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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[June 11, 1887, 
Kew, ме should advise the reader to study the 
encountered, and the kinds of plants found in asso- 
ciati Concerning the uropean and other 
northern weeds which have established themselves 
extensively in South Am end Mr. B 
* had the conquerors of Sout 
widely ir : not, much 
finally loses the predominance which it seemed to 
have established.” 
This being a subject to which we have given con- 
urally into southern regions to a 
much greater éxtiént than southern types have in 
northern direction. Secondly, the weeds of domestica- 
the southern hemisphere. . 
think the evidence poi 
On the other hand, a few southern plants have ex- 
hibited great colonising power. The * Cape weed," 
Cryptostemma calendulacea, in Australia, is a 
notable exam 
e already expanded so much that we can 
mainder of Mr. Ball's 
revious to 
Thence an excur 
and d on ntos, in Brazil, by mail 
steamer ; ví rail to San Paulo, and af 0 
Janeiro. A fortnight was 
Rio bout a 
chiefly in ‘the iia of Petropolis, on 
Mountains. On the homeward voyage tis саней út 
Bahia id Манш 
Noronha. 
Before concluding we would specially direct the 
attention of readers to Mr. Ball’s speculations on the 
ancient mountains of Brazil, and the development of 
the flora volume, 
and sighted Fernando 
or Januar 
and July, and greatly adding to the facility of fol- 
lowing our traveller in his narrative. В. Н. 
NURSERY y NOTES. 
MESSRS. F. SANDER & CO. 
Tue leading dealers in Orchids have, during the 
last few years, made excellent ne Arathi of these 
popular flowers in their nurseries during the London 
Messrs. Sander not only keep up a анан! 
display of flowering plants in their St. Albans 
of the most popular species - large 
nat hundreds of flowers are qaos daily. The 
demand for Orchids must be somethi 
d 
b 
tl i Dresden, an 
wards at Manchester, and no f kerg for poen ua. 
lections 
tl 
а 
toglossum crispum, in which the plants may be 
counted by hundreds of thousands, and amongst so 
many are scores of distinct and beautiful varieties, 
time of my visit, on Jun 
long, ct spike; e flowers are 4 inches 
across, and the petals 1$ inch wide, of great 
substan forming a well proportioned flower, 
the petals white, lightly to ched with rose. A pure 
white variety of the аот ed type had flowers 
inches across. Besides the true О. crispum there 
Dr. Reichenbach, described 
8 , "The 
sepals of the true variety are veneni spotted i in lines, 
the petals being marked with irregular blotches ; 
O. c. aureum, quite golden-yellow ‘hen the flowers 
everal varieties ; 
any 
of O. hystrix, or O. luteo-purpureum ; the most dis- 
tinct of this type is the variety facetum (Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, vol. xv., p. 563) ; the = and petals are 
reddish-brown, and there is a heart-shaped blotch 
in the centre of the pale wp өйи lip. ОҒО. 
triumphans there were many distinct and handsome 
forms; no other of the yellow Odontoglossums have 
such a rich golden-yellow as this, and the ar cin- 
namon-brown blotches are ver 
handso: 
үү — is one. of the most precious a the 
Fig. 146.—LONGICORNE BEETLE (DIAXENES TAYLORI). 
e type found with O. crispum; it is 
s well as very beautiful. O. Schil- 
ssrs Sander's introductions, 
n 
885. 
Pena blotched and — chocolate-brown. 
necessary to pass by the numerous minor forms of 
O. crispum and supposed hybrids. They are too 
numerous to mentio: 
Of CEN: os ‘the leading species there are 
u ing at rest, and others starting 
into growth. C. Mendelii and C. Mossiz are gorgeous 
nd 
petals, contrasted as they are with 
n labellum. Not long does any-one 
of these fine varieties remain in the establishment ; 
in fact, they do not appear in sufficient numbers to 
supply the пенай, Plants тт d veu flower 
may be worth a hundred gui n 
bought for half Arm each if. take by c diei before 
the blossoms appear he richly ate broad 
petalled forms of C. Mossi are also f great value. 
e pure white variety named Wagn had just 
flow It is pure white, with the exception of a 
: pu 
yellow blotch on the lip. It differs from the variety 
Reineckiana in the latter having the lip stained with 
lilac-purple. The distinct looking C. Schroderiana 
was also in waning beauty. Near it the singular 
Epidendrum Parkinsonianum (aloifolium) ; it is a 
weird-looking Orchid, its long stems dangling over- 
med the sepals and petals -— narrow, and green, 
the pure white lip composed of two white wings and 
ike centre, the tip و‎ On the 
-other hand, E. elatum - disset cue 
аге we 
Burmah, 
> 146), for which we are 
-The beetle 
sweetly perfumed; the spikes a are long, the pas 
dull greenish-brown, rose 
Amongst Oncidiums, nix are well poem 
few equal, none surpass, thé hands 
cool-house, produce 
magnificent effect. 
the cool than in the Cattleya-house, so also does the 
first-named species; in fact, the number of Orchids 
that may be successfully cultivated in the cool-house 
is increased year by year, and they pass through the 
winter well when the temperature does not often fall 
below 50°. Oncidium hastiferum Roezlii is very dis- 
tinct and very handsome; it forms quite а feature in 
lip is dull red, column white. A corridor, 300 feet long, 
connects all the houses with each other, and sus- 
pended from the roof of this the Mexican 
glossums do well, notably О. citrosmum. Hundreds 
support at all. 
50 plump that they seemed as if just gathered from 
the trees or rocks on which they had been growing. 
The green healthy appearance of the recently intro- 
duced Angrzcums is even more striking. There is 
a good stock of а new one, A. Sanderianum, said to 
be very fine, and of A. Scottianum there are hundreds 
of grand specimens, man hem in flower. N 
that it is plentiful this species wi 
large, 
(9 
у large 
xe ned Def ee M 
ho 
with rosy-blush sepals and petals, а 
eerie lip, and the column tipped w T 
dot. Here is a house full of Vanda ite d 
Hookerii ; they are e planted out thickly in beds, and 
grow with great vigour. In the town of St. Albans 
built; half of them 
ell stocked with plants—M 
A рата Phalaenopsis, &c. Two dis- 
well established. Mr. Sander is m. ки saving a 
0,000 in the 
beauty Di in our 
= — Roe iai 
ire 
s yet science, 
Ta rematen so bui y the enter- 
pris m we owe О best 
thanks for “the many lovely p "plants they have intro- 
duced to beautify our hot . J. D. 
کے 
A NEW ORCHID ENEMY. 
Diaxenes Taylori, from Moulmein in 
which we now give D 
in question was, however, 
stem, and not on a leaf as shown, 
