June 14, 1893.] 



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variety of Odontoglossum crispum, known as Apiatum, 

 bearing a spike of twenty flowers. Among the plants from 

 Messrs. F. Sander & Co. I noted a distinct and handsome 

 Odontoglossum, called Wattianum, which might easily be 

 dubbed a natural hybrid between O. luteo-purpureum and 

 O. Harryanum, the flowers having in form and color a re- 

 semblance to both those species. It obtained a certificate, 

 as also did a very pretty pale-colored variety of Miltonia 

 vexillaria, called Princess May. The hybrid Cattleya Wells- 

 iana, raised by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. from C. superba 

 and Laelia elegans, was shown by them in flower. I never 

 saw Cypripedium Rothschildianum so good as was a speci- 

 men shown by Sir Trevor Lawrence. This fine, healthy 

 plant bore two scapes each, with three magnificent flowers 

 arranged one above the other. Sir Trevor also exhibited 

 an exceptionally good example of Cochlioda Noezliana, 

 which, so far, has generally disappointed cultivators by 

 producing short, few-flowered raceqies. At the Temple 

 show, however, it bore racemes a foot long with twelve 

 flowers, each flower one and a half inches across, their 

 bright cinnabar-red color with blue-tipped column render- 

 ing them attractive. Cypripedium Volonteanum giganteum, 

 from Messrs. Low & Co., bore flowers twice as large as the 

 type and was awarded a certificate. An enormous-flow- 

 ered variety of Cattleya Mossiae, called Princess May, broad 

 petaled and rich rosy mauve in color, with a grand lip, was 

 shown by the same firm. Acropera Charlesworthii is a 

 new species and may be called a gigantic A. Loddigesii. 

 It bore a spike a yard long, with forty nodding flowers colored 

 green, with brown spots and a pure white lip. Schom- 

 burgkia tibicina, Broughtonia sanguinea, Cyrtopodium An- 

 dersoni and Grammatophyllum Fenzlianum are some of 

 the rarer plants which were represented by fine specimens. 

 The Grammatophyllum is a grand Orchid, its arching spikes 

 of large yellowish brown-spotted flowers being most effec- 

 tive. Cattleya Lawrenciana, with over forty flowers, was 

 a beautiful picture, and there were dozens of huge well- 

 flowered rriasses of C. Mossiae, still one of the finest of all 

 Cattleyas. Laelia purpurata maintained its reputation, both 

 for floriferousness and variety as well as beauty, three 

 named varieties obtaining certificates ; there were also 

 grand examples of the remarkably colored L. tenebrosa. 

 Oncidium macranthum was represented by magnificent 

 specimens, chiefly among the exhibits of Messrs. Charles- 

 worth, Shuttleworth & Co., as also were the Laelias. They 

 also exhibited a small plant of Cattleya intermedia alba, 

 for which I heard them ask seventy-five guineas. Cattleya 

 William Murray, a beautiful hybrid between C. Mendelii 

 and C. Lawrenciana, was shown by its raiser, Mr. Nor- 

 man Cookson, and was awarded a first-class certificate. 

 Brassia Lewisii, a new species, with spikes nine inches long 

 clothed to the base with elegant flowers, the sepals tail- 

 like two inches long, colored pale sepia-brown, the petals 

 small and brown, the lip lemon-yellow, with a few red 

 spots, was shown by Messrs. Lewis & Co., Southgate. 



Leaving the Orchids, the next in interest are the new 

 plants, of which there were not many that were really 

 striking among a large number of mediocre interest. An- 

 thurium crystallinum variegatum, shown by Messrs. Pitcher 

 & Manda, is a remarkable plant, the leaves being sometimes 

 wholly creamy white or blotched and veined with that 

 color on a deep moss-green ground. The yellow looks like 

 etiolation, those leaves in which there is little or no green 

 being evidently extremely delicate. It was awarded a first- 

 class certificate. Nemesia strumosa, the pretty little south 

 African annual, introduced last year by Messrs. Sutton & 

 Co., was shown in flower, and was stronger and larger- 

 flowered than when last exhibited. The plants were sturdy, 

 a foot high, and the terminal clusters of flowers fully three 

 inches across. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence exhibited a collection of cut flowers 

 and leaves of seedling and hybrid Anthuriums. There is 

 considerable promise in these plants, and they will, I feel 

 certain, amply repay the breeder who takes them in hand. 

 Evidently they interbreed freely, some extreme crosses 



having already been obtained. The size of the spathes, 

 their color and the form and color of the spadices are both 

 varied and attractive. The named varieties exhibited were 

 Laingii, with a spathe nine inches by six, white, with an 

 erect soft pink spadix ; Burfordiense, the spathe of which 

 was eight inches by five, and colored deep crimson ; Mort- 

 fontanense, with a large, leathery, bright crimson spathe 

 and a thick white spadix ; Lindeni, a pink-tinted Roezlii ; 

 Andreanum sanguineum, Edwardii roseum and Parisiente, 

 which is a salmon-pink variety of A. Scherzerianum. There 

 were also several distinct and beautiful unnamed seedlings 

 originated at Burford Lodge. The same exhibitor sent 

 Richardia Elliottiana, a yard high, with a spathe five inches 

 across, and Cyrtanthus Huttoni, a Cape bulb with a stout 

 scape two feet long, bearing an umbel of eighteen nodding 

 tubular flowers one and a half inches long, colored rich 

 orange. Messrs. F. Sander & Co. sent a group of new 

 plants, including Strobilanthes Dyerianus, Alocasia San- 

 deriana magnifica, Anthurium albanense, Dipladenia atro- 

 purpurea, a beautifully fiowered specimen, and Aristolochia 

 gigas Sturtevantii, bearing two fine flowers, which were 

 alluring enough in appearance, but their odor in the crowded 

 close tent was vile. The beautiful hybrid Sweet-brier Roses 

 raised by Lord Penzance were shown by him, and also by 

 Messrs. Keynes, WiUiams & Co., of Salisbury. A bank of 

 Messrs. C. Turner & Co. 's new Rose, Crimson Rambler, was 

 universally admired ; it is a really Avonderful plant even for 

 a Rose, growing like a Willow and flowering most pro- 

 fusely. I believe it is to be distributed this year, the lucky 

 proprietors possessing 13,000 plants, which are nearly all 

 booked at seven shillings and sixpence each. 



Another beautiful new Rose is one which Messrs. Paul& 

 Son, of Cheshunt, exhibited under the name of Carmine Pil- 

 lar ; it has single five-petaled flowers, four inches across, 

 colored rich carmine, with a paler centre ; the leaves are 

 large, smooth, dark green, and the plant is almost spineless. 



Several exhibitors sent fine examples of the hybrid Cras- 

 sula jasminea x coccinea, which is dwarf, compact and 

 very free-flowering ; there were three distinct varieties rep- 

 resented, rubra, rosea and alba, described by their names. 

 Celmisia spectabilis was shown in flower by Messrs. J. 

 Backhouse & Son, York, and Iris Lortetii was sent by Mr. 

 Van Tubergen, of Haarlem. It is impossible to speak too 

 admiringly of this beautiful Iris. Mr. Van Tubergen in- 

 formed me that it is much less difficult to manage than its 

 near relative, I. Susiana, of which he also showed fine 

 flowers. The large, elegant, broad, pale gray-lilac falls, 

 striped and spotted with red-brown, and the soft gray-lilaC 

 color of the standards give the flowers a most refined ap- 

 pearance. They cannot easily be described. I can only 

 say that this Iris, if it will do well under ordinary treatment, 

 is certain eventually to become immensely popular. Cine- 

 raria maritima, van aurea, is a prettily variegated plant, a 

 foot high, well furnished with pinnatifid gray-green leaves, 

 margined and splashed with creamy yellow. It is likely 

 to prove a useful plant for summer bedding. Primula Reidii 

 was shown in exceptional vigor by Mr. G. F. Wilson, and 

 obtained a first-class certificate. It is one of the prettiest 

 of all alpine Primulas when grown as Mr. Wilson exhibited 

 it, a tuft of rich green leaves like those of the common 

 Primrose, with three scapes nearly a foot high, each bear- 

 ing six or eight campanulate flowers of the purest white, 

 nearly an inch across, and very fragrant. Herbaceous 

 plants were represented by magnificent collections from 

 the leading growers, notwithstanding the unfavorable 

 character of the weather we have had for such plants. 

 Gloxinias, as shown by Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Cannell & 

 Sons and others, were exceptionally good, while the Tu- 

 berous Begonias were simply a marvel. I have never seen 

 any Begonias so fine as the magnificent group staged by 

 Messrs. Cannell & Sons. Mr. Rivers showed a collection 

 of Peaches and Nectarines in pots, all bearing fine crops of 

 ripe fruit. 



An exhibit of considerable interest was a collection of all 

 kinds of plant-products, sent by Mr. James H. Veitch from 



