Ocronzn 1, 1864] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 939 
is, doubtless, the grandest of all the Ne plus qe is the best if not the sole The cool-house is kept at about from 70° to 75° in 
Kee ^ nappe has sent usin recent times. Mr. STEVENS | Fepresentaiive of this c and with this I associate | summer with sun-heat—at night 60°, In winter at 
will be seen in more de in our | Martinet, re som! mbles it as to be pronounced | about 60° during the day, and 50° to 55° at night. 
saverOang br ard a sale of nearly 700 plants of this | by some identical with it. 0. outoglossum crinitum, Phalenopsis, navium, 
Lily, many of the plants in full bloom, so that on this} The striped kinds the blues, but | Pescatorei, and most of the rare ones were grown 
occasion, at least, the auction rooms in Covent Garden | like the wes they. offer. but real Points of | finely in it. Barkerias are extremely well grown and 
will be quite a flower show, The sale is to take p difference among themselves. e t is the old | flowered by Mr. Toll. Being all shy bloomers except 
next We edn esday. No donbt amongst the different Versicolor or Cloth of Silver, E believe | Skinneri, he takes them from the cool house when ed 
lb the parent of the finest striped kinds. This is a|young shoots are halfgrown, and puts them 
Already some variations have pun noticed, and we | most profuse flowering variety, but like the Yellows | en aa ates we the pars which is of Hartley's 
have to mention another — RUBR ERE. weit has a tendency to produce a great eal of Grass when |r aen , and never Lyr nan Treated tl 
has just been flowered by Mr, W. BULL, in which the | in the flowering state. ere was once, and there may | How: very freely. eria kic ceaton pn 
yellow bandsare replaced by bands of deep red, tolerably | be still a difference between Versicolor and Cloth of abilis had fv fiib sheet of bloom through 
well defined. Silver; the former is not so much striped as the latter, | receiving this tre: org o shade ting growt 
but the stripes are of greater width. Invariably, how- E Uses ria ce iode "xd e Huntleyas were doing finely 
—— Mr. SrEvENS also announces another important e the largest bulbs are sent as Cloth of Silver, the cool Luisia Psyche, a jy curious 
SALE OF dimi FROM JAPAN, the last portion. e uA a aller as Ve ersicolor, ‘Two new varieties of Versicolor | locking leathery-lipped little thing, was in flower. 
FoRTUNE from that c d, viz. Laureatus, like the your Burlingtonias were E grown in baskets, 
Many of ‘the original imported s grinned itl Ye V h of Silver, and Formosus, very similar to n me thoreaghly Sairat d with water. Of Pleiones there 
ered, Among other things, we observe that this origina, Yan rsicolor, I think, however, ep these new | were large paperan M Mgeniriá, Wallichiana, maculata, 
sale includes the stock of the male Asin, which has | var have arer ground colour tha beautiful condition, being watered very 
attracted so mu terest at our exhibitions, and — they are supposed dei s large | freely daring. the growi ing 5 eason. 
rst time in English vis light-striped flowers form a nother division b them- s Fait plant of Dominy’s 
the real beauty of the Aucuba bush when laden with its | selves. They are Sir Welter Scott, Bride of Lam- hybrid Cattleya pae a sapaa fertilised vy Cattleya 
pies perenne berries. Forsyth hia „Fortun! ni, yehnie | mermoor, and Gallio Th here is scarcely a A gehe aet cris spa, peperba ghee pe il" Ld 
t ylop The old Cypripedium java ring 
vine. a hardy variety wd 2 Fronti Ay the preceding, ! r. | vm ge pods. Lelia Lindleyi bore Home ot Triton = 
fruit, y | The smaller-sized were sped s varieties are pes L. superbiens . eee a um —Ó was finely 
other valuable hardy things, Pil be "PR The | Sappho, Ida Pfeiffer, ty and auty of Albi on. The flower, , and was one of yey ost charming things A iM 
whole are to be sold without reservation. This sale is | flowers of darker stripes, but t P which à thew aks season for seeing 
fixed to take place on the 11th and 12th inst. Albi ion, Spe ectabilis, Van Speyk, € Albertine, but the | Orchids in lower—and the i are dry subjects when out 
: former will admira of bloom. Two ouses were filed almost solely 
— It is always an agreeable task to do honour rto! Am ongst the white varieties and. pre names are with Cattleyas one house being kept considerably 
those who have long & and well occupied a responsible simesià lé Mes rok find there are des of | cooler than the other. There were larger plants than 
position; and all the more so to horticulturists if that | ooi; e pure white and the ve Te sa Of|I had before seen of many of the species, such as 
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T Mie , her Majesty's ae at purple at the base of the flower, they m t be|and besides these, thero were 
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surprised if the testimonial which is contem- | (. oi etim, : 
i , s I have seen this a pan white), Malvina, | suavis 5 he and bonnag 
me Ae ine toad werd substantial c haracter | z sometimes by Jeanne d'Arc. s shade of colour nae trait, fertil sed T aula. eristata and Vanda 
vaii h bee "ome We cw around the is always most apparent when - g an eres was 6 f. t high à by feet 
a 3 deg "1 aie Er h Mr. BROWS, OF la they tsm aged they change to a pure w white, in psy and there was the first pla ni f Va nda 
id e nd) of the hi We sadly deficient im re eally good varieties of Vandas 
eax, adop bo ma the pete á o dug FA bias yellow ciem The best i " ea is the old de ^ of extraordinary size. A plan f Aérides suavissimum 
appropriate robin: Gold, and it is also the fi t bloom er. It f 8 dina EA ry rg anil es ind ba pen Bing — = 
early, and has — mes hed. its 
varieties have put on theirs. The common Aedes on grand 
SPRING FLOWERI : t! | ind, is apt to be the e latest of all in bloom- |. ub. 0 Sp - mention the interesti 
Croovs. A a variety known as the Golden | ar jediums, I m 3 à i 
Tuis “sweet harbinger of spring" > imparts a gay | Yel Fellow, t b occupies + kind of intermediate s n in he 
appearance to our gardens when all else is winter like. blooming, y nA C g between the other two eee P with E ionty of. pe many say it | 
| e shoots up through the earth i ipa ith the vie, striped, | gro Oncidium phymatochfam was found 
: inter has aom d it from its icy grip. The Crocus, | and white varieties. ‘Tl do best in oem fibre and Sphagnum Moss well 
the Snowdrop, the Hepatica, the Primrose, the Aconite, | s — and this —M it disfavour, I have Sissi together, with plenty of drainage. Calanthes 
and the Violet, all come forth. to prod oink m thas ^" it for - past e wee "four years, apri h I| were remarkably well grown in baskets filled with peat, 
'observe advertised in the leading "retail loam, cow-dung, and sand, and placed near the glass— 
. for a brief time a aes oui rather a novel but a very s m" way of paced 
| T. this ege litte flower there is great variety if ———— we My d p P" 2 E se 
the names in lists are to be trusted. object is to ut a very inadequa tion o $ e extensive 
direct attention to some of the best ie yeu come kat i ira ibe XVII, interesting, Orchid treasures f Pendlebury House, 
under iis 
Among the ex or purple varieties, of which as man} T ighbourhood Eam apa v is well known to a e opport nity» 
20 enumerated, there is a stron g family | be ‘a famous one vera he Orchid — and a fertile es arracenias sho wn at Kensington duri the 
likeness. The richest and darkest ‘shade of wc is | field for the n rerywan travel h Orchideous past aoaso n by Mr. Baines, cage pg 
RÀ in the infantile flower, aud as it increases in| tendencies; in p t, there is none ami iare to it in this | at Bowdon, C ere to see how and where 
size age it cha e oes = nh and from violet to | respect, except | the yv din of London, and even there ks plants were grown RÀ en Fen sleet by a walk 
lilac, pee df paler in b Late till disso er—Lady D. . Nevill’s prize, and astonished the best 
lution ensues. To prove es o domly of two or more | Time only p Mr. Baker’s Cattleyas, h hat my visit was not without 
varieties they must be grown 4 ^ tte for if th t t Mr. T d will be inferred from the following measure- 
isolated blooms only are compared, ifferent stages | at Pendlebury House. The Orchids are grown there in | ments:—Sarracenia Drummondii bore pitchers from 
1 of development, the ch ill t and suitable houses, They -— many of 1 inches to 2 feet 10 inches long, the largest plant 
be misled, and an erroneous est eg arrived at. In the best specimens in the coun’ ntry, and rate | 2 feet in diameter. S. flava had pitchers 2 feet 6 inches 
a collection that I looked over last sp Mr. G. Toll long, the plant 2 feet in diameter, S. variolaris bore 
oo ed tdg mta Prince of Wales, th elastof| In the East India house, the plants of Phalæ s | pitchers 18 incheslong; S. purpurea had pitchers 
nnounce be new; if, however, I were very r especially P. Sehilleriana, which, 10 inches long, the plant 2 feet 6 inches through. 
tatum s perpe difference e among them it | though not so numerous as at Mr. Day's, was in most Many who have not seen the plants might _Suppose 
bad. MP. disappeared. I find also that a variety | vigorous health, some of the ‘plants bea six | them to be “drawn” &c., 
known as Vulcan is eat i the foregoing. There | immense leaves. There was a very desirable pani as they looked much firmer in torna and bore better 
in a fe seen, 
hese varieties than in any | amongst them, with the leaves, save wW Pr god sies than I Sica viously 
acquainted. throughout. Of Angreeum dinde on those grown at tl i College Gardons l 
flow oan CHR brighter si had. of 1 Se manne en de delicatum, DAT (bo 
a brighter e le or lish Aérides suavissimum ’ , 8 val r that . Baines 
called by some Lamplighter vem heh “ia also | liar to the place, mw of moniy, iie LUE i ite os pong tede, his 
identical a variety known as quinquevulnera of which there - mode them to aging FS g 
England for Sir John Franklin. I do hold cent plants in flower, eget with gigantic plants o | fection which few if ar aor they were of 
|. cepe ag Bae exists between David », Prince o | Abr ides nobile, many fine specim mens and var arieties, | attaining. mee — has found that in — 
Albert, and Lamplighter, sateen these as types of he great mistake made hat of 
bid shades of colour, the former being the inne | L have space to eee arise, Mr, et finds the eng them m hot. * hag such ret t they 
and the last named the lightest shade, Phalenopss d do best MS Day's over wa ater. appear to grow vigorously for a time, but 
ers importers are, however, at the e A d ultimately 
soon become 
mercy of th d, and ultimately die. S. Drummondiü will 
tehmen, and may not — Ln € n» variety | be an easy matter to beast d with that ge but | stand tl 
a of the at the same 
und me na n id of | ther tis much the most shy at fo "ehe its singular 
the blue class represented by had Superi avgis, them n the first plant of S. es iir introduced. to | tr petu ien leaves. “in sum ong heat with me it 
and two new Pa ony called nd Gloriosa. | the country, having six strong shoots ; aud S. — altoget ther all the d seers coming 
The — is a bright lilac blue, dash ans with € folium uearly equally fine. Cattleya superba nj plain, I have tried it in the s stove amongst Ixoras, &c., 
our ain hite, Itis a very beautiful shade of colour, | blocks in —— it requires more heat wb: any P the dp elevated to within 6 inches of the glass, but 
and very striking. The light- ui varieties are as! its congen a proper character.” Mr. Baines 
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