igi THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Frsnvanr 5, 1887, 
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twiner, throwing long shoots, which are sup- is esteemed as the best white so far as free angle. It is dedicated to Herr a eae = 
ported by strings. When required for use the flowering is concerned. The keen eyes employed mann Wendland at the especial request of Mr. 
shoots are cut away and the strings removed, so here in the decorative line have selected the Sander. It is cm € - — Wendin, the 
that the graceful green фт with Misc eeepc Indian Strawberry (Fragaria indica) with yellow pues I d grand connoissew 
leaves may ed ax epergnes or blossoms asa good plant i for oram nd twining. has taken а Orchids into his greatest favour, and 
vases. The effect of this at night is lovely. Most Strawberries are well provided for trailing, has һу уе how to form an exceedingly fine col- 
Isolepis equi is here in mi armed and if 
our notes had been arranged w и 
priety, it should. ‘Save been dae 
Its weeping habit and ergo 
use as drapery for the front of groups and stages 
are weil known 
Next comes a house of Fan and other Palms— 
Latania borbonica, Cocos plumosa, C. Weddel- 
liana, Kentia Belmoreana, Areca lutescens, and 
others, some of them fine large specimen plants, 
but they are here of every size. The two kinds of 
the Date Palm which are here esteemed the best 
Pheenix reclinata and P. rupicola. There 
are hundreds of Palms which have all been out 
vious years, and some of them many times. The 
white Roses in one of the Palm-houses have not 
out of heat for six years. R. Niphetos 
planted out, had e ed ni i 
A fine sp 
men nerd (Aralia) iiem 5 feet 
high, ri thered nearly to the pot, stands at the 
entrance. 
After walking through a couple of houses of 
Chrys; 
Poinsettia pulcherrima, beautifully variegated 
with creamy-white, and with the broad, short 
bracts of superba. It has become a fixed Vena 
and we may fairly say it deserves its r 
this variety and its parent, P. superba, being the 
earliest blooming of their race. We pass next 
o Ттее Carnations, 
work, anl some flowering hybrid Rh en- 
drons, pen to before December. 
o are not experts may ike to know 
that th f Edinburgh, the 
ess of Connaught, and the Princess 
ighly esteemed 
, trite as 
ме an establishment as 
ripe, and the sorts and 
perien 
culture of the various saa planis are so well under- 
stood. 
he 
ing is куйы in su 
n à house for forcing flowers there were, on 
November 17, in and coming into bloom, Lilies 
of the Valley, Roman Hyacinths, Spireeas, white 
A plant of 
that good old Camellia, Alba plena, standing on a 
raised border at the entrance to a Camellia- 
house deserved a salute as a noble veteran and a 
great producer of flowers. BU experienced à pe 
moval 
from it a bit, having produced, і from September 28 
to November 17,350 flowers, and there were many 
thousand buds on the shrub, some of which were 
opening every day. The height of this profit- 
able Camellia is 10 feet, the diameter 14 feet, 
and the surface for flower-bearing i is as great as 
it could possibly be, the shape being globose. 
у Ilume’s blush, with its white blossom, 
сее with soft гозе, 1з also very much valued 
Of Pelargoniums we will say that the double 
мом kinds are ed for cutting till the midd'e 
single кыды sorts 
| cember, . 
follow for the remainder ot f the winter, Eureka 
and the Indian Strawberry owns special gifts in 
that respect, bestowed perhaps in compensation 
for worthless fruit. We now overtake, in a stove, 
one of the handsomest and least оза of deco- 
rative plants—Alpinia albo linea The roof 
of one department f a stove is оа with 
Dipladenia boliviensis, whic s eight 
of the same temperature as the house. 
In a propagating house, full of old favourites, 
we noticed Dracena Willsi, D. terminalis alba, 
а quantity of climbing Asparagus, Croton Mort- 
fontainensis, one of the handsomest of a handsome 
race, richly coloured; C. Morti, with large 
. Hawkeri, 
Here we must stop, but not 
for want of more material. 
We may add that Mr. William Spinks, for- 
merly the horticultural manager of the Aston 
Lower Grounds, is the general manager of this 
establishment, and will be ciis id many, 
as one of the old Chiswick students. 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY. 
PHAIUS x SEDENIANUS, Rehb. f., Hort. Veitch. 
A LovELY hybrid, the fourth member ofthe x irro- 
I have to thank for it Mr. H 
strong, ae ا‎ iei پا‎ been laden 
with thirteen herein ird 
Phaius Tankervilliz. Sepals and pet tals premi 
sepals rather broad, pe Eee washed with sulphur 
inside. Lip large fine, npn _thee-obed 
lateral bibo broad, бае mid lob rt, square, 
emarginate, blunt angled. All lori broad i ight 
purple, disc sulphur-colovred, with three parallel 
keels. Spur curved, surpassing half length of stalked 
ovary. Н. G. Rehb. f. 
MasbEvALLia Minis n. sp.* 
em, im New Granada, or if г 
preferit the United States, peser by Mr. F. San 
where it is just in rich flower during the mne 
days. You may safe ely co it to Masdevallia 
tubulosa, Lindl., and minuta, Lindl. It forms dense 
masses of spatulate minutely bilobed leaves mt 
are surpassed by the slender peduncles, even lon 
than 3 inches, a "n bearing а i lovely абаа 
flower two-thirds of an inch i ength. The legs 
are Piae al to (n ва triangular ree The chin 
y short one. Colour snow-white, with two or 
da mauve т ош tside, ‘under the place of the 
lip. Petals 
mal 
like dark purple spots. Column white, with vui 
longitudinal mauve stripes, one on back, one on each 
* Masdevallia bares iana, 
n. sp.— ubulos-e, 
Lindl., ac minute, Lind 
oblongo tu 
—Aft, 
ceespitosa ; foliis petiolatis 
Len be tater tibus, vix 
lon ngiori 
uplo 
monanth tubo ar arcto; se s sepalis triangulis liberis abbreviatis in 
ligulatis ; apiculatis ; carinula laterali na; labello ligulato ; 
laciniis — in diseum Mene айык а oblongis minu 
columna trigona i 
Ex Nov. обаа, imp. ex c. Sander, 
sime crenulate egredienti 
derseli tri tridentata. 
lection оез by his unrivalled sagacity in finding 
ut where s 
This grand collecti tion is grown prin- 
ciples, so that nearly all tini do admirably well. 
It was quite refreshing to me to hass the other day 
the greatest majority, kept i 
What breaks may then be e expected to соте! Н, G. 
Rckb. f. 
mething extra = lurks unexpected, 
er rational 
e greatest rest, 
CYPRIPEDIUM AMANDUM X, nov. Lor Angl., 
_ Mr. W. Bull ] 
. ab exc. Bow 
д 
by M 
Thus it should be 
know particularly well, we 
the Hamburgh Botanic Garden ; 
Ha 
markably distinct. 
¥. ToC; sila Forest Farm, Windsor Forest. 
our FPP a fine thing I 
е having a fine 
mass of it 
it is most re- 
Med hex: pte ps leaves are far 
ot by 14 inch, and with a 
most sharp keel in nde Wess of the back, bidentate 
and a little serrate (!) at the top, dark green with very 
numerous ы кеч freckles 
To begin 
longer and narrower, 1: 
posterior side, those 
the keel up t 
т The flower is more —— than that » Cypri- 
sepal oblon 
the Ste 0 
pedium Crossianum ; up 
от narrow, chiefly green, with rows ve small dark 
sepia-black spots, white at the top and at ba outside 
margins ; 
descendent, ligulate 
the middle, 
much more of it 
lip rather slender, with curv 
at the base of the 
с acute, 
inferior sepal oblong acute, gree 
nt acute, оше оош 
mouth, light yellow, brown ar 
staminode reniform 
with a fi 
much eem “ene the ovary, w 
mauve like 
e, blu 
with brick- red paint on both sides, us 
rm, with a small apiculus, yellov,. 
een nerves in the middle of the brac', 
with numerous blackish- 
peduncles reddish-brown, hairy. 
I think it is a s nice plant. H. G. Rchb. 
SPATHOGLOTTIS REGNIERI, 5. sp.* 
This is very near сечен E gro f 
has shorter -os 
two rar: The 
ther 
of i long sisi: 
The callus is white with brown Les but 
no stripes on i EM al M P Rega 
in Coc 
It was discovered 
ler, 
PRODUCT 
OF THIRTY-ONE | 
DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF VINES. 
RO .W. 
November 26, 1886, s 
In 1886 all the Vines were prune 
canes, and trained on 
show a heavier crop than t 
permanently charged, w e greatly 5 
their lives. 
ays, the experimental 
plot at Cupartino, California, placed at the 
T. Doyle, two p 
stakes, so 
adequate Ey A for experimental wine making. 
rofessor, must be taken i 
as to ins 
* Spathoglot 
Мечо, 
det. exc. Regnier. H. С. Reh 
majus crim 
laterales; angulis unguis basilaribus pics nig 
b. ft 
s Hegnieri.—VaMle aff. Spathoglott 
foliis contrac latioribus; ; pedunculo brevius piloso 
semper ?) ri labelli 
idi Lobbi: 
4 
in Chin 44, "Avenue Я 
Marigny, job B Bois Seine. H. G. Rchb.f. A 
oso bifloro (89. 
put parie ; 
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