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CHRONICLE. 
[Apart 6, 1995, 
bematochilum was found among the number col- 
lected. Some twelve months since, out of a collector’s 
batch brought to Port of Spain for sale, he had the 
good fortune to offer with O. Lanceanum, the much- 
sought-for O. bematochilum, but only to the number 
These he sold for 5s. or 7s. on the 
ocally, one can buy very reasonable-size 
lants of O. Lanceanum for 2s, Where, however, 
one could collect this fragrant Orchid in thousands, 
m ats, um (Epiden- 
drum) bicornutum that was the glory a some of the 
smaller islands belonging to Trinidad, is now, too, I 
regret to say, wi Le through the raids of 
the collector. me applies to Oncidium 
papilio. W. E, 5 Botanie Garden, Grenada, 
West I 
Orcaips AT GLEBELANDS, Sourn Wooprorp. 
The ways of beginning and adding to a py ction 
of Orchids are many and various; individual tastes 
means bert factors in the 
J. ney Fowler, E 
Glabslands, —4 the rich collection of Orchids in its 
gardene, favours quality rather that quantity, and pur- 
chases the best that can be obtained, and as few per- 
which are remarkable, while most i them 
above the average merit. A striking nthe bik 0 
the Wenger of taking oar selected, ‘aed e is 
to be seen in the spacious Cattleya-house, in 
— many large plants of superb varieties of Cattleya 
Trianæi there in bloom. e stout healthy plants 
are mostly ge bear a fine show 
of bloom, in which the >p purple-lipped varieties 
predominate, are several light- 
coloured forms which are equal in beauty to the 
darker v One mass — is was selected on ac- 
count of its being gigantic sisting of some 
hundreds of fine large bulbs, i it has not been a 
startling success, for its flowers are poor when com- 
pared with the compact pieces, each bearing ten or 
twelve brilliantly. -coloured flowers. In the same 
house, on each side of the door, are great specimens 
of Epidendrum radicans, and on the other side Messrs, 
Veitch’s sat crimson hybrid with it—E. O’B Brien- 
iana, A fine sh 
iseia 8 ium ‘Lowes 1 2 
anu ber species sre in — one of the 
most be plants is a cent Tricho- 
pilia suavis, with thirty of the rose-scented white 
various other 
brid Lelias and Pomel are sheathed for de. 
which corresponds with this one is 
‘Swarm hou, and ita contro i 
umber of stage is occupied by a 
i | rell placed. Two fine 
of Phaius assainicus are a i 
with immense spikes of flowers, Dend drobium 
Owenianum, D. nobile Cooksonii, the white D. a n 
Amesiæ, and other Dendrobes are in bloo 0 i 
side is a i 
with some go 
amabilis, Ealophiella Elisabethæ, which seems here 
quite at home; a 
white . 
scented white A, Leonis, and other Angrecums, and 
one large ov t of A. sesquipedale, with a good show 
of buds. Saccolabium bellinum, Pilumna 
Oncidium sarcodes, O. luridum guttatus, Calanthe 
powerfully- 
Regnierii, and others, are in bloom or bud, and a 
splendid specimen of Epidendrum Wallisii has over 
thirty spikes is its pretty yellow, purple, and white 
wers—a very beautiful plant. In a moist warm 
corner, the e of 3 3 and 
some of the leafy section of Z e looking 
so remarkably healthy the the e of those 
beautiful plants, which puzzle so many, on a more 
extensive scale would be warranted. 
The large bene ne howe is an airy structure 
with close sta se covered with sand for hold ig 
moisture, and 5 ing an open stage of teak -w 
on which the ‘isnt thrive in a very 2 
manner. The plants of U ang dee crispum are 
just beginning their chief show, and some of them are 
i, O. 
sonian osum, O. triumphans, O 
N O. Hallii, O. Edwardii—a splendid variety; 
Cochlioda rosea, Ada aurantiaca, and other pretty 
species. The plants of Oncidium serratum and O. 
macranthum are well furnished with their stout 
grande section are placed in a drier house, in which 
Indian Azaleas, and potfuls of Freesia refracta, 
&c. are in bloom; and in a corner is a good show 
of Cœlogyne cristata, a fine plant of the pure white 
ae bg among them 
of the smaller and older houses, which 
is a warm one, and i 
stage, near to the glass of the roof, the flower- 
spikes appearing in much profusion. So strong are 
large the pseudobulbs of many of 
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lants up to 
Glsbelands and those collectors who have 
plant in its native home, say that when it does thrive 
in England it far surpasses those. Certainly no such 
pieces have ever been imported, A lesser number 
of M. vexillaria seem ina fair way to succeed as well 
as those of M. Roezlii, and rae are being made 
with M. Phalænopsis, &c. one-half of the 
house is taken up with Pandanus VA Crotons, 
and other foliage plants, and their presence is said 
to be beneficial to the Miltonias. 
Other of the smaller houses are used for shifting 
Orchids into as occasion may require, but at present 
they are filled with stove plants, one of them having 
a very fine lot of Eucharis grandiflorum. Away in the 
kitchen garden is a new block of houses, in most of 
which it is intended to cultivate Orchids when space 
is found to be necessary; they are admirably built. 
In one of the houses is a fine lot of Cattleyas 
chiefly those which like more heat than the C. labiata 
section, viz., C. superba splendens, C, Eldorado, C, 
Warscewiczii, C. Dowiana, &c., and these are magni- 
ficent masses, in a flourishing condition. Th 
same may be said of the houseful of 8 in 
which the handsome D. superbum was carrying a 
fair 22 of its sae rhubarb-scented flowers, In 
bloom D. Jamesianum, D. 1 
anum, D. x were and other showy s 
here are numbers E fruit- . — and 
forcing-houses, and on hem a superb 
show of Tea Roses. All these —.— Mr. J. Davis 
the gardener, occasionally uses for a few Orchids te- 
quiring special treatment, er his method of wees - 
r o the season of growth or 
rest of the plants, is most patos Orchid — 
is cs se n As? the detriment of other work, ay 
every department was most c 
fally a — — 7 OB, 
Onchips at Oswarp Hovsr, Epiyeorea, 
The collection of stn belonging to 
e fine 
imens now 
n flower. The — are worthy of mention. 
Some large specimens of e 
— in diameter had numbers of large spikes. The 
cate C, e. Lemoniana and a plant of C. c. alba 
were are N with good blooms, Seve 
sma wered species were covering the 1 
uch a sparsa sid C; 
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a pins, several hybrids in good condition 
excellent specimens of both stove anà green ouse 
species coming under my notice while 
through with Mr. Wood, the gardener, whe 
practical abilities are very evident. H, 
Tae FRENCH List or Crosses OF CYPRIPEDIUMS. 
e publication of the French list of hybrid 
Cypripediums will be of much assistance to me, and 
doubtless many others. I am obliged to the compilers 
for correcting mistakes that occurred in the list you 
published on p. 199. Bat Iam afraid while endea- 
vouring to remove the motes in our eyes, they have 
not observed the beam in their own. For by what! 
in this country and Americ 
list, Argus X niveum, is given the name Mille, Nancy 
escombes. This cross was figured by you in Car- 
deners’ Chronicle early last year under the aame = 
which received a First-class on Sep- 
tember 16, 1879, when shown by Men ars, at Vata 
names, eight of which are from the same parents, 
and to all intenta and purposes they “cannot ep 
materially from C. cenanthum. C. Hal 
Spicerianum, which brought us C. x Pite 
der at l brand-new 
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1892, while the French list pe r as the 
ro sum X x Ba 
ka tŁe cross that me 
Cypripediums, and also as 
I have only dealt with a ri in the 
ho cited will 
that i in t 
ahead . us, they are scarcely up om fy, 
matter of mening or naming of Cypripe aa 
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