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[September 12, lii 



mauve-purple, while the labelluni, which is fully two 

 inches across, is of the deepest crimson purple. A four- 

 flowered spike from the Baron of that wonderful hybrid, 

 Cypripedium Morganke, showed what a jjrand plant it is 

 when grown to perfection. It is a cross between C. 

 S/onei ?inA C. Veitchi, and is exactly intermediate between 

 the parents, the chief attraction of the flowers being the 

 broad, prolonged petals, which are heavily spotted with 

 black on a pale ground. The very distinct and beautiful 

 Cattleya Scliroederiana was shown in flower. This flower 

 recalls C. dolosa, being about the same size and form, and 

 of a uniform, pale mauve-purple color. It is a dwarf 

 growing plant, with pseudo-bulbs about four inches high. 

 Another choice Cattleya was C. Chamheiiaini, a hybrid 

 between C. Dowiana and C. gutiala Leopoldi. The flowers 

 are about the size of those oi Lcelia elegans, and have plum 

 purple sepals and petals, and a labellum of the deepest 

 carmine-magenta. The exquisite little LLvlia Balemanniana, 

 the hybrid between Sophronitis grandiJJora and a Caltkya 

 of which Baron Schroeder is the only possessor, was 

 shown in perfection, much finer, indeed, than when exhib- 

 ited here for the first time. The flowers are some two 

 inches across, with sepals and petals of a deep rose pink, 

 or, to be more exact, the color is like that of Odouloglossuin 

 roseum, while the small lip is crimson, with a golden 

 centre. This priceless little Orchid is, perhaps, the rarest 

 in the Dell collection. One more Orchid is worth noticing, 

 and that is Cattleya granulosa asperata, a large flower, 

 with olive green sepals, blotched and spotted with choco- 

 late, and a broad and flat lip of crimson-purple, marbled 

 with white. I have dwelt upon these Orchid varieties 

 because I think it will interest those of your readers who 

 are collecting Orchids, and because we have so seldom an 

 opportunity of describing them. 



Ccflogyne Sandeiiana, exhibited at an earlier meeting 

 by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, and certificated, is worthy 

 of mention after these varieties as, without exception, the 

 finest of all the white-flowered Coelogynes, and Orchid 

 lovers look upon it as a grand addition to showy Orchids. 

 In growth it is not remarkable, having globular-oblong 

 bulbs as big as a hen's egg, and long, deep green leaves. 

 The drooping flower-spike carries about half a dozen 

 flowers, each three and a half inches across, with white 

 sepals and a broad labellum, spotted and barred with 

 yellow. No details were given of its native country, but 

 it is presumably an Eastern plant. 



Messrs. Cannell, of Swanley, showed several new double 

 varieties of Begonia, of which one was singled out as 

 worthy of a certificate. This was called C. Stowell, and 

 has flowers four inches across, very double, of a pleasing 

 cherry rose color; the habit of growth is dwarf and sturdy. 

 A new variety of the Oriental Poppy, Papaver orientale, was 

 certificated. It is called Blush CJueen, and instead of the 

 flowers being fiery scarlet, as in the type, they are a pale 

 pink, with black centre. It is a very striking plant and is 

 looked upon as a great gain to hardy herbaceous plants. 

 Among a number of border Carnations one only was con- 

 sidered worthy of a certificate. This was a sort called 

 B. H. Elliott, and has medium sized and very full flowers, 

 with yellow petals flaked and tipped with crimson. 

 Messrs. Paul, of Cheshunt, showed a good collection of 

 cut Roses, among which I noted a few that I thought good 

 although not much known. These included that lovely sort. 

 The Bride, which I believe we have to thank an American 

 for. It was shown splendidly and a grower told me he 

 thought it would turn out a first-rate autumn Rose. An- 

 other was American Beauty, also from your side, and 

 likely to become a favorite here. It is a free bloomer, 

 with petals of good substance and of a rich plum-crimson, 

 if I may so describe an indescribable color. Lady Uarn- 

 ley is a new Rose that is a good deal talked about here. 

 It reminded me of Marie Baumann, though it is dift'erent 

 in color somewhat and the form is not so flat. Silver 

 Queen, one of William Paul's novelties, is coming to the 

 front. It is a pale pink sort, with flowers of excellent 



form and substance. His Queen of Queens, too, which 

 was sent out a few years ago, has been shown well this 

 season, and promises to be a good late Rose. Other new 

 Roses I noticed to-day in fine condition were: Mile. Eugene 

 Verdier, a Tea variety, and Souvenir de Mad. Alfred Vy, a 

 hybrid perpetual of a plum purple color. It is almost too 

 early for the second crop of Rose bloom, but if the present 

 favorable weather continues, there will be some fine dis- 

 plays at future meetings. /'. GolJring. 



London, August 14th, 1888. 



New or Little Known Plants. 



L3-cium pallidum. 



OF the seventy species of Lycium known to botanists 

 only L. vulgare, a native of southern Europe, the 

 well-known Matrimony Vine of all old gardens, and L. 

 Chinense, are commonly seen in cultivation. Two north 

 African species, L. Afrum and L. barharum, are sometimes 

 cultivated, although the plants seen under the latter name 

 can usually be referred to the Chinese species. The genus 

 Lycium is widely distributed through the dry, extra-tropical 

 portion of the world, with two principal centres of distri- 

 bution, one in southern Africa and the other in the dry 

 regions of western South America, from which several 

 species extend into the territory of the United States, from 

 California to western Texas, with one species in the south- 

 ern United States, and another in the .Sandwich Islands. 

 None of the species of south-western North America, 

 which are all rigid, spiny shrubs, often forming a consid- 

 erable part of the shrubby desert-growth, have ever 

 been seen in gardens, with the exception of the one figured 

 upon page 341 of this v&swi— Lycium pallidum* — v\'hich has 

 now been growing in the Arnold Arboretum for several 

 years. It is the largest flowered of the North American 

 species, and one of the first knovi^n, having been discov- 

 ered in New Mexico by Fremont, in 1844, on the Rio 

 Virgen, one of the tributaries of the Colorado River of the 

 west. It is not a rare plant, being found also in Arizona 

 and in southern Utah. Lycium pallidum, in cultiyation, 

 forms a spreading bush, two to three feet high, with ashy 

 gray, tortuous, somewhat pendulous branches, sparingl)'" 

 armed with long, slender, rigid spines. The leaves are 

 very pale, spathulate and oblanceolate, an inch or two long. 

 The flowers, which are solitary, or sometimes in pairs 

 from the axils of the leaves, are borne on slender pedun- 

 cles, rather exceeding in length the deeply five cleft 

 calyx. The funnel-form corolla is nearly an inch long, 

 with broad and rounded lobes, slightly pubescent in the in- 

 terior tovi'ards the base. It is green, sometimes tinged with 

 purple. The berries, which are bright red when ripe, are 

 nearly half an inch long. This interesting plant, as well 

 as a few others, from the dry interior region of south- 

 western North America, has proved, quite unexpectedly, 

 perfectly hardy in the Arboretum, where it flowers regu- 

 larly every year. C. S. S. 



Cultural Department. 



The Cultivation of Native Ferns. — III. 



THE cultural directions which accompany the following list 

 of native Ferns are based upon personal experience in 

 growing the various species, with the exception of cases 

 otherwise noted. When special directions are not given, the 

 cultivation described in an earlier article is reconmiended. 

 In the arrangement of species and nomenclature the classifi- 

 cation given in "The Ferns of North America," by Profes- 

 sor Daniel C. Eaton, has lieen followed. The measurements 

 of species have been taken from plants under cultivation. 

 They are maximum measurements of available sijecimens, 

 but not greater than may l;ie reasonaljly expected from 

 established plants under good cultivation. Measurements 

 given in italics are from Professor Eaton's work, as the species 



* Lycium pallidum, Miera. III. S. Am. PI. 11, loS, /. 67.— Torrey, Bot. Mei. Bound. 

 Surv. 154.— Gray, Prac. Am, Acad. vi. 45; Syn. Fl. N. Am. i. 238. 



