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ORCHIDS IN BLOOM. 



At Ceaigleith Nursepjes, Edinburgh. 



Cypripedium Sedeni. 



I! boxallii. 



Cattleya citrina. 

 Coelogyne cristata. 

 Dendrobium chrysotoxum. 



II crepidatum. 



II cry&talliuum. 



II densiflorum, 



II cambridgeanum. 



II Bensonia?. 



II Jamesianum. 



II luteolum. 



II nobile. 



II Wallichii. 



II Pierardi. 



II primulinum. 



11 II giganteum. 



II Kingianum. 



II tortile. 



M Wardianum. 



I. II (tine var). 



Epidendrum vitellinum majus. 

 April 16. 



Lycaste Skinned, fine variety. 

 Masdevallia Lindeni. 



II ignea. 



Mesospinidium sanguineum. 

 Odontoglossum Alexandra (many fine 

 varieties). 

 II cirrhosum. 



II nfevium. 



II Pescatorei, (many fine 



varieties). 

 II pulchelhim majus. 



II Roezlii album. 



II roseum. 



Oneidium concolor. 

 II cucullatum. 



II sarcodes. 



Phalsenopsis grandiflora. 

 II Schilleriana. 



Sophronites grandiflora. 

 Zygopetalum Mackayi, 



II intermedium. 



J. Cole. 



APONOGETON DISTACHYON. 



AVe have received from Mr Parker of Tooting Nursery a box of blooms of this 

 lovely, sweet-scented, hardy aquatic, which for robustness of growth quite 

 astonishes us. The flower-stems are as thick as a man's little finger, and the 

 size of blooms quite in proportion, of course. It blooms the whole winter 

 in a brook of spring-water at Tooting, and all who can so accommodate the 

 Aponogeton should not be without it. 



DUNDEE HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of this Association was held in the Imperial 

 Hotel, Dundee, on Friday evening the 1st ult., the president, Mr D. Doig, in 

 the chair. Mr W. S. Watt, landscape-gardener, Broughty Ferry, read his 

 second paper — " Effect in Suburban Landscape Gardening." After describing 

 the style in which villa grounds were laid out and planted in the neighbourhood 

 thirty or forty years ago, he said : "It seems very desirable to preserve in all 

 time coming every interesting view of external scenery that can be obtained 

 from the mansion or any part of the grounds ; and this could be done by 

 planting dwarf subjects only in front of mansions. On the other hand, un- 

 sightly objects could be hidden by planting trees of rapid and taller growth. 

 In planting for eftect, the experienced landscape-gardener would carefully 

 select those subjects that harmonised and contrasted in foliage and in habits 

 of growth." Mr Watt divided the first into four classes — flowering trees, 

 variegated-foliaged trees, coniferous trees, trees changing colour in autumn ; 

 and the second into groups or characters — round-headed trees, oblong-topped 

 trees, spiral -topped trees, spreading trees. He also named a few repre- 

 sentative ornamental evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs for groups, 



