THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



ANGULOA CLOWESII. 



A photograph, and woodcut prepared from the same, of a remarkable- 

 specimen of Anguloa Clowesii which gained a Veitch Memorial Medal at a 

 meeting of the Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society of Manchester,, 

 in June, 1878, is sent by O. O. Wrigley, Esq., of Bury, who writes :— The 

 article on the successful cultivation of Anguloa Clowesii in the collection, 

 of Major Joicey, at Sunningdale Park (page 232) brings to my recollection' 

 a plant with which I gained the Veitch Memorial Medal at one of the 

 Manchester Exhibitions many years ago. The plant, of which the enclosed' 

 woodcut gives a good idea, was grown from one or two bulbs, and was not 

 made up at all. The photograph is the original from which the woodcut 

 was prepared. We may supplement the note by an extract from the report 

 of the Exhibition in question (Gard. Chron., 1878, ix., p. 770) :— " Anguloa 

 Clowesii, a noble specimen, to which the Veitch Memorial Medal was after- 

 wards awarded : this plant was fully three feet across the base, where there 

 were nearly fifty of its rich golden cups, surmounted by a bold crown of 

 perfectly developed leaves — the plant a picture of health and freshness, and 

 magnificently bloomed." The plant was one of a group of sixteen Orchids, 

 which gained the first prize, and it is noted that another of Mr. Wrigley's 

 groups, which gained the first prize in the class for nine Orchids, also containedi 

 a grand specimen of Anguloa Clowesii. We do not know the source of the 

 woodcut, but it shows over thirty flowers, and there would be additional] 

 ones on the other side of the plant. It is certainly a noble specimen, and" 

 an example of progressive good culture, which we imagine has seldom: 

 if ever been surpassed. 



MILTONIA ROEZLII WITH DIMORPHIC FLOWERS. 



A photograph representing " two distinct varieties of Miltonia Roezlu: 

 flowering on the same plant," in the collection of M. William Barbey, 

 Chambesy, near Geneva, is reproduced in a recent issue of the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle (1902, xxxii, p. 135, fig. 46). An inflorescence to the left shows the 

 normal form, with a purple blotch at the base of the petals, while one to 

 the right is destitute of these blotches, and appears to represent the variety 

 alba. There appear to be two growths, and if these have been derived 

 from one original one the case is very interesting. Its history, however, is 

 not stated. One is inclined to ask, are varieties constant ? but if a small, 

 piece of the two forms had been accidently potted up together a similar 

 effect would be expected, and we have seen such cases among Orchids- 

 We should like to know of its behaviour next year. 



