nile 
Juse 22, 1895.] 
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batch of plants of Thunia Marshalliana were also 
furnished with their large nodding heads of flowers ; 
one of Epidendrum vitellinum majus ; ; a fine lot of 
Odontoglossum cirrosum; O. Hallii, &c., was i 
bloom, and at one end of the house a quantity of the 
rare Epidendrum Frederici Guilielmi was remark 
with some fine heads of fi E. radicans 
and its hybrid, E. 0 Brlenianum- grass ful plants 
were profusely in bloom. In this same cool 
admirably, and splendid spikes of this species, O. 
concolor, and others, were full of beauty. The sin- 
gular chocolate and white coloured O. nigratum and 
O. globuliferam were likewise pipak in this house, 
The next house visited had many hundreds of 
unflowered plants of the typical Cattleya labiata, 
arked white” by the col- 
ley: 
are also found in ay house, 2 th 
being C. M. M a large for 
development of the lip ae in hea 
t the base yellow 
comi longside of this batch another of 
the fine introductions of the firm C. Charlesworthii, 
comparative ful it be, i 
t th n on eno — 
— C. caudatum Wallisii, C. Chamborlaisienum, 
et Sophronitis all of a row, a quantity wt = 
— — e. harpophylla and L. a- 
and nched spikes of the isser Ie 
Oncidiam 2 were among the flowers 
The occupants of the next house we 
principally 8 and among the best of 
thos loom were some grandly- grown 
plants of C. bellatulum with very large . l. 
some of C. Cartisii, also large ; a few good Phalæ- 
nopsis, the pretty Cymbidium tigrin um, the fringed- 
lipped Lelia Digbyana, Cœlogyne speciosa major, * 
l Next to this was a division 
taining a mirong lot of Lælia 1 many of 
them in splendid bloom ; and among them one was 
remarked with five large flowers of fine form; 
another flower had pure white sepals and petals and 
a purplish maroon-coloured lip, with a lilec-lined 
tip, the contrast bet 
n 
tenebrosa, L. t. 
petals, of dark purple and 
of pretty primrose-yellow flowers, which are some- 
times rose-tinted, are attractive. 
In the next house—a warm one—Dendrobium 
Pha'ænopsis Schroderianum and D. Dearei are 
grown, the plants of the latter being furnished with 
Heat and plenty of moisture 
106 difficult to grow. In the principal enen 
se was seen a good show of and 
r species, a variety * 8 Mossise Yennioolor 
with singular looking flow: ariegate 
and purple; the plant dane, penap Ta the 
variegation therefore not of disease, as 
usually in — — — A 2 
a 
good Lelia elegans and L. Schilleriana and a plant 
or two of the true Lelia Jongheana are also in the 
same h 
Odon —— of the best strain of O. cris pum 
are a Bem of the firm, and their i 
Eichel, the managing partner of the firm, however, 
to them has the quality of the flowers of O. crispum 
the best form of 
Œrstedi, O. 
Krameri, Epidendrum oneidioides, and a pretty 
variety of Phaius Humblotii. 
The catalogue sent out by Messrs, 1 
has sot — with great care, and at the end of 
the enumeration of the species of each genus a list 
of * ee hybride obtained from that genus is 
added, a plan which is both useful and interesting. 
Among the natural hybrids Vanda Charlesworthi 
(coerulea x Bensoniæ) is a very rare and handsome 
t. 
NEW INVENTION, 
THE MONARCH FUMIGATOR, 
Tuts is said to be a genuine novelty in fumi- 
gators, and those who have given it a trial speak in 
terms of admiration of the device for properly con- 
suming tobacco-paper and cloth. No hot cinders 
Fig. 119.—a4 NEW FUMIGATING MACHINE, 
are required. The fumigator is filled with tobacco- 
paper or cloth, torn up, and thrown in loosely, A 
lighted match is then applied to the material at the 
bottom of the ‘Gat ua when well alight, the 
losed al 
ven 
topher Street, Finsbury, London, E.C. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL, 
Scientific ae a 
JUNE P Dr. M. T. ters (in the 
chair); Mr. McLachlan, . Müller, Dr, 
onavia, W. Dod, Mr. Michael, aud the Rev. 
G. Henslow, Hon. Sec. 
Injury by = With reference to this ee discussed at 
the last m Dod observed that it 
ing 
ek enone er while Evergreens had been ‘nije eee 
veyed 
coe 2 We the sea. 
Asparagus _fasciated. ur. Arthur Sutton sent a 3 
oa Mr. Dod observed that it was probably the 8 
— Wt as he had fertilised Primula rosea with 
Beetles and Orchids.—Some specimens of cockroaches were 
received, said to se atten ee ee 
Mr. McLachlan named them as Blatta lapponica and ger- 
manica. They were doubtless imported with the plants. 
* 
appli 
Dried Orchid flowers.—Mr, Chapman, gr. to Mr. Measures, 
nt kably well prepared mens of dried 
varnished Orchid blossoms, ae their 
: ssa” grape.—Dr. Masters exhibi 
Grapes which i had burst, — apparently showing another in 
the interior. is has been the usual interpretation ; but an 
$ Ahat 
the interior “Grape” was really a seed, but coated with a 
— to occur in — — and Crinum, 
Daisies. 
Daisies on very spleen 
bert, Trdves. It was suggested tha 
derived an * sylvestris, which N. very similar scapes, 
= — from B. perenn 
stilago prim mulina disappearing. ur. Dod remarhed 
were erg from MM. 
+h 
recovered, and were now quite te free from it 
ref 
Kew as follows:—" The root- 
— sont to Kew for investigation from Cam 
23 uch-dreaded root-disease ’ in vine yards and 
— is 2 distributed throughout France, ot Austria, 
Sout 
s parasitic, and yaten 
N de burned, and the soil where 
ted plants have grown should be thoroughly mixed with 
— if arailable; if not the soil should be burnt, so as to 
d 
preventive. 
and 2 in a warm place for three days, the fungus, if present, 
wi w itself under the form of snow-white strands and 
ttt wy eses m.’ 
A vote of thanks was unanimously given to Mr, Massee for 
his important investigation, 
EDINBURGH BOTANICAL. 
E 13.— This 3 met on Thursday evening, 
8 the Lecture Hall of the 
Royal — Garden, * Rev. De. Paul in the 
chair, 
Mr. , Curator of the garden, in his monthly 
report on the e B. in the the garden stated the month of 
and ohrade, and ve been generally favourable to the trees 
amongst 
punctata, Veron 
Dianthus neglectus, D. purni and several 
p pinifolia, Ionopsidium acaule, Wahlenbergia gracilis 
prira 
p Boyp, Faldonside, in a few remarks upon Sagina Boydii, 
that although distributed through the country freely, 
though pro, 
Self-registering t N um, icated 
74°2° on the 30th; minimum, 39°0° on the 2nd and 5th, Mean 
a, 60°3°; mean of i of month, 
52°1°=3 6° above average for May for years. 
hygrometer, 52°3° ; mean of wet 
bulb, 48 4°. Dew point, 44" 5°; and humidity, 74 8ů per cent. 
126°0° on the 28tb. gopa on grass 28 0° on the 8th and 
sunshine 
was recorded t. of possible i 
felt on 11 ays, Total fall, 1-000 inch, ä 
0 380 
* 
Mr. GRIEVE 
— — the crossing 
long n ar x 
exhibited a fine display of Violas, both early 
which he has spent 
Mr. R. E Mao pure ii” Notes on Plantsin Plant- 
houses,” and exhibited several specimens therefrom. 
YORKSHIRE GALA. 
Jons 19, 20, anv 21.—The thirty-seventh exhi- 
bition, held under the auspices of this Committee, 
numerous as they been on some f occa- 
yet they were very 
FOLIAGE 
Mr. Letts, gr. to Lord Z 5 „was not a com- 
. to the 
Redcar, in pr agg ir reer i 
