January 6, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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tion. His First-class Certificates com- 



and the scarlet Odontioda Cooksonise ; 



menced with the first show of the year, and a Certificate of Appreciation for 



the subject gaining the award being the 

 handsome Lselio-Cattleya Cranstounise. 



Odontocidium Fowleri, a pretty and very 

 interesting bigeneric hybrid between 



Then followed L.-C. luminosa aurea, and Odontoglossum cirrhosum and Oncidium 



it is worth notice that in both these sarcodes. Fine examples of the cultural 



crosses Laelia tenebrosa " Walton Grange success at Glebelands were given in 



variety " was one of the parents, and several large specimens shown at the 



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stamped its fine characters on the pro- 



Olympia exhibition, the best two being 



<§mftttTcrs'(£brotticIc 



No. 1,306— SATUBDAY, January 6, 1912. 



geny. The handsome Odontoglossum Oncidium macranthum, with over 300 



crisp um Peacock secured a First-class 



flowers, and Anguloa Cliftonii, with six 



CONTENTS. 



Androcymbium melan- 



thoides 



Apples, colour in 

 Ash tree, a famous 

 Books, notices of— 



Annuals and Director- 

 ies ^ 



Botanical Magazine ... 

 Old Garden Literature 

 The Flora of Formosa 

 The Orchid World ... 



Electro-culture 



Plorists' flowers — 



Scabious 



Gardeners* Royal Bene- 

 volent Institution 

 Hardy flower border — 



Helleborus an gust i- 

 folius 



Hengrave Hall, Suffolk 



Hooker, Sir Joseph, the 

 late, 11 ; last published 

 work of 



International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition, en- 

 tries for 



Law note- 

 Thefts from nurseries 



London's open spaces ... 



Market fruit garden, the 



Nut, flowering of the 



•Obituary — 



Binot, Pedro Maria .. 

 Childs, Thomas 



Deal, William 



Inch, Robert 



Riddell, Andrew 

 "Wilkinson, Mrs. 

 Thomas 



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Novelties of 1911— 



Orchids 



Paris spring show 

 Parks, London, school- 

 classes in the 



Pinus radiata (Monterey 

 Pine) 



Plants, new or note- 

 worthy- 

 Two new Chinese 

 Cotoneasters 



Potato and floral sterility, 

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Rosary, the — 

 Cultural hints for 

 January 



Scotland, notes from ... 



Societies — 

 Blackburn and District 



Horticultural 

 Coventry Chrys. 



Linnean 9, 



Manchester and North 

 of England Orchid... 

 Reading and District 

 Rose and Sweet Pea 

 Royal Horticultural ... 

 Royal Horticultural of 



Ireland 



Surveyors' Institution 



Strawberries, causes de- 

 termining the yield of 



Sweet Pea sport, a 



Trees and shrubs— 

 Elliottia racemosa 



Trees, street 



Water garden, the form- 

 ation of a 



Week's work, the ... 6, 



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Certificate on January 31, and Cypripe- large, yellow and purple blooms. 



dium Lucifer on October 10. At the . Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, 



meeting on November 21 Sir George Woking (g 



Holford obtained three First-class Certifi- well-grown 



cates for Lselio-Cattleya Prince of 



Mr 



Orange, 

 Mossise 



specimens. At the Temple 

 Show he was awarded a First-class 



Brasso-Cattleya Digbyano- Certificate for his beautiful Lselio- 



Holford's variety/' and Cypri- 

 lapmanii " Westonbirt variety " 

 13 respectively. Awards of Merit were also Merit for Cattleya Freya var. 

 obtained for Brasso-Cattleya Euterpe, Frederick Sassoon " (Dowiana 



2 Cymbidium Alexanderi, a charming hy- Mant 



Morningtoniae (Pallas x Fascina- 

 tor), and at later shows, Awards of 



" Mrs. 



aurea X 



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brid between C. insigne and C. eburneo- 

 Lowianum; Cypripedium Draco and C. 

 Lord Wolmer, both " Westonbirt varie- 

 ties/ 7 A few testimonies to Mr. Alexan- 

 der's skill in Orchid cultivation were the 



The golden-yellow sepal and petals of 

 L.-C. Denganii are tinged with Indian red, 

 and the lip is a ruby-claret shade. 



specimens 

 lainiana, with 

 14 Trianae Hydra, 



of Laelia 



Chamber- 



De B. Crawshay, E 



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Rosefield, 



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latter plant was probably the finest single 

 specimen of its kind ever seen. 



a large number of new hybrid Odonto- 



glossums from crosses effected between 



96 flowers ; this all the available species. Those for which 



anceps 



J spikes, and Cattleya 

 with 



he received Awards are equal to the best, 

 and they comprise Odontoglossum rose- 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., fieldiense (Harryanum x Lambeauianum), 



Burford (gr. Mr W. H. White), has ex- O. harvengtense Crawshayanum, and two 



celled during the past year in showing forms of his fine Odontioda rosefieldiensis 



many fine species exceptionally well grown ( . triumphans X C. Noezliana). 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Androcymbium melanthoides ... ... 13 



Ash tree at Ruthin ... 4 



Beckett, Mr. E., portrait of 6 



■Collier, Mr. J., portrait of 7 



•Cotoneaster amcena 2 



Cup to be presented by Messrs. Bull & Sons at the 



Royal International Horticultural Exhibition 14 



Elliottia racemosa ... .. 11 



Harriss, Mr. E. t portrait of 7 



Hengrave Hall, Suffolk (Supplementary Illustration) 



Jordan, Mr. P., portrait of 6 



Stevenson, Mr. Thomas, portrait of .. ... 7 



Trees, street, in Winnipeg 3 



Weston, Mr. J. G., portrait of 6 



and profusely flowered, a marked example 

 being the specimen of the blue Den- 

 drobium Victoria Regina, for 

 First-class Certificate and 



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Commendation were awarded on July 18. 

 Awards of Merit were also obtained for the 



Norman Cookson, Oakwood, 

 Wylam (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman), exhibited 



n , ? the best whfte Calanthe in C. Cooksonise, 

 Cultural and the pretty hybrid Cypripedium Sibyl 



superbum. 



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Remarkable mahogany-red Odontoglossum wood> Manchester;' on November 21, ob- 



Swietenicolor, Epidendrum Laucheanum, 

 Trichopilia Lehmannii, Cattleya Mossise 



aureola, Catasetum Cliftonii, and the two grand additions to 



tained two First-class Certificates for 

 Odontoglossum Chione and O. Thais, two 



pretty hybrids Coelogyne burfordiensis 

 and Odontoglossum ramos-Edwardii. 

 Botanical Certificates were awarded for 



a favourite genus 



valida and some others. Mr. White 

 secured Cultural Commendations for 



NOVELTIES OF 191 L 



NEW ORCHIDS. 



the large number of Orchids pre- 

 sented to public notice during the 



past year hybrids have again largely spikes ; Dendrobium glomeratum with 

 outnumbered the new species and varie- 30 flowers ; Maxillaria picta, M 

 ties introduced from their native coun- canthera, and Trichosma sauvis. 



Other noteworthy plants from amateur 

 collections were the very fine and darkly- 

 coloured Odontoglossum mirum " The Dell 

 Dendrobium Annse, a pretty new Javan variety, 77 for which Baron Bruno Schroder 



" callichroma, Dendro- ( gr . M r. J. E. Shill), received a First-class 



Platychnis glumacea Certificate at the Temple Show ; the hand- 



species ; Maxilla] 

 bium delicatum, 



some Odontioda Boltonii of William 



Bolton, Esq., War 



Miltonia 



Zygopetalum maxillare, with 13 flower Hyeana, of F. M. Ogilvie, Esq. ; Sophro- 



tries. Many distinct and beautiful hy- 



Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., V.M 



brids have received Awards from the Or- Gatton Park (gr. Mr. Collier), has raised 



chid Committee of the Royal Horticultural some excellent Odontiodas, and continued purple Odontoglossum Go'dmanii of F Du 



Lselio-Cattleya Goodsonii, of H. S. Good- 

 son, Esq. ; the handsome Odontoglossum 

 illustrissimum Queen Mary, for which 



William Thompson, Esq., secured a First- 

 class Certificate, May 9 ; and the rose- 



Society, but these certificated plants re- his former successes by winning First- 

 present only a very small proportion of class Certificates for Odontioda Vuyl- 

 the seedlings that are raised. Many hy- stekese Lady Colman, and O. Bradshawdse 

 bridists find that the further they carry " Gatton Park variety/ 7 both hybrids 



Cane Godman, Esq. 



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Nurserymen. 

 J. Charlesworth & Co. have 



lings which possess but little merit com- Cliftonii, Oncidium Claesii, and Cypripe- of M 



the work of hybridisation between hy- exhibiting a brilliant red colour. Awards shown valuable novelties which gained 

 brids the greater the proportion of seed- of Merit were also obtained for Catasetum nine First-class Certificates and 11 Awards 



:it. The First-class Certificates 

 for Odontoglossum Harwoodii 



auriferum) 

 Shrubbery 



pared with existing sorts ; even a cher- 

 ished cross may produce only seedlings 

 which possess but little value. 



were 



If 



dium insigne " Gatton Park variety, 



and Botanical Certificates for Bulbophyl- (W 



lum galbinum and Collabium nebulosum. and O. Harwoodii 



x 



maculatum 



"The 



we consider the amateur Orchid- J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, variety/' the two highest awards to the 



raisers first, Lt.-Col. Sir George L. South Woodford (gr. Mr. J. Davis), same cross testifying to its fine and distinct 

 Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. secured a First-class Certificate for character; Odontoglossum Jeanette, a 

 H. G. Alexander), has certainly taken the Odontoglossum illustre variety "Europa," distinct O. Rossii cross of the ' O. 



Smithii class, O. Ossulstonii " Shrubbery 



Merit 



lead, not only for the good quality of his a showy large flower ; 



new Orchids but also for superb cultiva- for O. crispum Alcyone, O. Halseyanum variety, 



Lselio-Cattleya Germania, 



