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THEY GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 12, 1874, 
capital gymnasium bowling-green, - drying- 
ground, all perfectly free, not a single 
&e., 
ApEn out of the hendreds who pases to 
are 
Going through them on the occasion of 
my visit to Guide Bridge, it was astonishing to 
observe how much has been accomplished 
There is not an inch of ground to spare. Every 
apg oe of soil r as well covered as a lady’s table 
bazaar. e specialities, of course, are on 
on side of the eae Geek Celery, Rhubarb, 
and Onions being greatly in the ascendant ; 
the floral part is in no gig incon- 
spicuous, and in some of lots. becomes 
quite engaging. At the hen moment, „the 
er of ornamen 
nly Grapes, 
their money go in 
and perhaps in w $ 
o into minute detail ; it is enough to 
invite the i those to whom the idea 
may not hitherto have presented itself, to the 
fact that simple horticulture, well-started by a 
libe. ral promoter, -a enco ouraged in a per- 
ering, kindly, and consistent way, declares 
as in the present. inst aeai the 
ini sone. his 
gg are reflective. 
It may be purely accidental—the causes may 
have nine to do with the gardening, as to 
this we have no means of judging ; but the fact 
remains that, while strikes and foolish money 
disputes are only too well-known both right and 
left, at the mills where this gardening is a part 
of the Pomi they have never been known 
pape as here AA roe at once 
ves, can it. 
moment to the wives and 
families that they. get a fair quantity of 
ice fresh vegetables, and that they learn 
the nee of home-grown flowers? Cotton- 
who have the chance o hand- 
father’: 
; rere ‘ay 
certain quarters, depend 
comes of doing what is done at thes 
Guide Bridge is fifty times’ more 
ev 
Success to the kindly endeavours of Mr. Hugh 
Mason. 
It is but right to add as a postscript that 
best kept gardens. G. 
there is an annual exhibition, with award of 
prizes, and that prizes are given also for the 
New Garden Plants. 
MASDEVALLIA CALOPTERA, 7. 5p.* 
This must be very pretty, though the numerous 
flowers are small enough. All the Amandz be- 
ong to those Orchids the attraction of which is Fara 
on the quantity of the flowers, just as in 
Epidendrum, Kmbhipiotenth © No 
doubt the flowers are whiti sh. ~ There is a violet 
lines on the inferior sepal. This, and M. melanopus 
and M. pachyura, were collected by M. Roezl, with 
M. amabilis and M. polysticta. We may expect to 
see the whole lot very soon in flower. H. G. Rchb: f. 
MASDEVALLIA SFL AED n. aa 
A race mall-fl specie e flowers 
ould p ppaki rio ‘be whitish, coe all directed a 
The base of the perigon 
o 
pre dots of same 
e only well seen with a lens. ‘One 
diarhasin’s H. G. Rehb. f. 
_MASDEVALLIA PACHYURA, 7. sp.f 
A nice, small-flowered, but racemose Masdevallia, 
ed with nu 
yellow flow: cing: cover 
red Erra One o f Me Baite Ringon 
. fe 
MASDEVALLIA’ Tävita ONN, a m DS 
merous ae 
Ek 
sepals 
con with the pallid 
and tien apai of the flower. 
t was discove or in Panama by M. Roezl, ry was 
PARAT at a sale in Mr. Stevens’ rooms, Æ. G. 
GONGORA CASSIDEA, Achd, ~ nce Schlechia, 
Bot. . Zeit, 1864, 298. || 
This is much in the way os, Gongora galeata, 
Rchb. E (Acropera Loddigesii, Lindl.), a common 
Mexican ay oor be forgotten in 
fashion. The li 
It ion egis > lacie at. its 
spread as wa Pe A p & man. 
* (Amandz.) ie ea poes ; bracte xi 
mis ovatis prine 1s uninerviis ; pedicellata excadentic 
bus; cyathi mento pi cmap: recta; regione antementali intrusa; 
sepalo dorsali Hego RE Ne triangulo seta longe Pes viori, per dor- r- 
carinato s lateralibus angust , æque longius 
pore are te to Peale 
cum apiculo, aaa o serrati. 
amans laciniis laterali 
ello latiu: 
tis antice dilatatis, “tee emargihetis 
lab 
i in laciniate 
api 
coloratis ; Seans “cyatho -elongato curvo; men 
antrorso ; a supremo brevissim o -libero in setam Kaa 
multo iia etnio dorso — ato ;- sepalis 
lateralibus sean an ibus; tepalis’ 1 hinia apice 
ingeti = acinia eae peti Tria laterali thas extrorsum se serra- 
later co ; labelli laciniis 
tis ; to in 
fateralibad semioblongis antice 
gue purpureo 
ápice lacinu- 
Hain peso bello vitellino laciniis 1 
come from Guptemala, I have been 
find, * fr rom Dr. Lindley’s Herbarium, 
tee unpublished name of Acropera Bate: 
ro 
Tha 
begun his lasi m opus. 
would oa more ae satisfied with te lata 
1g 
gash from the 
eo a single st 
itg 
FUCHSIA PROCUMBENS, 4. Cunn. See ante, p. 291. 
In our notice last week we inad 
a cu beaiich: 
LILIUM WASHINGTONIANUM PURPUREUM, (Fig. 67.) 
“This fine Lily was imported by Mr. W. Bull, and | 
was distributed in considerable kaera tity ai 
er the name of Epa m purp 
is Notes on the Talipem, published i in 
owever, in his Not 
the Fournal of the te Sociely, makes it a variety 
of ashingtonianum, as no Sout it is, nothwith- 
standing some discrepancy in ulbs, e deeg 
it as smaller and more slender than type, 
with a stem from 1—14 foot “and the whorled 
leaves from 1—1} inch long, as having from four to 
sight. flowers on an umbel, the perianth being 
a with minute ne r 
iMastention from as speci 
oe 6n, ga Messrs. Veitch & So 
flowered and exhibited b 
one of the meetings © a 
ber, were distinctly racem the colour, m 
over, on poer first ert was nee white 
t is a native of Humbo 
rple beco ge, used with 
purplish fat: not deep mei a to obliterate thé re 
ing. nty, m 
ath which enjoys a: climate °F veal tual prs 
T. M. 
IRE PELARGONIUM SOCIE 
the immediate pees of all int 
we ~ 
Firs my brother b quai br the iia 
of the Zonal Pelargonium, whom it is hoped 
by the Society’s prom ae that it 
a bond o oa and be t 
especi 
| also to  horti iftntists par. 
eurs or professional Sigh se oes 
all to 
whether r 
pe tint eeii 
The first t step the Society deemed it expedient 
take was to offer est amount of yim 
means (at present) adii iS ba 
offered by the Royal Horticult 
P i e tea show to be held in 
ap 
niums for ati 
the last occasion, with the exception of the c 
