THE EULOPHIELLAS, 



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practice, they will never justify it in the 

 eyes of any one who has felt the charm 

 of a true flower-garden. 



In considering all such questions a 

 good way is to see what is usually done 

 and compare itwith the best of its kind. 

 In places where these set, flat gardens 

 are in front of buildings, it is well after 

 going the round of the place to have a 

 ] 00k at what is still called — by courtesy, 

 I suppose — the flower-garden. It will 

 often be found to be the ugliest, stiffest, 

 and hardest scene in the whole place. 

 And often those who ought to know 

 better — even makers of gardens — say 

 that whatever they may do to make 

 things artistic in other parts of the place 

 in the flower-garden they must conform 

 to a stiff pattern. Even those who make 

 rock-gardens and good mixed borders 

 still cling to the idea that they must put 

 a bad mosaic in front of their windows 

 composed of the meanest kinds ofplants 

 known to us. In the old Italian garden, 

 which is often formal in plan, we do 

 not find things done in that way, but 

 that it has shade as well as sun, trees 

 and creepers as well as flowers. What 

 we in England often wrongly call an 

 Italian garden would be impossible in 

 the south, dried up, useless, as well as 

 ugly. R. 



A Note from Cornwall. — My Myosotidium 

 nobile has 200 flower spikes now, and is making 

 a fine effect. I got the Yellow Clematis (67. 

 tanguticd) directly it was mentioned in No. 1 

 of Flora, and it is now a fine plant with a 

 thrush's nest in the middle of it. Also, I got the 

 Magnolia which was figured in the first num- 

 ber of Flora, and that, too, is in flower. — 

 Charlotte Rogers, Burncoose. 



THE EULOPHIELLAS. 



The Eulophiellas form a small group 

 of three kinds of stove Orchids, all of 

 recent introduction and still so scarce 

 as to be little known outside a few well- 

 known collections. 



EULOPHIELLA ELIZABETHS, the first 



kind introduced to Europe, was named 

 in honour of " Carme?i Sylva" the 



EULOPHIELLA ELIZABETHS. 

 (Engraved for " Flora.") 



Queen of Roumania. The engraving re- 

 presents a fine spike of this handsome 

 plant, photographed in the collection 

 of Messrs. Veitch at Chelsea. The first 

 plant to flower in this country was much 



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