LIMEN ee V S, 
пи Кыт з SES 
seems unaccountable to the generation which has 
ce and takes the general principle of 
evolution as a “ working bypothesis " as a matter 
of course. or the condition of things that 
existed at the time, HvxrEv was just the right 
man. Generally well read in science, literature, 
and philosophy, exceptionally familiar with the 
details of his subject, clear in logic, incisive 
its first inflorescence, secured after something like ten 
years careful tending, in this showy bybrid we have a 
remarkable instance of the good work of the — 
in neers new garden plants, The species d 
issimilar as they can well be, and have little i in 
poh Bey except that they both inhabit Burmese terri- 
tory. : Da tho ousieanum was first introduced in 1837, 
he former 
has tall tere rete stems, leafy when young, and the latter 
clavate pseudo-bulbs, bearing a few leaves at the top, 
and yet in bybrid the amalgama 
Messrs, Укгтсн'ѕ 
Jorr 6, 1895. THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 15 
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subject, except at second-hand, fearful of DENDROBIUM X ILLUSTRE (chrysotoxum?, lip being purple, It is a remarkably interesting and 
assaults that would never have been made, they Dalhousieanum d ).— Even so far as can be judged by when it wae exhibited by 
beautiful plant now; 
Messrs, Jas. Үктсн & N at the g of the 
Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticaltural 
Society, June 25, it received a First-class Certific 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The next 
meeting of the Royal 2 Бейит E will be 
held in the Drill Hall, James Stree 
Westminster, on Tuesday, Jaly 9, —— a special 
show of Roses will be attractive feature. At 3 
o'clock, Mr. Francis Danwix will deliver a lecture on 
“ The effects of Darkness on the forms of plants. 
Fia. T— X ILLUSTRE: FLOWERS YELLOW; LIP PURPLE, 
in speech, C 
railers and vituperators soon found they had 
Id be appreciated, 
Hvxrzv, though a naturalist in the broad 
little 
is 
paper on Gentians, in the Journal of the Linnean 
Society, is suggestive rather than practical. 
tion of the two is distinctly traceable, the swollen 
chryso- 
alhousieanum often has ten or twelve 
п flowera may be expected from 
hybrid on its gaining WP curious circam- 
ia the resemblance in some particule which 
its flowers are thicker in substance, and of a clear, 
shining straw-rellow, the markings on the downy 
t. ORAL D 
EG. Loin aeter sir ci coord eet 
а foreign potentate whom ; 
of plants and flowers instead of a 
and by the 
