﻿Fi r.RUARY, 1904.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 55 



ORCHIDS FROM GATTON PARK. 



brilliant group exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting on January 26th, to which 

 a Gold Medal was awarded. Anion- the forms of D. nobile sent are 

 varieties efegans, Ballianum-, Ashworthise, a very fine white with small 

 rosy tips to the segments, and a very dark maroon blotch on the lip, 

 gattonense, less white than the preceding, and the well-known Cookson- 



the Woodhatch variety has remarkably broad segments. I). X Rubens 

 is represented by three very fine forms, called pulcherrimum, magnificum 

 and elegans, the latter being very rich in colour. D. X Snowilakr is said 



beautiful! form most resembling the latter. Other fine things are D. X 

 Schneiderianum, D. X Cybele and var. giganteum, D. X Juno, D. X 

 Curtisii, D. X euosmum, I). X Pitcherianum, and three forms of D. X 

 Ellisii, the whole series affording evidence of excellent culture. 



A very fine inflorescence of Cymbidium grandiflorum ( Hookerianum), 



of the Asiatic species, and has the reputation of being shy flowering, and 

 even when the spikes are- developed the flowers sometimes go off without 

 expanding. In this every flower is perfectly developed, and the in- 

 floresence very handsome. 



We may also add that a fine group was exhibited at the R.H.S. 



by some oversight it was not included in our report at page 18. It 

 included a brilliant series of deciduous Calanthes, together with some good 



Romance of a Buttonhole.— In a greenhouse belonging to the 

 Thames Conservancy, in their Kew depot, is a flourishing Orchid which 

 is looked upon by botanists as a rare curiosity. The flower was worn in 

 the buttonhole of an official at a Masonic entertainment over seven years 

 ago, and was about to be cast away in a withering condition, when a 

 gardener asked for it. The flower was taken in hand with a view to 

 resuscitation, and the ingenious gardener bound up the stem of the flower 

 with copper wire, fixing it on to virgin cork, and covering up the cut stem 

 with sphagnum moss. To the surprise of everyone, the dying stem revived, 

 and is at the present time in a flourishing state. It is one of the very rare 

 instances of a cut Orchid forming for itself a new root.— Gardening World,. 

 January 23, 1904. 



