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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 367. 



such an establisliment would have in the promotion of 

 horticulture. Botany and scientific g-ardening are looked 

 after at Kevv, but there is much need of a national fruit and 

 ves^etable garden such as Chiswick might be. 



Phalsnopsis Voungianum. — A fine spike of flowers of this 

 handsome, large-flowered Orchid was shown on Tuesday 

 by Baron Schroeder, and was awarded a first-class certifi- 

 cate. It is said to be a natural hybrid between Phakenop- 

 sis Aphrodite (amabilis) and P. Stuartiana, Messrs. Veitch & 

 Sons having imported it accidentally a year or so ago 

 among a batch of the last-named species. The spike 

 shown by Baron Schroeder bore ten flowers, each nearly 

 three inches across, or as large and full as a good form of 

 P. Aphrodite (amabilis), the color being blush-white, with 

 the lower sepals and front lobe of the lip spotted with red- 

 brown, and the side lobes of the lip striped with crimson. 

 It was first flowered in February last year by a Mr. G. 

 Young, and then obtained an award of merit. 



Phal/Exopsis intermedia Portei. — The largest flower-spike 



being wholly of a deep, glowing maroon-crimson, the lip 

 darker than the rest of the flower. This is an Orchid of 

 quite exceptional merit, Calanthes of this section being as 

 easy to grow and flower as any Orchids, and they flower 

 at a time when they are especially valuable. We have 

 many good varieties and hybrids among Calanthes now, 

 but this is much better than any of them. There is some- 

 thing to be said in favor of hybridizing Orchids when a 

 plant like this Calanthe is the outcome. 



Cymbidium EiiURNET-LowiANUM var. suPERiiUM. — Tliis is an 

 improvement on the hybrid vi'hose parents are indicated 

 in the name, and which was raised and flowered by Messrs. 

 Veitch & Sons in 1889. The variety has larger, better- 

 formed flowers, which are also clearer in color, being 

 cream-yellow flushed with rose, with a blotch of crimson 

 on the front lobe of the lip. The habit of the plant and 

 form of the flowers resemble C. eburneum. The plant 

 which was shown by Messrs. Veitch & Sons on Tuesday 

 last had a spike eighteen inches long, bearing four flowers, 



Fig. 13. — Qucrcus Toumeyi, n. sp. — See page 93. 



I have ever seen of this plant was shown last Tuesday by 

 Lord Rothschild Tring, and obtained a first-class certifi- 

 cate. It was two feet long, with five branches each, from 

 six to nine inches long, and it bore forty flowers each 

 about two inches in diameter and colored white, with a 

 tinge of purple at the base of each segment, the lip being 

 yellow, amethyst-purple and red. This variety was intro- 

 duced in 186 1 by a Frenchman named Porte, and first 

 flowered in the collection of Messrs. H. Low & Co. It is 

 the best of the several forms known of P. intermedia. 



Calanthe Baron Schrceder is the most beautiful of all 

 Calanthes. I noted it in one of ipy letters about this time 

 last year, when it was shown by Baron Schrceder, in whose 

 garden it had been raised from C. vestita oculata, crossed 

 with C. Regnieri, and it obtained a first-class certificate. The 

 baron showed a flower-spike of it again last Tuesday ; it 

 was three feet in length, carried twenty-five perfect flowers, 

 each two inches across, in form equal to the very best of 

 C. vestita, and in color absolutely beyond comparison. 



each four inches across. It was awarded a first-class cer- 

 tificate. Mr. Veitch informed me that this variety was 

 raised from seeds out of the same pod as produced the 

 type flowered in 1889. The latter I called poorer than 

 either ]iarent, but the variety is a good acquisition. 



Odontoglossum coronarium is a noble Orchid, but some- 

 what difficult to flower. Last Tuesday two large flower- 

 spikes of it were shown, one from the garden of Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, the other from Baron Schroeder. The latter bore 

 twenty-five flowers and was deservedly awarded cultural 

 commendation. The plant thrives in the coolest and moistest 

 house, and it appears to delight in as much moisture at the 

 roots as a Disa. It has a stout, long rhizome, bearing large 

 ovoid pseudo-bulbs three inches or more apart, and leathery 

 leaves ten inches long. The spike is erect, about a foot 

 long and generally crowded with flowers, as in a Hyacinth. 

 Each flower is two inches across, with equal spreading 

 oblong fleshy segments colored coppery red, with a yellow 

 margin and a few yellow spots at the base, the lip being 



