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THE GARDENERS’ 
Dell hybrid Cattleya x reer te (Triansei 
his cross-bred 
plant has charming rose- pink ач with а yellow 
nd isthe most lasting 
The adjoining house is а moist, 
ае 
olacea, Phaius tuber- 
t satisfactory 
manner in a shady corner of шш ouse; and plaut 
an 
temperature and atmospheric 5 seem to be 
suited in this house. 
In the next range of three span- коө һопвея, 
in the first of which is а fine tch of the 
bronzy -leaved Begonia Gloire de Ste eaux; in 
the second, s ver groups of coloured 
uspended 
Crotons and other foliage plants, is a most charming 
s а grand 
group of Dendrobium formosum giganteum laden 
with its large site and yellow flowers 
Passing through the lofty Camelfia-house we find 
evidence of an IM gonna of success in 
he plants well in the 
great number of deciduous Dendrobiums suspended 
in the cool dry air of this house, Each one made 
splendid growth in the warmer houses, and here they 
are placed to become well ripened, andin x 
Mone fed for sorria. In this house in full sunlight 
TN mojalis thri dons в freel NIE 
In the large Daene ee. house, the vigour #0 
ted in the specimens, many of which are 
is unabated, and the plants are well 
ы, with stoat spikes. Among other things 
n flower are the beautiful orange-lipped Oacidium 
the class which here grow to a great size, one — 
of Oncidium macranthum having had nearly 
180 flowers; and Odontoglossum Edwardi, и 
— spikes ^ ke violet- coloured blooms. 
-house, about the centre of 
whiek the Picher-pane are suspended, is another 
display of obi 
> ea 
iarity in the nearly white У, t. Aurora, which 
is ee in flower and in buds of various stages of 
, noted, viz, фи пи peers Serene 
miii mes for as fast as a leaf or two is made, an 
inflorescence a „ Оа the other side is a group 
В some of the 
; g each five of their beautifal and 
H. carnea and II. 
singular flowers; osa, all 
of which are well under management in this honse, 
which seems to suit them admirab 
Next we pass to the Cypripedium- Saad in which 
there is a never-failing show, The varieties of C, 
insigne are coming on, and soon three flowers will be 
expanded on the clear yellow C. insigne Sanders, 
which is first favourite, 
of С, Spi 
k mei. X Southgatei, C. x 
c : 
X die. anda number 
g steadily i in 
strength, Arran масч 
D ged on one side e 
house are a number of specimen of Pleione maculata, 
requiring similar 
Er SM" and P. lagenaria, literally covered 
with flowe 
In the gs stove- house, the centre of which is 
thinly arranged with gigantic Anthurium Veitchii, 
A. Warocqueanum, and A. Andreanum, furn ished 
with fine scarlet spathes, is a splendid collection of 
Calanthes, some of which are coming into bloom, 
while all are furnished with stout spikes, The best 
of these, without doubt, is that gigantic and richly- 
ag ybrid, C. x Baron Schroder, raised at The 
Dell, and which it seems difficult to surpass in 
oan y. Itisa marked instance of the benefit to be 
derived by et t the very best varieties in raising 
crosses. Here are the violet-flowered Utricularias 
from Roraima pii: nded from E. roof, and 
Tights? blue ae Merge Rd NA 
profusion o sea 
Mec ны kene. Oneida aa " bzma- 
hilum, Ceelogyne Massangeana, C. speciosa, Cyc- 
noches enter dend, and with some bedutifat wilietél 
plants of Dendrobium Phalænopsis Schroderianum, 
the pure white D, Phalsnopsis Mies ale, which has 
no other colour than a faint blus e lip. 
whose long-continued good h 
to growing them Ae but not overdoing them 
& course which, he says, muat either result in 
sacrifice ini forem о or. collapse of the plant after a 
ti these were the firat plant of Cattleya 
fine healthy mass with 
original plants of Lælio-Cattleya x Dominiana and 
Dowiana x L. purpurata) 
1878, which аге no 
g the noblest of iem абат one of the 
көн plants of Т„.-С. exoniensis and various 
others which are 3 by the Baro п and his 
eee Mr. Ballantine, as old acquaintances, 
т» house is bright with flowers of Cattleyas, ен 
Perrini, Lælio-Cattleya assiope, L.-C. 
phyrostele, L.-C. X Euterpe, ind other T anà 
among plants of special interest noted 
Lamberburst hybrid Cattleya (intermedia м н Фе 
and Lelio-Cattleya x Di има Mossiæ, recently 
figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicl 
Passing to the lofty аш se, clad with 
Ferns, &c., we come to the lean-to range of cool 
ieee EEn in the first of which the plants 
of Miltonia vexillaria are grown; we find in the 
second division some of the rarer Odontoglossums 
n, and which 
always think is no Wilckeanum, for its form differs, 
its flowers are more flatly displayed, and more beau- 
tifal than those of Wilckeanum is; the very pretty О 
Wattianum, O. Sanderianum, O. (зеби album, 
O. cirrosum, and just pa 
wh has borne thirty-two noble flowers on its 
spike. Then follow the house of Masdevallias; a 
hou specimens of Cœlogyne cristata and 
pure white flowers marked with purple on the lip. 
Beyond are the house of Vanda tricolor and V. suavis 
in splendid condition, with Vanda Kimballiana and 
V. cœrulea, V nie elegans, and Meets 
giganteum, making а good show. n enter 
the small house set apart for Lycaste Skinneri, 
followed by а house in which are а num 
e stage, 
species of бынын 
е пех& тапде ‘te which Fittonias, &c., are 
1 viens possible are the collections of Aérides, 
Saccolabiums, and warm-house andas, among which 
some а examples . Sanderiana were in 
oom ere, too, is evidence that curious botanical 
plants are d alighted, for among a collection of 
CHRONICLE. 
much that he said, offsred no room 
та Bau d other 
Potties ee pes 
аге — — t The Dall, but with gy 
the Baron and his real Mr, Bal llantine, | 
unfailing method, and that is, to “ mM to 
until they are made happy. i 
How se Idom t the present day is thie 
ania seen in — ! it hav 
to three longitudinal wires up the roof under a rafter, 
just as Vines were trained to in за i 
vineries, It is planted in a — 
the hotwater-pipes that 
laying on the cloth along with suitable i 
decorating the dinner-table, Ualike pu urple fl 
cmd the peculiar shade of this Adhatoda 
ut very well under pies light, When 
do Veris: period i is e i uary, we 
plant back to the main at "n keeping the ' 
Drill Hall at the close 
interesting and well лж lecture ep 
which he delivered on the 29:h ult. Me 
ore 
an essential axiom in relation is all self. 
lising flowers that is кааны but I have 
the garden Potato to be an exception, and I 
rm to differentiate it . the various 
Satton 
hence they all d 
No doubt that ‘es is due to 
