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L E. [Mar 7, 1887. 
freely at the same time, associate charmingly 
together. 
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum has still some 
purple bells swaying in the breeze. It began to 
flower early in February, -and ever since has 
kept up a succession of blossoms. If shrivelled 
up by a nipping blast then in a few days it would 
be re-clothed with fresh blossoms, which keep 
coming out of their dainty sheaths in quick 
succession. 
Until this year I never knew how last- 
border last June, grew apace with big leaves like 
those of a Dock, commenced flowering the end of 
February, and are now a mass of soft lilac. The 
frosts and snow showers of March in no way 
harmed them, and as each plant is well furnished 
with robust flower-stems they will be in bloom 
for a month to come. 
Erica carnea is now in its deepest pink, During 
February the effect of a circle of Snowdrops in- 
This Heath is most valuable in the 
garden, remaing several months in bl and 
when out of flower its bright cheerful green is 
always pleasant to the eye. 
THE Lenten Rose, 
These are at their best, and nowhere do they 
them all in the garden—at least no sheltered 
spot to spare—I planted some in the wood last 
spring. Even if they never blossomed, there is 
an abandonment in their foliage which makes 
them eminently suited for the wild garden. 
I find Hellebore seedlings of the Niger division 
flower much sooner than I have anticipated. Of 
seeds sown in September, 1885, coming up in the 
following December and January, 1886, eight 
blossomed with me this past temm, that is, a 
year and four months from time of so e 
seeds were savel sna flowers of С 
with he fine ne 
maximu 
Bath varieties. Siran 
the third white, with pink stigmas ; and the rest 
with pink tinge on the outside of the petals, and 
pink stigmas. The remainder of the seedlings 
will no doubt flower next December, as they are 
how making strong growth. 
Tue DAFFODILS, 
April 14.—Our plants have been rather late i : 
opening this year. Pallidus przcox was the firs 
to expand toward the end of February, and rae 
enduring all the severity of March, some of its 
ossoms are still fresh and fair, so that I do not 
find it at all a “ flimsy flower” as some one lately 
called it. Since then all the Narcissus have been 
ing one by one, as the stars come forth in 
the evening twilight, till now they are scattered 
N. ^ м 
the dar 
while scarlet Anemones sparkle in front, and 
lovely too in a bed by itself, with a deep border 
of mauve Aubrietia, through which not a green 
leaf is visible from the density of bloom, N. 
the soft fresh foliage z 2 Vignes and mix 
with its deep purple flow 
Just now the white Pritilarias (Snake's-head) 
are most graceful, dangling in wind. 
bulbs are lifted every July, the pue stirred, 
some old manure placed at the bottom and re- 
planted, and this treatment seems so much to 
their taste that the stems each bear from 
An old blue china mug 
with these fair nodding blossoms among a 
cluster of Anemone fulgens, and a few shining 
leaves of the bronze Heuchera, is beside me as I 
write, and fair to see. The Giant Oxlips that 
have sent forth stray blossoms all the winter 
through, are now from a distance one soft haze 
of yellow, with here and there a deep-toned note 
of crimson. Drawing closer, one finds the har- 
mony is composed of many tints, from orange, 
through varying shades of apricot, lemon, and 
cream, down to pure white. 
Seed sown now willbloom well next spring, 
but if the seed is sown when ri , winter 
in а cold frame, and planted out in spring, 
Орохтоотоззом + HINNUS, Rchb. f. 
This curious plant has not come under my notice 
Schreder, who kindl Р 
inen spider-like in its flow The sepals 
d petals are narrow-lanceolate, , undulate, ا‎ 
W lip is vellow 
e to сенс 
J. necs sf with Mr. 
‚ Sand 
ons, then Pollett an 
over the stalk and suddenly narrowed. 
if it might be a cross between Odontoglossum Hallii 
and О, cirrosum. Н, С. Rchb. f. 
PHALÆNOPSIS RoTHSCHILDIANA, 2. hyb., educ. in horto 
Veitchiana, 
This is the second case of a Phalenopsis having 
been raised by cross-fertilisation at the Royal Fxotic 
Fic. 114.—ODONTOGLOSSUM 
time is gained, and the plants will often 
begin flowering in the autumn. blossoms 
much finer from seedlings, that it is 
well worth while growing them every year, and 
discarding the old plants after the second year 
of flowering. With me the individual flower- 
heads of the young plants are most robust, bear- 
ing some twenty large blossoms, so that a few 
stems suffice to make a nosegay. Wallflowers 
are only just in bloom, and masses of the deep 
red beside the Oxlip enhance their fairness. 
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PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY, 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI LEUCO- 
! var. 
ү remarkable form of начална Pes- 
catorei, with flowers of a p epting 
range on the бей of the lip, wings, ye has 
of the column. І am indebted for it to the kindness 
A: ie ied Bex not Horticul 
for the opportunity of figuring 
it бып. 114). ari H G, б. Бе 
PESCATOREI LEUCOXANTHUM. 
"aire su 
stand presumed wild hybrids. 
and persevering grower got it 
Schilleriana and P. amabilis, Lindl. There can 
no doubt, that between the herd of distinct m 
ty 
e and more believe that the crosses be 
e species are often very distinct from a horticul- 
And the ways of horticulture 
and of severe science are as divaricate as those of 
the two patriarchs, whatever may be spoken or 
written to the eon 
Mr. Harry Veitch kindly tells me the leaves have 
the shape of those of Phalenopsis amabilis, Lindl., 
but spotted like those of Phalænopsis Schilleriana. 
The longest leaf = said to be 3 inches long by 2 
e peduncle is remarkably light 
sequence of the dull 
n . 
The flowers are of the shape of those of Phale- 
nopsis leucorrhoda. The sepals have a hue of shin phar. 
yellow; the 1 
— ым ofthe base. Petals large, much дер, 
Side partitions of the lip cuneate, rounded, 
