May 25, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
645 
ot harbour insects. Each house is nam 
and 80 decorated 
which — travelled thousands of miles over the 
seas and been present at strange scenes. . first 
house has a collection of Dendrobium with so 
— 
with two to three flowers on a spike. 
Miltonia Phalenopsis thrives well hung from the 
roof. The next house has Cattleyas, among which C. 
Rex is sending up —— Here as in several of the 
cther houses are e fine plants of Cymbidium 
other Orchids, such as Diacrium (Epidendram) 
bicornutum, which in their native habitats enjoy the 
ne ae its culture may be said to have never 
been tered in eee a 
and * form of it, w 
almost wholly of a dark — Eon chocolate hue, — 
ng flower; it is, 
moreover, very fragrant. 
Fid 91.—CYPRIPEDIUM STONEI, VAR, PLATYTENIUM, 
(See Report of Temple Show, p. 662.) 
Lowianum. In another house were noted in flower 
Dend obium chrysanthum and Saccolabium 
1 i a good show of 
m 
Andersoniaum, O. luteo-purpuream, 
— 'Roezlii, Lycaste Deppei, were remarked. 
CATTLEYA ÅCKLANDIÆ 
Tt is now more than fifty years ara sgo that t „ 
was first 
this day is not a common plant, Like — — — 
DENDROBIUM FARMERI AUREO FLAVUM, 
bearing this name are not uncomm in 
gardens, bat they are almost gated aa D. 
densifloram or D. Griffithianum. The inflorescence 
and dark gree 
texture conclusively distinguish it from D. Farmeri, 
respect like a typical D.F 
thinnish leaves, but the — are light yellow, 
e darker yellow labellum. er haan — 
he plant some time, and it ie supposed to have 
arrived an a amall sorap fan amateur 
rom Indi 
panii GIGAS VAR, FRANCONVILLENSIS, 
H. Williams, 
Marve d petals pure white, lip andalate, rosy- 
— with white, and with two yellow blotches 
a ee base. Fiowered in the collection of the 
Dac de Massa, Orchid Album, t. 505 
Cyprirevium Conco Lawax, Lawrence, 
A hybrid between C. concolor and C. Lawrence- 
an um. Orchid Album, t. 506. 
Scnomevackta Honnotprit, H. S. Rehb, J, 
Racemes erec Paws owered, The perianth 
2} inches across, ente oblong, rounded, white, 
flashed with rose; te ere e at the base, anterior 
lobe flat, rounded, notched, rosy-lilac, with a yellow 
blotch in the throat, Orchid Album, t. 507. 
re Ge Rolfe, 
Orchid Albu 
THE DEVELOPMENT OF 
te TS. 
As regards Ke Number kingdom, the pheno- 
mena of variation run precisely parallel with 
ry? already cited, both as regards gradation 
mps, Bud-sports, „Tee an 
which these latter are usually manifested, fin 
no counterpart in the animal kingdom, unless X 
may be in the unexplored field of the corals and 
iv iduals are produced by 
maturity, selective br 
far more striking results within 
in the 
a man’s life- 
of ani 
É 
present day—Tuberous Begon 
been entirely 8 from 5 
prom in about a 
ising 5 so 
that from Anglo small flowers of one colour, 
measuring "> inches in —— In this case 
numerous “special creations” have asserted 
themselves as ings, The well-known 
Shirley Poppies form another example of 
what can be done through profiting by a natural 
A single wild 
panions: he marked the flower, sowed the 
few years he gave 
variety of single and double Poppies, of all tints, 
from white through rose to scarlet, and all con- 
ceivable + agar — a laciniated and plain, 
ar to everybody. There, 
indeed, was no mane “obvioas specialty at the 
ontset, but what a capacity was lying latent in 
that little pod, —— flower first caught Mr. 
Wilks’ observant 
F who 45 our flower shows and see 
the marvellous multiplicity of form and colour 
which eerie ishes the cultivated flora of the 
present day, have any olear i 
results are arrived at, Many, doubtless, imagine 
that the peti is mainly due to contributions 
from.various parts of the world, where climatal 
3 of type and in some 
cases, such as Orchids, this is chiefly the oase. 
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