Остовев 12, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
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aisers, Messrs. Jas. Veitch & боп, Royal Exotic 
— King’s Road, Chelsea, at the meeting of 
the Orchid Committee of the Royal оу teen 
Society held at rotg ny on September 5, 
was awarded a t-class Certificate. The iude 
and petals а М. a soft rosy-lilac, with an inde- 
acribably benntifal tracery of bright — lines, 
The labellum is ofa glowing magen le hue, 
the outside of the side lobes e an: purple 
veining. 
years naturalised in Mauritius, where it was intro- 
ew ed fro m Sou th America in 3 * —— it 
twenty years 
since, It is aleo — 7 India and Ceylon 
An interesting this industry in 
oats was aeg in * Kew Bulletin for 
90, p. 98, 
spines. The species (this identical plant, no doubt) 
firat беоне at Kew in the Sacculent-house їп 1860, 
and as the plant does 1 flower till it has attained 
9 size, th imen under notice is 
probably half a century old. 
CEREUS TRIANGULARIS, 
There were no fewer than thirty-six magnificent 
flowers expanded one morning this week upon a 
plant of this night. lowering Cactus in the Sacculent- 
Fic, 74,—LJELIO-CATTLSYA CLONIA SUPERBA; ROSY LILAC, LIP PURPLE, 
KEW NOTES. 
Furcræa GIGANTEA,— This plant may now be seen 
in ое 1 in the Sac эч house at Kew, or rather 
outside it, the ur having pushed cà through the 
roof to a height of 25 feet. The 
scarcely any atem, consists of a large retis of about 
sixty leaves, which are about 5 feet long and 6 inches 
broad, spineless, bright green, and is a striking — 
even when out o 10 
perish as the result of flowering. The last time this 
species flowered at Kew was in 1874. This is one 
of the most important of hoa cre. plants. It is 
kroxn commercially as auritius Hemp-plant, 
or Green Aloes (Ais. uit having been many 
PitCAiRNIA PERRUGINEA 
There is a large example of this, the largest of 
itcairnias, in the 
where the comparatively cool | appears 
hago: it, the head ef Laven SURE DET MUN dost 
blue colour, afterwards ch to white. Acc 
ing to Mr. Baker, 22 н — toa height ot 
12 feet, with a ste п’ arm. The 
Kew plant has a dini 6 їпсһев іп — and 
see а mas branches or rosettes of leaves; these 
e about long and 2inches wide, shining green 
iii, whitish beneath, the margins armed with stout 
all 
house at Kew, 
house at Kew. The brighi vette. ma bann Аай. 
' has given flowers — 
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f the night-flowering 
— — distinctly trigonous, and the flowers 
are across, narrow reflexed sepals coloured 
Mae. and the lanceolate petals milk- 
white with а large cluster of bright yellow stamens 
filling the whole cup. The Kew plant is trained 
along the rafters of an unshaded house of interme- 
diate temperature, but it would be happier if trained 
against a wall to which its aérial roots might 
cling. 
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