January 5, 1895 
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SUTTON'S 
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IN. HORTICULTURE 
FOR 1895 
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ARAUCARIA IMBRICATA. 
Perfect specimens, regularly transplanted, 
1 to 13 foot, 2 to 23 feet, 23 to 3 feet, and up 
to 6 feet, 
PICEA WEBBIANA. 
fine specimens, moved in 1893, 4 to 
sae 5 to 6 feet, 6 to 7 feet, 
Prices on Application, 
DIGKSONS, CHESTER, 
ORCHIDS. 
V ANDA CŒRULEA.—Grand specimen, lately 
ted. Fine 8 straight growths, with 
10, 8, 8, 6, 6, ny 
Price 20 Pairs of leaves respectively. 
VANDA AMESIANA 
.—Lately imported, fine 
and strong growths, wer, with 
ition. Price 3 guin 
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VANDA KIMBALLIANA. —Fine — — 5 
cimen ; 18 leaves. Price 1 guinea. 
Art growing, 8 plan ; 9 pairs o ea. 
Die DROBIUM HILDEBRANDII. — Erhi 
bition plant; 20 long and thick bulbs, of which two or 
three are new, a Several 
leads, Species new and rare, and this is one of the finest 
plants N ie guineas, 
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FERNS! FERNS! 
Well-grown Stuff, at Moderate Prices. 
40,000 Small Ferns—Pteris cristata, cretica, 
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WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE, 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1895, 
NOVELTIES OF 1894. 
A year has passed, and the pleasant 
task of passing in rapid review the best 
of the novelties of 1894 has come round, 
It is only whilst collecting and preparing the 
materials i 
plants which skill and enterprise have provided, 
become justly appreciated. For the introduc- 
tion of good plants likely to remain useful in 
gardens, the past year will compare favourably 
with any of its predecessors, and a pleasant 
feature about its work is that most favourite 
classes of plants seem to have been tolerably 
equally dealt with, while some temporarily- 
neglected subjects seem again to have obtained 
the attention they merit, 
Tue ORCHIDS, 
As usual of late years, Orchids have stood well 
to the front, and the novelties which have 
appeared are fairly divided between the plant- 
collector and the hybridist, the latter in point of 
numbers having perhaps the advantage; but the 
multiplication of garden crosses and hybrids has 
ing collections, and lending to the c er 
its flowers to raise new forms, which but for its 
introduction would not have Been obtainable. 
As in former rape afew stand prominently 
forward, and among these should specially be 
noted the remgiteatit emerald green and white 
Cypripedium: callosum Sandere of Messrs, F. 
Sander & Co., which was.a centre of attraction 
at the last Temple Show; the magnificent white 
and crimson Cattleya Warscewiczii “ Countess of 
Derby,” of Thos. Statter, Esq., of Manchester; 
and the fine Odontoglossum crispum; Baroness 
Schroder, of the Dell collection, and which is pro- 
bably the richést ecloured form of this species, 
and in place of the usual description of spotted 
forms of O. crispum, viz., Bie with coloured 
blotches, might be more co y said to be rich 
dark red, with slight — eee ening. 
THe Amateurs. > > , 
Each year is prophesied the end of novelty, 
his great collection a set of new forms, which are 
advances on others previously known. e. m 
excelsior, O. 6. Rex, Ov o. xan xanthotes, 0. 0. ‘puis: 
bile, O. o. grande maculatum, the O. o. Baroness 
Schroder, and an older but ‘distinct form, 0. 6, 
