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Fie. 77.—cyPHOMANDRA BETACEA: 
sand re? flowers; in 1886 it had thirteen flowers, 
* Pike was not taken. 'The lant has six 
EI and is throwing a second spike from the bulb 
: um аз above. It is 
ithout any grin delicate light cream, back of 
m tinged with rose, W 
ead great merit, e as it happensto be in flower at 
Present time I give it in reply to Mr, Crawshay's 
THE TREE TOMATO, (SEE P. 386.) 
desire that growers would give their experience, We 
have other plants puo] spikes 2 feet long, with 
fifteen blooms. J. McPhail, Gardener to Col, Cooper, 
Markree Castle, Sligo. 
CYPRIPEDIUM GARDNERI, 
A handsome new C dium has recently been 
found in New Guinea, or rather in Jobi Island, a 
small island on the north-west of New Guinea, 
which would be a decided ERE if success- 
al 
fully introduc ultivation. It i lied to 
philippinense, better known C. beta 
but the twisted are said to be much shorter, 
being only twice the length of th p, and 
the colouring of the sepal of a far "ires аен" 
is described by Dr. Е. Н. mard, 
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in his recently published work, The "Cres of the 
Marchesa to Kamschatka and New Guinea, vol. i Is 
e nda near the village 
there were few striking flowers, 2 at least, few that 
we had not met t mb elsewhe A Nepenthes, 
which grew i abundance, w with dwarfed and 
ungracefully PL pitchers, was, however, new to 
2 bottom o 
large tree. This latter Orchid was very handsome 
h as regards shape and colouring, the flower- 
same colour, less distinctly striated.” The buds 
is an uidet д ол one, this being the second speci 
w known from New Guinea, C. glanduliferum 
i n ed Fits by Blume many years ago, 
though it does not appear to have since been met 
with by any one, 
CYPRIPEDIUM CALLOSUM, 
We learn that there is now in flower in Mr. Tautz's 
collection another plant of this species besides that 
recently figured, and the dorsal sepal of which mea- 
sures no less than 3 inches across. 
MAXILLARIA PORPHYROSTELE, 
tty species, allied to M. picta, 
though “differently нас ed and less dini: It isa 
vigorous but compact grower, and when seen in a 
large mass уер! numerous flowers—as in the plant 
ring in the cool-house at Kew—it is de- 
4 inch across, light greenish-yellow in 
colour, with a few purple lines towards буч base of 
the petals, and a purple column. It w d 
from Brazil, from the province of Rio Grand o Sul, 
by Mr. yog Bull, and flowered for the dm time 
іп 1873. R. A. Р, 
CATTLEYAS AT Howick House, Preston. 
ith'this post I am sending you some flowers of 
Cattleya Trianz, which are a fair sa ple of a fine 
ot we t present flowering here. Our first 
s ned ın the 
December, M gra wenns ar main чу pushed 4 
borts i 
until at the элби deis we Зө 280 blooms open 
of the first to open have been e, ji 
ever, many now in flower that have kept perfectly 
fresh for six weeks. 
You will notice amongst — sent some varieties 
of the varieties, although we consider some of thcse 
in advance of the usual type that they 
&re worthy of some bep appellation. 
white form vm m opening— 
u ach division, 
des of colour, to the dark and striking 
= similar to those sent. 
always seems to me € this winter- flowering 
Кым should be gr nlarge numbers in every 
garden in which the pem of Orchids is carried on. 
I can well remember the time when one of the most 
famous collections round London could boast of 
