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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Mancu 20, 1887. 
attained their full development. Then—in March 
—the new growth appears at the bases of these 
latter bulbs. It is the time of awakening. 
Here is a fact which has often struck me: the 
bulbs of plants fully exposed to the sun are 
always large, hard, and of a reddish colour, the 
leaves leathery and broad; whilst those plants 
which, grow more in the shade have longer and 
thinner bulbs and leaves. This may be noticed. even 
to grow in the sun, and others in slight shade. 
These indications are sufficient to show what 
is the proper mode of ake to be followed in 
our houses. № nce of eleven years has 
taught me that good тестен? д depends chiefly 
on 
ings, and free ventilation. 
varieties of Lelia anceps, both red and white, in 
pots with turf, on wooden blocks, in baskets, and 
on rafts, always with little planting material, 
and I have succeeded, except when I employed 
sphagnum, which retains moisture too long, and 
destroys the young roots. 
As eum —- duc cui I have fonnd that 
during when the houses must be 
arfietelly | ا‎ the less heated and most arid 
part of the Cattleya-house suits them admirably ; 
but these plants, and especially the red-flowered 
forms, are also satisfied with the Odontoglossum- 
in the morning and three in the afternoon, and 
if water be not spared, 
It is advisable that L. anceps should have so 
Siwetihg t the following year than those which 
flower later on, as this species requires a decided 
rest and prefers to recommence growth later 
than March. 
I have often heard great — con- 
of L. pei but which I find vinjustifad; dis 
is nothing more easy grow these 
plants as "well м the type; with. the exception 
mperatur 
they come 
from c coast, which is warmer than 
that of the Gulf of Mexico, 
` L. anceps is widely distributed along the 
eastern side of the Cordilleras, from Jalapa 
southwards to Mong There are many varieties 
Barkeri, and later 
- on L. а. Dawsoni, hd by M. Finck in the neigh- 
bourhood of Cordova, growing on a tree which 
was covered with it, but which was stripped in 
1874 by an Indian Gollector, who sold the plants 
in Mexico, where they were all lost. In more 
kî E times es the new and chaste varieties known 
as 
of E io 8° F. higher in winter as 
the ifi 
trosmum, O. pulchellum, O. læve, O. Reichen- 
heimi, Oncidium tigrinum, O. stellig gerum, &c., оп 
the eastern side. What was my surprise when, in 
€ one of my collectors announced that he had 
lia anceps with white flowers. 
pred ces were sent off to me, the collector 
the following brief тула 
variety with flowers ренү white with a little 
2, white, with crimson (sol- 
t with blush 
flowers and сг 
After cultivating them for two years I sent 
flowers of these three types to Professor Reichen- 
bach, who called them new varieties as follows :— 
1, Lelia anceps munda ; 2, L. a. Dawsoni pallida ; 
and 3, L. a. Клайд (see Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
March 6, 1886). Since then other white varieties 
have been introduced from the Pacific coast, as 
L. a. var. Stella and L. a. var. Sandetians, of 
equal beauty. L. Kienast-Zólly, Zurich. 
PLANTS NEW OR OR NOTEWORTHY, 
*,* In order to "mE between hybrids be- 
els o 
species, Pr маме; Reichen 
forth to adopt X X o 
"ape of crosses. 
wn or uncertain de but which are 
beloved not to be species, the Professor петто 
to use the sign + 
vr Soni Amen dia х, nov. hyb., Angl. ; 
c. ab eg. Trevor Lawrence. 
his Um a was raised from Dendrobium 
Findleyanum and D. Ainsworthii. Being a hybrid, 
having one of the parents a hybrid, I give it the 
sign X X. I have to thank for it = Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., M.P., P.R.H.S., who would ap- 
pear not only to have splendid successes in th 
production of fish hybrids, but also to select only 
species of clear colours to get elegant and brilliant 
products. It is a well known experience а ам 
are hybrids of very sordid colour, which a 
good to fill € aan v which might be vien 
prevented fro e eye of the visitors by 
never being ит to fenore the negative charms 
d sketch of the bulb 
drobium Find 
has the yellowish hue and the swollen and constricted 
parts of tl 
The flowers are broader than those which we see 
in the remarkable plant of the Rev. C. S. P. Parish. 
in i Sepals ligulate, blunt-acute, 
purple apicular parts. 
flowered аА had dark 
the sepals, but a larger нк кз їп Матсһ, 
had no such rose Petal hite, purple 
at the apex. lip is of s lightest йар 
white with i vet "cus: 2 es cushion at 
the base, а oran around, purple lines 
radiate ê the cabo. à and the acute apex is 
purple too. The second flowe whiter. The 
white column has purple lines in front, which were 
broader and less numerous in the last flower. That 
flower had developed no more pollen at all. It was 
larger than those I obtained in February. 
plants are stated to be five years old. 
This Dendrobium chrysodiscus is a lovely thing, 
and its system of growth with purple stems is far 
Dendrobium Findleyanum as those I had in 1880 fro 
Sir Trevor Lawrence. Mr. Spiers had added a label, 
“the largest I have ever seen.” I have a very fin 
ater sketch of a plant of Dendrobium 
тано ris cars by Mrs. E. Parish, — € 
me by the . C. S. P. Parish. The flow 
аз we see hen in the species named, Those. of Sir 
Trevor in 1880 are comparable to the flowers of 
Dendrobium Wardianum itself. I may state at once 
that e Vipan has raised a similar fine thin ng. 
Н. G. Ведь 
DENDROBIUM 
MELANODISCUSX X, n. hyb., Angl; 
educ 
ab eg. Trevor Lawrence, 
This is the inverted cross of Dend drobium chry- 
of Dr. 
Harry Veitch. There 
Den 
dk: prote blackis purple: spot = wa disc = bes 
m as this does. Iti or Lawr 
5 ALP. PER HSH G. Rehb ie 
Narcissus BULBOCODIUM x PsEvpo-Nancissvs. 
Mr. Barr has vd sent me this from the neigh- 
bourhood of Opo where it was gathered by Mr. 
A. W. Tait and ome I have no doubt it is a 
hybrid between some member of the sections Corbu- 
laria and Ajax, but what form of each I cannot 
For garden nique: 
rr wishes it to be called Mrs. A. W. T 
owering time (middle of March) 
ong, 2 inch broad, slightly glaucescent, 
channelled down: the face. Peduncle slender, terete, 
ona, 14 inch long, ovary included. ‘Tube narrowly 
funnel-shaped, much tinged with green, $ inch long, 
throat 
ascending, rather shorter than the corona. Coron 
$ inch ce ашу — + inch diameter à 
meter at the 
rona. 
It differs from both Bulbocodium and Pseudo- 
be. The 
e corona; the Bulb 
rrow 
as figured by us at fig. 78, p 
MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS. 
Ow visiting ay даран Mr. Bailey of ced 
loes, who has essfully conducted 
at the present time of the 
