﻿THE ORCHID 



wild, populous, and neglected district of Biddulph Moor, an- happy to in- 

 form the growers of Orchidaceous Plants, that Mr. Bateman, in promotion of 



of his Specimen Plants, amon- which will be found nearly all the rarest 



submitted for unreserved sale by Mr. Stevens at his Great Room, Kin- 

 Street, Covent Garden, on Tl esdav, the nth day of June, on the morninsr 

 of which they will be on view," &c. 



A subsequent note appeared of some of the prices obtained, from which 

 a few extracts will be interesting. Angraecum eburneum, a fine specimen, 

 fetched tq guineas; A. caudatum, two plants in one, each coming into 

 flower, 18 guineas ; Vandasuavis, 17 guineas, Aerides affine and A. odoratum 

 each 14 guineas : Gattleya labiata, it guineas: (*. Aclandia;, two plants in 



ill guineas; S. ampullaceum, 10 guineas: Ladin Perrinii, afine plant, £11 ;. 

 L. crispa, £4 10s. ; Ccelogyne cristata, 7 guineas, Coryanthes Fieldingii (a 



7 guineas ; Odontoglossum citrosum, £3 10s. : Dendrobium densiflorum, fine 

 plant, £11 6s. : D. Veitchianum, 6 guineas : U. Devonianum, £4 ; I), 

 transparens, £4 5s. ; D. nobile, £3 5s. ; Miltoniaspectabilis, £4 ; variety with 

 wholly purple flowers (no doubt Moreliana), £5 15s. ; Phala;nopsis amabilis, 

 £4 5s.; P. grandiflora, £3 5s.; P. rosea, £1 3s.; Anguloa Ruckeri, 



We also find an announcement of three remarkable Orchids in flower in 

 the Horticultural Society's garden, at Chiswick. These were : — Laelia 

 superbiens, upwards of six feet across, and bearing nine spikes and an 



and bearing eighteen spikes ; and Phalamopsis amabilis, with forty flowers. 



