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and the spur spotted with purple. The vakie of the 

 Howers is enlianced by their delicious fragrance. The plant is 

 a robust grower, and is doing extremely well with us in a wood 

 cylinder, where abundance of water can be given the roots 

 without danger of rotting them, 



Trichosina siiavis deserves a place in every collection, if 

 only for its remarkable fragrance. But the flowers are very 

 pretty, too; creamy white, with the side lobes of the lip striped 

 with crimson, and borne on terminal racemes. The slender 

 terete stems are about one foot high, surmounted by two broad- 

 ly lanceolate leaves. This species is a native of the Khasia 

 hills, evidently in situation where it has abundance of 

 water, for in cultivation it can hardly get too much if the pots 

 are kept well drained. A mi.xture of sandy peat and moss is 

 a good compost for it, and a cool house is most suitable. 



Vanda Sanderiana is now in flower with us. It is a mag- 

 nificent Orchid, by far the handsomest of this large genus, 

 and fortunately is now becoming more plentiful. In habit it 

 resembles both V. civriilea antl \'. snavis. The flowers are 



Autumn Flowers. — The United States should be the country 

 par e.vcellence for Michaelmas Daisies, but, perhaps, these 

 pretty autumn flowers are not so much valued as in Europe. 

 Among the numerous species and varieties of the old world. 

 Aster Ibcricns deserves all praise ; it is a native of the Cau- 

 casus and very much resembles A. Aiiiclliis, but the flowers 

 are much better in shape and outline, bright blue with a tinge 

 of purple, all opening nearly at the same time, forming an 

 even iniibel of nearly a foot across; its height is about two feet 

 and it flowers in September. Colchicum speciosuin, var. maxi- 

 viiim, is now very showy, its numerous, bright-purple flowers 

 being fvflly five inches across. C. aittumnale a/bo plena is a 

 gem among late-flowering bulbs ; its perfectly double, well- 

 shaped flowers appear in numbers and last at least three 

 weeks. A clump of Snowdrops in full flower is an uncom-- 

 mon sight just now, yet G. alanthus Olgee Regina; has been 

 l)looming since the first of October, to be followed Ijy G. niva- 

 lis corcyrensis during November and December. 



B.idcn-liadcn. Max Leichtliii. 





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Fig. 78. — Elceagnus longipes. 



borne on short, stout, axillary racemes, of a roundish outline 

 and about four inches across. The color of the upper part is 

 a delicate blush, wliile the lower is greenish-yellow streaked 

 and suffused with crimson. The small concave lip is pur- 

 plish-red. Being a native of the Philippine Isles, it requires 

 strong heat, light and abundance of water during growth. 



A close rival to the foregoing and lielonging to the same 

 section is Vanda cwrulea, an older kind and much more plen- 

 tiful. In this plant the racemes are longer and more loosely 

 flowered, bearing twelve to twenty flowers ; in color, lavender 

 or light blue. This is a very unusual color among Orchids, 

 and were this plant more easily grown it would become very 

 popular ; but, unfortunately, its cultural requirements are not 

 generally well understood, and only rarely is it seen in really 

 good condition for any length of time. It comes from the 

 higher regions of the Khasia hills, and therefore requires 

 comparatively cool treatment. It should also have plenty of 

 light, abiuidance of water during growth, and a very long- 

 rest without slu'ivoling the leaves. 



Kenwood, New Voile. '' i" ■ Goldvlllg. 



Plant Notes. 



El^agnus longipes. 



MR. CHARLES WRIGHT, the botanist of the Wilkes 

 e.xpedition, detected this plant at Simoda in Japan 

 more than thirty years ago, and its characters were first 

 made known by Dr. Gray in his now famous and classi- 

 cal paper upon the Flora of japan, read before the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1859. 



Elceagniis longipes is a low shrub in cultivation, only a 

 few feet in height, although it is said to become a small 

 tree sometimes in Japan. The branches are unarmed or 

 sometimes beset \\\i\\ spines, angular, and covered with 

 small, rusty-brown scales. The leaves are somewhat coria- 

 ceous, oval-oblong, contracted into rather a blunt ]ioint, 

 smooth and dark green above, and covercil on the lower 

 surface with a dense silvery white pubescence. The small 



