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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Joxe 25, 1887. 
wers five to six in an umbel; spathe-valves 
lanceolate acuminate, 3 inches lo ong; „pedicels 1—2 
inches. nch long and 
osed. Fetai. tube 
31—4 inches long; seg 
ments permanently connivent in a narrow funne i 
oblanceolate, 3 inches long, $3 inch к above 
m middle, pale or decided pink. Stam 
tiguous, declinate, a little shorter than the lim 
style just overtopping the stamens ; stigma capitate. 
G. Baker. 
AinIDES MITRATUM, Rchb. f. 
. This exceedingly curious and lovely Aérides 
appeared as long ago as 1864 in the collection of Mr. J. 
Day. That was а ewe not Mae strong plant. 
was described by me in O. and O. Schlech- 
tendal Zo'anische зей in. = vir and was after- 
wards described and figured in Hooker's Botanical 
agazine, 5128. It is also well described in B. S 
Williams’ Orchid Growers’ Manual, p. 106 
el t 
E 
een in 
Europe, died, and for a long time rs single evidence 
of its existence was in my herbarium. 
Last year Mr. Foerstermann made a fine collec- 
tion of Orchids in the far East, travelling for his 
Excellent dried materials 
enabled me to name this species i once. А short 
time afterwards I saw a few of those plants at St. 
Albans, at Sir Trevor — Barb; MP, 
P.R.H.S. ; and at Mr. W. Lee 
You might be reminded of Sentivaria Steeli when 
you see the short-stemmed distichum, with its long, 
terete, subulate, canaliculate leaves, The stiff, closely 
emose peduncle gets the rhachis of the inflor- 
escence swollen after having flowered, when the very 
ar bracts are lost. The numerous 
dried wild — at hand show over thirty 
scars of flowe 
iran a fresh peduncle has come to hand, a plea- 
re I} 
UY CHAU) 
is a present from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., 
T The peduncle looks brownish, and is pro- 
portionately thick. If you look very closely, it will be 
en that you are deceived by a collective colour. It 
is of olive-green, with numerous dark reddish-brown 
white, with a rosy hue, chiefly at the base. Sepals and 
petals е сЕ" with purple edges, Lip 
he top, generally with three 
re acute. 
There is an inflexed angular tooth at each side of 
the base of the lips. The colour of the lip is a fine 
with six darker 
rable а 
ar, spen qs the od 
e lip. 
the top of the column. It 
most probably a very ius мк H G: 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
PHALÆNOPSIS MARIÆ. 
Arse plant of this rare and beautiful species is 
ew. was discovered by Mr. 
ecting for the Messrs. 
Aux 
fey 
when collecting 
їп the principal “sland of the Sulu Archi- 
be seen by re 
he pendulous raceme is about a foot long, 
has two side branches. 
white д the side lobes much like those of 
violacea in shape, ^ pud violet, with a deep 
yellow blotch. near bas figure of this handsome 
plant кы been prepared б the Botanical Magazine. 
A figure may be seen at t. 80 of the Orchid Albnm, 
the AN however, "Moin which that was prepared 
not having a branched raceme. R. A, R. 
STANHOPEA PLATYCERAS, 
ver of this fine Stanhopea has been received 
length, which shows it to be amongst the finest of 
the genus. The sepals and petals are honey-coloured, 
with numerous blotches, dots, and splashes of purple- 
brown. The hypochile is very broad, the sides being 
suffused with purplish, and with numerous very dark 
blotches, especially towards its apex; the front 
portion of the lip is honey-coloured, with but few 
spots cies is a native of New Grenada, and 
was originally Yemen hd Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. 
f s given in the Refugium 
Busen. t. 108. В, 
HABENARIA MILITARIS. 
A terrestrial Orchid, discoved in Cochin China by 
M. Godefroy, and described in these columns by Pro- 
fessor Reichenbach, vol. xxvi, 1886 'The 
most remarkable feature about it is the deeply lobed 
scarlet lip. The plant flowered at the Paradise 
ursery last autumn and is figured in the Orchid 
Album, t. 281. 
FORDELL, 
The park of the Hon s. Mercer Henderson, is 
situated in the county of Fife, Yes four miles north 
of Queensferry, on the high road to Perth, is entered 
Manis | iron gate, with а 
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some specimens of Conifers on either side, then, 
turning gently to the right, the mansion is reached, 
which is a fine large building most elaborately 
furnished. A few hundred yards to the west stands 
the old Castle of Fordell (fig. 161), a picturesque ruin, 
hnt i 3 4d. с H and! 1: 
be seen of the strange doings of the feudal times. 
About three miles to the west stands the ancient 
town of Dunfermline, the environs of which abound 
in great diversity of surface. In the days long gone 
ways, and it may 
n here a few of the 
most interesting places in ism about the neigh- 
bourhood. 
On the banks of a small rivulet stands Malcolm 
Canmore's Tower, believed to have been built about 
1070, the ruins of the south walls of the palace 
remaining to this t and tradition points out the 
room wh 1. was born, while the bed is in 
the possession of е Earl of Elgin. 
A large slab of blue marble marks the spot igre 
Malcolm and his queen are buried, and large 
stones are placed over the graves of Malcolm m 
David L, Malcolm IV., and Alexander III. The 
re was Robert the Bruce, 
a 
many e resi E among which is the 
beantifal seat 
Broomhead ; two miles further west there is 
Luscar, the residence of Mrs. Hastie, a place 
long noted for its well kept gardens and beautiful 
П, 
erection the Forth Bridge, опе of the most fuos 
dous undertakings of modern times; the bridge 
rises to à height of 150 feet above high-w ater; one 
of the spans is 1600, and another 2000 feet long, 
the entire length of the bridge being two miles. To 
the north of this is the ancient town of Inverkeith- 
ing, and looking south-east from Fordell there are 
the southern banks and screens of the Forth, os 
tifully undulated and luxuriantly fertile, the many 
wooded hills of the Lothians and the heit, of 
Edinburgh, with its Castle and spires, are plainly 
seen. 
With one great historic event the latter place will 
ever be associated ; on March 12, 1286, Alexander III. 
was riding in the dusk, when his horse stumbled, and 
he was thrown over a precipice and killed. 
Returning to Fordell from the east the policies are 
entered by a nicely curved broad drive, nearly a mile 
long, and through a finely wooded park. To the south 
of the old Castle is a very handsome flower garden, of 
beautiful design (fig. 160). From the Castle a broad 
alk runs due east, and passes through a remarkably 
this garden there are a number of fi 
shrubs, with old trees as a backing, principally of 
Plane and Beech. I may mention that round the 
edge of every bed in this garden three rows of Box 
have been laid, so as it were to form а broad 
band ; rcs are clipped down to within 3 inches of 
nd when viewed from the top of the 
very fine effect, as the figure of each 
bed i is oe seen. od walk of grass 
surrounds each bed, and in the southern division 
there is a splendid specimen of the ar of 
Lebanon, with numerous large over. 60 
feet in height; the spread of branches, 60 feet; gi 
of trunk, 14 feet. 'The bedding-out is extensive, 
is a fine winding walk leading down to a lower level; 
along this is a very steep bank, which is thickly 
covered with Fern, Heath, and here and there some 
fine old trees. In this neighbourhood there is what 
is called the “ wishing well." 
Returning to the bottom of the road, along the 
bank, a small river is reached which is crossed by а 
handsome bridge, and turning to the left there is а 
broad walk, 12 feet wide, with grass on either hand, 
which runs in a straight line to the south side of the 
kitchen garden. About half-way up to this walk to 
grown fi 
the place; and nearly opposite these trees, on the 
left of the walk, is a fernery of large extent filled 
with a grand one of hardy Ferns, which seem 
to do IEDAPEADU We 
South oft the pinetum, between 
30 and 40 acres in ent with some "97 handsome 
specimens, and in large e following 
a are some eof the finest : e Douglasii, 
rge grou any single specimen 
wira the e of 50 feet; Abies Menziesil, 
single — from 8 to 30 feet ; Abies Al 
ps and single specimens, over 50 feet in 
caria imbricata, in groups 
ipai many upwards of 
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