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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 408. 



yellow, with blotches of claret-purple. Is it possible 

 that C. Bungerothii is a very variable species, or that from 

 some cause or other the plants of it in one locality have 

 sported freely? Whatever their origin there can be but 

 one opinion as to their horticultural value, and I endorse 

 the opinion of The Gardeners' Chronicle, that this C. impe- 

 riale, as shown last Tuesday, is the most gorg-eous Catasetum 

 known. I may remark here that Catasetums may be 

 propagated from pieces of the pseudo-bulb. 



Dendrobium subclausum. — ^Mr. Rolfe described this as a 

 new species in the Kew Bulletin last year (p. 361) from a 

 plant flowered by Messrs. J. Veitch &. Sons in July, and 

 introduced by them from the Moluccas. It was shown by 

 them at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on 

 Tuesday last and received a botanical certificate. It has erect 

 slender-branched pseudo-bulbs, forming a close cluster two 

 feet high, clothed with linear lanceolate bright green leaves 

 two inches long. The flowers are borne on the leafless 

 pseudo-bulbs in short axillary few-flowered racemes ; they 

 are an mch long, shaped like the flowers of Dendrobium 

 longicornu, but narrower and colored brilliant cinnabar- 

 orange, the pedicels also being colored. The lip is peculiar 

 in being folded in at the apex and almost inclosing the 

 column. It is a remarkable and attractive plant and is 

 sure to be made to serve the purpose of the hybridist, the 

 color of the flowers being exceptional in this genus. 



Lelio-Cattleya Ingram! is a beautiful hybrid which was 

 raised by Mr. C. N. L. Ingram, in 1892, from Laelia pumila 

 Dayana and C. aurea, and which is now in the collection 

 of Sir F. Wigan, at Sheen, who paid fifty guineas for it. 

 Flowers of it were exhibited last Tuesday. In size, color 

 and general form it resembles the Lselia except in the label- 

 lum, which shows a good deal of , the influence of the Cat- 

 tleya. It is one of the most beautiful of the Lselio-Cattleya 

 hybrids, and I learn from Sir F. Wigan's Orchid grower 

 that it is easily kept in health. 



Arundina Philippii, a supposed new species, was shown 

 in flower on Tuesday by Sir Trevor Lawrence. I should 

 call it a narrow-leaved, small-flowered variety of the well- 

 known A. bambusaefolia ; the flowers are about one and 

 ahalf inches across, and colored pale lavender with a crim- 

 son blotch on the lip. It was awarded a botanical certifi- 

 cate. 



Cypripedium platycolor is a new hybrid between C. con- 

 color and C. Stonei platytcenium, the name being hybrid 

 also. It originated in the collection of Sir Trevor Law- 

 rence, who showed it in flower on Tuesday last. In 

 general characters it resembles C. concolawre (concolor 

 X Lawrencianum), but the flowers show the influence of 

 C. Stonei. The scape bore three flowers and a bud. 



Begonia Frcebelii.- — This species was introduced by the 

 Zurich nurseryman, after whom it was named, about twenty 

 years ago, when Roezl discovered it in Ecuador. Hitherto, 

 however, it has found little favor as a garden plant, prob- 

 ably because it has refused to grow satisfactorily under the 

 treatment which suits the ordinary tuberous Begonia. A 

 near ally is B. polypetala, a Peruvian species, introduced 

 in 1878 and in 1880. Messrs. Froebel distributed a hybrid 

 they had raised between these two, and named B. Frcebelii 

 incomparabilis. Mr. Poe, of Cheshunt, exhibited this week 

 a plant of this hybrid which literally staggered most of the 

 cultivators who saw it, for it is undoubtedly one of the 

 most beautiful of all winter-flowering Begonias. The plant 

 was in a six-inch pot, and it bore about a dozen leaves, 

 the largest of which measured eighteen inches in length 

 and thirteen in width. The scapes, of which there were 

 eight, were stout, erect, two feet high, branched, and bear- 

 ing numerous flowers and buds, the former two inches 

 across and colored bright orange scarlet. Mr. Poe grows 

 the plants in a warm greenhouse, starting them along with 

 B. Socotrana in August. They flower all through the win- 

 ter. I should place this Begonia in the same rank as the 

 ■Socotrana hybrids as a garden plant. 



New Chrysanthemums. — There were several exceptionally 

 good varieties among the new seedlings exhibited for cer- 



tificates last Tuesday; they are Country of Gold, a very 

 free-flowering, bright yellow reflexed variety, likely to prove 

 of great service for the supply of cut flowers for market ; 

 Bonnie Dundee, a well-formed incurved variety after the 

 style of Lord Brook, but yellower ; Oceana, large as and 

 shaped like Viviand Morel, but of a much more pleasing 

 pinkish color ; William Slogrove, a magnificent incurved 

 Japanese, almost a true incurved, the flowers large, full and 

 colored deep golden-yellow ; this was generally pro- 

 nounced to be one of the best of this year's productions. 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence is a large incurved, very like Queen 

 of England ; and Golden Dart, a yellow-flowered Japanese 

 variety of medium size, was certificated as a free and use- 

 ful plant for the market-grower. We are still busy with 

 exhibitions of Chrysanthemums, the National Society hav- 

 ing a three days' show at the Aquarium next week. The 

 mild, foggy and wet weather of the last few days has, how- 

 ever, shortened the lives of many of the flowers. 



London. W. WatSOU. 



Plant Notes. 

 Chamaedorea glaucifolia. 



THE Chameedoreas are very graceful and beautiful 

 Palms, natives of South America. They are shade- 

 loving plants, growing in the depth of dense woods where 

 hardly ever a ray of sunshine penetrates. They are gen- 

 erally small and slender, with elegant pinnate leaves and 

 dioecious flowers ; some are climbers, supporting them- 

 selves by means of hooked tendrils at the end of the leaves. 

 The above species (see figure 70, page 507) is one of 

 the most beautiful of the genus, a native of Guatemala, 

 and accustomed to a moderate temperature. It grows 

 to a height of twelve feet or more, with a slender ringed stem 

 about as thick as an ordinary walking-stick, or in strong 

 specimens an inch or an inch and a half in diameter. 

 The leaves are pinnate, of a pleasing glaucous-green, 

 four to six feet in length, with long arching pinnse. The 

 species flowers quite freely under cultivation, male and 

 female flowers being produced on different plants. The 

 large erect inflorescence rises from the axil of a leaf above 

 the foliage, and renders the plant quite picturesque. The 

 flowers are greenish yellow, with three fleshy petals. The 

 female plants are most common in gardens. 



In greenhouses it thrives well in the deepest shade and 

 in a temperature of seventy degrees. It remains a con- 

 venient size for years, and is, therefore, well adapted as a 

 decorative plant for a dwelling-house. It is strange that 

 these interesting miniature Palms, of which seeds must be 

 easy to obtain, should not force the larger and coarser 

 forms into the backgfround. 



Cladrastis lutea. — This tree, known in cultivation as 

 the Virgilia, and in the region of which it is a native as the 

 Yellow-wood, is one of the rarest trees of the North Ameri- 

 can forests, being found in a few isolated places in central 

 Kentucky, central Tennessee and the western slopes of the 

 high mountains of east Tennessee and in Cherokee County, 

 North Carolina. Like many other trees of restricted range, 

 it thrives under cultivation in widely different soils and 

 climates. This southern tree is perfectly hardy in Nevs' 

 England, and ripens its wood in exposed situations in 

 Canada without any artificial protection. Even in the mid- 

 western states it flourishes as far north as Iowa, where 

 many of the forest trees and shrubs of Nevi' England 

 fail to endure the heat and drought of summer and the 

 cold of winter. At its best it attains a height of sixty 

 feet, with a trunk two feet in diameter, while in exceptional 

 cases it is still larger. It usually divides into two or three 

 main limbs not far from the ground, which spread 

 widely and ramify into slender and somewhat pendulous 

 branchlets, forming a broad and graceful head. At this 

 season it is a beautiful object, the bark of its trunk being 

 silvery gray and of a smooth, fine texture, that on the main 

 branches a lighter ash color, and the lustrous red-brown 



