April 8, 1896.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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tificate. The flowers, which are in terminal panicles on 

 leafy stems, are one and a half inches across, the sepals 

 and petals ovate, concave, fleshy, dark brown, with reddish 

 eye-like spots, and the flat, fringed lip is white and yellow, 

 with rose-colored spots. 



Cymbidium Lowio-eburneum. — Sir Trevor Lawrence has 

 emulated Messrs. Veitch & Sons by crossing Cymbidium 

 Lowii and C. eburneum, but reversed the parentage. The 

 result is a hybrid of superior merit to that raised by Messrs. 

 Veitch, the flowers of Sir Trevor's plant being ivory-white, 

 with plane segments and a labellum conspicuously marked 

 with a V-shaped blotch of crimson. It was shown in 

 flower last week and was awarded a first-class certificate. 



6,000 feet. I think they would thrive with you if fastened 

 onto the south side of a tree trunk in a sheltered spot out- 

 of-doors. I do not say that the plant would safely pass 

 through a winter like that of 1894-95, but I think it would 

 live outside through an average English winter. Ten to 

 fifteen degrees of frost are often experienced where I gath- 

 ered these plants, and the winds are often cold and cutting. 

 You might make the experiment, and the result would 

 probably be interesting." 



Conifers. — A hand-list of Conifera? and Taxacetc grown 

 in the Royal Gardens, Kew, has just been issued, and may 

 be obtained from the curator, price threepence. It com- 

 prises 227 species, with 340 varieties, belonging to thirty 



Fig. 20. — Quercus Californica, in Oregon.— See page 146. 



Ltelio-Cattleya Doris, a hybrid between L. harpophylla 

 and C. Trianae, raised simultaneously by Messrs. Veitch & 

 Sons and Mr. Norman Cookson, is an enlarged L. harpo- 

 phylla, the lip only bearing distinct evidences of the Cat- 

 tleya in its size, shape and tinge of purple. It received a 

 certificate last week. 



Ccelogyne cristata. — We grow this plant either in a stove 

 or a warm greenhouse temperature, but, according to a 

 correspondent in Saharumpur, in the north-west provinces 

 of India, it is found wild under conditions which seem to 

 indicate a hardier constitution than is commonly attributed 

 to it. He writes : "The plants I send were collected from 

 the face of exposed rocks at Mussoorie at an elevation of 



seven genera. The arrangement of the genera differs in a 

 few particulars from that followed by Bentham ami Hooker 

 in the Genera Plantarum, and the species are referred to the 

 genera under which they have been placed by the latest 

 authorities. Dr. Masters, F.R.S., the acknowledged au- 

 thority on the nomenclature of conifers in this country, 

 has assisted in the preparation of the list, which is prefaced 

 by an interesting historical introduction by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, who has always taken a peculiar interest in this 

 group of plants, and to whose exertions, when Director at 

 Kew, the extent and richness of the collection of Coniferae 

 at Kew is largely due. In 1S77 Sir Joseph's interest in 

 conifers was one of the main influences which induced 



