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JOURNAL OF HOETICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



395 



the Eoyal Botanic Society's Spring Show on April 23rd, and 

 still greater enthusiasm at the Eoyal Horticultural Society's 

 Show last week. On tho former occasion the plant )iad but 

 two flowers, on the latter it had four borne on two spikes, and 

 measuring MJ inches long by "2,5 in breadth ; and undoubtedly 

 Buch skilful cultivators as Messrs. Veitch wiU yet astonish the 

 world horticultural, as the plant grows stronger, with au as yet 

 nndreamt-of development of its beauties. The colour is a beau- 

 tiful soft lilac rose, with the base of the lip white and yellow. 

 Poor David Bowman who weut out a few years ago as a 



with the same treatment as Odontoglossum PhaJnanopsis and 

 0. citrosmum. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 

 The following are the subjects selected for the Flor.^l Com- 

 mittee's TrialCollections in the Eoyal Horticultural Society's 

 Garden at Chiswick during tho present year — viz.. Novelties 

 amongst bedding Pelargoniums ; salmon and other light- 

 coloured Zonal Pelargoniums to be grown under glass ; 



OiloutoglosRum vexillarium. 



botanical collector to South America, and, like so many others 

 who have trodden the same path, perished in enriching our 

 gardens, was the first to discover it on the Andes of New 

 Grenada. Subsequently Wallis and Eoezl sent home plants, 

 but they all died either before or shortly after arrival, and it 

 was left, we believe, to a Mr. Chesterton to have the honour of 

 introducing last year the specimens which are now flouiishing 

 at Messrs. Veitch's. This Odontoglossum, even in its present 

 state, is magnificent, and yet nearly all Orchids on their first 

 introduction give but a feeble idea of what they ultimately 

 become. AVhat, then, will this be? What it is already we 

 know ; its blossoms are surpassingly lovely in colour and enor- 

 mous in size,']whilst ^the plant is of free growth, succeeding 



Fuchsias, in continuation of last season's trial ; bedding 

 Tansies ; and hybrid flowering Begonias. Contributions to- 

 wards making up these collections should be addressed to Mr. 

 Barron, Superintendent, Eoyal Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 Chiswick. 



As an evidence of the great interest taken in horticul- 

 ture by their Majesties the KiNd and Queen op the Belgians, 

 we may state that since their arrival in England tliey have 

 twice honoured the establishments of the Messrs. Veitch and 

 Sons with their presence. The first visit was to the Chelsea 

 Nursery, where, having much admired tlie various attractions 

 of this establishment, their Majesties expressed a wish to see 

 the hardy trees and shi'ubs at the out-door nurseries at Coombo 



