Мо+кмвекв 9, 1895.] 
THE GARDENSRS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1895. 
REAT SALE 
OF ORCHIDS, 
By order of Messrs. F. SANDER anp CO., St. Albans, 
SANDERS MONTANA 
CATTLEYAS, 
FROM BEYOND SANTAYUNI. 
SEE DRIED FLOWERS. 
Types of Sanderiana, Sandere gigas, 
imperialis, ehrysotoxa, Hardyana, 
white gigas, Oweniana, &c. 
1000 GRAND PLANTS 
WITHOUT ANY RESERVE. 
Collected inthe entirely new district of 
MONTE ANGELOS. 
These trackless mountains are now being 
searched, for the first time, by our Collector and 
a native 
The varieties of gigas are said to be astounding. 
SNOW-WHITE GIGAS VAR. 
The dried flowers we shall show on the day 
of sale, with white sepals and petals and red 
llums, are wonderful, and quite new and 
splendid. Also chrysotoxas, with red and yellow 
Jabellums and white sepals and petals, This 
SANDERIAN TYPE 
CATTLEYA 
Is the most gorgeous of all the genus, unap- 
proached and unapproachable. 
WITHOUT ANY RESERVE. 
NEW WHITE ANGULOA. 
ANGULOA — 8 — nEn (Sander), 
Provisionally na 
Probably ‘the white A. "Clowes 
agnifioent masses. 
NEW BLUE BOLLEA. 
Found with the new type of Cattleyas, 
Flowers a Dem blue, and c the appear- 
ce of small sau 
NEW ONCIDIUM. 
ONCIDIUM DICHROMUM (Rolfe). 
Grand new yellow and porphry-flowered species. 
New CELOGYNE BALFOURIANA 
cing long elegant spikes к oinnamo 
orange, and white flow 
NEW ACINETA COLOSSA 
Huge "TS ааа 2 Гри blossoms, 2 ft- 
long. The large, unopened | are similar to 
small apples. 
, NEW ANECTOGHIEDS: — 
ТП HARRISON VAR. 
very finest ty 
DENDROBIUM DENSIFLORUM TYPE, 
having the characteristic bulbs of D. Schroderw. 
| DENDROBIUM N OBILE, 
A type from Annam. Offer for the first iine. 
 PHALENDPSIS VARIETY, 
Type of P. grandiflora 
| Found growing un P. Sanderianus. 
&o., &o. 
For full POP MF see CATALOGUE, 
ОМ FRIDAY, 
NOVEMBER 15, 
AT HALF-PAST 12 O'CLOCK PRECISELY, 
Messrs, Protheroe & Morris, 
Will Offer the above grand New and Choice Orchids, 
| CentraL Auction Rooms, 67 a 68, Cueapsine оноон, ЁШ. 
: Melville's factor and general 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1895, 
MELVILLE CASTLE. 
NE of the most delightful excursions from 
Edinburgh is that which embraces the 
Как Roslin, 
call а horticultural pilgrimage. 
the fascination of lovely grounds and gardens, 
and held by the hospitality of Lord 
the marks of the 
tions, contrasting with 
Oak and Beech, testify. For 14 mile the Esk 
meanders through as charming a piece of 
scenery as the eye need desire — meadows 
with 1 yry Limes, 
M 
side. 
These Beeches а 
classio, if o 
8 the effects of storm 
and old age have made themselves apparen а 
in frequent gaps; but these ravages have given 
soope for the enterprise of both owner and 
manager, with good effeot in the — and the 
hope of great things in the future. А glanoe 
over the fields stretching away to the right, and 
forming the home farm, tells п Lor 
Melville is likewise an enthusiastic + cote gree 
The ps vy, and give express 
to the fertility of the Melville estate. “A 
considerable stock of — cattle, Ayrshire 
cows, and sheep, add to the anxieties of the 
manager, and,like everything else, they are in 
prime condition 
Half-an-hour’s stroll brings us to the castle, 
an imposing turretted mansion, comma nding 
a fine bit of the Esk, and surrounded b 
lawns and shenbberiss, rich in ornamental 
trees. The extensive breaks of Rh * 
many of them of recent years, must 
have a striki in the early ; 
The size of of — hes aks 
in the environs of the ind of the 
ric prominence 
its Queen Mary’s ^s Oak, and its pre- Reformation 
shrine; and, still more interesting, it is asso- 
ciated with the great Henry Dundas, the friend 
sobriquet of “ Kings of Scotland.” His monu- 
ment in St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, is the 
tribute of Scotland to his varied services and 
