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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
{June 4, 1887, 
THE PARK AT BATTERSEA. 
(SEE SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET.) 
Tue two views represented m our supplement 
this week were taken some time since, by Mr. 
Vernon Heath, in the beautiful uenis of a public 
The conversion 
fertility А the staple. No. other park i in the eee 
area can b ange- 
ment and f such varied interest to the mi or 
the lover of trees and hardy subjects generally. 
The number of plants that were popularly believed 
to be unfavourably influenced by our London atmo- 
sphere, with its fogs and * blacks," was legion before 
dissipated these fallacies. The park, which is 
in extent, is especially rich in flowering 
plants succeed admirably. The fine sheltered par- 
and therefore Mr. Roger, the present Mis i HE 
must gratify it. The top view re a glade at 
the south side of the sub-tropical er looking 
north-west. The two beds in the foreground were 
acid at the time, on the right hand with Gunnera 
a, Bambusa Metake, and other plants not. re- 
the left hand with Ca 
globulus; wil ows, Beech, a 
distance = їп the v vista. wa 
n from а point near the alpine mount, and 
чейи one of hà more atiis views on e larger 
lake looking east; a gentle sloping sward with an 
edging of Rushes form the shore at this m 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
ORCHIDS IN BLOSSOM AT ASH GROVE, 
PONTYPOOL. 
oan collection. of Orchids at this place is widely 
yar ieties. 
M the time of my visit the Cattleyas and Lælias 
contributed most of the flowers in bloom, and of the 
former, Mossises were pre-eminent and in great 
variety, some of those observed having eight and ten 
Several plants of C. amethystoglossa, C. 
great portion 
with double spikes. С. 8. 
* alba was represented D a healthy plant which had 
à eof its fine тарды, blossoms де лр. 
great numbers in a structure apart from the Cattleya- 
house proper. These are afforded very little shading, 
and to this cause the success in flowering them so 
freely as is done is in a great measure attributed ; 
none of the other species, however, are shaded heavily, 
and only during the brightest part of clear days 
= purpurata was at the height d its Беш, 
flowering freely, and I noticed a large plant o 
n а raft in excellent health, and which 
Itook it to be à 
* made-up " plant, but Mr. Fowler assured me it was 
entire as imported. The mass was purchased at one 
of Mr. Stevens' sales 
ouse contained a good collection of 
d on side stages placed near 
glass—a situation evidently well suited to the 
'The following were the best of those in blossom :— 
. caudatum, one plant having two fine spikes; C 
levigatum, with four spikes; C. ciliolare and C 
Lawrenceanum, of w everal pl had ma 
spikes; as had likewise C. Lowii, C. selligerum, C 
Sedeni, C ———PÜ (a lovely ies), C. bar 
tum, and its varieties nigrum and biflorum, which 
is similar to C. Warn 
Masdevallias were in food health, and are placed 
with Odontoglossums in two low lean- 
(as = E walls in the conservatory), amongst which 
Adian very effectively planted. I 
noted Мамет Shuttleworthii, М. Н : E. 
ea, M. Veitchiana, M. Daviesii, and M. Е.б, 
аз the best varieties in flower. 
A ra batch of Odontoglossum citrosmum showed 
many strong spikes, which were commencing to 
unfold thet buds; rie were grown upon shelves 
near the roof. Many other species were in bloom. 
A nice lot (about thirty plants) of O. vexillarium 
occupied the end of one of the stages. Besides the 
species named many well flowered miscellaneous sub- 
being some of the best :—Cymbidium eburneum, 
Oncidi ium Krameri, O. Marshalli, Vanda suavis, and 
diens plant of Dendrobium Dalhousie- 
enty racemes of its large blooms al 
opened ; AD: infundibulum was also well flowered, as 
was rum. I should like to prolong my 
remarks ey the nê good pl ants grown here 
and something res 
at Pontypool, some 3 wiid will soon prove if they 
are of value, as well as about th 
and other Ferns, Rho 
— 
huriums, &c., but must not further upon 
your space than t y it was eat pleasure to 
spend a few ho did with Mr fowls who is 
an enthusiastic hórticultur st; and as his col- 
lection now is, I feel c onfident it will go on im- 
proving under the painstaking care of his newly 
appointed gardener, Mr. Aldous. Thomas C 
Hendre са rdens, 
ORCHIDS AT GuNNERSBURY PARK. 
In the East India house there is a fine piece of 
Cypripedium Dominianum having two flowering 
stems, each bearing three handsome flowers; that 
fine Bornean species, C. Stonei, is к very fine, 
having been in bloom for a considerable time, and it 
lasts well. The curious and beautiful C. Lowii has 
one showy spike of four fine flowers ; xalli is 
also nicely in bloom ; C. Lawrenceanum is the pre- 
mier, а fine healthy plant with handsomely blotched 
leaves, has sent up seven flowers of a massive 
‚ the dorsal sepal very large and broad, and 
handsomely flaked with white. Inthe Cattleya-house x 
is a piece of Lelia with massive pure white 
sepals and 
cool-house Made, agate tripudians is nicely in 1 
bloom; a piece of O. Hallii has thirteen very fine _ 
and handsomely marked flowers ; 
branched spike; and Masdevallia Veitchii is in its 1 
best form. R. D. | 
ORCHIDS AT Burrorp: LODGE. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence's collectio Burford - 
Lodge, Dorking, is де iPaper in e country, - E 
eatest number rare 
ir peers 
Masdevallia- hodie for brilliancy of colour is thè : 
gayest at this season, and in a well-selected collec- | 
tion like that at Burford, nothing more gorgeous : 
than the varieties of Masdevallia Harryana could be _ 
imagined. In red and orange-scarlet varieties the | 
collection is especially rich, and such colours mingle - 
very effectively with the violet and purple forms, of | 
which those named “ versicolor” and “ lateritia ” are - 
A 
grandiflora, M. Chelsoni, &c. A s 3 
glass has many of the аку little giatan а | 
М. tt 
ym а 
mistaken for each —— diuo à or out of flaw 
The C id vallias at Burford are famed . 
for their excellence. All: are suspended gi peine tm i 
Hy vag 
forty or fifty of these at a time, and the effect of the 
whole when in full bloom is very novel. e 
very finest is M. Wallisii stupenda, figured from thi 1 
plant in m: Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
her, età distinct, is the true M. Roezlii, with | 
ack flowers with very long tails to the 
sepals ; ` chimera are pro- - 
fusely flowering in every variety, from yellow, 8 sparely - 
blotched with purple, to chocolate with yellow hairs. - 
M. beauty, and M. Chester 
а, ,is in а себе g 4 
toni proves to be both pretty and distinct ; i 
flowers, which are greeni ite, with purp 
and showy abellums, white, veined th bright 
ge. Beneath the chimeroid Masdevallias 1$ 
grand display of Odontoglossums, among which 
some very fine rose-coloured a tted Ale ws 
violet-spo О. Pescatorei,a hybrid Pescato 
he excellens class, some wel med 
b um, ап 
been heavily bloomed. Неге e of the 
examples of C. Mossix in ativan. dn А 
mass of the best variety of t white, 
—a ng object; the true fini of C. 
neckiana and C rbissima, which was 
