February 17, 1912. 



THE 



GARDENERS' MAGAZINE 



133 



NEW PLANTS. 



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ODONTOGLOSSUM MERLIN. 



This beautiful odontoglossnm was figured 

 in our issue of February 10. It ie of hybrid 

 origin, but of unrecorded parentage; it 

 closolv resembles an O. crispum, but is pro- 

 bably a form of O. eximium. The shapely 

 flowers with broad, substantial white seg- 

 ments, are very attractive, and rendered the 

 more tyo by the red-brown markings on the 

 sepals, and the crimson epottings on the 

 petals. A fine spike, carrying thii-teen beau- 

 tiful blooms, was exhibited. F.C.C., E.H.S., 

 February 6. Lieut. -Colonel Sir George Hol- 

 ford (grower, Mr. H. Alexander), \Ve«tonbirt, 

 Tetbury, Gloucester. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM MEMORIA LILY 



NEUMANN. 



A vory handsome hybrid of unrecorded 

 parentage, with large, shapely flowers, tipped 



with rose, and with a white ground. Very 

 showy are the heavy red-purple blotches and 

 >pottings on the sepals and petals, and the 

 smaller markings of a similar colour on the 

 golden-crested lip. A.M., R.H.S., February 

 6. J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (Gardiner. Mr. 

 J. Davis), Glebelands, South Woodford. 



CARNATION TRIUMPH. 



A good perpetual variety, the- flowers of 

 fair size and good substance. The colour 

 is deep glowing crimson, and the petals are 

 fringed. To its other good qualities mu8t be 

 added the merit of fragrance, as it is dis- 

 tinctly cloee-scented. A.M., R.H.S., Feb- 

 ruary 6. Mr. C. Engelmann, Saffron Wal- 

 den. 



LISSOCHILUS STYLITES. 



An erect, strong-growing terrestrial orchid 

 from tropical Africa, it has been found in An- 

 gola and in Southern Nigeria, and appears 

 to delight in hot, moit>t conditions while grow- 

 ing, but drier conditions while resting. L. 

 stylites carries a spike 3ft. to 5ft. high, bear- 

 ing six to nine flowers each, two or- three 

 inches across, pale ro-se-purple, the large, 

 t >uched lip being purple, yellow, white, and 

 -potted with brown. A specimen was flowered 

 in this country at Packham, Fordingbridge, 

 in the Hon. Mrs, Folev's garden, in June* 

 19^9, Dot, Mag. t.8397. 



APHELANDRA FASCINATOR, 



This very handsome acanthad from Co^tm- 

 bia was introduced by M. J. Linden, of 

 lirus-sels, in 1873, but it appears to have been 

 ilso discovered by Bowmann, about 1866-68, 

 when he wa^s collecting in South America for 

 the Royal Horticultural Society. It is a good 

 garden plant if grown under somewhat simi- 

 lar ooiiditions to that afforded the tropical 

 '*cgonias. and raised from cuttings each 

 pring. '^Tlie dense terminal spikes carry large 

 numbers of brilliant scarlet flowers, and these 

 are well set off by the green, silver-banded 

 leaves. Bot. Mag., t. 8398. 



SPIR^A AYILSONI, 



A beautiful shrubby tspii'sea from Central 

 ' Inna, and closely allied to S. Veitchi and 

 Ilenryi. It is of grixceful habit, and grows 

 » ^ft. high, is deciduous, and produces its 

 ; iusters of white flowers, on lateral branch- 

 n^ts during June. A useful hardy flowering 

 shrub. Bot. Mag., t, 8399. 



RHODODENDRON AMBIGUUM. 



bellow rhododendrons are none too com- 

 iiian, hence R. ambiguum, found in Western 

 ^ hma by Mr. E. H. Wilson, is the more wel- 

 ^^^w. It makes a closelv branched shrub, 

 ana promises to be quite hardy in British 

 prdens. The flowers are widely bell-shaped, 

 |v\o inches across the mouth, and light yel- 



Bot. Mag., t. 8400. 



BUDDLEIA OFFICINALIS. 

 This may be useful for greenhouse decora- 

 l^n. as It flowers during the winter, and is 

 t ien sweetly fragrant. Stems and leaves are 

 In .Tr the small flowers, borne in 



;^";«^n clusters on a terminal spike or thyrse, 

 :* e pale lilac. Tlie species is hardlv so at- 



i va '^i"^-^-. ^i^^^ica, and falls far short of 

 variabilis in beautv. Bot. Mag t 8401 



GESNERAS 



Tliese lovely plants may bo regardiHl as 

 companions to gloxinias, and their treat- 

 ment may follow that generally given in 

 the oa.se of the last-named. One of tlie 

 finest batches of gesneras I ever saw were 

 growing and flowering profusely on the 



pans are kept in a warm moist atmospliere, 

 the seedfings will &oon appear. A suitable 

 compoist is one of fibrous loam and le<af-soil 

 in equal }>rojx)rtions, witJi sand to ensure 

 porosity ; for the first potting the compost 

 slioukl bo finer than for subsequent ones, 

 and for the final potting a small qnaiitity 

 of old mortar rubble may be mixed with 



Flowers white, 

 A.M., R.H.S., February 



ODONTOGLOSSUM MEMORIA LILY NEUMAJsTf, 



tipped with rose, and heavily blotehed and spotted with deep red purple, 

 Februarv 6. J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (gardener, Mr. J. Davis), Glebe- 



lands. South AVoodford. 



floor of a conservatory in partial shade. 

 AH-hough the flowers were lovely, and there 

 wore so many of them, the leaves seemed 

 to me equally attractive. 



Seeds sihould be sown on the moist sur- 

 face of sajidy c^nnpost in pots or pans, in 

 preference to boxes. A very slight sprink- 

 ling of silver sand will suffice^ and if the 



the soil. While growing the plants shouhl 

 have a summer temperature, but not as 

 close an atmosphere after the flowers de- 



velop. 



When the flowers have faded, p^ate the 

 plaiits under glass lights in the open air, 

 or in a cold frame, with lights well tilted, 

 .i« iri *;f^iire frradual but comolete ma- 



