November 18, 1891.] 



Garden and Forest. 



545 



of quite exceptional value as a garden plant, it could not 

 be considered identical with C. labiata vera. I was wrong. 

 M. Linden has sent to London this week no less than two 

 hundred plants in flower of his C. Warocqueana, to be sold 

 by auction after being exhibited in the rooms of Messrs. 

 Protheroe & Morris, Cheapside. Among them there were 

 many which might have been mistaken for the form of C. 

 labiata, previously represented in English collections by 

 less than a dozen plants, all supposed to be from the orig- 

 inal plant described by Lindley. There were also among 

 M. Linden's plants some which, while possessing all the 

 characteristics of that species, were even superior to it in 

 size of bloom and depth of color. The plants sold well, 

 realizing from twenty guineas to one guinea each. M. 

 Linden deserves all the credit of being the first to discover 

 the whereabouts and to introduce living plants of Lindley's 

 C. labiata vera. It follows from there being so many plants 

 of this Cattleya recently imported, first by M. Linden and 



It is freer in the production of flowers and more variable 

 in color than its near ally, C. Skinneri. I saw this week in 

 the nursery of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, a large 

 number of plants of this Cattleya in flower. Some of the 

 spikes bore sixteen flowers, and I was told of one plant 

 which had borne three spikes, two bearing seventeen flow- 

 ers and one with eighteen. The color of some of the flow- 

 ers is deep rosy mauve, others are lilac, others rosy crimson. 

 This variation in color extends to the labellum, some having 

 a large maroon blotch, others a paler one, others a whitish 

 margin, and others no blotch at all, but wholly white inside 

 the tube. The season of flowering may be made to extend 

 over several months in autumn and early winter. More- 

 over, the plants grow well in an ordinary greenhouse tem- 

 perature. 



Dendrobium Phal^nopsis. — A considerable number of the 

 newly imported plants of this Dendrobe are now flowering 

 at St. Albans. So far every one has proved to be a form of 



Fig. 86. — A Cranberry-field on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. — See page 542. 



again lately by Mr. Sander, that there are now thousands 

 of it in cultivation, and consequently the plants which two 

 years ago were worth fifty guineas are now worth perhaps 

 ten shillings. The Cattleya is, however, a most valuable 

 plant for gardens, as it flowers at a time when flowers of 

 any kind are not too abundant, namely, October and No- 

 vember. One cannot, therefore, very well have too many 

 plants of it. 



Cochleoda Noezliana. — Several plants in flower and a 

 large number of newly imported pieces of this new and 

 pretty Orchid were included in the sale at Messrs. Protheroe 

 & Morris' rooms. The flowers are borne on arching spikes, 

 similar in size and form to those of C. (mesospinidium) vul- 

 canicum, but of thicker texture and colored orange, almost 

 the same shade as the flowers of Ada aurantiaca. I am told 

 that this little Orchid is very easily grown in a cool, moist 

 house, and that it will flower regularly and profusely. 



Cattleya Bowringiana. — This is proving itself a first-rate 

 plant, probably the best of the section to which it belongs. 



the plant represented in the Botanical Magazine, and many 

 of them have large and richly colored flowers. 



Miltonia vexillaria, var. Sanderiana. — This is a new and 

 well-marked variety which is now in flower at St. Albans. 

 It is by far the handsomest of the many forms of this Mil- 

 tonia, the flowers being three inches across, of good sub- 

 stance, and colored bright rosy mauve, with a large trian- 

 gular fretted blotch of rich maroon on the labellum. This 

 blotch is the distinguishing feature of the flower, as it is an 

 inch broad at the base of the labellum and is narrowed to 

 a point at the sinus. Mr. Sander obtained this variety from 

 a native collector in Colombia, to whom he paid fifty 

 guineas for it. Should it prove to be an autumn-flowering 

 one under cultivation its value will be considerably 

 enhanced. 



Darwin Tulips. — This is a new and beautiful race or 

 Tulips which has lately been brought into prominent no- 

 tice by Messrs. Krelage, of Holland. As Darwin Tulips 

 are almost certain to become favorite garden-plants, their 



