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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[MARCH 28, 1863. 
232 
h bett 1 б this ear than we remember to | Orchid I had ever seen, and had been ù 
Caco a oua e, which may be тоова Ьу | much better coloure А "The pale сув is conspicuous I believe, at Dr. Вайег sale, Almost eq L chasag Р 
рма dei d house, in vigorous growth, wx € Fs It is already | strous чеч certain Dendrobia, e.g., D. etium 
leaves, were tie E together pee Tor to "pole tolonbly. pure; but there is no reason han the кл — D е cea ridi of which had p 
them from frost, the con ано of which h ссы мато defined. 5 lorely genus Phalieno в had a quar 
been, that both. "leaves and y Ea shoots rotted 
“М, E 
its own 
в. BABINGTON tells us in the new Journal of 
opsis had 
gin сеш already via 
ec 
from the pent-up moisture where all уеге assembl 
Botany сс. 2) that our Cork trees are not Quercus | great force. P. ros longer ый. stronger spikes at 
sE who d led to believe. E least | lower than I had ever seen before; at the best it 
Eee. in which + 4 corps a HYACINTHS was pass this а is an inference from ын оше makes, | is but а poor thing. N P. Lowii, the exquisite] 
under review at South Kensington on the M ч | which is this;—M. J. GAY nted бш in the beautiful flowers of which I now beheld for the fil 
the floral gatherings of February and Mar vill, w Bulletin de la Société Torisi n "Fondi e, that t the | time, and not without regret thaf it had not pleased our 
i i of s lies coasts of the Atlantie in France | learned prof t s to м 
ed on the shores of the 
and Spain is not the tree so € 
names Q. aic ect 
Mediterranean, haee latter 
уе acorns of occide 
15 шой for heir ir maturation, while those of t 
four or five; and other differ- 
Now, 
up, as true 
of Mr. i 'BUSH, “уш аз к is yore ear рет еп 
glad to find that n oveltios con- | there 
i eir онына mg, that i 
nob aaya ы попа "al high m ^ ecimens of this tree, which grow: own, 
of them d by M. Gay, and he Чез» “that it 
We have now wto 
nta lis are said to require 14 о 
г 
* | visit. 
it by its disco 
cido . Certainly, the M form 
the а, Ar must prm the idea о a pr 
to the most 
flowers 
- m 
style, Шон stil left f fec bebir 
he w 2 
pn rodu: ced on Mr. Warner’s pant, which had hard upon 
f pon it, and nearly three-fourths of them 
eaders 
oted. "y us , last year 
tai cies. 
ict among the reds, заст thin ais uch against any old tree о 
ame Yan der Ноор а: the'whites, Haydn 9. Suber "being i found. Some of our readers may be able 
, keep up their picis notwitbstandin ing 
that the past season had not been one of the best for|  —— In per оп African Acanthaces read before 
maturing pes T Macaulay is, we fancy, destined | ће Lin idi oci iety, Dr. T. ANDERSON, the pex 
to take а prominent me naa commercially, for living authority. on the plants of the Acanthaceou 
е |. Mr. Warne: 
th ti But your r a m. 
rm noticed the account of this give 
ardeners Chronicle (р. 246). It is to be regeln E 
r did not give us the реа of his treat. 
T t, for, as I before observed, we are not yet agreed ag 
o the тер пабе x does d the eis kinds of Phala. 
sh sis. Опе d difficulty is the ten der 2 щ all the 
species to bis cim to death ; 80 bent 
on producing blossoms that they "ub "Подава the 
and yet, unless both matters 
Ri its bright аз bold spike, and more 
ooth flowers ка Odo render it exceedingly cou ntry of the very ornamental Мова undershrub to be 
ане it adds, we learn, a good constitution, | found in cultivation under the name of Stephano- 
which will admit ola a Eua supply bein s ‘provide ysum Baikiei m which was we to have been 
i Kew 
ran Mite , Africa, is in reality, 
e 
N will r 
or Queen of Hyacinths as seit is sometimes 
the b intense pere "nd oes 
` Pelissier i is similar, and | 
of ае ES, & Species ed to Brazil ; and he accord. 
ingly names it, according to botanical "law, , STEPHANO- 
Some mistake, he adds, must have 
in recording the source whence the Kew 
bab nt from 
8 
indi owers, which p d 
close but not а very lengthened spike. Madame Van | plant was obtained. “It was probably se 
i r, with the large us 
same ha as one from 
i qu: in | ВАтктЕ of the T Sg 
so much intrinsically perhaps, as by con- hend p сыз десш. 
the e plants are sure to е ен ish. I 
псу in question is less prep in 
other kinds, which ig 
proceed, pari pas. 
Бана the te vem 
P. gari than in the 
р з is ie 
y some remarkably fine plants of 
Р. amabilis and P. " grandiflora, „both mo E 
their w 
of imported specimens at Messrs. Low's and elsewhere, 
has satisfied me that recs ese two so-called species are 
really тана of one and Ње -— epe It had 
been d that the дечи са 
lin he uc о у 
erion, but some Bomo s specimens а Р Clapton were 
pets intermediate both. in the t and form of 
their flowers. 
trast. Duc de Мајак "m 
with red, is охааа. a bat o шй ырен о гий е of the Botanic ja, poo who has been hold- 
ith ji ing scientific communieation during a number of years 
m шоор, А some of the leading botanists of "Switzerland, has 
s the degree of Doctoris Philosophiæ conferred on 
hh 1 by the Senate of the University of Zurich, for his | * 
ever, it is very ege сі t уйга 
M M the —— 
DIES CMS, —No. VI. 
Cypripedium is a favouri ite genus with Mr. Der 
and it s indulged with a house amo pue 
itself, in which I noticed Aud E of C. Sto 
named in compliment t 
жае: and cooler pd cma nt us 
lossum mustered strong, and illu could exceed the 
ен and beauty of the plants. ОЁ the charming S 
m 
ere were some sple imens, w 
pres in ilie constant habit of flowering profusely every 
me во also were m bers of this 
most aristocratic genus (e. g., 
= o. Cervantesii, ‚&с.), я now that we have 
n 
we cannot highly pràise, on account of the narrowness 
and pinched up appearance of the perianth segments— ontinued from p. 197.) 
defects which are for the most hidden юй the 8 the spr на is now considerably onn, it is 
casual observer by the dense packing of the fl À | quite мое. Е remind my vt that Iam still 
noticeable абы et the show just referred lo hn the|supposed to be roamin g about among my favourite 
liberal infusion and the o Той re Dg. the С 4 Orchids in the dull in onth of Novedibar. And dull 
a, an en 
varieties, the pr н опе 
ike d, 
E "ir A ЕЕ туа чой be, at least to the eyes of all 
free- «growing, bold. -8р Chrysa m lo 
iic Pisae it -— E des interest 
uch а ага ве веавоп 
ni 
which ev 
of seeing. Anot ther pleasing ына ы on account ма | m Ord ds never fail to i 
its distinctness and delicate c colouring, was Johanna | remark, while гё: or less. n. ri all Ке: is 
Christina, not new, but little known, here shown as ma apposite now that I come to speak of М 
almost ms" white, with a deep red stripe on each of 
its segmen! bsolutely gay wi ttleyas, Lælias, and a host o 
Turning to actual novelties, those which most othe ful things. The Orohiðacoous appetite hi 
pleased us, k Fair 55: of Denmark, Lamplighter, | here evidently e Ds hem o use has 
San Francisco, Feruk K onde edem one shown. (by | whom been added on and y € to 
kino 
d. ond to notice) as Lond almerston. N: 
5 
foremost place in public fa 
Before I close this iiipoeteck notice of Mr, Day's 
ht to mention two features iu m 
not, as yet, of everyday occurrence 
the Orchid-growing world—a hospital and a studio! 
M— former, invalid or recently import 
needfal appliances ready to 
ete wering of some nis rani may put 
rvices in ‚= н, => November I found him 
mplo oyed u striking variety of Cattleya 
p ani that. i jeher (ati only in Mr. Day's collection, 
Serapias, 
is remarkable ө ы solidity B substance | at least one сан ie UR ihe the сав 18 
of ita its ийым surfaced bells, which are hite, | complete ! 
and 
y The — are all low and small, а circumstance that 
n | in e accounts for the admirable health of the 
plants hey contain; indeed house 
low nor smal 
the glass, 
eclectic school, айын litti 
Бом having what 
; but аы having 
ngs to the modern 
into his collection that pee 
a dark flowe ih pale we botanists call flores cons 
TOW ox the Spike, | chosen hi 
small size of „the bulb. | “ th 
i e 
теа ibat each is distinctly seen 
plighter is quite Sont a blackish Mee ith a 
white eye, very distinct as 
probably attributable to th 
NEW GARDEN FERNS. 
раа аа Moore. POLYSTICHUM coN- 
oed Proc. Roy Pines бос. ii. 377. 
den 
sori medial; indusium pale-coloured reniform, епі 
clothed thickly. L3 the base with brown lanceo! 
caudex thick, decumbent, scaly. 
Кеш vae ami o 
вч 2 е9 file, 
spike, rather deeper-colou eee den Іда, and thereforea | Her ance, are to be found, not duplicates | 
decided acquisition if it proves, as ap likely, of | | ат ер trita and multiplicates of all the most 
free habit. Feruk Khan is a deep blue, нес. Le eps of such genera as Cattleya, Lælia, Den- 
wellfurnished spikes, Lord Palmerston is er- | drobium, Cypr ipedit cA ген Phalenopsis. ОҒ th the gran 
bright blue, the |old Cattieya lab ауа асы still holds its own against 
i ted | all neo there miaa many superb vari 
This very h е 
Mr. Fortu une, 1 met wi 
blue. We hear of anothe йоне КЕ we in 
erston as fort e х themselv Lelia per! сате next in 
e class of -EYED HYACINTHS MO to | point of руте hanging оп blocks close to the | 
assume mrg = rtance to be A hile эе ерсе grandifi treated in the 
and compilers of catalogues. Lampila ioniy п this portion of the 
one of the novelties ә Res B esi is the detkést o of ol 1 оре fail to о! the large size and 
them—a Then, | perfect health of hm specimens of Cattleya elegans, 
tm 
blackish vi 
this 
п iint [a fine "lant ra pe ! It was the largest зн 
which 
ihe opportunity to LE FS wi 
name of Mr. Standish, ecd is so well known to 
horticulturists in connec with the Jaj apanese i 
ар 
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