8 THE GARDENERS! 
CHRONICLE. 
[January 5, 1895, 
We Ime. From the Dell collection also 
two of the best hybrids of the season, viz 
Calanthe x Baron Schroder, perhaps the largest- 
flowered Calanthe, with rich crimson and purple 
flowers; and Dendrobium x Dellense (D. nobile 
hroderianu sith. x splendidissimum), a noble 
white hybrid, with dark purple eye, the tips of 
the segment tinted rose. 
Trevor Lawrence, an amateur keen to detect 
es or hybrids, ae A 
r ih 
rin 
observed, the 1586 
white and fragrant Cattleya Gaskelliana albens 
odorata, the bright yellow and r ntoglos- 
sum excellens chrysomelanum, the white Den- 
drobium superbum Huttoni, Dendrobium x 
entirely new ge ue errastylis 
which was first exhibited by Major sey the 
Royal Horticultural Society on November 2 
Norman C. Cookson, Esq., that indefatigable 
3 of hybr id Orchids, has, two 
ee occasions, exhibited selections of his w 
Oalanthan and three very beautiful ones have 
been selected f or awards, vız., C. x Bryan, cream- 
white, with purple centre; m. 
the best of its class, though C. x Dibdin 
ts first appearance, was 
rightly ro. ea in 1894. 
Those amateurs who affect showy species only 
have flowered most rof i the fine forms of Cattleya, 
ia, Ko., of the year. 
ring Park variety, eee 
provements in their cl 
ioo variety, and Lelia 
Thos. Statter, Esq., of Whitefield, Manchester, 
the best and most consistent 
one of best growers an 
has set a 7 task fi 1 — and 
erb ‘white ck tom 
easures. Esq., erat ba C 
is. among others, to his — J 
8 * Annie Measu bellatulam 
me O Godefroy W ilak, and its 
yellow- ground Msi aureum; C. Godefro 
Measures, one of the 
whites, with delicate pink veining 
Esq., Sevenoaks, shows well 
with it erer ntoglossums, viz, O. crispum 
Florrie, O. triumphans Lionel Crawshay, O. 
3 Florence Bovill, &c. ; and Cattleya Men- 
Crawshay is superb, and Vanda 
suavis Rosefield, and ee ee ossum citrosmum 
Rosefield Me f are also very 
M. Wells, Esq., Brooméeld, Sele, gives Lœlio- 
Cattleya s Broomfieldiensis and I. -C. We Ulsie, 
Pitt 
Rah x Pittiana, o c- 
tion ; the large pure white Cattleya Mossiæ alba, 
Pitt’ s variety; and his fine forms of Lælia grandis 
and L, tenebrosa, Te latter having clear yellow 
sepals and petals, s TEN like the Walton 
Grange variety. Jos mri Broome, Esq., of Llan- 
dudno, flowers the handsomely-painted Den “a 
bium Wardianum pictum, and other good show 
things; W. J. Thom „ the bea utiful 
Nellie, Odontoglossum 
and several remarkable 
mpson 
eee pe 
Hollington: Mr. Ingram's C. & Captas 
Rapha ael, Esq., had the Temir rkably 
ooloured Odontoglossum Pescatorei, Raphael’s 
var; Ashworth, Esq., the lovely silvery- 
vetclied Cattleya labiata elegans, and the richly- 
* Swinburnei magnifi- 
cum, which was may exhibited by T. i 
plants coming Tom i 
. Heath & Son, of Ohel. 
bb, Esq., of Tunbridge 
Wells, flowered Cypripedium x J. Howes (Sal- 
e improvement 
on x Sal num; Lelia elegans 
Dulootense, Odontoglo as gom fulvidum, 
Lo. A. H. Sm «Bet o fine things in 
and best, and hie jen gigan ntea ; and i 
q., at Winter's Hill, 
Waltham, flowered the fine w ite 
Cœlogyne Mossiæ, one of the best new species of 
he year, 
NURSERYMEN, 
Messrs, F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, make php er 
but steady progress both in introducing to this 
country and raising novelties, and the beautiful 
subjects put to the credit of the firm du 
i 
grecum Four- 
new and ea type; Cœlogyne 
gani, a neat plant with racemes of flowers 
like those of assang Phaius 
bicolor Oweniæ, not 855 large size, but — 
rich in colour. The new t . anceps, so 
hass se eam in the hid white L. a. Ash- 
ii, whose lip has markings of a decidedly 
light violet pt and the equally handsome L. 
Hollid ncidium Lucasianum, with clea? 
yellow . an 
on OE Aas of 
species are Cattleya Mendeli picta, C. M. Queen 
Victoria, C. W. 1 5 piola N 
ntoglossum elegans, Sanders’ 
nid ge pent Wells’ var., all of 
scrutiny of competent 
The hybrids, raised, and flowered, and exh 
bited by Messrs, F. Sander & Co. during 1804, 
Searcely one can 
not a distinct gain to 
those which received First-class 
hee ome ome Lehi š 
rs. r (C. Gaskelliana x xanthina) a 
charming hybrid ; Cattleya x Kienasti ) 
erti- 
on to 
ge te, took It prize — the Royal Horticultural 
am bind ke er coo competition, for the best 
Of the others Which received an Award of 
a. 
Merit, Phaio-Calanthe x Arnoldi (C. Regnier} 
x P. grandifolius) is a splendid aoquisition; 
Cattleya x Brownæ (Harrisoniæ X Bow ingiana) 
distinct and good; Lelio-Cattley. a x Froid 
Trianæi x n 1 a remarkable 
oyle . 
hybrid; ik, x Aylingii, pretty; and the sin- 
gular and elegant Epi-Lolia x Hardyana (E, 
ciliare x L. anceps), named in compliment to 
of 
Fred. Hardy, Esq rst of a ne e 
hybrids. Among other good things also, Messrs, 
ander have C ium x Uihleinianum 
x Bartels 
(Boxalli x callosum), Lælio-Cattleya xX Wellsiana 
(C. Triane Leeana xX L. purpurata), Calanthe 
X Laucheana, with pale lavender flowers; Cat- 
x Mrs. M. Wells (Prince of Wales x 
to be matched by the very fine C. x 
recently exhibited by M. Jules Hye- T 
essrs, k me Veitch & Son well susti their 
e front rank of Orchid hybridisers, 
their 2 brought out er reon awards 
in 1894 being reer better than in any pre- 
vious year. Remarkably beautiful ind distinct 
gains to Orchid collections are their fine hybrids 
cially. Among them, 
di (Bowringiatis * Wars- 
x TAN (L. elegans Turneri 
x Adee W Cattleya x Fabia (Dowiana 
x labiata), a d Lælio-Cattleya x Decia (C. 
Dowian x errini), are all superb 
novelties, and L.-C. x Parysates (L. pumila d, 
forms of yes, viz., superba, picta, 
purpurea, re wat 
The best of ths 3 new Chelsea es of Cypri- 
delicately-tinted tomes Dendrobium x Acie 
Virginia 
adjudged 
Of their 
itch 
ed 
eximia (S. grandiflora ¢, C. Bowringiana 99 
and Sophro-Lelia x læta (S. 
first 
odia (Reiohenbachians $ Caeli ), which 
— with Mess : : 
oie summer, is & sent plant i 1 their 
isio dili very re 
hybrid, with yellow re a petals, 
fringed lip. 
Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, 
regular exhibiting of effectiv e gr 
bloom 
whose 
f 
awards for a few very llen 
Cypri x Bookeri (cilio 
ianum) is a very fine form, with large an 
iarly-formed upper tinged wit 
the way of C. x œnanthum; Cattleya 
Lewisi, C. Warscewiozii albo - striata 
Gaskelliana “ Miss m 
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