Jone 15, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLIE. 739 
flowers nearly 10 inches pear -ii = labiata also vary very much, but one may well wonder and did so on the 23:d. I found the plants at 
grows here to very unusual dimens 
baskets of various shapes, also of cork, and Ose 
roots, clusters of leaves and splendid flowers, 
of water at any 
Furthermore, cultural experiments are 
undertaken with plants of but little commercial 
value. M, Videaud is replacing Polypodium fibre 
with Coco fibre to avoid sourness, 
=the anything really new is to come from, 
own ee ie, that anything that may be termed 
surpri r as sensationally new, is now no longer 
ew aa therefore, we have to regard as new 
not so much absolute novelties as 
advances, It is 
we place the und 
strain of Streptoc 
ime si when penr too 
through the evolutionary process of erecting its 
blooms from the previously common epen form, 
Fie. 11].—rwin PSEUDOBULES OF ODONTOGLOSSUM ANDERSONIANUM, 
In yet another house we noted Phalænopsis 
a ve 
success ; they are of great vigour, the baskets 
half emptied of compost: 
The specimens of Odontogloss a 
very. long house, the walls and 'paths of which. are 
oted to Cattleya 
Mowe, and, further, a garden fall of splendid Roses. 
De Bosschere. 
STREPTOCARPUS AT WOOD- 
HATCH, REIGATE 
. — at the Temple Show, a 3 plants- 
man remarked to me that there was nothing new 
there. Of course, not ions as to what may be 
The leafage of the new break is still too long and 
gross, but fu n intercrossing and selection will 
greatly impro e that, and when 
doubled in size, varied and enri 
Stre 
then we may 
attractive greenhouse plants, Nearly all the plants 
shown in Messrs. Veitch’s fine of 
old and new fe sown in 
January of last year. The old form, however, blooms 
in the second year. Such, at was m 
tion, but that e thse gi asl e 
show. Let it be truly said o f the older forms, 
owever, th d . 
and are even with rs most 
2 flo 
beatifal, Meeting Mr. Salter, Mr. T. B. Haywood’s 
ent gardener from Woodhatch, at the show, 
ge in 1 to 
great capacity to make n 
specimens, I undertook to run down and see them, 
Woodhatch to be all that Mr. Salter had stated them 
to be. One house was devoted to them, and kept 
for an almost last surprise; ho of Cal- 
ceolarias, Gioxinias, Orchids in great variety, Azaleas 
and out. 
in great praga * everything inside 
clean and n new 
fine * et . some 600 Chrysanthemum plan 
in pots of all sections, and looking 3 <n 
1 
pin, sm — ord 
The Streptocarpus-house abo 
plants, of which so were in 24-sized pots, and 
eaf about 2 fi ross, he h of 
bloom were fully proportioned, ranging from 10 to 
12 inches, some carrying on A. 120 expanded 
flow e, too, under as ie 
pasty given, we were very fine, Fasili, these — 
rom a strain which Mr. Salter has carefally 
— seem to be o open to Streptocarpuses a 
exhibition or decorative plants, and as greater 
advance in >e LN a lyme 
reason to 
for them. Bine vata certainly 
ts t 
pressed me with their beauty as did these Str 
carpuses, I hope the day is not far of when we 
shall see clasoes specially arran for them at 
flower shows, for here at Woodhatch it has been shown 
of what these ae plant had 
of the plants, the strai 
* 
essra, Veite 
and it * — it 3 set 
many striving to secure fine specimens, 
rer gs an rag four years from the 
80 3 to pena fairly 3 treat- 
m but not too m 
ent, tem uch 
pot-room, arere ot light light, sary kept fairly near a — 
Thus, what is possible in one 
anywhere, As we are already tiring planed 
what of the florid colouring of the bold Begonia, we 
il more modest blushings of the 
th satisfaction, A. D. 
DIVIDED PSEUDOBULBS IN 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. 
Tux illustration, fig. 111, shows a condition which, 
so far as we know, has never previously been o 
in Orchids. Two pseudobulbs, n, u, of O lontoglos- 
©, ©, 
Tia pin 2 Bary Craw- 
ter Erg, ad meted by him a one of te 
meetings of ; 
described 
ew Zealand, an 
ge Bes an annual, B 
d are described in 
Hooker e — 41 to the New Zealand Flora. 
