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THE GARDEN F.R'S MON'J'III.V 



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Green House and House Gardening.. 



L\ \MMl 'N I CATIONS. 



AMONG THE ORCHID GROWERS. 



m MK. \V. I AMONKK. ( AMlUillx;!-: liOTANICAL 

 (JAUDKN, CA^llilUDOK, MASS. 



F. L. Aiiu's, Esq., at North Easlon, Mass., 

 lias a lar<;o and select collection of Orchids, in- 

 cluding many fine specimens recently purchased 

 at South Aniboy and Albany, and also the ex-" 

 tensive and rare collection he purchased about a 

 year aizo of J. S. Itand. .Tr. -lust now he has a 

 finely flowered plant of Phahenopsis yrandiflora 

 aurea — a most excellent variety, with immense 

 flowers: it is a recent purchase from Menand,at 

 Albany. 



Cypripedium Sedeni is still in flower. This is 

 one of my tireatest favorites, because it is always 

 in blossom, and the flower-spikes are shorter 

 than those of Koezli or the Lowei section, and 

 they often fork off into two or more branches. 

 Constitutionally it is robust and free growing, 

 and one of its greatest merits is that we have 

 not to '' wait a lifetime " to see it bloom, as is 

 the case Avith small plants of hirsutissimum, 

 Stonei or Lowei. 



At the Botanic Garden here, a specimen of 

 Zj-gopetalum Mackayi, with sixteen flower- 

 spikes, and five to eight, mostly six blooms, on* 

 a spike, is going out of bloom. Lycaste Skin- 

 ner! is coming into bloom: one plant with two 

 of this year's bulbs is showing seventeen flowers. 



The Calanthes are fine ; we had them in a cool 

 house to prolong their beauty, but as I noticed a 

 little spotting near the tops of some of the 

 Veitchii bulbs, I immediately removed them all 

 to the warmest house, where I keep them quite 

 dry. 



Ltelia anceps is very fine. Two 14-inch pans 

 of Maxillaria picta have several hundreds of 

 blooms apiece. This is not a fine Orchid, but its 

 profusion is extreme. 



Cypripedium purpuratum is blooming freeh' : 

 the flowers have a bold and erect bearing, and 

 are of a white and rich brownish purple color. 

 The foliage, too, is handsomely variegated. 

 Dendrobium chrysanthum, a pendulous Indian 

 species, with beautiful yellow flowers, has now 

 wreaths of blossoms. 



NOTES ON ORCHIDS. 



i;v !■:. iKn.i.v. ii ri)M)N, n. y. 

 Being engaged somewhat in growing green- 

 bouse and bedding ]ilaii(s, and especially 

 ( )rchids, I have been iiiucli intcnsted in suchi 

 articles as have appeared from time, to lime in 

 the Monthly ujion the culture of Orchids.. 

 The articles from Mr. Clias. II. Snow, of Balti- 

 more, 1 think very practical. I like that kind, 

 of information very much, and hope Mr. Snow 

 may continue his articles as often as he can get. 

 facts together for the benefit of Orchid growers ; 

 and I think the number is increasing very fast 

 in this country. At a late sale of imported 

 Orchids from Brazil or Venezuela, which were 

 collected by Mr. Thomas Hogg, of J^Tew York^ 

 there was a large attendance and good prices- 

 were realized for most of the articles sold, AvhicK- 

 consisted largely of Cattleya Mossite. Thera 

 was sold on the same day and place (Messrs. 

 Young and Elliott), quite a collection fromi 

 Guatemala, which were fine plants in fine con- 

 dition and brought good prices. Mr. E. S. Rand 

 is now in Brazil, up tJie river Amazon, where he 

 has now a large collection of Orchids ready to 

 ship when the proper time arrives. I suppose 

 these will be sold in New York when they 

 arrive, thus giving Orchids growers a chance 

 to purchase and establish plants for themselives^ 

 which takes from one to two years before the- 

 plants are strong enough to blossom. Dry^ 

 plants of Orchids not established, should be 

 bought with considerable caution, as they will 

 not all come boldly up to our wishes ; and then 

 there has been many sold which were not true 

 to name. This is very annoying after getting 

 the plant established and having them turn out 

 much inferior to the varieties which they were- 

 purchased for. I hope to see new names writ- 

 ins: up articles on Orchids and their culture for 

 the Monthly. 



DISEASE IN THE MARECHAL NIELROSE. 



BY' J. L. II., ST. JO.SEPH, MO. 



Having read with much interest the noties or 

 your correspondents in regard to the disease (?), 

 which has made its appearance on the Miirechah 

 Niel Rose of late, and having^ had per^onaJJ 



