August 31, 1892.] 



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semblance to P. Sanderiana, modified in the direction of 

 the other parent. It is not stated where it originated. — 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, May 14th, p. 618. 



CcELOGYNE cupREA, Kranzlin. — A species allied to C. spe- 

 ciosa, Lindl. , but with smaller glabrous fiowers, which are 

 copper-colored. It flowered with Monsieur Wendland at 

 Herrenhausen from plants imported by Messrs. F. Sander 

 & Co., of St. Albans. — Gardeners' Chronicle, May 14th, p. 619. 



Oncidr'm Gravesianum, Rolfe.- — An elegant Oncidium al- 

 lied to O. crispum and O. prretextum, but with much nar- 

 rower petals, which impart a very distinctive appearance 

 to the plant. It bears large branching panicles of golden 

 yellow and brown flowers two inches in diameter. It was 

 imported from Pernambuco by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of 

 St. Albans, and received an award of merit from the Royal 

 Horticultural Society on April 19th last. — Gardeners' Chroni- 

 cle, May 2ist, pp. 650, 651, fig. 94. 



Cypripedium X F>ENOR, Hort. — A hybrid raised from C. 

 Argus crossed with the pollen of C. bellatulum, with foliage 

 much like the former, and 

 a flower resembling that 

 of C. X Marshallianum. 

 It was e.xhibited by 

 Messrs. James Veitch & 

 Sons, of Chelsea, at a 

 meeting of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society on 

 May 17th last, and re- 

 ceived an award of merit. 

 — Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 May 2ist, p. 664. 



Cypripedium x eurylo- 

 CHUS, Hort. — A hybrid 

 raised from C. ciliolare 

 crossed with the pollen 

 of C. hirsutissimum. The 

 petals are elongated and 

 deflected, rose at the tips, 

 greenish at the base, spot- 

 ted with purple, the up- 

 per sepal and lip being 

 greenish, shaded and 

 spotted with purple. It 

 ~^was exhibited by Messrs, 

 James Veitch & Sons at 

 a meeting of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society on 

 jNIay 17th last. — Garden- 

 ers' Chronicle, May 21st, 

 p. 664. 



Dendrobiuji X Nestor, 

 O'Brien. — A hybrid raised 

 from D. Parishii crossed 

 with the pollen of D. 

 superbum, and somewhat 

 like a smaller edition of 

 the latter. The flowers 

 are three inches in diameter, the sepals and petals white, 

 tinged with rosy lilac, and the lip with a large rosy purple 

 blotch on either side. It was raised in the collection of C. 

 Winn, Esq., of Birmingham. — Gardeners' Chronicle, June 

 4th, p. 718. 



LissocHiLUs Gr.efei, Kranzlin. — A species allied to L. 

 streptopetalus, Lindl, with an erect raceme of flowers, the 

 sepals green, suffused with purple-brown, the petals pale 

 yellow outside, brighter in front, and the lip pale yellow, 

 with violet-colored side lobes. It flowered in the stove of 

 Dr. Hugo Grcefe, of Berlin. — Gardeners' Chronicle, June i ith, 



P- 749- 



Masdevallia X Cassiope, Hort. — A charming little hybrid 

 raised from M. triangularis crossed with the pollen of M. 

 Harryana. It is like an enlarged and improved form of 

 the former, with the reflexed dorsal sepal and a considera- 

 ble share of the brilliant coloration of the latter. It was 



raised in the collection of Captain Ilincks, of Thirsk, York- 

 shire. — Gardeners' Chronicle, June nth, p. 749. 



Cypripedium x chrysocomes, Hort. — A hybrid said to have 

 been obtained by crossing C. cordatum roseum and C. X 

 conchiferum. The flowers are very large, and light yellow- 

 ish green, with some brown spots on the side lobes of the 

 lip. It flowered in the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., 

 of Streatham. — Gardeners' Chronicle, Juuc 18th, p. 781. 



Kcw. /i, A. Rol/e. 



Foreign Correspondence. 



London Letter. 

 Fuchsias. — An interesting lecture on Garden Fuchsias 

 was read last week at the meeting of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society by Mr. George Fry, the veteran raiser of many 

 of the best varieties, and a well-known cultivator of them 

 for the last sixty years. The early history of the Fuchsia 

 as a garden-plant is now well known, how it was in- 

 troduced a century ago 

 (1788) to London from 

 Chili by a sailor, who 

 gave it to his mother, 

 who grew it in her cot- 

 tage window at Lime- 

 house, where it attracted 

 the attention of a passer- 

 by, and ultimately was 

 purchased by the Messrs. 

 Lee, of Hammersmith, 

 the Veitchs of that period, 

 for ;^8o. Messrs. Lee's 

 plant was named F. coc- 

 cinea, by Alton. Numer- 

 ous seedlings were raised 

 from it, and variety thus 

 obtained, but it was not 

 until the introduction in 

 1830 of a second species, 

 namely, F. fulgens, that 

 hybrids were possible. 

 In 1855, Messrs. Hender- 

 son, of St. John's Wood, 

 distributed the first of the 

 varieties with white co- 

 rollas, raised by a Mr. 

 Storrey, of Newton Abbot, 

 who unfortunately died 

 soon afterward, without 

 recording the origin of 

 this new break. More re- 

 cently, other species have 

 been blended with the va- 

 rieties previously raised, 

 and there are now nu- 

 merous distinct kinds, 

 one might say hundreds. 



Fig. 68.— Cypripedium Chamberlainianum — See pap;e 412. 



many of them of exceeding beauty. 



It is difficult to account for the want of popularity of the 

 Fuchsia in England at the present time. There are cer- 

 tainly few gardens in which the genus is not represented, 

 but one scarcely ever meets with a collection of Fuchsias 

 as we do of Chrysanthemums, Pelargoniums, etc. And yet, 

 no plants are more easily managed, none more elegant 

 or more beautiful when well grown and flowered. I have 

 a vase of the blooms before me as I write, a few shoots a 

 foot long, thickly clothed with drooping crimson and white 

 flowers, which have been in the room a week and are still 

 fresh. It would be difficult to find any flowers better 

 suited for vases than Fuchsias. The)' are not good nur- 

 serymen's plants, as they are so brittle that they pack 

 badly, and the flowers are easily shaken off. Still, in the 

 greenhouse, in the border, or even as wall-plants in the 

 open air, they must always rank among the most decora- 



