﻿THE ORCHID REV HAY. 



what to look for. He thought that the exhibition of more varied 

 collections should be encouraged. And among notices of Orchid sales we 

 find an announcement that Mr. Ruckefs collection was to be disposed of, 



a handsome novelty introduced by Warscewics, and flowered in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society. The flowering of the Grammatophyllum was 

 an interesting event, and is thus alluded to .— 



" At last is realised the long cherished wish to see this in flower. After 

 years of patience, Mr. Loddiges succeeds in persuading it to expand a few 

 blossoms last summer, all of which were in a monstrous state except one. 



which gives some idea of what the plant is; only the flowering scape 

 proceeded from the top instead of the bottom of the stem, whence it arises 

 in a natural condition." 



The ''Gleanings and Original Memoranda" again contained notices of 

 various interesting novelties, among which we may mention Bifrenaria 

 Hadweni (now referred to Scuticaria), introduced from Brazil by T. Brockle- 

 hurst, Esq., with whom it flowered, and Cattleya Leopoldi, exhibited by 

 M. Forkel, gardener to the King of the Belgians. 



The third, and last, volume of Paxtons Flower Garden (1852-3) contained 

 several very interesting Orchids, the list of coloured plates being as 

 follows : — Cycnoches aureum (t. 75), Cymbidium Mastersii (t. yS) t 

 Limatodes rosea (t. 81), Dendrobium fimbriatum (t. 84), Oncidium 

 cucullatum (t. 87), Odontoglossum Pescatorei (t. go), Mormodes igneum 

 (t. 93), Ljtlia purpurata (t. 96), Cleisostoma crassifolium (t. 99), Solenidium 

 racemosum (t. 102), and Lailiopsis domingensis (t. 105). 



Two of these plants quite bring us down to modern times. Concerning 

 L;elia purpurata it is remarked: — "One of the most striking novelties 

 w hich has for a long time been seen was produced by Messrs. Backhouse, 

 of York, at one of the garden meetings of the Horticultural Society, under 

 the name of a new Cattleya from the Island of St. Catherine's, in Brazil. 

 It had, in fact, much the appearance of Cattleya crispa, or of a white 

 C. labiata, but the experienced eye of one of our most acute Orchidophilists 



