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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
LAELIO- CATTLEYA НІ HONORIA ORCHID- 
HURST VARIETY. 
HE illustration in Fig. 125 кет» one of 
the flowers of a "i borne by 
a plant eres 
by Mes Arms and wn ‘betwe 
Майн. КО ү (Bowringiang x Do эдш, y 
L.-C. Geo. Woodhams (C. апа x І. 
р urata). This fi 
firm have used the last- named 
Mer 
ved an Award of 
yal Ноте Society’s meet- 
in 4. It marked advance 
in colour отори, in». puse and Tete 
i inged .and veined 
nc with brigh 
purple, and the well-displayed lip ruby- чей d 
bright yellow dio. and lines from the base. The 
Mantinii in its floriferous 
У like ee ; Hybrid, is late 
nter flow 
Orchidhurst, Tunbridge 
u 
Se 17 
үчн of О. cris 
f its markings is o 
in дешы variety, but 
which that 
after the ne 
Arms 
irst- Class Certificate at the Royal 
n. as in О. crispum 
s wing their punire experi- 
ence with raising ''xanthotes " crosses, Messrs. 
rown 
i ng, and Ea his case, 
the barrier bet clear yellow marked 
and the heavily- ‘blotch a Benes Sind red forms 
тау. фе broken and further additions to this 
desirable class ev ate ed. 
PLANT NOTES. 
WHAT IS MENTHA AC 
Miller’s herbarium and another in Buddle’s col- 
lection, and was cul about its range of 
variation, but was un унеш ме it was 
suta x 
related to M. sativa, that. M. suta 
arvensis. More. than irs nical d 
it as a synonym of M. sativa. I 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
could never imagine it to be identical re M 
sativa rivalis, ш is the typ teas 
inia orm ot the hybr id in view of ЁБ кы 
cription, and resolved X look for the Mu in 
ie original’ habitats , the Medway va tk I ^ ira 
Б abundance, “and consider 
ore з dia tinct from the three petiere ot t M. 
ith va that have been described than they are 
from one another. 2 e three described forms 
s the M. h sede parent 
e the base, 
ends, M. arvensis parent, and that is 
the broad Жн, "M. «чы um through 
all the variations of M. s perhaps, 
I i spi 
M. acutifolia i most often Prope кый ge or thinly 
hairy, „bnt L Bi € a form from Surrey that is as 
ry as M. sativa var. rivalis, 
and another from 
Bucks dias has exceptionally narrow leaves. J. Ё, 
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VEGETABLES. 
DLING POTATOS. 
he Price of the Ormskirk Potato Con- 
ference (p. 242) your reporter refers to a discus- 
sion arising out of uestion of mine which M 
ell Placed before the meetin e question 
as: If new seedlings arise which are so muc 
oe ж existing Variety as to be indistinguishable 
is it not ulis that, while th re- 
fro 
nerve ‘al a qualities for 
they р 
which the older form 
was known, the i e of 
dà the rien 
3 
port кош 
not find à for, but which, if included, would 
have put so mx an aspect upon its general 
tenor 
that it seems desirable they should be 
called attention re and I pun of — 
in the following. Those - in 1 
varieties of Potato know that what 2 apparently 
the same var sop d is aS moet n ffer 
It is needless to giv This nie 
plicity of names fer dur is apparently the pee 
thing arises frama a variety of causes. The 
pos sed new form i ss Co nas ens E stated 1 to 
Я mes 
be a anite from the kno 
new names are given to oid bung. in e ance 
i an older rame; different names may be given 
by different holders of parts of the stock of a 
e stat 
the new nai given is a new seedling. a 
edlings similar to existing рр m arise has 
been All such forms umed b 
those who de eny the possibility of sud решш s. 
arising, to be really derived directly from the 
old variet , perhaps agen son * volunteers ” 
* self-si X " áppearing ong the esr fig 
That essai a es are ade ee mot be d, 
a что ure bei ing w it is, new names 
whai 
are dou bis - band y deliberately give e M 
old forms, which are then od 
As. edin do pow: 
ased upon statements that certain 
growers t never seen them in their c вана 
but, for the t time, so far as e, 
distinct e n nis was produced at ifn Garter” 
ence fiui; pin fact, such seedlin. s do occur. The 
eee as follows: (1) Whi 
ev le ерл 
som deabus Potatos in company with some 
Potato experts last September, at the eso re 
Horticultural “Station at Hutton, raised from a 
ен e of Duchess of Cornwall by ANT. :# 
Sow. in Saw two ешш absolutely iden- 
tieal i ia habit, form and size of аа е, characters 
of s colour, and so I have since peen 
ede d to 'examine the potare vibe from 
two plants. They are absolutely "identical 5 in 
3 Stas peo 0 seedlings 
pe 
stated that 
edlings raised by him from Myatt’s 
Ashleaf, forms were found indistinguishable from 
[NovEMBER 22, 1919, 
Duke of York and Snowdrop in all character 
(3) Mr. McKelvie said he had found at 
one и ing in a odiare quite iadistinguis| 
able fr J ut because he fe 
strongly. "utat, ini quite distinct stocks sho 
giv Ms mar is seedling was sw 
ony сыг that the Adviso 
=з concluded that а seedling s 
in by Messrs. Sutton to the 1919 trials 
proved paal with White City. Thi 
Lash had b 
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с 
ееп зарби efore 
per cum ing т we nt for trial, and the trial 
з 4 жрк, Much other evidence 
forthcoming, but since almost all involved 
than first-hand ev ты I omit mention of i 
So аА for the fact that [еее y ari 
identical with others that have alread 
Th 
1 а 
answer у 
acters w hich err: Mon say, ei variety ‘Ups 
Date will always d combine d v hi gh-yiel ldir 
те: pos ssibly 
will make a | definite answer to my qu 
difficult to obtain. Fred. J. Chittenden. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
THE NAMING OF FLORISTS’ FLOV E] 
i 
ing of flo 
cases at least, much be d 
ource of trouble is that the same n 
times used for different plants of one genus, 
ome it may appear a matter of s 
but it has many times bee 
worry . For a be 
engaged in a nursery establishment where 
and choice,  soft-wooded 
peciality. The trouble was 
р 
проп ibang notability of the 
nh ge m ry, ha 
po 
up a at 3 
РО. while Princess of 
as often used favourite 
rgoniums is Achi ent. 
has pono applied to at least two distinc 
Pelargonium ivy 
tricolour ar ium, а 
pepe I well rem 
two d Pt ө l 
though t being sent out, in, I think, the 
year by Maur. E. G. s 
St. John's ооа, апа F. A. S 
Dulwich. They were 1 
varieties. Messrs. чып s was 
while the flowers 
gin hes lla. Now that newer kinds 
last ce 
ES of the oie 3r a 
Ee ge атин 
which some would Ao er 
