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the lip is rich violet-crimson in front, tinged with yellow 

 inside. 



LjElio-Cattleya Statteriana. — A new hybrid between 

 Laelia Perrini and Cattleya labiata was shown under this 

 name a fortnight ago by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, and was 

 awarded a first-class certificate. It has large handsome 

 flowers with pale rose-purple sepals and petals, the latter 

 broad and flat, and a lip colored rich maroon, with a white 

 throat. It is distinct, and apparently a free grower. 



London. W. Wa/SO/1. 



Pines and Birches of Maine and the Appalachian Rhodo- 

 dendrons and Azaleas, the great Cacti of Arizona and the 

 Desert Palms seem as far remote from each other in char- 

 acter as if they were inhabitants of different hemispheres ; 

 and yet they all come within our flora and* must find a 

 place in every garden in which the attempt is made to dis- 

 play the chief types of the vegetation of the United States. 

 Washingtonia filifera is a member of a small group of 

 Palms scattered over the desert region of the extreme 

 south-west part of the United States and the adjacent por- 



Fig. 77. — Washingtonia filifera in a California Garden. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



Washingtonia filifera. 



THE garden scene which appears in our illustra- 

 tion Ipn this page, and in which a young plant of 

 the noble Palm of the Colorado desert, Washingtonia fili- 

 fera, is the principal figure, conveys more clearly than could 

 be expressed in words an idea of the vastness of the territory 

 embraced within the limits of the United States, the variety 

 and richness of its vegetation and the possibilities of diverse 

 and distinct styles of gardening which it presents. The 



tions of Mexico. The species are not represented by many 

 individuals, and the isolated groups of venerable trees 

 seem to indicate that they are the last survivors of a race 

 which has been gradually disappearing under the hardships 

 and dangers of an existence in the desert. Fortunately, 

 however, these Desert Palms show an unusual power of 

 adapting themselves to new conditions of life, and, trans- 

 planted into the gardens of California and of the countries 

 which surround the Mediterranean, they grow with a vigor 

 and assume a beauty which they never display in the rocky 

 and sun-baked valleys which are their homes. It is probable, 



