and paler petals are of a dull purplish red, which is relieved by the green of the lip. 
The plants usually bloom during the autumn months, but we believe the blossoms 
do not last very long after they have expanded. 
Mr. Christy has bloomed another variety of the same plant, with smaller and 
greener flowers, which has been called C. Christyanum chlorops. 
We find the different species of Catasetwm to thrive very well in the Cattleya 
house, if provided with fibrous peat and good drainage at the roots, and suspended 
from the roof of the structure in baskets. They must not receive too much water 
at any time, and when their growth is completed they should only have just suffi- 
cient to keep them in a plump condition, as they have thick fleshy bulbs to be 
maintained fresh and healthy during their resting season. 
L&LIA SUPERBIENS.—We received from A. H. Smee, Esq,, the Grange, Carshalton, 
a fine spike of flowers of this noble Orchid, forming in itself a most beautiful 
bouquet, the sepals and petals were of a rosy pink, the lip dark rose colour, with 
the throat of a primrose-yellow, veined with rosy purple, the upper part dark rose. 
It is altogether a charming winter-blooming species, but it is seldom seen. Mr. Smee 
is a great lover of Orchids, and is beginning to make a collection, in which already 
some rare species appear. He is trying experiments in their cultivation, and we 
are inclined to think that many plants will succeed under his treatment. The 
house is a very peculiar one; we have not seen one like it before. It is a long 
house, and in it there are different. temperatures kept up, so that the different 
Orchids can be grown in the same house. Many plants were in bloom when we 
saw the collection in January last. The place is a very interesting one, and in 
the summer must be very charming on account of the great variety of Ferns and 
other plants that are grown there, almost all kinds of plants being cultivated. The 
garden must be a source of great enjoyment to the owners, as both Mr. and 
Mrs. Smee take much interest in their Orchids and other plants—B. S. W. 
Carrieya Triana Russevuiana.—We were highly delighted to see this old 
favourite the other day at Baron Schréder’s, where it was flowering profusely. The 
_ plant was in a fourteen-inch pot, and had as many as eight spikes, bearing ™ all 
sixteen flowers. In the same house were several other fine varieties of C. Tman@,— 
including C. Triane Backhousiana, but C. Russelliana was a long way im advance 
of anything there represented, in fact there is no doubt it is the finest variety of 
the dark-lipped section of C. Triane at present known. The lip of this variety 8 
two inches across, and the colour, which is well carried back into the throat, 18 4 
most intense crimson-magenta. There is no margin of a lighter tint as in many ° 
the other varieties, but the rich colour is as dark at the margin as in the centre. 
In addition to this the flowers are of great substance.—H. W. 
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