PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



on blooming from the beginning- of May to November. Many growers fail to manage 

 them satisfactorily; the principal canse of failure is potting them in soil that is too 

 retentive of moisture, and giving them too much water. They succeed best in peat 

 fibre, that is peat with the greater part of the earthy matter shaken from it j and in 

 the matter of water require to be allowed to get much drier than most plants will 

 bear. They do best with as much heat as any stove plant will bear. 



Neeine pilifolia. This is a pretty Amaiyllidaceous plant of small growth, with 

 bright red flowers, and very slender narrow leaves. It comes from the Orange Free 

 State, and has flowered at Kew. Its appearance is distinct, and it is a desirable plant, 

 taking up little room, and deserves a place with those who take an interest in the 

 cultivation of bulbous plants. It blooms during the autumn months. 



Bulb ovoid, under an inch in diameter. Leaves six to ten from a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, 

 slender, grass-green, six or eight inches long. Scape a foot long, slender. Umbel eight or ten flowered ; spathe- 

 valves greenish, lanceolate, under an inch long. Perianth-limb horizontal, rose red, an inch long; segments 

 oblanceolate, crisped, not more than a twelfth of an 

 inch wide. Stamens declinate, about as long as the 

 perianth ; filaments bright red ; anthers minute, oblong, 

 reddish ; pollen white. Style finally exceeding the 

 stamens ; stigma capitate. Capsule orbicular, deeply 

 lobed, with two or three seeds in each cell. — Botani- 

 cal Magazine, 6547. 



Cypeipedium guttatum. Swartz. A 

 hardy terrestrial Orchid, with white flowers 

 spotted with purple. Native of Northern 

 Russia, Siberia, and North America. (Fig. 

 107.) 



This charming plant is one of the most exquisitely 

 beautiful little things imaginable. A diminutive stem, 

 a few inches high, with a pair of broad plaited leaves, 

 bears one solitary flower as large as a pigeon's egg, most 

 curiously painted with rich deep purple upon a pure 

 white ground. This plant has been occasionally received 

 from Russia in a living state ; it will be easy for those 

 who have friends in Canada or at Moscow to procure 

 supplies with which further experiments may be tried. 



We can only say that it grows in morasses and bogs. — See Flore des Serves, t. 573. 



C(ELOGYNE TE IS AC CAT A. Griffith. 



Epiphyte from tropical India, with 

 Blossomed with Mons. Pescatore. 



large 



An Orchidaceous 

 white flowers. 



C. trisaccata, Griffith (Itinerary notes, p. 72) ; pseudobulbis elongatis, foliis 

 membranaceis obovatodanceolatis, 5-nerviis, racemis recurvantibus, bracteis latis 

 ovatis obtusis cucullatis sterilibus carnosis floriferis minoribus membranaceis, 

 fioribus conniventi-clausis basi trisaccatis, petalis linearibus, labelli apice 3-lobi 

 lamellis 2 carnosis flexuosis perax in laciniis subserrulatis rotundatis minute 

 ciliatis lateralibus rotundatis intermedia nana biloba basi dilatata. 



M. Luddeman states the p3eudo-bulbs to be dilated at the base, much 

 lengthened and narrowed towards the point where they are quadrangular ; the leaves to be lanceolate, pointed, and 

 5 ribbed ; the flowers to be arranged 6-8 in nodding racemes, distichous, scarcely expanding except at the point, pure 

 white with the end of the lip sulphur-yellow. This quite agrees with the statement of Griffith, the botanist who found 

 it at Mamloo, in woods, in the Khasijah hills. 



