June 1, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



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finest orchid in the show. r.C.C, E.H.S., 

 Int. Hort. Ex., May 22. Lieut. -Colonel Sir 

 George Holford. 



CATTLEYA MENDELI QUEEN MAEY. 



A very lovely variety of an old favourite. 

 It is one of the very finest as regards size 

 and shape we have seen. The sepals^ 

 petals are pure white, the lip of a delicate 

 rosv-blush tint, with a yellow throat. The 

 plant carried four fine blooms, and was a 

 feature of the exhibit. F.C.C., E.H.S., Int. 

 Hort. Ex. , May 22 . Lieut . -Colonel Sir 

 George Holford. 



CATTLEYA DIECE MAGNIFICA. 



A dwarf hybrid that carries very large and 

 fleshy flowers with rich rosy purple sepals 

 and petals, and a very large lip with a 

 broad, spreading" apex of a rich deep royal 

 purple hue margined with a narrow edge of 

 rose. The throat is shaded with orange. 

 F.C.C., E.H.S., Int. Hort. Ex., May 22. 

 Lieut.-Colonel Sir George Holford. 



DENDEOBIUM DALHOUSIEANUM 



LUTEUM. 



A splendid and striking dendrobium that 

 grows in similar fashion to the type, bearing 

 its large flowers in pendulous racemes. The 

 sepals and petals and lip are soft fawny- 

 yellow, while on the lip are two large and 

 handsome purple blotches. F.C.C, E.H.S., 

 Int. Hort. Ex., May 22. Lieut.-Colonel Sir 

 George Holford. 



MILTONIA JULES HYE DE CEOM. 



This striking miltonia was raised by cross- 

 ing M, Hyeana with M. vexillaria. A quite 

 small plant, carrying four beautiful flowers, 

 "vvas shown. The small sepals and petals are 

 white with a mauvy flush at the base, while 

 the broad lip is white with a crimfion velvety 

 butterfly-like marking at the ba&e. F.C.C, 

 E.H.S., Int. Hort. Ex., May 22. M. Jules 

 Hye de Crom, Ghent, Belgium. 



LEPTOSPEEMUM SCOPAEIUM 



NICHOLI. 



A most graceful shrub, with linear leaves 

 half an inch long, on slender branching 

 growths. These slender branchlets are 

 studded from the base almost to the tip with 

 nowers that are deep carmine-red, and range 

 trom one-half to three-quarters of an inch 

 aeross. F.C.C., E.H.S., and the ^'Gardeners' 

 Chronicle " cup, for the most noteworthy new 

 plant exhibited. Int. Hort. Ex., May 22. 

 Kev. A. T. Boscawen, Ludgvan, Cornwall. 



BEGONIA PEINCESS VICTOEIA LOUISE. 



A glorious double tuberous begonia with 

 i^rge, finely formed flowers of large size. 

 n^^v r^r^"^ exquisite shade of golden- 



Hn, ^^^"^ exhibited carried half a 



ao^n or more wonderful flowers. A.M., 



F""/*- 22. Messrs. 



^lackmore and Langdon, Twerton, Bath. 



CALCEOLAEIA VEITCHI 



at 



feet Vi / Sr^J^^^xxl plant, growing about five 

 incr -1' bearing loosely elegant branch 

 h? iT^^% cream-white flowers 



ne tops of the growths. It is the result 

 «eedli^ t^^^v^^n C, alba and an unnamed 

 narmw^i ^""^ f ^ beautiful subject. The 

 ^hi^ A ^^r^^^^'^^^ curiously serrated mar- 

 W« I"*- Hort. Ex., May 22. 



'^K^rs. Robert Veitch and Son, Exeter. 



CALCEOLAEIA BEONZE AGE. 

 hut^f ^ dwarfer plant than C. Veitchi, 

 woiiM f^^"^^"^^^* similar charcter, and it 

 oma form a fine herder for the last-named. 



hiiP ^"^^^^a^^ of a deep rich crimson-bronze 

 It w^S ^ n 1^^^ n^^"^^ suggests. 



l>ow^'rp;i^1f ii' somewhat over- 



^liown with H «P^i"i*^ns of C. Yeitchi 



HYDEANGEA SAEGENTI. 



<^ountir^ ^.^''^^^ 1^^^* tl^^ southern 

 lon^ -.^A • le^v^ nine or ten inches 



^ Jina ^ix inches broad, oval, and set on 



rough bright green petioles, the stem being 

 also peculiarly rough. The inflorescence is a 

 broad flattish head, with clusters of rosy- 

 purple and individually small fertile flowers, 

 with one showy large-bracted flower extend- 

 ing from each outer cluster. Tliese are 

 white or blush, and they make the inflor- 

 escence very effective. A.M., E.H.S., Int. 

 Hort. Ex.. May 22. Hon. Vicary Gibbs, Els- 

 tree; and Mesers. James Yeitch and Sons, 

 Cheleea. 



LASTEEA PATENS MAYL 



A large-growing and particularly graceful 

 fern that is a very finely divided form of the 

 old L. patens, indeed so much sub-divided as 



fully and deeply cut, and of a bright pleas- 

 ing green colour. The specimen ehown was 

 about a yard high, and four or five feet 

 through. A.M., E.H.S., Int. Hort. Ex., 

 May 22. Messrs. H. B. May and Sons, Ed- 

 monton, 



CELMISIA SPECTABILIS AEGENTEA 



of 



Not long since we figured a group 

 celmisias, and gave an account of their in- 

 troduction and cultivation. Several flower- 

 ing plants were to be found in the great ex- 

 hibition, and the above-named had a cluster 

 of lanceolate leaves, each about eight inches 

 long, green, silky-haired above, and downy 

 white underneath. The flowers are three 



HYDEANGEA SAEGENTI. 



Flowers rose-purple and blush. A.M., E.H.S. (I.H.E.), May 22. Hon. Vicary Gibbs, 



Aldenham House; and Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. 



to be practically plumose. The fronds are 

 about two feet long, and would be about a 

 foot across at the base if spread out but 

 the pinnse rise somewhat on either side in- 

 stead of spreading out flatly. A.M., l^.H.S., 

 Int. Hort. Ex., May 22. Meser^. H. B. May 

 and Sons, Edmonton. 



POLYPODIUM VIDGENT. 

 A splendid fern from Queensland, and one 

 that is capable of cultivation into a large 

 specimen. It has two forms of fix>nds; one 

 set short and simplv divided, and from 

 ong these rise the tall, graceful, 2tt.- 

 3ft. long fronds, with the pinnae very grace- 



inches across the ray florets, white, and the 

 disk yellow, A.M., E.H.S., Int. Hort. Ex., 

 May 22, Messrs. Bees, Lim., Liverpool. 



POPPIES. 



Edna Perry.— A delightful oriental poppy 

 with bright salmon-pink petals, fringed at 

 the edges. Each petal has a large blackish 

 blotch. A.M., E.H.S., Int. Hort. Ex., May 

 22. Mr. Amos Perry, Enfield. 



Perry's White^ — Another fine and very di&- 

 tinct poppy, the large blooms being silvery 

 or satiny white, with a purplish-crimson 

 centre, and black base. A.M., E.H.S., Int. 

 Hort. Ex., May 22. Mr. Amos Perry. 



