82 
the ost eg 
Stonei platytæn chocolate 
spots ; lip bronze en r brownish- -rose (Award of Merit). 
C. x J. H. 
almost entirely pure white, and some other hybrid 
sm in Messrs. Sanders’ group also 
e Varia ochroleuca (Botanical Certificate), 
Schroderiana, a fine specimen of Cymbidium X Wyn- 
nianum, Phaio-Calanthe & Arnoldiana, and many 
me apiason ce 
Sir vor 2 Bart., 
W. te). staged a eae 8 group, . 
which the Barford hybrid Dendrobiu 
ive, the varieties of D. xanthoc — (Aine 
Barford, Dorking 
handsome. In 
the centre of the group was 5 ‘Shes ee of Dan- 
drobium Wattianum, with many pur 
orange base to the lip (Botanical 1 
—— it the pretty D. dicuphum, white, with rose 
Botanical Certifi and in front 
a ep oe of the little Epidendrum polybulbon 
with r forty wers Commen- 
dation). Other ae p e col- 
lection were Masd aaa N a 
pedium Sallieri cone um h flow 
to Sraa alba, Dendrobium at Fry Barford. 
spikes of daray leucorrhoda, P. 
Schilieriana, and P. 
hent, sent his fine Cypri- 
m X Madame a Hye (Spicerianum ee 
5 * ee and which has the 
9 and is one of wn largent 
flowers of its a, The upper sepal is white, with 
pale rose-flush and crimson band up t age 5 — 
rest of the ee yellowish, with reddish-rose 
tint over the surface (Awar 
5 
— 
Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Son, Royal 3 Nursery. 
- King’s Road, Chelsea, showed three disti et hybrid 
Cypri pediums, two of which were beautify and the 
third curious, The handsome Cox 
Mimosa superba ( 
num p), which adhe 
C. Arthurianum, and has similar colour in its petals 
and lip; the upper sepal is large, green at the 
pure w 
e N, Drurii zembled insigne, with th 
hort lip po more . — form of t he petals which 
t 
4 — Eiq., Hall, Whitefield, Man- 
eee Mr. R — showed the singular 
greenish Cypripedium er ee 
stratum x Argu); ©. x Ba Davieslanamy Boxall 
n X 8); 8 Spice 
x — msjas); C. x — — 
C. 
Fred Hardy “ee 5 Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Merse 
88 Mr. T. . exhibited ome ate & 
ne pure white flower wi 
Ese — base to — lip (Amari of Merit; 8 
Tyntesfield variety, a fine form orm, with 
open, —— lip, displaying the dark oran 
a X Pallas s = tha ; Cypripe- 
ee a large-flomered 
um 
and other Cypripediums ; Lelia anceps Dawes — 
dium x alaken magnificum, 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[January 19, 1995, 
Walter Cobb, Esq, Dulcote, 
(gr., Mr. J. Howes), showed a 
Tunbridge Wells 
gr., pl 
best variety of Cypripedium 
(Award of Merit), and C. Boxalli, Cobb's variety, 
striking variation being that the u 
pal is ost cover h blackish shi 
rt 
le k ee thin 
Zygopetalum Mackayii major, Lælio-Cattley 
exoniensis, and Lelia r . Ingram, 
Esq., Elsted House, Godal g (gr., Mr. T. W. 
Bond), showed Ca 
had been previously certifica 
M en, Horticulture n 
Pare Leopold, Brussels, sent a n spikes o 
their Cattleya maxima gigantea, a light form showing 
much i injury in transit (Vote of Thanks). 
J. Prewett, Swiss Nursery, ra a 
showed the fine Cymbidium Tracyanum 
e, Esq., r mpjen (gr. Mr. Jain, 2 
8 gigan 
Fruit Committee. 
Present: P. rome ey, Esq, in the chair; and 
Sar ti Bastion, „ T. J. Saltm 
ard, H. Pearson, J. Cheal, 
8 W. Pope, A. Dean pG 1 LE * 
W. Bates, J. Halen d. Wyth F. Q. Lane, 
J. Smith, Geo. person an and R. Fyfe. 
Messrs, J. & Sons, Crawley, Sussex, exhi- 
bited ten aches o excellent fruit, consisting almost 
exclusively of 
Pippin, Golden Noble, 
Pippins, Frogmore Prolific, Lord 
Vaughan, Emily m i small fruit, that colours 
ü — to Mère aage; Emperor age 
wedish oen, and Baumann’s Winte 
Derby, C 
usset, 
The following Pears were also shown: Catillac, 
edale’s St. Germain, Verulam, Duchesse de Nemours 
and Charles Cognée (Silver Kuightian 
Another sete nt of capital Apples 
gg 
< 
ry 
t, Royal Russet, Mè re de Mé lage, &c, 
(Silver — — Med 
r. W. Gradwell, Pg Manor Road, Tottenham, ex- 
hibited — sticks of a red Rhubarb b called Totten- 
ham Early ; r. J. Gray, ary, wot North Wales, 
sent a dish of — (Vote of Thanks). 
EDINBURGH BOTANICAL. 
January 10,—The nea ene. of the above 
Society was held at 5, Ss. Shay on the 
above evening, Professor P. 0. Bow r, F. R. S., the 
President of the Society, sare bate the chair, After 
` he reading of the report of the Council proceedings, 
A n 
e 
Ir. W. Oliphant Gibb bak proposed 
wW 
ected a resident Fellow unanimously, 
Specimens of M 
albiflos were exhibited from the Royal — 
Garden. r. unn b 
bearing cones, of the Cedar of Lebanon, the fruiting 
of this tree i eee i i 
st 
abull to a originated a a field — 
n of Hieracium auratum, a plant n to 
the N of Orkney, was shown by — Babar: 
In the absence of Mr. George W. Trail, th 
tant secreta: nga — neries o 9 — 
n aai on the marine A the — „Islande, 
> 3 ens o these beantifally mounted being shown. 
connection ‘wit vith chon —— in th ne 
2 round the se so — 
upon table í 
the genus Pheer iy toe a 
J 
3 7 2 an 0 1 hl 
one for the pages of the 8 8 Tran an 
notified to Profes 1 Se e. 
also exprensed¢ sistant-S ecretary, Mr, J 
A. Terras, B. Se., * the — of the paper, a 
the — upon the vegetation in the Royal ei 
Garden, Mr. R. Lindsay, Cur 3 
tion of plants flowered upon the rock garden during $ 
Mr. A. D. Richardson gave an interesting — 
report on the meteorologien! — AA 
garden * Decem 
n The m W barometric pressure 5 9 = m 
18 mean baro — _Presaure 2 9 1 
— 9 ri 32° = 29739 in i 
= 47°.5. The highest temperature 
on July 6, 76°.9 being the r 
— on Januar ) 
= teary inches, the wettest month being Feb. 
697 inches fell; the fall for September 
the driest — „being 5 inch. A of 
in hite Beam Tre 
(Pyrus Aria) was also read by Mr. Richardson, 1 
R. L. Harrow exhibited several specimens te 
houses of the aden, with notes upon plants 
The meeting then adjourned until February 14. 
—— Nonnen r ! 
dropped out o 
which he might atill have been with 
Zed inst. he fell on an ice-covered road, and sh 
afterwards showed signs of inden of the 
and of jaundice, from one he speedily saccu! 
Mr, Thomson was born in 1814, in Roxburghe 
our old correspondent, Mr. A a 
became famous not only for the cultivation, bat al 
for the prodaction of new varieties of Heat 
periodicals for the high tone of its practical ark 
and here, too, he issued his treatise 
one of the best works on the subject. It was be 
he raised the two Grapes, the Duke of Buceleucl 
the Dachess of Buccleuch, which are well 
Grape growers, as well as others less Di 
In ye 1 Thomson resigned the chargé i 
and set up as a Grape grower at Chores 
see the London and other markets 
supplies of Grapes of the best quality. 
late years occupied his attention, in 00” 
with his son, with whom 
ciated i in business. To the last, Mr. Thomson: 
for the inclement weather, 
agriculturists were largely represente fi of J 
gardeners of all degrees, and members ® 
nursery firms, A deput tion rid the C0 
