Aprit 30, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
577 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
HERD'S BUSH 
Ir is scarcely possible to conceive a place in the 
neighbourhoo od of London better furnished vitii rare 
ORCHIDS AT STUDLEY HOUSE, 
SHEP 
oad 
төр нме thing is to be found at all seasons, 
One reason for the continuity of the flower display is 
that the Cypripediums are made a salient feature, 
every obtaidabla kind, either species or hybrid, being 
eagerly added to the collection, which 
con som. ens, such as the pretty 
C. Tautzianum, a و‎ aE“ C. niveum and C. 
bar j i with C. con- 
bat cross wi 
color, illustrated by us арй 513, and many others. 
uch a collection of Cypripediums is a very interest- 
jec and large as this class of 
plants now seems, it is iret in point of variet 
and beauty to what it 
hybridists have rung out di changes which the 
materialin their hands places at their command, if 
that is ever nA resah thateach new arrival gives 
an open r going over the whole of the ground 
plants of C. Dauthieri marmoratum (fig. 109, p. 576), 
with handsome flowers, curiously striped, and marked 
like a flake Cardativh:; the flakin 
кешн of white, 
atrata (Gardeners Chronicle, p. 210), w ith shiny 
black-blotched dorsal sepal, ri Pata узт, С. 
Peteri (fig. 110), C. Dayanum, т species 
tw. flowers something like th е иб ог С. 
Swanianum, but very different in leaf; С, hir- 
Fic. 110.—cYPRIPEDIUM PETERI. 
sutissimum, C. villosum aureum, C. niveum, C. con- 
color Regnieri, ve ciliolare (one a superb form), C. 
Harrisianum, € rphyreum, C. Druryi, and some 
grand тене ar barbatum, of which C. b. 
ri and C. b. "Brieni are two very handsome 
and bright-coloured kinds of the * biflorum " вес- 
tion, and many o Cypripediums are in bud 
In the show-house is a splendid ~ of Catt- 
leya Mendelii, with | seventeen flowe , equal in 
colou r to that gh; Cattleya 
dC.L lat , with bright 
lip ‘and clear a tube; many C. citrina, many 
d n variety, very charming being O. 
Pescatorei aurantiaca, a distinct variety, with large 
bright orange base to the lip; and Ọ. vexillarium 
leucoglossum, which has grand flat flowers, with pure 
white labellums and delicate pink sepals and petals. 
Mr. Void takes den pride in the Orchids in his 
ch arge, and d especiall 
ай, which he succeeds in growing up to the 
very best look in leaf and flower, notwithstanding 
their location actually in the region of London fogs. 
He considers that his careful use of the syringe and 
and dull weather saves him from many a disaster 
which would otherwise occur. In the flowering 
=ч too, were fine sprays of Oncidium Marshal- 
О. —À m odes (one with 
2 Mop. The last-named is often inclined to 
run а long, thin, straggling inflorescence, but «d Mr. 
e point after 
lichii ii, - — 
, too, 
also кө filled with flowers, but here the Dendrobes 
were prominent—fine examples of D, Wardian 
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