882 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Marc 19, 1887, 
SHRUBS. many grand varieties of C. Trianæ in bloom, one O. c. Ballantinei and other grand forms. In bloom 
white one, Mese has much the form of C. Wagneri are О. c. delliense, О. Hrubyanum, О. Andersoni- 
being very distinct; but the best of all is C. T. anum flavum, О. Hallii, O. Sanderianum ; severa 
Schroderi, whieh when size, form, substance, and good О. Pescatorei, О. Oerstedi majus, a beauty with 
colour are considered, would probably be passed by fourteen large white flowers; О. aspersum splendens, 
competent judges as the best Trianz extant. Also many scarlet Sophronites, О. Rossi majus, and О, 
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The pruning of shrubs should be carried on as 
rapidly as possible, but in the case of shrubs that 
flower caution must be exercised, else the display of 
flowers will be sadly diminished. Those which flower 
n the past year's growth had better be left alone 
Sail tha flowering period has passed, but the less ЇЇ flower in the Cattleya-house are some grandly Cervantesi, and in the centre of the a fine 
pruning such receive the better. The following are flowered specimens of Dendrobium Wardianum and specimen of Masdevallia ignea with about 150 
some of the subjects which finer on the past season’s D. nobile, one of which is ipeum with chocolate eye; flowers. Other rare things are expanding in the 
growth :—Almond, Andromeda, ‚ Chimon- the lovely and unique D. Wardianum-crassinode, a Masdevallia-house, and about the whole of the well- 
thus fragrans, Кайшаз, Rhododendrons, Caly- S@PPose alia den own L. acuminata, kept establishment the cleanness and freshness of 
canthus Fothergilli, Cherry, Hawthorn, Philadelphus, эр“ t T нле їп ане a ve a the d , е about the plants, 
: is 
Deutzia, Daphne Mezereon, Jasmine, Ribes, Weigela, prens «e strong plants of hybrid Lalas соз нА, гда аав e good culture as 
Symphoricarpus. The subjoined flower on the present е p" 
year's growth :—Genista, Gleditschia, Tamarix, late- pm P ;ne-house adjoining are some im- In an ordinary cold greenhouse the plants of Disa 
flowering Spirmas, Broom, Hypericum, Coronilla, men SM 3. cristata in flower with good ones grandiflora are vigorous beyond compare. Their 
Colutea, Clethras, Magnoli papiidonm .; The fO. iana, C. c. alba, C. ocellata maxima; pots are plunged i sphagnum moss, and the situation 
ad spring flowering shrubs are very effective a pair of Dendrobium Ainsworthii with about 0 in which they are placed is light, cool, and airy 
— Common Almond, Cydonia ` japoni blooms between them, D. heterocarpum, эе monili- ТА S se 
When. planted on i's wall with a south-west exposure forme, and the new D. euosmum leucopteru BEE OPIER ОК, РЕТРО ИСИ 
Prunus divaricata is a УЕ P 2A subject; Mag- In another warm house Odontoglossum Roezlii i is The information given by De B. Crawshay, Esq. 
nolia Soulangeana makes a fine feature on a 
wall, as does also бшш. үтүе йы, W. M. Baillie, 
Luton Hoo 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
CYPRIPEDIUM VENUSTUM VAR. PARDINA. 
Cyprirepium venustum has been а resident in 
In our times, however, the genus has multiplied to 
such an extent that itt takes a good venustum to 
жуг its own. С. venustum var. pardina, the subject 
our illustration (fig. 76), taken from Mr. F. G. 
Тапа collection at Goldhawk Road, Shepherd’s 
dark chocolate. The lip is greenish-yellow, tinged 
ee rose. Bes v. spectabile, of Williams, is also a 
ery handsome flower of medium size, but bright 
ion and dad — espe All the 
varieties 
ORCHIDS AT THE DELL, EGHAM. 
There is an air of comfort and sturdy strength 
about Baron Schroder’s Orchids, and in the larger 
and warmer houses the plan adopted there of 
arranging them with specimen plants of such things 
as Anthurium Andreanum, A. Warocqueanum, 
Alocasia Veitchii, &c., not only conduces to their 
more effective display but evidently alsó to their 
es of 
pediums especially delighting in the situations given Fic. 76.—CYPRIPEDIUM VENUSTUM VAR. PARDINA. 
them at 'The Dell, in houses containing plants 
with fine foliage. Among the Cypripediums the 
queen of all hybrid forms, С. Morgane, figured from 
plants in Gard. Chron., vol. xxv vi, p. 241, is again superbly in flower, and the Bolleas and Pescatoreas (p. 249 of your — - February "n 
in bloom with three н of eleven splendid flowers. well set with bud, as are also Phaius tuberculosus of spikes an nd num of flowers of Odon 
The variety is matchless, and reminds us very much апа other rare plants. Also in bloom are the true crispum must be ein niin great interest 
of the famed C. Stonei ge Arq Also among Calanthe Turneri and numerous forms of C. Regnieri, of your readers, especially to those situa 
the Cypripediums in bloom here are C. microchilum, ^ and a strong plant of C. Textorei. The Phalænopsis, and out-of-the-way parts of the country, tis di 
а Шу white hybrid; C. vexillarium, C. Lindley- too, seem to have made themselves at home at the have little chance an nd opportunities of seeing Mr 
anum, a very curious species with hairy yellow Dell, but only P. Schilleriana is in bloom. Ойу collections except those under their own charge. x 
Бн C. concolor, C. Godefroye, С. Harrisia- fine things showing buds in quantity аге the Vandas; Crawshay gives the history of а plant imported 
num superbum, С. euryandrum, С. villosum, the large and healthy lot of Odontoglossum vexil- f 
C. Lowii, C. Haynaldianum, C. barbatum Warneri, larium, the fine Cymbidium eburneum and С, Low- those having it under their с charge; and in a ont 
C. Argus C. Reebeleni, C. callosum, and many {ап In the cool houses the unique collection of to the plant at Lythe Hall as having а undo 
varieties of C. insigne. In the same house Vanda hybrid and spotted Одан is in fine order, 2 feet long, and carrying fifteen agay but 
he length 
glossum 
to a ‘a number 
Cathcarti has four spikes, Angraecum sesquipedale, as they should be, considering the care mi Ballan- himself has a number of eem over 2 feet long. 
is well furnished with bloom ; A. Leonis, and the rare tine bestows on them. No expense is d in thatthe greatest number of he go spike 
Dendrobium Ruckerianum, D. am ety anything likely to benefit the condition of the plants, now is thirteen. Ienclose you а — "i 
the white forms of Dendrobium macrophyllum and to this end, notwithstanding a се storage for 28 іпсһез long and carrying seventeen € e dn 
plant of the rare hig variety of D. bigibbum, pa pastor already existing, a new underground first flower is situated 9 inches from the — 
others are in flow tank capable of ыы 24,000. йы, has just spike, and the flowers occupy the other ni 
` "The beauty sis Cattleya-house at The Dell has been completed. the largest bloom (enclosed) is 5} inches wa in an 
often been described, an it suffices to say that the In the cold-houses is the beginning of what will the smallest ё inches; the plant was im 1889; 
i Rooms 
a grand display of Odontoglossums, many fine imported state at Mr. Stevens 
O. crispums being already in bloom, and in bud it flowered for the first time im 1888, a small spit 
