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truding. It e some to realise this ; ale yellow centre, the side lobes being сон 
b: E. not eT 1 had climbed another hundred ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. with r m Purple р. ртн and а band 
feet. that: I found it in flower, and hailed a of the colour extending along the margin. 
and glorious Omphalogramma which, alas, i sel NTOGLOSSUM JOY. 4 I 
Bircuntiously able to differentiate from O “ dier ICATE of Ap preciation " was give CYMBIDIUM CERES 
Delavayi (the removal of this group from 5 ‘hig very distinct = = O. . Uro- Mr. НАмптох Ѕмітн also sends a flower of 
Primula is not опу. proper, but, I believe, Skinneri and O. eximium with its another new cross between С. bee 
essential; few Androsaces are so remote from frst flower at the Royal "Horticultural Society’s Cravenianum and Os i De e Sandera The 
Primula as these strange Bryocarpoid plants that куас August 27, 1918, by . Lucas, flower is large, the als and pet tals. striped 
"have been included in it). Anyhow, it із a very ру sq.; нанай Court, Horsham. This year the with rose, and the yellow lip, which bears 
splendid plant and ought not to give disappoint original plant has shown the good qualities = ence of the C. p agnum in C. l'Ansonii, 
o any, with its great fringy, six-flanged expected, and another of superior merit has spotted and s triped with dark claret colour. 
blossom of rich violet with i 16 ed recently. Mr. Lucas sends a flower of on 3 
е ; damp situations in the high-alpine үре second plant in which the influence of O. eor Mf BLACK INCE. 
pune, among light scrub, but seemed to disdain Uro-Skinneri appears very distinctly = all the AF в of this very dark coloured hybrid, 
pthe company, in the same light twilight of cop- segments much enlarged. The se pa petals еа ү кейе Odontiods Charlesworthii (Coch- 
Nia of a powderless (except inside the calyx) are claret-red with a ганй light, white pre Эрен ; lioda Noezliana x Odontoglossom Harryanum 
ivalid that was profuse there, but all gone un- the broad, d displ: lip is pure white, and Odm. Queen Alexandra (Harryanum x 
discoverably out of flower, so that I could only 
tell that its stems rise about 5-6 inches a 
average 3 blossoms. It would be a safe 
that qus are mauve. 
But as the ridge climbs higher, the problems 
of [р lants M gis way to the pleasures of 
present ilie. Now we are for the Sis Y ган еа 
400 i i 
y 15 
From cushio: Ld 
"leaves, rise тта pedis in pairs, each o 
kamschati ‚ but the flower is of a Ё 
pleasanter de and is further set off by the 
reverse of the leaves and by the very 
Vivid milky glaucescence of t ung shoots 
Now that hamaecistus has bec o 
and disliked accordingly ; inky mountain .Ash 
two inches high ; a iet садо ;a most 
lovely little Andromeda which trails in moss- 
cushions over d = epee: and praes 
_ Up, on thread- 
Lily-of- Ae Valley bells pri a es с бэ tick берагу. 
_ Megasea xifra тя upstanding heads 
of magenta-cri muon: T AE all Tris was coming 
Up, and the Caltha going overs but the actual 
fall ые, 600 ат = the mountain was not yet 
fully 4 wn ‘by its Fils a Dr р. 
promised, aha a a Polygonum with fat, bent spikes 
of vivid, red-c ine, and a Meconopsis 
slugged abed among ie. puma so that I can only 
Say of it that its buds are clothed in brown 
mistles, and that its very narrow leaves are с 
(ПД *Inuate and also bristled. But the top was gay z a E E EFR E E К povx. 
M. pro dodendron Harpet aoa m poong e A cream- ee incurving variety. 
[К ‘ocks the fine lawn was jewelled with clumps of (See page 055.) 
Ern that differs only from 2 d in 
P Seng thus and entire wder- 
a less, “but at ie Beige the most. lovely ced spotted with dark crimson, the area ti d ans), is sent by J. J. Botton, Esq., 
Е Eng pes tufts of a little serere d the yellow crest and the side lobes being nang Pendleton, Manchester. The influ 
E de vith flowers of brilliant citron- of ә. same deep colour. Eie upper r side of the ence of Noezliana with Odm. Harryanum, 
cd such а as I cannot call to mind ini апу — slender column is crimson and t giving Oda. Charlesworthii, resulted in uniform 
Mer of its race except D ge M са ; ARGO: colour, and the elimination of үс шн оп 
асо One rock hard by, there дра ung CYMBIDIUM ARG the other parent. In this case the same lines 
the of a Narcissiflora- Anemone of exactly FrowERs of this new cross between C erythro- have been followed, and, although Odm. 
16 вате vivid pink ng е пе gets іп Potentilla stylum and С. Winnianum are sent by Mr. W. triumphans, a distinctly blotched species, enters 
E "i ман we saw = oug ева to Mox 7 alker, gr. он т Esq., i the poc , no — = aes Po —— 
1 yards t ү hs blindin whi gh W Bade udis t an the well-displayed sepals petals being 
io ual cloud and rain d so at las ‘ t, sodden дын ds Leig bec flowers smaller than Mine ish-chocolate, and the lip dark reddish-claret, 
IL. the skin and lashed te to the be o vith summit- j e C. insigne s е shaped a in C. е crest, in whic| . Harryanum is strongly 
Бет wat ht tees vege й with ауа us throsty дий ч оп v larger sca The revealed, being yellow. Notwithstanding its 
that; had : : tals are white with slight purple dark colour, the shining surface and red tint m 
| by 
3 tis tine ‘becom e a lake in а Tipp lin peti end Dos following the veining; lip cream-white, with the lip give a bright effect 
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