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THE GARDENERS’ 
ma E A ad CHRONICLE 
difficulty in obtaining 
we i Copien Te regulary, are particularly М кезд ted 
with the Publisher (in 0 
Vi nir in e а ^ на by post, the cover should be 
forwarded with complaint), 
W. RICHARDS, 4l, Wellington Street, 
Strand, W.C. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MEETINGS. 
(Royal Horticultural Society : Е 
с Scicentific, and Fruit 
Floral Committees meet; bd 
coge General Тое of Fel- 
Z- 
Ат 
TUES lo 
DAY, | Nurse rsery an nd Seed Tra 
Public — чаз Омарды “the 
Rating of Nurseries, at the Horti- 
cultural Club, V UN үне, 
Соу ET en, WC 
ardeners' Royal Miei Insti- 
tution; E versary Dinner at 
the “Albion,” Aldersgate Street, 
City, E.C. 
JUNE 28 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE nd 
SHOWS. 
JUNE 28—Bagshot Horticultural Society. 
Richmond (Surrey), Croydon and 
zum Horticultural Societies’ 
TUESDAY, 
WEDNESDAY, June ^| 
been Canterbury, and Shep- 
perton. T7 — Valley Horti- 
THURSDAY, JUNE J^ датага 
East i 
Rose Show 
FRIDAY, Jury 1 1 TOR pa arn — x 
\ Crystal Palace Rose a an- 
SATURDAY, Juty 2 nounced for this date is postponed 
t to July 9. 
SALES, 
- Sale of Orchids in Flower and Bud, 
. TUESDAY, JUNE 281 at дата А Morris’ Rooms. 
Sale of Established Orchids, and 
[T een "ot Cattleya Men- 
delii, at Stevens бара 
e of Importation hids, 
from. ы зач e Stevens’ 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE ai 
Sal 
THURSDAY, JUNE Zu 
Sale i imported Orchids, at Pro- 
FRIDAY, JULY 1j heroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
THE genus Masgevallia 18 nie 
y tionally well represen 
Masdevallia. cultivated Orchids, the size vs 
beautiful colours in the flowers of 
e +h Au 
beauty of a third group, no doubt accounting for 
the popularity of these plants. To these attrac- 
tions we have now to add that of sensitiveness 
of a most remarkable kind. Darwin, in his 
Fertilisation of Orchids, refers to the irritability 
of the labellum in several species, which is de- 
scribed as moving quickly when touched. He 
never saw this himself, for he уо ой: could not 
an Australian Orchid, Calena, as affording a re- 
markable instance of this sensitiveness, In this 
‚а to Sir JOSEPH HOOKER, “ when 
an insect idem on the labellum it suddenly shuts 
up against the column, and encloses its prey, 
as it were, in a box.” This is precisely what 
muscosa, of which a 
plant is now flowering ‘at Kew, probably for the 
first time in cultivation. 
It was described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
15, vol. sien p. 460, by Professor REICHENBACH, 
flowers sent. home from New wien; 
by 
Specimen ү; as presented by Мый. 
 Hvau пасада per. М. muscosa 
j leaves 2 2 inches жем over ап 
ant and group, te M : 
has a good tuft of these leaves. Apart from 
their sensitiveness the flowers of M. muscosa are 
not very attractive, though they at least equal 
such kinds as M. xanthina, M. жаре зс апа 
М. Wagneriana: The hairiness of the scapes, 
is exceptional among cultivated Masdevallias. 
The flowers in question г are borne singly on erect 
scapes, 6 inches long, and densely clothed with soft 
een hairs, à ‘inch long. To understand the 
irritability of the labellum and its movements a 
description of the flower is necessary. The perianth 
is about the same size as that of M. xanthina; 
the ovary, which also is clothed with hairs, 
springs at right angles from the scape, and is 
з inch long; sepals triangular, with tails an inch 
vi more in length, the tails thickening slightly 
towards the apex; the bases of the sepals unite 
to form a shallow cup, and then turn right back ; 
they are pale yellow inside, the outside also being 
yellow, the nerves tinged with red on the lower 
portion; petals narrow, i inch long, projecting 
forward over the column, where their curiously 
thickened apices meet, forming an arch in a line 
with the column; lip in two parts, the basal 
narrow, and curving forwards; the blade, which 
hangs loosely, is triangular, inch long, slightly 
prear. with a raised yellow ridge or crest run- 
halfway down, the lower edges turned up, 
slightly fringed and coloured maroon. 
When flow rst opens the tails of 
t 
folded just be- 
neath the arch of the petals, as if held there. 
Presently, kowar, the triangular blade falls 
down and hangs like the li 
e ера 
to tice Шаар 
remarkable in the hovers, and suggested that“ 
und i 4 up sometimes 
Я seat of Sepang 
is only in the yellow êt ` on the lip, a 
touching this gently with a hair the lip is e 
enl 
it descends again, and on a 
it closes just as quickly as before. 
aphis placed on the labellum was бй ‘tp 5 nd 
held firmly, and the same happened when 
fl 
ed when the lip is clo eee 
the es and 
hairiness of 
flo у Pci 
delighted Darwin would have 
he seen this plant, and we тз» ех 
that physiologists will e Ж эчү бан 
0 М анде akon obli- 
gations to Mr. Watson Tor eiling ` опг attention 
to the matter, and eee with lg iar а 
he recor figure of the pla n 
made for ро іп dis Белгш M agazine, 
м. 
et 
"i. JUBILEE BOUQUET,—We are in duty 
t SAND 
CHRONICLE. 
[June 25, 1887. 
С. Mendelii composing the lower or supporting tiers, 
the ee — the ga 
ness to the apex. The pa 
and other Orchids procurable, were used in its 
construction. The crown, which surmounted the 
whole, and which was composed mainly of Oncidium 
on a cushion of flowers of Cattleya Warneri and 
C. gigas. On one side of the bouquet the letters 
" V. R. I.” were displayed in flowers of the orange- 
scarlet Epidendrum vitellinum majus, and a cross of 
the same brilliant species surmounted the crown. 
We learn that the bouquet was placed near the 
entrance to the QvuxEN's boudoir, where it was seen 
are inclined to think we shall neither misinterpret 
their feelings, nor detract from the e justly 
"s ue tothe zeal and energy of Mr. SANDER, when 
we may neverlook on the like again. 
hope 
Unfortunately, however, an affair of this kind is likely 
8 
teresting material, but having as little beauty as the 
nugget trophies at some of our recent exhibitions. 
We had hoped that we had outgrown the age of 
such gem but we have seen several of late in 
Paris, and the American journals teem with descrip- 
tions of similar ceo alike for festive and mournful 
occasions, so that there is only too much reason to 
fear that the fashion will spread. The Royal bouquet 
above mentioned was similar to that made by Mr. 
SANDER, exhibited at Dresden, and presented to the 
Queen of е The vase offered by the Empress 
and awarded to Mr. SANDER, at the 
Dresden Exhibition, for the finest exhibit. was em- 
ployed on this occasion to support the ipic 
bouquet. vase is very elegant, и оре 
shortly to give an illustration of both. as 
bouquet was "qnin det by the ah skilful 
hand of Mr. H. STEVEN 
, 
THE PHYLLOXERA LAws IN GERMANY.— 
Some of our German and Dutch correspondents have 
written to us to point out an error of translation in 
the official document forwarded to us for publication 
= p.774). Instead of “ a plants,” as к , 
e been “rooted plan 
before. elaw stands now rooted plants, pro- 
vided they do not belong to the Vine, may 
admitted without hindrance 
DR. ASA GRAY.—Flore sacerdos venerabilis. 
Such was the бае aga ie by у Public Orator 
at Cambridge ont n of the honorary degree 
of Doctor of bino: iter: conferred upon one аз 
deeply venerated here as at that other Cambridge 
of which he has been for so many years a chief 
ornament. Among English speaking scientists none 
is more venerated among those who know than he 
who is per known as Asa Gray. Professor 
Gray said Dr. ЅАхрүѕ, has devoted more than fifty 
р of f literary labour to cea one of the 
Mr. "Goats , Mr. Воск, and their zealous assistants, 
professional abd lay, for the accumulation and ar- 
rangement of specimens for the ener bouquet 
commanded expressly by the Quren, and forwarded 
ingham Palace on Tuesday last. As the 
employed were entirely those of Orchids, 
The core or cushion of wire, moss, and dwarf ha 
Ferns, was about 5 feet in height, and between 
6 or 7 i in width ; into this the flowers, attached by 
slender sticks, were i in ¢ 
t 
иин 
eee instyle. 
are p Se MGA: 
He Ба esteri crossed the Atlantic to examine 
the herbaria of Europe and to deepen his intimacy 
with her foremost botanists. For the last | 
century his reviews of the labours of his 
acute and candid criticism, combined with cape 
fellow- _ 
workers in the field of botany have been models of 
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