JULY. 



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L.ELIA SPECIES. 



[Plate 153.] 



We have much pleasure in presenting our readers with a plate 

 of this charming plant, which has recently flowered in the 

 fine collection of Mr. Veitch, of the Exotic Nursery, King's 

 Road, Chelsea, and which will prove a valnahle addition to 

 this genus of plants, already well known as the most beautiful 

 even among Orchids. To our artist the name Cattleya was 

 given; but it is doubtless a Laslia, and probably L. Scbil- 

 leriana of Reichenbach. Mr. Veitch informs us that it is one 

 among many other things which he imported from the Con- 

 tinent without a name. It is, as will be seen, a really fine 

 thing, and will doubtless soon find its way into collections. We 

 had intended giving our readers an article on the cultivation 

 of Orchids generally ; but we find that as every large cultivator 

 has something in practice peculiar to himself, it will be more 

 advisable to wait until we have further information on a subject 

 so full of importance to Orchid growers. We, however, furnish 

 the following list of a few very select sorts, which comprise all 

 the more valuable kinds to grow, and which will prove a 

 useful guide to purchasers in making selections. 



SELECT LIST OF ORCHIDS. 



Aerides affine, long racemes of rosy 

 pink and white 

 „ crispum, branching spikes, 



pink labellum, blush sepals 

 „ Fieldingi, or " Fox's brush,'' 

 pendulous racemes of purple 

 and white 

 „ Larpentae, pendulous racemes 



of lilac and white 

 ,, Lindleyanum, the finest va- 

 riety of A. crispum 

 „ Lobbi, bright pink and white, 



spotted 

 „ maculosum, racemes of pink 



and white, fine lip 

 „ odoratum, white with lilac 

 tinge ; an old and cheap kind, 

 but very sweet 

 „ quinquevulnera, long ra- 

 cemes of crimson and white, 

 spotted, fine 

 „ virens, pink and white spotted, 

 long racemes 

 Barkeria spectabilis, white spotted 

 with lilac ; does best on a 

 block, in a cool damp stove 



Cattleya Aclandice, fine crimson lip 

 „ amethystina, blush sepals, fine 



puce lip 

 „ crispa superba, light sepals, 



purple lip 



,, elegans, ditto ditto, fine throat 



„ labiata, fine blush sepals, large 



dark piuk lip, one of the 



finest autumn Orchids 



„ Mossise, an old but very 



showy useful kind 

 ,, Skinneri, fine crimson purple 

 Chysis bractescens, clusters of white 



and yellow 

 Ccelogyne cristata, beautiful clear 



white, with yellow throat 

 Cymbidium eburneum, pure white, 



scented 

 Cypripedium barbatum majus, dark 

 purple, spotted 

 ,, „ superbum, very line 

 „ caudatum, ditto 



,, villosum, ditto 



Dendrobium Cambridgeanum 

 ,, Dalhousieanum 



„ densiflorum 



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