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• NEW PLANTS OF THE PAST MONTH. 



Orchids are again in tlie van of new plants, not only in regard to num- 

 bers, but also in relation to excellence. Cypripedium Harrissonianum, 

 awarded a first-class certificate, is a true hybrid, raised by Mr Domitiy 

 of Messrs Yeitcb & Sons, from a cross between C. barbatum and C. 

 villosum. The flowers are olive-green, with a streaked pale-edged 

 dorsal sepal, brownish-purple stained petals, and a dark-purple lip. 

 Its habit is especially vigorous and healthy, in this respect a decided 

 advance ; the leaves are green, mottled with blotches of deeper green. 

 Messrs Yeitch & Sons also received first-class certificates for Dendro- 

 bium lasioglossum, with white flowers tipped with pale rose produced 

 in pairs, the base of the lip deep orange ; and for D. crassinode, pro- 

 ducing pairs of white flowers tinted with rose and having a woolly lip. 

 Three distinct varieties of Odontoglossum triumphans were recently 

 shown by Mr Wilson, gardener to WiQiam Marshall, Esq., Enfield ; 

 and to two of these, named respectively var. Marshallii and var. Wil- 

 soni, first-class certificates were awarded. They were said to be the 

 finest forms of 0. triumphans yet seen. The first named had yellow 

 sepals and petals thickly blotched with patches of cinnamon-brown ; 

 the petals somewhat toothed and the lip white, with frilled yellow 

 margin and brown lip. In the case of the last named, the sepals and 

 petals were marked with fewer and larger patches of brown, and the 

 lip was much less frilled. Erom Mr Sherratt, gardener to James 

 Bateman, Esq., Biddulph Grange, Congleton, came cut specunens of 

 two very beautiful and rare Orchids, to each of which first-class cer- 

 tificates were awarded — viz., Bletia Sherrattiana, with rich rosy-purple 

 flowers, the lip deeper in colour and marked with purple ; and Ipsea 

 speciosa, a very rare Orchid — so rare as, perhaps, to be only in Mr 

 Bateman's hands — and very difiicult to manage, and having handsome 

 flowers of the brightest and purest yellow. 



A first-class certificate was awarded to Messrs Standish & Co. of 

 Ascot, for a dwarf-growing form of Todea hymenophyUoides named 

 compacta. This had appeared in somewhat large numbers as self-sown 

 seedlings in a stovehouse, and though some of the plants were some six 

 or seven years old, they were not more than 2 or 3 inches in height. 



The same award was made to Messrs J. & C. Lee, Hammersmith, 

 for a very good variegated form of Thuja Lobbiana, named variega- 

 ta, large golden blotches being regularly difi'ased over a large plant. 

 It promises to form a valuable addition to the various forms of varie- 

 gated Conifers. 



Under the name of Phormium Cookianum variegatum, Mr W. Bull 



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