E endian alee 
this 
Thal 
(BRASSA VOLA) id magnificent Orchids 
Mancu 9, 1895.] THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
293 
SPECIAL UNRESERVED SALE. 
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1895, 
GREAT WHITE LÆLIA-LIKE DENDROBE, 
DENDROBIUM JOHNSONIÆ. 
THE QUEEN OF THE GENUS, 
RE-INTRODUCTION BY 
F. SANDER & CO. 
NEARLY 1000 PLANTS, IN SUPERB CONDITION, all of which 
will be offered FOR SALE, 
Messrs. PROTHEROE & MORRIS’ 
ROOMS, 67 & 68, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON, E. C. 
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1895, 
WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST RESERVE. 
This most beautiful of winter and early spring-flowering Dendrobes, 
is free growing and ever green, bulbs and growth resembling D. densi- 
forum. As many as thirty spikes are seen on a single imported plant; 
fifteen to twenty flowers on a spike, each flower 4 to 5 inches in diameter, 
shining snow-white, resembling the flowers of the WHITE LALIA 
ANCEPS. The centre lobe of the lip is usually of a brilliant blue in 
many shades in the different varieties; but some varieties have orange 
entres, and not a few are “ Albinos,“ as pure white as Ccelogyne cristata 
It is very variable in its centre colour, but all varieties are 
beautiful and striking. We have spared no pains or expense to place 
before Orchid-lovers a wonderfully charming and beautiful addition to 
Magnificent genus, which will be as universally admired as D. 
ænopsis Schroderianum now is. Every word we have said in its praise 
$ borne out by all who have seen it. It is a plant of supreme beauty 
Pants are in grand condition, and many will soon push flower-spikes from 
plump ripened unflowered bulbs. 
Ehn e eners Chrenisle, December 25, 1836 (Mr. James O'Brien) says of Dendrobium 
Th D Flowers snow-white, surpassing D. Phalænopsis Schroderianum.“ 
e $ i ; ; 
slowing ah Chronicle, December 25, 1886 (Professor Reichenbach) says: — A chaste and 
species, 
— k - Veitch & Sons, in their manual of Orchidaceous plants, say of this charming 
Flowers among the largest of the genus; 4 to 5 inches across,” 
ONLY ABOUT A DOZEN PLANTS EXIST IN EUROPE. 
3 same time we shall offer the New CYPRIPEDIUM FOWLERIANUM in flower. 
er new fi rchids also in bloom, and a grand importation of LASLIA 
GLAUCA, and other choice Orchids. 
and me dd deners' Chronicle, January 24th, 1891 (Mr. R. A. Rolfe) says: —“ A distinct, beautiful, 
hitherto been used to a very 
THE 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1895. 
HERBACEOUS GRAFTING. 
N his book on the Art of Grafting, which is 
one of the horticultural classics, Baltet sum- 
marises the objects of grafting to be as follows: 
(1) to change the nature of a plant by modifying 
the woody tissue, the foliage, the blossom, or 
the fructification which would be produced 
naturally; (2) to promote the development of 
branches, leaves, flowers, or fruit i i 
another plant which is strong and healthy; (4) 
to unite the two sexes in plants which by nature 
are dicecious, thereby to facilitate fertilisation, 
or to transfo sex of a plant; 
of varieties of useful or ornamental plants which 
cannot be reproduced by any other means. 
The early history of the art will probably never 
written. If the evelopment of graft- 
ing seem easy to trace inductively, it is more 
difficult to conjecture the circumstances which 
were the cause of its origin, even though it were 
by chance. It would be most in 
know what plants were among 
hat were the results. 
plants of this nature bearing conspicuous flowers 
or agreeable fruit. It would also be found more 
easy of application, and the results more evident 
as well as more useful. 
authoritative documents exist 
grafting was known to the 
Pheenicians and Carthagenians, it has often 
been erroneously held that the herbaceous 
graft is of comparatively recent origin, It 
must, however, have also bee actised 
recorded that he himself grafted ultivated 
Artemisia upon a wild one. But the greater care 
required to graft herbaceous and the 
apparently less im results to be obtained, 
to the supposition that the herba- 
of the 
obtained—the graft has 
limited extent in 
les, 
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