Maron 28, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 359 
MASDEVALLIA MELANOXANTHA 
5 (Rchb. F.). 
Tue plant exhibited by Messers. F. Sander & Co. 
of St. Albans, at the last meeting of the Orchid 
Committee of the ese — Society, 
being of special i interest, we gladly avail ourselves of 
the 3 given by the 
in every previous instanc — w 
name in gardens of late — t has been applied to 
M. Mooreana, a totally mace species of the M, 
elephanticeps section 
In the description e to, it is stated that the 
leaves are fleshy and bright green. It is a native of 
caña, 
— — a r 
THE ROSARY, 
RE-NAMING ROSES, 
Tus is a subject which at this season of the 
year may fittingly be brought forward, although 
it may be somewhat of a thorny one, d , 
f course, intend to deal with the TAEPA of 
scientists in this matter, although botanists as 
offenders in this respect as horticultarist, 1 
read to provoke their ire 
in ro 
monest species have had their names changed over 
and over again, I have, however, to deal with 
things on a much lower plane—the results of the 
interference of the hybiidis 
It is well known that aati late years almost the 
henc 
have 3 we had hardly 
teok the matter up. John . was the only 
* ; had beside that the beautiful Tea, 
Dexoniensie, whose origin is still uncertain; hence 
came to pass that some of our Rose-growers use 
to go over to France, and possibly find amongst 
® of the newly-raised Roses, one whose 
zend it out with an English name, O , they 
their oon in n dolog this [?], although 
actice was Objection- 
able, and tended to a 7594 deal of confusion, and I 
know that French growers thought the same, 
4nd complained that France was robbed of her rights ; 
thus I remember o 
in Which he energetically combated the practice, and 
to sa we had no right to 
e Duc de Wellington to Duke of Wellington. 
— he said, people would believe that this fine 
Rose had an English and not a French origin—the 
fact, however, is so general with regard to all kinds 
of garden prantan it seems to be an accepted 
tact that if any one in the trade purchases an 
where any production of the hybridiser, be it 
plant, root, or seed, he may affix to the plant his 
n and an amusing po? appeared some 
time rome in — in which the ter wishing to 
procure seeds for his villa garden, Peper the cata- 
logues which had been sent to him, and finds in 
FIG. 46.—MASDEVALLIA MELANOXANTHA?: VELVETY 
— o PURPLE, TH YELLOW 
every one of them the same varieties, but with the 
vendor's name prefixed— therefore, I presume, 
that 20 well established a practice has commended 
itself to the trade generally. Bat it is somewhat odd 
who speaks in high terms 
tion, say he aia it, and that it has been sent out 
porre: such and such a name; and I suppose if 
ere to go amongst raisers of 
na e be told very much the same thing. 
I believe that it iss a rule in the committees of | the 
Royal Hort 
2 
stocks. The various expe! 
has mae either a Certificate or Award of Merit 
under an 
en 
onfusion and perhaps to — and therefore 
1 "think that alli a in horticulture are bound 
to upho 
J have besa induced to make these observations 
given it the name of Mrs. W. J. Gran ut. in honour 
of the wife se e ot our Pine distinguished nal 
panes 1 Ros nd, I thi uk, all rosaria 
wer 
we 
out as Belle Siebrecht. Now this is a change of 
front which, I think, all on this side of “the herring 
pond” ought to resist, and I would appeal to all 
reerymen, that they should be loyal to 
e Rose which has been 
sent out under its American, or sty as I should 
suppose, German name. As owing to the peculiar 
circumstances under which it 1 come en the 
ae and to the fact that its propagation has taken 
2 seeing whether its first promise has been main- 
tained, but if so it will be one of the moat beautiful of 
those which have been raised by this firm, Wild Rose, 
Srocxs ror run Ross, 
In recent eel tre: we: of Rose have 
dee addiy Weald supply useful Rose 
riments made with them 
whether Rosa ural r R. laxa Freebelli best 
stoc 
to 
which — the finest stems in by far the shortest 
period of time. He who plants a collection con- 
sisting of seedlings of our various species of wil 
Roses has no results of any consequence to show for 
his pains, The seeds should be collected solely from 
the true Dog-rose, and sown by oneself if the best 
results are to be obtained. Fine strong stems can be 
Ib a loamy soil, trenehing 
that t, and strong seedling plants. The 
methods culture h: n wri often 
ough, Itis probably somewhat different with the 
above-named species, R. laxa and R. nen yaen 
the roots are employed as stocks or nd 
the more, seeing that no 2 are produced 
from the roots. It may be reely so advis- 
able rt T and those engage i in "growing. 
Roses a lar, 
Rosa polyantha, whic he obtained 
E n 
ious forms of Rosa indica have grown well, and 
— een heade T 8 ar 
the soil sedan tess pieces about 4 1 the 
* . the pieces were 
— ts all flower-pots, and placed in a hotbed, 
deepl the grafted parts were covered, 
— close, and in a fortnight the grafts 
began to shoot, E. M., Rosenzeitung, No, I., 1895, 
