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GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 28, 1875. 
— sepal are of a shining mà — The lip 
ligulate, broader at the each side has 
x falcate auricula; it is seed E autifally mottled 
These flowers are just as pretty an 
thophthalma, which 
t, but e possess 
it in a good state in the Hamburgh ] Bote Garden. 
Mr. Day being a very enthusiastic ted of Restrepias 
as I understand from his most recent letters, it is to 
mea Sa agreeable satisfaction to кокк the ge 
gem is name, whic ell 
о. H. С. Кл. f. 
MASDEVALLIA CHIMZERA. 
IN M. Roezl’s remarks on this plant, in your last 
issue (p. 233), he says M. Linden’s and Mr. W. G, 
Smith's plants are not his. As to M. — s s plat 
itis well known to be M, Nycterinia. At 
will not speak about Mr. Smith's plant, "чылам їп 
this journal (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1875, vol. i., p. 41), 
perhaps not on a very reduced scale. Dr. Hooker's 
plant in the Botanical Magazine and that of my Xenia 
Orchidacea, tab. 185, ar saon ne and the same, If 
has been any mis in naming it thus, I w 
all imponen on myself | for it, declaring that th 
gentlemen on me, the author of M. 
Chimæra of Choco. 
~ - My first materials of M. Roezl’s Choco plant w 
one dry flower, and a perhaps lean e of. M. 
Roezl’s, representing a five (or four ?—the upper one is 
clear) flowered raceme, with rather narrow leaves, 
not i co 
M. Ortgies 
M. Roez's letter, 
lack hairs on yellow GENI, lip golden- 
e ‚рашлы with 4— 5 flowers ;" that was all 
ad as not quite шайнау" to begin wi, 
for BÉ he no critical species known then. 
Later M. Linden sent me M. Wallis’ eee "€ 
cimen. І пат e plant M. 
it fully agreed with M. Roezl’s, excepting. that the 
was shorter, more triang a far 
‘tor 
the least comfortable circumstances, very seldom 
to be — с ск, very clue they are Чай 
caricatures, y 
them, since mistakes are quite unavoidable. "t mah 
eM ы id eds нч such were giv 
H. Vei , indeed, by their being рь 
stantly зы “aed, "edd in the ar body 
of their sepals. М. Patin sent the same, also with 
szed- 
- When I spent a few delightful days, full of Orchid 
and chat, with oezl and Endres at Ham- 
burgh, the first brought me four flo of his Choco 
plant, but no r. Bull p ted me with five 
flowers, equal to of M. and from the 
e so by his excellent collector, Mr. 
Shuttleworth. It gives me m easure to thank 
Mr. Bull for his having i sere his i to dry 
nable specimens, viz, sev cences in 
lieu of a single miserable flower, "uli even n deipotlé 
of its po and AUN from the са wih 
fower and tre ires, col = iby Messrs 3 
The peduncles show 
` I had much tall about t the plant wih M. Wallis, 
who repeated, also by letter, ‘‘this is one of 
the most difficult and po quite 
ready to make you t mam” = 
M. Wallis had in vain tried to separate d t species 
between the splendid things, and flowers of 
omnib ng цу Босне At least one may prov 
is better materials M, ol occa be 
s are 
appear. 
chief ийман for distinction and his 
these :— 
I. Flower-stalk 2 feet long, black, very thin and 
hard. The plant produces 3— ers on a stem, 
2. The pes sepals are 10—12 inches long 
and very п 
+ The slippershaped lip is white. 
he yellow s 
and 
in the purple sepals are very 
vered with 
eg os ad one = the other, there being no vestige 
to be seen of the second when the first expands. M. 
Roezl жоом do weil ** to lift the mist and veil ” that 
surrounds the grand question, so very weighty pd a 
paying orchidist before he parts with his bank-n 
whether, in enthusiastic anticipation, from see Far сы 
scars of the flow ers, he believes tend peared so many 
flowers at once, or mine ae a hecan give his word that he 
may have an — ha 
recently pee plants, the most shy travellers, as 
are the Mas devis very often begin with short 
peduncles 
2. No dry sepal of the typical Choco plant at 
The sketch in my 
sketch 
hand reaches 6 Berlin inches. 
papers has them І and rjinch long. A 
in M. Van Houtte’s possession shows them 
ME long, which looks much gayer and very pro- 
vo 
3. Phe slipper was stated in the first letter to be 
axed sce now white: that may be subject to 
aria 
There are no yellow spots on — — in 
b 
y ‘of Messrs. Roezl’s or, Klaboch’s 
the ground colour is yellowish, and "the н-д pi very 
numerous often em ren dark spots 2 its surface, 
far more numerous th s of Messrs. 
Wallis and ‚те ойо (Gowered by чей Wrigley 
and ne mig we 2 Bengal tig 
black with reddish-yello € stripes. sketch illus- 
trating such an inversion—blackish RD with 
y ow do os RUM. in a А, Houtte's hands. 
It also represents qui - are to be 
seen in M. Wallis’ Plant T iti is s membered 
that M. Ortgies rote from M. Roezl's origina Че, 
"with black hairs on yellow groun re 
variations poss et i Or is there some higher д 
mrmi in the 
inally, 6-р question about specific — is 
orsometime it 
inguished by name, but куум 
ms y are climatic var ariations, sub-species, or variations 
5 
p's 
T^ 
[^ 
[m 
same. Ididn 
nst the can that the internal organs, sepals, 
lip, and column are quite the ae while t they afford 
There are two characters to be found, perhaps con- 
stant ; the leaves are bes in the Choco Chimeera, at 
least in of Mess: ree resorts and the sepals do not 
pass over abruptly, but much by-the-bye in the tails. 
The opposite is the sio- Pa 
Shuttleworthian plant. I it fair to na 
species, w do not quite 
keen collector, Wallisii, as 
iagnoses in 
bend is и to be — а the i inner organs, as far 
as ГА 
Тһе moral of the whole is, that ea Messrs. 
о well to 
Garden botany is арш. since 
the botanist must be "A with an answer at once, 
the "e of it n me y 
a 
frightful caricature of a sketch ; and even if it коз 
the beginning. |. 
good, you can scari 
Н. С. RAR 
CLUNY T TT mee 
SHIRE. | 
cely know i it is so in 
THIS is a magnificent pile, owned and inhabited b 
John Gordon, Esq., one of the largest landed pro- 
prietors in the North of Scotland. It is one of those 
substantial castellated piles built of granite which 
Aberdeen in its modern architectural residences is 
somewhat famous for, If it has a fault at all it is in 
its site see upon a low of the estate, and hence 
= ppe ts prospects. Surrounded 
is by plantations ыалы by age, and con- 
rates by breadths of grass and lawn as green as 
emerald and as soft as down to-the tread, it hasa 
special importance to the tourist who, like ourselves, 
is permitted to walk within, the eye lingering on the 
beautiful green base, and catching the contour of the 
colossal specimens which have been planted by those 
* Masdevallia irri Rchb. f.—Foliis ab angusta basi 
lato tena oblongis usque ultra duos зы latis, obtuse 
“sepalis багай: is in caudas sensim acuminatis. | 
бела Wailsi, Rchb. f—Folis ab angusta basi 
acutis ; . sepali ius latiusque triangulis subito 
д. at 
Chimzra, Rchb. f., 
Boo Hook, Bot. Mag. 6152 ; YOS ith, 
| Gardeners Chronicle. F TM 
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ir discomfort so far as p g scenery 
is concerned, are ever to be preferred in autumn to the 
Ed sun — ere the gree: the grass 
panting for want of water 
is seems particularly 
like without a flaw. ere, too 
not ar ti and perfect in symmetry, but the moist 
climate seems most favoura e: Ак developing that 
splendid — hue which urges rly capti- 
ating. en the Picea (жб sae qually grand 
in eT ЭР ut MTS more aio t the density 
of its bra s; andt eculiar twist of the leaves 
compeers cannot la 
1 the Picea tribe, 
o and . cephalonica, 
How it is that these 
exception 
idt; and become distinguished with у 
style of plantation suits the writer's 
than the e novelties into pinetum form, 
Ue depend upon it, many of these Silver Firs will 
ome in time landmarks in the ees оос sites, 
and will got оед with the Crimean Silver 
able for their timber qualities. 
in beaatifi 
э 
the Beech, the Ash, the h, the **Scotch," the 
Birch, and the Lime are pre-eminently the trees of 
this part of mee ead and they have their 
ccentric habit 11 icul 
tree in itself; tas 
E together for a foot from 
etate s not quite ry wears S by no means 
on, and it would = interesting to have a wood- 
eit t of it for illustrative 
Wending our way iit tangled masses of Fern 
deeply overshadowed with branches and foliage, чш over 
a neat rustic bridge spanning the rivulet, by the 
of ** Tone," we come п 
snug garden it is, too, in mos ble keeping, 
the grass, and the “у and the walks bein 
without a flaw. iThe gravel is not ro to 
impose uj e feet or ©“ ," and the sense of 
walking is in the completest sense comfortable. 
The garden, then, is bounded or ici outer side by 
ornamental borders ribboned with flowers, showing to 
great advantage {ош зе regularity of “contour and 
do TUNE eS Aet ont 
and Calceolarias, and Violas and V. and varie- 
other in variety, 
made eene of, from the newest to the oldest favourites. 
hs are always рането pleased with Mangles 
ated P tis by no means stiff in 
the vem of folium ji in habit or es form of flower ; 
it is about the best as an individual that can be 
selected for HO WIE арн work, and here it Мы quite 
first-rate ; and so Melindres Verbena, the 
soft colour of the Mee Sine ina, foli 
ing : quite an indispensable item i flow 
beautiful, but a 
„Ве Ми аге у 
stiff 400 much like those wretchedly formed’ Бона 
that none but the collier d care to carry 
a her, Elegance with ease is the. RR, 
ne feels quite relieved to see a bit of the arching- 
eared variega set down among stiff, starchy, 
formal bedders. The тарт flowering Pelargoniums 
were Master istine rystal Palace Gem, the 
colo ng 
virg to dha beauty o f bedding isits adjuncts— — 
a ep of lawn as a base for earth-beds to spring . 
У at Gladioli, and some such plants, 
alth occasionally out of flower, break the mono- 
tony. Here they appeared to be a first-rate variety, 
had toned down 
although the recent floods of rain 
Then n the Cl 
their blaze. ematis—t 
able Clema tis — covering walls and climbi ze 
fices of — а ves an additional charm. 
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