January 30, 1889.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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size; the deep green leaves are about one foot long. The arching 

 racemes bear from twelve to twenty flowers of good substance, 

 and about three inches across, golden yellow, heavily blotched 

 and barred with cinnamon brown and margined with pale yel- 

 low. The lip and column are yjure white, with one large 

 irregular blotch of yellowish brown on the anterior lobe. This is 

 a handsome Orchid and a few plants will be found very useful 

 to brighten the more sober tints of tht^ varieties of O. crispwn. 

 It is robust and free growing, requiring an open soil with good 

 drainage and a liberal supply of water at all seasons. 



Lycaste lanipes. — Though not a showy Orchid this will be 

 found very useful for cutting, as it produces abundant flowers 

 from the base of the matured bullis, and lasts a long time in 

 perfection. In habit it resembles the well-known L. Skinneri / 

 liut the bulbs are larger and the leaves are of leathery texture. 

 The creamy white flowers are four to five inches across, with a 

 pure white lip beautifully fringed along its margin. It should 

 be grown in a richj open soil, in an intermediate temperature, 



This is a very strong and free growing species, of noble ap- 

 pearance, with thick, fleshy stems, bearing broad, distichous 

 leaves about two feet long, from the axils of which- spring stout 

 racemes two feet long, bearing a dozen large, greenish white 

 flowers with a cordate, cuspidate lip of ivory wliite, and lasting 

 about six weeks. This grand Orchid will repay liberal cultiva- 

 tion, as it delights in a rich soil kept open with nodules of 

 charcoal. The roots quickly fill the pot, when the plant will 

 be benefited with weak liquid manure. The best plants I have 

 yet seen are growing among a collection of Palms and foliage 

 plants and receiving the same treatment. The best form'is 

 Superba, a great improvement on tlie type, but unfortunately it 

 is somewhat rare. A small growing and free flowering variety 

 is named Virens. This is a very inferior form, but is often 

 grown for its floriferous qualities. 



Among the many choice varieties of Lcelia anceps, Hilli and 

 Veitchi may be noted as of especial merit The former has 

 large flowers of good substance, pure white tinged with pale 



Fig. 91. — Berberis Tliunbergii. — See page 52. 



kept moderately dry after the bulbs are matured. It is a 

 native of Guayaquil. 



Angracu7n sesquipedale. — This is an interesting and very 

 striking Orchid introduced some sixty years ago from Mada- 

 gascar, where it luxuriates on large trees with a maximum 

 of heat and moisture at all seasons. It is a large plant, 

 with broad, distichous, dark green leaves, very stiff and 

 leathery. The large, star-like flowers are borne on axillary ra- 

 cemes, usually three in number, about eight inches across, very 

 fleshy and ivory white. The cuspidate lip 'terminates in a 

 spur or tail sometimes eighteen inches long. The flowers last 

 about three weeks if kept somewhat cool and dry. This 

 Orchid does weU in a pot filled with large lumps of charcoal 

 anti a plentiful supply of sphagnum. It should be in the warm- 

 est house, and abundanfly supplied with water during the 

 growing season, and at no time allowed to become dry, or 

 tlie loss of die bottom leaves will result. A fine variety 

 of this called Majus comes into flower somewhat later, is more 

 robust in growth, and the flowers measure fully eleven inches 

 across. 



Another fine Orchid flowering at this season \s A.eburneum, 

 which comes from the same locality as the plant last mentioned. 



purple. The side and front lobes of the lip are broiidly mar- 

 gined with amethyst purple, while the crest is a pale yellow. 

 In Veitchi the segments of the flowers are narrow and smaller, 

 pure white, with side and anterior lobes of the lip finely streaked 

 and spotted with pale rose purple. F. Goldring. 



Kenwood, N. Y. 



Ostrowskia mdgnifica. — The Garden contains a capital fig- 

 ure of this handsome new Campanulaceous plant. Herr Max 

 Leichtlin, to whom horticulturists are indebted for the pos- 

 session of living plants of it, has already stated that it is easy 

 to grow, is as hardy as a weed, and thrives in any soil. It has 

 erect stems about a yard high, with toothed, oblong leaves in 

 whorls and a terminal head of flowers, each on a long stalk, 

 semi-nodding, bell-shaped, foiu- inches across, two inches 

 deep, the corolla lobed and spreading, the stamens and stigma 

 as in Platycodon. The color is purplish-lilac, with darker 

 veins. It was discovered by Dr. Albert Kegel in eastern 

 Bokhara in 1884, and flowered for the first time in cultivation 

 with Max Leichtlin in 1877. 



Senecio Ghiesbreghiii. — In addition to its usefulness as a 

 large, winter flowering shrub for the conservatory, this hand- 

 some Rag-wort may be grown in eight-inch pots, when its 



