86 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jory 13, 1895, 
CarrLEYA Harpyana X var, LiwpENI, Lindenia, 
t. ed) xviii. 
A gorgeous variety, with deep rosy-lilac segments, 
lip blotched with golden yellow in the throat, with 
the anterior lobe slightly frilled, rich carmine- 
coloured. 
CYPRIPEDIUM LrTTLBANUM X. 
In the current number of the Orchid Review are 
ription 
H. Little be . Lawrenceanum, 
and perhaps С. Dace pem Born 
Orcuips AT Farr Oax Lopas, 
Mr, W, A. Gillett, the owner of Fair Oak, near 
Eastleigh Junction, on the London and South- 
We „is a connoisseur of Orchids, 
койы cultivator. The gardener when he cam 
good share of common sense has become ы 
as ап orchidist, It would be difficult for anyone to 
fiad fault with the state = the plants under his care. 
the ion of a recent visit to this garden [ 
found in the cool-house vonder, of plants of Odon- 
spikes, I у arrying twenty-five 
blooms; of i ia in noteworthy 
examples, namely, one with three new pseudo-bulbs 
and ten flow ikes, carrying 
evallias 
Oncidium ampliatum majus and С, sphacelatum 
re was remarked a capital lot of plants (sixty) 
of eh Phalænopais Sc 
bn 
rencianum, caudatum, Roezlii, calurum, W. а 
num, bellatulum, and á capital bin of niveum, form 
part of the collection, A plant of Calanthe Turneri 
nivalis was making most satisfactory growth, as was 
also one of C. Veitchii, A specimen of Cattleya 
gigas ка“ is gave promise of some good flowers 
shortly. Robust plants which had been in fine flower 
this season were remarked of Vanda auavis, Cattleya 
Mosais, C. Mendeli, and Lelia purpurata. E. M, 
3. 
IS LINDENI, 
From the Journal des Orchidées for June 16, we 
take чар Mero account of Phalænopais ече 
—“ This new ed 
bracteis parvis acutis; , Perigonii phyla 
obtusa, iam (versus nervum aan subrosea) ; 
lobi 
laterales oblongi- 
obtuai, — 6 basin interiorem 
scutello vel callo bilobo aurantiaco ычы sur — 
atriis quinque purpureis, basi albidus, medio superiori 
amethystinus.“ 
The foliage of this resembles а little that 
of P. Schilleriana, but 
lezenge-shaped. М, Loher noticed that no other 
Pha! snopsis grew in the spot whence this new 
apecies was taken 
PEIS СОБНО, 
ined from p 
Ілммжоѕ was ag r of the many E Ede friends 
and correspondents of Collinson. The great Swedish 
naturalist visited England, and a life-long acquain- 
tance between the ko men was formed. The 
British Museum contains copies of two letters which 
the English naturalist addressed to Linnæus, dated 
respectively 1739 and 1767 (2 Add. MSS., 28,545, 
ff, 140, 140b), the earlier of which runs as follows: 
* Dear Friend, I could not omit so convenient an 
opportunity by my worthy friend, Dr. Dillenius, to 
enquire after your welfare, and give you joy on your 
marriage. May much happiness attend you in that 
state, I аш glad of this conveyance to express my 
gratitude for the particular regard shown me in that 
curious, elaborate work, the Hortus Cliffortianus, 
Something. I think, was due to me from the Common- 
wealth of Botany for the great number of plants and 
seeds I ne annually ES from abroad, and e 
ата ha 
eternity, botanically speakin g; that. is, а name as 
ong as men and books endure," "The plant to which 
Collinson E is, of course, the Collinsonia cana- 
densis, which is ed in the above-mentioned 
work of Linnzus (Amsterdam, 1737). 
e MS. department of the British Museum con- 
tains many hundred letters written by and addressed 
te Collinson, who appears to have been the guide, 
philosopher and friend of nearly all the celebrities, 
botanical and horticultural, of the period. There are 
many from the Duke of Richmond, who was living at 
tions in and additions to the gardens there. The 
subject of the present sketch was a frequent visitor, 
and so was his young son Michael. The letters 
which passed between them were of the most cordial 
nature; one of them, for example, ending thus: 
“ Adieu, my dear Peter, this cruel weather [the letter 
was written February 16, 1747-8], putte me ыл out 
of all patience, butt in froat, or anow, wett w er 
nde 
have them, tho’ I believe nobody else will be fool 
enough to buye any at that price.” Collinson was 
also a frequent visitor t Holland House, in the early 
fifties of the last tury. Henry Fox, the cele- 
brated Lord Holland, father of the even more famous 
les James sig had not yet been elevated to - 
peerage; whatever may have been his failings as 
3 бее сап Бе по question that he was 
n adventurer of a very queatio and now, 
per obsolete type—his friendship for ae 
genu h 
not then ы by bricks and mortar, and 
even moa Оа and Tottenham Court Road were 
country fields 
Peter Collinson’ s place of business was at the Red 
Lion, in рече Street, Тһе name of his 
lace suggests to of to-day a public- house; but 
the fashion of dee houses had not yet come 
into vogue, and, as а consequence, all the principal 
garden. Thron his marriage wi 
of + Bashell, of Mill Hill, Hendon, in 1724, he 
into possession of this place. 
thence, 
take effect until a quarter of a century 
—— 
He himself tells us, under date April 8, 1749, “re. 
moved from my house at 
he gardens at 
Peckham and Mill Hill bad зона ме 
for this non-compliance with ale: wishes is thu 
given in a letter of his, dated May 12, 1756, to Lin. 
репа: — You must remember I am a merchant, a 
man of great business, with many affairs in my head 
and on my hands, I can never pretend е Дан 
catalogue of my garden unless I had опе of your 
ingenious pupils to digest or methodize fis а 
Collinson began early to keep an alphabetical 
dn tu of the plantawhich he cultivated, At 11 
bound 
up with the seventh энер edition of Millers Dic- 
tionary, pas i e possession of his son-in- 
law, ake Cater, d — nham, Kent, and there it 
— until 1809, nearly, if not quite, unknown. In 
tenth volume of the Linnean Society's Transac- 
M eerie. gave some account of it, A quarterofa 
century later, Lambert obtained it, with Collinson’s 
copies of the sixth and eighth editions of Miller, 
studded with notes 
с 
$4 
1 ivately 
printed, in his Hortus быйан, 1843, all these 
notes, &c., and from which it appears that Collinson 
introduced 119 plants. It would be interesting to 
know of the whereabouts of these three editions of 
Miller, annotated by Collinson, although Dillwyn’ 
exceedingly interesting and valuable excerpts doubt- 
es include all of the notes which possess permanent 
yy om strongly urged the American colonitts 
to eultivate flax, hemp, silk, and wine, which led to 
the cultivation of — industries in several of the 
tes, Collinson was a liberal contributor to the 
collections of the British Museum; and, according 
This was not carried into effect, for what reason it 
is not now known. Collinson died while on a visit 
— 
e Lord Petre in Essex, and enclosed in his will | 
as а paper importing “that he hoped he should 
Nat behind him name, 
days he constantly aimed to be a friend to 
mankind," Dr. 
account of his friend i British Museum 
which hè 
Fothergill wrote a privately- printed ` 
п 1770, the 
biography contains an exceedingl i 
Collinson, ieri 1 J. Miller; ТТ this — 
reduced fro to octavo size, with the detail! 
slightly altered, was reproduced by Nichols in his T 
Literary Anecdotes, whence the illustration g vent 
p. 6 is derived. W. Roberts T 
Se 
COOMBE COURT, KINGSTON- 
N-THAMES 
Tue grounds here (the residence of W. A. Bevat, 
Esq), are extensive and picturesque. They were 
laid е some years ago by 
3 may be obtained some fine landscape 
embracing a wide stretch of the Surrey hills. 
masses of Rhododendrons, — 
flowering shrubs are features 
fne effect. Some named ieties 
dendrons are grown, specially noticeable at the 
t n were taken being Waterer, ^^. 
Queen, Francis Dickson, and Lady Palmerston 
in the peaty soil, and the Rhododen 
dron beds are edged with them, That han 
о! ea, В, Darwinii, here; 
profusion 
f the Berberises, 
the plants become covered with & 
