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but the last named should be planted in good soil; 
and all of these plants should receive good mu ulch- 
of manure in the winter, and heavy applications 
of weak liquid-manure py p Sip Herbert 
Markree Castle, Collooney, co. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x OLENUS. 
Tun pretty and distinct cross between C. ciliolare, 
the wrt and C, bellatulum, female — (fig. * 
was raised by Mr. R. I. Measures, 
Camberwell, and shown by him at the pe meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Soci h 26 last. It 
has a well- — bloom, tinged = rose 
the otted, and the dorsal sepal d 
with purple-coloured lines, The reverse of hisa — 
shown at the Royal Horticultural Society meeting 
g 
2. 
3 
carrying three . blooms, each measur- 
ing 10} inches across the petals; both the upper 
and 3 sepals are wr in size, 2 inches across 
and 3 inches long, the se ni longitudinal 
lines being —— black, an the petals 
are profusely m with 2 shining lines of rich 
chocolate, and measure three-quarters of an inch at 
he b reat size, with a deep 
solid colouring, the * being almost obscare ; 
inode decidedly darker than is 
ed improvement is antici . 
* GUATEMALENSIS 
Probably the finest plant in — of this 
rare and valuable — is to wy found here in this 
Fic, 86.—cePRIPEDIOM X OLENUS, 
on Tuesday last, was still more remarkable in the 
markings of the flower and size of the leaf. It is 
variety which we hope shortly to figure in these 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
CYPRIPEDIUM eee Var, 
TRENTONE 
A rm of this mrss species, . 
truly gigantie in nqa proportions, possessing also & 
e of intense richness, It is now 3 
in the collection of C. G. Roebling, Esq., Trenton, 
The plant, gp ta small, 
three growths, bas produced a very stout stem, 
collection, It is greatly ene by its for- 
pecim: 
tunate owner 8 in full bloom, is 
covered with an e Fg 2 ot 5 
fifty pseudobulbs carries in all 
seventy-eight flowers, — bloom measuring 34 i 
of a pl p colour, shaded with 
orange ; the labellam is of a rich purple tint, and is 
rnished wi icuous ge-coloured disc, 
beautifully lined and marked with orange-red. It 
woul ng to k there is a larger 
if there 
existing specimen in cultivation than this one, 
A, Dimmock, Trenton, New Ji s 
Orcuips at SUNNINGDALE PAR 
In great contrast to the usual style of — 
to Major Joicey, at Sunningdale, Here are to be 
bserved some of the best examples of Orchid 
h ace fi abundantly as to 
excite wonder in the beholder how the specimens 
could year after year such a show of bloom, and 
yet keep fresh-looking, and be furnished with perfect 
** One of the most a ble instances of 
this was to be seen in the grand specimens of Mil- 
tonia „E which aa y Fas grown by Mr. 
Thorne from small imported 
These plants are literally atin y with flow 
of the best (for which a Cultu 
awarded at the e Society last 
year), having y doubled the number of 
its flowers season, It is now in an 
8-inch pot, 
spikes, which average seven blossoms each. The 
oer ge of the ear are well —— with 
making a Another instance 
. The stout plants nguloa Clowesii 
— — some instances from twelve to sixteen blos- 
wth; and those caste Skinneri 
an pst nine and ten. 
In each of the houses a good show of bloom 
was remarked; and in the course of a rapid 
a beautiful 
example of the trae O. Cervantesii decorum, and a 
plant of the now uncommon O. Uro-Skinneri 
In the same house with 
fine specimens of Cypripedium villosum aureum, C, 
Boxalli, and others of that class tiaca, 
U 
species of 
the fine D. 
number for January 27, 1804, In another 
foliage plants, Orchids being suspended overhead, 
and among them the crimson - flowered Broughtonia 
sanguinea, well supplied with spikes, and which here 
in the full sun-light thrives admirably year after 
year, although it has the name of bei the 
most difficult Orehids to grow. Another plant ofa 
which ch here has three * — of large white wax- 
like flowers with viole 
same — — the before - mentioned 
flowers; fine specime 
mass of Oncidium Wentwo 
spikes; a similar example of 0. sphacelatum ; some 
splendid varieties of Cattleya Skinneri, Cypripedium 
x Dominianum, C. x 
examples of Cymbidium 
ume, &c. 
In the next house striking objects are Cypripedium 
grand 
Lowianum, and various 
cin 
flowers; Oran beende. with two large 
finely-bloomed C. 
spikes; some me niveum, C. 
bellatulum, C. Dayanum, C. exul, C. Elliottianum, 
and other species. 
pee — flowering profasely in a sunny 
corner, are a fine type of Vanda teres, coll ected by 
Major soon eldest son when travelling in the 
tropics, and which are specially attractive in that 
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