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carpets of Crocuses, -which are also a feature of this wild 

 garden. 



The following- plants were amongst those exhibited at tlic 

 "Hyacinth Conference" and were noteworthy: Cyrtopodiuni 

 Saintlegerianwn, a n-iagnificent Orchid with a spike a yard 

 high, freely branched and bearing over a hundred flowers, 

 which were yellow, thickly barred and blotched with chestnut- 

 red, prettily undulated, and formed so as to resemble butter- 

 flies. The large bracts at the base of the l)ranches were as 

 brightly colored as the flowers. It is probably only a variety of . 

 C. punctatum\ iiw old garden Orchid, though rarely flowered. 

 C. cardloclcena, a yellow-flowered species was also shown. It 

 is very similar to C. Andersoni, differing chieffy in the form of 



anum, a very ])retty species, or probably a natural hybrid 

 between O. cirrhostiin and O. crispum. Spatlioglottis Kiin- 

 halliana (S. aitrea), a grand Orchid, which a friend well d(-- 

 scribed as a "big, yellow-lfowered Phalcenopsis." Dendrobiuui 

 viicans, said to be a hybrid between 1). Wardianuin and D. 

 ///?</^r)r«/;^ but not perceptibly different from some fornis of 

 the last-named sj^ecies, was sent by Messrs. Veitch and ob- 

 tained a first-class certificate. The same firm sent beautiful 

 little examples of Boronia heierophylla, and sonie new Hip- 

 peastrimis. A Clivia naiiied John Laing was exhibited by the 

 nurseryman whose name it bears, and was generally atlmitted 

 to be the largest-flowered and deepest-colored of any yet seen. 

 April 5ti,. W'. Watson. 



Fig. 104. — New Japanese Chrysanthemum, Wm. H. Lincoln. — See page i 



the crest on the labelluni. A niagnificent spike of Odonto- 

 glossHin crispum var. Stevensii, with flowers four and a half 

 inches across, of perfect form and heavily marked with large 

 chestnut blotches, was shown l)y Baron Schroeder. Oncidiuin 

 superbiens and O. macranthiiin were shown in first-class ci)n- 

 dition. .These two are among the \'ery choicest of Oncidiums, 

 indeed, one might say of all Orchids. The last named had a 

 spike eight feet long, and the flowers were each three and a 

 half inches across, with dusky yellow sepals, bright yellow pe- 

 tals, a curiously fornied fleshy-purplish lip, bearing a pronii- 

 nent white crest. Dendrobhiin nie/anndiscus, a hybrid froni 

 D. Aifisiuorthii and D. Findlayanum, was shown by Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence. He also sent a plant of Odontoglossuui Ruckeri- 



Cultural Department. 



Evaporated Sulphur in the Green-I louse. 



THE value of this remedy against many parasitic fungous 

 growtlis and minute insects which infest plants grown 

 under glass has long been recognized, but the results of some 

 experiments n-iade by Professor S. T. Maynard are so interest- 

 ing they are worth the attention of everyone who grows plants 

 under glass. The report was made in a bulletin of the experi- 

 ment station connected with the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. 



This ren-iedy consists in keeping a kettle or basin of sul- 



