AUGUST 21, 1875.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
233 
| species. 
Neither the one described by Mr. V pure 
neri, the sepals and petals of which were spotted with | by a wire passed through one of the mar ginal holes. 
chocolate and edged with deep rose, the front part of | The porous material retains s just sufficient moi € to | nor the one described by be Smith, is the true Mas 
К е lip being a deep iolet, the bright colouring and | induce the nr to cling to it, an nd they are ue | devallia Chimzera, The ne I found i 1871 and ti- 
distinct marking rendering i very | time easily removed to other positions. Ano iet of | warded Professor Rélchenbech y whose able 
fine houseful of happy-looking plants of Cattleya | these con дата is а little cup (бр. 50 ) of the same | penthe plant was described in the same year, is totally 
Mossiz, and species, gave promise of another | kind of common pottery-ware, scarcely an inch d | distinct from the variety descri Mr. th, his 
oral treat at no distant date, Itis Mr. Warner’s | i da 13 inch in diameter, the upper edge | belonging to a quite different class, The flower-stem 
experience that when a fine bloom, such as that of the | slightly incurved—like alf Potato scooped out. | of Masdevallia Chimzera is black, 2 feet long and very 
ttleyas above red to, urs tv r three | These are used as tr or e by inverting | thin and hard; the plant produces three to six flowers 
years in succession, the plants are exhausted, and it | the any uneven surfaces about the plants, when | опа stem; the prolonged sepals are 10 to 12 inches 
takes some few years to get up their full vigour again; | the woodlice crawl under, and are readily caught and | ng and very narrow ; the slipper-shaped lip is white; 
and this d Feb to ly - reason why such excepti ional | destroyed. ther plan adopted for valuable Catt- | the yellow spotsinthe pur é dell are very large, 
displays are few etween, | siig is to have the bottom made pni from the | the latter thickly covered with hair. I have repeatedly 
The deu house (fig. 51), contained some | pot, and sustained in its place wires passed | tried to send home the true variety, bu herto have 
very finespecimens both of O. A d | тылеч holes in the lower edge of the Рр: ot. Whena | entirely failed to do so. І do not believe there is at 
— with fat- -looking pseudobulbs, taking on a | plant requires repotting the wires are removed, which | present a true plant of this Teich species in 
| releases the bottom aot the crocks above. The live | Europe; those that have been flowered in this count 
they were treated. There were here both fine speci- | roots clinging to the inside of the pot are easily re- | and named M. Chimæra belo g to quite a different 
mens and fine т it being an objéct іп manag- | leased without breaking, a point Mr. er c group, and a class of which my memory counts at 
ing such a collection Pe ; Warner’ to select the | siders of great importan г, 1 Christy, B | lea st ted varieties, 2. Roezl. [Mr. Roezl’s drawing 
best forms, and get r inferior on In th field Road, makes these specialities for Mr. Warner. | shows a plant which appears to be quite distinct from 
same house the Masdevallias wet doing w 7. M, the one figured by Mr, Smith. Eps.] 
Our special text to-day is the Vandas, which form | 
ine sr nese of the illustrations published —€— ма 
rc 
therefore say ore o varied store of | 
тїсһез, hiak; it is well known, Broomfield collec- | 
tion contains, Suffice it that s C repage vhich | 
Mr. Warner acq as r is in 
dai of bein ni ү Ae ay trust the етае 
appearance of the plants, which fill house after house, 
all 1 о 2 ө for, apt pari. 
to repay in wn way, with a wealth of І dis- 
play, о judicious attention which provides so well for | 
their w 
e, however, one or two little matters — 
7 ro 
pana are started. 
when put into use uh Orchid bulb is fastene 
with so 
to e w d re by 
ing the 
of the Phe idi сова ‘convenient 
and the plan thus fixed is suspended from the roof 
Fic, 
5T. ——MR. WARNER'S ODONTOGLOSSUM HOUSE, 
( ond | 
|, $ | number for July 24 last (p. 111) you hs 
Home Cortes ence | printed a vere from Dr arpenter, in which 
Masdevallia Chim nte t а one day on | he says saw for certain the resting-spores of the 
horseback with a companion em е —À ! Potato бене et ently described by me) three 
valley, my eye was агг beautiful | years ago, and that he published a I of the 
object sm distant, growing n ы r bya Aron I | bodies in the Tine; for Sept. 15, nd exhibited 
stopped the d one a my pos- | the “=. ger e i Croyd n” Microscopleal 
it "it difficult — to alight, I asked my | Society. properly a note 
-— ion todo 50, jme i — with my | : iy ege to ihe efiect that “оп and in the re 
ishes. nd fet а | o ex 
icy of the plants I pointed out to Ма He held them | p pr no T ri ie on has intem, ^ vitet (Үз aie 
t nt to see | Car пена теа iscovere e 
rts bof tus BE irr M pr | i^ sho ald at the time V ^e э observations 
PELA f. V 
€ the "o. wers are behind you " He did so, 
d I then discovered oe he had ques d the beau- 
tifel Masdevallia Chim On it were flower-stalks 
uite 2 feet long; any oag that the flowers were 
behind him when he held the plants up to r m, 
Masdevallia æra 
of course, rp arem at bos ng Chim 
rad and described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
pee gee ушы cannot help ni ng to lift the mist and 
veil that surround the early discovery of the true 
the Lin Royal 
eta Or = с ‘Agricultural Societies, or hav 
ago, 
before the Royal, Horti- 
ntific or бра 
cultural papers published i in ot this. coun sei As fa’ 
Ic o cognisance whatever has been taken, of 
э а to the. Times in proper quarters, 
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