Mar 4, 1895.) THE GARDENERS’ 7 CHRONTODA 559 
Scou.y FLOWERS.—In the Winters 1 Oncidi llat lendid) àü å with an Oak and a Tew of as great antiquity 
Nems, of April 50, we find the following aph:— and many ne 8 Odontoglossum, Lale yu Gera and a * Kilkenny Byeway,” with Iris 
The Gower season at the Isles of Scilly is now about Lycaste, and Cypripediom, M. Wasn acorus and the of mareb- 
fisished. Although prices at the of a Cattleya Mendeli with fifteen fine bl ; land, are excellent, The visitor will Gnd plenty to 
season ruled high, the returns to the islands will fall a beautiful plant of Od ia interest him whilst passing away half an bour, 
considerably below the average. The early Narcissus variety of Cattleya a lip which I oon- New PUBLICATIONS.—A Manual of Forestry. 
crop, the Soleil d'Or, was a y al; O8 Ra By Wrussax vd. = (Baanavay, 
be about 100 tone short of last year, ; ys Messi albo Batony, Royal — Eun: Mowe 
ginata, very fine, the petals unusually wide, and the cotyledons x Oryptogama,— Journal of the Royal 
AUSTRALIAN SALT-BUSHES, — Baron von erect; Rückert. 3 1558. 
Mom : =— " Two the Salt-bashes, spote, of which one ie lange and of a square v Api, 
deacribed “, Atriplex nummularia and A. form situated on the lip; a hybrid, U. T 
halimoides by Dr, LEY, have mainly through my In 
5 D PLANT PORTRAITS. 
Lm, my rous patron, described them sesquipedale, with Sowers ; Cattleya Axemowe savomma Coors p Anoent, Le Jardin, 
from Sir Thomas Mitchell's collections, The Eng- Lawrenceana nobilior, of velvety texture, and excep- P. 55, 1605 
lish have these two Atriplices from tionally dark colouring, expecially on the lip; a eet Carriers tas, Yan, Awrianerma, There be 
Capeland to beyond Transvaal, and the French of C, Mendeli, of which the most remarkable and giants, and thia de of the latter, for “it ia so 
colonists bare brought them from the shores of the 
iterranean 
Med Bea to the ara an 
country by abundant gathering of seeds from the 
firet plante raised, im of ba 
cannot be over-estimated regions ‘ree 
severe hat 
the more central parte Australia) these two 
duced, the flocks need less water on account of the 
sacculent foliage of the Atriplices, and the hottest 
winds do not burn up these plants. I introduced 
into Argentina, the 
both long ago 
States of North America, and several other countries. 
tion of Eppi est 
opinion that the policy of the 1 hae 
tended to — the natural as 
con e provisions of the — Forest 
Act, 1878. ' This meeting is farther of the opio ion 
the intervention of 
on account of 
chases,” Proposed by Professor J. Sroamr, M. P.; 
seconded by Bamxann Grerow, Esq, and ananimously 
adopted. 
AMERICAN TREES IN i oem 
travelling in America are surprised at the great 
wealth of variety in trees and shrabs over the list 
and should 
cross the ocean in perfect When American 
nureerymen to pack trees o for a four or 
five weeks’ or their own country, it would 
be ort trip across the Atlantic had 
any difficalties, Mokant Monthly for April. 
MEETING OF THE BRUSSELS OACHIDÉENNE — 
The last meeting, on April 28, included a particu- 
larly fine exhibition of MM, Mapocx, Vaw 
Wawoexe, and Warocavé staged s collections 
which won for them First-class 
par 
Diplomas of Honour, which were awarded for their 
exhibite, taken as a whole. MM. Lixpex showed an 
beautifal, with 
—— hors, the opo spots dali yellow, and 
the spreading biade a purple colour. 
were the vari Saperbiesima and Varjenevekyia, 
Cochlioda Noetsliana, with four long racemes; 
Oncidium macranthum, vivid in colouri 
in col 
leya elegans, splendid ng; C. Mendeli 
m, tinged with lilac; oni formosa 
e the latter with 
FTC 
Cattleya Lawrenceana, 
bited Miltonia vexillaria, with 
M. vexillaria of an unuenally deep col 
both well bloomed; a very curious Epidendrum >t 
Endresio-Wallisii, and a natural hybrid Oocidiam, 
in which the characteristics of fusecatum and 
serratum were traceable. The Ca Soara Mendeli and 
a beautiful white lip, 
Schroder Dr. Caraur were — 
Mossi, from M. A. 
beauties 
pam x cirrhosum, notice, owing to 
the r of the are the same as that of 
the flowers of O. Riwardi. O tesi M, 
0. 
Oacidiam sarcodes, were good varieties, Ch. de P 
Society OF LADY ARTisTs.—At the present 
time there is to be seen in the Drawing-room 
ample and mejestic in ite proportions, thet in our 
ox it bas never been equalled.” Lindenia, 
t. ODEXL 
Cr om Onanreewoutm, Garden, April 13, 
* Octave Oro —A hybrid 
by M. at the Garden, 
N superciliare and C. niveum, Lin- 
ODLXIL 
Ints bun Paresh, Steir hg gar 1895. 
Lmuo- Carriera Savana x L, Ib. Ode of 
Marmi IAH epals whi 
petals of a 4 form, but 
purple 
e with stripes, lip 
with a yellow blotch in front. 
MimoLos Crsverawm, Garden and Foret, April 3, 
Pean Noratas Larm, i — E 
iL As exosilant late Pear 
brust y 
Pasa meorsts Youroiasa, Jerat of — 
March 7 
Parsons vero — * ascenrecs, Revue di 
run Belge, Mar 
Pum Borax, 2 Horticole, April 1,—A 
J variety, A w-fleshed variety, 
Seen of when the fruita are allowed to shrivel 
nate 
of flowers, Aud, in Revue 
2 pink Hortioole, 
Srimavraes Nest, Revue de T Hortiowlture 
March. 
THONBEROILA GRANDIFLORA „March 2. 
Titanen 3 Visiani, Aud, in Revue 
Hortivole, A pril 1 
Torpa Br a oom, Baker I t, 1411 ; eee 
Gardeans Chronicle, "1804 il, 
VON 80 more (Prin 
flashed with 
3 ODORATA * Piimerim 
of Samonte).—PF.owers white, 
— Gartenflora, Ap u 1, t. 1413 
1 Urans, Revue Horticole, April 1, 
