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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 14, 1887, 
beautiful foil for the dense bush-like tuft of ахиу 
with their yellow stamens. The species isa п 
of Natal, where it flourishes (flowering from Septem- 
a 
scrip- 
search of a much-talked-of plant. 
ing how pure and fresh is the air on the grassy hills 
ing mists still float and sweep 
here An ë 
ongly— —fower- stems 5 feet high, leaves 
in голе wers 2 inches across. 
Twenty years ago Harvey noted it as a noble plant, 
yet : am not aware of its being in cnltivation at 
hom A figure has been oe for publication 
in the Botanical Медони 
DRESDEN cell gemere HORTICULTURAL 
EXHIBITION, MAY 7—15.—This important exhibi- 
tion was opened by m King of Saxony in person on 
May 7 at 10 a.m., the QUEEN and a numerous suite 
being i in atten dance, 
itious, nevertheless the ceremony ff bril- 
liantly, the general opinion is, that the show 
ill b t suc ou arrangements 
indeed, and the quality and quan- 
tity of the exhibits leave nothing to be desired; 
ФЕ 
a B 
E. 
rmitt ted. to make the ues of 
Saxony a present of a very handsome bouquet, which 
measured nearly a yard in height. The flowers com- 
posing the bouquet were entirely those of Orchids, 
from the gardens o Dnke of MARLBOROUGH, 
Baron Scuroper, Baron FERD. DE ROTHSCHILD, 
ess WILLIAM DE RormscurLp, Mr. С. orden 
and from the nursery at St. Albans. These flow 
had been 98 hours on the journey, but owing to the 
good packing were perfectly fresh-looking. They 
arrived in а 1 8 and were arranged in the 
form of а bouquet : E F. Daum, of Frankfort, а 
specialist in bouquet making. Of Conifers, a very 
fine collection was exhibited by Messrs. PETER Smrru 
2 p other fe escis from Dresden 
the urhood tributed in consi 
numbers. quet makin ns special industry of the 
country, was well represented and fo Pam one of the 
chief attractions. At one stand the nosegays were 
d by means of a little machine ri y steam 
тр eed Ks REIGATE ROSE SHOW.— 
The Rei will be held this year on 
Thursday, jur? 7 i Ал of on July 1, as previously 
stated, 
CoLLEGE ОЕ AGRICULTURE, 
SALISBURY.—Mr. WALTER J. imme 
ton, Bedford, for Más 
he Royal Agri 
DOWNTON, 
0 
to IGHTSON in the College of 
corpi eemper. near ie Вау: Mr. MALDEN 
ily many generations have been, and 
"a лы onde of land at Cardington, Beds. 
“ FARM, FIELD, AND FIRESIDE,” is the name of 
a new weekly journal, published at 14., and whose 
. objects are coria dt shown by the alliterative 
title. If the su numbers are as good as the 
two before us, the датан will get good value for 
his money. 
PUNTRALIAN ACACIAS.—Baron Von 
: MUELLER 
1 decade of гары Agones 
of various species of Acacia. 
Explanations of the plates are given, but the full 
details will be given separately. 
AWARD TO AN ENGLISH FIRM AT THE DRESDEN 
EXHIBITION.—Mr. B. ILLIAMS has been awarded 
two Gold Medals and a Pius f Honour for a collection 
ks, 
к= рес s T Show, which was opened 
n the 7th in 
THE Овсн!р Vesti AT MR. B. S. WILLIAMS' 
NURSERY, HoLLo —On a recent visit to the 
above we found ранна were being made for а 
fine display of these plants, t 
Wednesday, the 1 inst, the ma p 
already in flower and bud promising to prolong it for 
several weeks. Vandas, Cattleyas, Miltonias, Odon- 
toglossums, and Masdevallias, are advancing rapidly 
under the favouring influences of the weather 
DRY TIME IN IRELAND.—The dry weather 
which characterised the late winter and early spring 
in England had its counterpart in Ireland, The Rev 
Е. Tymons, writing from ед co. Dublin, 
dwelling on the uncongenial spring, r 8:—“ = 
its wa 
mis 
тш 
оте аз а тайег of great surprise to many ne our 
English readers 
MADEIRA.—Here is what a plant lover says of 
та both 
it:—' I spent an hour or two at Madei goin 
апа coming. What a beautiful place it is! I never 
aw any place so lovely. Immense masses of Bou- 
tropical fruit trees, which at home drag on a miser- 
able existence in our little stoves, were there in 
splendid health, and in many cases covered with 
fruit. Anonas, Loquats, Locusts, Oranges, Bananas, 
Dates, Psidiums, and lots of mer cw things were 
just as „зарру апа x there, ila om s and 
dic 
ре, Епра Макс т weeds, 
and oc e same ا‎ as s ай, and HF 
lions do h 
he with 
Adiantum, Heli не 
"p dig 
THE secs ОЕ 
ктр ана that mm Belgian Govern- 
d to accept the legacy of this 
nditions were that the 
d by € terti of the Royal Academy 
бок. Gove 
declines to pay the moiety, and thus hes one of the 
richest botanical libraries in existence 
“ LINDENIA.”—The plants figured in the last 
— xs this publication are :— 
m cucullatum, t. 81.—A species found at an 
саай. of more than 1200 feet оп the mountains of 
Ecuador and Columbia, and first introduced by M. 
Li 
& cool-house, beer the temperature is from 0 
о 50° F.), much air, and constant 
moisture 
Odontoglossu wm Schillerianum, ~ 82.—The special 
feature of this species is the large brown blotch 
which covers nearly the whole a ‘the lip. It isa 
cool Orchid, requiring the same treatment as О, 
Alexandre, 
Saccolabium giganteum var. illust . 88.— The 
variety differs from the species in its Paige flowers ; 
2 = spots on the segments are of а deeper 
vele. TF is s native of The plant 
as is also the lip. Tt i is evidently a robust 
Cochin Chi 
requires to be kept at rest for two months after 
flowering. 
Cypripedium Sallieri X, t. 84.—The origin of this 
hybrid was not known for certain till Mr. Bowrixe 
proved that the current surmise was correct, and 
produced the present plant by crossing C. insigne 
d C, villosum 
BIGENERIC ORCHID HYBRIDS AT TH 
NEAN SOCIETY.— 
this order have bee 
likely they would long escape attention from a scien- 
tific standpoint 
The author treated the subject chiefly with reference 
to its bearing | ms Gee and with regard to 
E I дасан е me to the foll 
—1. bridisation may take place not | only between 
di sities species, but also between distinct gene P 
or between plants so podes different as to 
usually regarded as such. These hybrids are 
generally of artificial origin, or accidentally produced, 
species hitherto considered distinet does not neces- 
sarily prove them to be merely forms of the 
e occurrence of a hybrid Жанен. pi 
the 
8 
: тжс, different a does not prove 
necessity of uniting them nor can such 
hybrids be a referred Pe e of the two 
8 
intermediate between the two parents, the author 
recommended that the plan advocated in these 
columns (1872, p. 358), of compounding a name from 
that of the two parent genera, should always be 
adopted. He then proceeded to deal with existing 
bigeneric Orchid hybrids on these lines, proposing 
Phaiocalanthe, Anzctogoodyera, Lzeliocattleya, So- 
phrocattleya, and Zygocolax e paper was 
illustrated by а nu mber of interesting specimens 
from the nursery of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 
and from Kew. 
LOWERS IN SEASON.—From Mr. F. W. Bur- 
BIDGE, Trinity College Gardens, Dublin, come the 
long arching sprays of pea stenophylla, the 
B. empetri- 
folia—a fine plant for a group o cover а low wall ; 
yellow Oxlips, ن‎ a both single and double 
tals of rich brown, golden 
mones, very strong of grov 
With these was ева. hispida—so valuable in 
the spring garden for its handsome foliage of bronzy- 
green, covered with soft hairs; H. Richardsoni is 
synonymous with it 
LINNEAN SoCIETY.— The following range T 
E sep ^ue win elected Foreign Members of the 
y :—Dr. GEORGE A permeate 
els and 
Profit ot] Bo Уйа Cairo, Egypt, whose trave 
NM researches in Central Africa are widely 
wn; Count Н. Sorws-Lavmacm, Professor of 
Bo otany, University of Góttingen: his observations 
on the Corallines, Gulf of Naples, investigations in 
plant anatomy, especially that of flowering иш 
&c. are acknowledged biological — ions of 
merit; Dr. Mxrcuron Trevs, Director "E the 
Jardin Botanique, Buitenzorg, You walk studies 
саб ies Lyco 
whos: 
—Mr. WILLIAM p t 
Н. Kent, of London, and Mr. J. MEDLEY Woop, 
Durban , Natal—all three worthy workers in the 
` various departments of botany. 
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