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Garden and Forest. 



[November 12, 1890. 



inches across, whilst the lip was funnel-shaped, nearly four 

 inches long, with a wide spreading undulated limb. The col- 

 ors ranged in the different varieties from rich rosy mauve to 

 pure white, the labellum being more or less deep maroon and 

 vellow. Their varietal names were Regalis, Amethystina, 

 Delicata and Flammea. There are many beautiful forms of 

 C. aurea, but the rarest and most delightful of all is that 

 named Imshottiana, of which Baron Schroeder exhibited a 

 plant in flower last week. It has milk-white sepals and petals 

 and a labellum colored as in the type. A specimen of Cypri- 

 pedium Fairreanum, bearing seven elegant flowers, was shown 

 from the Baron's collection, the richness of which is often 



little account as a garden Orchid ; Lcelia Arnoldiana, very 

 similar to, if not the same as L. Craw shay ana, and Catasetum 

 Bungerothii, var. Randii, remarkable in having cream-yellow 

 flowers instead of white, as in the type. These were the most 

 striking of the Orchids exhibited at the last meeting of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society. 



jErides Lawrencice is the largest flowered, and, at the same 

 time, one of the most beautiful species known. It has lately 

 become plentiful owing to a large importation of it by Mr. San- 

 der, and its flowers are not now uncommon in collections. 

 But in 1883, when first introduced, a single example was pur- 

 chased by Sir Trevor Lawrence for 235 guineas. A plant of it 



*°'K- 73- — Celastrus articulata. — See page 551. 



abundantly manifested at the meetings of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society, in which the Baron takes such an active interest. 

 Besides the above he also sent several plants in flower of his 

 magnificent variety of Dendrobium Phalcenopsis. Some of the 

 flower-scapes were twenty-one inches long, and bore each six 

 or seven flowers, which were three and a half inches across, 

 and colored a rich rosy mauve, almost crimson, the color of 

 the curiously formed labellum being a deep velvety maroon. 

 Although introduced ten years ago from north Australia, yet 

 this species is extremely rare in cultivation. I am informed, 

 however, that the Linden Company, at Brussels, have lately 

 imported about 2,000 strong plants of it. Lcelia grandis vera, 

 a fine form, with broad nankeen-colored sepals and petals and 

 a rose-purple labellum blotched with maroon ; Aganisia 

 casrulea, a rare plant of some interest on account of its pecu- 

 liarly formed and uncommon colored flowers, otherwise of 



now flowering at Kew was obtained several years ago for 

 A. Sanderiannm. It is related to A. odoratum, indeed proba- 

 bly only a variety of it, but the flowers are one and a half 

 inches across and fully as long, and they are white, with ma- 

 genta tips to the segments. A. Sanderiannm is almost as 

 large, but it differs in the form and color of the labellum. We 

 are as yet ignorant of the habitat of these two noble brides, 

 but it is probable that they occur together. 



Pleiones are the gayest Orchids in flow r er now at Kew. Some 

 of the pans in which they are grown are only ten inches across, 

 yet I counted seventy-five flowers on one panful a few days 

 ago. When understood, Pleiones are very easily cultivated. 

 They require a rich soil, chiefly turfy loam and leaf-mould, no 

 water after potting until they have pushed their new roots well 

 into the soil, and then plenty until they lose their leaves again. 

 A position near the glass in a sunny, airy greenhouse suits all 



