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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Arr 16, 1887. 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM + HISTRIONICUM. 
Baron J. Н. W. von Scuroper has most kindly 
favoured me with > marvellous thing. І must con- 
fess I hav n quite enough of those 
see 
crispums and c ёре, so that they usually make 
me rx ed happy when they peep out of the boxes 
of m 
colours of a harlequin. Take ^ rge-flowered 
Odontoglossum crisp em i, with elongate 
sepals and petals, 
angle above each side. 
and wavy toothletted erose petals is a whitish, 
анс undecided ochre. А most elegant border о 
deep sepia-cinnamon spots runs around t 
and petals. The disc of the sepals shows a few larger 
of the 
ones. The lip is rhomboid, very 
toothletted, anglais broken onthe superior half, soas 
appear cordate, yellow, with some sepia-cinnamon 
blotches and marks. Column angulate, with very 
small dolabriform wings, light ochre-yellow, with 
IM marks. It does not answer to any one of the 
ings I have had perd t a name it 
histronicum, his of an erect cross means that 
I am not in the ea fooling N regard the pla 
Yet we have not the least 
The growe 
what we call. a species. 
knowledge what it is. 
it not for the great breadth of the sepals, petals, and 
most of the lip, and for the simplicity of the callus. 
Ihad rn of astonishing beauty of that variety 
from a plant of the Baroness Alice de Rothschild, 
kindly sent me by Mr. r. F. Sander. H. С. Rehb. f. 
CypRIPEDIUM ALMUM X, m. hyb. Angl.; educ. 
ab exc. Norman Cookson, 
This is a fresh product of the indefatigable 
assiduity of Mr. Norman Cookson, kindly sent me by 
Mr. Е. Sander. It is stated to be the fruit of cross- 
ing Cypripedium barbatum and C. Lawrenceanum. 
The leaf i -green, with a few 
distant hieroglyphic dark tessellations. The long 
red hairy ncle has a ve ract, and a 
ort 
much longer ovary, green, with brown ribs. e 
orsal sepal is the grand attraction of the flower— 
unusually fine. It is transverse, white, with very 
broad, clean purple, radiating nerves, which usually 
are green at the base. There are also some short green 
nerves between the inner ones. Lateral sepals connate 
into a 
little falcate, ligulate acute, brownish 
dpi on the d against sepal, 
whitish, with dark green nerves on the inferior sides, 
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with six t dark bl ior, 
four such spots оп inferior side. p very d dark, as 
in Cypripedium barbatum. Staminode forcipate, 
with an apiculus on the retracted median portion, 
much as in Cypripedium barbatum, light brown with 
The first flower I obtained had a very fine purple 
el to the 
Now th 
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“optima sunt nomina que nihil significant." 
Rchb. f. 
GALEANDRA FLAVEOLA, 2. 8p.* 
n aleand ra, 2 introduced by Messrs. 
Linden, Directors of the new Society d'Horticulture 
Internationale of ا‎ It is strong in its habit. 
The stem at hand exceeds a span, and is rather 
thick towards the base. The whitish sheaths have 
small very dark spots. Leaves cuneate, linear- 
acuminate, attaining half an inch in breadth ; the 
there may ultimately be more. Bracts linear-setaceous, 
the inferior ones nearly reaching the length of the 
stalked ovaries. Sepals and petals lanceolate-acumi- 
nate, yellowish with a sepia tint. p yellow, with 
very small hyaline-purple dots, "rod inlinesonthe 
side lobes, and on the front lobe. "The great curiosity 
is the anther, the apiculus of which has a remp 
ha ks o 
by Mr. F. Sander, of which I saw fine flowers last 
autumn. H. G. Rchb. f. 
CATTLEYA (TRIANÆI) SCHREDERZE, л. var. 
This admirable flower came some time ago to my 
notice at Mr. F. Sander’s, who appreciated it highly 
and sent it deir times. ‘To-day (Easter Sunday) 
came a beim = knee ime < з 
Schroder 
bulb and leaf. К De Wallace, INA er 
whose son brought it from New Grenada (United 
States of Columbia). Its perfume is very exquisite. 
You may easily distinguish it from genuine Triani, 
whose shape it has, by the T crispation 
of both petals and lip; then b well-known 
orange area of lip, which sends a Si vi to the 
superi ior part of the lip det eee high, and 
lip. Inever 
saw this in Trianzi. The flow 
very light purple, Dr. Wallace « sends a darker one 
as an exception. The bulb sent from piece is 
plump and stout, the leaf unusually broad and stiff; 
and so eee I specimens Isaw last September at 
Mr. geous novelty is dedicated 
with pal satisfaction to the —À: von Schroder, 
who is so well astic lover of 
Orchids. H. G. Robb, Ji [Flowers or this ا‎ 
tinted variety жеге exhibited a Floral Com 
mittee on the 12th inst. Ep.] 
ЕЕ кы ы ree 
YPRIPEDIUM Gode vd e concolor, and C. ni- 
veum, form a distinct and dwarf gro 
0 I s section, too, the efforts of 
the hybridiat to enrich it are pone becom ming 
as witness that charming hybrid 
with its pretty vitis flowers and shell-like petals, 
and the no less beautiful C. Marshallianum, an illus- 
tration of which, taken from Mr. Tautz's plant, we 
here give (fig. 99). ‘In thé habit of its growth it is 
neat, like the vibes et. its class, and its flowers are 
pale rose-colou 
spots. It is a very distinct dq and one ўна 
seems likely to be а free grower if kept in a moist 
and s ition i 
y position in a yo idus a Ri orin any 
er place wh other varieties nam 
found to thrive 
—Aft. G. diviti caule — 
Galeandra flaveola, n. sp.—. 
bracteis 
GRAPES IN THE OPEN AIR. 
ften been asked if it is worth while to 
pad ie cultivation T Grapes in the open air, or 
n open walls in this country. Som 
this uel have gone 
this purpose might 
some other kind of fruit trees. 
rthern portion of the island this view of 
thoroughly ripen its fruit in Scotland, or in the 
north and north- western counties of England, But 
soils, in 
is altered, and it is possible that the lack pes success 
in iie a | کو ا‎ аа n the 
open жыл вч or the 
want ia ae ر ب‎ in чёт of pruning, 
unfavourable climatic conditions d Ithink it may 
e safely assumed that if similar attention were 
devoted to the Grape Vine n wall as is 
the case, for, as a rule, the Grape Vine on the open 
wall is neglected. 
It will readily be admitted that now, when glass is 
to auc! plant the Vine in the open air; 
on the other hand, there are frequently to be bend 
m and sheltered portions of wall, such as the 
Ка Ma т southern wall of a cottage or other building, 
where it would be difficult to e: a more erri: 
plant to cover or to train upon it than some of the 
varieties of the Grape Vine, «im are n т rapid 
growth, and at the same time very orn 1, 
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profitably grown on such walls, м to cover these 
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vith even Pe s, а much longer time is 
equired than in cases where the Ота Vine 
and a neatly trained 
а very pleasing appear: 
in the open air are ни neglected, the shoo 
seldom thinned out, and they are seldom deni" uni 
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n" formerly less common in this 
ow the case, consequently in the matter of Grapes 
fruit might be highly appreciated then which would 
bardly be be considered as palatable at the day. 
This is possibly а more feasible 
that o deterioration in the character 
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