Manca 19, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
269 
the great amount of covered space at command, 
the Horticultural cenit has the — if 
lants. 
971. CATTLEYA dig ng Lindl. in 
Garden, i. p. 6. 
©. caulibus angustis compressis onophyllis pedunculis 
1-2 floris, — cea anoeie obtusis, petalis spa- 
thulatis apnd labello indiviso cucullato haud 
dilatato isch. 25538 ispo. 
Habi! 
ueker. 
— narrow, pe ressed, 6 or 8 ido high, often 
ong as the mre, which are pesa. erect than in 
oiher penie of the nus. Pedunc les usually bearing 
274. DENDROBIUM FyrcHiANUM (Bateman), supra, 
. 100. 
it is E m iety of D. barbatulum domini s Fl 
I find that I was mistaken in supposing this plant to 
be altogether new. Iam now satisfied that i in 1 Gard. 
the Pager of omm green, now gold—on these 
pins E ful. And yet this moisture, 
Mee dy ea night, wid touches them hee ey 
Soeki i ot bear it, so delicate is their texture. It stands 
ke their tiny hiis, bg Fieri the eur substance 
of. pe —— ng of finest 
iii., VF 
mein plan qui 
Dendrobia are especially prone to vary a 
each oiher, s " oor Griffiths long on remarked, a 
hence the Lee difficulty i 
dis 
nants r of specimens. J. B., Biddulph Grange. 
ON GARDENS. 
with ‘the exception of the lip, are of the purest white. 
and tr ampet 
shaped m escam: cong in poe like many Cattleyas), 
and adorned with thre i Eee trans- 
verse b. blo ih forming. ite "uer nre to which 
which is itself pda by 
"- NA fading away as they 
e patches of pale 
Ca ev 
known species of this genus. Vs single p 
intro odno ge many years ago by Mr. E ker 
and to his kindness I am indebted 
BACKHOUSE'S Aie YORK. oi Notice.) 
LEAVING the first group 
verandah perma to a range 160 f 
Loin it 
i , &e. In a lar 
uu" | dev 
: slade of iae ae forests 
and run into 
nd 
settling Modan 
unon until after the Anion of a large} oon 
alw valuab 
| stopped, "n the nd condensing process 
uk 
hene de licate y 
rtured by evening 
defended by the os e recesses and intense 
Írom the storms a Pad mpes 
motion, 
ruined, 
E] 
t 
narrow, the cooler division 
zed 
long, chiefly | 
ange collection of asia id plants, | 
I Ai 
ety 
being in some “plac considerably deeper and lower 
than the warmer. Iron bars span the chasm, bearing 
the large slabs of thick glass which form the roof. The 
house devoted to 
a fine st 
stock of 
re 
T that d 
YE raisin a pos “culture of Vine 
enus imported by N s, Ba ckhou 
rit 
Sc hizostylis coccinea, "e first representative of a new 
by Mes under the e name 
fr the intr oduction, 
Fai under the glass roof, of a common drain pipe, con- 
necte od with the open air bes rou nd the bo iler, "r by 
of a “new emnes 
Botanical Magaz 
oma" ’ and re 
apid 
f air 
ing y forward. 
it sicud pipes FER germ was confidently expected, 
the 
nly “place where fro: 
could 
MCA m ‘The pe is formed of rough ibis of 
will be eat "s pesa n to utdoor as wella 
P water 
1 
as it at a time 
_Here 
Gre 
or the aco ibat is now (March 
Soc Sod Tad an fro which. the above d descripti 
wer ra doe 
t things are scarce or iid 
& 
as been dra ketch 
} 1 s; 
une ring bu Lb; of 
ila from ‘a flower communicated ‘ie Ns ake à 
imself, and to which tho. namo of acudir was 
assigned—no doubt becaus e pure white of the 
sepals and NOR with the purple, ER TA lilac of 
f four colou 
the lip, made up the sum o o not | 
think the plant relishes as Ae at even as other | 
Cati do, but as it is as yet eraiil rare, it has 
not eto ascertain this or the contra: 
ex 
possil 
ent, and unfortunately we have no precise in- 
f climate of the locality 
ris it was spell  roughs to Eur urope s 
This is the only ge 
Tam acquainted, for he a 
and C. Wageneri ere v: fariüien of 
C. Mossi -— 
While Nm. "of Ca 
ends piant of c is that I m ma ny years 
ce from rticultural Soc and which was 
Me 
Dy t aas psa of the 
— doubt whether the 
ith in 
this 
I ju dging from the specim 
D it must be dace cade y nda 
exc 
hija Cai weve - which 
C.c a Læ 
i 
con 
attleyas I may mention 
Aa d or scarlet blossoms 3 to 4 
r 
of of IA 
k mæ: 
is certainly so. young plant surv 
M 
though the temperatur 
Havin 
"e bo 
stic ead 
3 along 
vasse, known a s the ** Trichomanes a 
ae Wee 
ona E E A bulb fom “South Africa, with 
inches across. 
Another house, used for Mon pd the M ps of 
ve , uch | the 
ca Iii ahs 
The greenhouses were 
clean and well done, | and b 
phyllum pides imum, bot 
P 
essrs. Paget when the thermometer fell nearly 
rs ago, but was killed the Orang 
by 1 exce 
g “ passed om E ‘rough the principal houses, the 
a} th 
ntir y fi 
which | exquisitely en and so 
niny weather 
the whole house filters water from Sides, and 
the floor beco nd 
pure-looking as a mountain ndant 
moisture in the atmosphere, and but little Metri d d 
temperature, are the natural results, and m roduce 
effect the Ferns desire, to judge from their 
ge and gloomy looking rocks surroundin 
enuty was 
of Hyme 
latter with tri natifid fronds, is to 18 inches long, 
with e 
2, DENDROBIUM LUTEOLUM (Batema 
drous collection. of Trichomanes and a] 
thinly 
could easily read small print through the young ones ; 
the "rp ess n gas fum hi ighly K vided green seaweed, 
foliis il alibus | 
orm Trid label 
nge|and interesting garden structure in La and 
present moment; 120 tons of rough san 
im thou 
= 
LM lobis 'ateralibus erect Remade pr heme majore 
grt ol mp marginato disco tomentoso. 
oulmein. PParbh. 
Donatui are of 
other and totally | 
t core The an [3 — is genas the | 
and i Sin 
huge rocks overhang— —tho 
tion is wirge nted by Fm E the 
of r pe itane without the aid of bric 
the vrais 
a upper (nt the wd) portion of the stems. With 
specimen from pu of which a T h: 
, g has been 
Liane for the “ Botanical Maga 'as man 
together, RN Pe ibly this 
ro exceeded when the plant—which is 
wit. has been lon ‘cateblished. 
with D irren ornamental Its viens affinity 
ire Seems to be inexhaustible in new | 
boast of hp, ere Hugh Low & Co. can already | in 
The — trt is in ‘the form of an irregular horse- 
at the | i 
andstone were 
gh in many parts ee 
atte 
whole thing i is 
r | fine plants oi 
Cha 0 naturally and wey a are e MAT rase that that climbs 10 im eet rees in Brazilian 
Tece tly 
the re Killarney Fern in having a thick. get 
D off ze ^r b divided fronds 18 
led 
ater had trickled for Adi rhe inches 1 Farther on is a which droops 
me of those under Eod I ha t on the | the lovely Hymenop lions e tir , with linear 
recur e of the Scalp Mountain in Wicklow, pinnated fro ronda, covered with tawny hairs, and along 
and oi n fancy so overed way" being | with it H 
On another Jedge was the noble presen ced 
mbles 
hairy 
shoe, one limb being for the MAD of Tri 
Hyme — from cool regions, 
for — sp 
as | b; 
a n de Miel arch, 
summit is only a few inches hi gher 
floor pe vea e remity of the 
thus 
till the oc of thet portion has been charged with it. 
A sti till m 
iid unknown, among which the present is 
Were y; 
one of the me, distinct, 
attributed the great success of the house. RU will ai 
and the other 
ecies. The two divisions are not separated | i 
ps across a id forms a 
on, ces 2° 
escape of the heated atmosphere | runnin 
27: 
NUM INFUNDIB IBULUM (supra, p.1194, 1862). | 
m at} 
tures and go of moisture cannot mes duiescen nt. 
| The warm moist air admitted fro 
h, fillin 
that flowered with | 
Qo she ‘variable, t all the 
ater while 
nk 
meii y concealed) at the furthest extremity of à 
^ Hue 
| ed slag In another shady and humid nook, climb- 
po my end 
n the tr unks of ee A Tree Fe erns, 
species. ws throwin 
fron 
more —— —_* is produced by this arch | brushes of veins i so slender are its hair-like 
rrents—and not more} pinnules; and T a handsome species, 
3 ier to "to this cause must $ 
Zollin 
allied to T. javanicum, 
was also the rigid 
which accompanied it. Sit tee 
membranaceous T. Kaulfussii, 
d likewise the curious Tricho- 
that div 
is in passing condenses t 
he vapour of the u 
ent in so remarkable a arri that everything 
Sarge deep orange, No doubt within the range of that cu y co 
with — And such dew! every SN Fia every nisi 
iant Ra tiny drops 
ipa fag dae for 
rrent is in 
ica ry particle of moss was rai 
that Missed like polished Biete d and 
ave do 
t bundum, with pinnated frond 
high, of which the pinna are y finely serrulate, 
