate Pacho
;

Pacho

centre.

forms when they are exposed in the market for sale as imported--.... pMj with bulbs devoid of leaves. When experts are puzzled, the ordinarypurchaser at sale-rooms is, of course, easily Forms or types of the

duped.

plants are thus frequently bought that are not worthless forms are in this way acquired, but

worth growing.

Not

only
to

thousands of plants come

England under the pseudonym of O. crispum that turn

being out, after

cultivated for a lengthened time, with attendant expense, not even inferior forms of O. crispum, but O. Lindleyanum, plants that are subsequently

consigned to the rubbish-heap. This year a new departure

&c,

in

up) the O. crispum trade has sprung

scores of thousands are being exported from Colombia. The vast majority ot the plants worst thus obtained come from only the regions whence known types of O. crispum come; amongst then, a large intermixture of O. Lindleyanum, f type- &c. But this is not all. These despised to crispum, &c, are conveyed several days' journey on mules' backs ractio, , order to pack them there, and to label each case with the uam

Facho -"-Criterion,

in Gcinl.

Omm., May

joth, p. 674-

THE ORCHID REVIEW. A GROUP OF HABENARIAS.

Oir
present
illustration

J(>9

shows a pretty little group of Habemriat, reproduced from a photograph taken in the collection of Sir Trevoi Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, by Mr. G. I'Anson, and indicates how
they are when well grown. The upper central figure shows the remarkable H. Susanna, on either side of which stands a plant of the
effective
brilliant

beautiful

H. militaris, while H. a

in

front

are

three
Call

plants of

the equally

grower, has been stood

down behind,

the picture, while the three

latter are also

lowered so that the leaves are omitted.

Knowing the

colours

of these charming little plants our readers can picture to themselves what the group was like in the living state. Habenaria Susann* (Fig. 10) is a well-known Indian species, which has been known ever since the time of Linmeus, who called it Orchis

Susanna.
figured at

on several occasions, and was It has appeared though t. 3374 of the Botanical Maga:
ultivation

zio
that

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

permanent position
in

collections
difficulty

to

which

its
it

beauty

entitles

it,

probably on account of the

resting season.

of bringing

safely through
it

the

If this difficulty
its

can be surmounted
is

ought

to be more
1894,
it

widely cultivated, for

received
a First-class

beauty

undoubted, and

in

August,

Certificate

fnim the Royal

it

Horticultural

Society.

Major-General Berkeley thus speaks of

'*

in

our second volume

(p. 331)

have seen whole beds of it in flower in Moulmcin, and I can only suppose that difficulty of transport prevented collectors from bringing it home. I have met with it both in India and Burmah, and it was
I
.

always a great delight to come across a group of

it.

It

is

found

in very

warm,
stove.

sheltered, moist places.

It is

too soft and succulent a plant

to grow
in the
it

under any other conditions, and should do well in a shady corner

The

flowers are not always pure white,

all

have found

spikes of
It
is

with a dash of green, but widely diffused, being found

in

the

varieties are beautiful."

rather

in

Xorth and South India, South

It

China, and

some

of the

Malay
to

islands.

grows from two

;

to

four feet high, and

it

sometimes bears as
our figure
fails

many
it

as five flowers
justice.

from which

will

be seen

that of

do

full

The remarkable

fringed side lobes

the lip and the long spur are well shown in the illustration. Now that the culture of some of these tropical Habenarias is better understood, hope to meet with it more frequently in collections.

*
*
l

H.

militaris (Fig.

n)

is

a brilliantly-coloured

was species, which

originally discovered in the

mountains of Phu CJuoq,

in

Cambodia,

by

Godefroy Lebeuf.

It

was described by Reichenbach

in 1878, from a

dried

specimen, under the

name

of Habenaria pusilla (Otia Hot. Hamb.,

p. J3
is
it

Very
about

little
its

appears to have bee.i

brilliant

known about

it

then, as nothing

said

colours.

M. A. Regnier afterwards obtained

Cochin China, probably from the mountainous region of Tay-Ninh, and 1886 he sent a living plant in flower who recognised it to Reichenbach, H. pusilla, but considering he re-named
that

name

altogether inappropriate,
lip,

the species H. militaris, in allusion to the brilliant scarlet

soldier's jacket.

resembling"
often

plants here represented are rather dwarf, as it d attains a height of over a few a foot; but it will be observed that only the lower flowers are expanded. It is too well known to require fur*' description, but we may add that in October, 1893, Sir Trevor Lawren was awarded a Silver Flora two feet Medal for a fine pan of it, over diameter, containing a method of caW number of very The
fine plants.

The

so successfully practised by Mr. White was given (PP- 83-85), to which we refer our readers for

in

full in

our

first

voW

details.

H. carnea
rocks,
there.

(Fig.

2 ) i s a native of P(;raki

where

it

and was sent home by Mr. C. H. Curtis, of the It flowered at Kew and with Messrs. James Veitch &

grows on Ba*** Forest Depart*

Sons,

THE OR CHID RE VIE W.

Chelsea, in
1892.

Though
it.

quite different from the

preceding,

it

is

an

equally charming plant, and in October, 1893. Messrs. Sandri

First-class Certificate for
flesh pink,

The

flowers are large and of a beautiful light

may

while the leaves are spotted with white ona ground-colour which be described as grey, suffused with pinkish brown of an almost in-

describable

shade.

The

eye-like

spots seen

in

the

figure

are

simpl)

openings between the lobes, which enable the dark back-ground to show through. It succeeds very well under the treatment given to H. militaris.

There

is

a white-flowered form called variety nivosa. for which Messrs.

W.
1

L. Lewis

&

Co., of Southgate, received an

Award of Merit
in

in July. 1894.
it

The

leaves are also green and unspotted, but

other respects

fully

agn

with the type.

RENANTHERA
This splendid Philippine Renanthera has

STORIEI.
just flowered in

the rich collection

of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., bearing a large panicle with fool and forty flowers. It is allied to the brilliant K. coccinea, hul
flowers of different shape, marbled with

branches

two shades of

the richest

vdvtl

crimson.

XIV.,

p.

was described by Reichenbach in 1880 Hugh Lowsent by Mr. J. G. Storie to Messrs. 296) from materials pointed out that Mr. H. T. Brown
It

.ibsequent
it

obtained

on a small island.
in

excursion from his

Son, and \\ with Messrs. 15. S. Williams & Some time ago it flowered 364.) the XL. t. 5U). "hich, however, shows was figured in the Orchid A Umm S.r Trevor in the one exhibited by ground-colour much more yellow than
1

residence at Tayabas,

the Philippines (Gard.

Chnm.

XVI.,

p.

Soc, of the Royal Horticultural Lawrence at the last meeting seem like R. coccinea, does not very handsome species, but unfortunately,
size. inclined to flower until the plant gets a good

NOVELTIES. CtELOGYNE LAUTERBACHIANA, KranA-A

which flowered
C. carnea,
in

-,..

the Berlin Botanic Garden salmon-coloured Hook, f., and has small
p.

in April

last.

It .s allied t

flowers-N^W.

K. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 1896, Sobka,

flowered in
,t

rij.

by Messrs.
flower, are of

the

lip

I. was introduced Zurich. of the collection of Mrs. Brand,, The habitat .s not recorded. F. Sander & Co., but the disc and rose-purple, with the smaller than in S. macrantha, lines.five slightly elevated orange-coloured, and bearing

BRANDT.

E,

Ln*l.-A

species allied

... which .0 S. macrantha,

Gard. Chron.,

May

16, p. 608.


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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Oncidium Godseffianum, Kranzl.

species

much

like

0.

pubes,

Lindl., in general character, but differing in

having smaller

flowers with
fimbriatum,
Messrs.

the lateral sepals free,

Lindl.,

and thus should be compared with 0.

It

which the author does not mention.

in

flowered with

Sander

May

last.

Gard. Chron., June 20,

p.

754.

CCELOGYNE UNIFLORA.
With
respect to the abolition of the genus Panisea, proposed by
Dr.

Kranzlin (Gard. Chron., April 25, p. 516), after an examination of P.uniflora, Lindl., it should be pointed out the plant is not a Panisea at all, but a true Ccelogyne, as was long ago pointed out by Bentham. The true Paniseas.

which Dr. Kranzlin admits not having examined, are at all events sufficiently different from Ccelogyne uniflora, which I have seen flowering every season
for

many

years.

The

his sagacious

method

assertion that " Lindley unfortunately relinquished of showing Orchids " is easily disproved by an ex-

amination of his Folia Orchidacca, which certainly docs contain the result of ripened and elaborate studies. One has only to compare his revision of the
genera Oncidium and Epidendrum with his earlier sketches
in the Botankil

Register to see that, to say nothing Pleurothallis and of the difficult genera Stelis. The fact is, his work was progressive in the best sense of the word,
right

up

to the last.

It is

unfortunate that Reichenbach never

learnt

his

sagacious methods.
R. A. R-

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR

The
temperatures
in all

JULY.
' he

By H. A. BURBERRY, Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham.

departments must

still

remain as advised

in

Calendar for May.

The season
therefore,

so far has been a particularly hot, dry, and fast one.

Orchid growers find themselves behind hand with their pottwS havu* operations, small blame to them. have been Weather such as we
although
it

may be known only

;

enormous amount of extra work

airing, shading, cleaning,

to those directly concerned, watering, daropl ^ and by the time the

little

causes

and the hundred-and-one other

jobs

<*

done which are found necessary temperature a to continually keep the mro ^ great atmosphere well balanced and suitable for healthy growth, a has been made upon one's time and energies. in urv > During such hot, fast seasons, things me to get topsy-t
,

seem

to

some way.

Nothing seems to bide its proper time to flower and gr'j pops out upon you before you are ready to attend to it consequent!).
;

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

am
left

it]

afraid that

it

frequently happens that something or another has to be

undone or unattended

from being satisfactory.

pull a plant

and such a state of affairs is, of But what is to be done ? One does
to,

course, far

not like to

about when the proper time

for so

doing has long since passed,

it

and we

all

know

that in order to pot a plant well

deal.

is

necessary to pull the

carelessly.
in

roots about a

good

We

must never pot badly or

pot, or

W
let
it

must never insert an old basket, or

be done thoroughly well

pan within another,

;

order to

spare the roots from being disturbed.

;

No

when

repotting
If
it

is

done,

otherwise

let it

alone.

should happen that

time

is

scarce, or that the season for potting has long past, then, should a

plant appear to be in a fair condition,

and
let

likely to pull
it

through another
till

season without serious results following,

rather than half

stand over

another year

do

it

or

do

it

at the

wrong season.

What
to the

can't be cured

must be endured.

Whatever
points,

else

has to be

left

undone, see well

in

most important

namely, ventilation, and moisture

floors

the atmosphere by
in
all

damping

down the
plants

and by spraying the plants overhead

departments

two or three times during the hottest part of the day.

free

Also keep the

from insect pests by fumigating occasionally with XL. All

soon as ever signs of thrip or aphis are observed. L'nder these conditions the plants will not go far wrong if they otherwise have to
insecticide as

rough

it.

There

is

another matter of some importance, which,

to

if

given

attention, will
to an
in the

perhaps help the cultivator

it

some

extent.

It is

everything

Orchid to be in the position

likes.

Do

not therefore keep a plant

there satisfactorily.

same position too long

it

if it fails
it

to

grow

Once

a plant finds a position

likes

will then luxuriate,

and give not nearly so

under-estimated, Position, in fact, should not be supposed for it is of more real importance to the cultivator than is generally It is surprising for the successful cultivation and flowering of Orchids. in one what a large number of different Orchids will thrive perfectly well and suitable places is studied small amateur's house if the matter of finding

much

trouble and worry.

carried out.

have even grown some

Mexican of the short-bulbed

L*has

such as L.

ancepsandL.

Odontoglossums and Oncidiums have been through a plenty of sunshine suspending them in a place where they had Ple.ones not meeting: also division between two Hinds caused by their and well in a like position, Thunias, and many of the Cattleyas did very and D. nobile. Bu let some Dendrobiums, too, including D. Wardianum e the who for it not be recommend the same house understood that I
*u
,

where cool very well in a house autumnalis, t growing and doing well,

illustrate fact ust the fart just to Aese species far from it. I merely mention instruct could amuse and "ha* can, or could, be done. And how one patience supposing he had the himself having one house for Orchids only,
*
*\* a
;

2i 4

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

at his

and time

disposal,

which would be necessary

at first to

ensure

Something about manuring Orchids

so, in the

is
is

doubtless looked

for,

and

rightly

Calendar of Operations, which

all

above
it.

all
I

things

practical, and

written for the guidance of

who may

desire

have from

time such

to

time advised manure in a weak liquid state for certain species,

Calanthes, and Ccelogynes, and

as
I

some few

others,

which from

practice

have found did them no harm, but, on the other hand, seemed

to do them
of

good

for a time.

But

have never been very loquacious on

have never Like
fully believed in
it,

this matter

manuring Orchids,

for I

and

yet have

never
that

openly flouted the idea.

many

others,

have sometimes thought

if

manorial aid might possibly be of assistance,

once the proper

proportion
I

and the proper way of applying it was fully understood. determined to shelve manure in every shape and form, for,
concerned,

Now
so far as

am
I

am
1

my
I I

conclusion

is

that

manure

is

not permanently

beneficial;

don't believe
species which
that in

shall ever use

another drop of manure, not even on

those

have previously enumerated as manure takers. I am certain the long run manure does more harm than good, and that the
it,

plants are better without

and that

it

is

the cause of

much

mischief

which

is

attributed to other causes.

said this

Having

much

feel
I

relieved, for

should indeed be

sorry

for
I

any cultivator to think that

recommend manure.

On

the other hand,

Orchid which receives it is apt to go wrong at anytime. Things have happened that make me think there is no certainty about
believe that an

now

them; that you cannot depend upon them, and that they are disease at any moment, which will carry them off like the snuff of

liable to

cm*

most Plants that are here to-day and gone the least, to-morrow are, to say W* undesirable. It is better to go on slowly to be satisfied but surely slower and smaller new growths, by the admission well ripened, and matured manoK. of plenty of fresh air, which I best possible believe is, after all, the
:

and the only natural one for Orchids. Plants so nurtured make their mark in time all that is required is patience. We must endeavour, if possible, to get the greater part of
;

are bound

to

the
I

re P ot

*
'

finished in the Cattleya

and Intermediate houses

later, as
it

this

month.

n ever
before
to

repotting Cattleyas

much
upon

leaves such a short time

to

weather sets in through the winter

dull

|*

us ,

for

them

safely.
is

Sobralias
past.

recover sufficiently as be repotted should

turfy

as the

flowering season

Good

strong loam.

"" wd

V
,

broken charcoal and sand, should be p* suits them admirably. They hrmly. Once strongly growth. ano established, they are of most easy
but httle trouble.

They make

must therefore have

fleshy root* a large quantity of thick contain pots, or pans, of a reasonable size to

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

When
than
is

115

repotting,

it is

not advisable to disturb the old ball of roots more

if

really necessary, for

pulled about very

much

a great check

is

given.
in
.1

Sobralias delight in

Intermediate or Cattleya house temperature, and

s[

moderate supply of water the whole year round, as they have no

period.

Odontoglossum Schlieperianum and the

flowering,

rare 0. Williainsii are

BOW

and

will

afterwards

commence

to

grow, when they also should be

but

repotted.

They

are very pretty Orchids when strong,

from small
insignificant,

weakly pseudobulbs the spikes are spindly and the flowers

and therefore should not be allowed

to

Bower

till

the plants are strong.

The Intermediate house

is

the best place for them.

The summer

flowering

Cypripediums, such as C. Stone..

renceanum, C. barbatum, and C. Godefroya:, should also receive attention when flowering is past. The section to which the l.ist-n.i: belong is not of easy management, unless the plants happen to get
position that suits them.
like

few weeks ago

to

saw one growing, and growing

most unlikely
place.
It

mad,

in

what seemed

me

to be a

.is

suspended over a water tank, a good distance from the by any means light position, in fact, a very shady one.

glass,
It is

and

in

not

worth a

trial.
is

For this section,

the best

stiff

lumps of chalk fibrous loam intermixed with small

I

compost that

know

of.

The

inmates of the East Indian house are

now growing

apace, and
well rooted,

must not lack moisture. The deciduous Calanthes are getting pushing up and may receive more water at the roots. Phalamopses are to this is a good season good leaves and making plenty of young roots tit care replace it with new pick out the old decayed sphagnum moss and he Dendisturbed in the slightest. must be taken that the roots are not well up. and the new growths are drobiums, too, are growing well. When compost too rather than keep the have a good number of new roots, for b> keep it drier, making up soddened with water, it is a good plan to getting the syringe well in among them two or three mean and it is one of the be s. days are bright and hot. The plants like it,
; :

^*"f^
,*~*

Itt any account be allowed to keep down red spider, which must not on sp ndid ventilated during such prosper. ,f the house is as well and freely rf ought to be, the summer weather as we are now getting as it

you have to be very But with D. Bensoni and D. superbum

syringing not to let the water get

growths damping

off will

be

**"

down

for into the ,x,.s,

given to
if

damping

off.

find

it is

best for this

^^^^ ^^ **
department and

.to*

possible, a slight

warmth

in

the hot water

left
it is

air

both top and bottom can be

air
:

on
the

all

grow Orchids well without

life

through the night. and sou. of them.

P*^ ^ "'^ ^ot We cannot

To
shut

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Dendrobiums up in a close house, so as to keep the temperature warm the whole night, in order to spare lighting the fire, is a source of danger, and

many growths

invariably

damp

off.

Cattleyas Warneri and C. Warscewiczii (gigas) are

to flower, afterwhich
;

now

commencing

new roots

will

commence

to push from the baseofthe

new pseudobulb then is the best time to re-pot them. Do not expose than too much to the sun for a few weeks afterwards, nor keep them too dry;
but they must be placed in a department where they receive plenty
of
air

and are kept pretty

is

cool, or they will start

if

to

make second

growths, which

always well to avoid,

possible.

In spite of one's utmost endeavours a

lie

number of them are almost sure to break again, which cannot helped, and which need cause no alarm give such plants exactly similar
small
;

treatment to those quite dormant.

When

an Orchid, say aCattleyaora

it

Dendrobium, or a Thunia, or anything else, has completed its growth, is a great and ofttimes fatal mistake to withhold water too suddenly. The plants very quickly shrivel up, causing immature growth and other evils.

The watering

must go on as usual for some time, but the plants lightshould be removed to a place where receive more air and they may Trust to air both night and second growth and day, to assist in preventing
of the roots
to thoroughly ripen the pseudobulbs, but
;

do not withhold water at the be time the strain is too great. Ladias will no* The other Cattleyas and actively growing, and should be well attended to, spraying them overhead
occasionally, especially early in the afternoon and the ventilation is reduced.
least three times daily,

same

when

the shading

is

removed

at damped down The houses should be

and

air

admitted

freely.

We
to

try to keep the

Cool house as cool as we can.

so.

The

ventilators
it is

are

opened as widely as possible, and remain

With

this air

impossible

enjoythe surroundings too often. the plants This treatment a Sophronitis grandiflora is now having had starting to grow again, after bUtP short rest since flowering. It succeeds best in small pans suspended,

damp

not a sun-loving species. way of re-panning or top

starting to grow,

Now

is

dressing.

do what is required *> Dayana are Lajlia prsestans and L.

good time
to
j

in

'

and should likewise be attended

to.

These

are also

grown

pans, suspended, and should occupy a warm warmest end of the house. They delight in a good long rest during the winter. Laelia harpophylla is another that does well in this d<=P ar """! if given a like position, as also does L. monophylla, which is a quaint row* Orchid. This latter whole year species prefers to be kept moist the and should be grown in t" num very small pans or baskets. Oncidium

in baskets, or

position

at

now pushing up new growths, and may be

Orchid
in

repotted.

prefer to

gro"

beautiful

pots under exactly the

same treatment
cool Orchids,

as the

Oif
.nj^

glossum crispums enjoy.

Like

many other

it is

often

THE ORCHID REVIEW

by being kept too wet
wet as
is

317

at the roots.
;

Orchids do not require to be kept so

sometimes supposed
it is

it

rots the

compost and
water
is

kills

the roots, and

what follows

needless to say.

When

applied with moderation

during the time the plants are growing, and they are kept on the dry side

when

inactive, repotting in
in

many

instances

is

really

not necessity more

species,

than once

two or three years with these cool and intermediate

if

and they are better

not pulled about for the purpose of repotting too should be done this month.
Peat and

Masdevallias that require a

shift
is

sphagnum moss
passes

in

equal parts

the best compost.

it

The

peat need not be

of the best fibrous nature for these, but

should be lumpy, so that tba wmtef

are

away

quickly.

produce a large

They are best managed, and amount of flower spikes, if grown

Like
all

much more

certain to

in small pot~

convenient size for them.

is

other cool growing Orchids, the reathet

but no harm can be done them if Cool kept well shaded, and the ventilators and doors thrown open wide. too Orchids are injured by heat during summer only when they are kept
rather too hot just

now

for this genus,

close.

During winter they

suffer

from the

effect of excessive

cold also by

the

same means.

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
Angr.ecum FOVRSI8M, ANDRE.-Kr..
lis is

Hort.,

June

I, p.

256. "ith

fig.

A. stylosum, Rolfe.

Mossi*
with
fig.

var.

Beatrice.

- Card.
III.

Mag., June 20,

p.

406,

Ccelogvne Veitchii, Ro\k.-Wie

'

Gart.-Zeil.,

May, pp.

187, 189.

Cycnoches CHLOROCHILON.-Tfo Cvpr,pedium X R.dolfianum, Pucci.-B.

'

Garden,

May

30, p. 4<>3, with Soe. Tosc. Ort.,

fig.

March,

De'ndrobium Findlayanum.-T^ Habenaria Elwesii, Hook. LBot. Mag.,

Garden, June 13,

t.

P.

44&.

t.

1070.

7478-

L*lia X elegans var. Turner..-^ June L.BLio-CATTLEVA X Pytho.-/. Hort.,

Garde,,,

May

23, p. 384,

1.

1067.

26,

pp.

579.

588,

^'^LTOMA VEXILLARIA VAR. MEMOR.A G. D. w,th Mag., June 13, P- 386, June 11, p. 537, fig. 88; Card.
Chron., Tune 20, p.
7=,=,-

OlH* *.
fig.;

Card.
c 463,

SACCOLAB, AUPULtACEUM.-/...
fig.

May ,

pp.

4&X,

e.

76.

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THE MANCHESTER SHOW.

The
annual Whitsuntide

Show

of the
at

Manchester Royal
in large

Botanical

and

Horticultural Society
21st to 27th,

was held

the Gardens, Old Trafford, from May

when Orchids were exhibited

Orchids

numbers,

the Show

House

being, as usual, nearly filled with

first

them, making a
in

brilliant display.

The

prize for a collection of

bloom, limited

to amateurs,

was secured by E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Holbrook), with a rich and varied group, containing, among other things,

many good forms

the fine C.

of Lrelia purpurata, L. tenebrosa, Cattleya

calummata,

Lueddemanniana nobilior, some good C. Schrcedera:, Mendelii, Mossia? and others, many good Odontoglossum crispum and Miltonia vexillaria, Schomburgkia tibicinis, Dendrobium Dearei and others, various
Cypripediums, &c.

Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Stafford), was second with a fine group, including some good Dendrobium pulchellum
F.

(Dalhousieanum), D. thyrsiflorum, D. fimbriatum oculatum, Diacriam bicornutum, Cypripedium bellatum, a fine dark form of C. villosum, and a good selection of the usual showy Cattleyas, Odontoglossums, &c.
exhibited by S. Hinchcliffe, Est,., Hale, Altrincham, included Anguloa Clowesii, Cattleya Schilleriana, Oncidium sphacelatum and others,

A group

with some good Cattleyas, Lrelias, &c.

James Cypher, Cheltenham, was some fine Ladia purpurata, Cattleya and Skinneri, and other showy forms, Oncidium concolor, O. macrantlnim O. serratum, Vanda suavis, good Epidendrum X O'Brienianum, some Cypripediums, &c. The group was very effectively arranged.
first

In the Nurserymen's class, Mr. with a splendid group, including

Messrs. Heath

&

Son, of Cheltenham, were third with a group

in

**

were some good Miltonia vexillaria, together with Cattleva Skinneri, Aer*

Odontoglossum citrosmum, &c. good Mr. John Kitson, of with a Bowden, secured the second prize group, containing some good Cattleya Warneri, a very fine C. Moss*
E-ptdendrum vitellinum, Dendrobium X Cassiope, Odontoglossum crispum, Selempedium X grande atratum, &c. For the best collection n " prize of Cattleyas and Lslias the first T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield (gr. Mr. Johnson), with a v^>" lot, including Cattleya Mendelii leucoglossa, Lrelia grandis, some very Laiha purpurata, Lrelio-cattleya x Pallas superba, &c. , The second prize went to F. Hardy, Esq., whose group contain* bnl hant Cattleya SchiB** Schrcederiana,

crassifolium,

C.

Ski,,",,,,,

alba. C. d.dosa, C.

C. Mendelii Venus, a beautiful Lslia purpurata Schrcedera, and others. For the best collection pr* * of Cypripediums in bloom the first

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

E. Ashworth, Esq.,

119

who

exhibited a large group, including the beautiful C.

bellatulum album, and some fine

forms of C. Chaniberlainianum.

Staffer, Esq., took the second prize, C. philippinense

and

Hollington being noteworthy.

plants being C.

F. Hardy, Esq.. was third, C.

X Gertrude among hi- beat

Lawrenceanum Hyeanum,

Druryi, and Selempediuii,

X leucorrhodum.
For the best collection of Dendrobiums in bloom Mr. first, and E. Ashworth, Esq., a good second.
J.

Cypher was

For the best collection of Odontoglossums, F. Hardy, Esq., took premier honours, his group containing some good O. Harryanum, 0. crispum, and Mr. John Robson was lecond, and O. X Andersonianum. among others.
staged

some good O. crispum.

Miltonia Koe/lii. \c.

in

In the Nurserymen's class of the best Orchid

bloom, Messrs. Hi ath

were the only exhibitors, and took the

L;elia

first

prize with a well-grown plant of

purpurata.

Among
large

the Orchids staged not

for

competition was

splendid group

from Messrs. F. Sander

&

Gold Medal.

It

Co., St. Albans, which received the contained a fine specimen of Cattl

Mendel,,, Reineckeana, with other forms of this species. C. forms of Ladia purpurata. Cypripedium Rothschildianum. Oncidium varicosnm Rogersu, longifolia with erect spikes of purple flowers, Ep.dendrum atropurpureum various forms of Odontoglossum crispum, &c. Bensona:, some good Miltonia vexdlana. Randii, Dendrobium Heaton, Bradford, exhibited a cho.ee Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., purpurata and Cattleya several good forms of Ladia group, containing some fine forms of Odontoglossum Mossi*. a good C. Schilleriana,

crispum, and other good Orchids. group, near Liverpool, had a hue Messrs. John Cowan & Co., Garston,

Remeckeana a containing some good Dendrobium thyrsmorum and D. fine C. x Harrisii, Ccelogyne pandurata, aurant.aca, .c. Brassia verrucosa, Ada superbum, fine specimens of
M. Cattleya Mosaut, including C.
excep.,onall> House, Haslingden, sent an A. Warburtbn, Esq., Vine Hollington. fine form of Cypripedium X Gertrude

C. Dibb, Esq.

(gr.

Mr.

Cattleya Brindrett), exhibited a

Mendel., wrth

six three fine spikes one of which earned roots, the pot was one mass ot and in a greenhouse for the last seven years, long period. . not been potted for a showing that it had good Ca tleyas and Lad.as some Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son staged

growr. Bowers, which had been

dekeanum, * Odontoglossum X in a miscellaneous collection, also of exhib.ted a good colleCon Mr. H. J. Chapman, of Camberwell, were very well preserved. dried Orchids, in which the colours .to the followmg plants First-class Certificates were awarded

220

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Odontoglossum crispum Warburtonianum, Odontoglossum Charlesworthianum, and Cypripedium X Cowleyanum Annie Louise, exhibited by
Charlesworth
Mossiae

&

Co.

Cattleya
Lffilia

Mendelii

Countess of Derby,
alboviolacea,
Lailia

Cattleya

Her Majesty,

purpurata

purpurata
longifolia,

Distinction,

Miltonia vexillaria leucoglossa, and

Stenoglottis

exhibited by Messrs. Sander

&

Co.

ORCHIDS
The
June 9th
last,

AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL

was a magnificent one, both
H. Schroder, The
specimens
pure
Dell,
in the extent

SOCIETY.

display of Orchids at the Drill Hall, James' Street, Westminster, on

and

in the quality

of the exhibits.

Mr. Ballantine), sent small group of choice things, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given.
Sir
(gr.

Baron

Egham

a
It

contained

fine

of
S.

Lailia

grandiflora

(majalis),

Sobralia

xantholeuca,
able

the

white

macrantha Kienastiana,

the remark-

Cypripedium Stonei platytamium, two handsome forms of Laliocattleya X Canhamiana, Miltonia vexillaria gigantea and M. v. radiata in
well-flowered examples,

half-a-dozen splendid

forms

of Odontoglossum
received

crispum, and others.

H. T.

Pitt, Esq.,

Rosslyn, Stoke Newington (gr. Mr. Aldous),

a Silver Flora Medal for a splendid group, containing some excellent forms of Cattleya Mossias and Lslia purpurata, together with Phaius X Owenianus, Anguloa Clowesii, Vanda Dem-

Oncidium phymatochilum,
Dorking
(gr.

soniana, Ccelogyne pandurata, Odontoglossums, Cypripediums, &c. Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Mr. White), staged!

most interesting and pretty group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was
given.

contained Thunia Brymeriana and the pure white T. dissima, Luisia Amesiana, Dendrobium bracteosum, D. aduncum,
It

candi-

L* lia

tenebrosa, Ladio-cattleya

X
and

Arnoldiana,

Bulbophyllum

Lobbii, EpidensimuU,
to

drum Brassavola, E. prismatocarpum,

Masdevallia
guttulata,

good Grobyi, some Pleurothallis

Harryana,

others,

including

M.

triaristella,

and others. Saccalobium miniatum and Epidendrum fragrans. Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, Dorking
received a Silver Banksian

Rolfeana,

given Botanical Certificates were

(gr.

Mr.

Masterton),

Odontoforms of Medal for a group of good jved an receivi glossum crispum, one of which, called O. c. Lord Sherborne
,

Award of Merit. It is allied to O. c. guttatum. The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Hill), showed so"1 Iter good examples of Spathoglottis Lobbii and S. Kimballiana, Cataset*J Award splendens leucanthum, a fine a creamy white form, which received of Merit, and a species with greets of Chondrorhyncha from Costa Rica,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

white flowers, to which a Botanical Certificate was given.
It

lit

has since

been

named

C. albicans, Rolfe.

Sir Frederick

Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen

(gr.

Mr. You::
vexillaria, called

a First-class Certificate for a splendid form of Miltonia " Memoria G. D. Owen," approaching M. v. Leopoldi.

He

also

showed

two

fine

forms of Cattleya Mossise, one of which was

in front of the lip.

like var.

Reineckeana

with slate-coloured marbling

C. L. N. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming

Laslio-Cattleya

(gr.

Mr. Bond), sent

)

Regalis (L. purpurata ?

X X

C. Mendelii 3
S

and

L.-c.
),

X
i

Regalis nigra, L.-c.

L.-c.

Electra (C. Percivaliana

L. purpurata 3
if
I,

and

X Pytho

(L.-c.

elegans

Turned

C. Loddigesii

the l.u,

receiving an

Award

of Merit.
(gr.

Walter Cobb, Esq., Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells

a fine Cattleya Mossise Wageneri.

Mr. How.

Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks two very fine forms of Odontoglossum crispum.

De

(gr.

Mr. Cooke), sent

Cypripedium Holbrook Gaskell, Esq., Woolton Wood, Liverpool, sent

Cattleya Mossiae. Julian, Plymouth, sent a fine Captain T. A. rare Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, sent the F. Moore, Esq., Royal

W.

Masdevalla fragrans. Malton Sir Charles Strickland, Bart., Hildenley,

flowers of a pretty hybrid between Cypripedium markings. concolor showing some little variation in the

Mr. Smith), sent bellatulum 1 and C.

(gr.

Swinburne, Esq., Corndean Orchids. forms of Cypripedium bellatulum, and other form of Haslingden, sent a beautiful A. Warburton, Esq., Vine House, variety. one known as Walton Grange L*lia tenebrosa, very near the group to Chelsea, staged a splendid
T.

W.

Hall,

Winchcombe,

sent

some good

Messrs. James Veitch

&

Sons,

which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. Uelia Dearei, various forms of ndrobium thyrsiflorum Walkenanum, D. others Moss.*, C. c.tnna, and tenebrosa, L. purpurata and Cattleya langleyensis, Epidend urn fine pans of X kewensis and D. X Hippolyta, L.-c. X /eph X vitellinum, E. aromaticum, Lslio-cattleya Ciirtisn. tu ii i.rt C Curtis.., belenipeaium bellatulum, L.-c. X Canhamiana, Cypnped.um Orchids. Odontoglossums, and other showy X Clonius, Flora
It
,

contained a

fine

specimen of

dL

Medal

for

another

fine group,

Mossi,, and among them *

a **- -*;

also received a Silver

and various other good

things.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Messrs.
F.

Sander
Sobralia

&

Co., St. Albans, staged a large and handsome

group, to which a Silver Flora Medal

was
S.

also given.

It

contained

Phaius

X Owenianns,
Physosiphon

X Amesi*,

Veitchii, Aerides Houlletianam,

Loddigesii,

Cirrhopetalurn

picturatum,

Disa

Premier.

Dendrobium crystallinum, Odontoglossum Harryanum, and others, Lselio-cattleya X Arnoldiana and L.-c. X Mardelii (C. Lueddemanniana ? X L.-c. X elcgans 3 ), a very pretty hybrid, which
Maxillaria nervosa,

had previously been raised by Messrs. Veitch, and now received an

of Merit.
tribuloides,

Award

Botanical Certificates

were

also

awarded

to

Pleurothallis

and

Peristeria aspersa.

Messrs.

B. S. Williams
for

&

Son,
group,

Upper Holloway,
in

received a

Silver

Banksian Medal

good

which were Cattleya

tricolor

Warnen.

Oncidium
concolor,

Vanda Denbrobium X polyphlebium, and some good

Marshallianum, Aerides

odoratum,

and

V.

Odontoglossnms,

Cypripediums, Cattleyas, Dendrobiums, &c.

Messrs.

W.

L. Lewis

&

Co., Southgate, also contributed an

effective

group, to which a Bronze Banksian

Medal was given.

It

contained some

good forms of Cattleya Mossia: and C. Mendelii, C. citrina, the handsome Cypripedium X Gertrude Hollington, C. X Hobsoni, some good Odontoglossums, Oncidiums, &c.
pretty
little
very Botanical Certificate was given to a plant exhibited as a Pogonia, which has since been named

bore a single cordate marbled with green and brown, lying flat on the soil, and an of about a score white and amethyst-purple flowers.
Rolfe.
It

Hemipilia amethystina,

leaf,

prettily

erect raceme

Mr.

J. Keeling,

Mount View Gardens, Glossop Road,

Sheffield, sent

pretty hybrid Cypripedium derived from C. bellatulum and C. similar to those exhibited by Sir C. Strickland.

concolor,

At the meeting held on June 23rd the show of Orchids was considerably is less than usual, though about as there up to the average for the season,
invariably a falling off of the exhibits about Midsummer. Several remarkcrimson able ones, however, were beautiful dark staged, particularly the

Renanthera Storiei with darker marbled flowers, which was exhibited brt by Sir Trevor Lawrence and by W. J. Thompson, Esq., of Ghyllbank,
Helens.

Trevor Lawrence, Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. \Vhitc) aup, to which a Silver Mora It contained Medal was given. '* e with specimen of Rhyncostylis retusa (Saccolabiom gutti* spikes a very handsome light form of Miltonia vexillaria with six '^\ a hne example of mauve-crimson CO Catasetum Bungerothii the rich Kp'd en0 Lpidendrun, Frederici-Guilielmi looking
;

xhibited

and the singular

;

vanegatum

Aerides multiflorum Lobbii

ff Dendrobium crystalline

teum; the handsome Renanthera Storiei above mentioned, &c.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

plant of Cypripcdium superbiens witli nine flowerCertificate,

u.%

and

profusely-flowered plant
Certificate.

of

the

pretty

he.ht

yellow

Cirrhopetalum nutans a Botanical

The Duke
Silver

of Sutherland,
for

Banksian Medal

Trentham (gr. Mr. Odontoglossum crispum

both
for tin- excelleiu

Bl

"
.

Duke

..j

Sutherland."

one of the

finest ever exhibited,

formed white flowers, and also

of the earliest importations,
its

for the noble size of the plant.

like twenty-five

It

was one
and)

made something

yew
il
i

splendid culture reflects great credit on Mr. Blair,

who

ha- bad

his care for a very long time.

W.

S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne. Dorking (gr. Mr. Marterton),

V.

thawed

small group, containing a good specimen of Cattley.i

flowered

Lycaste Deppei

and

several

crispum.

O. crispum virginale was a and orange disc to the lip; and O. c guttatum. a tery prettily (potted variety. The group received a Vote of Thanks. Mi. Walter C. Walker, Esq., Percy Lodge. Winctunore Hill igr.
Cragg), showed Stanhopea
YYardii.

Odoatogkenni pure white form with chrome yelkm

fine

plants

of

Cattleya

Warscewicrii var.

laud...

very richly coloured;

cut spikes of

and another very large light-coloured variety

Dubuyssonii.

with
|

Dendrobium suavissimum, Cattleya intermedia.

C. granulosa,

and the

yellow-petalled C. g.

A Vote

of

Thanks was

accorded to the group.

Valley, showed a plant of Soper, Esq., Harestone, Caterham W. G. was awarded. to which a Botanical Certificate Gongora maculata, good Cattleya Bitterne, Southampton, showed a Mr. N. Blandford,

Warscewiczii.
Mr. Harrow Weald House. Stanmore Igr. H. Grinling, Esq., Parish,.. imperialis and Dendrobium sent Cattleva Warscewiczii

Rapleyl,

W.

Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone,

and Odontoglossum X
Esq., Ghyl
Storiei,

Staffordshire igr.

Mr.

W.

Stevens),

rich in colour:
.

,1 gigantea, with unusually large sent Uelia tenebrosa Coradinei expansum. also very

fine.

J.

Thompson,

inflorescence St. Helens, sent a fine

of

Renanthera
B.

with several

branches,

from a plant wh.ch he

spike
of

received from the Philippines.

j.

Walmsley, Esq., of

Liverpool,

sen.

cut

Aendes

the species. radicosum album, a very pretty white form of \onng). Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Clare Sir

Frederick

Wigan,

showed

Chelsoniensis, a pretty variety Miltonia vexillaria

v.

wth
.
,

purple rays

.j ved receded Nursery, Exotic Messrs. James Veitch and Son, Royal were group of rare Orchids, which a Silver Flora Medal for a magnificent alba, Lxlio-Cattleya X Canham.ana very effectively arranged. It included

resembling M.

radiatum.

r = Chelsea

rm

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

violet-purple

a noble flower with clear white sepals and petals, and large
lip
;

L.-c.

X Eudora

(L.

purpurata J
L.-c.

C. Mendelii 3

),

which

must
of

be considered a variety of

Aphrodite,

from the

collection

W.
at

R. Lee, Esq., which secured the

last year.

first

prize for the best hybrid

Orchid

Manchester

(See p. 219 of our last volume.)

If the records

are correct the present one arose from the reverse cross. L.-c. X Eudora received an Award of Merit on May 5th last, when exhibited byC. Ingram,

Esq., and on June gth another seedling with the exhibited as L.-c. X Regalis, but both must be

same
L.-c.

parentage was
L.-c.

referred to

Aphrodite.

The group

also contained the

handsome

eximia,

L.-c.

Hippolyta, of rich Indian yellow colour, with ruby lip, the rare and pretty rosy lilac Cattleya Schrcederiana Rchb. f. fine panfuls of Disa X
;

langleyensis

and D.

kewensis,

Selenipedium

Brysa,

Cypripedium

Curtisii, C. ciliolare, C.

niveum, C. Volonteanum, Cattleya

citrina, Odonto-

glossum Harryanum and other Odontoglossums, Phalamopsis other good things.

Messrs. F. Sander

amabilis, and

&

Co., St. Albans,

had an

interesting group,
(C.

the
Io

most remarkable plant in which was Cypripedium X Neptune grande s x C. Rothschildianum 3 ), a very bold-looking hybrid X Massaianum group, with large pale green flower, the petals
were extended
purple.
It

of the C.

of which
with

like

those of C. Rothschildianum, and finely blotched

secured an

Award
S.

of Merit.
(S.

Other good things

1

in the group

were Selenipedium

x Uranus

Lindleyanum
;

S.

grande

I,

somewhat resembling
petalr.fr.

Sargentianum

Angracum

Chailluanum,

Cirrho-

picturatum, Phaius

Humblotii, P.

Veitchn, S.

Amesiaj, and S. Lalia tenebrosa, Odontoglossum

Owenianus, Sobralia X xantholeuca, some very good Cattleyas,

Oncdium
Messrs

Harryanum and other

Veitchii inversa, &c.

Odontoglossums.

triquetrum, Thunia
to the group.

was accorded

Vote of Thanks

nch cnmson-purple

Cattleya staged several fine varieties of Mossue, of which c. M> beHa was a yery d st nct form> w th a , mo5t wholly
.
. .

Hugh Low and Co.

lip;

also

spec.es, with greenish flowers to the group

Dendrobium chlopterum, with a few purple lines. The

a

New

Guinea

plant belongs

though containing D. macrophyllum atroviolaceum, and D. not equal to them in beauty.

PV1 ,lo.
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than

many others. G -W. Orcidium

C-

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NOTES.
Two
Hall,

REVIEW.

meetings of the Royal Horticultural Societj

will

be held

a)

the Drill

Westminster, during August, on the mil and 25th respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of

James

Street,

twelve o'clock, noon.

Cattleya

Warscewiczii seems to be
fine bright

flowering very well this season,

suit
it.

probably because of the

as others

weather, which seems to

as wel

very fine

which flower on the completion of the young growth. Three forms have been sent from the collection of H. H. Bolton, Esq.,

N'ewchurch, Manchester, one of which has the petals irregularly mottled and streaked with rose-purple on a light ground, corresponding to the A second has variety variegata described at page 278 of our last volume.
the two eyes confluent into a single one
nearly white in front, the usual lines
in

the throat, which

becomes
other

down

the centre being absent, and

these peculiarities give the flower a very distinct appearance.

typical.

The

is

Two

other fine forms Come from

tile

collection of

W.

S.

MMillan.

with the Liverpool, one being a very large light form Esq., of Maghull, near typical, front lobe mottled and irregularly margined with lilac, and the other

except that the eyes are nearly white.

fine

form of C. X Hardyana

also

comes from

the

same

collection, in

the crimson, though with only a trace of which the lip is deep velvety Warscewiczii. golden veining of C. Dowiana aurea, and the eyes as in C.

The

sepals

and petals are bright

rose.

Good

flowers of Cattleya Rex also

come from

the

same

collection,

and

It is from that of H. H. Bolton, Esq. Both are fairly typical. of the lab.ata a very handsome Cattleya, though one of the smallest

certainly

22&

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Two
different

forms of C\ piipediuni (KHlefroy;e leucoclulum have

been

sent from the collection of 0.

O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury,

one

having the sepals and petals very heavily marked.

very fine inflorescence of Odontoglossum citrosmnm roseum has been

sent from the collection of

It differs

from the type

in

H. H. Bolton, Esq., Newchurch, Manchester. having the flowers suffused throughout with light

rose-pink,

and

is

very handsome.
of

A handsome form
of E.

Oncidium macranthum comes from

in

the collection
are

H. Woodall, Esq., of Scarborough,

in

which the sepals

much

deeper

colour than usual, being, in fact, quite deep brown, and affording a strong contrast with the yellow petals.

The
by G.

plant of

Cypripedium

X Cowleyanum

received a First-class Certificate at

Annie Louise," which the Manchester Show, was exhibited

"

Law-Schofield, Esq., Rawtenstall, Manchester, not by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., as stated in our report at p. 220.

W.

plant ol Cattleya Warscewiczii has

flowered

in

the

collection of

Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool, in which the sheath was developed as an ordinary leaf, and thus had the appearance of a diphyllous Cattleya with the sheath absent. An example of both C. labiata and
C. Gaskelliana with a diphyllous pseudobulb has also occurred in the same
collection.

It is

interesting to record that Mr. H. T. Clinkaberry has succeeded

in the collection of the

in

raising

some seedling Vandas

Hon. C. G.

Roebling,

of

Trenton,

New

Jersey.

This cross

is

between V.

tricolor

and

V.

Sanderiana, the former being the seed awaited with interest.

parent.

Their flowering

will e

A
sent

of three photographs of Phalajnopsis Schilleriana has been from the collection of Mrs. Alexandra. Martin. Auchendennan,
series

Dumbartonshire, by

Mr.

W. McHutcheon,

the gardener.

The

eronp

contains twelve plants, and when at their best had 472 blooms expand at once, the best si nt wet. bearing 72. The six largest plants Mrs. Martin from Manilla, have been by a friend, in 1873, and thus cultivation for a long 10-inch pots, period. They are grown in ordinary

and have from

five to eight leaves,

the largest being

inches long

5 inches broad. One of the spikes is bearing a vigorous young plant three good leaves below photographs afford the flowers, and altogether the evidence of excellent culture.

W *

THE ORCHID
A curious example
of
Oncidiiini

A'EI/r.lt.

Lanceanuni with tun Howell fated

collection

together has been sent

from the

of

R.

N.

Hooper, Esq.,
is

Stanshawes Court, Chipping Sodbury.

seen in various Orchids.

The

peculiarity

An
sent
ll

inflorescence of Odontoglossum
tile

from
a

collection of \Y.
in

X Coradinei expaiisum has been Thompson. Ksi].. Walton Grange. Stone,

the segments are
unnsualrj

is

very line form,

winch

all

large mill

handsome form

of 0.

X Wilckcanuin
n

with white ground, and

the apex,
is

much

toothed petals with a large rod-hrou

blotch neai

also

A photograph
T.
I.

of

vcrv
of

curious

liongor.i

ha-

11

-cut

by

Ml.

Patter,

Fort

Spain.

Trinidad,

showing

one

pseudobulb
a

growing from the top of another, and the upper one Wearing

terminal
to

raceme instead of
sugar industry.

the

usual

lateral
in

one.

The

species

i-

-oil

be
the

G. maculata, and to have flowered

the collection of a gentleman

CYPRIPEDIUM PHILIPPINENSE ABNORMAL.

spike of four curiously abnormal flowers of Cypripedium philippinense has appeared in the collection of James Davidson, Esq., of Dumfries. In three flowers the lip is entirely wanting, and in the fourth only one side

present, attached at one side of the column, and A second flower has one evidently consists of the petaloid staminode A i. a petal entirely adnate to the dorsal sepal, while the other is normal, but

of the

same organ

is

to third has both petals similarly adnate, forming curious undulate margins when the said the union presents them elongating, as they do

sepal, because

free.

In the other flower the lip only

is

is

missing,

and

in

every case the

column
state.

normal.

The

It is

a curious example, and

abnormal plant his a second raceme in a similar the will be interesting to note if
it

The abnormal characters on a future occasion. maintain their flower in which the petaloid stamen A 2 is present is very ms which it really is curved much in the same way as the side lobe of the lip, volume, recorded at page 362 of the last represents. An example was united side the lip reduced to the two where a flower of C. insigne had' Cypripediums seem lobes, the front lobe or median petal being absent.
flowers

unusually subject to deformities in the flowers.

M*

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

THE HYBRIDIST.
A very
pretty

Cypripedium x Harrisander. Cypripedium was exhibited at the Royal

Horticultural

on July 28th, from the collection of W. C. Clarke, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool, under the above name, which is said to have been raised by Mr. Ashton, of the firm of W. L. Lewis & Co., from C.
Harrisianum superbum ? and C. Sanderianum 3
characters of the two parents.
,

Society's meeting

and

well combines the

The

leaves are marbled

much

as in the

seed parent, and the scape bears three flowers, most like C. Sanderianum in shape, but the curved petals broader and about five inches long, and the colour much modified by the influence of the other parent. The dorsal
sepal
is

lined

with

purple-brown
colours;

on a greenish ground:
vinous purple;

the

petals

spotted

with similar

the lip bright

and

the

staminode concave, bilobed, and hairy at the sides.

Masdevallm X
This
is

A|AX.
the establishment of Messrs.
?

a very pretty hybrid, raised

in

James Veitch
to

&

Sons, from Masdevallia

Chelsoni

and M.

peristeria S

which an Award of Merit was given at the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting on July 28th. The plant most resembles M. peristeria in shape, but the scapes are longer, and the flower is fairly intermediate in character.

The perianth

is

very densely spotted

with

reddish brown on a bright

yellowish ground, and the

numerous short hairs present show some of that violet iridescence seen in M. X Chelsoni, and which were derived from M. Veitchiana in the first place. The tails are very dark, and the lateral
ones cross each other. Thus the general effect modified in shape and darker
in
is

that of

M. X

Chelsoni,

colour,
It

on account of the innumerable

a very interesting addition to

dots derived from M. peristeria. the group.

little

is

CYCNOCHES MACULATUM.
interesting to record cultivation, having been
is

It

that

this

fine

species has again appeared

in

imported by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., this season, as a unique specimen from Venezuela, and flowered in their establishment. It has now passed at into the collection of the Walter Rothschild, Hon. Tnng Park. The species was originally described bv Dr. Lindley in 1840
Cfi<* Reg., xxvi., Misc., p. ro) ot Mr. Barker, of

from a planf which flowered

in

in

the collection

then recorded.
dotanist

not November, 1839. Its habitat was Immediately afterwards a figure was published ... M'"""'' s

Birmingham,

(I\

,.

I56)|

from a plan(

John Wilmore, Esq., of Oldford, Staffordshire, a month

wh ch

flowered

co Hection , he
later.

of

This plant

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

is

said to have been sent from

species, in
tin-

La Guayra, with
It

Cattleya

Mossia- ami
a

numerous other
the

April previous, by Mr. Charles McKenzie.

is

collector for Messrs.

Low, of Clapton Nursery.

rather curious that

same
In

firm

should

now
1840,
it

re-introduce
a
is

it

after

an interval of fifty-seven
in
/.fi.-.f

years.

February.
it.
it

tine

figure

appeared

Orckidaceum
records that

3j),

where

said to be a
in

Mexican

plant,

though
ti

note

has also been found

La Guayra by one
Clapton.
is

of

employed by Messrs.
however,
is

Low

cv

Co.. of
it

I'hc

Mexican habitat,
lh.it

evidently erroneous, and

the

highly probable
a

both plants

came from

same

source.

The
to

plant bears

pendulous raceme about

l feet long, with

from

two

three dozen large flowers, the sepals and

light

petals being pale green with

many

brown

spots.

I.indhy n
in

" Surely

it

is

one of the most curious productions of nature

her wildest

Did any one ever see such a flower before? Which is the top. which is the bottom J What are we to call that long club foot r which is cloven too and what the crooked fingers daggled with blood, which spread

mood.

from the middle of one of the leaves, as

if
?

And what,

moreover,

cm

they

all

be for

about to clutch at something? " But this was nearly sixty years

been cleared up since. It is well known Lindley and others. that this sportive genus was a standing puzzle to Wagener also collected it near Caracas at 4,500 feet elevation (Boiftamiia, Messrs. Backhouse, the plants flowered at Berlin.
ago, and these points have
all

II., p. 19),

and one of

of York, also flowered a single plant in 1888.

unknown.
Chiriqui,

There yet
and
probably

The female flowers are still remains the handsome C. aureum, a native of
the

handsomest

species

in

the

genus, to

be

understood though now the culture of these plants is better re-introduced, secure .t. while for someone to make an effort to it would be worth rest in a and heat when growing, and then a good Plenty of light

comparatively dry state seems to ensure their success.

RENANTHERA IMSCHOOTIANA.
to record tha

Sander

&

Co. have obtained

given at Orchid, whose history was some plants ofthe above handsome confirm work. These imported plants this p. 20 S of the last volume of

sometimes branched. in Jour,, Asm,. Papilio (King and Pram A plant recently described as R. synonymous. It is a uahveof Assam, Soc. Bengal, Ixiv., 1896, p. 3^) Lieut. E. a living plant were sent by and some years ago dried flowers and
is

what was previously recorded-namely. inflorescence they also show that the a Vanda, but

that

it

flowers as a dwarf plan,, like

23
J.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

in

Lugard to the Calcutta Botanic Garden, hut

the uncongenial

climate

the latter soon died.

which were

Lieut. J. B. Chatterton afterwards sent some plants, immediately transferred to the more congenial climate of the

Sikkim Cinchona Plantations, where the)' flowered. These facts should be borne in mind by those who secure plants. Two plants only were previously known, the original one in the collection of M. A. Van Imschoot, and another in that of E. H. Woodall, Esq., which received an Award of
Merit last year.
butterfly with

The

flowers have been

compared

to a brilliantly-coloured

owing

to its

expanded wings. It appears to be very floriferous, and dwarf habit and brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers, ought to be-

come

popular.

The

great

drawback

to the

extended culture of the

species

of this

handsome genus has been

their tall climbing habit,

and

the fact that

they seldom flower before reaching a considerable size, but these peculiarities are not found in the present species. A Renanthera with the habit of

Vanda

ccerulea should be an acquisition.

R. A. R.

AN ORCHID AT HOME.
A handsome
is

Orchid, which grows on Mount Pena Blanca, described in the following note from Belt's Naturalist
142),

in
in

Nicaragua.

Sicaragm
very
it

(p.

though what

it

is

interesting to find out

cultivation.

its

would be we cannot imagine, and name. We do not know anything like

it

in

"

The

rock, on the southern

is

whitish colour, and

visible

called

and most perpendicular side, weathers to It 1S white peak. Pena Blanca, meaning the

it from some points on the savannahs. During the summer months is, on the northern side, covered with a caulescent Orchid (Ornithorhynchos) that has not been found anywhere in the neighbourhood;

else

and the

natives,

who

from are very fond of flowers, inheriting the taste

their Indian ancestors, at this time, often,

on Sundays, go up
colour,

to

it

and

bring
is

down

large quantities of the blossom.

Its

when

it

first

opens,

and yellow. Among it grows a crimson Macleania. Once when I made an ascent, in March, these flowers were in perfection, and in great abundance, and the northern face of covered ith the rock was completely
scarlet

them.

When
it,

brightly on

emerged from the gloomv forest, the sun was and the combination ,,f scarlet, crimson, and
blaze

shininS
yell"*'

made

perfect

of
fire

colour,

approaching
1

mot,,

nearly
in

to

the
floral

appearance of flames and

than anything else

have seen

the

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

ARE VARIETIES PERMANENT'

A question which has been
particularly
albinos,

raised on

more than one occasion

of

lias

again

been asked by a correspondent, namely, whether varieties

are

Orchids, and

permanent

coming

true

whether they revert back again

cumstances, us

to ordinary forms.

In the great majority of

all cir-

eases we believe that varieties eau he relied upon to keep true under

many

tine

ones keep perfectly constant from yeai to year,

to tied

and we should be almost as much surprised

tin

that the contrary were

ease as

we should
?

to

hud thai our species changed into another.

1

Who
Lawanil

ever heard of the brilliant Odontoglossum Posoator,

to an ordinary form

Vcitchiannm reverting

And
('.

the

same remark

applies to typnpediuni
(*.

renccanitm

llycanum.

callosum Sandora-.

bellatulum allium,

hundreds of others.
treatment have any
starving them,
lint

Their peculiarities are

effect

fixed,

and no variations
lie

of

on them.

They may
size.

reduced

in

Hie by

not

changed into something

else,
It is

ami good culture

true that on one

always again restores them to their normal

Stonei. but there

occasion a flower of Cvpripedium Stonei platytsenium produced a single

petal of ordinary
t'.

is

good reason

for

believing this

remarkable form to be a sport, or an abnormal condition of the species whose peculiarity has become fixed. Hut whatever subtle influence it was which caused the reversion of one petal to the normal condition, it had no
effect

on the remaining ones, and the peculiarity was not repeated

at the

True albinos of Cattleyas are perfectly constant from year to year, though we believe that some very pale forms vary a little under certain conditions, sometimes being nearly white, and at others become decidedlv tinted. And there are some which open nearly white, but
next time of flowering.
tinted as they get older.

But even these are

practically constant in their

character, though of course they are not albinos.

In

many

eases albinism, or the absence of

some

particular colouring
]

matter, extends throughout the plant, though it may not beata album, C. venustum to the eye. In the case of Cvpripedium bell.tulum

Measuresianum. Phahenopsis Schilleriana

vestalis.

and various others, the

affords a absence of the dark or purplish colouring matter from the leaves in other sure index to what the flowers will be when they expand, though

not show this peculiarity. size, number, In certain Odontoglossums it has been observed that the which is and arrangement of the spots vary somewhat from year to year,

cases the leaves

may

probably due to variations

also to variations in

in

perhaps the health and vigour of the plant, and

light.

the amount of heat and

But similar variations

may sometimes
and
in

the same inflorescence, be seen between different flowers on certain mean. variations are only fluctuations from a anv case the

232

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

is

There

probably no authentic case of a dark, heavily spotted

variety
next,

reverting to the normal form one year, to a pale or unspotted one the

and then back again. Such erratic variations are practically, if not altogether, unknown. There is one class of so-called " varieties " which cannot be described as constant, namely, those due to culture alone, and probably these, more
than anything
constant.
else,

have given
fact
is,

rise to the idea that varieties are not always

all in

But the

these are not varieties at

the true sense

of

the word, but only exceptional developments of

to

some exceptional circumstances.

in

some ordinary form, owing A plant may have become exceptionin

ally

strong through good culture, or possibly through being

some

paryear,

ticular position

the house, or not having flowered the previous

hence the flowers

developed than

may

be of exceptional

size,

or the colour more highly

a plant may

in others

perhaps grown

in

the

same house. Such

be labelled as a distinct variety, but the following year the peculiar conditions may not be repeated, or may be even reversed, and in such cases it is quite
possible to

jump

at the conclusion that varieties are not permanent, instead

ofattributingthefacttoitsrealcau.se. Plants that are only potted about once in three years sometimes experience a check the first year, but do extremely well the second, after which there may be a little falling away
the third year owing to the compost becoming exhausted.
are

Of course
in

there

many

varieties of exceptional size or colour,

which are not

any way due

to culture,

and these are

varieties in the true sense of the word,

and

subject

to fluctuations under
essential character.

good or bad treatment, but yet retaining

their

own

An

accidental

varieties

change of labels may also give rise to an idea that are not always permanent, but such cases, of course, cannot be

taken into consideration.

We
stant in

could enumerate
all

many

cases of varieties which are absolutely con-

their essential characters

from year to year, and

a few where

small changes have occurred a in the size and number of the spots, or even little in depth of colouring, and we should be glad if others would send us
their experience

on the subject, as

it

is

question of

some importance

to

purchasers of Orchids.

course, the occasional occurrence of abnormal flowers, or of change of sex in the genera Catasetum and Cycnoches, sometimes mis-called " sporting," cannot be held to affect the question in any way. True sporting, or the sudden production of a distinct varietj

Of

some well-known

plant, of course,

is

not excluded, though examples among

call

Orchids are exceedingly rare, and we can only

case of Cypnpediun,

to

mind the
.

remarkable
i
is

our pages. Another recorded on another page

Dauthieri, winch very ,,,

has already been recorded which iris en ,, v

.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

DIES ORCHIDlANVE.
I

was much amused with the

in
tin*

article

on Orchids by
(lowers "

newspaper
(p.

corre-

spondent, reproduced

the last

remarkable story of

" village

number of of the demon

it

the Review
is

sun

1\

the one about the Eulophiella,

and

would be rather
win-rein

interesting to
In

know

how

it

originated.

picture to myself poor Forsterman and

trees,

making the

circuit of that acre of forest

undergrowth, ami
brillianl

everything were loaded

down with

Orchids, "f hues

:

mon

than

anything ever seen or dreamed of before

the flowers through their
field glasses, at

bow

ihr\ fasted their eyes

e ol a

upon

the respectful di-lan.

bundled

yards, their noses muffled up the while, being totalb

plants,

unable to reach the

which would have made

their fortunes,

on accou.nl of tin sickening no wonder thej

odour.

How

bitter

must have been

their disappointment

almost cried as they slowly retraced their steps. This was worse than the dreadful " Protocryptoferox Madagaseariensis " and the truculent
brother-in-law,
for

even their

combined

efforts

could

not

protect

the

Eulophiella, and they certainly tried very bard, as everyom

story

who

lead the

must have been convinced.

concerned about that second expedition, for it appears to some that " on returning to London. Forsterman told this wondrous tale to go in of the rich Orchid collectors, and an expedition was organised

But

am

a little

search of

it

'-that

is,

the Orchid, not the

tale.

The

expedition found

the exact spot, but they gave up

feast their eves

in despair of ever

being able to more- than

And there, flowers through their field glasses. upon the to tin- day. the vast tropic forest, they remain somewhere in the depths of " they" the members of the expedition, please note -are waiting I suppose
until that

Orchid

goes out of flower, in

winch case

fear its

,1- -

But then, that sagacious plant may and, knowing its weak point, may go on flowering

have heard of Orchid collectors

all

b, for,
I

the year round.

add a new case, for such a plant would rather hope this will prove to be the Bower. Fancy such a plant, and always in terror to the Orchid house. But then, trouble about ,t. wonder our collectors should have taken any newspaper mortals, according to our Orchid collectors are not ordinarv blue the suggests that it must be correspondent. A waggish friend for he states that to mention the fact, Cattleya," but if so. the writer forgot on, of Orchids are the blue "the r'arest of all the varieties the tales of
the
list is

short indeed, even

when those which ems

I

Orchid hunters are taken into account." what connection there is between the two.

am no

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Two
or three

communications have now reached me

respecting

tli,

" blue Cattleya,"

one of which points out that the plant was

This.

sold entirely

on the strength of the collector's statement, which was

apparently convincing.
satisfaction to those
I

circumstantial, and
it

third;, is quite likely,

though
it

affords

little

who purchased

the plant and found

did net answer

not
tli-

to the description.

themselves taken

in

Vendors of Orchids must see to it that they are by improbable stories. It would be interesting if
were recorded.
It

entire history of the transaction

may

be worth while
in

tu

reproduce the following extracts from an article which appeared

Pall Mall

the

GautU

for

February Nth
\l

last,

the .lay after the sale

rare
at

"A BLUE CATTLEYA

67, Cheapside,

Protheroe's.
contend

Sensations are not

hear of them.

though

tin-

public does not

alive

commonly
for an

When
likes to

a dozen of the richest

:

men

object, everybody

know the result but tie- announcement of a new flower with an incredible name does not perceptibly agitate the City. Almost every one knows enough of Orchids to understand that a blue Cattleya comes as near the miraculous as can be expected in these days, like the new photography, and that was the sensation promised yesterday afternoon. Blue Orchids are very scarce. but there is a small proportion among ground
. . .

species.

Therefore the report of a blue epiphytal species

interest in the small class
its sort.
It is,

hitherto

unknown rouses more

events,

which troubles about

indeed, about the

such

things than any other incident of

rarest of
sale was

and

in the

only instance which

we

recall

without book, the

stopped abruptly amid laughter and jeers. A foreign personage who should have known our market better offered a "blue Orchid " a few years ago which English gardeners recognised as a species familiar from their
1* childhood, never before described as "blue." Hut a blue Cattleya The been rumoured for some years past circle of adepts. in the innermost who Ollyauthoritj it, is far as we have heard, is certain Scotch miners were sent oot top, -, * in one of the wildest districts of South America.
I

Their report

is

unanimous and

categorical.

Cattleyas

of divers

sorts

became as familiar to them, during several years' wandering, as roses not home, and if they tell a falsehood it must be a wilful one. it does But the follow by any means that the plant offered by Messrs. McArthur is that
Scotch miners describe. In fact, two thousand miles separate the local"! which they indicate from the Guarico whence this mountains of Venezuela Cattleya has been brought.
"

The

little

crowd

at

"d

eager perhaps, as Protheroe's should be described,

inquisitive rather than enthusiastic.

Every one wanted to scovery announced.

wrence,

know what The g*<

lr
-

Lord

Rothschild-

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Chamberlain, Mr. Measures, and Messrs. Sander,
represented.
Hull,

Low. &c,

wen

all

But we noticed only the Hun. Waltci Rothschild, Major

class, in

Mason, and the great Belgian amateur. M. Madoux, of the former

personal attendance.
as

Mr. Protheroe made no speech

a

in

opeiiiue, the sale,

was expected.
it

He handed
in

dried specimen of

the-

flower from lus

rostrum;
Mossiie

was

appearance a hue example

of blue,
flower keeps
light

of the onlin
It

without a trace

but this needs no explanation.

its

.o
five

stated in the catalogue that the

days,
rose
I

'celestial

blue
ol
.

'

only

'afterwards changing to a

rose colour (that

and lasting three weeks

I,

in perfection.'
:

Mr. I'rotheroc went

'

an assurance of

mm

fi<l<s

from the collector

guarantee conscientiously.

on

my word

of honour, that these plants have nevei been seen by any

collector.'

European

Orchid

And

then,

without
is. a

more

words,

this

quintessence of tloral beautv was put

sticks,
will

up that

hundred handles of

dr\

some with leaves still attached, which, bear a bloom of heavenly hue and giant

as the sanguine

do not doubt,
is

size before the year

over.

Hut the sanguine did not predominate, or they had not enough money.

Ten guineas was the highest price paid two guineas

prodigious sums,
sticks

or 50 th

as the inexperienced might think, for a bundle of dry

and

a leaf or two, but far indeed

below the value which one would

a blue Cattleya."

have assigned to the merest fragment of

Now

think that after this anyone

who

expected to get a blue Cattleya

must have been very credulous.

Mossiie, without a trace of blue, was handed that after five days it changed to light rose, and

dried flower like ordinary Cattleya round, the collector reported

he goarantei
1

tiouslyon his word of honour that these plants had "never any European Orchid collector." I should think that both nurserymen and amateurs will tight shy of " blue Cattleyas " in future, until they see

them

in flower,

even

if

backed up by the unanimous and

sounds too
of that

categorical repott-

Of prospecting

the " scarlet

The name Phalienopsis," and the Cymbidium

Scotch miners.

much hke
ilk.

that ol

FERTILISATION OF CATASETUM.
KAVUtG a plant of a terrestrial species of Catasetum recently

>*>*"

"'

on flowers, held aloft hich the inflorescence consisted of three large lipped the cour-e 1 Wrong in watching scape eighteen inches long, I was interested * Procedure followed by the two or three speciesof bees which constantly day present ,ft almost permanently day visited it, one or more of them being

3
in

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

all

the flowers

day long.

These
a

bees, Mr.
allied

Ouelch kindly

informs me.
comprises
are

belong to the genus Euglossa.

only the

genus

to

Bombus, which

common humble

bees,
is,

and the members of

the two genera

about the same size that

long.

from three-quarters to one and

a quarter inches
proboscis
its

The members

of Euglossa an- distinguished

by the long

they possess, which exceeds the length of the body, when stretched
length.

Ml

When

not employed

it

is

kept folded near the mouth.

The

smaller

two I captured had two bars of yellow or gold on the base of the body, and the larger three. In most of the Catasetums the female

species of the

which is in the shape of a hood, being ata the other parts, with the column, to which it is attached, underneath n Each of these two species of Euglossa which visited the flowers adopted a
lip,

flowers are inverted, the

different course in entering the cavity of the lip in their search for nectar. its The smaller species alighted invariably on column, and walked down

the

face into the lip, anil

took

up the nectar,

retreating,

when

finished, by

walking backward on the face of the column again. While inside the flower, however, it kept on. without cessation, brushing by repeated contraction the top of the column with the end of its body. By this process, if a *
flower were approached

were treated,
body, and

and treated in lb.' same way these female the pollinia would be detached and would adhere to the
the female flower in turn

flown
bees

when

was

visited

it

would be fen**
by

by the stigma, which is near the end of the column, bring brushed column, by the contractions of body have d
I

course, adopted a different alighted on the summit of the lip, and walked in back downwards, s house-fly walks on a ceiling, and in doing so its back invariably touched\ won top of the column. Entering a flower in this way the pollinia

The

larger species, however, invariably

liberated

by the pressure, and would

stick to the

back of the

inse<

iti rub against the stigm it would thus effecting fertilisation of deductions I derived the flower. These watching the bees at the flowers, and subsequently the accuracy ^ the n second one was confirmed by mv seeing a bee at work extracting from the flowers, with the firmly attacheVj; pollinia from a male flower i^ the sticky disc to its back got thepo between the shoulders. Where it to from do not know, as when were attached first saw it the pair

when

a female flower

was entered

very conspicuous.
British

captured
I

it

with the pollinia

i

on, and

it

is

"""'"'
.

Guiana Museum.
a

bee flying about with

exactly in the

same sped have since seen the. of the *' between its pair of pollinia attached
(,.

same manner.

S.

Jenman

in

Demerara

" Argosf.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

IJJ

THE LARGEST CATTLEYA.

Cattle-: ya

Warscewiczii,

now

flowering well

in

numerous

collections,

is

probablv the largest-flowered species known, and

following
p.

we do

not

know

that the
xxiii..

dimensions, recorded

in

the Gimicmrs flower

Chnmicle (1NS5.
at

758)

have been exceeded.

A
in

was shown
\

the

Whit-week

exhibition at

Old Trafford,

1885,

which

Orchid growers, every one expressing astouishnioiit

It

was

just

worth observing the look

of surprise thai

came over minj

countenance as the rule was placed on every part, eclipsing everything that had hitherto been seen or even anticipated. The diameter of the bloom
covering 5! inches, these in theii widest pari being just 3 inches across. The sepals were, perhaps, rather narrow, but The broad flattened lip extended in length were equal to the petals. well below the throat to 2J inches, while across tins part of the l.tbelhini ; inches were measured. The colours of the blooms were of the best and It flowered in richest hue, and every division of the bloom was perfect. the collection of the late G. Hardy. Esq., of Timperley, Cheshire.

was 11 inches, each

petal

CYPRIPEDIUM BELLATULUM.
daughter Constance, which gives a Cypripedinm very good idea of the luxuriant health of seven plants of upwards of three bellatulum that have been growing in my collection for have thoroughly years. of them as imported pieces, and I purchased all These plants them, as the photograph will show. established and flowered are growing with this section in my collect.on, as are all the Cypripedes of
I

send you

a photograph, taken by

my

with the smallest quantity of little else but limestone the pots My firmly wedged at the surface of fibrous loam to keep the stones of experience of a good few years has proved that the roots
pieces in their pots,
<

and clinging to, limestone, which this section delight in they are found native rocks on which represents as nearly as possible the and the the worse the plants grow, growing. The more loam that is used, damp off. The roots, and ultimately more subject they are to lose their
running along,
in

lodging order to prevent water greatest care has been taken in watering, In potting of the young growth. in the axils of the leaves, or in the centres below the taken to keep the rhizomes these Cypripedes great care should be grow as we 1 as are elevated never rim of the pot, for those plants which couecuo close on 140 plants in my I have those planted the rim.
.

below

and they are

all,

more

condition. less, in a satisfactory or

^^ ^

Bridge Hall, Bury.

2 3

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

AN AMATEURS NOTES.
the advent of the hottest season of the year a great falling off number of showy Orchids in bloom may be observed, though there

With

in the

is

always
is

something of interest to record.

The handsome

Cattleya Warscevviczii

flowering splendidly, and is doing unusually well this season, for some cause. When at its best it puts every ..111 :r C ittleya into the shade, and a truss of six such massive flowers would seem almost too much for the

now

pseodobulb to carry.
ing thing, as
its

Cattleya Rex

is

also flowering well, and

is

a charmthe
arc

brilliantly-coloured lip affords a striking contrast with

cream-coloured or light buff sepals and petals.

a
little

The

flowers,

however,

and a cross with C. Dowiana, if it could be effected, would probably yield something interesting, owing to the good constitution of the former, in which C. Dowiana is somewhat defective. C. Gaskelliana and C. Eldorado are also making Schilleriana. a good show.
small,

Ladio-cattleya

too,

is

just
wall

now

flowering well, and

is

a little in

advance of

L.-c.

elegans,

which

soon be out.

Epidendrum nemorale, E. Brassavoke,

and

H.

cinnabarinum are also among the additions of the present month,

as Brassavola Perrinii.

as well

In the warmest house, Phabenopsis P. denticulata are among the most

Huu.blotii,
i
,,,

Lueddemanniana,
interesting

P. violacea, and

objects,

while

Phaius

.ation -d last , ,nth,

is

at its best.

Another

striking addition

odoracum, which is very effective, and the flowers powerfully fragrant with an aromatic perfume. Ccelogyne Swaniana is another addition, while Vanda mentioned in
tricolor

the

old

Agridei

and some of those

In the Cool house the Od. 0. Walhsii. 0. Lindlevanu

and O. X cristatellum mak

little

ssums show a great some O Harrvanum.

t

falling
().

off.

W
that

nebuloswn.

to keep

up the

display, while

best.

gem Cochlioda Ncetz] iana Among the Oncidiui us n,

line display

nentioned the handsome O.

<

crispuma

which makes a

few of the smaller-flowered kind Cypripediums keep up

i

Gardner! and

O. dasytyle, with

Jso flowering well,

accession

throughout the

year, and
o!

number

of well-known h>

brill:

ow

in

some flower, together with

luded to
HClircXM'
tli:i

in
is

there

an

previous notes. a great interest

But
in

if

flowed are some*'

the collect""
1'

o serving the progress

e

looking round
for

made with growths

another season, wk>

in tht
'

ne Weather
'
,

haTbeVra H ffi aimcult matter

"*
to

^ keep the temperature down.

""
th U

"*

mMn '

C '

AMATE1*

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A

CYPRIPEDIUM SPORT
in

IN

THE LAW COURTS.

VHortitidtm.
fine

recorded

the July number of

the

Rcvut it

appears that Messrs. F. Sander

in

&

Co. saw a very

variety of this plan)

it

blonm in the establishment of M. Vincke, and purchased

for the
fl

sum

..f

thousand francs, hut

in

the

following year
to have

it

produced

inferior character,

hence they sought

the

money

refunded.

The

action
last.

was

tried before the

Tribunal of Commerce of Bruges on April Hub

foi

Messrs. Sander alleged that they bought the plant

the

-11111

named

only on account of the peculiarities of col

ing which the flower displayed,

to

and said that the vendor of an

year after the sale,
should
1

article

ought

guarantee

thi

the special characteristics which caused the sale to be effected, and that the
if

the plant no longer bore a similar bloom, restitution

is

be made, as

the custom of the trade

in

dealing with Orchid-.

vendor replied that there could be no special guarantee, that the plant had been bought in flower as it stood, and he denied the allee,
lie

the trade.

The Tribunal gave a verdict for the vendor, with that the plant was purchased in the state in which

costs, on
it

the ground

was

offered, without

any stipulation or guarantee, especially as to the production of similar bloom at the next flowering season and if it be shown that the plant did
:

not again produce a similar (lower to that which

that
fact

it

bore on the d

would not

nullify or cancel the sale; that, in fact, the vendor

fixity of

parted with the plant without guarantee as to the

tint

the colour or

of the blossom
contract,

that there

was

therefore no positive mistake to annul

justifies

the

nor concealment which

in

cancelling,
is.

but
o.

simply a

circumstance, often happening

Orchid

culture, that

the

variation in the colouring. The purchasers, being Orchid importers, must he acquainted with these possible variations, ami tins being the case, if they

had desired to protect themselves

in

case of such an event, should have

stipulated in special terms, or effected a conditional purchase.

As

to the

Hcged custom of the trade, which the vendor considered Ice: only to the sale of Orchids not in bloom, the Tribunal passed the matter as not being proved, and as not affecting arrangements made between the
Parties.

the nature of the variation in question, whethei not, does not would be rather interesting to appear in the report, and it genus, and know. Cypripedium first hybrid in the Harrisianum was the

What was

flowered for the d "ring the have elapsed since it twenty-seven years that have n t time a appeared, some of which number of varieties have one developed a sportive tendency. This is particularly the case with the

i
as C.

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X
Dauthieri, and the history of two or three very remarkable
at

known
sports
is

was given

pages 20 and 147 of our second volume.

Then

there

the remarkable yellowish-green C.

Harrisianum

virescens, described

page 235 of the same volume, which may have originated as a sport, though we believe it is constant in character." There is also a variety which is irregularly flamed and striped, both on the dorsal sepal and lip, which we
at

believe maintains its character.

The only form we know

of which exhibits

varying characters from year to year is that called C. X Dauthieri, The Albino, whose singular history has already been given in our pages. Various secondary hybrids have Harrisalso been

raised between C. X
these
far

ianum and

other

species

and

hybrids

-and from

various forms
to be

additional sports

may

be looked for
is

in future.

How

vendors are

held responsible for these vagaries

a rather nice question.

STENOGLOTTIS LONGIFOLIA.
Additions
to the
list

of really

handsome greenhouse Orchids

on several
different occasions,

will

be

welcomed, and

after seeing this plant

we

can

recommend

as a sterling acquisition, of easy culture, very free-flowering, and remaining in perfection for several weeks indeed, between two and three months elapse between flowers.
it

the appearance of the

first

and

last

a native of Natal, and was sent to Curator of the Durban Botanic

It is

Kew by

Mr.

|.

Medley Wood,
first

Garden, and flowered

for the

time
near

in

1889.

It is figured at
t.

t.

7186 of the Botanical Magazine.

It

is

S.

fimbnata, figured at
ticulars,

and

is

5872 of the same work, but differs in several para altogether a much more robust plant. S. fimbriata bears

small rosette of leaves which are banded or spotted with dark brown, and a scape about six or eight inches high, with a small raceme of pretty pmT* flowers hav -toothed lip. S. longifolia has much longer, erect, undulate green leaves, with a tinge"of purple near the base, scapes a foot or more high, with very numerous purple flowers having a five-toothed lip. A small chimp will bear five or six of these spikes, reminding one somewhat of an Orchis, and forming quite a charming little

specimen.

It

is

autumn, the ncreased by

first

rather nearly allied to Habenaria. flowers expanding about

and

the flowers in
It

this time of year.

is

can

'

off-sets,

something

like Disas,

moist and partially shaded situation, like many other terrestrial Orchidsis to be found in several collections, common as its and ought to become merits become better

and

very easily

grown

in a

known.

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,4

CATTLEYA
The
in

HARDYANA.
is

subject of our present

illustration

the

beautiful

Cattleya
will

Hardyana, the most handsome natural hybrid known, which

flower in various collections.
It originally

soon be

appeared

in

1885, in the

collection of the late

G. Hardy, Esq., of Timperley, and quite unexpectedly,

importation of C.

having flowered out of an

Dowiana tores and

('.

Warscewiczii
distinctly
like
vi

and its hybrid origin was at once apparent. Tin- How, combines the characters of the two parents, though it is most
; 1

C.

Warscewiczii
1:1

in

colour,

but

with the addition of

mmm

golden

'iinn-

ihr ihiM.it. derived from C. Dowiium.

The

history

of the

plant

was given

Fallowfield (Card. Chron., 1885, xxiv., p.

1885 by Mr. W. Swan, of briefly sum206), and may be

in
five

marised as follows

and was purchased

grower, when buying a lot for Mr. Hardy by another .t opened its for himself, as C. Sanderiana. However, in a couple of years appeared. first blooms owner that a fresh form had when it was plain to the bloomed, on the ye 1883, and in the two succeeding
1

: The plant was imported about

years previously,

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last

TffE

ORCHID REVIEW.
ir

occasion hearing four dowers on a spike,

was described as having

the best points of

in.

gigas and Sanderiana, with a dash of C. aurea thrown

It

the Bowers being strongly scented.

was shortly afterwards figured

.lor August 16th, 1884 (p. 211). before the plant

had

been named, as follows

:
An extraordinary variety, evidently a natural hybrid variety off. gigasprobably Sanderiana is now
George Hardy. Esq., Pickering Lodge. Timit

"NEW Ca 111
between
in
('.

r.YA.a

aurea and

bloom

in

the collection of

perley, Cheshire.

In form and size

it

is

magnificent thing, and

in

the

richness of the labcllum

is

just

what might be expected from the blending

of ('.aurea
It
is

of the bright orange veining in the throat

rich

with the expanded

crimson lower half of the other parent.

In course

wonderfully beautiful

of time va rious
i.

other individuals appeared

s,,,e
-.f

among

impor-

tationsnfthesame twos] 'ei

original form in the

-.

them being very

different

from the

way

tta

characters of the two parents are combined,

-,

though obviouslv

form-.

r'tla

one hybrid.

One

of the earliest of these

was
de

the variety Massai

01 a.

which appeared

in the collection of

M.

le

Due

Masse at I.usarclles. Belgium, in 1S88, and was figured in the Orchid Album (VIII., t. 262) as ('. X Massaiana. The flower has the general
shape of C. Dowiana. bu t the sepals and petals are mottled with light rose ami white, and the lip rich magenta-crimson, with two large areas of bright orange-yellow a t the sides, and the throat striped with brownish

The
ie,8S, in

next appearance

>f

the hybrid which

we have found recorded

this rare

is

in

and may be quoted, as it again illustrates the totally unexpected way which these natural hy brids appear: "A specimen of natural
t

hybrid between C. aurea mil C. gigas, with over one hundred bulbs and
ten leads,

now
s

be

ars

51

..I

-pilo

of gorgeous fragrant flowers, apparently

exactly

tile

Chr
>

PP. 493, 560.)

C. Dowiana chrysotoxa imported b. M .... .-..<,. ,i t, if not quite Ui all, the plants known have appeared out of importations of the two parent species, and considering howmuch these two resemble each other when

THE ORCHID RE VIE IV.

out of flower,
state.
it

is

obviously
late

difficult to

recognise

the

hybrid

in

the

same

Indeed,

the

Mr.

B.
iiie^as

S.

Williams recorded that on several

flow ered

occasions he hail purchased C.

and

examples oft'. Dowiana

aurea out of the

the latter proved

lot.

while, on tie
t

on flowering
-;\.

some which he imported for ! C. gigas. The possibility of obtaining

contrary,

forms of th

\\':.o

oowd
irdill. ra
,>f

value to importations from

the districts on the wi stern c

species are

Nov
is

Granada, where the parent

known

to

grow

tog) tber.
t.

Yak.

i.avi-:usini:\sis

[Lin.h-nia.
lip,

1,051

marbled form with

yellow-

blotches on the sides of the

very closely resembling ear. Massaiana.

Rothschild. Chateau de

which appeared
Var.
sepals

in

the collectionofBanHiF.de

Laversine, France, in August, 1891.

Oweniana
petals,

(C.

appeared with Messrs.

X Oweniana, Card. F. Sander & Co., in

a
faint

Chrtm.,

1892,

xii..

p.

312)

1892, and has creain-white

the
tips,

and

with

purple

tinge at

and
which

the
is

lip

regularly

veined except on the apical half of the front

Figures
ate

lobe,

deep
Kiev.,

velvety
11'-

crimson.

given

in

Journ.

of

Hort.,

1892,

21
iiois

shape and C. Warsccwiczii

in

c.ilour,

there

being

little

of

the golden

173) is a

very remarkable form which

Hall,

Statter,
Is
f

Esq.,. Stand
petals,

Whitcneld.

and

and a nankeen yellow,

le

of the apical lobe crimson with a white It has the of the side lobes.

margin

,,-i
..,

Jaunt, of Hart.. 1892, xxv.,

pp.
-

Sfoteriana, Onh.

Mkcn.

X..

t.

4>s

as the preceding.

purple
akahl,

with

collection of C. J.

2oi is another very

244

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

in

handsome form, which appeared

yellow areas at the sides of the

the collection of His Majesty the King

It
is

of the Belgians, at Laeken, in 1894.

lip

near var. Statteriana, but the

smaller, the

are

much
disc.

crimson being
II. (J.indaud,

more developed on the t. 479) is synonymous.

and colour, but has a
white.

front, sides,

and

C.

X Leopold

VAR. LuclANl (Lindmin,

little

449) approaches C. Warscewiczii in shape yellow veining in the throat, the yellow in the
t.

middle extending across the

It

lip.

and the

front lobe a little

marbled with

appeared

at

^Horticulture Internationale. Brussels.

t.

Vak. I.inpkni
It

[I.indcniiL

47M has

the

same

origin as the preceding.

has

dark crimson-purple

lip.

which colour extends round the margin of

The sepals and petals

the side lobes, and the usual veining on the disc.

are

more
VAR.

like

Dowiana

in

shape.

ai.ua [Orch. Key., III., p. 322) is a very

in the collection of \V. S.
It

handsome form, which

very similar to that of

appeared
last year.

M'Millan. Esq., of Maghull, Liverpool,

lip

has white sepals ami petals, with a

typical C.
It is

x Hardyana.
in

probable that numbers of artificially-raised plants will in time be

various collections

forthcoming, as the two species have been crossed

with this object, as has already been advised in these pages.

crosses was recorded at page 2O2 of our second volume, and

One

of such since

we have

heard of others.

Our illustration

represents a plant in the collection of

is

W. M.
a

Appleton,

Esq., Tyn-y-coed, Weston-super-mare.and

reproduced from

photograph

taken by Mr. G. I'Anson, of Upper Clapton.

CATTLEYA GRANULOSA BANNERI.

A
vicky striking

form of Cattleya granulosa was exhibited at the Royal

Horticultural

Society's

meeting

on
in

July

2<Sth,

by

S.

Banner,

Esq.,

Sherwood, Sefton Park, Liverpool,

which the sepals and petals were

almost wholly suffused with bright lurid purple, instead of being light green

and more or
from tip to
while the

less spotted.

The

flower
all

was very

large,

measuring 5I inches
petals and dorsal

tip of the petals,

and

the segments proportionately broad,

lip

was quite
little

typical in shape

and colour.

The

sepal were a
sepals,

paler at the base, as also the inner halves of the lateral

which showed a few traces of spots, but the remainder was of a

It is

remarkable purple shade.

remarkably different from the typical form.

K. A. K.

single cut flower

was

sent.

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M5

BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW.

There seems
to be a constant succession of Botanical Orchids
in addition to the
at

Kew

throughout the year,

showy species which are found in every collection, and even those who draw the line at showy things will generally find something of interest among the things which are not
generally cultivated. category,
Stenoglottis longifolia must be included in the latter

though

it

only requires to be better known

in

order to be
in

appreciated.

It is a

native of Natal, and grows with the utmost freedom

the Cool house, producing numerous elegant Orchis-like spikes of

light-

purple flowers at this particular season, and these last long in perfection.

Ladia

Lucasiana

is

another very pretty

little

plant,

which some might

object to see enumerated

future be

among
lip.

Botanical Orchids, and which

It

may

in

more widely

cultivated.

has bright purple sepals and petals

and a yellow much-crisped

Among Epidendrums may

b; enumerated the pretty

little

Brazilian

E.

bracteatum, a plant of small stature, very floriferous, and with a rosepurple lip, which contrasts effectively with the light green spotted sepals

and

petals.

E. radiatum

with finer flowers.

Mexican species allied to E. Polvstathva is represented by P. Kirkii,

is

fragrans, but
P. leonensis,

and P. zeylanica, the two former being Tropical African. Eulophia Mackenii is a curious little Natal species, with variegated leaves, curiously
allied to the Brazilian
like

E. maculata.
is

I.uisia cantharis

has the

lip

curiously

beetle.
:

Geodorum
the

represented

by G.

purpureum
plants

and

(..

candidum

Ccelogvne by C. flavida and C. Swaniana, the

latter a recent

introduction

from

Philippines.

Other

interesting
:

are

the

Trichocentrum Hartii, Doritis Wightii, like a small Phalamopsis, to which genus it has been referred and Saccolabium gemmatum, with terete leaves and racemes of
Brazilan Paradisanthus Moseni, allied to Aganisia
:

very small flowers.

Dendrobium crumenatum, known

Singapore, as the Pigeon Orchid at

has also flowered, but the blooms have the peculiarity that they

white flowers with some yellow on the

ceding, though not so fugitive.

lip,

somewhat approaching

the pre-

mentioned L. decursiva and

Microstylis congesta
;

be species of Liparis in flower may the alhed small L. Prainii, together with the

Among

while Oncidium

is

O. caesium), O. auriferum, and Odontoglossum

represented by O. Geertianum by O. myanthum, with

numerous small brown and pale yellowish flowers. Other plants noted "ere Masdevallia Carderi, M. peristeria, Pleurothallis maculata, Lycaste kucantha, Sarcanthus Williamson!, Satyrium militate, Selempedium Haselowiana and c "icn,m, including Stanhopea and various others,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Sobralia Lowii, which, though handsome, are not very widely grown. Many when in bloom, species of the last-named two genera are very handsome

though their

fugitive flowers

prevent them from becoming as popular as

thev otherwise would.

FERTILISATION OF CATTLEYA.
A floweb of Cattleya Warscewicai has been sent by Mr. C. C. Hurst, of the Burbage Nurseries, near Hinckley, in which a small humble bee has
been caught by
tb
.

i~

'.

-..-..

which

it

is

firmly glued

by

its

back.

The

insect

bad

enter, A the flower in search of food, but got too firmly glued

to the stigma to free itself,

and died

there.

Humble

bees are

known some-

('. times to remove the pollinia. and Darwin records one caught by Sir \V. Trevelyan in a house where a Cattleya was in flower, with its whole back

between the wings smeared with dry viscid

pollinia attached to
it

matter,

and with the

It is

four

by their caudicles, ready to be caught by the stigma

probable that
native bees, though very

of any other flower which the bee might have entered.

Cattleyas in a wild state are largely fertilised by

little

seems

to

have been recorded on

tie

subject.

page 295 of our second volume that in produces a seed pod nut of nearly every flower
at
at

Mr. Kit bard Pfau stated ('--, K,, Dowiana \

,

t :

in its

native habitat, but that

San

Jose, only

fifty

miles away, where be cultivates them, be had not a

in

single

pod out of nearly four hundred plants

;

flower,

though be keeps large

visit

quantities of hive bees

but

these

probably do not

Cattleyas.

Fine

capsules are sometimes found on imported Cattleyas, which

have no doubt
th,e-c
i.

been

fertilised

by native bees.

It

would be interesting
in

if

who have
-

the opportunity of seeing these plants

flower in their

n.,ti\

'.Id

observe what

in sects visit

them.
Hind
a,

spur or ne ctary
the insect
s

wall be

f<

search.

To
tl

what dept essed; and as

a strong
its
it

tsect

ike a

beedl

would

body
its

ii i.

but having

me

this

on

shoulders,

and

oit

visiting

away the pollinia another flower these would become

inevitably carry

attached to the viscid stigma, and fertilisation would thus be effected. It will easily be seen that a small bee might not be able to extricate itself, as
in the instance

now

recorded.
insects

It

is

probable that where Cattleyas growvisit

wild there are

certain

(probably bees) which regularly

the
duly-

flowers, just as in the case of

Coryanthes and others which have been

recorded.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CYPRIPEDIUJ
PETRI AND VAR. BURBIDGEI.
recorded
the
3ach,
d
igin

of

some
('.

fifteen

or sixteen years age. under

C.
li

Burbidgei,

but which
in
sj)ite

have since

been

considered as synony
differences.
RL-tcli.tli

.it

Dayanum.
it

of their to

undoubted
reproduce

Before

further
rks.

will

be

advisable

Kich's origin;.

us described
1

in
' ;

1880 {Gari. Chron., 1880,

,;:-,

xiii.,

Mr.

I) -.'-

linn, yet fresh

1

materials
last
a

jt

impression, which
d
.,-

ote in

February

to Mr.

Ha
tre

must be lvgard.
so characteristic

distinct.

It> leaves

have

just those far darker,

,;h, in

squre green paintings

ilower
i,

the affinity.

The
te>

whole-

smaller,

shorter.

Sepals white with green veins, very distinct

]

in outline,

and much
corres-

shorter than in the species

first

dedicated
at

my most assiduous

pendent.

Petals light

brow nish, green

base, ligulate. acute, straight or

cuneate, acuminate, covered on the whole border with long hairs, just as in Cypripedium Dayanum. I. ip greenish-brown, with dark sepia-brown on
the front part of the disc, or totally of that colour, yet always, it would appear, with green angles, Warts on the border of involved base nearly
purple.

Staminode
of

light

green with

is.

If there

were

not several other

colour

m arks

of distinctioi
it

le totally different
le

the

flowers),

would
in

be

by the

relative

length of the sepals and petals.

This

ssrs. Peter Veitch

It

and

I'.

W.

liurbidge,

made

the

Ma

only bears the

Gart. Zeit.,

name

of one of these gentlemen."

;. III.

94' P- -"J-

Burbic

k,

1,1

wing year (Card.

distinguishable

ily

three exceedingly

obscure teeth.

The

lip is

more conical than

lies

of the affinity

quoted, resembling that of ('. Petri and ('. Da; with a row of most obscure dark warts on eaef
line,

etals light
,ne

green,

on the middle

and some mauve on the

('.

lip's

margins,
gre

triangular, as in
is

purpuratum, with nine

very small and short.

Leave., nearly those

inicum.

My
I

first

*e*Jaintance
Mr. S. Low,

with

this

was

undoubtedly

who

pointed out the affinity with

tun,

when

urged

*i With C.

Virens,

though the petals are too

248 flower apparently of

flower, but
till

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

a fresh

importation, weak.

asked

for

a second
sold long

now
I

it

has not flowered again, and

it.

may have been

well-rooted
it

ago.

Lately

obtained
It

with a

tine,

strong,
Petri,

plant

from
in its
it

Messrs. Veitch.
colours.

grew together with C.

and

is

more gay

Mr. Harry Veitch was pleased by

to

my

suggestion to

name

in

compliment

Mr. Burbidge, since

like to

have two Cypripediums as near

question are

companions, just as these two travellers were good companions."

It is

quite evident from these remarks that the plants in

Dayanum, however much they may resemble it in certain respects. Besides the differences in shape and colour, I have long been struck with the shorter ciliae as compared with C. Dayanum, and the
not identical with C.

combined

differences suggested an affinity with C.

javanicum and C.
in

virens.
light,

But the new facts above alluded to put the whole question

new

and on comparing

all

the forms together

find

such an unmistakeable comC. virens in the doubtful

in

bination of the characters of C.

Dayanum and

forms C. Petri and C. Burbidgei as to leave no doubt

my mind

that the

two

latter are

both natural hybrids, with the paivnta^u indicated, and forms

of one, which

may

be distinguished as C.

Petri

and

var. Burbidgei.

The
some

discovery

is

interesting,

and as Cypripediums arc so

easily hybridised,

one might make the experiment of crossing the two species together.
Indeed, C.

Dayanum might also be crossed with C. Lawrenceanum and C. Kothschil.li. mum. with a view to proving the parentage of C. X Littleanutn

and C.

Kimballianum, two other Bornean Cypripediums believed to be

R. A. R.

of hybrid origin.

ODONTOGLOSSUM
A very
striking form of collection of

EXCELLENS LUTEOLUM.
entirely absent,

Baron

Sir

Odontoglossum X excellens has appeared in the H. Schroder, The Dell, Egham, in which the brown

blotches so characteristic of this

handsome hybrid are almost

leaving the flowers light sulphur yellow with a slight suffusion of light purple

on the back of the

sepals,

and the disc of the petals nearly white. There

lip,

are a few small spots and streaks at the base of the

which are derived from the O. Pescatorei parentage, and on some of the flowers one or two minute spots on the front of the same organ, while one of the lateral sepals
of a single flower has one small spot. flowers
trast

may

these trifling exceptions the be described as unspotted, and thus it forms a striking con-

With

with the typical form, with which

it

agrees in shape and size, and

in

the details of the column wings and crest of the lip. It is a very handsome form, and the almost total loss of the brown markings so characteristic of the O. triumphans parent
is

curious.

R.

A. R-

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..,

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST.

By H. A. Burbkrkv, Highbury, Moor
tlrcen,

Birmingham.

Some
their

of the earliest of the Dendrobiums

will,

during this month, complete

new pseudobulbs, and should where a good amount of light and

growths

be given a position in a cooler hoir-e.

air is obtainable, so that tin-

now

.in.l

;is

yet unripened
ever, let

may

duly become properly matured.

Do
I

not,

how-

them become

dried, scorched, and shrivelled

;

up. by altering their

growing conditions too suddenly

but bear in
at the

mind what

said

last

month, and avoid withholding water

root too soon.

Dendrobium
fact

Wardianum
these

frequently bleaks again quickly from the base, but this

in

must not interefere

their plants too

the least with the proper course of treatment.

will

When
to

new breaks appear, some growers

long
in a

encourage them by leaving

growing temperature, which only causes them

become weak and spindly, and therefore worthless.

apply equally to
as the
all

The above remarks

As soon
last
leaf, its

other spring flowering species of Dendrobium.

finished
its

main pseudobulb has

growth, by producing

they should be given cooler treatment, quite independently of any secondary-

growth that
which flower

may have
in

started
it

autumn

is

from the same pseudobulb. With those different, they must not be removed from their
:

growing quarters at least until after they have bloomed

all

by which time,

in

probability, the temperatures will have cooled

down

considerably, so that

to

remove them

is

unnecessary.
possible, be ventilated rather

Many

of the Cattleyas and Ladias will likewise be drawing their growing

if

season to a close, and should,

more

freely

than those

still

to finish.

Among them

principally will be found Cattlcya

Warscewiczii (gigas), which, by the way, should now be repotted where necessary, as soon as roots are seen pushing from the base of the pseudobulb.

C. Gaskelliana

is

flowered, another that has finished, and probably

and should now be given plenty of

forming quite a network on the
to the grower, as

when the roots will continue to grow, sight a pleasant and re-assuring compost
air,

of them must have healthy roots, and the more Orchids late plan to encourage now the the better. Generally speaking, it is a good possible growing kinds, such for instance as C. Mossia and Mendeln, if it is
to

do

so,

by giving them

a slightly

than warmer and moister treatment

those which have already

is

made

up.
far

The

time of year

is

getting on, and

it

well to

for late-growing species, and weather sets in. C. Lawrenceana is a very superba. that reason it is best grown in the Dendrobium house, where C. and C. Lueddemanniana (speciosissima), should also be grown. \\ hen t. underRex was first introduced, I was misled as to its requirements, and essential Cattleya house was stood that more that of the usual

have the growths as

advanced

the bad as possible, before

warmth than

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lor its well

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

being
it
:

but

am now
it

able to say that

it is

not so. the

last

named

house suiting

admirably.
is

In the East Indian house

best to be watchful just

will

now, as yellow

thrips are rather troublesome,

and

do much damage

to the

young and

tender foliage of Aerides. Cvpripediums.

Phalsenopses, and Vandas, by

permanently marking

it.

It is difficult at

times to dislodge this pest from

the axils of the leaves by fumigation, and

when

so the aid of tobacco

powder must be resorted

these are indeed

to.

Ants, again, are often a great

to

nuisance, and
that

difficult

get
in

rid

of.

The

poison
is

has

from
than

time

to

time
I

been

advertised
tried.

this

journal,

more

effectual

anything
plant
to
live

have yet
but
the the

Ants not only carry scale,

&c, from one

extract
to
say,

another,

there are

some plants from which they

ami
I

and
killed

upon

sweet

juices,

this,

it

is

needless

quickly prostrates

plants attacked.
a: ts

have had Phatenopscs quite

-m
to

by nothing more than

the

bl
...

ding

lii

death.

The

leaves in

time turn yellow wherever raw

leaf
is

isroed,
falls

same

colour,

and ultimately

and this spreads until the whole off. Nor is this the only evil

that

may

be laid against them.

They

are busy creatures, for ever on the

move, and
will

those pots which they select to principally locate themselves,

soon riddle the compost into small particles, causing early decomposition of the same. The ant is also very destructive to Orchid seeds just germinating, livery encouragement must still be given these East Indian Orchids, by keeping up sufficient warmth and moisture in the atmosphere,
avoiding at the same time the possibility of letting the mass of sphagnum moss at their base get and keep in a continually soddened state, for if so
the roots confined beneath will pensh.

The

present

month
to

is

good one

in

which to thoroughly

overhaul the

Cool house, and

vitellinum
is

do as much of the repotting as is possible. Epidendraa now almost over, and supposing the flowers are not required for
it

some

future purpose,

is

better

now

to cut

pseudobulbs

may have

a fair

chance of

them off, so becoming strong.

that

the

new

If the leading

growths are over the sides of the pots, they should have larger ones, otherwise a top-dressing
but
little.
is all

that

is

required, for this species

is

best

if

disturbed

Until the
1).

autumn

arrives they

may have

at the roots.

Falconer,, which grows best in

good supply of water a cool and shady departa

ment, must now be sprayed frequently during tile day. I), speeiosuin is also a cool growing species, but, unlike the first named, must be given a position where it can receive a good deal of light, and would be generally
better suited in the Cattleyaor

Mexican house, as do

also other species hailing

from the east coast of Australia, such as D. Kingianum, D. tetragonum, D.

hngmforme, and D.

teretifolium.

These species of Dendrobiunis

are

not

easy to re-establish after once having their roots disturbed,

ami should

THE ORCHID RE
therefore not be pulled about ruthlessly, nor
the root, to cause the

IE

IV.

251

be given too

much

watei

Bl

compost

to

become unduly sour;

will

in fact.

thcyreqmo
good

but

little

water.

Disa grandillora, and other species of Disa.

now
tin

lie

making

show.
all.

I),
It is

grandillora

is

the best and showiest, and

:

in..-!
it

useful of

them
the

not always

successfully cultivated
It

in fact,

is

seen frequently
in

in

a by

no means flourishing condition.

lie

does not, however, hang

balance long, but must either

fore,

grown

well or will soon disappear.

Therelie

should the
at once.

plants

be doing badly, some other method must

fate as

employed

Generally speaking, they share the same

many

another Orchid, and are killed by too

by not being grown sufficiently

much kindness, or. in other words, hardy. They have been know n to succeed
fact will

extremely well side by side with Ericas and Epacris, which

that but little or

prove

no

artificial

warmth

is

required during summer, whilst the

winter temperature should also be cool, and the atmosphere comparatively dry. The average greenhouse should, therefore, prove to be a splendid
place for them,

and beyond all doubt it is so all the plants require, is to be kept a little more shady and moist than the majority of the other inmates Or they may also lie grown during summer in during the summer months. a cold frame or pit. The only danger in the latter method lie- in the
;

possibility of

having insufficient

air to

circulate

round them.

When

the

found they grow and propagate so freely and healthily that great insect pests will prove but little trouble, though yellow thrips are a Sandy peat nuisance, and can be dislodged only by using tobacco powder.
right culture is

seems to be the most correct compost, whilst pots arc the best receptacles. Drain the pots with crocks about one fourth their depth only, and pot up
rather firmly.

Place in each one or

more

pot employed, a 8-sized pot being large enough 4 Directly flowering is past is the best time to repot.
are always plentiful,
in

the tubers, according to the size of for one fully-grown tuber.

The

offshoots,

which

propagated removed from the parent tuber and may be

small pots.

Disas do not reqmre to be Unless the pots are overcrowded,

of which are

repotted every year.

Nanodes Medusa, the flowers summer and the strictly prettv, should be grown in the Cool house during the large colour of the flower, and Intermediate one in winter The unusual

very interesting,

if

no!

Wnged
itself
is

lips are

the most

conspicuous qualities of the bloom.

Hut the plant

rather

attractive

when

well

grown,
distichous

the

stems being droopmg

green
leaves.
It

and

thicklv

sheathed

with

short

light
little if

does best in baskets or pans suspended, and but

used, as

any peat should be

i ow moss alone suits it best, it seems to me that the sphagnum ^ a good time to re-pan or top-dress, and it is fond of a good supply of

water during the

summer months.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Oncidium hastatuin
is

now

in

flower,

and

is

always greatly admired.

prefer to

grow

this species in pots.

is

After the flowers are past, and when

it

the

new growth

pushing from the base,

may

be repotted,

if

required.

an Orchid worth the best of attention, and growing well, but it often gets into a bad condition owing principally to the flower spike remaining on
It is

growing.

It

should then have the

warmth

of the Cattleya house, as should

its

any other Oncidium that has not finished

growth by October.

When

repotting Oncidiums use pots of a reasonable si/e only, as overis

potting Orchids

always a very great mistake.

The

pots should be three

parts drained with crocks and charcoal, as the crocks keep

much

sweeter

when intermixed with

crock a pot, but there
that
is

charcoal.
is

a right

may seem to many a simple matter to and a wrong way even in that, and the plant
It

planted in a pot correctly crocked, will last longer in a good and

First place one or

sound condition than when incorrectly done.

smaller, while the top

two

large

inverted pieces over the hole at the bottom, then over these a layer broken

and
not

final layer

should be about two inches in depth,

inch
in

and broken very small

lay quite level.
I

from half-an-inch to an
is
it
I

am

as a rule an advocate for of

first

si/e so that they mixing crocks and

class quality, but
if

charcoal
the peat
it

in
is

with the compost when the latter

poor, having no fibre, then

think

is a

good plan

to

do

so, as

greatly facilitates drainage, by keeping the whole

open and porous.

Odontoglossmn Loiidesburoughianuin is not <mc of the easiest to cultivate. It grows pretty freely when newly imported, but in the course of a few years dwindles, and often, without so much as producing one single flower spike to compensate for trouble taken, will grow less by degrees
until
it

finally disappears.

have had the best results from the following

it

be roughly described as being a cool Orchid, but a sun-loving one, and, therefore, it should have an abundance
treatment
the
first

: In

place

may

of

air,

but never be shaded.

The
I

plants

and so grown suspended, but

erally, greatly preferring

do not

may be fixed to recommend block

blocks of wood

treatment gen-

moss

as a compost.

baskets or pans, with the usual peat and sphagnum The moss when first imported may probably be ill-

shaped
gling, a

for fixing in a basket.

But although

its

habit of growth

is

strag-

way can

generally be found out of the difficulty, and the plant

finally secured in the ba'sket,

which, when done,

is

much more

easily and

During summer, when growth is active, it may be syringed frequently, but during winter a long and very dry rest must be given. The treatment I have previously advised for Barkerias is
a block.

better

managed than

the best possible one to give to this species.

O. madrense
little

is

another of the
It

Mexican Odontoglots, and

is

a very pretty

species.

should be

grown

in

small pans, and, as in the case of O. Rossii, O. Cervantesii. and

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

,,.

most of the other Mexican kinds, should be watered very sparingly. As it is very necessary to give the plants as much light and ran ... possible without causing injury, it will be better now to think about slightly reducing the summer shading. For instance, there
are
usually

many

situations where,

through various reasons, some kind of permanent shading,

cloud,is

used, just to break the ravs of the sun for a short period during the hottest time. This must not be allowed to remain

such as

"summer

when it is no longer necessary to serv= its purpose. may also be let down later in the morning, and removed
on
I

The

roller

blinds

earlier in the after-

am extremely
some

sorry to hear that the Cattleya

fly

has got such a

foot-

hold in

collections.
I

Compared

to this arch fiend,

I

other troublesome

insects are insignificant.

am

also sorry that

am

unable to give more precise

instructions for its speedy destruction other than already given in previous

which consists chiefly in watching closely for the infected growths, and by exercising great caution when purchasing new plants the
;

Calendars,

being the preventative policy, is, of course, the best. If any signs Whatever of their presence exists on newly imported plants, they should olated until they have been thoroughly cleansed, ami fumigated several ti
latter

As war

itli

from the >ipes

\

in

many departments
is

has not been required

oiled,

ne, the

have probably not been turned,

and kept

in

good work ng order and will so prin

matters co and put alt straight
ill.

W
t

ien

such

the case they invariably become rusty,

a leak
le

when

again touched.

These, and other

to
in

heating apparatus, should be seen

left

tune.

secure, rather than

until

absolutely required.

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
Bollea ccelestis, Rchb. I Garden, June 27, p. 487, with fig. Bollea Schrcederiana, Hort. Garden, June 27. p. 4S6, t. 1072. Cattleya Mossle Arnoldiana.Gard. World, July 2, p. 12.
Cattleya Schr<ederiana, Rchb. f. Gard. Chrm.,
Ccelocyxk Veitchii, RoHe.Gard. Mag., June
Cypkii-edium
July 18,
p.

with

73, fig.

27, p. 425.

" ith

fi

S-

x HakkisianumRev.

Hort. Beige,

July. p.

148, ng.

CYPRIPEDIUM x Stone,"'-' March,

p. 49,

with pla

254

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Dendkobium arachnites, Rchb. -Card. Citron., July DendrobU'm X PAl.l.EXS.Journ. of Hort., May 7,
f.

4, p. 7, fig. 2.

pp.

422.

42.5.

fig.

69.

Dendkobium thyrsiflorum. Garden, July Epidendrum bicornutum.Journ. of Hort..

11, p. 28,

with

fig. fig. 0.

July

9, p. 28.

HABENARIA MILITARIS, Rchb. (.Journ. of Hort., July 16, p. 53, fig. H.emaria Dawsoniana, Rolfe.Bot. Mag., t. 7486. L.Iil.l.v PURPURATA v.\n. ASHWORTHIANA. -Cord. (lino,., [ulv II. p.
fig.

9.

.;;,

10.

Sobraua LEUCOXANTHA, Rchb.

f.--Journ.

of Hort..

July 23,

p.

7;.

ORCHIDS
At

AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held at the Drill Hall,
as

James Street, Westminster, on July 18th last, Orchids were not numerous as usual, and a large proportion of the exhibits consisted of Mowers. A number of interesting things, however, were staged.
Sir

cut

Mr. White), sent a very interesting group, including a well-flowered plant of Dendrobium Maccarthia;, Laslia Lucasiana, Cattleya Eldorado marginata, approaching C. E. splendens, but the side lobes of the lip margined with rose-purple;
(gr.

Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking

a well-flowered

plant

of

the

pretty

C.

Eldorado Wallisii, Polystachya

Epidendrum volutum. Zygopetalum Burtii Wallisii. Sx. An Award of Merit was given to the remarkable Zygopetalum grandiflorum, and a Botanical Certificate each to Catasetum Russellianum, Oncidium
odorata,

virgulatum, and Masdevullia corniculata.

The Right Hon. Lord Rothschild. Trtng Park

(gr.

Mr.

Hill),

sent a

very fine six-flowered inflorescence of Cattleva Warscewic/ii Shuttleworthii, to which a Cultural Commendation so C. Gaskelliana albs

and Masdevallia Carderi, the latter reo iving a Botanical Certificate. The Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury. Birmingham,
(gr.

Mi. Burberry), sent a

fine series of

dissimilar varieties of

Cattleya

Warscewiczii, and received a Vote of Thanks. T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester
flowers of Cattleya

(gr.

Mr. Johnson),
cut

showed a good plant of Cypripedium Godefroya; leucochilum, and

Rex. C. Warscewiczii delicata, C. Schrcederiana, C. Gaskelliana, La;Iia tenebrosa and L. purpurata, Laelio-cattleya X elegans,

and

L.-c.

Schilleriana,

Cypripedium superbiens, C.

Curtisii, C.

Harrisi-

anum superbum, and

given.

C.

selligerum

majus.

A Vote
(gr.

of

Thanks was

W. Thompson.

Esq.. Walton Grange, Stone

Mr. Stevens), sent a

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

profusely flowered group

.;,

of

the

handsome

little

Coohlioda
.in.
I

\,i l/li.m.i.

together with

Odontoglossum nehulosum candidulnm

Esq.,

lb hitcnpnr-

pureum sceptrum.
C.
J.

Lucas,

Warnham

Court.

Horsham

(gr.

Mr.

Duncan),

showed a fine series of Vote of Thanks.

a very pretty light

varieties of Cattleva Warscewic/ii. and

Edgar Cohen, Esq., Hall Road.

St.

John's

Wood

(gr.

Mr. Vass), sent

form of Cattleva Mendelii.

egr.

Norman
sent three

C. Cookson. Esq.. Oakwood. Wvl.un-on-Tvnc

Mr. Mmr.tvi,
fine

good plants of Phaius

variety

Hinnblotii, one of
also
a
line

them bring the

"f

rose-coloured

Henryi

Bower

Cypripedium

Voungianum.
J.

Wilson Totter. Esq., Parkhill Road, Croydon, exhibited

igr.

line plant

of Aerantlies grandillorus.

Reginald Young. Esq.. Sefton bark. Liverpool

flowers of

Mr. Poynt/), sen

Cvpnp> dime Stoma cundidum and C. x Uanisiammi siqvvhtun. Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Upper Clapton, exhibited Cattleya Mendelii, Mossi* Arnoldiana. and a fine dark variety of Mossia Called
I
.

" Brilliancy," to

Messrs. E.

which an Award of Merit Sander & Co., St. Albans, staged two
>

plants of Spathoglottis
witli

plicata Micholitzii,
six fine spikes, to

and

a splendid

specimen of Ceelogyne Sanderiana

which a Cultural Commendation was given. At the close of the meeting Reginald Young. Esq., of Sefton Park,

system of recording hybrid Cypripediums, and handed to the Secretary a copy of the list which it has been his practice for man) years to keep posted up from various sources. It is hoped that
Liverpool, explained his
this will

prove of great service to the Committee

in

regulating the nomen-

clature of the

numerous hybrids which come

before them.

cordial vote

of thanks

was given to Mr. Young. At the meeting held on Jnlv >Sth, the show of Orchids was very though several interesting things found their way to the Drill Hall.

small.

The

President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Part., Burford. Dorking

little

(gr.

Mr.

White), staged a neat

a group, containing Dendroliinm revolutunl, good plant of Maxillaria Hubschii with seven flowers, a good dark purple form of Masdevallia infracta with twenty flowers, and a Cypripedium

called C.

Charles Steinmetz (C. philippinense

of

Lawrenceanum 3

),

which appears to be the reverse cross

variety of the same.

a C. Hobsoni, and therefore

An Award

Odontoglossum of Merit was given to

to

aspidorbinum, with ten racemes, and a Botanical Certificate

Dendrobium

VV. C. Clarke. Esq., Orleans House. Sefton Park. Liverpool, exhibited

Cypripedium

Mabelhe (C. superbiens

C. Rothschildianum i

),

and

-*5<"

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

X Harrisianum superbum
?

C. Harrisander (C.
latter a

C.

Sanderanum 3

),

the

which an Award of Merit was given. S. Banner, Esq., Sherwood, Sefton Park, Liverpool (gr. Mr. Edwards), exhibited Cattleya granulosa Banned, a very remarkable variety, in which the sepals and petals were strongly suffused with lurid purple.
tiling, to

handsome

Messrs.
(S.

James Veitch

&

Sons, Chelsea, exhibited Selenipedium Brysa

Sedeni candidulum J X S. Boissierianum 3 ), Cattleya X Atlanta (C. Leopoldi 2 X C. Warscewicziij ), a handsome thing, to which a Firstclass Certificate

was
3
),

given,

X M.
Merit.

peristeria

Ajax (M. X Chelsoni a very pretty hybrid, which received an Award

Masdevallia

and

of

flower of each parent

was exhibited

for

comparison.

Messrs. I. Sander

&

Co.. St. Albans, staged a small

little

and

interesting

group, containing tin pretty

1\.

Aganisia ionoptera, Kestrepia elegans and

inaeulata.
little

Pholidota obovata, a yellow form of

Gongora

galeata, the

pretty

Paphinia

Randii, Calanthe

X Laucheana,

a prettily spotted

Odontoglossum crispum, Uendrobium bracteosum, Cypripedium saianum, C X Mabelia; var. Lord Derby, C. X Patersoni. and C.
Messrs.

X X

MasA. de

Thomas

Cripps

&

Son, Tunbridge Wells, exhibited a splendid

feet

group of Disa grandiflora, some four

long by over two

feet broad.

containing a large number of plants, mostlv with two to four flowers each. A Silver Banksian Menial was awarded. Messrs. YY. L. Lewis & Co., Sonthgate, exhibited two fine forms of granulosa, one being a well developed form of the variety Schofieldiana.
;
.

Seavy, of Camberwell, exhibited a group of artistic photographs of Orchids, comprising about fifteen of cabinet size, mostly Cypripediums,

and four large ones one of them, representing a house of Miltonia vexillaria and Cattleyas belonging to R. j. Measures, Esq., of Camberwell. being
;

effecti'

CORRESPONDENCE,
segments remain partially united. E. H \\\. Scarborough. Brassia brachiat;
.

&c.

C. Stoldt.

Vanda

tricolor, var. planilabris.

G. Bayer. -..-.
:.

Epidendrum venosuin, Jlaxillana ochroleuca, .. H . c u.uiii and Cataselum viridinorum. d The Seet"' n C VP ri P edium is clearly descended from ? Lawrenceanu^and

'

Euryale, the two being synonymous. tin.- umi h, msynonymous E. A. IS.. Oxford. Apparently a fine light form of Cattleya W. E Newchurch. The creatures sen. are leeches, and ater with which the Cypripediums were watered.
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NOTES.
Tin; next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on September 8th, when the Orchid

meet at the usual hour of 12 the only meeting during September.

will

Committee

o'clock,

noon.

This

will

be

We
Winn,
Mr.

regret to learn that the well-known Orchid collection of Charles Esq., The Uplands, Seliy Hill, Birmingham, is to be distributed.

Winn
Mr.

being relinquishing their cultivation owing to

is

ill-health.

Winn
and

one of the oldest Orchid

cultivators in this country,

and

for

the

last

thirty-rive years

he has been an enthusiastic collector of rare

cultivator.

varieties,

most successful

During the

latter part

of the

time he has paid

a large

much

attention to hybridising, and the collection contains

number

of seedling

Dendrobiums, Cypripediums, and others of

unique.

choice parentage,

some of them probably

is

An account

of this

interesting collection

given at page 261 of our second volume.

Messrs. Charlesworth

The

collection has been purchased by

&

Co., of

Heaton, Bradford, who, we believe, will distribute the plants within the next few weeks, thus affording amateurs of Orchids an opportunity of
acquiring

some choice

things.

We

hope that

under

the

process

of

distribution the records of parentage of the

will

numerous promising seedlings

not be lost.

A
-

very line flower of Lselio-cattleya

callistoglossa has been sent from

the collection of T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefleld, Manchester, by

Mr Johnson.

It is

the characters of

its

well one of the oldest and best of the group, combining Warscewiczii. parents, Ljelia purpurata and Cattleya

258

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Alarge dark form of the handsome Dendrubium Phalannpsis is also sent from the same collection, like the preceding, showing evidence of very good
culture.

This Dendrobium

is

specially valuable

on account of

its flowering

so freely during the

autumn months, when flowers are

less plentiful.

fine flower of the

handsome Ladio-cuttlevu X exoniensis has

it

been

sent from the collection of D. B. Rappart, Esq., of Liscard, Cheshire.

The

characters of Ladia crispa are, as usual, verv apparent, and

flowers about

the same season of the year.

Although the

earliest

of the Ladio-cattleyas
still

it flowered
best,

for the first time in the

autumn

of

1863 and
later

one of

the

we do not remember
little

to have heard of
is

any

batch of seedlings

being raised.

Cattleya Mossia;

reported to have been one parent, but

it

there remains a

uncertainty whether

was

this or

C. labiata, as the
crispa,

former seldom blooms at the same season as

certainly one parent,

Lfelia

which was

should

like

and not L. purpurata, as was long supposed. to hear if anyone has repeated the above crosses.

We

learn with interest that Mr. F. J. Le to make a complete collection of Sobralias.

We

Moyne,

of Chicago,

is

trying

Most of the species are

very

handsome, though owing

size,

to their fugitive flowers and, in

some
would

cases, large
be.

they are not so

defect
is

much

cultivated as they otherwise

The

compensated

for

by the succession
1

flowers which they bear.

When

seen in masses in their

are

among

the most beautiful of Orchids, as various travellers have borne

three-flowered inflorescence of the magnificent Disa grandiflora has been sent from the collection of Mrs. Barclay, The Briars, Reigate, by Mr. Badey. The sepals are of the most brilliant scarlet, and the largest

measures over 2^ inches long by 19

correspondingly well developed.
It is

lines broad,

while the dorsal sepal

is

one of

five plants in a 48-sizedpot,

and

Mr. Bailey states that the plant has been grown there ij years to his knowledge, and the two facts speak volumes for the soundness of the treatment adopted. It is a splendid example of good culture.

the strongest plant carried five flowers.

have received a splendid five-flowered inflorescence of the beautiful Ladio-cattleya X Brymeriana, from the collection of Colonel Brymer, M.P., Ilsmgton House, Dorchester, to which a First-class Certificate was
given at the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting on August 24th parents are Ladio-cattleya X amanda ? and Cattleya Warscewiczii
characters
it

We

last.
,

Its

S whose

well combines, the lip being very densely

It

and

beautiful veined

with crimson-purple on a lighter ground. page 21 of our first volume.

was

originally described at

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A
the collection of D. B. Rappart, Esq., of Liscard.

159

flower of the beautiful ("attleya Lueddemanniana has been sent from

The

lip is

very prettily

veined,

somewhat

as in C. Mossije, though
lip.

it

differs

in its

comparatively

broad petals and narrow

the

and

in its habit of flowering

on completion of

young growths.
Habenaria
polytrichia, Rolfe,
is

a remarkable

new

species from Formosa,

(t.

which

is

figured in a recent issue of the hones Plantariwi

2496).

The

petals are not only divaricately bilobed, as in the section Ate, but each lobe
is

again divided, the upper half into two long filiform lobes, and the lower

one into four.

The

lip is also

broken up into numerous

filiform lobes.

It

belongs to the group called Medusseformes, which contains only two other
species,

M.

ternatea,

Rchb.

(.,

from the Moluccas, and M. andamanica,

Hook,

f.,

from the Andaman Islands.

have received the seventh Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, founded under the bequest of the late Henry Shaw, which forms
a

We

handsome volume, containing

to

several important illustrated papers.

it

In the

Report of the Director, Mr. William Trelease,

additions
selected collection of Orchids has been placed
so that with

is

stated that

among
in

the

the plants cultivated under glass

will scarcely

"a

small but carefully

in the

house

built

1894,

good management there

or

be a time during the

be

year

when one

more

of these

interesting plants cannot

found

in

bloom, while
together.

in the latter part of the winter a considerable

number

are open

my

to year, be extended considerably from year This varied the greater part of this house to a intention being to devote

collection will

collection

of

Orchids.

The garden has now in cultivation enhouse Orchids." An illustration of

is

156

named

a fine plant

01 of

i^attieya Cattleya

luteola inreoia

diock on a block

^ivch given i

t"*&~

-"

and of Chv
find

bractescens in a group of other things at page 23, but

to

we

no

refel

them

in the text.

Odontoglossum X Coradinei A very curious flower of a good form of of Kenmshead, has been sent from the collection of W. Campbell, Esq., add.t.ona lip is a small near Glasgow, by Mr. H. Reid, in which there
the nearly in front of the normal one, and slightly adnate to

quite perfect in
i

shape and

colour, but not half

of the ordinary one.

Th The

rest of the flower rest

is

quite perfect, and

d broad.
nportatii

I,

came

out of one of

Messrs. Lewi,

flowered scape of a hybrid Cypripedium of from the collection been , 2 and C. Boxallii 5 grandiflorum o ....,, r !,;; , has been sent

raised from C.

bartatum

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

It is a

Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool.

good form of C. X apiculatum, and the spots of C. Boxallii are well shown. In the lower
flower the lateral sepals are free, a character occasionally seen in this genus.

A
1888,

plant of

Cypripedium Godcfroy*.

in

the

same

collection,
in

is

now

bearing ten fine flowers, and as the plant was purchased

it is

September,

evident that the treatment set forth by Mr. Young, at page 45 of the present volume, is the correct one. The species of this group grow and
flower freely enough under proper treatment.

Flowers of the charming little Odontoglossum X aspersum violaceum have also been sent from the same collection. The front lobe of the lip

and the petals broadly margined with a deeper shade of the same, while the sepals and the base of the petals are barred
is

suffused with light purple,

with deep brown.

It is

a very brilliantly coloured form.

very beautiful flower of Cattleya Eldorado virginalis comes from the collection of E. J. Sidebotham, Esq., Erlesdene, Bowdon, Cheshire. The plant is a newly-imported one, and bore a spike of three flowers. The
sepals and petals are pure white, and the throat deep orange. of the species was given at page 301 of our second

The

history

volume.

Trichocentrum longicalcaratum (Rolfe)

is

a remarkable

little

species

now

flowering in the rich collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking. The flowers are white, slightly tinged with pale green, the disc of the lip yellow with two orange keels and a small maroon blotch at their apex. The column is short and broad, with fimbriate wings, and a purple pubescent anther-case. The spur is \\ inches long, nearly three times as

long as the rest of the flower.

It

has recently been

named

at

Kcw.

photograph of a fine plant of Selenipedium caudatum Wallisii has been sent from the collection of W. C. Clarke, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool, showing three spikes, each with three flowers. M r. Clarke thinks from the new growths that it will have
twice as

many

flowers next time.

Reverting to our article on Cattleya X Hardyana at page 241, that the handsome varieties Statteriana

we

learn

and Countess of Derby were

obtained from the importations of Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., of Heaton, Bradford; also the fine Selwood variety, which realised the highest
individual price at the Selwood Sale, namely, 140 guineas. In 1889 a plant of C. x Hardyana and two of the variety Massaiana flowered in the collection of E. G. Wrigley, Esq.,

Howick House, Preston, which realised at the sale 95, 90, and 60 guineas, respectively. These also were from Messrs. Charlesworth's importations. It is always interesting to know the
origin of choice varieties of

any kind.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A

,C,

very pretty form of Oncidium macrantrram has been sent from the collection of M. J. Ragot, Villenoy, near Meaux, France, in which the sepals are not much darker than the petals, being onlj lightly suffused with

dusky brown.
because not

The

inflorescence, also,

is

but

little

over two
at

feet long,

and

the flowers seven in

fully

number and

rather crowded

the apex,

probable

developed.

An
("oven.

excellent photograph of a fine inflorescence of

has been sent from the collection of A.

W.

Wills, Esq.,

Mormodes luxatum of Claregate, Wylde

13! inches,
23.

Birmingham.

The

length of the inflorescence

is

and

its

greatest breadth 8 inches,

remarks:

"This

while the

flowers

number

Mr.

Wills
the

species,

one of the most

beautiful of Orchids, has

reputation of being
this opinion,

difficult to flower.
:

My

record, however, docs nut justify

being as follows

Bloomed

1S91. 1802,

and I093

rested rs ot

bloomed 1895 and 1896." The inflorescence is very beautiful, anil we congratulate Mr. Wills on his successful treatment, of which we should be glad
to receive a few particulars.

A good photograph and

collection of Dr.

dried flower of a Stanhopea are sent from the

collected in

The plant was the extreme South of Mexico, near the Guatemalan frontier, last
A.

W.

Hoisholt, Stockton, California.

November, and has now produced a raceme of

be S. oculata. Lindl.
Silver

four flowers.

It

proves t"

sand

Dr. Hoisholt remarks that the Sower was dried in according to the directions given at page 223 of our first
its

volume, and owing to

fleshiness the shrivelling

is

extreme.

Still

tin-

shape of the parts and the spots are so well preserved as to enable any one is very to recognise it immediately. It is a very handsome species, and it
unfortunate that the flowers do not
favourite
last longer.

Good photographs

of the

Odontoglossum citrosmum and Miltonia

vexillaria are also sent.

CYPRIPEDIUM
The
article

PETRI AND VAR. BURBIDGEI.

number
of the Orchid Review (page 247)
is

appearing

in

the last

on Cypripedium

Petri

and

var.

Burbidgei

distit
I

have adopted the

to

var. Burbidgei and added both C. X Petl hybrids, as a cross between C. Davanum and C. virens. I presume Veitoh's virens intended is the C. javanicum var. virens of
ie,

my list
that

of

Orchidaceous PlanH

(iv.,

page

35).
in

Curiously enough, neither

'

nor C. virens are mentioned

that the former
I

Williams' Orchid OI
.
I

>'

JW
.

tin:

<!

javanicum

''T<

is

given as one of the parents of

suggestion
that

agree with the

X o ,0:. -supeifaens. someone might make the expenmen

26a

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Dayanum and
is

of crossing C.

C. virens together, as the result

would

serve

either to corroborate or to disprove the conclusions arrived at.

Still,

four or five years

a long time to await the result, and

in the

meantime I would suggest that a bloom of C. X woodlandense he sent to you by whoever has the pleasure of next flowering it, for inspection and report.
This hybrid appears to have been raised by Messrs. Sander
is

&

Co., and

recorded

in

Mr. Chapman's
199) as C.

list

of Hybrid Cypripediums {Card. Chron.,

,

1895,

xvii., p.

by G. Hansen (page
15th August, r896.

Dayanum ? C. virens 3 and in the Orchid Hylirids 183) as C. Dayanum X javanicum virens. Reginald Young,

STANHOPEA WARSCEWICZIANA.
and

what a number of Orchids are only known from a description published long ago, and often very imperfect, so that it is not always an easy
it

is

curious

matter to identify them.

In the case of the above Stanhopea, which has

flowered in the collection of J. D. Hodgson, Esq., Newcastle-on-Tyne, from a plant received from Costa Rica two years ago, there was a figure of the original plant in existence, and I have long been anticipating its

now

re-appearance; as also of one or two others, which will probably turn up again some day. The present one was originally discovered by Warscewica Mt. Chiriqui, Central America, and flowered in the mii'serv of Herr Mathieu, at Berlia, 1852, and was shortly afterwards described by Kioto nana (Allg.
Gartz., xx., p.
Orel,.,
ii.,

274).

figure

was

arterwards green bj Reichenbach (Xai. the plant appears to have been lost

p. 85, t. 125),

after

which

sight of.

This figure shows the whole

flower of a bright deep yellow, with the exception of the column, while that of Mr. Hodgson's plant is much lighter, though identical in structure, from which it appears that the species is somewhat variable in this respect. So many of the figures of this work, however, are so badly coloured that one cannot place too much reli; The species allied to S. insignis, Frost, the hypochil being quite globose, as the flower is much smaller and differently coloured. The sepals and petals are about two inches long, very light yellow and unspotted, and the lip is
paler, the hypochil being very pale yellow blotch on either side, and the rest of the lip
still

with a verv
"

li-'ht

purple

nearly white.

acute keels on the sides of the hypochil describe a semi-circle. is slightly over t l inches long, and broadly winged almost to' the base, the apical teeth being triangular and acute. The flowers have a strong aromatic

The pair of The column

R. A. R.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

DIES ORCHIDIAN^E.
The
case of the variety or sport of Cypripedium

i6j

X Harrisianum
raises
a

in

the

La

Courts,

reported at page 239 of your

;

last

issue,

rathei
it

curious
difficult

question
to

but there

is

a lack of detail in the report,

ease.
It

which makes
th.it

form an opinion on the merits of the

appears

Messrs. Sander

saw

certain peculiarities of colouration in a variety of C.

Harrisianum,
:i

the comparatively

hi^rb

price of

thousand were nol

Hovered again these

present.

peculiarities
iit

What
was

their nature

was does

not appear, nor

first

ivi

nrded whether

the plant
oltier

a seedling flowering for the

time, or a portion of
tile

wane
('.

plant which had originated as a sport, like

curious forms of

Again, it is not which have been described in the Rantm. recorded what the rhavrrs w< ri like th.' ne\t \e.ir. onlv that tin were of an inferior character. And these little details are just what one would like

Dauthieri,

to

know.

It

is

is

-;.--.

.1

that

the

vendor of

this erratic

plant

was

and tookadvaut .g' "fan ii.nocnit purchaser, otherwise the case might appear different. It has sometimes been rccommoialc.1 that
aware of
in

its tricks,

order to avoid being taken

in,

people should purchase their plants

in

in

flower, but the present case

suggests that even plants

flower

may

not

always prove to be what they seem.

not
its

Such

eases,

however, are fortunately

it

common, though

if

the plant

is

a genuine sport

may

again surprise

present possessor in a

more agreeable way.

and which
in

sp.at- ate just those things

in.

which appear when

least expected,

one

will he

answerable

for

when they do come, though

most cases they prove permanent, and what-

ever their subsequent behaviour, they are invariably regarded with interest. one now under I should like to know a little more about the history of the
consideration.

It

seems quite possible that sports among Orchids may become more
in future, as hybridising progresses.
it is

common

agreed that

chieflv. if not

altogether,

now seems to be generally among plants which have been

It

which production of a bud with different characteristic* ,0 that of the plan,

Produced

it,

and

this,

on devel, pm,
1 '

in.
pi

gives rise to
.

a
1

w
P'"

fo.
,VV,
'

Complete

dissociation

seldom or never takes sporting back to its ori-inal r

then,
;

is
:

bj brid
1

might be found

-.

M ""

,:,k

"

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

:hus

shows a

partial reversion

t,,

the character of C. barba

striped
I

,riginal parents.

There

is

also a

form of C.
cannot say.

vhcther
will

it

arose as a sport or otherwise

X I No doubt

other

be duly recorded as they appear.

nd history of Catthy
ber ipage 241),

X Hanlyana came
is

very opportunely
their newly-

when everybody

watching

iwianas in hopes of finding this

I

handsome

natural hybrid
I

believe that at one of the sales at

Protheroe an.

Morris's

ne ago a gentleman was present who had made a study of )f growth of this hybrid and parents, and who purchased
it,--

quite a

number
will let
lie

c ,f

plants which

ht looked

in,, st

likely

to be C.

Hardy;, na.

That gentleman.
us

hope he

know what
some
quiet

Should not

su rprised to hear that in

corner he has a
all

little
it

batch of home-n used seedlings, which are sure to be require! a good deal of patien
;

right,

though

flow-er.

It is

rei narkable
t

what a number of plants have appeared

dso

in

the
It
is

jf

about

how

distinct

many

of

them

are.

pretty evident th at
is

where the

tx vo

parent species grow- together, the pollen

fertilise

carried about

ndiscriminateb by the wild bees which

as

them, and

a good

main
>

po,
'ii

ed must be the result, or the hybrid would

it

not be

,0

commc

is.

It

seems quite

likelv

that

number

of other
I

forms w: 11 turn up in tl le course of the next few years, though hope th at each ne will not lie iirnished with a separate name, whether
brilliant
i

it

deserves

it

or no t.

And
if

the e numeration

of the different varieties given

last 11101 ith will e liable

those

wh o

are fortunate

enough

to flower

additional

plants

ascertai n
list it
is
1

they agree with those already named.

rch out
all

In the absence

of such a

difficult to set

the scattered references, which

perhaps partly ac counts for the deplorable confusion which occurs among
t

popular Orchids.

he illustration of the charming little group of Habenarias, given at page 209 of the July number, reminds me how beautiful some of these terrestrial species are, and it is fortunate that their merits have been more recognised
1

during recent years.

many

Quite an interesting collection could be got together,

of which present

no cultural

difficulties

if

,.rdinar\

ear,

is

exercised,

though some have a disappointing way of taking 1'ivn, h leave during tinsupposed resting period and even this is partlv due t,, nelect ,,r improper
;

treatment.

Among

the best of recent acquisitions are the Inlaid Disas,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

icli

have assuredly

easilj
Ik-

growl

they proved.

And

with them must

classed the parent

speeies. including

"the peerless Disa grundinoru. the

it

Pride of Table Mountain," which,

in

when
ol

succeeds well,
for

is still

unsurpassed

cultivation, though

it

does nol succeed

some reason. Then there are several cultivation, the handsome Stenoglottis longifolia and some of the European Orchises are easily "Town and
everywhere
very gay during the early summer.
catalogue, as many- of
to the Disas,
it

Satyriutns wortlu
S. thnbriata.

and even

vcrv handsome.
in pots,

And

there are the hardy Cypripediums, several of which do well

m.l

m
a

But there

is

no need to draw up
for a

them

are well known.

Reverting again
will

moment

is

probahle that other ae<|uisitions

soon he lorthcMniing.
little

as further crosses have been attempted, and such promising

plants are

sure not to be neglected.

is

interesting to note that an importation of the

handsome Renantliera

:hootiana has been secured.

;

Were

it

not so recent adiseov.

-le-aM

that this

must be the
it

Out
it

of flower,

is

Wanda which was reported some years more suggestive of a Yanda of the aerulea -roup
scarlet

a Renanthera, and
will

if it

blooms

as freely as appearances

seem to

indil

be a great acquisition.

Hitherto

it

has been too rare to

linioii,

though Mr. Woodall's

plant, exhibited

some time ago

at

one

ol

voyal Horticultural Societv's meetings, affords pretty conclusive evid nee

THE HYBRIDIST.
described a vcrv prcttv hybrid which was shown at the last York Gala by Mr. James Cypher, Queen's Road Nursery. Cheltenham, and received an Award of Merit. The parentage is recorded

Under

this

remarkable name

is

as C.

Forbesii

superba.

The

habit and general shape of the

in the colour, the

flower
side-

approach nearest to C. Forbesii, but

lobes of the
lip,

more expanded

superba is the flower, the influence of C. with said to preponderate. The sepals and petals are creamy- white, tinged rose, and green at the tips, while the lip is yellowish white with brownish yellow raised lines, and the sidedobes rose-purple inside and veined outs.de with some yellow in the with the same colour. is rose-purple, The front lobe

and the texture'of

centre, as in C.

superba. O'Brien

in

Card. Chron., July 25th.

p. 90.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

EPIDENDRUM PLICATUM.
wry handsome Epidendrum was described and figured under the me by Dr. Lindley (Bot Reg., XXXIII. 35), which had been introduce A from Cuba by Mrs srs. Loddiges, flowered in their establish? net in the previous Ju ly. Since then has been almost lost
i.^a; a
.
.
;

sight

,.f.

note that

plant has flowered plri

in

the

collection of Mr. T.
tourist
is

L. Mead, Oviedo, Florida, which was brought by a

It

from Florida.

belongs to the Encyclium group, in which the

is

lip

free

fn.m the column, and

lip

nearly allied to E. ceratistes, Lindl.

Lindley

described the

as rich crimson, also the petals at the back, but the sepals

and

inside of the petals green, the former just

warmed and

the latter richly

is

spotted with crimson.

Mr. Mead remarks that the scape

two

feet long,

and the

lip

in

colour like Ladia autumnalis, passing to white in the centre

the petals greenish goldriebuff

with maroon tips, and the outer -surface

sprinkled with buff;

and the sepals buff, like the petals, but only edged with maroon mottlings, and the reverse surface also dusted with maroon.
Like

many

others

it

is

probably variable

in

colour,

and

is

one of the

comparatively few handsome species grown.

BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW.

One
of the prettiest Botanical Orchids

now

flowering at

Kew

is

Cynorchis
at

grandiflora, a terrestrial

Madagascar species, whose history was given

page 59 of our first volume. Its large purple fourdobed lip and green sepals marked with purple-brown are very distinct and attractive, and it grows
well with other terrestrial species.

Spiranthes grandiflora

is

a well-known

old species, with spikes of large green flowers,

collections.

Spathoglottis plicata

which is found in a few and a very pretty dwarf variety called

Micholitzii

must also be enumerated.

The

latter

is

a distinct improve-

ment on the
rather larger,

type, the dwarfer habit being very

marked, while the flower is and of the usual bright purple colour. It was imported by
Several plants of the pretty
little

Messrs. Sander.
also very effective.

yellow S. Fortunei are

Sobralia sessilis

is

also flowering,

and the blooms

are

very

handsome

for

one day, after which they shrivel, to be succeeded by

others a few days later.

Masdevallia floribunda answers very well to

plants are

now

mass of

flowers,

name, and when thus grown

its

for
is

two or three
It

very pretty.

regularly flowers in this

manner about

this

time of year.

M. Carderi and

M. Reichenbachi;
buff flowers.

very pretty.

Pleurothalhs platyr

very distinct Costa Rican species with curiously flattened stems and orangeP. picta
is

a dwarf tuft of leaves

crowded with short

single-

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

flowered

,(,

scapes of brown and yellow flowers.

is

P. velattpes, with

long

racemes of green flowers,

is

a dwarf and pretty

little

Odontoglossum Kraneriannm species from Costa Rica, and (). auriculatum a

ago.

also in bloom.

rare plant,

which came home with O. nsevium some years

has small dense panicles of yellow flowers.
is

Om-idiuin
pretty
little

pumilinn

The

Sigmatostahx radicans
ing to this group. the genus,
is

a very interesting and pretty

little

species belongI

Trichopilia hymenantha, one of the small.

also in flower.

Of Catasetums may be mentioned C. macrocarpum and

the latter a very interesting plant
alpestre
:

C. Rmbriatum,
1).

and of the

Dendrobium group,
little

and Cirrhopetalum guttulatum, two pretty

Fiji,

Himal.e

ISnlhophyllum vitiense, a native of

and the pretty

little

Siamese Trias

discitlora, the largrst-ilowered species in the genus.

('(el'igyne

roiTugua

and Gongora galeata are also among the interesting Botanical

this season.

On

hid,

.if

ORCHIDS UNTRUE TO NAME

A case which
before his
is

A LAWSUIT.
(

important both to purchasers and vendors of

iiehi.ls r.-unr

Honour, Commissioner Kerr, at the City of London Court, on Tuesday, August 4th. The plaintiff was Mr. D. B. Rappart, Promenade,
Liscard, Cheshire,
late

and the defendants the Executors of the Estate .if the Mr. G. D. Owen, of Sclwood, Rotherham. The former gentleman

purchased at the auction sale of this well-known collection of Orchids several choice and valuable species and varieties, part of which upmi
flowering

proved untrue to name, and of

little

value; and not

feeling

disposed to stand by such a bargain, he

prices paid to be refunded.

made

application for the high

This request being met by refusal, the plaintiff decided to bring an action to recover his rights. For the plaintiff there appeared two well-known and qualified experts, who testified to seeing the
plants in flower,

and that they were not

true.

third expert also appeared,

could testify that no variety of Orchid would alter its character by changing into another variety. Verdict for the plaintiff, with costs.

who

The Orchids mentioned

in the case

were three

: Cattleya

Skinneri alba,
;

which proved to be an ordinary coloured form of the species Odontoglossum x elegans, w hich turned out a poor form of O. Hallii and
;

Dendrobium

only D. grandiflorum, said to have been splendidissimum Leechianum. Generally speaking, mistakes of this kind are acknow-

edged by the
allowed to

seller,

and compensation

in

some form or another

given, and

been had the defendants present case should not have been well advised, the

come

into Court.

H. A.

P..

7 HE ORCHID REVIEW.

NOTICE OF BOOK.
Urchukarum Amtro-Ajnamantm
ical
:t.

c.xtr,,-lr,ficarum; or Figures of extra-

South African Orchids.

5T ioo.
first

London

By HARRY Bolus, F.L.S. Vol. I., part William Wesley & Son, 28, Essex Street,
work appeared at page 270 of our welcome the second, which has just
sof
fifu

ice of the
first
-

part of this valuable

are able to
a
5.

)lume. and
ts

now we
It

appearance.
'

contains

rii

partly-coloured plates, from

of the Orchids of South

the author,

illustrating

selection

Africa,

main' of which

comprise eleven species of Disa, eight each of Satyrium and Disperis, four of Habenaria and Pterygodium, three of Angracum. Mvstacidium, and Platanthera, two of Brachycorythis, and a single example of Eulophia,
Pachites, Schizodium,

and Zeuxine.

The

last-named, Zeuxine cochlearis,

Schlechter
India

(t.

58),

is

and

China,

very interesting, being allied to Z. sulcata. Lindl., from and the genus new to South Africa. Eulophia
(t.

ealanthoidcs. Schlechter

51),

it

may

be noted,

is

drawn from
is

a specimen

which flowered
specimens.

at

Kew

in

June, 1893, but has been identified with wild dried

species figured, probably,

The handsomest

Disa purpurascens,

one of the blue Disas which it was hoped some time ago would prove amenable to cultivation, though the one introduced seems to have '' lm st s '." ht fDisa sanguinea, Sander it. 80), has deep crimson flowers, which are rather small, and arranged i cylindrical
(t.

Bolus

86),

short, dense,

Schizodium antenniferum. Schlechter (t. 88) is a very remarkable species in which the petals and lip are extended into dark purple spreading tails, giving the flower a remarkable insect-like appearance. This genus, it may be noted, was suppressed in the former part of the work, but is now again revived, while a somewhat similar remark applies also to Mystacidiuro.
spike.

Brachycorythis
violent-scented

ovata.

Lindl.

(t.

62),

has purple, "delightfully fragrant

a dense cylindrical spike,

flowers," which are arranged in

to cultivation.

and would be worth introducing Lmdl. ,t. 75), and S. longicauda.

D,sa aeonitoides. Sander .
- ul

Satyrium sphsrocarpum,

Lindl.
is

It.

70) are already

known

in

gardens.
to a

well

named, as the resemblance

,
,

Ac
is

te "'

&e ^r*.

as well as in the shape

and colour of the flowers,

,,,, thc

striking.
'

The
.

A u-n
1

-11,
11.

How,- ,x -,,-,. i;i.. .;,i, a , ""-"- hl.u.vuth few darker spots. u- pm-pl, -.lowered i) isp( ris is ,.,,,,
.

Mim.

1.

I-

oco,

mtii the follow ine significant

name f D. remarks:
The

'

rtainlj
ol so

whether this

is

Reichcnbach's plant.

dr-rriptioi
is difficult,

11-s

brief.

In such

complicated a structure by the use of few words ssihle and that by the author of this plant is far too the student ordinarily refers to the type specimen;
:

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

but this
effectually precluded by the terms of Reichenbach's will, by which his whole collection remains sealed at Vienna for twenty-6ve years from the date of his death. It is a question whether the botanical world generally
is

would not have promoted the true

similar

interests of the science,

and
the
rei

unworthy vagaries
where
the

for the future,

by agreeing

at

Congress that the usual rule of priority

in

in Tiomcnckitureshonl.lii.it

hold good

any case

only

type

specimen

existed

in

Reichenbach's

herbarium, and where no other specimen named by him was available for reference elsewhere. At present it can only be said that this is probably

Reichenbach's plant."
for

Pterygodium Newdigatit. Bolus

is

it. q.ji, is

remarkable
is

having a cleistogamous form, which

also represented.

This

noted

abundant, while the normal form is rare. This cleistogamous form is " No opened or punctured tl.mer has. as yet, been observed very curious. no pollen has in any case been found upon the stigma yet the ovaries have
as
; :

swollen, producing

abundance

of seed, and

Dr.

Schocnhmd, win. examined

them, found the seeds to contain a perfect embryo.

'

The

question

remains.
at

How

is

the fertilisation effected?'"

We

can only suggest that

some

stage before the

buds are

fully

developed the pollen-tubes begin to grow,

and

find their

way

to the stigma, thus effecting fertilisation, after which the

is

development of the other organs of the flower

other cleistogamous flowers, while
to develop in the
it

arrested, as in the case of

in

the unfertilised flowers they continue

normal way

until mature.

As regards the
will

plates generally

may

be said that they will be invaluable as aids to the identification of Future parts
be awaited with
of, if

these interesting but difficult plants.

interest,

and we venture
to the

to express the hope that in time most

not

all.

the South African species will be represented by a good figure.

An appendix

work enumerates

thirteen additions to the

same

author's Orchids of the Cape Peninsula, published in 1888, making a total of US species known from the Cape Peninsula, a tract of land about 40 miles

long and varying from three to eleven broad about a fourth larger than the Isle of Wight which is a remarkably large number for so small an area.

The

third part devoted to the Orchidc;e of

is

Martins Flora

Brasilhusis.

b .v Prof. Cogniaux, has appeared, and

rather, to part of tha t

group.

It

devoted to the Pleurothalleieor, contains four species of Cryptophoranthus.

seventeen of

Masdev dlia, seven of Phvsosiphon, forty-four of Stelis, two of Scaphosepalum, and about half the genus Pleurothallis, which from the s nopsis > is seen to n umber 236 species" Lepanthes. Kestrepi specs are nieria stand before, a number of over fol the next part. As
1.

'"eluded which have not vet been found

'hat

in Brazil,

though
less

it

is

anticipated

some day they nay be detected

1

there.

Thus, no

than nine of the

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Masdevallias are not yet

seventeen

known from

Brazil,

while the genus

Scaphosepalum. of which two species are included, has not yet been detected
there.

Thus

the totals given c

lot

be taken as representing the number

of

Brazilian

species artualU
to
o,N,

known.

The

plates of this

part

extend from

numbers 76
hope
in

on which nearly a hundred species arc represented.

The

general character of this valuable work has already been indicated, and we

time to see

it

brought to

satisfactory completion.

AN AMATEUR'S NOTES.
The
end of summer
I

is

about the dullest season of the year

for

Orchid
in

blooms, but

find a fair sprinkling of

handsome

species in
is

Bower
at

the

different houses.

The

beautiful Cattlcya

Eldorado

just

now

its

best,

and the pure white variety Wallisii is particularly charming. C. Lueddemanniana, too, is carrying some of its large and handsome flowers. C. superbaand C. Loddigesii are also flowering well, and C. Leopoldi is bearing
several large trusses of
its

finely-spotted flowers.

Ladia crispa

is

always

handsome, and just now is coining on well, together with several pans of the charming little Ladia Dayana, which is about the best of the dwarf
kinds.

Ladio-cattleya

Schilleriana is also at
is

its

best,

and the

equally
at this

beautiful L.-c.

elegans

coming out

well.

Both are invaluable

time of year.

In this house are also beautiful plants of Miltonia spectabilis

and

richly-coloured variety Moreliana, quantity, so useful are they at this season.

its

which deserve to be grown

in

Nothing can exceed the brilliancy of colour of the old Disa grandiflora when it does well, and the contrast with a fine dark Vanda ccerulea is really most effective. Another blue Orchid which is now very charming is Rhyncostylis cudestis, generally grown under the name of Saccolabium cceleste. Near it are Phalienopsis cornu-cervi, pretty, but not showy, the

handsome Aerides Lawrences, the pretty little Angracunr Scottianum, a good Ansellia africana, and a fine plant of Cycnoches chlorochilon, which
completely scents the house
in

the early morning.

Selenipedium

Sedeni

commencing to flower on a number of new spikes just thrown up, and are now very handsome, and the same remark applies to S, X calurum. These useful plants flower during the greater part of the
year.

and

its

varieties are just

Cypripediom
('.

laj antral is

also (lowering well, together with numerous

hybrids, of whirl,

Among
is

th.

Ashbortoniie and C. x Io are very effective. few hand-, .in,- things in the Cool-house, Oncidium varicosutn
of the showiest, while the coral-red Kodriguezia secunda and

just

now one

Cochlioda vulcanica are both very charming. Other showy plants are Epidendrum nemorale and Odontoglossum bictoniense, together with one
or two mentioned in previous notes.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CYPRIPEDIUM EXUL.
The appearance
of the

handsome

variety of Cypripedium

Exul, for which

Major Joicey, of Sunningdale Park, received a First-class Certificate on April 7th last, and of the richly coloured C. E. aureum in the collection

of

W. M.
than
at

Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare (noted

is
it

at

page

[62), has

again called attention to the species, which

first
it

supposed,

and

now

that

proving rather more variable has become established in

it

cultivation

may

be seen to better advantage, as hitherto

It

has bad the

character of being rather shy flowering.

was

originally described

by Mr.

Ridley under the

the author

nam eofC. 'nsigne var. exul (Gard. Chnm., 1891, x., p. 94), r emarking :" Thi s is a native of Nepal, so it was surprising to
i.
i

me

to obtair
i

from a n ative from so

col [lector a large quantity of a species closely

resembling

t
i

far soutli as 1

Siam.

It

is

very distinct as a variety,

both in form and colo uring.

The

leaves are shorter

and more crowded

the scape shorter, the flower r; rather smaller than that of the typical form,

The general colouring

is

similn to that of the ilar

Nepal plant, but the white

are
lip

margin of the standard runs right down to the base; the purple spots crowded into the middle of the apple-green centre. The petals and

much resemble those

shield
is

of the Indian forms, but the

;

lip is

more yellow.

The

different in

shape

instead of being cordate with a notch in the

apex,

almost ovate, with, at the most, a depression at the top. It is decidedly a charming plant, of very neat habit, and appears to be very floriferous. It will, I think, be welcomed by the lovers of Cypripedia. A
it is

considerable quantity

have ere this

was brought into Singapore, and a number of plants found their way to England." A plant was exhibited at a
the
collection

meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on April 12th, 1892, under the

name
for

of

Cypripedium insigne suimense, from

of

R.

I.

Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, and being referred to

determination, re-appeared a week later (April 19th) under the
it

Kew name of

C. Exul, Rolfe, with a note to the effect that

was the C. insigne

var. exul

mentioned above, but evidently a

respects.

distinct species nearer C. Druryi in several

An Award

of Merit was then given, and a note appeared in the

Journal of Horticulture for April 21st (page 301), in which its distinctness was briefly pointed out. Two days later a description by Mr. J. O'Brien

appeared in the Gardeners' Chronicle, together with a

5 22 > 52J, fig. 77)-

figure (1892, xi., pp.

figure appeared also in Lindenia,

is

whence the following

I

note on

its

distinctness

extracted

: "

Last autumn

saw

a large im-

In portation of this particular plant, together with a coloured drawing. the former 1 could not see any evidence of C. insigne, though the drawing
certainly bore a considerable resemblance to that species, yet there were certain understand. And now, having seen

discrepancies which

could not

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THE ORCHID REVIEW,

in tin-

a plant which has flowered

it

collection nf k.

I.

Measures, Esq.,
species,

only confirms

my

suspicion that

we have a

distinct
its

variety of C. insigne, to deal with.

C. insigne and
lias

and not a numerous varieties

less erect leaves,
;

have spreading leaves, while the Siamese plant

more or

which, with other differences, render the two quite dissimilar

seeing the Siamese plant out of flower would think for a
insigne, but rather of a narrow-leaved

and no one
of C.

moment

form of C. philippinense
in

The

differences

which

strike
.
. .

me most
are
:

the Siamese plant, in addition

to the different habit,

the shorter scape, with smaller flower,

of rather

more rigid texture

all

the less undulate dorsal sepal, with the regular

white margin

round, and the darker spots confined to the centre of the

basal half, where are also a

lateral sepals

number

of darker green lines; the connate

lip
;

considerably larger than the

;

the shorter petals distinctly

like the petals, is

spotted at the base

the smaller stouter

:

lip,

which,

more

yellow

in colour,

and very glossy

the smaller staminode,

and,

lastly, the

different season of the year

when

the flowers are produced.

Although the

dorsal sepal

and the central boss of the staminode bear some resemblance

. . .

toC. insigne,
general habit
I
it

yet the lip

is

equally near to C.
i

Druryi, while

in

is

much

nearer to

tin-

,st

named.

All things

considered,

think

it

Exul may

entitled to rank as a distinct species, fir which the name of C. be retained " (Rolfe in Lintknia, sub. t. ;j;i. The various plants

which have since flowered indifferent collections have served to confirm most of these remarks, and there is no longer any doubt of its distinctness.

MASDEVALLIA FLORIBUNDA ABNORMAL.

remarkable intloresce nee of Masdevalli a ll< -ibunda has appeared at the Royal Botanic Garden, Glas nevin, und er ti e charge of Mr. 1". W. Moore, wh ieh has tl ance e 'f one flowe wing out of the centre of
the other.

A VLRV

On

care fill exami nation

t

tha
with the o
toe;, ell
"

the bract of the lower

flower has remained confluen

sepals,

first

and then with the

lateral

whi Hi
side-

latter are not u nited

,,tl

their margins,

but to

either
sepals,

of the bn ict.

Tht

in,

or"

in

has
i

lsi

and
a

lensely spotted with brow

nal sepal 'nil',
1

in
,'".'

looks like

en the two

has a free apex, bu

only a line
the flower
is

represer

t-

the apie.llu. o '

lin-

In other respects

p. iter is

t.

The
a lid
l

remarkable.
a
1

The
bract,

uppermost flower
but as the lateral
also
is

stalked

ittle

exseri ed

>

without a

si ipals

of

:his o: :ie

are con title,

possible that this

mad e up

of the lateral sepals

and the bract.

R. A. R.

THE ORC HID REVIEW.

;;;

CYP ?IPEDIUM
month (page Cypripedium X Har Orleans Hous . Seft.
Last
228)

X
a

HARRISANDER.
short
description
of

we gav ;

the

beautiful

the collection of
tool,

W.

C. Clarke,

Esq.,

which received an Award of Merit

July 28th, and

yon
Mr. Clarke,

now we

ate able to

need from a photograph kindly sent

by

The

sc

f.nr

owers. but the lowest oik- being deformed

was cut

off

be fore the

aph w as taken.
Harrisi

As previously remarked,

it

is

a seedling fro

tC.JX

the'pollen parent being the long-petalled

fk
'

W
s

i
L_
ire

JL
1

\m

p L_i
parents the characters of the two that

very well combined in the hybrid

In general habit

it

the pollen parent, but the petals are flower is modified in other respects, colour may be described as light
regularly striped

educea

to

4.!

inches in

most resembles length, and the

The

lp is also

and the basal half ol "the petals shining purpf-bi own ;,, front and

ground shape and colour. The dorsal sepal llowish green, with the y spotted with purple-brown.
t .itli in

the staminode convex,

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

all

obcordate, and pubescent

of green,

over.

much

as in the seed

The parent. A

leaves are marbled with two shades

fresh flower

was

also sent, together

a

with

s.c.nd photograph showing the whole plant, which has evidently

constitution than C. Sanderianum.
It is a

more robust
JJ.N.

decided acquisition

to the ranks of hybrid

Cypripediums.
this
Hill,

Contrary to what was stated on page

in

we

believe

that

hybrid

was raised

the collection of Charles

Birmingham, as the following note from Mr. Winn will show : " With regard to the seedling Cypripcdium X Harrisianuni X Sanderianum. when the latter was imported purchased some plants, and one dowered very soon. I used the pollen, and had some
Esq., of Sclly
I

Winn,

dozen or more plants.

Lewis, from
tells

parted with a few of these,

in

exchange, to Messrs.

whom my

friend,

Major Mason, purchased one, and Mr. Clarke

Probablyit

me

he purchased another.

is

from these seedlings that

the

one exhibited flowered.

stock
of
beautiful

Messrs.

Charlesworth have

now

the remaining
that
our

healthy

plants/'

Thus

it

would appear

note with respect to the origin of the plant was correct, though not as to the raiser. Whether the same cross has been raised in any other collection we

cannot say.

SACCOLABIUM SMEEANUM.
This
interesting little plant has again flowered
It
)

in

the collection of A.

H.
in

Smee, Esq., The Grange, Carshalton.

1887 (Card. Chron., 1887, believed to be the only one
:

was described by Keichenbach

is

ii

p.

2I4

from a single plant, which

and, curiously enough,
its

still

in cultivation,

origin

still

unknown.

It

passed through different hands before coming into Mr.

is

possession, and
It still

recorded to have

first
<

tlowi

shows the peculiarity originallv pointed

colour of the small flowers," for

light violet

when

these

first

expand the

lip is

of a pretty

with a white line near the base.

This hue graduallv becomes

until

yellow, while at the

of the
lip.

same time the

dull

violet

is

replaced by yellow on the front

tin-

and passes into

brownish-purple on

sides,

by the

time the flower fades scarcely The a trace of the original colour remains. flowers are small, and borne in a branchin" raceme, something like some species of Sarcanthus. It is, however, a true Saccolabium. there being no trace of a septum in the spur. Although a botanical Orchid, it is a very
interesting one,

and the curious change of colour mentioned above

family, though a

is

vef
a

seldom seen
distinct

in this

few

examples are known

fade.

in

which

change of colour occurs before the flowers

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

L7ELIA
A question has been

3;5

PUMILA AND
little

L.

DAYANA.

raised by a correspondent as to the distinctness or

otherwise of the forms of the pretty

Ladia pumila group, which are

again beginning to flower, and as their history has been

much

confused, an

account of them

may

probably prove interesting.

in

Ladia pumila was originally described

under
the

the Itotanieal Magazine,

in l.\;<>.

name

of Cattleya

pumila, from a plant which flowered

in the previous year.
It

in

the

collection of

John Allcard, Esq.,

was

said to have
in

been received from the Essequibo, but the statement probably originated

some mistake, as the species is unqik stmnablv by Gardner on the Organ Mountains in April.
on the small branches of trees
the
;

Brazilian.

It
is

was discovered

iSj;,

and
it

noted as "found
also figured in
establish-

very rare."

In 1844

was

Botanical

Register,

from a plant which

of

flowered in the
its

ment
tion
is

of Messrs.

Loddiges,

Hackney,

where

original

introduc-

attributed to a French dealer, M. Pinel,

who

sent

it

from Brazil

under the

name

of Cattleya marginata.

It

was afterwards stated that M.

of Orchids at Paris.

Pinel originally sent plants to

M. Morel, an amateur

This particular plant,

Cattleya

marginata, had

been figured

in

the

previous year in Paxtons Magazine of Botany, from a plant which flowered in October, 1842, with Messrs. Loddiges, who appear to have received an

importation about this time, probably from M. Pinel.

few years later

it

was

also figured in the Florist.

In

1844 plant flowered

of Catthya
Pinelii

in

Messrs. Rollisson's Nursery to which the

clearly

name
differed

was given, which

indicates

its

origin.
it

This was doubtfully admitted as distinct by Lindley, who remarked that

from C. pumila

in

having white sepals and rose-coloured

petals,

which were straight and almost exactly ovate, but was insufficiently known. In 1850 a plant was figured in the Florist under the name of Cattleya
spectabilis.
it

This,

to...

exhibited had flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, who

The one of the Royal Horticultural Society's Shows at Chiswick. following note was contributed by Messrs. Loddiges : " With respect to the Cattleya spectabilis, we received a small parcel of Orchids from Brazil
at
'"

the

spring

,,f

s 4 o,

the which were some Cattleyas having amongst

:

appearance of marginata
it

man}' of these flowered

such.
in

This being
June, when

stronger in growth evidently appeared different, and flowered

was exhibited
In 1853

at

Chiswick

it

seemed

fine variety to be an extraordinarily

of marginata."

Lsha, Cattleya pumila was a true Keichenbach showed that most of the ai "l gave the name under which it is now known, considering Preceding as forms of the same species, which they evidently are. 1" 1857 the same author described Ladia prastans from a plant which

2? 6

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

It

flowered in the collection of Herr Reichenheim, of Berlin, in the previous

winter.

was compared with

its

L;elia pinnila,

bin

was considered
It

distinct

on account of

large flowers, broad petals,

lip.

and the broader more

inside.

curved
the

and ileshv tube of the

appeared

which was yellow

South
Brazil.

came from
later
a

province of Santa Cathcrina,

in

Two
at

years

plant

the collection of Mr.

John Day,

Tottenham, about which

Chronicle, stating that
it

Lindley contributed an account to the Gardeners

was purchased
In 1859

at

Stevens'

Rooms among

Cattleya marginata.

The

flower

;i

plant

was

figured by

Lemaire

in

the Illustniliim Hnrticli under

the inline ef Cattleya pnmila major,

I

which Reichenbach afterwards claimed

to

Ueli
::

pi est
ii I

5.

This had been sent by M. Pinel

M.

wini. n

Verscfc

ll

>55

d-o under the

name

of Cattleya

marginata.

and very handsome form appeared in the collection of M. Massange de Louvrex, which was figured in the Belgique HorticoU in
still

In 1X77 a

larger

111"

following year as

Ladia pumila var. mirabilis.

It

is

much

like

an

here

is

a very beautiful

white variotv

known
It

as L. prcestans alba, which

appear, d
Iii-t-i
!

in

the establishment of Mr. \V. Bull, of Chelsea,

,,
1

and received
5th,

isa Certifi, at,

),

t ,,! r

8th, 1889.

may
on

also be remarked that

a similar

award was given

to L. pnestans

typical

November

1867,

and to L. pumila on June 2nd, 1869, both the plants being exhibited by
pne- tans can
ret luce
tl

iguishei
1

..

pumila
ti,

is

doubtful.
it

ho
in in
f

it

to tin

ml

.audi

by the

type,

.ver-lapping at their
tl

te: eture,

so that

leJ

<

:n
1

not
iisc

the disc aim DSt Obst detc:

relied

be spread out without These ora nge-yellow."

it

upon by Reiche nbach

sei ies

to

sepa rate
it is

as a distinct

an ex: .mination of a
tpon a bsolutely.

of forms
,

evident that they

cited

Fore xample

the f .vi, last figures

z

arginata have th<

j
1

ellow,

sp. ictabilis,
.

while Cattleya pumil a

n>,

has also the form major, which was

while forms
in

as Lali

has

disc,
v,

been recorded on

::z

from the shape and

THE ORCHIn REVIEW.

Laelia

...

pumila

is

n native of South Brazil, and

is

said to occupc

extending from
to

tin-

eastern part of the province of Rio de Janeiro southwards

it

Santa Catlierina, where

grows upon
references

trees

on the mountain slopes

at

1,500 to 2,500 feet elevation.

The

following

are

the

to

descriptions

and

lie.

L.m.u pumila, Rohh.

ii.,

f.

in /'/. des Serres, ix. (1853), p.

km
32;

p.

44.
ii..

t.

115, figs. 3-10;

Warn.
:

Sel.
in

Orch.,

ser.

2.

I.

Vatek Man.
vih..
p.

Orch..

pp. 77, 70, with

tie;.

Rolf'
plate:

Curd. Chron..

i.Sijo.

242

Orchidophile, 1890, p. 50, with

hg- 3-

Garienflora,

xxxix..

p.

169

Cattleya
xxx.,
t.

pumila.

Hook.

Bot.
i..

Mag.,
pp.

fxv.

(1839),

1.

3656; Bot. Reg.,

Card. Chron..

1N.S5.
f.

59(1. 5(17. fig.

no.

Bletia pumila,

Rchb.

in

U'alp. A,,,,., vi. (1862), p. 421.

Cattleya

marginata,
<j,S,

Paxt.

Mag.

Bot.,
/-'/era/

x.

(1843),

p.

265,

with

plate;

Florid, 1N51. pp. 25,

with plate:

ll'nrW, 1N74. p. 35.S. with plate.

t.

Cattleya Pinelii, Lindl., Bot. Reg., xxx. (1844), Cattleya spectabilis, Florist,
Laslia prastans,
iii.

5, fig.

i,

text, n. 9.

(1850), pp. 89, 91, with plate.

Rchb.

f.

in

Bert. Allg.

Garteuz, xxx.
t.

us,
/;/

Lindl. in Gard. Chron., 1S59, p. 240; Bot. Mag.,

54')'s

'
-

1900; Reichenbachia,
Bletia prastans,
ii.,

ser. 2,

I.,
f.

p. 13,

t.

6; Ore*. Album,
vi.

s..

t.

433.

Rchb.

in

Waif. Ann.

(1862), p. 425; Xe.

Onh..

p. 43- t.

114.
ii.

Ladia pumila pnestans, Veitch Man. Orch..

Gard. Chron., 1890,
ii.,

(1887), p. 79;

Rolfi

p.

242.
III.

Cattleya pumila major, Lent, in

Hort.,

vi.

(1859),

t.

193.

Ladia puinila major, Lent.

2 79,

I.e. in note.

Ladia pumila var. mirabilis, E. Morr.

t.

in

B'elg.

Hort.,

xxviii.

17.

materials Reichenbach in 1876, from described by named. sent by the late Mr. John Day, of Tottenham, after whom it was Ladia The author remarked : " An unexpected and lovely plant. Take a

L*lia Dayana was

pumila and give

similar dark purplish border, the lip a very

:

very

.lark
(l

veins covered with dark low lamella:

^ who most honour of mv excellent correspondent. Mr. Day. rt ,vis a. s,. compared It was ven glorious flowers of this new Brazilian plant. home by Mr. l'.oxall. the >^ with the rare Ladia Jonghcana. It was sent
...
1

this

is

" :in the Lslia Dayana.

-1

k 'iown collect,

.r

l"..r

M,

-srs.

Hugh Low &

Co.. and

is

said to have

leen sen

with a batch of Ladia pumila. figured afterwards it was flowered it at the time as Mr Dav. Sbortlv name of L. pumila Dayana. '". ^Floral \4aga ine Iw Mr Burbidge, under the
<">"<
.

Messrs.

Low

also

duantttv

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

There
is is

not the same difficulty in distinguishing L.

Dayana

from L.

puinila as

experienced
lip

in

the case of L. pnestnns, for

rive to

tile

present one has

in

the disc of the

always traversed by
it

seven narrow keels, highest

the centre, which gives

a very distinct

appearance.

The

flowers are also

usually darker in colour,

the margin of the side lobes and front lobe of

;

the

lip

being deep purple

they also generally appear rather earlier in the

it

autumn.

Owing
fine

to these differences

can easilv be retained as a

distinct

very

flowered

variety

known
Veitch

as

L.

Dayana

superba, which
a
First-class

appeared
Certificate

with

Messrs.

James

&

Sons,

received

from the Royal Horticultural Society on November 18th, 1879;

while a similar award was given to the type on January 17th, 1877, "lien
exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence.

The
hi., t.

following are the references to descriptions

f.

and

figures

:
Orch. Album,

L.elia Dayana, Rchb.

132.
Laslia
xxx.,
p.

in

Card. Chron., 1876,

vi., p.

772

pumila Dayana, Burbidge

185,
t.

in Fl.

Mag., 1877,
ii.,

t.

249
in

Bclg. Hort.,

10
;

Veitch

Man.

Orch.,

p.
t.

79

Rolfe
fig.

Card. Chrvn..

1890,

viii., p.

242

Gartenflora, xxxix., p. 169,

1319,

I, 2.

Respecting the culture of this group Messrs. Veitch, in their Manual of

remark that they are best cultivated in shallow pans that can be suspended near the roof glass, where they can
(11.,

Orchidaceous

Plants

p.

80),

receive a

maximum

of light, and in a position where there

is

a considerable

range of temperature between the opposite seasons of the vear. quantity of compost sufficient for the
plants to root
in

The

small

allowed to get dry,

must at no time be and during the growing season water must be liberally

supplied; the higher temperature should then be maintained, takine. cannot to let it sink below 55 Fahr. This treatment is evidently consonant, as far as practicable, with the climatic conditions of the comparatively high latitude from which they are brought, and the altitude at which they

LjELIA jongheana.

one appear to have again imported it, or even to know t is most allied to L. pumila, but has much larger
istmct in other respects.
It

was described

in

1872 by

marked :- Here you have a

first-rank novelty.

Ah

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Ladia majalis
is

279

degraded, Cattleya Mossiae and labiata

rival.

haveaccording

to

my

taste at

least a very dangerous

Imagine shining wood

(sic),

small bulbs of darkest

green, very shining, exceedingly thick, quite

in La-lia majalis, but of the

a leaf-

beauty; the flower as

most

brilliant

amctlnst

colour, as bright as that of

Vanda
lip

teres itself the sepals narrow, the petals

pallid

very broad, a
crisp

little crisp,
:

the

with

amethyst side

lariniain
all

beautifullj

and denticulate

seven high keels of darkest orange

the
veins

enure
of

of

the lip:
lacinia;

longer than the arched whitish column, and

side

with radiating keels inside.

The wonderful beauty

it

of this grand
of that

flower
little

is

based on

its

purest colours, and

makes the beholder think

gem,

Dcndrolmim Devonianum, by
lite
\

the combination of amethyst,

yellow,

and white,
lip

iolaceo-amethyst holder of the wonderfully wavy

and denticulate

adds the crowning beauty.

The
I

plant has just flowered with

MM.

Thibaut

&

Keteleer, at
it.

Paris.
.
.

have to thank M.

Luddemann
it

for

it,

that gentleman having sent

ago, and

am

informed that
but
I

was flowered some years

it.

had been sent

have been

t<>

me,

never received

Such
It

gem would
is

not

left

unpublished.

The

merit of

its

introduction

due to the excellent M. de

his ill-fated
traveller

Jonghe, of Brussels.
poor Libon,
to the

...

was discovered by
If

who

fell

a victim to his zeal in the Brazils.

most ardent lovers of

plants.

mistake not,

They both belonged remember to have I

it

seen the plant in 1856 with

M. de Jonge.

Libon praised

very highly, and

named

it

Brassavola Jonghei.
in

Thus

the plant

may

bear the

name

of M. de

Jonghe,

accordance
late

with the wish of his young friend and zealous

collector, the

M. Libon, and my own. how many many Orchids would be capable

him."
(Card. Chron., 1872,
it

MayM.de

Jonghe look out

to beat that one dedicated to

p.

425.

tig.

128.)

In the following year

James flowered in the establishment of Messrs.

in

Veitch
(

&

Sons, of Chelsea, and was figured

the

Botania
flowered with

6038).

vcar later a figure

given
in

of the plant which

p.

M.

Luddemann was
in

the li.vuc HorticoU (1873,

in the Floral

z"i, with plate), and

t.

1875 another appeared

Marine

(U.S.,

i; 7

>.

These show

stout, both bulbs and leaves being dwarf stout habit, to 'hlong, and dark ivon in colour while the flowers measure from four illiant deep five inches across. 2 of the li p are br The sep; ds. petal s. and has

the plant to have a

amethyst purple, and the

keels, yellow.

including the
t

fin
llite.

In front of
is

olour pass
h purple
1

while

the crisped
a

margin

more

not. however, being

t

hard dark line, as shewn shading off into the white

in

the

Gar&aurt

gradually 'Shronick igttre, but

fortunately represented
like

c ,f

the cei

Messrs. Veitch remarked in 1887 that it in several flowering British collections

was now
in

March, and we should

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

if

to know-

this

is still

the case, as

it

is

a matter for regret

that so

little

should be known of so handsome a plant.

One hybrid from

it

has been raised, namely, the beautiful Ladio-cattleva

S

Baroness Schroder (Cattleya Trianae

raised
in the

Laelia

was

rich collection

at

The

Dell,

Jongheana 3 ), which Egham, and received a

2.;rd.

First-class Certificate

from the Royal Horticultural Society on August

1892.

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.
Under
we recorded at page 180 an experiment which Mr. T. L. Mead is making at his home in Oviedo, Florida, in raising seedling Orchids. Mr. Mead now sends us a further note : " The season has been a trying
this
title

and drought, and though my Orchid eyrie in the live oak top promised great success in June, it was very difficult to keep the compost in good condition during tin- hot nmgg> days "f July.
one. with extremes of heat and wet
Still,

out of thirty-two crosses planted on a space of

I

p.

.it

-:\n

n inches l"ttg

by twelve broad

obtained plaids having

first

leaf of

twenty-two of them

mostly Cattleyas and Lasliasthough a good

many

died

when

it

was

neces-

sary to transplant them, on account of mould and alga; threatening to swamp the tiny plants. A single plant of Vanda ccerulea J X V. Amesiana 1

appeared, and

is

now showing

its

third leaf.

This year
tibicinis

have repeated

the

cross Bletia verecunda ?

x Schomburgkia

and have

several

and also one or two of Bletia verecunda crossed with our native Calopagon pulchellus."
first leaf,

plants in their

We
made.

shall be glad

to hear from

time to time of the progress of these

interesting experiments, as also of those

which any other of our readers have

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
CYPRIPEDIUM X SCHOFIELDIANUM.JoWn.
fig.

of Ihni.,

Julv 3.

P'

I01

'

V).

Dendrobium speciosissimum, Rolfe. Card. Mag., Aug.

with
tig.

15,

P-

55 1 .

L.elio-cattleva
plate.

Andkeana.Rev.
Clirrm.,

Hort.,

July

16,

p.

328, with

Miltonia sp. Card.

flavescens, Lindl.

Aug.

8,

pp. 158, 159,

tig. 29.

This

is

M.

Odontoglossum Galeottianum.Card. Chum.. Aug.

Sakcochilus hainanensis, Rolfe. Bot. Mag.,
t.

8. p.

158.

tig. 28.

7489.

THE ORCHID REVIEW. CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER.

By H. A. Burberry, Highbury, Moor
Creen, Birminglum.

,s,

In the Cool Orchid house no warmth from the hot water pipes si Id be required this month. Ventilate freely both night and day, and keep the temperature as low as possible; at the same time keep up plenty of moisture

by damping down several times during the day. The cool night an is great invigorator, and the plants enjoy it. If healthy, robust growth desired, fresh air, and plenty of it, must not be denied.
This
is,

a
is

so far as Orchid flowers are concerned, a very dull season.

To
this

an enthusiastic grower, however, flowers alone are not the only pleasing
feature.

To my mind

the sight of the plants growing so freely

If

a!

season fully compensates for the lack of bloom.

previous

instructions
exist
:

have been followed, the latter happy state of no time of the year do Cool Orchids grow so

affairs will

now

for

at

freely as at this season.

still

But although flowers are scarce, there are

time of the year.

few to be had.

For

One
long
little

very pretty ami useful sprcies lowering

now

is

).

obryzatum
brown.

its

and many-branched spikes carrying an enormous

flowers of a golden yellow colour, spotted with are very graceful, and produce a
love

quantity of pretty

light
It., t.

Such spikes of bloom

is is

This species
repotting

of easy culture, growing well either in pots or

it

in baskets.

If

desirable, let
is

be done when new growths and roots are

pushing.

It

best removed to the Intermediate house during winter.

little

Another exquisite
It is
I

species

is

now

in

bloom

in the

form of O. Gardneri.
;

not one lending itself very readily to cultivation

it

hence

its scarcity.

find generally that

grows best

in the coolest house, except, perhaps, for

it

a short time during winter,

when

mostly happens that

it

is

forming new-

growth, necessitating, of course, the warmth of the Intermediate House.

It is

essential that

it

should be grown

in

small pans or baskets, and susis

pended.

O. spilopterum (O. Saintlegerianum)

In fact,

another species now

in

bloom, which promises to become a very pretty addition when more

established.
it

fully-

the large yellow labellum showing up the prominent violet-coloured crest very effectively. It appears to be of easv culture, growing well in the coolest house, in either pans or baskets.
is

very pretty already

thengood many spikes will now be making appearance, which will bloom later on in the autumn and winter months. Amongst them may be noted such line things as Oncidium crispum, O.

In this department a

Also O. ornithorhynchum, O. tigrinum, and O. varicosum. Odontoglossum Edwardi, and O. ramossissimum. All should be carefully Tobacco guarded against injury from the various troublesome pests.

F rt>esii,

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

is

powder rubbed on to the tender young spikes

a capital protection against

most

The latter and even slugs do not care to travel over it. should be diligently sought for at night, and killed. A scooped-out potato is, I think, still the very best kind of trap in which to catch the greatest
insects,

variety of pests, including slugs.

If

any of these Cool Orchids

still

require

attention in the matter of

lost.

repotting or top-dressing, no time must

I

now be
I

never

to err

recommend repotting Orchids later on the safest side. In some localities

the'

As I have than this month.

admit
it

said before,
It
is

best

can be done with

is

impunity,- even throughout

clear,

winter months, but that

is

where the

air

is

and consequently the

light

good.

In other places sunlight during

it is

the winter

months

is

a rare

commodity, and

in

such places where the

greatest difficulties applying to cultivation occur. In the

Mexican house,

also, very

little

assistance from the hot water

nights, or even the days, be

pipes will be required this month, unless the

unduly cold, when

little

it

is

certainly

by

far the best

and wisest plan

to

have a

warmth

in

the pipes, so that the ventilation need not be entirely

is if

closed.

Nothing

more
so.

hurtful
is

to

Mexican Orchids than a stagnant

close,

atmosphere, and
absolutely sure to

a house

shut up

without

fire

heat,

it

is

become

It is better,

then, to have slight

at night

warmth
about

in

the pipes with ventilation,

and the thermometer ranging

spikes

6o,

little

more or

less.

In this house, flower

of Lielia

anceps, L.

Gouldiana, and others of the same type will now be showing in quantities. Let them have exactly the same kind of treatment in all respects as
previously

the light,

advised viz., watering them when dry only, keeping them near and giving them the full sun, and an abundance of air in favourIt is best,
it

able weather.
at night,

perhaps,
first

now

to discontinue syringing overhead

;

doing

only the

thing in the morning

may

be

lost

through damping.

otherwise a few spikes Cattleyas of the Warscewiczii and Warneri

this
is

sections should also receive similar treatment in

department,

for

if

they remain

now

in a

warm and

moister place there

great danger of their

starting a second growth.

Mexican house suits Burlingtonias better than any other. This is a genus that is seldom seen growing well for any length of time, and it seems to me that the cause is their not being grown sufficiently hardy. What is more sweetly delicate and lovely than a well-grown and flowered plant of Burlingtonia fragrans ? but it is a
I

find that the general conditions of the

sight rarely seen.

It

blooms well the first and weaker, until it finally disappears. I would advise growers who have hitherto been unsuccessful to try it suspended in this department in full sun,
;

always grows freely when first imported, and also year after which it slowly but surely becomes smaller

keeping

it

syringed during the growing season. In reality

it

seems

to require

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

but
little

283
in

attention

baskets or pans are the best receptacles,

which the

plants should be fixed firmly, in the usual compost of peat

and sphagnum

moss.

Such treatment

is

also to be preferred for the short-bulhed Cattleyas,

such as C. nobilior, C. Schilleriana, C. Walkeriana, and C.citrina. Pleiones are now fast swelling up their new pseudobulbs. and must be
given the lightest

and

airiest place in the house.

will
still

Still

give them a liberal

until

supply of water, as the pseudobulbs

foliage turns yellow,

continue to enlarge
it

the
let

and drops

off;

even after that

is

a mistake

to

Pleiones get too dry.

The Cattleya house will alse require a little assistance from the lul water pipes when the weather is cold, maintaining nielil temperature from 60 to 65 with a circulation of air. Let the plants now receive a larger
:i ,

amount of

light

by reducing permanent shading, and by using the

roller

blinds only occasionally

be sufficient for
the
first

when the sun is very blight. Twice daily will now damping down the paths between the pots, &c, doing it
the
1

thine

in

nine, and again about three or four o'clock in the

will

afternoon.

Many

of the inmates of this department

by

this

time have
labiata

almost completed their

section of Cattleyas, like

new growth

such as the

earliest of the

C. Triana: and C. Schrceders, whilst other later

kinds, such as C. Mossia;

and C. Mendelii, together with Lalia purpurata

still

and some few others, have

latter at the

a good deal to do.

If

it

be possible

it

is

best to place the former at the coolest

and

airiest part of the house,

and the

warmest
need
less

part.

Of

course, those kinds having finished their

growth

will

water

at the root

than others, but they should not

at

present be kept too dry.

Ladias

and Cattleyas newly imported

at

the end of

summer do
latter start

not

establish so readily as those arriving in spring.

freely,

The

away

at

and become firmly established during the summer, but those coming this date are slow to break, and when they do so result in weak and

If it is They therefore require careful handling. impossible to import some species at any other time, we must make the best of them at this. They should be nicely potted up without delay, and

spindly pseudobulbs.

taken to their respective houses, and the compost should be kept just moist,

and also the immediate surroundings, so that

of vitality
is

shrivelling

and

tin

undue

loss

prevented before they

of

making new growth should at given a little extra warmth and moisture,

Those which show signs being once be encouraged to do so, by and by placing them at the same
start to

grow.

time near the roof-glass, where they get the

maximum amount

of light.

Dendrobiums are
most essential
winter, in a

growth.

much cooler temperature Upon this much will depend

new pseudobulbs. It is also now and have a complete rest during autumn that these Orchids make their than that in which they
rapidly finishing up
in the successful cultivation

of this

2 84

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

beautiful

most
they

and

bium can be
are

well

better

Most of the various species of Dendromanaged in one structure when growing, but when resting for being separated, and placed in different houses.
useful genus.

Generally speaking, the spring flowering kinds, such as D. crassinode, D.

Wardianum, D. Falconeri, D. Devonianum, U. aureum (heterocarpum), D. nobile, and many other species and hybrids which flower only after resting, should, after completing their season's growth, be removed to a
department offering similar conditions to the Mexican house, where they
should remain throughout the winter months.

Upon

their removal the

supply of water should gradually be lessened, and in a

month

or two's time
quite

a very

little

water indeed will be found necessary to keep the plants

healthy.

plump

and

Such evergreen species as D. thyrsiflorum,

if

D.
the

densinorum. &c, should,

possible, be given a place

even cooler than

Mexican house.
sometimes
suits
falls

cool greenhouse, for instance,

,

as low as 40
it

where the temperature providing the root and the atmosphere is dry,
D. Wardianum and the Thunias.
will

them

well, as

also does

On

the

other hand there are a lot of

to a low temperature at

Dendrobiums that

take

harm

if

subjected

any time, even when at

rest.

The

chief amongst

these are D. Bensoni, D. Lowii,

Dcarii,

D. macrophyllum,
all

D. aggregatum, D.

D.

Parishii,

D. formosum, and
if

the D.

Phalamopis

section.

These

would be seriously injured

allowed to become too

is

cold.

A
the

temperature ranging from 6o to 65 winter months.

good one

for

them during

Such

miscellaneous

species

as

Monnodes, Catasetums, Cycnoches,

Coryanthes, Chysis, and Cyrtopodiums, as they complete their growth, should be thoroughly well rested by being suspended in the lightest and
dryestpart of the Cattleya or Mexican houses. Ladio-cattleya X elegans is a most variable Orchid, and a good many
its

of

varieties are to be seen in flower at this

time of the year. Although

there

are so

many different

varieties,
its

have never yet seen one that could not

It

be

called pretty,

and worthy of
;

room.

should be grown at the warmest

Leopoldi, C. granulosa, and

end of the Cattleya house

as should also C.

C. elongata (Alexandra;), likewise too. wdl be flowering this month.

rather scarce species,

now
it

in flower.

Cattleya Dowiana
this

aurea,

Take great care of

leaf,

lovely

and now
after

and
it

see that

does not rot at the flower spike

the flowers are cut

for, if so,

the

and the greater part of

the pseudoit

bulb, will decay before

can be stopped.
all

When

this is

so,

is

a great
is

misfortune, for

it

has at

times a delicate constitution, and rarely

'

same plants back to their former strong and healthy condition. To avoid sheath, this, entirely remove the spike and the and sprinkle on the wound a pinch time of powdered charcoal, at the same placing the plants in a warm and dry position in the Cattleya house as the*
possible to again bring the

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

winter quarters.

,8j
in
is

C.labiatais also very

liable

to rot
:

exactly tin

same

manner.
the

This must not be mistaken

it

for a disease

il

siinph
a.].. pled

can only be avoided by the usual methods procuring a suitable atmosphere.

damp, and

foi

Such East Indian house Orchids as Phalenopses, etc.. must now have a trine
the

Ae'rides,
less

Saccolabimns.

Valutas.
;<Im>

water given thcin, and

amount of moisture in the atmosphere should be somewhat reduced. They have now partially completed their season's growth, and, like all other
kinds of Orchids,
it

is

necessary to ripen and harden these

:

also.

Hut

it

must be carefully done

above,
to

species having no pseudobulhs are very rasil\

All that
is

injured by extremes of treatment.

is

necessary,

in

addition to the

shade

less,

and give as much

air as the

outside conditions will

ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

At
the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held
Street,
at
a

the

Drill

hill.

James
fine

Westminster, on August nth. there was

several interesting exhibits,

moderate displa)
particular!)
(
.<

of Orchids,

which included

>-r>

form of Cattleya

X Hardyana, and
Dell,

a second hybrid from

attleya

Baron Sir H. Schroder, The

finest

a First-class Certificate for Cattleya

Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantin. X Hardyana splendens, one

of the

forms of this handsome hybrid yet seen, and exceedingly well grown. The flowers were large and well-formed, the sepals and petals most resembling C. Warscewiczii, but the lip very dark purple-crimson, ami
veined with deep yellow, as in C. Dowiana.
Lselio-cattleya

He

also sent cut examples ol

elegans,

richly

coloured

form,

L.-c.

elegans

Morreniana, and the rare L.-c.

R.

X Sedeni the

latter plant,

we

believe, not

being represented in any other collection.

Cambridge Lodge, Ca.nberwell (gr. Mr. Chapman), received a Bronze Banksian Medal for a very interesting group,
I.

Measures,

Esq.,

including Lselio-cattleya
little

the pretty Schilleriana, Cattleya Wasrcewic/ii,

orange-red Lailia monophylla, Oncidium longipes, Canham, Clinkaberryannum, C. Godefroyje, C. X Lachmee, C. X Charles a fine plant of C. X grande, the remarkable X cenanthum, Selenipedium M. Barbeana. M. amab.lis. Pleurothallis scapha, Masdevallia Chimera,

Cypripediutn

^eral good forms of M. coccinea Harryanai, M. X Stella, M. guttulata, M Keiehenbaeluana, eve. A Botanical Certificate was given to the singula,
I

'"tie

Scaphosepalum anchonferum.

, species formerly

known

as Masdevallia

anchorifera.

86
Sir Frederick

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen
for Lselio-cattleya
(gr.

Mr. Young),

received

an Award of Merit

elegans Cawenbergiana, a hand-

some

light-coloured form, with an inflorescence of nine large flowers.

A
also

ten-flowered inflorescence of a fine dark form of L.-c.

sent from
a

elegans was

plant hearing twenty-nine flowers.

(gr.

C.

I.

N. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming

Mr.

Bond),

received an

Award

of Merit for Ladio-cattleya

L.-c.

Seraph, a very interesting

2

and pretty hybrid derived from

erect,

and Cattleya The pseudobulbs were dwarf and swollen about the middle, and

elegans

citrina t.

the flower

much resembling

the pollen parent in shape,

but smaller, and the

segments proportionately broader.

The
less

sepals am! petals were light yellow,

lip

tinged with green, and the front lobe

influence of the pollen parent

of the

crimson-purple.
in

Th.citrino-

was

marked than

C.

intcrmedia.

E. Ashworth,

Esq.,

Harefield Hall,

Wilmslow

(gr.

Mr.

Holbrook),

exhibited a very fine Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, the flower very large and

pure in colour, and the handsome C.

2

X Kienastiana

(C.

Lueddemanniana

C. Dowiana 3

).

Sir

William Marriott,
a

Down House,
hybrid,

Blandford, showed Cattleya X

Marriottise,

very pretty

derived

from C.

Eldorado and
It

C.
in-

Warscewiozii, the latter presumably the pollen parent.

florescence of five flowers,

bore an

most resembling C. Eldorado, but the segments

Clifton,

broader and a

little

darker.

A. H. Milton, Esq.,

White Ladies' Road,

showed a

curiously

striped form of Cattleya Gaskelliana,

and a six-flowered

inflorescence of

Cattleya Loddigesii.

Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashstead Park,

Epsom, showed a very good form

of

Odontoglossum aspidorhinum, and cut examples of a pretty purple something like S. Lowii.
crispa,

Sobralia,

A. Singleton, Esq., Chapel-en-le-Frith, sent an inflorescence of Ladia

and Cypripedium X Singletonianum, said to be derived from C. X vexillarium and C. barbatum Warneri. Reginald Young, Esq., Frigilla, Linnet Lane, Sefton Park, Liverpool, sent good cut examples of Cattleya velutina, Ladia crispa Buchaniana,
Laelio-cattleya

elegans Turneri, and L.-c.

e.

Houtteana.
little

Messrs. F. Sander

&

Co., St. Albans, staged a very pretty

,

group,

containing Cattle)

Eld rad

Wallisii, Ladio-cattleya

elegans Turneri,
pretty pretty

two good plant, of Sobralia xantholeuca, Phaius Humblotii, the dwarf Spathoglottis plicata Micholitzii, Miltonia vexillaria, the
Trichopilia brevis,
of

Dendrobium bracteosum, and Eria accrvata. An Award var. Merit was given to a very fine Cypripedium called C. X Excelsior

Mars, derived from C.

Harrisianum and C. Rothschildianum.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

At the meeting held on August
->5th

,8)
in

Orchids were exhibited

time
<if

moderate

numbers, being about the average

tile

for this

the year,

and several of

exhihits received awards.

J.

Gurney Fowler,

Esq., Glcbelands.

S.

Woodford,

losses

(gr.

Mr.

Davis) received a Silver

including the
Vedasti, L.-c.

Mora Medal

lor a tine

group of well-grown plants,

L.-c.

handsome

Lalio-cattleva

Fowlcri.

X Aurora

\ai.

elegans,

white C. E. YVallisii.

some good Cattlcva Dowiana. C. Eldorado, the and C. Loddigcsii. the handsome Parhvst a Thornspikes,

sonianum with several

calceolus,

the rare and

pretty

Renanthera matiitina.

Cycnoches ehloroehilon,

Catasetum Bungerothii, the curious Stanhopea

tripiidians.

Odontoglossum

Dendrobhnn Phalauopsis.
Dorking

good

plant of

Cypripedium LawTenccanuin Hycanum. and

President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.. Burford,
(gr.

The
of

Mr.

White), sent a

number of
C.

interesting things, including well-bloomed plants

plants of Cypripedium
a
a

Epidendrum alatum and E. Fournierianum, good

X euryandrum,
spike of

X cenanthum and

C.

Harrisianum superbum,
and

tine

RhviK dlostvlis

retlisa. cut flowers of Maxillalia fueata,

plant

of Eria stellata with several racemes.

Well-grown plants of
Mr.

Habmana
sent

carnea and

its

variety nivosa received a Cultural Commendation.

(gr.

The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park

interesting plants, to each of

Hill),

three

which an award was

given.

These were Mil-

handsome form with flowers larger than in the type, which received an Award of Merit an unnamed Bulbophyllum from Borneo, allied to the Himalayan B. striatum, Rchb. !.. with glossy light
tonia Schrcederiana major, a
;

yellowish

brown, delicately striped

flowers,

a Botanical Certificate

and
an

Cycnoches maculatum with a long pendulous raceme of male

flowers,

described at page 228 of our last number. Major Joicey, Sunningdale Park (gr. Mr. Thorne), staged several line things, including the pretty little Odontoglossum aspidorhinum with four spikes, the handsome Anguloa eburnea. Stanhopea Lowii var. Amesiana, Cattleya Leopold!, unnamed species of Warscewic/clla. The three an

Award of Merit.

The

latter

is

and

following each received an

flowers,

Award

with large of Merit :-Lslia monophylla

a

one of the spikes hearing two blooms,

Miltonia

good plant of Stanhopea

tine

eburnea, and
spikes.

Candida

grandiflora.

a very

form with three

Col.

Brymer, Ilsington House, Dorchester

Laelio-cattleva
),

(gr.

Mr. Powell,, exhibited

the

handsome

Brvmeriana

(L.-c.

X amanda

attlcya
a First-

Warscewiczii 3
class Certificate

bearing a strong raceme of

five flowers, to

which

was given.
Reigate
.

_j

T. B.

Haywood, Esq., Woodhatch,

(gr.

Award

of Merit for Ceelogyne Micholitzii, a

handsome thing

allied

to C.

speciosa.

28

THE ORCHID REVIEW

W. Thompson,
Esq.,

Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), received a Cultural Commendation for a splendid plant of Lalio-cartleya X elegans var. Cawenbergiana with two spikes, and an Award of Merit for a very fine plant of Dendrobium longicomu, covered with its pretty white and orange
flowers.

He

also sent a large

and prettily-blotched form of Odontoglossum

T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefleld, Manchester, sent the handsome

Cypripedium

Excelsior (C. Rothschildianum

C.

Harrisianum

3),

and handsome forms of Lriio-cattleya

Mr. Poyntz), sent Cypripedium

clegans and L.-c.

Schilleriana.

Reginald Young, Esq., Fringilla, Linnet Lane, Sefton Park, Liverpool

(gr.

Ashburtonia- expansum, the form

raised

by Mr. Cookson

and C.

Atropos, a small and brightly-coloured

hybrid derived from the last-named crossed with

described at page 292 of our last volume.
Messrs.

C. purpuratum.

It

was

Hugh Low &

Co., Clapton

Nursery, staged a fine group,

It

to

which a Silver Banksian Medal was given.

plants of

included some well-flowered

of

Dendrobium Phalamopsis and D. formosum, good specimens

Messrs.

James

Veitch Clonia

&

Sons,

Chelsea,

exhibited
?

fine

form o
elegans

Ladio-cattleya

X
s.

(Cattleya

Warcewiczii

L.-c.

Turner! 3
Messrs.

).

IS.

Williams

&

Son, Upper Holloway, showed

fine plant of

Messrs.
cattleya

F.

Sander

&

Co.,

x Gottoiana.a
J.

natural

showed the handsome I.adiohybrid between Cattleya Warneriand LaJia

St.

Albans,

Mr.

W.

Moore,

Bradford,

showed

an

undeveloped

species

of

Cymbidium

of the C.

pendulum group.

CORRESPONDENCE.
the flower win!,: h'e,h,
,'arcfull'v

&c

w^flw=rforafer days
preservec
n- this

mme TT,!
blotting

.and

in

paper.

T the

shape and

colours

pmress, and the speeies ran easily be in o-

W.

II. A.,

Blackburn.

good form of Cattleya Leopoldi.

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NOTES.

REVIEW.

Two
Hall,

meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society

will

be held

at the Drill

James' Street, Westminster, during October, on the ijth and 27th respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hum of

We

learn that Messrs.

Hugh Low &

Co., of the

Clapham Nursery, have

late

acquired the entire collection of Orchids belonging to the

Mr. F. G.

Tautz, of Dibdin House, Hanger

Hill, Ealing.

It

consists for the must

part of undowered seedlings of Cypripedium, fully a thousand plants, and as

Mr. Tautz was an enthusiastic hybridist

things will

it

is

anticipated that

be found as they come into flower. Cypripedium X Cowleyanum, C. X Mrs. Tautz, and C. mentioned.
It is

some good Among named firms.

N'andii

may

be

exceptional for Miltonia spectabilis to produce tuo-flowered scapes,

but a plant of the variety Moreliana, in the collection of John \Y. Arkle, It is one of a few Esq., West Derby, Liverpool, has just produced one.

imported about a year ago, and the only one that

will flower this season.

unusually large form of Cattleya Leopoldi has appeared in the collection of H." B. Boardman, Esq., Thornleigh, Burton. Westmoreland,

An

in

which the flowers measure over 5! inches across the

spondingly well
wers.
It

petals,
be;ir>
t

developed.

hi

r;

flowered out of Messrs. John

Cowan &

Co.'s importations.

appeared in the colleclearn that an albino of Lielia prastans has imported plant. "i of D. B. Rappart, Esq., Liscard, Cheshire, as an addition of a trace Pals, petals, and lip are all pure white, with only the

We

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of yellow in the throat.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

L. prsestans alba approaches the nearest to
this

condition
the
lip.

of any form

we have

yet seen, but this has

some

purple on

Another form of Cattleya Lueddemanniana has flowered in the same collection, this one being of great size, as the flower sent measures gi inches
in

diameter across the petals.

The

latter are

2$ inches broad, and the

front lobe of the lip a little narrower.

Several
Statter,

beautiful

flowers
Hall,

have been sent from the collection

Whitefield,

of T.

Esq.,

Stand

Manchester, by

Mr.

Johnson,
lip,

including Ladio-cattleya
L.-c.

X Nysa

superba, with very richly coloured

elegans blenheimensis, and three varieties of the beautiful Dendrobium Phalaenopsis, all of them very useful autumn flowering things.

Some

little

difference occurs in the colour of the

this is very

markings on the

lip of

Dendrobium formosum, and

marked

in

two flowers

sent from

the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., of Sefton Park, Liverpool, one of them having the disc chrome yellow, and the other distinctly orange, forming a striking contrast.

Other beautiful flowers from the same collection are Vanda Sanderiana,
Miltonia spectabilis Moreliana, a fine flower of Cypripedium X Youngianum, the uppermost and smallest of a spike of three, the pretty little Ladia Lucasiana, and a good form of Ladio-cattleya X Schilleriana.

We

have received from Messrs. Charlesworth

&

Co. the Catalogue of

the Selly Hill collection of Orchids, which they are comprising over two thousand lots. It comprises
seedlings,

now

offering for sale,

all

but the unflowered

will be

and plants with seedlings growing on the pots, which

included in a later catalogue.

We

note, however,

many

plants with seeds

sown on the pots not yet

of which the parentage
is

visibly germinating,

and others carrying seed-pods

for

given.

On

plants of Sophronitis grandiflora,

example, there are seed-pods representing crosses with Cattleya Gaskelliana, C. labiata, C. Loddigesii, C. maxima, Ladia Dayana, L. harpophylla, and

Epidendrum X Endresio-Wallisii.
of choice things.

The Catalogue

contains a large number

Miltonia spectabilis Moreliana has been sent from the collects of W. S. M'Millan, Esq., The of Maghull, near Liverpool. sepals and petals are very dark, and the lip 2 | inches broad.
respect to the seedling Vanda, mentioned at page 280, Mr. Mead writes that he now suspects the plant may have come from a seed of some

fine flower of

With

t& orchid review.

other genus

!9 ,

which has got

in

among

the

Vanda

seeds in

some

way

kind of accident with

which most

hybridists will be familiar.

very curious flower of Cypripedium Charlesworthii has appeared in the establishment of Messrs. Hurst and Son, Burbage Nurseries, Hinckley.

The dorsal sepal

is

absent, or, rather,

it

may be

described as united to the

lip,

lower one, for the single sepal present

is

underneath the

and has the

appearance of the dorsal sepal divided, and half of it united to either side of the lower one, each organ retaining its own distinctive colouring. The

two petals are united into a single erect one, thus taking the place of the dorsal sepal, while the fertile anthers are either absent, or united with the
staminode, which itself
is

only represented as a single white tooth.

The

lip

and stigma are normal.

curious
in

proliferous

growth of Epidendrum cochleatum has

It

also

appeared

the

same

collection.

appears at the base of the pseudobalb,

and quickly divides into two small, almost seedling-like shoots, from which roots have begun to push. It looks very different from an ordinary
growth, but
it

is difficult

to suggest

any reason

for the peculiarity.

EPIDENDRUM OSMANTHUM.
This
is

one of the handsomest Epidendrums of the Encyclium group, and now flowering freely in collections, though under other names. It is a
is

native of Brazil,
,
ii.,

end was described

in 1881

by Rodrigues {Gen. d Sp. Orch.

it

p. 134).

The author remarks

that

grows

in

the forests near

Casa de Pedra, in the province of Minas Geraes, flowering in September, and Co. introthe flowers being In 1891 Messrs. F. Sander very aromatic.
duced some plants from the Pernambuco district, and the original description king overlooked, the plant was re-described under the name of E. Godseffi-

anum (Rolfe n Card. Chron., 1892, xi., p. 136), and still later as L. Capartianum (L. Lind. in Lindema, VII., t. 333)- The identity of E. smanthum with these later forms was only recently discovered from the
i

name must a coloured course, the original sketch of a single flower, and, of large * stained. across, and borne The flowers are about I* inches or Prides, the sepals and petals being light, green, more or less suffused

contains examination of M. Barbosa Rodrigeuz's original drawings, which

^ed
lln

with light brown, and

the lip white, with

some

bright

~*g*

on

no *

the front lobe. It is species. Pretty well known as a useful autumn-flowering

and atropurpureum, W.Ud., allied to E.

.s

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CATASETUM BUNGEROTHII.
A plant
of Catasetum Bungerothii in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Alban's, has produced a spike of three flowers which are
in a transition state

between the sexes.

The lower

flower

is

nearly a female,

but the saccate lip has in addition the broad white membranaceous margin of the male and the column is also beaked. The second flower is nearly
a

male, but the lip has a sac three-quarters of an inch deep, instead of being simply concave while in the third flower the sac is still smaller. In each case the sac is fleshy, as in the female flower. It is a very curious example.
;

R. A. R.

DIES ORCHIDIAN^E.
Last month
of the future
I

alluded

to

Cattleya

X Hardyana
" as

(p.

264),

and

even

mentioned a " batch of home-raised seedlings

;

but

little

did

suspect that at that

among the very moment

possibilities

home-raised

seedlings were actually expanding their magnificent of the Tyne. Such, however, was

blooms on the banks

plants, cne

the fact, and a few days later they

Hall.

appeared

in all their glory at the Drill

There were two

bearing a single flower, the other a raceme of two, but unquestionably Hardyana home-raised, obtained by crossing Cattleya Dowiana aureawith the pollen of C. Warscewiczii just nine years ago. Mr. Cookson and his able
;

gardener took that lesson about Cattleya when Mr. Hardy might have obtained

x Hardyana
And

to heart at a time

a record price for his handsome

be no need to speak of Cattleya X Hardyana as a " supposed " natural hybrid in future, for its origin has been proved by direct experiment, and if the result only confirms the opinion of our most competent experts it
will
is

novelty, and set about obtaining it for themselves. as all the world now knows. There

they have succeeded,

none the

less interesting

on that account.

Nothing short of actual demonstration was sufficient to set the question at rest, for even as late as September 2nd a note appeared in Garden and Forest (!> 354) that some forms of C. gigas "so nearly resemble C. Hardyana that one eels disposed to look upon the latter as a sport simplv from C. gigas." On the other hand, one form at least of C. X Hardvana been ranked as
has
a variety of C.

Dowiana, from which the

utilitv of
'

such exoeriments as the

present one will be apparent.

Probably others

have just dropped across a storv entitled, strange Orchtd," which puts that
the shade, and I xpedition were a little

"

The

flowering of the

of the "village of the demon flower" fear that my congratulations on the failure of

premature.

It

would appear that one Winter

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Wedderburn was an enthusiastic amateur of Orchids, and,
be explained,

293 as need hardly

was

in

the habit of visiting the Sale

found.
felt

Rooms where

things

new

and strange

are sometimes to be

One
as
if

day, after a preliminary

announcement to his housekeeper that he

something was about to

happen, he started out to attend a great sale of Orchids from India and the

Andaman
though,

Islands, the spoils of a collector

his

who was

never heard of again,

of course,
at

plants were.

Nothing very important happened,

observer, though he

however,

least

so

it

might appear to the casual

secured the inevitable

" few dried sticks." including the very one under

which

the

collector's

dead body was found, and

these were

deposited

lovingly

on the dinner table, pro.

to

ton., for the facts being detailed over the

in

soup nearly led

a contretemps, and the things had to be removed

housekeeper.
arrivals,

deference to

the prejudices of the worth}

Next day there

were great

preparations for potting the new

which being duly

accomplished, they were placed in the Orchid house, and pro:

reported

from time to time.

Eventually

all

proved dead but the one

afore-

mentioned, on
reconcile

which a new growth appeared. Nothing, however, would the the worthy housekeeper to it it was enough that she saw
;

" tentacles "

gradually developing.

In due time the buds appeared, and the

unfold their mysteries.
at least be a newit

psychological

moment was
new

at

hand when they would

It

Our hero
species,

now

sallied forth to inspect the wonder.

would

possibly a

genus.

He

entered the house.

Could

be

Yes,

were the strangely marked blossoms, and he inspected them eagerly. They were scented, too.' But what is this ?-a haze floated before his eyes,
there
his

head began to swim, he swayed

and Had

the sight been too

much

for

Dinner waited, but our hero came not. Had he not gone to inspect * Orchid ? so our housekeeper wended her way in that d.rectton. But on opening There was our hero on the door what a sight met her view. prostrate the floor, entwined around h.s with the tentacles of the plant

the

But the smell! Her The brave woman rushed to the rescue. imminent. h l. catastrophe was too, began to swim, and another winch she for the door, Quickly realising the situation she made a dash of he weapon the glass fortunately with a suitable reached
f

in time,

and

st

cture was
to the

diffuse. allowing the smell to quickly demolished,

Aga.

^hed

scene

"of

the tragedv, and

succeeded .. tins time

the clutches of the monster, whose tentacles ^Merable damage. now turned up an handy man

h ofrom

The

-"* *
h
life

^"^
am

^"e off ,o the house, where he was *"* outline, and my readers can
P e e,

to slowly nursed back

fill

themselves as they for in the details

should they

fail

to

fall in

with the original.

294
Is not this the

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Orchid of the demon
village seen

from a somewhat

nearer

standpoint

My readers will
it

remember that the members

of the expedition
field-glasses,

were only able to view

from a respectful distance through their

and, under these circumstances, they might easily have overlooked the tentacles. It is true that the Andaman Islands are not exactly in Brazil, but with such a substantial agreement in the main facts one can easily

overlook a few discrepancies in detail. for our experts to decide.

And

here the matter must be

left

And now,

joking apart,

let

me

ask

is

it

any wonder that the

general

public entertain

some remarkable notions about Orchids when such preposterous absurdities and gross distortions of facts are put before them ? A
phrase once applied to Orchids in a somewhat different sense may be repeated here :- It is high time such noxious superstitions were
dispersed."

A SACRED ORCHID.
Mk. Charles Andre,
experiences
in

he Journal
botanical

des Orchidks,

gives an account of his

river

when on

expedition by the shores of the

evening a noisy procession entered the hut and the females who were among them laid with much ceremony large bouquets and garlands of the longedfor Orchid on and around the stores of rice. Such was the quantity of blooms that the perfume was so powerful as to drive the explorer out of the house to spend the night in his boat. He afterwards heard that seed-time, as well as harvest, important season to the natives, who are dependent
'

home, gives a good idea of the unexpected dangers often incurred by botanical collectors. M. Andre was ,n search of Ccelogyne aspersa, and happened to be in a Dyak hut when the natives were sorting rice preparatory to sowing it. In the
safe at

Amboan, which, though

interesting to read

when

and that he had witnessed rejoicings caused by the abundance at year of the Ccelogyne asperata blooms, which were believed to herald an equally fertile harvest. When, some time later, M. Andre returned to
the spot with,

on

theii crops, eir

among

chance and n =

oTf
j
t

!
i.,.

mined an a
of

-hi,* k
''

f Sacnlege m
6d W6re

^^
7
aS
'"

other treasures, a load of the all-important Orchid he

'"

g " ef a " d hatred a " d that his *> a onerous distribution of money and tobacco
'

^^^
"

the

P inl n

of

the

D > akS

C
'

"

clL t

In

LHron., 1890, viu., Sn p. 5 66.

gathering plants sacred to them, the S me c with their

lives

cted

own.-**


THE ORCHID REVIEW.

RODRIGUEZIA PUBESCENS.
The
history of this very

handsome

species, together with a figure of

:i

very

from the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, were given at page 337 of our first volume. The following
beautiful

specimen

interesting note

by Mr. E. O. Orpet, South Lancaster, U.S.A., appears

(p.

in

Garden mid Forest for August 26th

348)

"This is one of the most beautiful of Orchids, considering the wealth of bloom produced from comparatively small plants the sprays are long,
;

arching gracefully, and the flowers are of the purest white, with a trace of yellow on the lip. This plant is not new, it having been well known at the
lime of
as, its

introduction, just

fifty

years ago, but like

it

many

other Orchids,

for

example, Cattleya labiata,

became scarce

after a time,

and not

until

again. the re-discovery of the Cattleya did this Rodriguezia appear

Both Orchids come from the same part of Brazil, Pernambuco. in a small pan, had twelve flower-spikes, and it was exceedingly
in

Our
pretty

plant,

when

bloom, but owing, probably, to the intense heat

of moisture present
in the

at

the time, and the

amount
days.

They seem

to be

atmosphere, the flowers only lasted a few caps containing self-fertilising, as a number of the

the

pollen

though they and other genera, and a day or two as those developed in Catasetum
distance, as

quite a the bench under the plant, some at were found on such were forced off by some mechanical means,
later

many

of the seed-vessels began to

artificial aid,

impregnated without
are well

The flowers were evidently there not common among Orchids, though
swell.
It

known

exceptions to the

rule.

would be interesting
have access.

to learn
I

if

other cultivators have had the same

find

experience with this Rodriguezia, as

to which
I

can
best

no record of this in any work suspended in the warmest house grown in a pan or other open receptacle much the compost of living moss as the roots are slender, and seem to avoid the and breathe in the moisture in as possible, preferring to grow out
but some found growing with .hem, this ought to be the place for it, as it is warm It ev.dentH was not to decay. of the young growths soon began
,

We

find

it

atmosphere.

It

was

tried

among

for the Ca.tleyas for a time,

we thought

ha where the warmest house, enough there, so it was taken back to plants it cultivation, like many more prospered. When re-introduced into

the occurrence as exceptional. are self-fertilising, and should consider

2</i

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

ONCIDIUM PANDURATUM.
This
distinct

and pretty Oncidium, which flowered

Hazelbourne, Dorking,
in

in

the collection

of

Welbore

S. Ellis. Esq.,

October, 1894, was

again

exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting on September 8th

last.
It is

a native of

New Granada, and was

;

sent

home by Mr.
species

A. Millican,
in

with Odontoglossums, in 1891, and was described early in 1895 (Rolfe,

Kew

Bull., 1895, p. 9
f.,

Orck. Rev., III., p. 83).

The

is allied

to 0.

bracteatum, Rchb.

which are borne

petals

in

and O. anthocrene, Rchb. f., but has smaller flowers, a narrow panicle about two feet long. The sepals and
with
crisped-undulate

are

deep chestnut-brown

narrow

yellow

margins, and the lobes of the small pandurate lip are bright yellow, with a shining brown disc. The column is without wings. It has much ofthe habit of an Odontoglossum, and the pseudobulbs have some broad blackish
bars at the base.
It is

a very distinct species,

and

at present

we do

not

know

of

its

existence in any other collection.

THE HYBRIDIST.
LiEI.IO-CATTLEYA

X BRYAN.

handsome hybrid raised in the collection of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, from Cattleya Gaskelliana ? and La-lia crispa 3 to which an Award of Merit was given on September 8th last by
is

This

the Royal Horticultural Society. but the front lobe of the

for the paler

It is

comparable with

L.-c.

exoniensis,

liform crimson-purple

much-crisped margin, as 'in the Cattleya parent, whole it most resembles the last-named, the sepals and petals being light rosy-purple but in the shape of the lip, the yellow throat, and the shape of the segments, the influence of Lalia large
;

crispa

is

distinctly seen.

It is

and handsome hybrid, the petals measuring over l| inches broad. one ofthe many fine things raised by Mr. Murray.

It

is

and very pretty hybrid between Cypripedium Argus ? and C Stone, J was exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. at the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting on September 8th last, under the above name, t >ore a raceme of two flowers, which well combined the characters of the two parents. In general shape it may be compared with one or two others "tie Morganis type, the characters of C. Stonei being most apparent.
distinct

CYPRIPEDIUM X RoTHWELLIANUM.

greenish-white, delicately lined with faint purplish lines. e petals somewhat similar in the ground colour, with several dark bromi blotches, and the front of the lip of a reddish-pink The shape is tinge. good, the ground colour clean, and the blotches, on the petals, derived from Argus, set the flower off to advantage. It is a very promising thing.
,s

he dorsal sepal

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Cattleya

Euphrasia.

Another handsome hybrid raised in the establishment of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, from Cattleya Warscewiczii ? and C. superba to
s
.

which

an

Award

of Merit
last.

was given by the Royal

flower
is

Horticultural Societ)

on Sep.
like

tember 8th

The
lip

of good form and substance, and most

the seed parent in general character.

purple,

The

sepals and petals are bright rosein

and the

subentire, rich crimson-purple

front,

the

throat

nearly white, with a pair of light yellow blotches at the sides, and some reddish nerves towards the base of the disc. The features of C. superba
are less

prominent than might have been expected.

CYPRIPEDIUM X CALCEOLUS-MACRANTHOS.
All the natural hybrids
of the genns Cypripedium from tropical region*

which have hitherto appeared have been described in our pages, and it will therefore be interesting to add an account which appeared some time ago
of the single

example known from temperate regions : " The appearance of a genuine natural hybrid in the genus Cypripedium
facility

is

a matter of considerable interest, as until quite recently no single example with which they can be raised
in in

was known, notwithstanding the

gardens by artificial means.
state, fertilised

Few

of the species grow together

a wild

however, so that few opportunities occur

for the flowers to be cross-

by

insects.

C. Calceolus and C. macranthos are both natives of

and we now know not only that they grow intermixed, but that they may be cross-fertilised. M. Barbey, of Geneva, has recently published an
Siberia,

account of a natural hybrid between them, and given an excellent coloured plate of it, together with its two parents. About ten years ago the late

M.

Edmond

Boissier obtained a batch of plants of C. macranthos, which

were planted on the rockwork of the garden at VaUeyres. After several seasons they flowered, and among them appeared not only macranthos, but

Calceolus,

and a

third form, quite intermediate

in character,

which, after

careful examination,"

M. Barbey was convinced was

a natural hybrid between

the appears that in the Birch forests of Western Siberia, whence Plants were obtained, these two species occur indiscriminately intermix

'hem.

It

The

plate
i

amply proves M. Barbey 's

every respect, just

contention, as the hybrid

I

artificial ones the multitude of

have

examined.

The

macranthos, and flower" is 'smaller than C.

much

paler in

brown, the colour, the dorsal acute, and shaded with sepal narrower, more fluted, as ,n Petals longer, and intermediate, but slightly twisted; the lip interC - macranthos; lower sepal also thoroughly and

and the staminode

xi., p.

mediate.

interesting, but decidedly It i s not only extremely

handsome.-

R olfe

in

Gard. Ckron., 1892,

394-

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CATTLEYA
Another
Hardyana.
natural hybrid

HARDYANA.
list

must be added to the

namely,

of those whose parentage

has been proved by experiment,

the

handsome

Cattleya

Two

artificially raised

plants were exhibited at the meeting of

the Royal Horticultural Society on September 8th, from the collection of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, and, needless to
say, attracted a

good deal of attention.

These, Mr. Murray

states, were

obtained by crossing Cattleya

wiczii (gigas), the cross

Dowiana aurea with the pollen of C. Warscebeing made in August, 1887, the seed sown twelve
flowers expanding in August of the present year, the

months later, and the

first

plants thus being eight years old.

One

of

them bore a

single flower, and

the other a spike of two, which were quite identical with wild plants. The sepals and petals are rosy purple,
of C. Warscewiczii
;

some forms

of the

most resembling

those

the front lobe of the lip rich crimson-purple, and very

undulate; the disc bearing some of the characteristic golden veining of C. Dowiana, while on the sides of the throat are two deep yellow blotches. It
a very interesting matter to have the parentage thus confirmed, and as there are additional seedlings of the same batch which have not yet reached the flowering stage, it will be curious to watch whether any of them prove more like the seed parent than the two above-named. Possibly some one may
is

have

tried

the reverse

cross,

interesting to note the result.

will in

and whenever the plants flower it will be Probably some of the choice white varieties

due time appear, and in any case the present example is sure to lead to renewed efforts to obtain them artificially. Whether they are more likely to result from the reverse cross, or whether they appear exceptionally
as single individuals

among

batches of the coloured forms

is

at present

quite uncertain

meantime, however, we may note that in the present examples the flowers most resemble the pollen parent in colour.
;

AN AMATEUR'S NOTES.
The
dull season is

now about

over,

and the usual autumn-flowering

species

Even such autumn flowerers as Cattleya labiata and C. Bowringiana have some buds now well advanced; and having grown so well during the past summer, will soon make a superb display. The same may be said of Cypripedium a flower
on a very forward plant has already expanded.
particular season are C.

are rapidly putting in

an appearance.

insigne-indeed,

The two

Cattleyas of

this

never tired of admiring their beauty. ever, are still bud, and the display will
I

and

am

Dowiana and C. X Hardyana.

Both

are superb,

Several of the former, howC.

be finer in a week or two.

7 HE ORCHID REVIEW.

elongata has also put in an appearance, and is very prettv, though not yet equal to what we were led to expect. Ladia Dayana is still good, and ihe
pretty little orange-coloured

L. monophylla

is

just

now

very attractive,

while Laelio-cattleya

elegans and L.-c.

Schilleriana are not yet over!

They have been very good this season. Oncidiums are always to the front in
O. crispum group are

the autumn,
is

and the species of the

itself,

now

very gay.

There

O. crispum

with a yellow

great panicle of its large

and handsome brown

flowers, with a
in
;

little

on the

lip

the equally brilliant O. Marshallianum,

which the yellow as

predominates; the handsome O. Forbesii the clear yellow O. concolor, which, as well as O. Marshallianum, is even better in June: the pretty white and purple O. incurvum with its large panicles of flowers. (). ornithorhynchum with much branched panicles of light-purple flowers, >.
(

strongly

caesium, the graceful O. flexuosum

O. obryzatum, the handsome O. sar-

and O. micropogon with the lip prettily fringed in the middle. There is something so light and graceful about the Oncidiums that they amply repay any additional attention paid to them. Even Oncidium Papilio, which seems to have no particular season of flowering, is just now
codes
;

bearing several of its remarkable flowers. Odontoglossum grande is another of the showy plants of this season, which no collection is complete without,

while in
vulcanica,

the

same house O. Harryanurn, Miltonia

attractive.

Candida,

Cochtiodfl

and Trichopilia fragrans are very Moreliana is still making a good show. I think that without exception Vanda
Orchid

Miltonia spectabilis

ccerulea
Its

is

the most beautiful

now

in

flower in the Cool house.

flowers are so large, so

beautifully reticulated with

else,

two shades of

lilac-blue, quite unlike

anything

and so gracefully arranged in a noble raceme, that it is scarcely equalled at any season, and Mr. Woodall has shown that the character which some give it of being a bad grower is largely due to improper
treatment.

Near
its

it

stands a plant of the good old Zygopetalum interThis,

medium with
too, is

bold racemes of handsome and very fragrant flowers.

its

Other good things now flowering freely here are the handsome Ccelogyne ocellata, Epidendrum prismatocarpum, Restrepia maculata, Masdevallias bella, Carderi, macrura, and Reichenunsurpassed of
kind.

bachiana,

which make an
little

interesting variety.

few

flowers

of

the

charming
In the

Pleione Wallichiana are also expanding.

showy things are in flower, first and foremost Warm house several being a number of plants of Dendrobium Phalanopsis, wh.ch make a some of deal of variation in colour, and beautiful display. There is a good
for cutt.ng. the light forms are especiallv charming. It is a capital thing fc of its long stalked racemes, and
:

iter.

D. bigibbum

is

very goo.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW

The
yellow
the

contrast effectively with the lighter colours of the preceding.

D. chrysanthemum must also be mentioned as flowering

freely,

and

handsome D. formosum.
Charlesworthii, the

Then

there

is

the pretty

little

Cypripedium
of

gem

of the gems, C. tonsum, an early flower or two

Stonei,

C. purpuratum

and C. Spicerianum, C.

the pretty

little

C.

cenanthum, C.

politum, C.

Ashburtonia;, and a number of other

display at this season.

hybrids which invariably

make a good

Selenipedium

Sedeni, and others of the group, are also very

this

good

just

now.

The
trusses

principal remaining Orchids in flower in

house are some good

of Vanda suavis, the pretty

little

Angracum Scottianum, and some

and P. violacea.
this season,

plants

of Phalajnopsis Esmeralda, P. rosea,

The

plants generally have

made very good growths

partly

on account of the large amount of sunshine and the abundance of air which it has been necessary to give, and almost everything promises a good
display of flowers at the proper season.

Orchids

like

plenty of light and

air,

There can be no doubt that most and with a due attention to shading and
and comparatively
Amatf.uk.

damping down they succeed

sunless years.

better than in cold, wet,

CYPRIPEDIUM X HARRISIANUM VIRESCENS.

The
freaks

of

Cypripedium

Dauthieri

have

been

recorded

in

our

columns, and at page 239 of our August number a case of sporting in C. X Harrisianum, which led to an action at law, was noted. We have now another case to record. is a

Cypripedium

Harrisianum virescens

green variety, which was described at page 235 of our second volume, from a plant in the collection of H. Little, Esq., of Twickenham, and a year later from another which appeared with M. Peeters, of Brussels {supra

Mr. Little's plant passed into the collection of R. I. Measure Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, a small piece being retained by Mr. Little. This has now flowered as an ordinary light form of C. X Harrisianum, and suggests the probability that it originated as a sport and as now reverted back again. This point about its history has never been
cleared up.

III., p. 296).

potted in
these facts
t

Mr. Little remarks that when he obtained the plant it was loam and was rather Whether starved, but it is now in peat. had anything to do with cannot say. the
plant's peculiarities

behaviour of these plants will be watched

would be interesting to learn the behaviour of Mr. Measures' Also to know how ai he variety originally appeared. The
:

we

plant.

future

curiosity.

THE ORCHID RE VIE. W.

.,01

CYPRIPEDIUM X THAYERIANUM.
"

Horticulture
to classify

is

said to be progressive, and

is

we venture
if

to think

that

botany or botanical nomenclature

also,

and

the attempts constantly

made

and re-arrange

the work of the hybridist are to be taken

seriously,

ordinary cultivators

will

never be able to keep pace with the

progress.

Cypripedium

Boxallii

has

for

nineteen

years

been generally
is

regarded as a well-marked variety of C. villosum.

structurally,

The Hower
in

different

and there appears

but
a

to be no evidence of forms merging into the

type

species,

late writer

on the subject, Hansen

The Orchid

Hybrids, has suddenly decided that C. Boxallii must henceforth be considered the same as C. villosum, and a host of hybrids having the former
for

one parent must then be considered as synonyms, and

cultivators will

C. have to begin to learn over again the names of the plants they possess. X Thayerianum is one of these; it is the result of a cross between C.

and

what

is

knowr

dark

form.

having the large dowers and rich wine colouring of C. Lawrenceanum, with the high polish of C. Boxallii atratum over the whole surface of the Bower Among hybrid Cypfipcdiums it is considered one of the best, ami it and and colouring, is of healthy vigorous growth, improves each year in size remains to be Sander, of St. Alban's, England. It was raised by the Messrs.
seen whether Mr. Hansen',

man3

innovations will be generally accepted by

it

botanists, but from the cultivator's standpoint confounded. The above is only one of the

will

make

many

reforms
-

8 E. O. Orpet in Garden and Forest. August 26th, p. 34 ^ -.u:l, u r Imon referred ti r~,
.

>

IIS

"11

two

"I'

lhl<

Cypripedium Boxallii is a distm different occasions, namely, whether questio anu t f r i-illnsnm and it opens the old ot L. unosum, p
species

or onlv a

'

vanch

,.-,,..

::....

,;>"

to

page 2 66 of our
there adopted
distinct

last will

volume.

Those who Sgree

us

which an answer was attempted with the line of argument

,n

probably agree with

sub-species, villosum, at least as a from C.

regarding C. Boxallii as and not a mere van.

Compare C. X Lathamianum and C. X

Calypso

Harrisianum and
Godseffianum. for

of C.

vffli

184-186, pages io+-^ so that in a supplementary note on U rtd car the work. the respective hybrids of each from
,

-SEi^-:H;iH

3 I

THE OR CHID RE VIE W.

we
feel justified in

these two plants pass into each other

distinct.

regarding them

as

There are many cases of closely which occur

in

allied species of

Orchids which

are yet distinct in the sense here indicated,

differences

and we have

to investigate the

Nature rather than to point out how we would

have them to be. Ed.]

ORCHIDS AT TWICKENHAM.
Among
Esq.,

the interesting Orchids

now

in flower in the collection of

is

H.

Little,

The Barons, East Twickenham,

an exceedingly handsome form

of

Hardyana, of the Massaiana or marmorata type. The sepals and petals are beautifully marbled, and the latter veined with white on a
rose-coloured ground, the front lobe of the lip
side lobes with

Cattleya

deep rich velvety crimson,

which extends round the side lobes as a narrow margin, and the disc and
the yellow blotches

Dowiana

aurea, forming a

and golden veining almost as most harmonious blending of colour.

in

C.

The

raceme bears two flowers, which are quite intermediate in shape between the two parents, and the sheath is six inches long. Side by side with it is a form of C. Dowiana with a dark lip and no trace of the yellow blotches at
the sides, but the sepals and petals clear yellow. inches The sheath is long. About a dozen others are showing flower, and as one has a sheath as long as in C. X Hardyana its development is being carefully watched. C. labiata and C. Bowringiana are also showing for flower, and a few are already bursting their sheaths. Cattleyas and Lalias are generally strongly represented in the collection. Five plants of Ladio-cattleya Schilleriana

are carrying seven spikes of bloom, but about a dozen are just over,

and two of

L.-c.

elegans are

still out,

including the

handsome

variety Littleana.

Five nice plants of Miltonia spectabilis Moreliana are just at their best, also Vanda Kimballiana, while V. suavis, Dendrobium formosum, and D. Phalsnopsis are making a be

good show.

Among Cypripediums may

mentioned several plants of C. Charlesworthii, C. tonsum, and C. t. superbum, C. Chamberlainianum, C. niveum, C. Haynaldiannm, C. Stone., Spicenanum, with the inevitable hybrids, including C. superbum, X Crossianum, x politum, X snperciliare, X marmorophyllum po ystigmaticum, x Laforcadii, X Mrs. Canham, x vexillarium, X Seegerianum, Xapiculatum superbum. Those who grow these plants can rely upon having some flowers throughout the year. A batch of Vanda Hookeriana is thriving splendidly in a low house close to the glass in full sunshine without
a particle of shading,
tail

which suggests a method of treatment

for those

who

to succeed with

it.

1HE OkCHW REVIEW.

A SUMMER CAMP FOR ORCHIDS.
An
is

j 03

illustration of a

Summer Camp

for

Orchids

at

Troy,

New

fork,

VS.

V.

given in the Gardeners' Chronicle for September 19th last (p. 337, fig. 62)! together with the following note : " In climates having more summer warmth than the warmest parts of these islands, cultivators of Orchids
find
it

beneficial

to these plants and other inmates of

warm

houses to place
lo expose

them out of doors during the summer months, taking care not
without shading plants
liable to injury

by direct sunshine, and to keep the

of
r

ground moist on or above which they are placed. Mr. A. Dmunock, Messrs. F. Sander & Co., The Nurseries, St. Albans, Herts, to who,,

thanks are due for the use of the photograph from which our illustration was taken, sends us the following note: 'About M;iv 1st (P- 337) A. R. Smith, Esq., removes all his plants from the houses into the open air,

and places them on wooden

stages,

where

at

all

times they are surrounded

with pure air and ample shade from the

trees.

The

collection

includes

some magnificent specimens of Ccelogyne cristata across), and a quantity of small plants, fine examples
and others.

hololeuca

(tin,,

art

of C. ocellata

maxima

(about 100 plants), C. Massangeana, C. Sanderiana, C. flaccida, C. Havana,

Vandas and Aerides thrive well, and several may be noticed in bloom. Cymbidium eburneum and C. Lowianum, &c, also make very vigorous growths, and at the rear a fine lot of Cypripediums in bloom make an extraordinary display. They all remain outside until the end of September, and are afterwards removed to their winter quarters, and grown
comparatively cool, which enables the plants to pass through the excessive
winter

months without any

difficulty.'

"

BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW.

Among
the interesting Botanical Orchids flowering
in

the

Kew

collection

three species of Cycnoches

its

C pentadactylon with C chlorochilon, the best-known

flowers being exclusively males.

be mentioned, the handsomely spotted five-toothed lip, the striking C. Loddigesii, and

may

first

species of the genus, in each case the

It
is

only occasionally that the females

of

occur.

Another remarkable

species

the

same group

is

Mormodes

Cogniauxii, a recent addition to the genus. A collection of these plants and the allied Catasetums would be extremely interesting. Oncidium dichromum, name of Odontoglossum bicolor remained

which under

its

old

a mystery for so
is

many

years, but

which was re-discovered about

a year ago.

Its history has already been also flowering, but' very weakly at present. cesium, with given (supra, III., p. 363). Again, O. trulliferum and O.

3o 4
several of the better

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

known kinds are
is

out,

with Odontoglossum crocidipterum,

a rare species allied to O. blandum.

Sigmatostalix radicans

A good

plant of the pretty

little

one of

bearing several racemes of flowers, which remind some small white-lipped Oncidium. Trichocentrum Hartii and

Aspasia variegata are two other interesting plants belonging to the same group. Several species of Epidendrum may also be mentioned, as E.
inversum,

E.

latilabre,

the

remarkable

E.

equitans,

E. fragrans, and

E. osmanthum.
still

Spathoglottis Fortunei
also

and

S. plicata var. Micholitzii are

longifolia,

in

flower,

the

handsome

Stenoglottis

which was

Another handsome terrestrial species is the old Habenaria Susanna;, of which a figure was given at page zoo. Dendrobium alpestre is a very pretty little Himalayan species bearing
half-a-dozen graceful racemes of white with

mentioned two months ago.

members of the genus are recurvum is a West African species with dense racemes of green flowers and Liparis cuneilabris, one of the few Australian species in cultivation. Of the Pleurothallis group may be mentioned a specimen of P. pulchella
with
P.

some purple on the lip. Other D. bicameratum and D.bracteosum. Bulbophyllum

many

graceful
Stelis

spikes of light green flowers,

discolor,

and the

pretty

little

picta,

also

the pretty

little

hybrid

Masdevallia

Measuresiana, Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi, and Sarcanthus pallidas are flowering well, the latter bearing a large branching panicle of numerous flowers.

Arachnanthe

bilinguis,

Xylobium scabrilingue, Isochilus

linearis,

Lycaste

macrophylla, and L. Schilleriana are the principal remaining ones flowering

LjELIO-CATTLEYA

CLIVE.

This very handsome hybrid was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural on September 8th last, and received a First-class
Certificate.
It
i

raised in the collection of

Norman

C. Cookson, Esq.,

Oakwood, Wyla i-on-Tyne, from Cattleya Dowiana S and Laelia prsstans previously exhibited on September i?th, 1893, when it had not
i

full

development.

The
latter

flowers

now measure

five inches from

tip to tip of the petals,

the richest deep velvety crimson-purple, with dull orange throat, and some almost black nerves which extend on to the base of the front lobe, giving a very rich effect. On the whole it takes most after the Lselia parent, but the
robust,

measure li inches broad, and with the sepals are of a bright rosy purple shade. The lip is large and very richly coloured, the front lobe being two inches broad, beautifully crisped, and of

which

parent.

the allied Lielia

and the flower enlarged, owing to the influence It can best be pared with L.-c. X Ingran Dayana was one of the parents.

of the

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.
305

CORYANTHES MACULATA
Ouk
var. vitrina, Rolfe,
p. 240),

VAR.

VITRINA.

present illustration represents the remarkable Coryanthes maculata

which was described a

in the

little

over a year ago (supra,

iii.,

on
has

its

appearance

establishment of Messrs. F. Sander and

Co.

It

now

flowered in the collection of Dr. Hodgkinson,

The Grange,

YVilmslnw. Cheshire, to

whom we

are indebted for the photograph here

reproduced.
type,

The

flowers are almost self-coloured, not spotted, as in the

the sepals and petals being light greenish-yellow, the hood and
little

column a

paler yellow, and the rest of the

lip

a semi-transparent

shade of very pale yellow with a slight dash of palest green. The name It was imported from was given in allusion to its glassv appearance.
Central America.

Dr. Hodgkinson remarks that on

first

opening

it

was

a beautiful object,

owing

hke a bat sepals being expanded to the lower

U w,ngs, but after a few hours these rolled P npe pea being that of The odour is pecuhar, seen in the photograph. nd as are ra her fleeting the flowers Like the' allies, the Stanhopeas, long the plants are often found difficult to.keep ,

/"^/ofVrT pT
, :

much g r0 w
structure,

-hey

m^be

and some,
if

at least

^^^ ^
m
a

he,
v
j

the beautiful C.

leucocorys, Rolfe, for example

plants soon die

Dr Hod

remarks that he finds these ns on

grown

as tney in the stove,

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THE ORCHID REVIEW

He
therefore grows
here

before the previous ones have formed pseudobulbs.

them

in a cooler

they do well.

and brighter house with the Mexican La;lias, and The peculiar conditions under which they grow have
at

been

pointed out by different observers, and a very interesting account by Mr.

James Rodway was reproduced

a figure showing a plant of C.
It is interesting to

page 41 of our
in

last

volume, together with

its

macrantha

flower in

native habitat.

glance at this picture and

of carnivorous
nest,

remember
is

that in the mass of

found.

fibrous roots a garrison

ants

almost invariably

There they make their

and

in return

for the shelter provided they

defend the plant against the attacks of cockroaches and other insect enemies. Other plants sometimes take advantage of this protection, and

clump containing two distinct species of Coryanthes, a Bromelia, several Anthuriums, and a young shrub, all growing in
records one
a ball hardly a foot in diameter.
It is

Mr.

Rodway

sometimes supposed that the presence of these ants

plant,

is

essential

to the well-being of the

and

Mr.

Rodway remarks

that when

specimens are brought into gardens in the tropics, these useful tenants having been removed by the collectors by soaking in water, they are particularly subject to the attacks of insects,

time.

But under cultivation

is

in

and rarely thrive for any length of European hot-houses, where the protection

of the ants

A may
the

full

not required, the plants will succeed under proper treatment. account of the structure and fertilisation of this remarkable genus
C.
of

page 338 of our second volume, and a figure of macrocorys, Rolfe, at page 265 of the following one, and a comparison
three figures will

be found at

show some of the

is

differences

which occur

in

the

The photograph here reproduced

an excellent one, and shows

not

only the pair of horn-like glands which secrete the liquid which falls into the bucket-shaped lip underneath, but each shows a glistening drop of the
liquid just before
it

falls.

It is

a pity

we cannot add

the

little

group of

metallic green

flowers

and gold bees (Euglossa aurata), which invariably find out these when they expand in their native habitat, and come buzzing round,

creeping under the hood-like appendage of the flower, and then flying off or dropping into the pool below. At all events, we can imagine one of them floundering in the shallow liquid, its wings bedraggled, its vain
struggles
to

climb the

slippery

sides

of

the bucket,
lip
It

and

finally

its

triumphal exit through the narrow opening between the with the yellow pollen masses affixed
to
its

and the column,

reads almost
like

shoulders.

romance that the insect, in spite of its troubles, should hurry off to another flower and repeat the process, this time leaving the pollen on the stigma, and thus effecting fertilisation. over and
Yet the fact has been observed over again, and warns us not to judge the experiences of others exclusively

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

>oint.
It is

, 07

evident that the bees, ants and flowers get

surprisingly effective and harmonious way. in spite of

nay have about the matter.

We

should

much

like to

plants better represented in our collections.

THE CATTLEYA DISEASE

have received some examples of diseased pseudobulbs of Cattleya Dowiana aurea from Mr. E. Pidsley, gardener to Richard Ashworth. Esq., Ashlands, Newchurch, Manchester, with request that we should ascertain
the cause of the attack,
if

We

possible.

In

some cases the mischief commenced

in

the

leaf,

and

in

others at the base of the pseudobulb or

the

rhizome,

the plants hanging side by side with others which remain perfectly healthy.

Mr. Pidsley has seen several plants in other collections affected in the same way, and in each case the gardener was unable to suggest any cause for the
attack.

We

also have seen

if

it

in this species,

and exceptionally
it

in

C. labiata

and C. Trianas,

not

in

others,

and once
is

was a good

plant of C.

X Hardyana
went
off

(of

which C. Dowiana aurea

one parent) which suddenly

without any apparent cause.

We

believe that

some time ago some

for the

diseased portions were submitted to microscopical examination, with a view

to ascertaining
if

any fungus was present which would account

was negative or doubtful, as the only fungi present were such as live upon decaying tissues, and not the cause of the disease. In the case of the " Spot " disease, it was shown that the initial cause was
mischief, but the result

the presence of minute drops of water on the surface of the leaves at a time

when the temperature

with water (supra,
that " spot "

is

exceptionally low, and the roots copiously supplied

p. 19),

and

this confirmed the opinion of those

who

held

was simply the result of improper treatment, and not of a parasitic fungus. Whether this disease of Cattleyas can be attributed to similar causes, or to some parasitic fungus like that which produces the
Vanilla disease (supra, III., p. 51),
is

at present doubtful.

It

would appear,

however, that the disease is not contagious, and this rather points to its not being of fungoid origin. Cattleya Dowiana is usually considered difficult to

grow, though some people succeed very well with it, and we should be glad to know of any special treatment which has been applied with beneficial results, as well as of any conditions which seem to favour the disease.

Almost every grower has experience of some kind or other with this beautiful Cattleya, and a comparison of notes might yield some useful
information.

The

disease

is

not a
it

be of fungoid origin or not

successfully.

is

new one by any means, and whether important to know how to combat

it it

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NOVELTIES.

Oncidium Jonesianum flavens.

yellowish green, and the
lip

A curious

variety, in

which

all

the spots
pale
in

have vanished from the sepals and petals, which are slightly barred with
white, with the usual markings.
It

flowered

the collection of T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester, and afterwards with Mr. James Cypher, at Cheltenham. O'Brien in Card.

Chrm., July

4, p. 9.

Epidendrum
to E. xipheres,

xipheroides,

Kranzl. A

Brazilian
It is

species,

which
allied

flowered with Messrs. F. Sander

&

Co., St. Albans.

t.

very nearly

Rchb.

f.,

which

is

figured at

nr of the Refugium Botanicum,

and smaller
flowers of a

but

is

said to differ in having

much
and

larger bulbs

different colour.
lines,

The

sepals

petals are dark green with sordid purple

and the
p.

lip

golden-coloured with a thick whitish callus. Card. Ghrm.,

July 18,

63.

Cyrtopodium micranthum, Kranzl. A

Brazilian species which flowered

with Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, in June last. It is said to be like a small-flowered form of C. maculatum, Lindl., but to have the side lobes of
the lip more developed, and the front lobe larger,, obovate, and rounded at the top. In colour, it is like a pale form of C. maculatum. Gard. Chron., July 18, p. 63.

Cirrhopetallm graveolens,
from

Bailey.

A large-flowered species brought

has

New

Guinea a few years ago by Sir Walter Macgregor, which

flowered in the greenhouse of the Brisbane It is a Botanic Garden. showy species, but the strong disagreeable odour of its flowers will probably prevent its becoming a favourite in collections of
cultivation, except

now

where

these curious and beautiful plants are kept. The strong odour of the flowers seems to have the effect of attracting and stupefying flies, so that when by the turning over of the labellum they become jammed between that organ and the column, they are unable to extricate themselves, and die. The leaves are 12 inches long by 41 inches broad at the top and the scapes 6 or 7 inches high, bearing a short raceme 7 inches in diameter, composed of about 13 strongly-scented flowers, which are so crowded as to appear
;

almost umbellate.
of
all

Colour yellowish, tinged with green, and the inner

face

the segments

more or

less

speckled with red, and the

lip

reddish

brown, changing to deep purple.-F. M. Bailey, Contributions to Queensland Flora, Botany Bulletin, xiii. (1896), p. 33. This is evidently the fine Orrhopetalum robustum, Rolfe, described ago in this work three years
(vol.

which received a First . class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society on June nth, 1895.
1,

p.

175),

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CYPRIPEDIUM
I

ATROPOS AND

C.

TAUTZIANUM.
(together with

AM sending you two blooms

of Cypripedium

X Atropos

the two parents) as an example of the wide divergence possible, both as to form and colour, in the flowers of seedlings emanating from the same

seed-pod.

The

influence of both parents, Cypripedium

S

X Ashburtonia expansum
,

(Cookson's variety)

and Cypripedium purpuratum 3

can be readily

seen in each of the seedling flowers, but while in the smaller flower the

good qualities of each parent appear to be compressed,

it

in the larger flower

is

the less desirable qualities that are reproduced.

this
is
is

The

inference to be

drawn from

that the purchase of unflowered seedlings, even where

is

the parentage

some extent a of a batch of seedlings may find some among

undoubted,
to

lottery,

and that the

raiser

the
first

number by no means
seedling to flower
is

equal to others, while, on the other hand,

a

if

the

disappointment, there
unflowered.
I still

is

no occasion

to despair as to the quality of those

still

hope to flower one of the batch of seedling Cypripedium barbatum Cypripedium niveum 3 (Orch. Rev. III., p. 201), in which the
I

influence of the pollen parent will be unmistakable.

eight out of the fourteen seedlings raised,

have so

far flowered

niveum that I can perceive is barbatum appears to be completely checked, the plants remaining

and the only effect of Cypripedium that the climbing propensity of Cypripedium
squat.

Twin-flowered spikes are more common with me this year than usual, as I have at the present time spikes of Cypripedium X Harrisianum, C. X cenanthum superbum, C. X Laforcadei, C. X T. B. Haywood,
C.

Ashburtonise -calospilum,
all

C.

A. expansum, and C.

Mas-

ereelianum,

carrying two flowers.

Reginald Young.
Liverpool,

September

15th, 1896.

[The flowers sent are very

Atropos
(where
is like

interesting.

The

small flower of C.
last

our the original one described at page 292 of

of

volume

the

history

the

plant

is

given),

and

bears

a remarkable

resemblance to the pollen parent

are narrower
reflexed,

in size, shape,

and

colour, though the petals

and

and has broader stripes. parent in size and shape, though

dorsal sepal is less scarcely spotted at the base, and the The large one is much nearer the seed
it

has more of the purple

tint
intertiHiliati-

parent in fact, in colour and marku dorsal sepal more the seed-parent, with the the small flower and striking and features render the group very reflexed at the sides. These


Jio
interesting,

1HE OKCHlb HE VIEW.

and we do not remember another instance showing
quite the
to be

same remarkable character. One seedling may very well be said much like its father, and the other almost as much like its mother.
other cross mentioned
is

The

also remarkable.

Its history

has already been

given, as above indicated.

The

seedlings ought to be varieties of C.

little,

Tautzianum, which,

however, they resemble very

except
is

in

the

dwarfed habit, which shows that the influence of C. niveum absent. Ed.1

not quite

A
Several

HANDFUL OF NATAL ORCHIDS.

South African Orchids have become familiar in gardens during recent years, and among them two or three from the Natal district. In 1886 Mr. R. W. Adlam published some notes under the above heading, in which he enumerated the following eight as among the showiest of the
species of

Natal species
Krebsii,

: Eulophia
{.,

ensata, Lindl., E.

Dregeana, Lindl., Lissochilus

Satyrium candidum, Lindl., S. carneum, Lindl., Disa polygonoides, Lindl., D. macrantha, Lindl., and Disperis Fanninis, Harv. The two Satyriums are in cultivation, as well as S. spha:rocarpum, Lindl., which is not enumerated. Concerning their culture Mr. Adlam remarks : " Our Orchids flower in the moist season from November to March, during which time they enjoy much rain and sun alternately. From April to October rain is scarce a slight shower every month on the average but and I wish to draw special attention to this the soil beneath the surface
;

Rchb.

does not get dust-dry. Nearly all our Orchids, save Lissochili, delight in a heavy retentive black loam or red clay, interlaced with grassroots during winter the air is very clear and the dews are heavy, and of course the dry grass absorbs a good deal of moisture. There is no deep secret in the cultivation of terrestrial Orchids we see Disas and Satyriums growing
;
;

alongside of Gladioli

named.

Lissochili
life,

and Gazanias, and surely anyone can grow the last and Eulophias, from the nature of their rhizomes, have

an indefinite

but the

members

of the great tribe Ophrydea: seem to

live

but a few years.

seedling will

Take Disa polygonoides for instance. The first year's be a tiny plant about two inches high, the second year it

increases in strength, the third it flowers, the fourth a stronger spike is sent up, and then the plant perishes. Disas and Satyriums, however, seed very freely, and there should I be no difficulty them.
in

thus propagating

would advise firm potting in turfy loam with good drainage, and to meddle with them as little as possible. Keep the plants cool and moderately dry in the winter, and give heat with moisture in the summer." Grrf. Ckm*,
1886, xxvi., p. 58.

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SELENIPEDIUM
The tendency
often

SEDENI ABNORMAL
Sedeni to produce abnormal flowers
yet
lias

of Selenipedium

been noticed, but one of the most remarkable we have

seen has

been sent from the collection of Colonel Marwood, of Whitby, by Mr.

Horner.

The ovary

is

completely confluent with the

axis,

and the sepals

partially so

with the bracts of the next two flowers, thus giving the appearitself.

ance of two buds arising from within the flower

stand to right and
left

The two
is

sepals

of the axis, and the front half of earh

in texture

sepal-like,
lip then'

and the remainder bract-like

and colour.

Instead of a

are three separate bodies, one lanceolate, partly coloured, and occupying

the position of the median petal, the other two arising laterally to it. and showing the characteristic spotting, pubescence, and infolded margins of

These are evidently the petal.. i.l staminodes A 1 and A 3 of the Darwinian notation, which in the normal flower coalesce with the median petal to form the lip. The petals and column are not
the side lobes of the
lip.

present in a normal condition, though there are about

irregularly

Ave
tlu-

light-green

crumpled bodies

in the centre,

and

in front

of

young bud-.

least and one of these, which occupies the position of a 2, has an anther below the apex, evidently one of Both this and the opposite one the fertile anthers of the normal flower. are united to two undulate crumpled bodies, which apparently represent the

which probably represent

them in

part, at

petals crumpled because the union prevents them from elongating, as they median should do and the one without an anther distinctly shows the
the presence of a perfect anther, afore-named. very shortly stalked, immediately behind the median petal the anther totally suppressed 1.1 a This is exactly in the position of a 3. been observed normal flower which it evidently represents. The flower had was in the condition in this condition about a week before it was sent, and colours betng onk partially it begins to open, the of a bud a few days before nerve.

Most remarkable

of

all,

perhaps,

is

It would begun. the anthers not having yet developed and dehiscence of The partiallyplant until fully matured. have been better if left on the half of the from the fact that the back opened condition evidently arose and the young buds of the inflorescence, flower represents the bracts and separate^ half of the flower to develop union the organs of the front

caused

-the

lateral sepals free

from

each other,
its

but united .0 some bract-like

tissue behind, the lip brok,r

up into

and three constituent parts,

being absent.
easily explained

he

additional stamen developed

in front, instead of
is

The regular

development of the intermediate parts The the consequent displacement union of the flower with the axis, and of a tvpical throws on the corr.pos.tron example is interesting for the light i,

by the peculiar

Orchid flower.

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CVPRIPEDIUM X
Another
Ross,
Esq.,

ROSSIANUM.
the collection of H.
J.

seedling of the above has flowered in

of Florence, which

differs

slightly

from the

original

form

described at page 359 of our last volume, both in the leaf and flower, but shows the same unmistakable evidence of its descent from C. barbatum and C. tonsum. The inflorescence is two-flowered. A two-flowered
inflorescence

and leaf of another seedling

is

also sent, in

which each

petal

of the lower flower bears from twenty to two dozen small dark blotches, while in the upper flower they are not half so numerous, and are almost

X
smaller,

Rossianum.

The

flo

the

petals

rather

C. barbatum, but in other respects the resemblance to C. X Rossianum is so great as to suggest that it is simply a variety of the same. At all events it does not agree with any of the well-known types, and we are unable to find any other species that will account for the characters of the hybrid. Mrs. Ross, in writing, remarks that it may be interesting that many Cypripediums in the collection have two-flowered scapes, including nearly all the plants of C. callosum, C. concolor, and C. X Ashburtonia:. This affords evidence that the plants are well-grown and very vigorous.

SEED-VESSELS OF ORCHIDS.
It has sometimes been remarked that Orchids do not seed very freelv in a wild state, and Mr. N. Blandford once recorded the finding of a seed-pod on an lm ported plant of Sophronitis grandiflora as something exceptional. (Card Chron., l8 8 5 xxiv., p. 47 o.) Replying to this remark Mr. James Douglas observed . It is perfectly well known that imported plants come over with seed-pods on them, ripe or otherwise hundreds of seed-pods may be found clustering on the plants in the sale-room, scores of them on one plant (I.e., p. 470). have observed seed-pods on newly-imported plants of Sophronitis grandiflora, and freely
,
;

'

We

enough
are

have no doubt that

it

seeds

a wild state, as

plants fad to

do many, if not most, other Orchids. These produce pods under cultivation because the necessary insects
if

not

present, but

formed

abundance.

nave no doubt the necessary

the flowers are artificially fertilised capsules are Where Orchids grow abundantly iu a wild state we
fertilising

Perform their work satisfactorily. produce capsules without

insects are there,

fact that

and

generally
fail

The

most Orchids

to

artificial

aid of

evidence of this, for without their aid no seeds would be produced-at all events in many cases-and it is quite obvious that an Orchid which produced no seed would soon vanish from the scene.

some kind

affords conclusive

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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR OCTOBER.

By H.
A. BuRKERRV, Highbury, Birmingham.
it is

October now being

to the

here,

no longer possible

to keep

up the temperature
Nor,
to

same high degree

is it

as

recommended

for the
it

past few months.

indeed,

advisable to attempt to do

so, as

would be quite opposed

evil

the requirements of the plants, which would soon show the

effects.

and intermediate growing Orchids having completed their newgrowth, or nearly so, will delight in nothing so much as a reduction in the
temperature, so that they

Warm

may

repose and ripen, free from the over-exciting

;

influences of excessive heat and moisture

while for cool Orchids, of course,

readily maintained during the

a suitable temperature can generally be cool weather than

more

when
:

it is

so very hot.

The
for the

following figures will be a guide to the temperature most suitable

autumn months Cool house. Day, with

.

sun, 6o to 65

without sun, 55 to 60 without sun, 60

night

and morning, 50 to 55
night, 6o

Intermediate house. Day, with sun, 70 to 75

;

to 65

Warm
70
;

morning, 58 to 6o. without sun, or East Indian house. Day, with sun, 75 to 8o;
;

night, 65
it

Of course
bound

morning, 6o to 65 is impossible to maintain these

.

figures always exactly,

and
is

no one should attempt

to fluctuate.

it.

The
is

inside temperature as well as the outside

It

perfectly natural,

degrees on the whole of the above figures

and an occasional fall of five will do more good than harm,

to be

dreaded, only a fall of ten degrees need not be while for short periods ventilation. especially if the atmosphere is kept good by careful it as it comes, about the weather, we have to take It is no use grumbling longing for it to Before the rain came we were and make the best of it. sunshine was up earth. But only hot fierce cool and moisten the parched To keep up a semblance of day.

sheer dint of the houses was done only by to a growing temperature within greater par, of bucket of water, during the perseverance, with a syringe and of doubt whether any Orchid grower I the day. And I must sav that heat, occurnng such periods of tropical experience will say that he considers ttwas the whole, benefit his plants, intervals, does, on

had then, from early morn

till

close

only at lengthy

Their had grown unaccustomed to ,.. more than they could stand, as they oHapsed the usual English climate. tissues, constricted artificially under and weakly plants shnveUed up consequently under the strain;

when tended their plumpness only potted ones retained sudden > hot and bright weather trouble. But this intensely reeking rain, the atmosphere and more

"'<--"'

Now

it

is

rain

dull weather,

3u
moisture, and growth
afraid

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

is

active

which was previously very slow.

But

am

now

that the plants will soon suffer from the almost total absence of

sunshine.

From
I

the time of writing (September 15th)

last three

don't believe we

have had here altogether during the

sunshine.

or four weeks six hours of

more mixed and varied. Dendrobiums, however, have prospered this year more than
prefer weather slightly
fact that
it is

would

usual.

This seems to point to the

growing, but air also.

not only heat they

like

when

summer,

for

Undoubtedly they have had plenty of the latter this there has been no stagnant atmosphere. No sooner were the

plants syringed than they were dry again,

and

this

kind of thing Dendroreally

biums seem
fine

to enjoy.

They have with but few exceptions made up

left

pseudobulbs, long and stout, in fact nothing so far

to be desired.
will

we can only get enough sun to thoroughly ripen them they grand show of flower next spring. We are now gradually
If

make

getting our

spring flowering

kinds

in

their winter

quarters.

This

is

done

quite

independent of any secondary growth that may have started again from the base such growths must fare as best they can we must not keep the
; ;

plants in a hot growing temperature just for their sake.

Dendrobium Dearei is a species that requires a different and special treatment from most of the others during winter. It is never dormant, it is always either making new growth or flowering. By the appearance our

now present one would think that the season was spring instead of autumn. The new growths are only a few inches high consequently they
plants
;

must

be kept growing in a light position in the warmest and moistest house, and given a liberal supply of water, to which this species is very
still

another often late to start away, making it very uncertain when the pseudobulbs will be completed. It should now
is

partial.

D. Brymerianum

occupy a similar position, and be given a until the main growths are made up, when

like
it

treatment to the last-named

should at once be well rested in a temperature ranging between 50 and 6o, otherwise it will quickly push aerial growths from where the flowers should appear. D. Dalhousieanum is

another that

is

also

late;
like

it

should receive every encouragement

it

until

completed; afterwards,

should be given a decided rest in the same temperature, until the flower spikes begin to push, about April,
as these also are apt to turn to growths instead.

the last-named,

Dendrobium crepidatum

is

a very pretty species, but with us behaves

in

an extraordinary manner, by appearing so healthy and then suddenly going off dead at almost any period of growth or rest alike. My experience and
observation of this species is that it is most susceptible to a check through cold draughts, &c. It seems to require more heat than most of the other deciduous Dendrobiums, and I have no doubt it is collected from hot nooks and corners in its native habitats of Burma and Assam.

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315

believe the

same may be
it

said regarding D. Phalacnopsis, D. bigibbum

and D. superbiens, although

has been rumoured that some find the

first-

named grows well enough if subjected to a tolerably cool treatment. There is no doubt in my mind that during the season of active growth a great heat
is

most desirable

for this species.

is

think as years pass by

it

will

be proved

that D.

Phalamopsis

not the same vigorous and easy-growing species that

the newly-imported plants of the

same would have

us to believe, so

would

advise that they be carefully looked after and kept in good health.

No

doubt that these hot-growing and warm resting species do,

very late

in time,
is

become

and out of season in localities where the absence of sun And when we come to think it over it is no more than we might
expect.

greatest.

reasonably
late

Unfortunately, however, the cause of the plant becoming so

is

and out of season

is

simply owing to

its

greatly reduced vitality.

The one

the inevitable result of the other.

These are disturbances and troubles

tropical

which a month or two of occasional

weather do not always redeem.

And

these are facts that should always be remembered and allowed for m cultivation. At the same time they must never prevent us from doing our

utmost and giving our untiring attention to counteract in every conceivable form all climatic conditions that are unfavourable, and to make the most of
those which are favourable.

Syringing or otherwise wetting the plants over-head must now be pretty

strictly

forbidden in

all

departments.

Of course

there

may

be exceptions

such, for could be practised with advantage on some plants is desired to instance, that are late in completing their growth, which it morning, when hasten. should only then be done first thing in the

when

it

But

it

the day

is

likely to be

fine.

Damping down

the

floors

and

stages, too,

should likewise now be done much more

sparingly, once or twice a day

the being sufficient, according to the nature of the weather and

amount
later

of

warmth

required from the hot-water pipes.

Do

not

damp down

than

mid-day.
All repotting
is

now done

for

forth be in a position to devote

hencethe present season, and we shall much more time to that important and
is

ever-recurring work, cleaning.

It

work that should never be

neglected,

extensively hands. Where Orchids are nor done with clumsy, uncareful is sometimes pressing work that I fear it grown there is often so much other
as and clean them so frequently found impossible to go a thorough tedious job, and ,0 make could be desired. It is a long and an^ interest in his wor good hand one must have considerable a s ic patience to enable him to possessed of a good amount of done ad nevertheless, it must be varm damp houses day after day. But, V ,, L .. .-r should have at his command enough Every growe uftenerthe better.

through the plants

nable

him

to keep every pla

under his charge absolutely

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Then
his

clean from dirt and free from insect pests.

work

is

a pleasure,

and the plants a delight to

got nicely clean, to keep

all

who

see them.

When
if

the plants are once

them

so should be his sole aim.

That

is

the easiest
is

way, and insures

left

less labour.

On
it

the other hand,

the whole collection

so long after being cleaned, so as to

is

become again
for the

infested with the

various pests, then indeed

a sorry affair,

plants will never

still,

present a respectable appearance.

My

favourite insecticides are

as

formerly advised; for fumigating purposes, "X.L.A11 fumigating insecticide"; for destroying all kinds of scale, bug, &c, "Murray's electric insecticide,"

one part, to
so that
it

five parts of rain

water, applied with a small brush carefully,

the roots, otherwise
it is

does not run

;

down to

harmless, and need

not be rinsed off

and
"
is

for the general cleansing

effective,

&c, " Kilmright

very

and sponging of the leaves, cheap, and handy. I dissolve about a

teacupful to three or four gallons of rain water.

The winter blooming kinds of Cypripedium and Selenipedium will now be rapidly completing their flowering growths, and commence to push up their spikes. With good drainage and sweet compost they love a liberal
supply of water, and no possible harm can occur if watered in moderation throughout the winter. Of course it is always well to be careful, for it is a very bad practice to get the compost soddened. err
It
is

better rather to

on the side of dryness from now and throughout the winter months. A few years back Cypripediums were, perhaps, even more popular than they are
to-day,
if

that

is

possible.

by the number of
cultivation

The excitement then, which ran so high, beautiful hybrids and new species, swelling the

caused
list

in

by leaps and bounds, has gradually subsided. Few growers then could have thought the time so near at hand when other popular genera of Orchids would burst upon us at almost the same rate, yet here we are face
to face with facts.

Oattleyas and Lalias,

Dendrobiums and

Masdevallias.

are flowing in

and, as in the case with Cypripediums, chiefly by means of

I

hybridization.

am

told that the future has great things in store;

that

hybridization has barely commenced in fact, that the occupation of the ; collector and importer will soon be gone. On the subject of raising Orchids from seed, a few hints may here perhaps be useful. It is very interesting work when successful. But first

sound a few notes of warning. If you have already as much work as you can possibly get through, and have no more time to spare if you have not houses built on the most modern principles if you are lacking patience; then don't attempt raising Orchids from seed on your own account, and you will probably save yourself from much disappointmentyou are fortunate enough to have these necessaries at your command, and feel disposed to try your hand, then, in order to further prevent disappointments, do not be over sanguine about results never set a flower
let
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me

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

if

3,7

the plant

is

not in

first

rate condition,

and quite able

to bear the stress

of producing the big seed-pod,

which

will take

the best part of a year to

inferior varieties, because

mature

for

it

kills

weakly plants.

Never cross

the progeny,
varieties

if

reared, would probably be worthless.

for

And

cross only those

from which,

some reason

or another, something good might be

expected.

Be very careful in labelling the flower directly it is crossed, and remove its own pollen clean away, so that there may be no mistake in

the parentage.

When
repotted

the seed

is

ripe the

pod

will split.

Now

immediately sow the

seed on the surface of the compost, selecting plants which have lately been

recently

imported plants, that are making plenty of

roots,
is

in

preference to others
will require to

but make sure

more
the
;

that
least

any plant on which seed

sown

be kept moist for at

two or three months afterwards.

The

seed germinates

surely on plants that are suspended near the

light.

Be
it

careful that

seed

is

not washed away by the

is

lirst

waterings the plant receives

is

afterwards there

less

danger.

If the seed

good

will

soon commence to germinate, and become round shaped,

This
is

about the size of the head of a pin.

a critical juncture, fur

will

if

the

compost
Therefore

is

not

just

so,

those

green

globules

speedily
in a

disappear.

if

the surface of the compost appears not to be

it

good sound

condition,
it is

commencing, as

often does, to

become sour and decomposed,

better at this stage to at once transfer them to sweet material in tiny seed pots, placing five or six in each pot, a number of which should be

placed in teak baskets, and suspended

in

a shady part of the house, and

kept continually moist.

The cause
is

of the surface of the compost becoming

In

prematurely decayed

often

insects living within the pot.

some
and

gardens the compost become

literally alive

with a small species of

fly.

these quickly destroy Orchid seed.

When

once these tiny globular plants

will

become established
form a
little leaf,

in

their
little

new pots and most

do so the}- quickly
After this the rest
off singly
is

and a

root grasps the compost.

comparatively easy.
see that fresh sweet

They

will

soon require to be potted

the

seedling pots, and then growing on.

Be always

watchful, do not over-pot, and

supplied whenever necessary. The foregoing reasonable are the chief points to be kept in sight in order to ensure a

compost

is

amount
there

of success in raising hybrids.

There

is

yet a large field open to

all

hybridists.
is still

Even
no

supposing quite

new

crosses cannot at

times be made,

Orchid culture, we have still much more than that, advanced as we are in possess, and we ourselves, " These plants we to learn before we can say to plants, them," for, like other garden are absolutely sure of retaining

again be reared.

not already in existence, if good, should reason why crosses and. more better varieties might be obtained, doing so

By

Orchids will


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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

OKCHID PORTRAITS.
Cattleya intermedia (double). Rev. Hort., Sept. i, p. 404, fig. Cattleya Skinneri, Lindl. Rev. Hort. Beige, Sept., p. 201,
plate.

Dendkobium Hookerianum.Journ. of Hort., Sept. Dendrobium Leonis, Rchb. {.Bol. Mag., t. 7493. L,elia crispa superba.fount, of Hort., Aug. 27, p.

3, p. 221, fig

197,

fig.

40.

HYBRIDS BETWEEN CYPRIPEDIUM AND SELENIPEDIUM.

Mr. Hanson has written me respecting my crosses between the genera Selenipedium and Cypripedium for his Supplement, so, thinking it may be of some interest to your readers and lovers of these favourite flowers, I send you briefly a copy of what I said I had written in one of your issues, that I had plants up between S. Schlimii (seed parent) and C. Spicerianum (pollen
parent).
leaves.

These are growing away

well,

and now have two or three

pairs of

Also the reverse cross was tried, but the seed pod of this latter was

not ripe

when
But
I

plants of the former were up

and even when sown,

in

did not

grow.
cross,

think

have established a " record time "

S.

the following

made between

X Dominianum
;

as seed

parent and C. Chamberin

lainianum as pollen parent.

This was hybridised

December, 1895

the

pod was ripe in March of this year the seed was sown immediately, and now, in September, nine months after hybridising, I have strong young plants, some with leaves 4! inches long, and of a Selenipedium character.

The

reverse cross of this also did

will ever

not

germinate.

Whether

the cross

between these two genera

be got to flower remains to be seen.

T.

Corndean Hall,

W. Swinburne.

Winchcombe,
Cheltenham.

ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

There was
last,

a good display of Orchids at the Royal Horticultural Society's Meeting at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on September 8th

and three

First-class Certificates

were awarded.

One

of the roost

interesting features
artificially raised,

was an
the
first

exhibit of

two plants of Cattleya

Hardyana,
stage, from

the collection

which have reached the flowering of Norman C. Cookson, Esq.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Baron
a Cultural
Sir

3, 9

H. Schroder, The

Dell,

Egham

(gr.

Mr. Ballantine), received

little

Commendation

for a

good plant of the pretty

cerise-red

Sophrocattleya

Veitchii, with a two-flowered inflorescence.

(gr.

Norman

C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne

Mr. Murray),

staged four very interesting plants, including two of Cattleya

artificially raised

Hardyana.
pollen of C.

by crossing Cattleya Dowiana aurea with the

its

Warscewiczii thus settling the question of

Laelio-cattleya

parentage.
?

The others were

3
).

X Bryan

(C.

Gaskelliana

L.

crispa

which

received an
praestans

Award
),

of Merit, and L.-c.

Clive (C.

Dowiana

L.

a First-class Certificate.

Both are described on another

(gr.

page.
C. L. N. Ingram, Esq., Elstead

House, Godalming

Mr. Bond),

received a First-class Certificate for Laelio-cattleya

Charles Darwin,
of Merit on

the inflorescence bearing two flowers.

It

received an

Award

August 25th, 1895. Walter Cobb, Esq., Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells

a

(gr.

Mr. Howes), sent

good plant of Odontoglossum

CErstedii majus, with seven flowers,

and an

exceptionally large and very dark form of Miltonia spectabilis Moreliana,

called Dulcote variety, to

which a

First-class Certificate

was

given.

E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Holbrook), sent a pretty, light-coloured form of Cypripedium X Mabelia; called Henry

Ashworth, cut blooms of the handsome Dendrobium X Leeanum, a fine, richly-coloured form of Cattleya X Hardyana, two forms of C. Gaskelliana, a fine nine-flowered inflorescence of C. bicolor, and a plant of C. bicolor Lewisii, a distinct and pretty variety with green sepals and petals, and the was lip purple lower half but white in front. An Award of Merit
in

the

given to the

latter.

T. Statter. Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gr. Mr. Johnson), inflorescence of received an Award of Merit for a splendid eight-flowered
Laelio-cattleya

elegans Oweniae.
(gr.

G. S. Ball, Esq., Ashford, Wilmslow, Cheshire

Mr. Hey), sent

with the spots

Cypripedium insigne Ballianum, a

fine greenish-yellow form,

on the dorsal sepal nearly, though not quite obliterated. Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, Dorking (gr. Mr.

Burrell),

showed
Stan-

and a five-flowered inflorescence of the rare Oncidium panduratum, hopea oculata. Westrop House, Highworth, sent flowers G. O. Sloper, Esq.,

of

group, to which Sons, Chelsea, staged a fine Messrs lames Veitch and handsome LaelioIt contained the awarded. a SUver Flora Medal was of L.-c. X L.-c. X Pallas, two plants cattleya X callistoglossa ignescens, Harnsomana, bicolor, C. Leopold!, C. Cattleya

Cypripedium

polystigmaticum.

Nysa, L.-c.

Schilleriana,

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Lselia

two well-flowered plants of

O.

monophylla, Odontoglossum Harryanum,

its

bictoniense, Miltonia Reezlii

and

variety alba, Sobralia

Veitchii,

two plants of Cycnoches chlorochilon, two plants of the pretty little Saccolabium Hendersonianum, Selenipedium X Phadra, S. X Brysa candidulum (S. X Sedeni candidulum S X S. Boissierianum 3), Cypripedium x oenanthum superbum, C. Curtisii, C. X Milo (C. insigne
Chantini ?

C. oenanthum superbum 3

),

C. tonsum superbum and

C.

oenanthum superbum.

An Award

of Merit

was given
S>

to

Cattleya X
<f,

Euphrasia, a handsome hybrid from C. Warscewiczii which is described on another page.

Messrs.
F.

and C. superba

Sander and Co.,

St.

Albans, staged another

fine group,

containing Cattleya granulosa, C. Harrisoniana, two well-flowered plants of Rodriguezia fragrans, a good plant of Zygopetalum Gautieri with eight spikes, Coelogyne Micholitziana, a well-flowered Dendrobium bracteosum album, Epidendrum inversum, E. fragrans, a pan of the brilliant Habenaria mihtans with six spikes, the interesting little Trichocentrum iridifolium, Miltonia spectabihs Moreliana, Cypripedium insigne, C. X Cahuzac, C. X Mabeha var. Lord Derby, and C. X Rothwellianum C. Stonei Argus
(C.
?

3 ). An Award of Merit was given to Maxillaria striata grandiflora, form of the species.
.

fine

Messrs. B. S. Williams and Son, Upper Holloway, received a Banksian Medal for an interesting group, containing the handsome
torea

Silver

Pesca-

Lehmanni, and
citratum,

ngracum
spike,

Klabochorum, the latter with three flowers, Pach) stoma Thomsonianum with three-flowered
with

P.

Oncdium

dasytyle

branched

raceme,

Cochlioda

vulcanica

grandinora with four spikes, Cypripedium tonsum, C. X oenanthum superum C. x Adonis, and C. Charlesworthii with five flowers. A First-class
Certificate
six

next one intermediate between them and the red-blotched ones, of which tne rest of the raceme is composed. The cause of difference between the flowers has hitherto remained a mystery, but it ones is said that the orange can alone be fertihsed, a point which we should like to see confirmed.

was given to Arachnanthe Lowii, with a raceme of thirtyflowers and buds, the two basal flowers being orange-coloured and the

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the

Drill

being

an enumeration of the plants cultivate!

Valleyres, anil

in

iSS.5 In'
It is

M. [almond Doissicr.

at

La Pierriere. Switzerland. ninety of which are devoted to Orchids. representative one, and contains 772 sp the showy and botanical species r
1

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is

The
ies
.

collection

thorough!)

longingto
!-:
-

122 genera, both

"ted.

M-

Boissier. the

author of the Flora Ori-^iiK

.11- .1

:n

i--S.

-:' "ich

time the collections

have been maintained and enriched In his son-in-law. M. W'.IIiam Barbey, by M. to whom we are indebted for the work, which has been compiled Durand. Autran, the Conservator of the Boissier Herbarium, and M. Th.

Cypripedium X cenanthum superbum has A fine two-flowered scape of Park. Liverbeen sent from the collection of Rginald Young, l-sq.. Sefton afford, pool, the flowers being very large and richly coloured, and
i

of

good

culture.

con,.. Iron, forms of L. pumila. also Flowers of Larfia Davana. and three two flower,, a the latter bearing the same collection, one'inflorescence of the latter already been pointed out. somewhat unusual occurrence. As has

species

is

rather variable.

from the spectab.hs has been sen. A very remarkable flower of Miltonia ,n winch Whitby, by Mr. Horner. collection of Colonel Marwood, of

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

tail,

the petals and iip are reduced in size, and terminate each in a long narrowfilament or

somewhat
in

as in the sepals of Masdevallia.

third,
lip,

The

petals are
teris

of the usual breadth

minate, except
the

the basal
In

beyond which thrv abruptly

however, the
it

tails.
lip.

the

tail-like filament

pendulous under the

being
less

and only united to

size.

up to the middle,

this oran

than half the usual

it is

As the column and other

account
for the peculiarity,

parts of the

flower are normal,

interesting to note

difficult to

and

it will

be

if it

appears again next year.

curious flower of Odontoglossum odoratum comes from the collection of M.s. Holland, Wonham, Hampton, Devon, with seven sepals and petals,

two hps, and two columns fused together side by side, 'file ovary somewhat flattened, and the example apparentlv consists of two

is

also

flowers

An

inflorescence of a richly-coloured form of

Odontoglossum X Rucker-

anum has been

.nd bear
ictals

sent from the collection of

W.

J.

Thompson,

Esq., Walton
rose,

Grange, Stone, by Mr. Stevens.

The

sepals are

suffused with light

two or three large

irregular

deep red-brown blotches, while

the

are nearly white, with several small spots. The lip also bears one arge blotch in front and a small spot on either side of the crest. It is a ery pretty form.

The handsome
t

Miltonia

Schroederiana

is

also

sent
lip

from the same

effective.

ollection, its brightly-coloured

is

crimson and yellow

still

being very

a native of Costa Rica,

and

seems to be rare

in cultivation.

Another very pretty Orchid from the same collection is Oncidiura nustum, an inflorescence of a dozen of its bright yellow flowers being very ms to be an easily cultivated species, and flowers regularly
1

the

Its history

was given

at

page 329 of our

last

volume.

handsome hybrid Cattleya X Brymeriana has of T. Statter, Esq., Stand Ha Manchester, by Mr. Johnson. The sepals and petals most resemble those of C. superba, but the lip is more open, rather obscurely three-lobed, and the throat light yellow in front, and nearly white at the sides, in which
1

florescence of the been sent from the collect

respect

it

Cattleya

approaches C. Eldorado, the other parent. A fine flower of Ashtoniana is also sent, in which the characters of C. Harri-

sourana and C. Warscewicziana are combined, those of the former being the most obvious.

A
of F.

fine flower of

Cattleya Gaskelliana has been sent from the collection

a small

M. B llrton; Esq> Highfield, Gainsborough, together with

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

light

form of the same, which has probably not reached

are rather late for this Cattleya.
is

its full

dc\vln|)iurni.

They

A good

flower

of {he

beautiful

Cypripedium insigne Chantini

also sent.

In reference to our note at page 269 respecting the inclusion

/''nismV/rsrs

in tin- l-'lorj

of Orchids not yet

known

within

the limits of that

country.

M. Cogniaux writes that on completion of the work a statistical table will be given, showing the number of genera and species of each group actually known to be Brazilian, an arrangement we view with satisfaction, for
reasons already pointed out.

flower of the beautiful white Sobralia macarantha kicnastiana

lias

been sent from the collection of

W.

V.

Burkinshaw
This
is

lis.].,

of Hrsslr.

In

Mr. Baker, from a newly-imported plant.

variety occasionally appears

It is

among known

importations of
as S.

S.

macrantha, but

comparatively- rale.
I

also

macrantha

alba, a

more

suitable bin

iter

name.

CATTLEYA
The

HARDYANA COUNTESS OF DERBY.

been sent two-flowered inflorescence of this magnificent ("attln a Ins from the collection of T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall. Whitefield, Manchester. more than one occaIts characters have been recorded in these pages on

white remark that the contrast between the pure sion, and it suffices now the pa,r of intense dark velvety crimson lip and sepals and petals and the than in any lobes, is more striking and effective yellow blotches on the side it richly form of the flower is equally good, and Cattleya we know, while the ijth which was awarded to it on October deserved the Silver Flora Medal
to
last

N Warscewiczii in the reports ,s a mystery sistently called a variety cf C. Dowtana without this species and with C. one can compare it carefully w.th arrange the characteristic shape and seeing that the sepals and petals have other forms of C. X Hardya :ofthel the basal hah of C. Dowiana there are distinct traces of the vetoing natural It ,s certainly a the front. the lip, as well as of the deep colour in the C. Warscewiczihand hybrid between C. Dowiana and
,

by the Royal

Horticultural Society.

Why

it is

that the plant

,s

per-

re*
s

and . forms of C. X Hardyana as between these two species must stand was called by .ts proper name. variety quite time the present magnificent

of C. X the latter-as, indeed, of other forms hybrid and which usually seen between a
is

Hardyana-.s
it.

>

rt

parents

All

hyb

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

NOTICE OF BOOK.
Dktiunuairc hoiiographiquc dcs Orchidecs.
Direction
et

redaction par A.

Cogniaux

Dessins

et

Aquarelles par A. Goosens.

first

Brussels, A. Goosens.
object,

We
their

have received the

determination

number of the above work, whose

briefly stated, is to take

cognisance of interesting Orchids, and to

facilitate

and the verification of the names of those which

amateurs possess
radiata.

in their collections.

The

first

part contains Cattleya

Brvmeriana, Lalia purpurata. Miltonia vexillaria and varieties superba and

M. spectabilis and varieties bicolor and Moreliana, Odontoglossum crispum and varieties Bousiesianum, Madame Madoux and stellatum. The
plates represent a single flower,

and each plate

is

wrapped

in

a sheet or

more

and history of the species, in French, and sometimes wood-cuts of the whole plant, each sheet being
can be kept
is

of text, containing a short description

loose, so that they

in

alphabetical order as later parts appear.

The

about 51 inches deep by yi wide, the shape not being the one best adapted to the library shelves, and, unfortunately, the Lalia plate is folded across the middle. The plates are faithful repre-

size of the

work

sentations of the plants intended, and this is a point which is emphasised in the prospectus, where it is remarked that too often in analogous publications, edited by horticultural establishments, the plates are highly
fantastical, or the

beauty or dimensions of the flowers are exaggerated

the interest of the sale a remark not altogether without justification, though we are glad to think that it does not apply generally.
in
It

without measure

was intended
tile

to

commence with

the genus Odontoglossum, but owing to

certain difficulties this part has been deferred for a short time.

We cordially

wish

new venture success

CYPRIPEDIUM x
A FLOWER
Young,
one
oi its

REGALE.
the collection of

of the above

has been sent from

Reginald

Est].,

have been a seedling from C. insigne Maulei crossed with the pollen of C. purpuratum. It was sent out by Mr. Bull, and we have found a brief record of it in rSSg, though when it was raised and when
is

Windsor, and

Sefton Park, Liverpool, together with one of C. purpuratum, reputed parents. It was raised by the late Mr. C. Bowling, "f J.
said to

flowered for the

first

time we have not succeeded in tracing.

in

The

flower
is

most resembles C. insigne, particularly

nearly orbicular,

shape, though the dorsal sepal

the petals broader, and the staminode almost exactly intermediate in character. In colour the influence of the pollen parent is more apparent, for the petals are distinctly suffused with light purple, and at the extreme base occur a few traces of purple spots, while the dorsal

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

sepal
is

3:5

suffused

with a similar colour, except round the broad white

all

margin, and the numerous nerves are

lip,

of a deeper purple shade.

The
of the

too, is

darker

in colour.

There

is

only a slight trace of the

reflexed

character of the dorsal sepal of C. purpuratum, and. indeed,

character of this parent
is

much

so

much

blended into that of C. insigne as to be

be more apparent in the
very pretty hybrid
:

almost
leaf,

The features of C. purpuratam may which we have not seen. It is a bright and
lost. for not

but
tin-

one might be excused

guessing that C. purpuratum was one of

hat this
is

one of the original

..lock.

been correctly given.

THE HYBRIDIST.
L.ELIO-CATTLEYA X VELOTINO-ELEGANS. A pretty hybrid derived from Cattleya velutin.i and Ladio-cattleya X elegans 3 raised by M. Chas. Maron. Orchid grower to M. Fonrnii 1. "t
,

Marseilles,

and which
it

recently

received a First-class Certificate at Paris.

At present
in habit.

most resembles the mother plant, though rather stouter The flowers are fragrant, and are produced several together in an
witli

erect

raceme, the sepals being creamy-white tinged

rose,

nankeen yellow

and veined with

blush white at the base, with the front blotch lobe rich crimson-purple, veined with white, and having an orange at the base. O'Brien in Card. Chron.. Sept. 26th, p. .569.

and the

lip

L.ELIO-CATTLEYA X BELAIRENSIS.

very

interesting hybrid,

Chateau de Bel Air, Ladia autumnalis 3

.

M. G. Mantm. Bowringiana J and Olivet, France, from Cattleya resemble those inflorescence and flowers closely The
raised in the collection of

of the Ladia in almost

cattleya,

every particular, but the

s
It

pollen

is

that of

Labi

four of the pollinia being very

dication of the Cattleya parent in the habit.

was

Horticultural Society's meeting on October 27th

last.

CYPRIPEDIUM

HARRISIANUM VIRESCENS.
of the
there is a note Onhui hybn. and this Cypnpeduun
in
,t

On page 300 of the October number wth reference ,0 the sportive nature of request to know the behaviour of the plant may say that it bloomed again shortly after

J*

Mr. Measures

,m P

an

ordinary form of

Xj^
came here
....
nla rflowe ,i..

a cote,,, the -ta-l

1 " produced on a different part of the plant. ,, f result the have watted to learn Mr. Little of the facts, and

The

plant here has

now

from the a second flower, developed

^^^
growth

.526

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

in

the one which produced the green flower originally described

It is just

your pages.

what one might term a poor form of C.

X
is

Harrisianum, being
neither an ordinal;

neither one thing nor the

other that

is

to say,

it

form of Harrisianum, nor yet the variety virescens as described. With reference to the plant being potted in loam, there is a little mistake. When I divided the plant I found that it had a mixture of a little loam, but the
greater

portion of the potting material consisted of peat and sand, the whole being in a decayed condition, though the plant was perfectly healthy.
I

am

afraid that evidence of this kind will

not quite bear out the statement

of the expert

reported

at

page 267 of the September number, that no

variety of Orchid

would

alter its character into another.

Cambridge Lodge,
Camberwell.

A HYBRIDISTS NOTES.
Further observations on the time of me that there is no fixed rule as to the
ripening seed-pods have convinced
influence of foreign pollen in
this

matter, but that certain species have a prepotency in influencing the time of ripening which other species do not possess. For example, Ladia anceps pollen seems invariably to cut down the time needed to ripen pods of the

Cattleya labiata group by about six months, while pollen of the latter species does not appreciably lengthen the time needed by an anceps pods to ripen. On the other hand, Broughtonia sanguinea. which, both with its own and

with foreign pollen, ripens its seeds in i| to 2 months, has no power to quicken the ripening of C. Bowringiana, with which it gave good seed in 8} months. Probably certain species have now other peculia upon their hybrid offspring, just as the Cattleyas of the gul group always transmit the three-lobed lip to their hybrids with species having an entire lip. This summer a pod of C. Triana remark1

labiata ripened,

which was

able in two

ways the
in
is

pollen

pod ripened

7} months.

was 35 days old before it was used, and the Only a few seeds were plump, but one of them
a leaf.
to

grew

fast,

and

now pushing

Cattleya

Dowiana seems

have the most perishable pollen of any

it if

Cattleya experimented with, as I get no pods from days from the flower. Nor have I been
able
pollen, of the
life

over a week or ten

to get

pods with C.

B*

same

of
tin

all

sorts

Very hot and damp weather seems to shorten the of Orchid pollen very materially, though no change is visible
TiitoDum-: 1- Me-* d
-

age.

Oviedo, Florida

I/IE

ORCHID REVIEW.

in

THE CYPRIPEDIUM GROUP.

Several years ago
naturally
entitled
I

commenced a
tin

study of the Orchidee, with

difurenl

.1

view

of

ascertaining the relationship of

groups in e.ich
Apostasies;,

other.

,md

commenced

with

the

primitive

group

paper,

"A

Morphological and Systematic Review of the Apostasies:."

ilic

being published in the Journal of

243,
t.

Unman

Society (Vol.

X\V..
the-

pp.

211-

40), in

which

tile

structure, affinities,

and geographical

distribution

of the group

was

fully discussed.

Subsequently, two species of

remark.111

able genus Neuwiedia

came

into cultivation,

and flowered
in

at

Kew, and
in

account of

its

structural peculiarities was given

p.
it

these

pages two years

natural

ago
line

(supra, II.,

70).

The Cypripedium group

their

follows next
in

sequence, and as
of the

occupies such an important position

gardens, an outfull

species,

and

natural

arrangement,

cannot

to

be

interesting.

And

in order to

make

the account of the sub-order, Diandra,

complete, a brief account of the Apostasies may also be included.

As regards the arrangement adopted,

natural,
affinity

a few

words must be
in

said.

Darwin

has very well pointed out that a system of

classification,

order to be

must be strictly genealogical, as the characters which indicate true between any two or more species are those which have been

But as there is no written pedigree we can only trace community of descent by a comparison of structural agreements and differences, carefully distinguishing between those characters
inherited from a

common

parent.

which indicate consanguinity, or real affinity, and those which are merely onh adaptations for some special physiological effect, which latter are distinct analogical resemblances, sometimes between members of quite ancestral and what groups. difficulty presents itself here as to what are A
adaptive characters, but
it is

Ancestral characters are

evident that the two are essentially distinct. those which have been the least modified
life

in

relation to the conditions of

to

which organisms have been recently

exposed, and

consequently they

may

the greatest amount of uniformity apparent in Moreover, they are invariably most least amount of variability. most masked or obscured in those stages embryonic structures, becoming And from this specialisation is devolved. where the greatest amount of of classification the importance of rudimentary organs in a natural scheme
'

be recognised as those extending with throughout a group, and subject to the

in by which an organism keeps itself AdVptiveTharacters are those produc, of existence, and these may harmony with changing conditions as. organisms far apart by ties of consanguinity, similarities of structure in wh,ch apparatus of Orchids and Asclepiads, for example, in the pollinarv time insects. Adaptive characters may m are adaptions for fertilisation by

J8

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

ancestral ones
if

become

sufficiently beneficial

to give rise to a dominant

group of organisms, the acquired characters being then handed down to all the descendants in common. But when a group becomes dominant, and
widely diffused, some of
its

members again come under new

arise
its

conditions of

environment,

still

newer adaptations

as

the group diverges, and the

original adaptive character having served

in

modified or

may now only persist rudimentary form throughout the new group. From
purpose,
the

these

remarks

the significance of

two
a

sets

of

characters

will

be

apparent.
In the following sketch as the broad
discoveries
1

have aimed

at
it

natural arrangement, as fa
quite

features are concerned, but

is

possible that future

details.

may

render modification necessary

in

some
.

SUBOEDEK
This suborder
is

I.

Uiandk.i

characterised by the presence of either two or three perfect stamens situated on one side of the flower, and by the pollen grain) being invariably simple. The stamens represent the lateral pair of the
inner staminal whorl,

and the median one of the outer whorl.

It

contains

Tribe
itn :h oil, .,

I.

Apostasies
segments; column very

regular, or

nearly so. with subequal

filaments slender. anthers rnents slender,

slender

more or less elongated, pollen dry: style e stigma. The tribe contains three genera and over a range, from Continental India and Ceylon through the

Three stamens

all

perfect, linear or

oblong

flowers in dense erect spikes

i.

Neuwiedia, Blume.

Dorsal stamen imperfect or absent

flowers in pendulous simple or branched

style: anthers with oblique base

2.

APOSTASIA, Blume.

Dorsal stamen entirely suppressed;

anthers with equal base

;.

Ada(

vi.

s.

Rolfe.

I.

Neuwiedia.
Orchids,

The most

ancestral

of existing

and of

remarkably

simple

structure, as the linear versatile anthers distinct style, are very different from those
in

with .lender- filaments, and the of most Orchids, though

it

agrees

every other respect.

It

ranges from Malacca and Penang to

New

Guinea,

six species

being known.

THE ORCHID REl

Key
to

the

Segments

68

Specks.

lin.

long, yellow.

Anthers linear-oblong.

Ovary and sepals puberulous or subglabrous. Ovary and sepals puberulous.

Bracts narrowly lanceolate. ii-2 T
i.

lin.

broad

X. Lindlevi. Rolfe.

Bracts lanceolate-linear, i-ij

lin.

broad
X. calanthoides, Kidl. \. Zollinger., Rchb. I.

2.

Ovary and sepals subglabrous Ovary and sepals pubescent

.

;.

Anthers broadly oblong

Segments 3

....
. .
.

4.
5.

N. Cnrtisu,

Rolfe.

X. vcratrifolia, Blumc

lin.

long, white

N Grim ,hu, Rchb

.

f.

II.

APOSTASIA.
Continential India and

A
Ceylon,

small genus of

live

species, ranging from

Malay Archipelago, to tropical Australia. The median stamen of Xeuwiedia is here reduced to a narrow staminode, and the anthers are oblong and versatile, with oblique base.
the

through

Key Leaves lanceolate Leaves elongate-linear.

to the Species.
1.

A. odorata. Blume.

Leaves 3-8 lin. broad Leaves iJ-2 lin. broad.

Australian species

....
....
lin.

2.

A. Wailichii. R, Br.

3.

A. stylidioides, Rchb.

f.

Bornean

species.
long.
lin. 5.

Panicle lax. ovary 5-;

4.

A. gracdis, Kolfe.

Panicle congested, ovarv 4

long
III.

A. alba. Kolfe.

Adactylus.
Borneo.

A genus
entirely

of three species, ranging from Continental India and Ceylon,

far as

along the Malay Archipelago as

base,

The

third stamen

is

here

suppressed, and the anthers are basifixed, with equal subcordate

partially cohere

and sometimes

by their margins.

Key
Leaves elongate-linear.

to the Species.

Leaves 3-5 lin. broad Leaves 4-7 lin. broad Leaves broadly lanceolate
Tribe Perianth
irregular,
II.

1.

A. nudus, Kolfe. A. Lobbii, Kolfe. A. latifolius. Kolfe.

2. j.

CvPKlPEDIEi.
segments,
the

with very unequal

saccate
lip
;

median

petal

developed
subsessile,

into

large

column well

developed, anthers
into a

globose,

pollen

grains viscid, dorsal

stamen modified

33
generally

HIE ORCHID REVIEW.

more or less shield-shaped staminode stigma The tribe contains about 86 known species, and
;

subsessile, shieldis

shaped.

widely diffused

through the northern hemisphere, and part of tropical America and Asia, in the latter ranging along the Malay Archipelago to the Philippines and New
Guinea.

The

species have been variously arranged

it

in

from one

to three
in

genera, but from the following

four natural groups,

will

be seen that they can be arranged

whose claim

to generic rank

now seems

to be well

made
Ovary

out.

Key
Leaves plicate

to the
;

Genera.

3-celled with axile placentas

;

sepals valvate.
;

perianth persistent

seeds subglobose
4.

Selenipedium, Kchb.

f.

Leaves conduplicate

perianth deciduous

seeds fusiform
5.

Phragmipedium,

Rolfe.

Ovary

i-celled with parietal placentas

;

seeds fusiform.
;

Leaves plicate

perianth persistent

sepals valvate
6.

Cypripedium, L.

Leaves conduplicate

perianth deciduous

sepals imbricate
7.

Cypripedium, but in 1846 Lindley described the curious Uropedium Lindeni as a new genus of Cypripediie,
to

The history of this group is the known species were referred

its

PAPHIOPEDIUM, Pfitz. somewhat curious. For a long period

all

diffenng in

long tailed

lip.

In

1854 Reichenbach pointed out that

it

the species of Selenipedium with coriaceous leaves, and united them with the Old World Cypripediums of similar habit, under the name of Paph.opedilum (Morph. Stud. Orchideenbl, p. ), the characters relied upon being the conduplicate leaves and deciduous perianth. This arrangement has given rise to some discussion, which it is not necessary to repeat here, though a few remaks must be made as to the validitv of the above
It is quite evident that here are four perfectly natural

had also the three-celled ovary of the Apostasies, as had also the Tropical American species of Cypripedium, which latter he separated under the mum- of Selenipedium, recognising two sections, one with tall leafy stems and plicate leaves, the other stemless, and with coriaceous leaves. It has subsequently been proved that Uropedium is simply an abnormal state of Selenipedium caudatum, and the former has been suppressed, it being impossible to retain a name which would have been perpetually erroneous, tne i,p of the normal forms not being tailed. In 1882 Dr. Pfitzer removed

groups with

well-

defined characters.

Selenipedium

is

'h globose crustaceous seeds, as in Apostasies, and Paphiopedinm (m the restricted sense here employed) by the imbricate sepals. Dr. PfiUer has

neatly cut off from the other three by

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

,.,

pointed out the importance of the valvate or imbricate sepals in separating certain groups of Orchids, and recently called my attention to its probable
extension to this particular group, which led me to examine a series of buds, with the result above mentioned. This gives an additional character for separating the American species with a three-celled ovary, which have
I

contended were not naturally united with the Old World species with unilocular ovary. Lindley, in 1842, remarked " There is something in the
:

habit of the Indian Lady's slippers so peculiar that

it

was

for

long time

thought that they would be found to possess characters to separate them from their associates" (Bot. Reg., XXVIII., sub. t. 17), and it is unfortunate that the character was not discovered sooner,
of

when

the change
is

name would have caused

in

less

inconvenience.
I

The

character

very
the

marked, for

every species which

is

have been able to examine

in

proper condition the dorsal sepal

invariably folded within the lateral pair,

and the bud is laterally compressed, bud is globose. It is rather curious

in

while

in

the other three genera the

that the
last

first

three genera should agree

having valvate

sepals,

and the

three in

having fusiform

non-

4.

Selenipedium.

A genus of three species found in Guiana, Brazil, and Central America. They are tall, reed-like plants, with a terminal raceme of small flowers, and the seeds globose, as in Apostasies?, or in Vanilla. The first two species have fragrant fruits, and are used in the same way as Vanilla for flavouring purposes. The species have retained the general habit of Apostasiae, as
well
as the three-celled ovary
all

and crustaceous globose

seeds,

in

which
of

respect they differ from

the rest of the CypripedieK.

The remainder

the species referred here by Reichenbach are transferred to the following genus.

Key
Leaves narrowly lanceolate Leaves broadly lanceolate.

....
to

the Species.
1.

S. Chica,

Kchb.

f.

Inflorescence pubescent, staminode lanceolate

2.

S. Isabelianum.

Kodr.

Inflorescence pilose, staminode trulliform-ovate

3. 5.

S. palmifolium,

Kchb.

f.

Phragmipedicm.
Selenipedium
section

This

genus

comprises

Acaulia

coriifolia

of

Reichenbach,

and

Paphiopedilum
It

section

about ten species being known.

Phragmopedilum of Phtzer, has the ovary of Selemped.um, but

coriaceous strap-shaped leaves, the flower differs in habit, the conduplicate r rem deciduous, and the fusiform seeds. articulated above the ovary and I he sepals. three-celled ovary and valvate the

Paphiopedium

it

differs in

332

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

is

genus

exclusively tropical American,

ranging along the Andes

from

Guatemala

to Peru, with outlying species in Brazil

and Guiana.

Key

to

the Species.

Petals elliptical or linear-oblong, obtuse.

Petals elliptical
I.

p. Schlimii, Rolfe.

Petals linear-oblong. Petals drooping, tubercles Petals

twisted

side lobes of lip without a pair of white

2.

P.

Lindleyanum,

Rolfe.

more horizontal,

less twisted

side lobes of lip bearing a pair of

3.

white tubercles
Petals tapering to a narrower apex. Petals under six inches long.

p.

Sargentianum, Rolfe.

Leaves an inch or more broad. Margins of petals nearly flat.

Staminode cordate, acute 4 p. viitatum, Rolfe. Staminode transversely oblong, obtuse

. .

5-

P. longifolium. Rolfe.

Margins of petals crisped-undulate.

Lower
Lower

sepal a quarter to a third exceeding the

6.

lip

P. Boissierianum, Rolfe.
lip

sepal

r learly

twice as long as
7.

P.

Casrwiakowianum,

Rolfe.

Leav es about inc :h broad. Leaves with attenuate acute apex

svary nearly glabrous

8.

P. caricinum, Rolfe.

Leaves very
Petals a foot or

little

narrowed

at

apex

ovary pubescent
9-

P. Klotzschianurn, Rolfe.
P.

more long

10.

caudatum, Rolfe.

6.

Cypripedrim.

the Cypripediums with plicate leaves, and a persistent perianth, with valvate sepals. It differs from. Selenipedium in the one- celled ovary with parietal placentas, and the fusiform not
all

This ?enus comprises

JS

seeds.

It

is

widely diffused

in

North

An rerica,

Europe, temperate Asia, and

about 30 species being known.

Key
Li
1

to the

Spec

saccate-globose

Flowers from the axil of a bract Nerves of leaves converging

a

Leaves three or more.

Lateral sepals free Lateral sepals united.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate
lip.
:

, 33

petals

narrow and longer than

in.

Leaves

el'iptical or ovate-oblong,

i j

broad.

Staminode
Lip

trulliform-ovate,

flat.

laterally subcompressed. \\
a.

tf'in. long

C. pubescens, Will.].
in.

Lip dorsallv subcompressed. }3.

long

C. parvirlorum. Salisb.

Staminode oblong, concave or conduplicatc. Sepals and petals deep purple-brown.

Lip yellow (European)
4.

C. Calceolus, L.

Lip white (N. American)

Flowers solitary

5.

C. montanum, Dougl.

Sepals and petals green or yellow.

Lip 7 Lip

10

in. in.

long long

6.
7.

C. candidum, Muhl.
('.

r 1^

cordigerum, D. Don.

Flowers two or more 8. C. Henryi, Rolfe. Leaves lanceolate, \ 1} in. broad

9.

C. yunnanensc, Franch.
;

Dorsal sepal broadly ovate or

elliptical

petals usually broad

and not much longer than the lip. Sepals and petals purple or striped. Staminode yellow ro. C. fasciolatum, Franch.
.

Staminode purple.
Lip about 1^

2 in. long.

Flowers almost uniform rose-purple

n.
ground
Lip
1

C.

macranthum, Swartz.
purple

Flowers veined with blackish

. .

on

light

12.

C. tibeticum. King.

ii

in.

long

ij. C.

himalaicum, Rolfe.

Sepals and petals white or yellow.

Sepals and petals white

Sepals and petals yellow.

14.

C. Regina. Walt.

Flowers

solitary.

15. C. lutetim,

Franch.

Lip under J-inch long

Lip 2 inches long Lip J-inch long

17. C.

Ira

Lex.
18.

C.

calif

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

.eaves two, alternate or subopposite.

Leaves

elliptical or

ovate-oblong, alternate
.

Lip

f i

Lip 1} 2 in. long Leaves ovate or elliptical ovafe Flowers in racemes Flowers solitary. Leaves ovate, stem yillose Leaves subcordate, stei
glabrous
of leaves rad

in.

long

19. L.

guttatum, Swartz.

20. C. acaule. Ait.

bopposite.

2.

C. elegans, Rchb.

f.

Hn.

MP.

ebracteate.
.

Flowers an inch long Flowers about j-inch long

Lip trigonous and boat-shaped. Leaves elliptical-oblong, 35

Leaves suborbicular, over 6
in

n.

long

long

27-C.margai 28. C. Farge

Glancing over my notes on Orchid

ofqaick culture which tends
p
to

QUICK HYBRIDISATION OF ORCHIDS

culture,
I

have come across an instance

seed

o uc ion

remove the impression that Orchid

is

always a protracted process.

he pollen of Phams grandifolius to the stigma of Bletia catenulata. A pod ormed, wh.ch npeued and burst on May roth. The seeds were planted the same day, and on June 4 th we had a batch of seedlings up, some of wh,ch are now nice little plants with several leaves. Microscopical e.xam.nat.on showed three percent, of the seeds to contain embryos. 1. will be observed that the seeds mentioned above only took twenty-five days
te

On March

28th, 1896,

applied

getmmatlon of the seed

erm"T

'

^ "^ Tu was

only nine weeks and

&0m

">e application of the pollen to the

five days.

The Grange,
1

Alex. Hodgkinson.

Wihnslow.
6
1UCti n

and ndp

!T s s ,bly

fseedlin S s '"S short a period

is

verv remarkable,
if

27o Tb

that th first plant r, ti.tthe of D.sa

establishes a record, though we are Ve reCOTded '" qUite the same greSS f th6Se intereSt

not sure

previous

We

shall

hope

to

'"g ^'gs. it will be remembered kewens.s fioweredlhen only eighteen months

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jjj

ODONTOGLOSSUM HUNNEWELtlANUM.
This pretty
\V. J.
little

Odontoglossum
Esq.,

is

now

flowering well

in the collection

of

Walton Grange. Stone. Staffordshire, and furnishes the opportunity to say that it was probably in this collection that it first flowered in Europe, in May, i.SN<>. Mr. Stevens then sent it to Kew. stating that it had been purchased as Odontoglossum species at Prothcroe and
Morris's

Thompson,

Rooms

in the previous

December, and that the old flower spikes

It

showed fourteen to sixteen

aside as possibly a
n;itnr:il

flowers.

was not

identified,
it

and was bid

hybrid.

few weeks later

also flowered with

the importers, Messrs. F. Sander and Co., and was described as Odonto-

glossum Hunnewellianum (Rolfe in Card. Chnm., 1889, vi.,p. 67), the earliei specimen being then overlooked. Soon afterwards it flowered in numerous
collections,

and

it

appears that

it

was introduced
It bears a

in

quantity.

It is

said to

grow

at a very high altitude, near Bogota, in

New
is
it

(iranada, and was disto a

in

covered by Mr. Oscar Bobisch.

small light-coloured form of O.

good deal of resemblance

markedly
is

sceptrum, but

different

having entire column wings,

Pescatorei,

in

which respect

comparable with O.

and thus

is

very distinct from every other species.

R. A. R.

PERISTERIA ELATA.
A
fine specimen of
at this plant (the

Dove Orchid)

is

at present to be seen in

bloom

Sparken, Worksop, the residence of

J.

D.

Ellis,

Esq.

It

is

growing in a 20-inch pot, and has sixteen bulbs and five flower spikes. Some of the largest bulbs measure 14 inches in circumference and 7 inches in depth, the tallest spike being 5 feet 3 inches in height, and has upwards There are a total of 170 expanded of forty blooms or flower buds on it.
flowers or buds on the five spikes.

This

is

one of the most robust and

I

healthy specimens of this well-known Orchid

a light span-roofed house, and
is

have seen.

It is

growing

in

On

only slightly shaded from the bright sun. gave it. I inquiring of Mr. Alderman, the gardener, the treatment he
it

Peat, was somewhat different to what is usually recommended. sphagnum, charcoal, and sand are the ingredients used in the compost. It all the old is potted annually in February, before growth has commenced,

found

variety has with new. It is found that this removed and replaced a copious supply of water is active root action before any growth appears at and the plant is kept quite dry when given season,
soil is
;

during

its

growing

S.

at but the flowers are much appreciated rest. It is an old-fashioned plant, 6d. each. plant have been lately sold for as. bazaars, where flowers from this
in

Journ. of Hort., Oct. 15th, p- 377-

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

ORCHIDS IN THE
E case of Rappart versus the
'

LAW

COURTS.
at

Owen
trial

trustees

was reported

page

was granted to the defendants the former occasion allowed judgment to go by default. The cas<

September

issue.

second

Court on October cupied about uum,. i,otn parties were represented by counsel. For the plaintiff appeared as witnesses Mr. James O'Brien, Secretary of the R.H.S. Orchid Committee, Mr. James McXab, from Messrs. F. Sander and Co., and - Baguley, of Messrs. Charlesworth and Co. It will be remembered that
r

the

or

three

plants

purchased

at

the sale of the Selwood

alba,

Cattleya Skinned
elegans,

Odontoglo:
on

and

Dendrobium

splendidissimutn

grandiflorum, which

flowermg proved untrue to name. After the plaintiff had stated his case, Mr. Baguley gave evidence that he had been for over fifteen years in the Orchid trade, that he knew varieties of Orchids well. In April last he called on the plaintiff, when the so-called Odontoglossum X elegans was in Bower, and when questioned as to whether it was true to name he could say
without the slightest hesitation that it was not ordinary variety of O. Hallii, worth about 2S. 6d. adC a mistakt Mr MtNab, the next j" '
called in
11

O.

elegans, but an

He was

sure that he

with a

and that only those that ii,'u'iVfi!vt iUt'i'nl'','we'reViot ma'. and which ought never to have had the title of all,-, .oven to 'them rum
little

when

on Mr. Rappart, and saw the so-called Cattleva Skinneri alba flower It was not an albino at all. The lip was purple, and the sepals and petals light rose. In his opinion an all,, ver changed colour. Mr. J. O'Brien gave evidence that true albinos -,lw-i < ("ever time r

May

,T

witness, stated that he

-,

flowering,

>

colour.

the late Mr.

O
1

according to collection the Odontoglossum X elegans and Cattleya Skinner, alba had never flowered while in their collection, but had been purchased m flower; but the Dendrobium X splendidissimum grandiflorum had flowered, and was true to name. Mr. W. H. Protheroe, the auctioneer, was also called by the defendants, but stated that he did no, consider the

defendant's case then' commenced. gardener, on being called, was understood

The

Mr. Watts,
to say that

Uendrobium

true in

nama
i

t*

ame
fr

they had nr With II th

a Rene
T

Quorn House
there
'

j
'

collectlon

Ur" rUe

He

hild

Had a

'' l0t f tr0Ub1

Four
the
a,d lid

P lendidiss

Aiff

<

grandiflorum from that

collection,

S
that

00

7 r
C

, ,t

tne coloured variety, and Odontoglossum X elegans to ordinary Hallii, reserved judgment until he had read the shorthand notes over again.

Had reached him ab < P^nts that came from ti0 " bemg Unt e t0 na' Mr Commissioner Kerr seamed doubtful whether albinos might not after all revert

Plain ' S

'

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33;

CATTLEYA
The accompanying

LORD ROTHSCHILD.
represents the beautiful Cattleya

illustration

X Lord

Rothschild, from the collection of T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, WhitefieM, Manchester, and is specially given in order to show what can be done by

encouraging root action, though

of the plant

it

also serves to

show the general character

is

on a rather reduced
in its entirety, as
it

scale.

The photograph, however,

filled this

not

reproduced

would have more than

page, but

be inferred from the fact that exactly omitted, and Mr. three-fifths of the total length of the roots have been which Johnson writes that the longest roots on the plant measure four feet, is indeed remarkable. He also states :-" It has not received any spec.al prefer I treatment apart from the rest of the Cattleyas in the collection.

the appearance of the original

may

their the cylinder basket for Cattleyas, as the roots seem to find

way

out-

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

travel

wards and

downwards, as

in

the photo.
it

have many with

a great
well

deal of root action,

and

attribute

to keeping the Cattleya house

I

damped down
house.
find in

three or four times a day.

never give
in

my

Cattleyas much
the

water at the root, but try to give them plenty

the atmosphere of
I

Plenty of moisture and bottom ventilation are the best things

can
ex-

growing Cattleyas."

We

have had occasion to speak

of the

cellence of the results obtained in this collection

on more than one

<

occasion,

and
It

refer

our readers to the account given at page 201

if

nur second volume

was there pointed out that " very little top air is admitted at any time, but the bottom ventilators are almost always open. The larger plants are

grown on stone benches, in which a number of circular holes are cut. Underneath are water tanks and the hot water pipes, so that the air which
is

continually

coming

in

becomes warm and moist before reaching

it

the

plants."

To

prevent misapprehension,

should be added that the

pipes

are not in the water, but

above

it,

and near the ventilators.

is

There can

be

no doubt that healthy root action

of
all

one great secret of success

in the culture

classes of

think their

Orchids as, indeed, of all kinds of plants and those method of culture open to improvement cannot do better
hints in their practice.

who
than

embody the above

Respecting the history of this handsome hybrid, we may add that it was raised in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, its parents being Cattleya Gaskelliana ? and C. Dowiana aurea 3 and that
,

it

received a First-class Certificate on Horticultural Society. The flowers

October 24th, 189 j, from the Royal are of good size and substance, and
the are

distinctly

combine the characters of the two parents, though those of seed parent come out the most conspicuously. The sepals and petals

of a light rose-pink shade, the latter being slightly veined with white, and the hp rich dark velvet crimson in front, with a white fringed margin, and a deep orange throat conspicuously veined with along the disc. The

brown

golden veimng of the pollen parent

side lobes.
after they

is

verv distinct on the exterior

in

of the
sent

The

flowers represented

the photograph were kindly

had been open three weeks, and measured 6| inches in diameter across the petals, which organs were 2 inches in diameter, and the front Jlobe of the hp nearly as broad. As might naturallv be expected, there is a certam general resemblance to some forms of C. X Hardyana, though, of course, the two hybrids are thoroughly distinct. There are three other hybrids between C. Dowiana aurea and specie ot the labiata group, and, as might be expected, there is a strong fan* likeness between and them. They

C C.

^^ .7 Lueddemanmana
reSS
I
,

are C.

Fabia. C.

Kienastiana,

thC SeC nd arent P and C. Mossis.

<*"&

respectively, C.

labiata,

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ODONTOGLOSSUM UROSKINNERI ALBUM.

The
page 334 of our and two years later some further notes appeared
at

history of this curious plant

was given

first

volume,

following

account by Mr. De Barri Crawshay, of Rosefield. Scvenoaks

in

appeared
for the

the Gardeners Chronicle

for

October 17th

(p.
is

450)

" This plant

in

passed into

my
is

collection on October 10th. 1893. and

its first

now

again

bloom
a note

second time; the 1893 spike was

as follows

appearance.

The histon
is

of this rarity

: In The

Garden of August 21st, 1886,

in

mentioning that there are seedlings of Odontoglossum

collection at

Mr.

Buchan's
1

Southampton.
plant bloomed.

At the sale of the collection (uncial M.

k<

I.

of Southampton, purchased the seedlings, that had grown

fairly strong.

In

1893 the

first

It

appeared
it

to

be

.1

white-lipped

O.

Uro-

skinned.

The Orchid Committee gave

the A.

M. under
given

that

name.

There was diversity of opinion, but it was Imped and more plants, blnoniing would prove it.
the other seedlings of the same batch.
letter

that,

farther time

" In 1895 Mr. E. Ashworth bought the remainder of this plant, as well as
I

have
this

just

had Mi.

saying none of his plants

for
I

will

bloom

season,

much

t"

my

dis-

hoped that 1896, being its tenth year, would settle the matter; but my plant is the only one out of the batch that has as yet bloomed. Referring to the correspondence I had with the late Mr. Hurhan
appointment,
in
if

August, 1886,

find that his gardener, Mr. Osborne, does not

remember
self-

he crossed the

Uroskinneri
unfortunate,

flowers

or
is

whether

it

was merely

fertilised.

This

is

as there

but the plant to prove the

second parent, and to those who are familiar with Orchid hybrids this is barely enough, for in many cases it is very hard to see which the parents
were.

With

the plant

now

before me, as well as O. Uroskinneri (the

it

known
<

hard to prove, but easy to believe thai of Rossii had a hand in the deal, or perhaps O. X Humeanum, on account But the crest of the lip excludes O. Rossii the yellow sepals and petals.
mother), and O. bictoniense.
is
1.

in toto, for

it

is

that of true Uroskinneri.

;

The

form, as well as the colour

tinlip.

" points " in of the lip say " Rossii " plainly enough so here are two So the chief segment of the bloom in direct opposition to each other.

barring

its

colour,

is

like

that of Uroskinneri.

Now we come

to a pure

the rosy with form and wings like its mother. Where does yellow column, where does the yellow come from under the influence of colour go to, and
self-fertilisation
?

So what

is

the column
;

Now

the petals.

These are

narrower than

in

O. Uroskinneri

with a darker shade.

How

is

they are yellow, faintly dotted all over the banding and aggregation of brown of O.

The sepals follow Uroskinneri's petals turned into dots all over the petal ? on thetr backs. The the same line as the petals, except the depth of keel

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

much
smaller scale, opening one or two
different. at a time, but the bracts

spike has O. Uroskinneri on a

blooms

and buds are

Finally, the plant

of 0.

its

leaves

and bulbs are smaller and more delicate than those

is

Uroskinneri, hence the evidence

here for Rossii parentage, the leaf joins

"

the bulb rather peculiarly, and the bulbs are more elongated and less spotted

than O. Uroskinneri.

Which was

the father

CYPRIPEDIUM
At

BURFORDIENSE.

the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting on October 27th a fine hybrid Cypripedium was exhibited from the collection of Walter C. Clarke, Esq.,

Orleans House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, whose parentage was somewhat doubtful. A coloured drawing of the same had previously been sent to us by

was purchased by him three or four years ago as a seedling with parentage "C.Argus Moensii X vexillarinm," but now that it had flowered he was doubtful about the After second parent. examining the plant as well as the drawing it is quite evident that one
that
it

Mr. Clarke,

who wrote

parent belonged to the racemose group, and on comparing them individually

we

are satisfied that

in

can be traced
of

must have been C. philippinense, whose influence numerous particulars. As to the seed parent, we have no
it

C.

burfordiense,

plant

raised

in

the collection of Sir Trevor

Lawrence, which we have not seen, but which is recorded as a supposed hybrid between C. Argus and C. philippinense (Rchb. f. in Card. Clmm..
1888,
iv., p.

724).

If this is correct, C.

X Bryani must

be considered as

form of the same hybrid. This was raised in the collection of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., from C. philippinense ? and C. Argus J and received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society on July 26th, 1892
,

(Gard. Chron., t8g2,

xii.,

p. 138).

It is

a very handsome hybrid, and the

plant exhibited by Mr. Clarke well combines the characters of the two parents. The leaves are longer and greener than in C. Argus, but with the characteristic markings, while the scape is tall, and has the

marked racemose character

seen
large
in

of the other parent.

petals,

The same

influence

is

the shape of the

staminode and
Argus.

blotches, as in C.

numerous In other respects the flower is qmtc

which

latter bear

intermediate between the two parents, both in shape and colour, so that it is unnecessary to make a longer description. would again impress upon our readers the importance of making careful records of all their

We

crosses, as so

many

hybrids of mixed parentage are

difficult to

now appearing
<

that

it

becomes increasingly
these records wi

make them
the futu

out

l,v

iparison onlv. and

nportant

in

TUP.

ORCHID
IN

REVIF.t

GONGORAS
"Grisebach's Flomofthc
British

TRINIDAD.
records
(

Hat Lulus

.nngora atropurpurea,

Hooker's Exotic Flora relates that a plant was sent in 1825 to the Liverpool Botanic Garden from Trinidad by Baron de Schach. The Kew List (18951 gives it as a native of British

Hook., as indigenous to Trinidad.

Guiana.

Dr. H. H. Rnsby's late expedition to the delta of

fairly

tin

Orinoco
in
tile

found

it

plentiful there,

so that

it

will

probably be found

greater part of the tropical regions of South America on the Atlantic slope. It is a plant that flowers freely even war at the Gardens, growing upon blocks of wood or bark without covering of any kind at the root. Gongoras,
like se veral o the.

Orchids,
ur

li

,-e.

when
;

iii

good health, two classes of roots.

in

First, the

ma
ind

dinging

ots

and, secondly, the upright or vertical,

uprigl

oots are

found

Gongora.

Coryanthes.

and always commence growth during the moist season, having the green and glowing point exactly vertical. On this
point
is

Catase

Lpidcndnn

to be seen in

damp weather

radiant globules of moisture.

entirely

In dry

weather the green and growing point

tapering

disappears,
it

by gradually

away

into a needle-shaped point,

when

becomes covered with

the white covering

common

to the clinging roots, and

becomes

practically

non-absorbent.

"These
plants.

roots are similar to

io>r cxhibi ted b\

mangrove and other swamp

it

If the

surroundings to lagoon plants are examined closely

will

be

found that, proceeding from the roots which are below the surfaceof the mud,
there are countless thousands of tips that are exactly perpendicular.

That

these roots

perform some function, important both to Orchids and to

is

mangroves, &c,

clearlv apparent, as
is
is

where they are most abundant the

in the

plant and the tree

most vigorous and

exactly
is

most robust health.

is

But

what that function

notable one that
" Beside

not yet clear to us. but the feature

such a

it is

deserving of further close inquiry.

which
Pavon.
the

is

Gongora atropurpurea we have Gongora maculata, Lindley, given by some as a synonym of Gongora quinquenervis, Ruiz and
This
is

much

prettier

Orchid from a
freely.

florist's

point of view than

first

mentioned, and flowers more

" Besides these, flower and

is

we have another Gongora, which

gives a straw-white

distinguished by lighter-coloured pseudobulbs, but for the

present
latter
settle,

we

place this with the last-named as a variety.

Whether

the two

are

deserving of specific distinction

in the

is

a matter for specialists to

but the variation shown

flower leads to the belief that tin

form of bulbs and the colour of the three are merely forms of the one species

indicated by

colour

is

the flower being almost identical in form, no matter what assumed or what shape is put on by the pseudobulb.

342

Till-.

ORCHID REVIEW.
mere
varieties,
:

"Whether they
still

are eventually proved to be species or

it

remains that there are three forms of Gongora native to Trinidad

the dark purple; 2nd, the spotted
:

ist,

and 3rd, the straw-coloured

p. 222.
is

all

of

which arc easy of cultivation

from the wind." J. H. Hart,

at or near sea-level, in positions sheltered

in

Trinidad Bulletin, 1896,

[The

vertical

arrangement of the
investigation.

rootlets lure described

very curious,
it

and deserves further

We

have several times seen

for the peculiarity,
it

in

Catasetum, but could not surest any reason

but

if it is

common

to other lagoon

and swamp

plants,

may

be a provision

for

enabling the roots to get out of the water in order to feed on the gases in the air. Fnirther observation, however, seems necessary on this point.

With

respect to the species of

Gongora mentioned,

it is

certain that G.

atropurpurea and G. quinquenervis, which are both natives of Trinidad, are thoroughly distinct species, and a comparison of the basal horns of the lip
the colour.

The white
which
are

variety mentioned
is

is

probably the white variety of

G.

nigrita, Lindl.,

well

known
the'

in British

Guiana.
(i.

There does not

highly probable

appear to be any direct evidence of

but so
it

occurrence of

nigrita in Trinidad,
it

many Orchids
found
in

common
is

to the

two areas that

is

also occurs there.

This, too,

is

a quite distinct species, and the white

it.

form

Guiana

simply an albino of
if

No

doubt the Kew

to

authorities could settle these doubtful points

specimens were submitted

NOVELTIES.
Acanthophippilm EBURNEUM, Kranzl. A
Curtisii,

species very closely allied to A-

Rchb.

f.,

which flowered

in

the collection of Mr. P. Walter, of

Magdeburg- Wilhelmstadt,
yellowish
lip.

in July last.

The

flowers are ivory-white, with a

and orange crest.Gari. Chron., Sept. 5th, p. 20b. DENBEOBIUM JeNHYANUM, Kranzl. A tall species closely allied to D. Mirbclianum. Gaud., which flowered with M. Zollingcr-Jenny, of Zurich, in August last. It produces long racemes of flowers, which have greenish-

yellow sepals and petals,

and a white
Kranzl.

lip

with some yellow at the base.

Card. Chron., Sept. 19th, p. 329.

Goncora Sandkki ana,

portentosa, Rchb.
f.,

A
is

Peruvian species closely allied to G.

said to differ in various particulars,

from which

it

notably in the darker colour of the flower and in some details of the lip. I' recently flowered with Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, who imported it. Gurd. Chron.. Oct. 17th, p. 456.

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34.!

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR NOVEMBER.

By H. A. BURBKRRY, Highbury, Moor
Green.

Birmingham.

The

temperatures for the different departments

for last

will
is

continue

much

the

same as advised
should

month.

If

any difference

made, the tendency

higher.

naturally lean to a few degrees lower

is

rather than

The
be

frequency of damping down

now

much

question
fire

of

the outside
it

conditions of the weather, and the amount of

heat which

may

necessary to use.
will

If the

weather should be mild and murky once a day

be cold and frosty, with drying winds, times in the warm departments, may be
it

probably
twice,

suffice.

But should
three

then

or even

Those quaint Orchids, Cycnoches, Catasetum, and Mormodes, have now finished flowering, and must be given a long dry rest throughout the when winter months. They object to a cold temperature at any time, even
they are perfectly dry and resting.

They

will pass the winter very well

placed at the warmest and dryest end of the Cattleya house, or it will be Too quite safe to keep them in the East Indian department altogether. much cold and wet is the ruination of this class of Orchid even when in bristling full during summer, and when the compost sparkles with
:

growth

live roots,

it is

may damp
as

off.

the plants are resting,

growths necessary to water very carefully, otherwise the new when roots of all the above species invariably perish The long but this fact does not seem to much matter so
small receptacles, and plenty of

new compost,
The

warmth

is

given

when they

again start to grow in the spring.

greatest attraction this lovely Cattleya labiata will, of course, be the more I am the acquaintance of this species, the

month.

The more
it

make

convinced that

has not a robust constitution.

It

seems

to require

some-

Cattleya house, from the general conditions of the thing a little different What well. grow most others of the same genus so which contain and from observations not quite prepared to say, but that something is I am a few new experiment next spring by subjecting made this year I shall try a and the same by C. Dowiana aurea
plants to

much more shade.

may

say

and C. Mendehi, all part of this summer.

three of which seemed to me to

suffer

during the

early-

excessive be the cause other than the What could mean to say that they went seriously sunshine is to me a puzde. I don't a good beyond doubt they shrivelled up wrong but what I do say is, that what they and I think also beyond deal more than I care to see them, any other see Cattleyas, or, indeed, should by nature do. I never like to sibk. keep them p ump if Ps Orchid, shrivel too much; it is best to b two others that I think should Cattleya Schroder, and C. maxima are summer. during spring and early kept pretty well shaded, especially
;

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

have from time to time mentioned
in

these pages, delight

in
if

a large amount of direct sunshine, and are not put about in the slightest

grown with the Mexican Laslias, but on the other hand seem to prefer it and prosper. C. Lawrenceana is always late and slow growing. It is not a difficult species by any means, but it is simply a warmer growing kind than most others, and it should occupy at the present time the warmest house, at least until the new pseudobulbs are properly made up. Beware of the autumn flowering Cattleyas, and more especially C. labiata and C. Dowiana aurea, losing their new leaves by rot, caused by damping immediately the flower spike is cut off. This they are very apt to do, and when it occurs it is, of course, a misfortune, for the plant becomes
greatly weakened. See that the sheath
is

wholly removed, and cut away close

to the pseudobulb, with a sharp knife, the

this precaution
is

whole of the flower spike.

When

taken

it

is

usually effective,

and the

rot will rarely take

place unless the conditions of the atmosphere are greatly at fault.

The time of year has now arrived when extra care should be exercised when watering. A bad or careless waterer is one who will go through his
houses at fixed intervals and water everything indiscriminately. A good waterer will look over his plants every day, and will in the first place take
into

consideration

the

existing

conditions

of

the

weather

then,

the

condition of the plant, whether growing or dormant, deciduous or evergreen the amount of compost round the roots, &c. Briefly speaking, a
;

very
less

little

water

will satisfy

the requirements of
;

all

species that are

more

or

growing during winter

they will need to be kept just moist only,

whilst those that are inactive should be watered frequently

enough

to keep

them from shrivelling and plump, this will vary according to the species and the temperature they are in. For instance, there are two evergreen species, Ccelogyne cristata and Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, which will rest in a cool department, where the temperature will average about 50 say from
45 to 55 or even lower and in such a temperature a very little water indeed will be found necessary to keep them plump no more, in fact, then
, ;

Dendrobium Wardianum, which will be in the same house, will receive. With the exception of D. Devonianum, I do not like to keep the other Dendrobiums quite so cool when resting, as they will not stand it.
D. nobile, D. Findlayanum, D. crassinode, and such
fancy, better
if

the leafless

like

species, are,

not usually falling below 50

are

bloom, amongst others C. Spicerianum, C. insigne. and C. Charlesworthii will show up in force. These are sometimes recommended as Cool house Orchids, but I find they really do best in
in

Many Cypripediums

now

the Intermediate house.

Selenipedium Schlimii, S. longifolium, and

S.

Sedeni are also

the others

in flower.

The

first-named

is

an intermediate

species, but

grow

best in the

warmest house.

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The
sweetly scented Pleione hgenaria
is

34S

most

effective

when

well

grown

and in good bloom. They are now just going over, and should soon be repanned and suspended in the Cool house, keeping the compost moist. They start growing immediately, and do not appreciate much drought.

The genus Phalamopsis

garden
another
to, to
it

is

one

liable to mystify

Orchid growers.

In one

will

grow

like a

weed without the

in turn is tried,

slighest trouble, while in

it

will not.

Every house

and every dodge resorted

the different species grow and present a respectable appearance, but all to no purpose. It seems to be simply a matter of finding the right the house, and giving the right temperature the latter is easy enough when

make

former

is

found.

As a guide

to success

would advise that a house be

hot water selected that lies sheltered from the north winds, and that the
pipes are arranged so that a sufficient supply of

when wanted, thus avoiding

great

warmth can always be had The fluctuations in the temperature.

to
fall

thermometer during winter should never be allowed

should be quite two
feet

below

6o,

and

the plants only that during the very coldest weather, during which time

down to the foliage The plants must never be

away from the glass otherwise, the cold strikes spots. and causes spot not the watery, but indented
;

not even allowed to receive much direct sunshine, summer they should be heavily shaded against during winter, whilst during and in should be supplied pretty liberally, the sun. In summer water but atmosphere should be kept fairly moist, The winter rather sparingly. view pipes through the water tank with a never be tempted to run hot water too much and atmosphere, because this generally proves of causing a moist a little the air sweet and healthy in winter by Keep results in watery spots. take rebasketing do not, if it can be avoided, bottom ventilation. When with a remove the old material carefully the plants out of their baskets, but must be kept are deadly enemies, and Ants stick and fill up with new. easily troublesome, but these can more away at all costs. Thrips are also

Phalamopses or by tobacco powder, or both. be got rid of by fumigation allowed to spikes, which should be should now be producing their flower Oncidium Papilio and O. Kramerstrong. remain only if the plants are likewise: they the Phatenopses are doing class when

anum always grow

first

are undoubtedly both fond of heat.

to some season to re-arrange the plants It is mostly necessary at this position each plant may have the extent in most of the houses, so that for the months. The best position deemed most suitable for the winter once don time to find out. but when various species often takes a good long for In the Cattleya house the advantages are soon apparent. and be given the warmes those that aVe growing more or less should dormant should be kept by quite moistest part whilst those that are and houses. The Cypnped.ums themselves. The same in the Intermediate

"***

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J HE ORCHID REVIEW.
growing should be arranged together, and so on.
Take

such

like that are

care and do not place the Miltonia vexillarias in too moist a part, rather
preferring

a dry postion.

Then

again,

if

such kinds as Dendrobium

Jamesianum, D. infundibulum, Oncidium cheirophorum, Xanodes Medusae,

M. Shuttleworthii, M. Chimsera, &c, have been summering in the coolest house, as is some times done, they will now require to be removed back to the Intermediate house. I think, also, that the Cool house is too much during winter for Oncidium Forbesii. The Cymbidiums 1 am leaving this year in the Cool house, and they seem to be
Masdevallia tovarensis,
stronger for
it.

The Anguloas always remain

Epidendrum

here at the driest end, and

It
is

henceforth will be kept pretty dry at the root.

rather dry position for the

better also to find a

for
if

vitellinums,
it

the moisture

hangs about them much during winter

Laslia anceps,

causes an unnecessary loss of

and the other winter flowering short bulbed Ladias, will give the next big show of flower. They are now fast pushing up their
spikes.

L. autumnalis and L. albida are,

first

think, the

most

difficult

of these
air,

kinds to keep long in

rate condition

but with plenty of light and

fairly satisfactorily.

even these

will

submit to cultivation, and grow

When

the growing conditions are near the

chief cause undoubtedly
is

mark and they

?

deteriorate, then the

that they are allowed to over flower themselves.

I

What

will

a strong pseudobulb not do

if

have seen spikes so thick and

long, that,
as the bulb

tested,

know would

often weigh three or four times as

much

and

leaf together
for

from which they sprang.

;

well

and good

the time being

but

it

That is, of course, must not happen too often.

Doubtless the same plant, or portion of the plant, will the following year produce another spike, but from a bulb naturally greatly reduced by the
last great strain.

Should
in

this small bulb

be allowed to carry

its

spike to

flowering stage,
is

spite

of
;

its
it is it.

present

exhausted

state,

the fate of
it

that plant
will

practically sealed

doomed
This
is

to enter a stage

from which
fair

be a

difficult

task to redeem

not giving them a

chance.

Remember to call in the Orchid grower's greatest friend, fresh air, at all times when it can reasonably be done. For warm growing kinds the top
ventilators

but for

opened must, of course, be done with a good deal of caution, the Cool house kinds, supposing the outside temperature is not lower
if is

than 45, plenty of ventilation should always be had, both top and bottom.

When

it

below that figure

it

is

best to

open the ventilators on the

is

leeward side only.

sure sign of insufficient air

Odontoglossum leaves decay and require a mildewy spot comes upon them. Most of these species are growing throughout the winter, but nevertheless must be watered very carefully, and not kept
water-logged, as used to be the custom.

when the trimming up, or when

tips of the

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

347

ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICUTURAL SOCIETY.

There was
13th last,
C

a very interesting lot of Orchids at the Royal Horticultural

Society's meeting at the Drill Hall, James Street. Westminster, on October

some

of the exhibits being particularly

;

fine,

and three

First-class

ertiticates

were awarded

also a

Gold Medal

to a

wonderful specimen of
a

Yanda Sanderiana from the

Silver Flora

collection of J.

Gurney Fowler. Esq.. and

Medal

for the

magnificent Cattleya

X Hardyana "Countess

of Derby," from that of T. Statter, Esq.. as will be seen from the following

J.

Gurney Fowler,

Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford,

Essex

(gr.

Mr.
.1

Davis), exhibited a
large clump, with

magnificent specimen of

Vanda Sanderiana.

quite

numerous spikes bearing an aggregate of 1J7 flowers. It had formerly 137, but one of the spikes was over. It was a spluididlygrown and flowered specimen, and the Orchid Committee marked their
appreciation of
it

by awarding

it

a Gold Medal.
(gr.

T. Statter. Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester again exhibited the beautiful Cattleya

Mr. Johnson),

X Hardyana

"

Countess of Derby"
off the

in magnificent condition, the pure white sepals

and petals setting

advantage.
It

massive and richly-coloured

lip

to the greatest

received a

and on this occasion a Silver Flora Medal was deservedly awarded. From the same collection came the beautiful Cattleya X Prince of Wales, and C. bicolor ccerulea, which is unique in its peculiar
First-class Certificate in 1894,

slate-blue

lip.

C. L. N.

Ingrain,

Esq., Elstead

House, Godalming

(gr.

Mr. Bond),

staged a small group of very handsome hybrids, to which

a Silver

Banksian
?

Medal was given. C. Bowringiana 3

(C. labiata
?

It
),

contained Cattleya
little

X
:

Firefly (C.

Dormaniana

a pretty

rose-purple flower, not yet fully developed

a light form of Ladio-cattleya

X Andreana
3), a

Ladio-cattleya

T.

W. Bond
X

L. purpurata

fine

hybrid resembling L.-c.

and eximia, but approaching the seed parent in the time of flowering: Cattleya X three others to which special awards were given. These were Triumph (C. Lueddemanniana S X C. Lawrenceana 3 ). a brilliant, almost a trace of uniformly coloured form, most like a light form of the latter, with was given darker marking on the lip, to w hich a First-class Certificate like C. maxima, Eclipse (C. maxima 9 X C. Skinneri 3 >, most Cattleya X
but with a more trumpet-shaped
C.
lip;

and C.

Jupiter (L. Lawrenceana ?

Warscewiczii

),

a very light-coloured form.

The two

latter

each

received an

Award

of Merit.

beautiful Harefield Hall, Wilmslow, showed a very E. Ashworth, Esq., which a Firstcalled " Mrs. E. Ashworth," to variety of Cattleya labiata, elegans, the sepals is comparable with C. 1. It class Certificate was given.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

lip bright crimson-purple,

and petals being pure white, and the front of the broadly margined with white.
F. Wheatley, Esq.,

Ringmore, Teignmouth. Devon, sent a beautiful form of Cattleya Dowiana, called Wheatley's variety, in which the sepals and petals were white, with only a very faint trace of yellow, the lip being
like that of C.

was awarded. A. H. Smee. Esq., The Grange. Carshaltnn (gr. Mr. Cummins),
First-class Certificate
little

D. aurea.

received

an Award of Merit for the pretty

its

Comparcttia speciosa, with three of

Mr.

graceful racemes of light orange flowers.

J. C.

Ramdens, Esq., Willingshurst. Shamley Green, Guildford

exhibited a

(gr.

Nash),

splendidly-grown plant of

Vanda

ccerulea,

with two

spikes and an aggregate of twenty-five flowers, to

which a Cultural Com(gr.

mendation was given.

G. S. Ball, Esq., Ashford, Wilmslow, Cheshire

Mr. Hay), sent a

fine

flower of the beautiful Cypripedium insigne Sanderse.

Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield. Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Cooke), sent Odontoglossum Uroskinneri album, the curious seedling which has been mentioned in these pages on two or three occasions, but whose exact origin still remains doubtful.
Barri

Da

Swinburne, Esq., Corndean Hall. Winchcombe, Cheltenham, exhibited a good form of Cypripedium Charlesworthii.

T.

W.

included

some

g ood

examples of Cattleya

X Wendlandii,

C.

Mantinii.C.

porphyrophlf bia. C.
La:lio-ca ttleva
it 5

X
X

aurea,

Minncia, several fine C. labiata and ('. Dowiaaa Xysa. L.-c. X Eunomia, the graceful Ccelogyne

Veitchii with

Peristeria elata,

pendulous racemes of pure white flowers, the remarkable Cypripedium X Milo, C. X T. B. Haywood, and various

others.
?

Fir; it-class Certificate

was given

to Cattleya

Ap

illo

(C. Mossia:

C. Acland
in s i/e.

C. Mpssiffi
sepals

but with the firmer texture of the other parent.

The
front,

and

petal

ire ..fa

buff-pink shade, lightly veined with rose and with

lip
is

a feu

irregular purple
;

markings, while the

ntre,

crimson-purple

in

with somi
rose.

A. o

and the side lobes blush white edged with

I.:,:i,,

x Clarinda

(L. Perrimi ?

L. pumila 3

has light purpleIt

tinted sepals

am 1

petals, with the veined lip

dark maroon-purple in front.

Medal
labiata

for

good group, containing some

fine

and C. Dowiana aurea, C. X porphyrophlebU ornithorhynchum album, Cycnoches chlorochilon,

Lutwychei, C. X James Buckingham, C.

X Mada

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&c.

349

An Award

of Merit
called

Charlesworthii

was given to a very fine form of Cypripedium Low's variety, an exceptionally nne of this

(n

handsome Orchid.
Messrs. B. S. Williams
Silver

&

Son, Upper Holloway, X., also

a good

r.v, iveil

:i

Banksian

Medal

for

group,

containing

the

remarkable

Arachnanthe Lowii, a fine form of Vanda tricolor, Dendrobium Phatonopsis. Oncidium ornithorhynchum album. O. Forbcsii. Corhlioda vulcanica
grandiflora. a very bin-

form, Cattleya

blesensis,

some good

t'.

labiata.

Ccelogyne

M
rar.,
I .

isangeana,

Cypripedium tonsum, C. insigne Wallace!. C.

Arthurianum. the pretty C.

C.
S

X Adonis

pietum. C.

Pitcberiammi

Williams'
Messrs,

Crossianam, &c.
,\
(

nda

0.,

St.

Albans, also exhibited a fine group, to

It

which

Silver

Iiank~i.ni

Medal was given.

little

included the remarkable

a nearly

Habenaria Susanna:, the pretty

form, Odontoglossum grande,

L;elia

pumila delicata.

white

Vanda

ccerulea, a fine

Dendrobium annum.

Ccelogyne Swaniana, Calanthe vestita Sanderiana, Oncidium Krameri, a curious little green-flowered Epidcndrum, Cypripedium X Fairy Queen
(C.Curtisii
?

C. Drurvi 3
5

).

C.

Alcides. C.
).

Uehleinianum, C.

MeXabianum
At

(C. callosum

C. concolor 3

and

several others.

the meeting on October 27th there was

fine

display

of Orchids, to

which the

fine old Cattleya labiata contributed largely, while other

autumn-

flowering kinds were also well represented.

T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall. Whitefield. Manchester

exhibited a very fine group, to which a Silver Flora

igr.

Mr. Johnson),
It

Medal was given.

form of C.

contained the handsome Cvpripediutn

C. callosum
?

X
,

Moensii. a handsome hybrid from

and C. Fairieanum

which

is

clearly a

Juno, a splendid form of Laelio-cattleya,

Arnoldiana, and another hand-

some hybrid

of the L.-c.

Ingramii group, together with a series of cut

inflorescences.
different forms,

These included nine

one of which, called petals of a very rich deep yellow, and the veining of the lip of a peculiar orange tint, besides one with the sepals and petals veined and mottled with white and rose, almost as in C. X Hardyana Massaiana, but the shape of
the flower and details of the
lip

Dowiana in C. D. Johnsoniana, had sepals and

fine trusses

of Cattleya

were as

in C.

Dowiana.

series of

Den-

drobium
also
sent,

Phalsenopsis,

including the small dark variety Stattenana. was

together with

Cattleya

Minucia.

X Johnsoniana. and X

Ashtoniana.

Chapman), Measures. Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell Igr. Mr. Ladia received a Silver Banksian Medal for an interesting group, including Warsprastans, Lalio-cattleya X Schilleriana, Cattleya labiata and C.
R.
I.

cewiczii,

Oncidium

macranthum, Masdevallia

glaphyrantha,

M.

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

with
several
flowers,

Measuresiana

Ccelogyne

fuliginosa

well-flowered,

Selenipedium Klotzschianum, and various Cypripediums, including C. X Mrs. Canham with fifteen flowers, C. X Henry Graves with three flowers,
C. tonsum with five flowers, a good C.

X Arthurianum,
called R.
it I.

a hybrid

marked C.
of
II.,

callosum

insigne,

and

several others.
lip,

The handsome white form

Measures' var. (supra,

Cattleya labiata, with rosy-veined

p. 358),

now

received a First-class Certificate,

having received an Award

two years ago. Botanical Certificates were given to Restrepia maculata and R. Falkenbergii. M. G. Mantin, Chateau de Bel Air, Olivet, France, sent a beautiful group
of Merit of eight plants of Cattleya

Mantini, to which a Silver Banksian Medal

was

given.

They showed

a considerable

amount of

variation,

some of

the

and the strongest bearing racemes of seven and six flowers. Its history was given at page 365 of our second volume. A Cultural Commendation was given to the best form, called C. X M. nobilior. He also sent Lielio-cattleya X Bi
between C. Bowringiana and L. autumnalis, page, and a handsome hybrid Cypripedium derived from C. X superciliare 8 and C. barbatum 3 H. J. Elwes, Esq., Colesborne, Gloucestershire (gr. Mr. Lane), sent a very interesting group, including Habenaria Susanna;, H. longicalcarata, Saccolabium bigibbum with three dense racemes, Arundina chinensis,
.

best being exceedingly handsome,

Acampe
Iagenaria,

papillosa

well

flowered,

Bulbophyllum

Careyanum,

Pleione

and P. Wallichiana. one spike of the latter carrying three flowers, Dendrobium Aphrodite and D. macrostachyum, a raceme of Cycnoches Loddigesii, Liparis longipes, Epidendrum fragrans, and a remarkable

species of Cirrhopetalum with a large solitary flower.

A Bronze

Banksian

Medal was awarded

Sir

to the group.

the
(C.

Down House, Blandford (gr. Mr. Denny), sent pretty little Cypripedium X Marriottianum, and Cattleya X La Belle Warscewiczii ? X C. Harrisoniana 3 ), the reverse cross of C. X JohnWilliam Marriott,
it

soniana, of which

must be considered a larger

variety.

C. N. L. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming (gr. Mr. Bond), sent a very fine form of Lselio-cattleya X callistoglossa and L.-c. X Gazelle (L.-c. X elegans Turneri and C. bicolor 3)

Walter C. Clarke, Esq., Orleans House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, sent a fine hybrid Cypripedium, probably derived from C. Argus and C. philippinense, and thus a form of C. X burfordiense.
C. J. Crosfield, Esq., Gledhill, Sefton Park, Liverpool, sent a very good flower of Cattleya labiata.

Miss D. Smith, King's Road, Ascot of Cattleya Bowringiana with five very

(gr.

Mr. Lane), sent a strong plant

fine

racemes of flowers, to which a

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,

Cultural

Commendation was given. R. P. White, Esq., The Firs. Peckham Road

labiata.

(gr.

Mr. Chick), aenl

good Cattleya
F.

Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield. Ashton-on-Mereej

C.
little

(gr.

Mr. Stafford), sent

alba,

the

handsome Cattleya x Hardyana Massaiana,

S.

labiata

and

fine

plants of Lajlia pumila prastans, also the pretty

Pleione maculata alba.

G. Lutwyche, Esq., Eden Park, Beckenham. sent the ran- Miltonia X Lamarcheana, Cypripedium Charlesworthii, a fine hybrid between C. callosum S and C. villosum 3 and thus a form of C. X Indra, and C. X
,

H. Shaw, Esq., Heathfield, Birch Vale, Derbyshire a good form of Cattleya maxima.
Messrs. James Veitch

(gr.

Mr.

lift,

i.

sen)

&

Sons. Chelsea, contributed a splendid group, to

It

which a small Gold Medal was given.

contained several good forma

ol

Cattleya labiata and C. Dowiana, C. Bowringiana, the handsome C. X Chloris and C. X Patrocinii, Laslio-cattleya X Statteriana, Lycaste
costata and L. lanipes (the former a mass of flowers), some good Miltonia
spectabilis

Moreliana,

M.

vexillaria

superha.

Cycnoches chlorochilon,

Odontoglossum bictoniense and its variety album, O. Harryanmn. anil (). grande, the charming Dendrobium Johnsonise, Oncidium unicorne with a tine panicle of flowers, and O. ornithorhynchum, the handsome Cypripedium

tessellatum porphyreum, C. purpuratum, a fine pan of C. Charlesworthii.

C. Spicerianum, C.

X cenanthum
to

superbum, C. X Milo. C. X T. B. Hay(lowers,

wood, C.

Arthurianum with eight

Cattleya

and various others.

a

An Award

of Merit was given

Elvina,
,

handsome hybrid derived

from C. Trianas
both parents
;

and C. Schilleriana 3 and showing the characters of and a similar award to Cypripedium X Regina, derived
$ J

from C.

XLeeanum

and C. Fairieanum

<?

Messrs. F. Sander

&

Co., St. Albans, contributed a

handsome group,

in

which the forms

forms with a

of C. labiata were very effective, including two nearly white

little

colour on the

lip.

It

also

included

good forms of

Oncidium tigrinum and O. varicosum, Odontoglossum bictoniense album, Dendrobium Phalasnopsis and its variety Statteriana, the handsome D.
Johnsonia;, the rare Macradenia lutescens, Phaius
Wallichii Mannii S
latter in

Ashworthianus

(P.

P. maculatus 3

),

handsome hybrid most

like the

form and colour, as well as in the spotted leaves. Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton Nursery, also staged a
;

fine group, in

which forms of Cattleya labiata were conspicuous also C. Dowiana aurea, Odontoglossum grande, Oncidium ornithorhynchum album, Cypripedium X Arthurianum, and others. It also contained a very fine clump of Cycnoches chlorochilon, one of the racemes bearing six flowers, and a form of Dendrobium X Leeanum, a little different from the original.

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Messrs. B. S. Williams

&

Son, Upper Holloway, also sent an effective

group of showy things, in which Oncidium Forbesii, O. ornithorhynchum, Cypripedium X Arthurianum, C. insigne punctato-violaceum, and
C.

Pitcherianum Williams' variety were conspicuous, and a form of Cattleya labiata in which the petals were curious mottled and streaked with a darker

L' Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, received a First-class Certificate (or a plant called Cattleya X Le Czar, which was suggested to be a natural hybrid between C. "labiata and C. granulosa, though evidence of the two growing together seems desirable.

Messrs.

Linden,

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
Cattleya x Lord Rothschild.Gard. Chron., Oct. 24, p. 489, Comparettia speciosa.-Journ. of Hort., Oct. 22, p. 399, fig. 72. Habenaria carnea.Journ. of Hort., Oct. 1, p. 319, fig. 61. L^lio-cattleva X Charles Darwin.Journ. of Hort., Oct.
377.
figfig.

86.

15

p.

69.

L.elio-cattleya

Renanthera
with
fig.

Mag., Sept. 26, p. 657, with fig. Storiei, Rchb. {.Gard. Mag., Sept. 26, pp. 658, 659,

x Clive. Gard.

Trichopilia coccinea.Gard. Chron., Oct.

Zygopetalum Mackayi. Joum.

This
is

17, p. 456, fig. 77.

of Mori.,

Sept. 24,' p. 295,

fig.

58.

Z. intermedium, Lodd.
ofllort., Sept. 24, p. 295, fig. 57-

Zygopetalum max.llare.-/,,,.

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'

Beginner.
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ave

address to be enclosed on another occasion, of ised c W. J. R.. Maghull. A try form of Cattleya labiata, which
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meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society for tin- year will be15th, held at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on December when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of 12 o'clock

The

last

have Twin-flowered spikes, both of Cypripedium insigne and C. niveum.

Pippbrook, Dorking, sent from the collection of H. Gurney Aggs, Esq., been twin-flowers from being from a plant which has always produced the former The plant which produced the latter has been out of doors from the first. May to early in September, and is in robust health, as the the middle of Aggs has for the last two years placed certain Orchids Mr. flowers show. months, and hopes to give his experience after out of doors for the summer another season's trial ; which will be very acceptable.
petals has been sent flower of Cvpripedium insigne with three A curious Liverpool. The of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, from the collection narrower than usual, side are quite perfect, but a little two petals on one flower is normal division of the original one, as the and probably arose by
in

other respects.

Another flower of Cypripedium

sent from the same
teristic

regale, described at

in collection, together with a leaf,

page 324, b also which the charac-

insigne and nearly intermediate between C. form. In fact, this organ is as stripes and as the dorsal sepal shows both C. purpuratum as it can well be, safely the influence of the latter, we may and reflexed sides, which indicate assume the recorded parentage to be correct.

markings of C. purpuratum are present

in a

somewhat modified

354

I HE ORCHID REVIEW.

We

have received a photograph of the beautiful Cattleya x Hardyana

alba from the collection of

W.

S.

McMillan, Esq., Ardenholm, Maghull, Mr. McMillan remarks

yellow brethren C.

Liverpool, showing an inflorescence of two flowers.

that the flower
is
it

very handsome, the sepals and petals snow-white, and

when in Dowiana

flower

looked very striking

among

its

aurea, of

which a

fine

form

is

also sent, the yellow areas on the

sides sides of the lip being larger

and darker than usual.

A
sepals

very pretty light form of Cattleya labiata has been sent from the

collection of

W.

P.

Burkinshaw, Esq., of Hessle, E. Yorks,

in

which the

and

petals are blush white, with a large crimson-purple blotch in

front of the yellow disc,

C.

1.

elegans

in

and very broad white margin. It approaches general character, except that the sepals and petals are not

pure white.

curious form of Cypripedium

Charlesworthii has appeared

California,

in

the

collection

of Dr.

A.

W.

Hoisholt, Stockton,

of

which a
to

photograph has been sent.

in

The lower

sepal

is

just twice as broad as usual,

cup-shaped and veined with rose

it

like the dorsal one,

though not quite equal

and the white rather more predominating. Dr. Hoisholt has carefully looked up all the references in this work, and finds one with twinflowered scape, and another with two lips, but nothing like the present one nor do we remember to have met with the peculiarity before in this
size,
;

species.

A second bud

is

forming on the plant.

A good
same

flower of the chaste Lselia autumnalis alba also

and six different forms of Phalsenopsis, showing the usual gradation from dark to very light forms. The flowers last well after being cut, and altogether it is one of the most useful autumn-flowering Orchids known.
collection,

comes from the the beautiful Dendrobium

The

rare

collection,

and beautiful Acacallis cyanea has also flowered in in the same and a flower is also enclosed, the colour something approaching
of Vanda ccerulea.
It is

some forms

a very striking Orchid

when

well grown.
sent from

very distinct and pretty variety of Ladia

Dayana has been

the collection of F. H. Moore, Esq., of Liverpool, in which the sepals and

band along one or both margins, giving the flower a curious variegated appearance. There is a trace of similar markings on the side lobes of the lip, which is normal in other respects.

petals have an irregular crimson

A
is

fine

inflorescence of the chaste

from the collection of John

like the type,

W.

Arkle,

Cymbidium Mastersii album comes It Esq., of West Derby, Liverpool.

except that the flowers are pure white with only a trace of

yellow on the disc.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

A
fine

355

form of Cattleya Bowringiana has been sent from the adWtic.n

of Alfred

Darby, Esq., Little Ness, Shrewsbury,

in

which the

petals are

one-and-a-half inches broad, and the sepals broader than in the typical
form, giving the flower a very round appearance.
useful
at

This species

is
it

very

this season,

and several very promising hybrids from

have

recently appeared.

The
A.L.S.

thirtv-second volume of the Journal of

the

Linndni Society contains a

paper entitled,

"A

Revision of the genus Vanilla," by R. Allen Rolfe,

Fifty-two species are admitted as distinct, of which sixteen are

first

here described for the

fertilisation,
affinities,

time.

The paper

contains an account

..I

the

geographical

distribution,

and economic uses of

a k,
\

the genus, with a historical introduction, complete descriptions, and

to the species.

The same volume

also

contains

paper on

"

The

Orchidea:

and

Apostasies of the Malay Peninsula," by Henry Ridley, M.A., F.L.S. Foot new genera and about 130 new species are described, mostly of botanical
interest.

The new genera

Rchb.
f.,

are Staurochilus,

made
;

to receive Trichoglottis

fasciata,

but with no character given

histrionica,
Ridl.,

Renantherella, a

new name
includes
f.
:

for

Renanthera

Rchb.

f.

Pelatantheria,
insectifer.
f.,

which
Rchb.

Cleisostoma cristata,

and

Sarcanthus

and

Ascochilus, containing Sarcochilus hirtulus, Hook,

(A. siamensis).

and a new species

work contains " An Enumeration of all author, in win. h Orchids hitherto recorded from Borneo," by the same new species are described and one new genus Porphyroglottis about fifty

previous

number

of the

MaxweUiae,
a

allied to

Chrysoglossum.

A new

section of Bulbophyllum

is

characterised also described, called Intervallatas, many-flowered raceme, though the flowers
in

by

its tall stiff

scape, ending
at intervals,

expand singly

Three species are described, occurring in one species. as many as eighty the same one is Bornean. Three other species belong to of which only and B. B. macrochilum. Rolfe longiscapum, Rolfe section, namely B. from the first being from Fiji, and the two others attenua'tum, Rolfe
;
; ;

Borneo.

Cattleya

Orchid, by Prof. of the Dictwmmire Icouographiquc des The second part contains figures of A. Goosens, has reached us, and A Co<*niaux and M. CypripeC. X Hardyana, C. X Vic.ona-Regina, Warscewiczii,
Stonei,

dium
D.

Dendrobium

nobile,

D.

n.

Cooksonianum, D. X Ainsworthn,
L.-c.

Cassiope, Lalio-cattleya

Schrcederiana, and Selenipedium

X Nysa, X Sedeni,

Proserp.ne, Miftoma.

356

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Bulletin

The November number of the Km (17 20) of new Orchids, all from China or

contains four Decades

adjacent Islands.
in

The

majority
:

are from

dried

specimens, but the following are

casspitosa,

cultivation

Denas

drobium hainanense, Eria Hainan Nephelaphyllum

;

and Sarcochilus hainanensis, from

from

cristatum,

Hongkong
is

and

Physurus
the

chinensis, from

South China.
section as S.

Listera grandirlora

interesting
is

largest-flowered species in the genus,

species of the

same
is

and Saccolabium hainanense giganteum and S. violaceum.

new

A movement

on foot

to obtain coloured

drawings for future reference

of the Orchids certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society.

The Orchid

Committee on October 27th last decided to memorialise the Council on the subject, and the latter view the matter with favour, and have asked to be
supplied with a proposal in definite form as to details and probable cost. believe that it was again before the Committee on November 24th.

We

DENDROBIUM SPECTABILE.
handsome Dendrobium, a native of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, which has been known to science for nearly half-a-century, and which would be a notable addition to our
is

This

a remarkably distinct and

collections

if it

could be introduced alive.

It is

interesting to record that

Lawrence has received a plant from Malaita, one of the Solomon Islands, but unfortunately it has been four months m route, and it is feared is too far gone to recover. A coloured sketch and dried flower sent with it enable it to be identified. It belongs to the group of D. macrophyllum, A. Rich., and D. atropurpureum, Rolfe, but is larger and more handsome, and when first described was thought to represent
a

Sir Trevor

new genus,

being

described by Blume, in 1848, under the (Rumfiia, IV., p. 41, t. 195, fig. 1, and

name
t.

of Latourea
fig.

spectabilis

199,

Q,

mainly from a
to

drawing made
grand.florum

in

New Guinea
at

by M. Latour-Leschenault, naturalist
that of the

Baudm's Expedition, which,

like

remarkable Bulbophyllum

the same time, has proved remarkably accurate. Miquel afterwards transferred it to Dendrobium (D. spectabile, Mia. Fl. Xed. hid.. III., p 645). A plant obtained from the Solomon Islands flowered at the Sydney Botanic Garden in 1884, when Sir F. Mueller wrote a note in the Victorian Naturalist (I., p. 51). October, 1890, In the Rev. R. B. Comins collected
.

made

specimens at San Cristoval, Solomon

Islands,

which

described as

Dendrobium tigrinum (Annals

which
is

507), completely overlooking Latourea, distinct genus in the Genera

of Bot., V., p. doubtfully retained as a

Planiarum.

The

plant has clavate pseudobulbs

nearly a foot long, with about four or five terminal leaves, and erect racemes of about 20 to 25 flowers, with acuminate sepals and petals, i* inches long,

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

lip.

357

from a broader, very undulate base, and a long pandurately trilobed acute

The

colour

is

yellowish white, the sepals and petals spotted, and the

It
is

lip beautifully

veined with red-purple.

will

much

to be hoped that so
in

striking

and distinct a plant

soon

be

represented

European

K. A. ROLFE.

L/ELIA
I

PUMILA.
I

am

surprised to see you say at page 321 that twin-flowered spikes on

Lselia

pumila are

rare.

can only say

think

my

plants badly

grown
I

unless there are

more twin than

single spikes

on them.

This year,

am

glad to say, there are only one or two spikes with single flowers, the u-st without exception, are " twin." I imagine it is merely a question of growing

them well. What causes "colour" in Orchid flowers. wonder? The autumn has been unusually wet and chill with us. yet Cattleya labiata, Vanda ccerulea, and also Calanthe X Veitchii are deeper and richer in colour
I

than they ever have been with

me

before.

Nothing can be more

lovely than

Vanda

ccerulea as

it is

at present

with us.

Edward H. Woodall.
St. Nicholas

House,

Scarborough.

MACRADENIA LUTESCENS.
Tins curious
it

little

plant has been cultivated periodically since 1822,

Griffin,
t.

appeared in the collection of Mr.

been re-introduced

when of South Lambeth, and was

by Robert Brown.
Sander
It

figured in the Botanical Register (VIII.,

612),

has
has,

recently

by Messrs.

F.

&

Co.,

and

unfortunately, been again figured and described by Dr. Kranzlin under the

erroneous name of Trichopilia multiflora

fig. 1).

(Xett. Orch., III., p. 152,

t.

288,

It

is

found
is

in

Jamaica. Cuba. Trinidad. Venezuela, and possibly

elsewhere, and

a small plant with arching racemes of numerous reddish-

brown
also

flowers, with a three-lobed lip

and curiously toothed column.

It

was

described by A. Richard, in 1853, under the

III., p. 248,
little
t.

name

of Rhynchadenia

cubensis (Sagra Fl. Cub.,

85).

There are some half-dozen

other species of this curious

genus, of which M. triandra, Lindl., and

M. Brassavolse, Rchb. f., have appeared in cultivation. Another species must also be added, for on re-examination I find that Serrastylis modesta, Rolfe (Kew Bull., 1894, p. 158; Gard. Chron., 1894, xvi., p. 727, fig. 91),
cannot be maintained as distinct from Macradenia. It may, therefore, bear the name of M. modesta, Rolfe. The affinity of the genus is with Notylia

and

Cirrhasa.

R. A. Rolfe.

THE ORCHID RE HE IV.

VANDA SANDERIANA.
As a
frontispiece to the present

volume

\\v h;i\v

illustration of the magnificent

specimen of

much pleasure in giving an Vanda Sanderiana, from the

collection of J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford, Essex, to which a Gold Medal was given by the Royal Horticultural Society

on October 13th

last.

As was recorded
;

at

exhibited, bore an aggregate of 127 flowers

page 347, the plant, when but one raceme of ten flowers
is

was

over,

and had been removed.

Its

general appearance

shown

in the

illustration,

which

is

reproduced from a photograph kindly sent by Mr.

Fowler, and we congratulate him and his gardener, Mr. Davis, on such an example of cultural skill. It serves to recall the famous specimen of Ccelogyne Dayana from the collection of Baron Schroder, and of

Epidendrum Stamfordianum from that

details

of Sir Trevor Lawrence, of which

have been given in these pages. Mr. Fowler has sent the following note, which will be read with interest : " I purchased the Vanda Sanderiana from Messrs. Low & Co. on the 15th August, 1895. It flowered first in September of that year,
bearing two flower spikes and seventeen flowers. It was brought over by Messrs. Low's collector in a large basket, and in the June following I thought it advisable to repot it. It flowered again in October last, with
twelve spikes and 137 flowers in all. It has grown in the East India house, on the centre stage, over a large tank of rain water, and has seven growths, three of them being 3ft. 6ins. in height. Since it has been with me it has

made four pairs The history

Manual
(VII.,

of leaves." of the species

p.
is

thus given by Messrs. Veitch in their

appreciable gains

103): "This remarkable Vanda, one of the most to horticulture during the last decade, was discovered by
collector of Messrs.

M. Roebelin, the energetic

in

Sander

& Co., who

succeeded,

1882,

in

reaching the

previously
this,

unexplored portion of south-east

less

Mindanao, where he detected

and the scarcely

remarkable Atrides

Lawrences and Phalaenopsis Sanderiana. Our own collector, David Burke, also succeeded in reaching the same region a few months later, and from that time these fine Orchids became generally distributed among the Orchid collections of Europe and America. The principal station of Vanda
Davao, on the south-east coast of Mindanao, at places growing on trees that over-hang the beach, and where the long trailing roots of this Orchid are often within reach of the salt spray. It flowered
is

Sanderiana

at

for the first

time

in this

country

in the

summer

of 1883, in the collection of

Mr. Lee, at Downside, Leatherhead, since dispersed."

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359

NOMENCLATURE OF ORCHIDS
I

beg

again

to

call

attention

to

the extraordinary

laxity

of

the

Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society in regard to the nomenclature of Orchids. They may, perhaps, plead that it is not their fault that growers or sellers of Orchids give improper nanus to their plants.
but surely they might refuse to recognise such plants, or to bestow on them
First-class Certificates

be unwilling to worse confounded.

to

and Awards of Merit. This, however, they appear do, and the result is that confusion is becoming
at

At the exhibition

T.

W.

October 13th Lielio-Cattleya Bond was shown as a cross between Cattleya labiata and Laelia
If

the Drill Hall on

purpurata.

the

Cattleya parent was Warneri, the plant has already

been named as Lajlio-Cattleya

X
is

eximia, and again as Uelio-Cattleya

labiata autumnalis,
it

Valvassorii.

If the seed parent

has been named

before as Laelio-Cattleya
Merit.

Wellsia;,

and as such has received an Award of

passed, although
it is

At the same exhibition Cattleya

X Triumph was

the

same cross as Cattleya X preciosa, which was exhibited a few months ago by the same grower on May 5th. There was also exhibited Laelia X Clarinda, which has been named before
as Lselia

juvenilis.

Then,
exhibited,

at the next meeting on

October 27th,

which

is

the reverse cross of

X John

same
C.

cross as

Ashtoniana. both being apparently the same cross as

X
It

Minucia.
is

easy to see from these examples what the difficulty of the collector

is

likely to

be in the near future, when he attempts to identify hybrid

Highbury,

Moor Green,
Birmingham.
[Only one of the four plants named received an Award of Merit,

synonymous with or only a variety of C. X Preciosa. And it is just possible that the Committee may have overlooked the fact that they granted an Award of Merit to the
namely, Cattleya

Triumph, which

is

clearly

same

cross on

May

5th

last.

Still, it

is

not too

much

to expect

them

to

keep account of the plants to which Certificates are granted, and the Certificate should never have been given, according to their own

latter
rules.

With
that

respect to the rapid increase of unnecessary names,

we would

suggest

if

people will persist in re-naming well-known crosses, the Committee


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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

should cancel them before the reporters go round, and then perhaps some of this unnecessary confusion would be prevented, as it is almost too much to expect that reporters should verify every name for themselves. We have
frequently suppressed such

names

in

our reports, but they have appeared

at

elsewhere.

We

pages 133. 165, in checking the rapidly growing confusion to which Mr. Chamberlain has called
attention.

would refer our readers to the remarks on this question and 172 of the present volume, and urge them to assist

Ed.1

CYPRIPEDIUM
of
till,

MEDEIA MONSTROSA.
been sent by Mr.

W.

B. Latham,

Curator of the Birmingham Botanic Garden, who remarks that he by crossing C. Spicerianum with the pollen of C. hirsutissimum, and that
the flowers retain their abnormal character every season.
It

appears to

have been
p.

first

recorded

in

the

713), but
in

was then

said to

autumn of 1892 (Card. Chron. 1892, xii., have bloomed for three or four years, never
is

varying
p. 70),

character.

An

interesting note

given by Hansen (Orch. Hyb.,

which we do not remember to have met with elsewhere, and presume that it was communicated by Mr. Latham. He remarks that Mr. Latham " had sent it to Mr. R. A. Rolfe, who named it provisionally as above, and
added

'

Veitch's hybrid

is

normal

in

character, yours

may
all

or

may
if

not

become
sepal.

so hereafter.

Others from the same cross

to

may come

right

you
are
;

have them.
Its

The

lip is

not really absent, but abnormal in shape, more like a

greatest curiosity

my mind
I

is

that the
it,

two stamens

changed into perfect staminodes.

it is

should keep

if

only as a curiosity

a very instructive plant.

If proof
it

only a modified stamen, surely here

a single seedling

were wanted that the staminode is is.' " However, it appears that only
is

was

raised.

The

plant

said to be intermediate between

the two parents, but the dorsal sepal and staminode are almost identical with C. Spicerianum, except that the former is reduced in size and nearly
flat.

The
lip

The

petals also have a little white at the apex, like the dorsal sepal. is elliptical-oblong, a little concave at apex, and light green

irregularly striped with dull purple.

An examination

of the flower reveals

the highly interesting fact that the two additional staminodes do not belong to the inner staminal whorl, but to the outer one, and thus represent the two missing side lobes of the lip. The filaments of the two normal stamens of

Cypripedium are present, but without the anther, and are in their usual position at the base and on either side of the stigma, and within but slightly above the supernumerary staminodes, affording
the theory that the side lobes of the
lip in

additional confirmation of
in

Orchids are staminodial

their


THE ORCHID REVIEW.

3 6i

COMPLEX CYPRIPEDIUM HYBRIDS.

Two
or
three

correspondents

are

studying

inheritance

in

regard

to

hybrid Orchids, and the following

list,

which has been sent to us as a

contribution to the question, will probably interest our readers.

Some
in

curious facts with regard to hybridisation

among Orchids

are gradually

coming
It is

to light,

and

it

is

an interesting matter to have them recorded

accessible form.

curious to note that the

first

nine names on the

list

are

all

derived

from combinations of C. barbatum. insigne, villosum. and Spionanum.

which have been arrived

1

at in four different ways,

,

namely : C.
C.
last

X Leeanum
,

C.

x oenanthum 3 C. X Harrisianum 5 X Spicerianum ? X C. X cenanthum 3 and the

C.
,

X Leeanum 3

cross reversed.

In the two next on the

list

C. Spicerianum
effected

is

replaced by C. venustum,
:

and the combinations were

by the crosses, respectively

,

C.

X
C.

calophvllum

X
C.

C.

Harrisianum 3
replaced

and C. X Crossianum ? X In the next two bracketed together, C. venustum

X cenanthum 3
and
the

was

by

Argus,

hybrids were obtained by such

,

X cenanthum J X C. Argus 3 and C. Ashburtonia 9 X C. X vernixium 3 The exact parentage of the remaining crosses may be found by the help of the references. No less than
apparently different crosses as C.
fourteen of the hybrids here enumerated have had C.

X oenanthum

for

one parent, which

included in
its

is

partly explained

by the

fact

that three species are

composition.

Ed.
in

List ok

Cvpkipedium Hybrids

each of which

Four distinct

(G.C., 18S9,

vi., p.
xii., p.

750)

...

{G.C.. 1892,
(Lind.,

622)...

viii., t.

361)

(G.C., 1895, xvii., p. 200)

c. c. c. c. c. c.

X Charles Reffold X Brunianum

X A. J. Herrington X Harri-Leeanum X Clement Moore X Pollettianum X Boyleanum

(J.R.H.S., xv., p. cxcvi.)

(G.C., 1892, (G.C., 1895, (O.K.,
i.,

.,

xii., p.

443)

,.

xviii., p.

588)

t
i

p. 375>
xlviii., p.

i
,.

i
i

(Gard., 1895,

48)

i
ArB s

{G.C., 1890,

viii., p.

702.)

c. c. c.

[R.H.Mc,n.Cyp.,ed.2.,p.l7) i

i
i

X Lowryanum X Madame Josci D

combes

{Hansnu

p. 159)

i
J

(G.C., 1895, xvii., p. 200)

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C.

Bijou

... ...

(G.C., 1892,

xii., p,

138)-.

C.
C.

X Marshianum X
Cleopatra

r
Hook

(Charlesw. Cat., 18c )5>

(G.C.. 1892, xi p. 458)

...

...

i i
i

C.

x Daisy*

...

...

(G.C., 1892,

xii., p.

301)

...

i
i
i

t
i

i
super!

C
C.
C.

x X X

ano-superbiens
rubescens...

...

(O.K.,

i.,

p.

287)

i
Boia

...

(O.R.,

i.,

p.

375)

Tennyson...

...

(P.R.,

i.,

p. 364)

i i

C.

X Baron X X

Schroder

...

(G.C., 1896, xx., p. 667)

(Proth.

...

C.

Boltonianum

and Uor. Cat., 27th Aug. 1895.)

iv. p.

i
Hook.

C.
C.

Lachesis

...

...

(O.K.,

104)

J 4
.sign.
1

i i
s

i
J

X annamense

...

(O.R., (O.K.,

iv.,

p. 63)
64)

C.x Henri Vander-Straeti m

C.
C.

iv., p.

1
, .

7'"

X Leean

-Iorgania=
...

X X
It

Pegas

(R.I.Meas.,CyJ>.,ed. 3 v 36) (Gard., 1896, xlix., p. 89)

C.

Frau Ida Brandt

(O.K.,

iii.,

p. 223)

...

should be mentioned that the species cessarily the ordinary forms of Cypripedmms
perhaps, there

in the

above

list

are

not

insigne,

barbatum, Spicer-

has been recorded in which more than four distinct species are represented there are, however, seedlings in existence combining five species, but they have not vet reached the flowering stage. Although there are 27 hybrid Cypripediums recorded as a combination of four species, some are synonymous, and others merely varieties of the same cross, so that the above list may be fairly reduced to 19 as being really distinct, and to 15 so far as the fou: species s concerned.
;

a reasonable doubt as to majority have been recorded with proper c up to the present time no hybrid Cypripedium
is

parentage, but the great

teresting to note that

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

363

THE CYPRIPEDIUM GROUP.

1

Concluded from page 334.

7.

Paphiopedium.
the Old World,

This genus comprises

and
differs

all

the tropical Cypripediuma of

in

from the three others

in

having the dorsal sepal folded within

the lateral ones

the hud, however

It

much

larger than

them

it

may become
in

when

fully

developed.

combines the ovary of Cypripedium, as here

contains about

limited, with the general

halm of Phiagmipcdiiim. and agrees with both

It
4.2

the fusiform, not crustaceous seeds.

known
the

species,

and ranges from the Himalayas and South India

Archipelago
Philippines.
to

through

Malay
of

New

Guinea,

and

to

Hong Kong by way

the

Key
Flowers
in

to the Species.

Leaves elongate-linear or linear-oblong, mostly green.

racemes.

Bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate.

Staminode without basal

Petals

tubercle.

Staminode broad with obtuse apex.

46

in. long.

Base of petals without marginal warts

1.

P. Stonei, Pfitz.

Base of petals studded with marginal warts.

Petals three to four times longer than lip
2.

P. philippinense, Pfitz.
lip

Petals not or scarcely three times longer than

j.

P. prastans, Pfitz. P.

Petals a foot or

more long

4.

Sanderianum, PfiU.
long

Staminode with acute beak-like apex. Beak of staminode short dorsal sepal about ii
;

in.

5.

P. glanduliferum. Pfitz.

Beak of staminode long;

Staminode with an

dorsal sepal about 2h in. long

6.

P.

Kothschildianum,

Pfitz.

erect basal tubercle.

Petals elongate-linear,

much

tw istcd
j.

P. l'arishii, Pfitz.

Petals linear-spathulate, nearly

flat.
;

Apex Apex

dorsal sepal spotted at of petals not twice as broad as base 8. P. Haynaldianum, Pfitz. base
. . . .

unspotted of petals fully twice as broad as base ; dorsal sepal 9. P. Lowii. Pfitz.

Bracts oblong, obtuse or nearly truncate.


S4

THE 0MCH1D REVIEW.

io.

P.

Chamberlainianum,

Pfit

Dorsal sepal and petals variously lined with brown Dorsal sepal and petals not lined with brown
ii.

P. Victoria-Maria, Rolfe.

Flowers normally solitary, or twin

Petals straight, or nearly so.

in luxuriant

specimens.

Upper margin of petals nearly or Scape and ovary villose.

Dorsal sepal unspotted Dorsal sepal bearing
.

quite

flat.

12.

P. villosum, Pfitz.

many

blackish spots
13.

P. Boxallii, Pfitz.

Scape and ovate pubescent.

Dorsal sepal
elliptical-

or ovate-oblong.
14. P. insigne, Pfitz.

Dorsal sepal

2 2*in. long

Dorsal sepal \\ ij in. long. Dorsal sepal without dark median band
15. P. Exul, Rolfe.

Dorsal sepal with blackish-purple median band

16.

P. Druryi, Pfitz.
P. Charlesworthii, Pfitz.

Dorsal sepal orbicular

17.

Upper margin of

petals strongly crisped or undulate.

Dorsal sepal orbicular, as long as petals

18.

P. Spicerianum, Pfitz.

Dorsal sepal ovate,

Petals falcate

much
.

shorter than petals

19.

P. hirsutissimum, Pfitz. P. Fairrieanum, Pfitz.

20.

.eaves elliptical or oblong, generally tessellated with

two shades of green.

Petals linear-oblong

scape f

\\

ft.

high.

Dorsal sepal ovate.

Staminode orbicular or oblong Staminode 57 lin. broad

Staminode 3

dorsal sepal not striped.

21. P. Hookera;, Pfitz.

lin.

broad.

Dorsal sepal longer than broad, subacute. Leaves strongly tessellated 22. P. Bullenianum,

Pfitz.

Leaves obscurely tessellated 23. P. Appletonianum, Rolfe. Dorsal sepal as broad as long, obtuse
24.

P.

Mastersianum,

Pfitz.
c

Staminode broader than long

Petals not ciliate
Petals ciliate.

dorsal sepal striped with green

.25.

P.

tonsum,

Pfitz.

Dorsal sepal as long or longer than broad.

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Petals unspotted or with few irregular spots.

36

Petals

57

lin.

broad.

Petals with a few spots

Dorsal sepal

z.{

cilia

12

lin.

long.

z\

lin.

long.

Petals with a few small blotches

26. P.

venustum,

Pfitz.

Petals with a few minute spots at base

Dorsal sepal if
Petals unspotted

27. P. virens, Pfitz. 2 in. long

28.

P. javanicum, Pfitz.

cilise

2 3
.

lin.

long
P.

29.

Dayanum,

Pfitz.

Petals about 3

lin.

broad

30.

P. nigritum, Pfitz.

Petals regularly spotted to or beyond middle.

Upper

third of petals unspotted

31.

P. ciliolare, Pfitz.

Petals spotted to apex.

Spots small and regular.

Petals 2 in. long
;

cilia:

regular \
32.

lin.

long

P. Curtisii. Pfitz.

Petals 2J
fully

in.

long, ciliae irregular, the longer hairs

lin.

\\

long

>,},.

P. superbiens, Pfitz.

Spots irregular, some a

line or

more broad

34. P. Argus, Pfitz.

Dorsal sepal distinctly broader than long

35. P.

purpuratum,

Pfitz.

Dorsal sepal suborbicular.

Petals

more or

less deflexed.

Petals nearly straight, \\

2
.

in.

long
36. P.

barbatum,

Pfitz.

Petals falcate, Petals horizontal

2z\ in.
.
.

long
.

37. P. callosum, Pfitz.

38.
;

P.

Lawrenceanum,

Pfitz.

Petals broadly elliptical or elliptical-oblong

scapes

26

in.

high.

Scape

23

in.

high

flowers with yellow or cream-coloured ground.

little

Flowers yellow and but

spotted
39. P. concolor, Pfitz.

Flowers cream-coloured and much spotted.

Margins of petals more or

less

undulate
40. P. Godefroya;, Pfitz.

Margins ofpetals

flat

41.

bellatulum, Pfitz.

Scape 3

in.

high

flowers white with a few minute purple spots

42.

P. niveum, Pfitz.


366

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

The
following are believed to be natural hybrids, their supposed parents
in the

being placed
P. P.
P. P.

two ri-ht hand colums

P.

X X X

siamense, Rolfe,
Petri, Pfitz.,

derived from P. callosum and P. Appletonianum.

Rolfe,

Dayanum

P. virens.

Littleanum, Rolfe,

P.

Lawrenceanum.

X Kimballianum,

P. Rothschildianum.

This completes the outline of the Suborder Diandra, the genera and
species being arranged as far as possible in systematic order, of the keys
it

and by the

aid

will

be possible

for

anyone

to find the

name and

position of

any doubtful species they may possess.

before been given,

Such an arrangement has never

full

and other

details,

such as
all

descriptions, references to

figures, geographical distribution,

&c, can

be found in the various works

it

devoted to the subject.

In order to prevent any uncertainty,

may

be

pointed out that the specific names are the same as those by which they

have

previously
it

been

known

under other

genera.

With

respect

to

may be asked why the name was not retained for the cultivated species now ranked under Phragmipedium, rather than for the other group. To which it must be answered that neither the name nor the character given by Reichenbach belong to the former. The name
Selenipedium,

and the character of having round, crustaceous, Vanilla-like seeds is only found in Selenipedium as now limited. Reichenbach spoke of it as occurring in two species (S. palmifolium and S. Chica), and the further remark, "perhaps in all the species," has proved erroneous. The amended spelling, Cypripedilum, Selenipedilum, I see no reason to adopt (this question has been fully discussed by Buser in
(sclents,

alludes to the small lip

little

crescent),

Bull. Herb. Boiss., II., p. 642),

spelling in this case,
it is

and although Paphiopedilum was the

original

clearly advisable that the termination should be

uniform
It

in

the four genera.

may

be

interesting to supplement the above with a few remarks

its

about the remaining great suborder Monandra, and

relationship to the

Diandra.

It differs essentially

in

having only a single perfect stamen

;

the median one of the outer staminal whorl

by

the pollen grains being

compound, and variously agglutinated together into masses, or pollinia; and by one of the three stigmas being modified into a special organ, called
the rostellum, which serves the purpose of secreting the viscid matter by

which the
flowers
;

pollinia are attached

also, in

to the bodies of insects

which
is

visit

the

and

the majority of cases, of preventing the pollinia from

reaching the stigma of the same flower.

The column

also generally

much more It may

latter.

developed, owing to the elongation of the disc-like base. be divided into tribes and genera, like the Diandra, but the

only point which concerns us Dr. Pfitzer,

now

is

the exact point of contact with the

of the Order with

who has attempted an arrangement

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its

367

progressive development, places the tribe Ophrydea- next to

its

Cypripediea:, but an examination of

to be far

highly complex structure shows

it

more remote.

In fact Ophrydea; differs from the rest of the Order

and gland, and the anther-cells completely adnate to the column, persistent, and often continuous with the rostellum and from a
:

in having a basal caudicle

variety of considerations

must be placed

at the

head of the

series.
in
if

The

remaining

tribes.

Neottiese, Epidendreae, and Vandea?. agree

having an
developed,

operculate or deciduous anther, and the caudicle and gland,

apical.

Of

these Vandeae occupies the highest position, and Neottieae the

it is

lowest, and

among

the latter that the next

allies

of the Diandra: must

be sought.

Of

the half-dozen subtribes into which the Neottiea.-

may

be

divided, Corymbiea; clearly occupies the lowe>t position, having precisely

the habit of Apostasieae, and although the column

is

much developed
It

all

the parts of the flower are of relatively simple organisation.

contains

two genera, Corymbis and Tropidia. neither

of

which are

in cultivation.

From

these there

is

a pretty easy transition to the Vanilleae, Arethuseae,

and Spiranthea?, and groups of more complex structure. It is very interesting to be able thus to trace some of the steps by which the Order has been progressively modi tied, and it is by this means that the structure of the higher and more complex genera can best be traced. Without such aids it would be a very difficult matter to trace the homologies of some of the complex
structures found in the most highly specialised Orchid flowers.

R. A. Rolfe.

SOBRALIA LINDENI.
From
time to time some distinct Orchid gets established
in

cultivation

which has never been botanically described, and the above Sobralia Its history was thus given in the Gardener's appears to be one of these. Chronicle about a year ago (1895, xviii., p. 424) : " Under this name a few
fresh imported tufts of Sobralia were sold by Messrs. Linden, of Brussels,
at Messrs.

Protheroe and Morris' rooms

in

Cheapside, on September 12th,

is

1893.

flower from a specimen then purchased

kindly forwarded by

C. J. Lucas, Esq., Warnham Court, Horsham, and. as Mr. Lucas says, it The flower is large, the sepals and petals of a is a most charming species. delicate blush white, and the lip is also blush white on the basal half, but
the
front portion
is

of a rich deep

crimson-purple, shading off into a

nearly blue tint traversed

distinct

towards

the

margin.

This finely
lines,

coloured
it

area

is

by well-defined branching white

which make

a very

At a distance the flower resembles a light form of This very plant received an Award of Merit Cattleya Luddemanniana." from the Royal Horticultural Society, on October 15th, 1895. The species
feature.

368

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

in

has also flowered

the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford,

to

Dorking.

It

belongs

Lindley's
in

second
a
is

section

of

the

genus,

characterised

by

having

flowers
bracts,

flexuose
allied

raceme,

with distant
Pcepp. and

cymbiform or boat-shaped
in

and

to

S. rosea,

Endl., and S. Liliastrum, Lindl.

There are some half-dozen other species the group, but they are chiefly, if not altogether, known from dried

specimens.
collected in

The

habitat

is

not

recorded, but undetermined specimens

Ecuador by Spruce,

in 1858,

appear to be identical.

Spruce's

ticket states " Caules 6-7 pedales, foliosi, corolla pallide rosea, labio roseo-

purpureo picto.
n
-

Montana de Canelos,

in saxosis, secus

fl.

Verde, April, 1858

Although collected so long ago, these dried specimens still show the broad red-purple radiating lines on the front of the lip which
5379-"
constitute such a feature of the garden plant.
follow that the latter
also
identical
in

Of course
locality,

it

does not

came from the same exact

I

but as the two are

habit,

have no doubt that both belong to the same

measure over three inches long, and last several days, as one which expanded on November 16th was only partially faded a week later.
species.

The

flowers

R. A. Rolfe.

CYPRIPEDIUMS OF DOUBTFUL PARENTAGE.

We have

received a series of seven hybrid Cypripediums from the collection

Hall, Bury,

of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge

which were purchased

as very

small plants without any record of parentage, and have now reached the flowering stage. A flower and leaf is sent in each case, and the question is

from what parents they have sprung.

No.

is

a light form of C.

Leeanum

4 and 5 are forms of C. X Pageanum, the characters of C. Hookera? and C. superbiens being unmistakably present 3 and 7 are
;

2,

forms of C.
believe,

Atys, derived from C. venustum and C.

its

owes

origin
is

to

Harrisianum, and

thus a

and 7, we a cross between C. barbatum and C. X form of C. X Ensign. The leaf is most like
;

Hookera

C. barbatum, as might be expected from the fact that it has three-fourths blood of that species, and the flower is about intermediate between the two

hope that these seedlings of unrecorded parentage will not become too numerous. Tracing their descent may be a very good form of mental athletics, but as we hear of seedlings progressing towards the flowering stage in which no less than five species are represented, we advise
parents.

We

readers to take care of the records,

if

they wish to

know

their descent.

Signs are not wanting of the gradual evolution of a race of highly ornamental florists' flowers, and it will be interesting in future to trace the steps by which they originated.

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j6l)

CATTLEYA LABIATA YOUNGIANA.

This remarkable
Reginald Young,
variety of Cattleya labiata appeared in the collection of Esq., Fringilla, Sefton Park, Liverpool, and was described
It
is

at page 35S of our second volume.

remarkable

for

its

short, broad
for

recurved petals, with some crimson-purple feathering near the apex, and the unusually broad dorsal sepal, which closely resembles the petals
shape, and measures one and a half inches in diameter.

in

There

is

also a

trace of the purple feathering towards the apex, as well as in the lateral
sepals, but this
is

more apparent

in the flower sent

than

in

the photograph

LABIATA Yl
sepals and column are quite normal, but the sent by Mr. Young. The somewhat abnormal state, though from a florist's and petals are in a be sa.d of than the typical form, which cannot handsomer
lip

standpoint

it is

all peloriate flowers.

The

sepals

seem to have become

it

partially petal-like,

abnormal flowers which we have exammed Of the numerous peculiarity. remember one quite like the present. It mil at different times we do not as not infrequently happens. if it remains constant, be interesting to note

especially the dorsal one, though

is

difficult

to suggest a cause for the

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THE ORCHID REVIEW.

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR DECEMBER.

By H.
A.

BURBERRY, Highbury, Moor Green, BirminKham.

The temperature for the winter months should The Cool House. Day, with sun, 6o;
night, 50
;

range as follows
without sun,

50 to 55';

morning, 45
to

to 50

The Intermediate House. Day,

60
:

with sun, 65 to 70
.

without sun,

morning, 55 to 58 The Warm House. Day, with sun, 70= to 75 night, 6o to 65 70 morning, 6o.
; ; ;

night, 55

6oc

without sun,

65'"'

to

The

present

autumn

has,

up to the time of writing, been particularly

impregnated with

foggy, and in large centres of industry the air has been

smoke and various gases, which would otherwise have passed away quickly into space, and thus the atmosphere has been rendered more or less distasteful to vegetable
this respect
life.
:

Some

species are,

of course,

more

sensitive in
all

than others

but generally speaking the flowers of

become

affected in a greater or lesser degree, whilst the foliage of some also soon indicates its objection to atmospheric impurities turning yellow and

by

falling off.

have noticed this most particularly with some of the Mexican

species, such as

Epidendrum vitellinum and Ladia aututnnalis. It is, unfortunately, an ill which must be endured, and the only way to avoid
matter of loss of foliage that I can suggest is to keep up a good supply of atmospheric moisture, and admit no air during the times the
in this

extremes

fog

is

on.

Now

that

we

are in the depth of the dull season

it

is

more than

ever necessary to be careful in such matters as watering, ventilating, and paying constant attention' to the maintenance of the most suitable atmosphere.

Of course, no good
to prevent

cultivator will try to force his

;

plants

to
all

make growth
possible

quickly at this dull dark season

but will endeavour by

means

them from going back.

This can be done only by keeping up

the above-mentioned temperatures steadily, avoiding excessive heat or cold, moisture or aridity. Of the two latter I believe aridity is the most injurious carried to extremes, either at the roots or in the air. It should be seen that the resting of any Orchid that may be dormant is not too severely

when

done, whilst

all

those that are growing'should be afforded enough water to

in a

keep the compost

necessary to
to require.

moistened

state.

And

it

will

generally be
it

found

damp down
This
will

the floors,

&c, once

or twice daily, as
if

may seem
is

cause the hygrometer to register,

that instrument

employed, about three degrees below the temperature, or in other words three degrees of evaporation for the greater part of the time, and this remark applies to the Cool, Intermediate, and Warm departments that is,
;

so far as

it

affects the

atmosphere.

Where

it is

possible

to collect

all

the

cool resting Ccelogynes, Dendrobiums, Lycastes, and some few individual members of the genera Odontoglossum and Oncidium and their allies into

THE ORCHID RE VI Ell

one house, the hygrometer may show five, or at times even ten degrees evaporation, and the plants will at the same time be the better for it, long as they do nut shrivel, because the\ will be n complete!) rest! d.
the

); |
-I

SO

Warn, ho
dry. perhaps

portion

is

apt

to
I i-

become unduly
always
a

owing

to a

superabundance of hot watei

pip

at that point, or to

some other
is

cause.

When

such

is

the

ease

there

danger of red spider appearing.

it

To cause

a nice

atmosphere and

to prevent this danger,

a
at

good plan

to procure a

Few

m
what seems
fail

tree leaves,

and place them

if

convenient places, keeping the same always

to be

moist.

These,

freshly replenished at intervals, will maintain,

to me, a beautiful invigorating aromatic atmosphere, which cannot

of service to the plants.

On
:

the other hand there are frequently some parts

within a house which are very liable to become too wet or cold, owing to
exactly opposite causes

and here also every endeavour should be made

cold, with garden

t"

modify the
outside,

effects

by using water sparingly there, and by covering the glass

is

when

the weather

mats

or

some other warm

The Dendrobiums
all

are

now pushing

their flower buds.

The

earliest

of

to

bloom should be D. moniliforme (japonicum) and those

it

several

hybrids claiming
to grow,

for a parent.

These are very pretty

I).

little

things, easy

and as

free to flower.

Cassiope and

I).

X
in

endocharis ate
to bring out

even

in

bloom

at this date, without

wanting any extra warmth

will

their flowers.

Other hybrids and species

quickly.

follow

due time.

Do

not hurry

them too

To

keep up a succession of bloom a few of

the earliest

may
is

be taken towards the end of this

month from
in

the green-

house, or wherever they

ture,

which

quite

may be resting, and placed warm enough to bring on the

later,

intermediate tempera-

flowers.

Another batch
D.

may
be

be taken a week or two

in

and so on, but the majority should not

February
or

flower,

if

possible,
is

until

March,

particularly

Wurdianum, which
force the

apt to

come very

early unless specially held in check;

early,

Should any of these Dendrobes flower prematurely

do not attempt to
let

growth by great heat

until later

directly the flowers have faded, but

them

occupy cool quarters

on

in the spring.
in

A
of this

supply of sphagnum moss should be got

readiness towards the end

month so that there may be no occasion to stand still for want of compost when repotting commences in the new year. It sometimes happens then that no moss can be had until the frost breaks, which is often a long while. Amongst the earliest Orchids that will require repotting will be some of the Cypripediums which have finished flowering, such as C. insigne and its varieties and hybrids. Small hanging pans should be wired ready for the Dendrobiums, sticks painted, &c, &c, for there is but little time
to

do

this

work

later

on

in the

growing or potting season.


57*

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

Answers
(i)

to the four following questions

may be

interesting here

Dowiana from Costa Rica failing to flower. Can I suggest a reason ? All the plants have made strong growth this season, but no sheaths or flower spikes have appeared. They are grown in a lean-to
Cattleya

house facing south, specially built for Orchids are near the glass, and have but little shading indeed, only on hot bright days: the temperature
;

has been kept as per your instructions, if anything, a degree or two higher. In the first place I must say that this Cattleya Dowiana coming from

Costa Rica
C.

is

a notoriously shy-flowering one.

It is

not so with the variety

aurea, though so far as the flowers are concerned there is practically no difference between them. There is, however, a slight differ-

Dowiana

ence in growth.

Both the leaves and pseudo-bulbs of C. Dowiana are

shorter and stouter than those of C. D. aurea. The latter will push up flowers almost before the bulb can be said to be quite completed whilst the former stays a few weeks before doing so. But the greatest difference is that the Costa Rica variety is most shy to bloom, whilst the other, which comes from the State of Antioquia, about six hundred miles further 'south,
;

is

very
is

free, in fact

almost too

free

to flower.
will

The

cultivation

seems
'

all is

that

to be desired.

Do what you

with the variety you have, there

fail

sure to be a large percentage each year that will view of causing bloom I would not advise
either

to flower.

With a

you to go into extremes with

if

bright sunshine or with drought, because given the plants may become stunted and weakly,

these are excessively

have the reversed

effect.

The main

object to

which would, of course, have in view is to grow the

the greater

plants as healthy and the pseudo-bulbs as large as possible, for the strength the more freely will they bloom.
(2)

In the

same house are growing

number of Epidendrum

ciliare.

The new growths

are covered with a sticky substance, so

much

so as to

the plants been growing properly I think better results would have been arrived at. I am afraid to put them with my cool Orchids, although I know when cool Orchids are grown too warm the same thing as regards this gummy substance occurs with them. The

interfere with the growth.

Had

cause of this over-abundance of sticky substance on Epidendrum ciliare is not so easy to explain. It is certain, however, that the position the plants occupy does not agree with them in some way or another. 1 am inclined to think that they have too much sun or warmth, or perhaps both. Ours are grown in rather a shady Intermediate house, alongside such plants as

Odontoglossum grande and Miltonia vexillaria, where the ranges m winter from 50= to 60, with sun 65 and I have
;

temperature

not noticed this

sticky matter.

You could experiment with one

But the remainder
I

plant at the warmest end

of your Cool house.

temperature, with not too

much

should give an bright sunshine.

intermediate

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(3)

373

What
I

is

the cause of Laslia anceps not flowering?

the-

They
light.

are at
Is
it

the coolest em! of

Intermediate house, and well up to the

r

because

have not given them plenty of water

Do

tiny iv.piuv an extra

t<i

supply of this during

flowering

summer

Perhaps the cause

It
is

L;elia

anceps not
other

may

be due to weakness.

diflicult
all

to

imagine any
I

cause, as the treatment given seems to be

right,
in

although

think the

warmest end of the Intermediate house would,

nine eases out of ten. suit

them

better than the coolest end.

By
I

the description given of the house

that grows your C.

delightful place for

Dowiana

so well,

should think that

placing

it

would make a
the
airiest

Ladia anceps

also,

them

at

and
last

sunniest end.

Perhaps your plants were disturbed by being re-potted

I.

season, as after this they often miss blooming the next year.

aha anceps
is

does not require a larger supply of water

at

the root

when growing than

any other

Laslia or Cattleya.

They must,

of course, have enough, which

simply a soaking when they become dry.

(4)

Large pans
in the coolest

full

of Ccclogyne cristata failing to bloom.

1

been kept dry this autumn, but

grow
for

house.
if

can trace no signs of flower Ccelogyne cristata grows well enough with
a
little

They have spikes. They

the majority of cool Orchids

it.

care

is

given to find a good position

But when one has the advantage of more warmth in another house when making its growth it is better to take it. For then the new pseudobulbs are apt to grow larger, and, of course, flower better.
It

should always

be removed again about September or October to a cool dry house, remaining there until February or March, with but very little water. The above
treatment
ultimately

mav
is

not be the means of bringing flowers the

first
is

season,

but

good health, and the mass of bulbs not loose, for the want of peat and sphagnum moss packed into the centre of the plant or anywhere where it is becoming
sure to do so.

That

is

supposing the plant

in

ORCHIDS IN THE
The
case of Rappart versus the

LAW

COURTS.
at

Owen

Trustees was reported

that

page 267,

judgment being reserved.

judgment was given on November 25th. Mr. Commissioner Kerr observed that it was a very long time since a case had given him so much trouble as this one had done,
are

We

now informed

and he

really did not

other judge might see

ever, that the plaintifl

know which way to his way to do so.

had
failed to
satisfy

decide, though possibly

some
how-

He was bound
him
that he did

to say,

not

get the

plants intended, and would simply non-suit him. so that he might bring an He allowed the defendants their expenses. action in another court.
reserve any

We

comments on

the matter for the present.


374

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Considering the season, there was
Horticultural Society's meeting,
at

a tine display of Orchids at the Royal

the

Drill

Hall,

James

Street,

West-

minster, on

November

14th, including

two decided novelties

in the beautiful

albino forms of Cypripcdium Charlesworthii and Cattleya

collections of Fred. Hardy, Es<],

maxima, from the

and
:

Hamar

Bass, Esq., respectively, which

are described in the following report

Hamar

Bass,

Ksq.,

Berkley,

Burton-on-Trent

(gr.

Mr.

Hamilton),

received a First-class Certificate for the beautiful albino, Cattleya

maxima

Fred. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey

received an

(gr.

Mr. Stafford),

Award
It

of Merit for a most interesting plant provisionally called

Cypripedium
have
lost the

Fred.

Hardy, but which

we
is

suspect

is

an albino of C.

Charlesworthii.

has the general character of this species, but the leaves

light green, the petals

purple markings, the scape

and

lip are

light greenish yellow,

at the base.

and the dorsal sepal white, with a little purple stain The staminode is exactly as in the type. When exhibited the

flowers were not fully developed.

also

fine

form of Cattleya

X Hardyana
Mr. Stevens).

came from the same collection. W. J. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone,
Medal
for a

Staffs, (gr.

received a Silver Banksian

labiata, including a

group of

fine cut spikes of Cattleya

form with very large Bowers, Cypripedium X Fascinator, Odontoglossum X Andersonianum, O. gloriosum, O. Pescatorei, O. grande, and several fine forms of O. crispum, to one of which, called var. Golden

Queen, an Award of Merit was given.

and handsome form with light-yellow ground and broad segments spotted with brown, as in some forms of O. X Wilckeanum, to which it would be referred but for the fact that the shape is almost that of O. crispum. Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), sent a raceme of the handsome white Cattleya labiata Countess Fitzwilliam, and a
It is

a large

magnificent inflorescence of
flowers, to

which a

Cymbidium Tracyanum with Cultural Commendation was given.

(gr.

eighteen enormous

H.

S.

Leon, Esq., Bletchley Park, Bletchley

plant

Mr. Hislop), showed a

large

splendid

of Laslia pumila prasstans with eleven

and

richly

coloured flowers, including two

twin-flowered scapes.

Cultural

Comway

mendation was awarded.

of C.
Peetersii.

He

also sent Cattleya labiata venosa, a striking

form irregularly veined and streaked with darker purple,

1.

much

in

the

THE ORCHID REVIEW.

G.
(gr.

375

W.

Law-Schofield, Esq.,

New

Hall,

Hey, Rawtenstall, Manchester

his collection,

Mr.

Shill). sent a tine

pan of

l'leione

maculata alba with thirty [lowers,

in

and a
C.

series of coloured drawings,

by Macfarlane, of plants
C.

including Cypripedium

X southgatense superbum,

Charles

Rahman.
Bond),
(L,

X
C.

Schofieldianum, C.
L.

X Cowleyanum Annie
hybrids
),

Louise, &c.
tgr.

N. Ingram. Esq., Elstead House, Godalming

three

Mr.

exhibited
Perrinii 2

very

pretty

: Lalio-cattleya
in

Minerva

C. Lawrenceana 3

a richly coloured flower,

and the pernio.

:

bulbs and leaves strongly stained with purple, as

the pollen parent

I-.-c.

X Homere

(L.

Perrinii

C. Percivaliana

),

fairly

intermedial.-

between the parents, though showing the distinct shape of the former; and combines L.-c. X Meteor (L. Dayana 2 X C. Howringiaua J I. which also
the characters of the two parents, though most
flower.
like

the

former

in

the

H. H. Bolton, Esq., Newchurch, Manchester

nice form of Cattleya labiata.

(gr.

Mr. Eastwood), sent a

cristatelluni Frau Ida Brandt. Riesbach, Zurich, sent Odontoglossum X and a richly coloured form of O. Krameri. nice H.Kitson, Esq., Elmet Hall. Leeds tgr. Mr. Bonsall). sent two J. OdontoCattleya Bowringiana. and a very title inflorescence of forms of several buds. glossum Uroskinneri with eleven expanded flowers and line Birch Vale. Derbyshire (gr. Mr. Cliffe), showed a H. Shaw, Esq., ('. ciliolare. apparently derived from C. Lawrenceaninn and Cypripedium, Hobsom. It had the name C. X Smithii.

and, perhaps, a form of C.

but

parentage. the records are correct that has a different sent a Hillside, Allerton, Liverpool (gr. Mr. Healey). Colonel Wilson, bellatulum Cypripedium, said to have been derived from C. pretty unnamed
if

and C. callosum 3 f staged a splendid group o' Messrs James Yeitch and Sons, Chelsea, series of Flora Medal was given. It contained a Orchids, to wh.ch a S.lver
2

the beautiful hybrids the handsome Lriio-cattleya

L.-c.

raised in the

establishment, the principal ones be.ng Stattenana, Pallas, L.-c. X Decia, L.-c. X

X Lady
1

Rothschild (L.
Fabiola
(C.

X Bowringiana

Ha'rrisii

t)

Masdcvallia

ianum, S.

Cleola,

S.

X X

Ajax,

Astnodia. Selenipedium BoissierM. X Asuiodia, Seleniped Cypripedium X 3. X cardinale, S. x Perseus, Cyf

vexillarium, a fine C.

X Leeanum.

C.

Arthurianuni with eight dowers.

'

Minosa, C.

orphanum, orphanum. C.
C.
to the

T. B.

Haywood, C. Bruno
3).

var.

X Leeanum

First-class
i

superba

cate

was awarded
5

rr

sna

C. Warscewiczii

Albans, received a Silver


37
for

THE ORCHID REVIEW,

an
ii

group containing several plants of Cattleya

Johnsonise,

labiata,

Dendrobium

Sophronitis

grandiflora,

and

Lalia

pumila

prastans, also a good Cyperorchis elegans, the pretty Trichopilia brevis, Phaio-calanthe X Arnoldiae, Oncidium tigrinuin, Cypripedium insigne, C. X Alcides, and Calanthe x alba
veratrifolia
latter in the
%

and C.

X Cookson
Co.,

shape of the flowers.

Messrs.

Hugh Low &

Upper Clapton,

also contributed a pretty

group containing some

alba.

forms of Cattleya labiata, one with very large flowers, the pretty Cattleya X Minucia, Miltonia Roezlii, and its variety
fine

Vote of Thanks was given. Mr. R. Gulzow, Melbourne Nurseries, Bexley Heath, also received a Vote of Thanks for a group of good things, including Vanda Sanderiana, Cypripedium Spicerianum.C. insigne punctato-violaceum, C. X cenanthum superbum, and some good forms of Cattleva labiata and Dendrobium
Phalamopsis.
Messrs. Garraway

&

Co.,

The

Nurseries, Clifton, Bristol, sent a curious

or, rather,

double flower of Cattleya labiata,

two flowers fused into one, as

is

occasionally seen in other Orchids.

ORCHID PORTRAITS.
Aerides Lawrence^. Card. Cattleya X Le Czar. Card.
ard.

Chron., Nov. 21, pp. 628, 629,

Ii

Chron., Nov. 14, pp. 592, 593,

Mag., Nov.

14, p.
I.

Cycnoches H AAGE t. 7502. Cypripedium x Ci 1APMA M. Gard. Mag Nov 21 P Cypripedium Cha RLESU orthii, Low's VAR.- -Gard.
'.,
.

775 with fig. Rod r.Bot. Mag.,

,

794. with
Mai. '.,

fij

Oct.

PI >. 740, 744. with

fig.

Maxillaria

si Riata,

Rolfe. Gard. Chrc ., Nox :

2] : >

P .631,
ill

fig.

n<

Phal.enopsis

Vanda

LE :ucori tHODA, Rev. Hort., Not Sande: RIANA . Ga: 'A. World, Oct. 31.
P-

M,
137

Pfig

with pla

CORRESPONDENCE,
G. B., Hamburg, i, Oncidium Kappleri Lindleyanum 4, Oncidium micropogon.
;

&c.
;

2,

Gongora bufonia

3,

Odontoglossum

Odontoglossum nebulosum candidulum, very good. R. T., Limerick. Vanda ccerulea, nearly white. Cypripedium Charlesworlhii approaches the one described on page The others will be acceptable. 354. A. P., Brussels. Three forms of Cattleya X O'Brieniana. Oncidium X bsmatoctailum,
J.

W.

P.,

Croydon.

almost exactly identical with the original form. unrecognised form.

F.
J,

Warscewiczella cochleata and an

Letter follows,

allied

Le M., Chicago.

The

Sobralias are well preserved.

Acanthuphippium eburneum, 342.

Adacivkis. 328, 329:
latilclius,

329

Ants' ncits in Coryanthes, 306. Apostasia. 328. 329 alba. 329 gracilis, 329 Wallichii odorata, 329; stylidioides, 329
: ; :

329-

35.
;

355;

Brymen-

Apostasies;, 32S of Malay Peninsula, 355 Arachnanthe Lowii, 320.

Arundina chinensis, 29
Ascochilus, 335
=

1'hilippii, 29.

siamensis, 355,
//. >-f:t>

Autranand llmum!

Roissietiamis.^

Bees and Coryanthes, 306; and Orchid*.

Beetle larvae attacking Orchids. 136.
Bletia
catenulata,

anir.i, l>. 372; 354; D. a. Siatteriana, 243; 1). John"- marantina, 29; D. soniana, {4'' Rosita. 160 D. Whea h F.,I,|)m-. Elvina,35i Eldorado Euphrasia, 297, 320 X Firefly. 347 f1nbunda. V) g'ig'as Countess of Derby. 245: granuloma Banneri. 244- 250: "Cuaricoensis,' 187; X Hardyana, 225. 241. 260,

(failing

to

flower),

246.

2C4. 292. 302.

241"-- 244

3m

artificially rai>edt. 2C14,

197;

prseslans,

277;

:'Th.

alba. 554

;x H^Coun-

Bletia crossed with Calopogon, 280; with Lfelia, 42, 43; with Phaius, 334; with Schomburgkia, 42, 280.

tessof Dcrbv. 323, 347; X H. splendens, X Jupiter, 347: X La Belle. 3,0, 285
;

35 9 ;labiata. 34 1. alba, 2; 1. Countess Fimvilliam, 374

: 1 . ;

1:

Bolus, hones Orchidearum

luslro-. \fticui-

arum

extra-tropicaritm, 268; the Cape Peninsula, 269.

Orchids

of

1Mrs. E. Ashworth, 347 1- pallida, R I. Measures' var 350 1. venosa, 374 1. Youngiana, 569; X Lat 196; x Lc c ar, 553
;

Botanical Certificates, 198.

Botanical Orchids at Kew, 69, in, 135. 20 7,

Alfred

186,359= pami"a,27
caloglossa, 127
;

e;

195; s alba, 195 ; X supei-1'mlte.-ii. ;> Trianse (two-lipped:, 130: T alba. 64 T. Arkleana. Si, i:.j; T- (.'r.n^haya
;

131

X Baron
C.

Schroder, 36 X Bellona,
(cultivation

m,
Warscewiczii, 196, 225, 226, 2.57, Countess of Derby, 243; \V. worthii, 254 X William Murrav, x W. M. \ar fulyens. uo. i=l6.
;

186,

237

b.

urn,

361; var. Roxana, 375

Bullen
;

X Br

0;
;

nianmn, 18 .Il-c. 340

Burbidgei, 247 Calceolus, 297,

fly,

28, 44. 67, 87, 1C 198, 199, 253: the lal-e

)
1.

3.5.5

'
.

caUoso-bellum,

.7.

IN;

land Hall variety. 63

(.'eeilia,

enndidmn, 333
-

Charier, (..iuidoin, 12 Charle. Ku h('hade- Keltuld.3',1

12
:

>

C'eisoitnma

Coslogynes. 91.

Cogniaux,

Orchii

liookeia
.

Euryadei

Correspondence,^
Coryanthes, 90;
I

(IportsV^
362';

H. (trimerousK 85; e X H. virescens, 240, 300, 325; X Me

263 ;'
*

Henryi,
',.,
:

333; 3

Lrrnione,
Cynorchis grandiflora,
Cypripedieae, 329.

Hera, -vhi s h,,cKU

13

;;;;.

Cypripediluin, 366.

WDEX.
Cypripedium
.

379

Cypripedium
Ballianum, 319;
:

i.

var.

ExliI.,

271;

i-

'montanum," 6
I'ynacrti,
;

i.

pimrtnSanderze,
i.

375; bellatulum X concolor, 221, 222; pnestadh x Dauthieri Rossianum, 1.

Cypripedium, 330, 332; group, m, $<,<,: hybrids dvrived horn lour species, 361 hybrids with S.v

^""sumu-,
kin-ham, 95
api.ni. 111.1,334
;

X Jame:

jiuanUimi,

206

j.

var.'

anum, 37
248
;

> L. hesis,
104,

105,

362

Cypripediums, 27 complex hybrid, 361 Mr. Tautz'sstedlin-, j8< newly imported 120; nomenclature of hybrid, 105; of
; ;
;

*""}' 3 Leo,
83.

37

L.-r.LiHLin-Mo^ani.u. .y.jj

doubtful parentage, 30S -v>H'in of 10 ordwith identical names, 11, in- hybrid, 255 68 with twin-flowered scapes. 66, 98, 129,
; ; ;

115;

X Lown

37;'x M. B iganteu

X '.Madame
Madeline,

Jnsci

30;

-flavtim, 73
1.

Findlayanu indlayano- Warcliaiutm 167, 290: formosum Be

i

K.mh.
354
;

4!

pulchellum var.

Devi

vmMIO,,,,,,.

35

x Woodiandense,

in,

Dendrobium

INDEX.
Hybridisation, quick,

30

eiendrobii. 136; Tay](

Hybrids, natural, 35 [5; supposed, 16

; J

cording, 170.

Richardson's XL.

All.

Hand-list of Orch A, 76.

* A bicolor,
s),

44; spectabilis,
t

44.
373 nda, 348
14

50-53; minalis alba

floweri

354
I)a>

X Oar

359 D. superba, 27 Sdmialnn.'. 43 hea m.iys- x

;

_s
-

;=i-

FincUeiiiani var
2;
.-.

Jong
a
287

I.1.1

n-.atia.

j;y monopli)
:

lla,

-la.lv 275. 77
ila.

,;(,. .,,0

775-

v
4:

:,J

357
1
1 , 1

p.

Havana
47''.

..,'. n -

=77

"

374
lilctiai.
1.1,
:

p.

Ilii.n-t

11

1!

.,

iSf.

|i

U-iiUn

Fumigators, Campbt

:gans
lis,

Cawenbergiana
;

319

x Eudora,

Tirt

A7- J5'j; Zephyra,

102.

anium subulatum,
239, 267.

Latourea spectabilis, 356.

ss,

X
Homologies of the flowers of Homalopetalum jamaicense,
:

ImschootiE

Houlletia tigrina, 95.

3571 modesta, 357-

Chamberlain's

var.,

133;

striatella,

62;

Masdevallias, 27, 151. Masseeon " Spot," 19.

.Ma\illaria Icpitlota, 126
;

porphyrostele, 95
170.

Mead, system of recording hybrids, Meiraryliium ^emma-, 187, 191.

:

Miltonia X Bleuana aurea, 125; Candida 1'haUegmndirlora. 2S7 tlavescens, 280 nopsis, 3; Roezlii alba, 186; R.splendens,
;

123,

287

spectabilis,

322
;

(twin-fi

.weed),

" Dulcote var.," 319 vexillaria C 190; v. " Memoria G D. Owen,"

Miltoniopsis, 10.

Monandne,

366.

143

sacred,

Orchids

at

Clare
. .

Law
.:

the
:
.

Royal

Nauenia

spectabilis,
cri:

:.

::

;.;.

;.

-.:;,i^,,

Nephelaphyllum

.-eitiii.

atedi

356:

'.medals;
;

36;

i-piece, 140

Brazilian.

Neuvviedia, 328, 329;

Griffithii,

veratrifolia,
Ila

329

Lindley: Zollingeri, 329.

329

Courts. 336, 373;

in

Missouri Botanical

suaveolens, 35.

'97.359;

" new," 36 : newspaper correspondent on, raising 202 ; of 1895, 4 pri^s of, [</) from seed, 316; Ruwenxori, 3; Sikkim,
: :

56.

;:'''
Argu>. um, 365 <-M i'. 4
:

.-/>;
;

Boxallii, *

364

365

Cham-

berl;iinianui
ciliolare,

365

365

Dayanui

Lord Sherborne,

ilciianum.
vinsc.
2

hofieldianum, 185
~,,:'-S|,k (;
,

5J

layammi.
318; 280; 121

-<i

H'iliK'l)

1S5; Findandii,6i Hookerioides,

;

luteolum,

Treac

93 ^"sp'eciosislimum Wardianum 29
;

(losuni, 121

217

La:l

(n-pa

31S; -L*Ho-cattleya

352 superba,
ea,

Ehvesii

X X

29-l.y.a-l.

Chamberlain
striala.

5; 121

Shuttryana
Maxillaria

j>
1
.

X
I).'

Bleuana aurea
;

Memona

II.

v 29 217 Odontoglosvexillaria,
c.

crisputn Arthuiiaiunn, ,5;:

"

Ashivorth;

Galeottianum, 280
.
1

Harry -

;;

Sclii:

dum, 93;

X
i

Wil.

calanthe
riiala-nopsis

Sedeni
leucor-

Dalleanum,

2.,-Manl opca

florida,

121

~ 9i 3?6 Zy
:

7^l^ ?

nneri,

Renantherella, 355.

estrepia Falkenbergii,35o;

m unlata,

350

sanguines

102.

S.ijihrn raitlcya

Veiuhii,

311).

iiyiichadenia cubenits, 357.

Iiynchostylis retusa, 201.

SophroUtfia x Ivta, }i.

Sophroleya X

9.
1..

hj4.

35;

On:.iitl,ice;e

and
43

Apostasiat-'ea:

Soplinmitis

gramlitlora.

.iri^uo/ia

iiv.

onspi.

11.1,

Liitdeni, 295

olfe,

on on Homalopetalum jamaicense Cypripedium group. the 327, 363;

;

Spiramlu-- Mctallica, 102.

Sporting, 233-

oots vertical

141

Spot disease,

19, 06, 67.

Stanbopea

ulata, 161 eburnea, 187 \V uihM,,, 14; Wai-'F YVardii, i&;

wtcziana, 262.
\<

cor aiiitm rmviMuim, 179; hainanense, 22,356; mintatum, 178, aao; Smeeanum,

Staurocbilus, 355.
Slcnni;].)tli-. Imi-iloli.i, 240, 245.

verecunda. 42, 280.

Seasell's Patent

TricboKlotria fesciata, 355

86.
Tric!io[iilia imiltiflora, 357-

Orchid basket.

Seed, period of ripening, 41, U2, 169.

Seedlings, 171, 172
;

Tropidia, 367.

an interesting experi-

ment,

So,

280;

of

Dendrobmm

nobtle,

L'ROl'KlilUM IJndeni, 143, 330.

Seed-vessels of Orchids, 312.

Selenipedilum, 366.

X album, Selenipedium, 330, 331, 366 X IS csndiduluiri. Brysa. 38: 11; X

;

.rihii.

63
c.

cterulca.

X Dromio, 96; X Fineiiamim, giganteun, 13 X hybridum. 14: X palmifolium. anum,

12;

X *

4. 31.

117. 29- 299, 34 s

in-.hM-d

juilrln'Iluin, 65

i-andidiilum,

311

64 Uranus, 224
;

s Sctarcedera, 66 X Sedeni (abnormal!,

i

Isabelli

Marnottian.i. 159; Sandcrian 347, 358 ; teres grandirlora. 185.

I'arUhii

Vanda, seedlings. u6.

Vanilla imperialis. 194:
pUnifolia, 34.

X Venus,
with

38.

Selenipedium, hybrids
Selly Hill collection. 257

Cypripedium,

Vanilla, revision or the genus. 34, 355Varieties,

134.
?

seedlings of 290.

166.

17*.

?S 2

:ire

th

permanent

231.

Senastylis modest a, 357Sobralia

lu.eola,

Veitch's Chelsea blight, 23.

an; Brandtiae, 124: macramha

367; alba, 323; m.

Lindeni,

" \'illage o( the

demon

flowers," 203, 233.

Virgin

Mary Orchid,

205.

Zygocidium X,
Zygolax x,

g.
9.

Zygodendrum X,
9.

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