Plate 157. 



HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE — " SIR GARNET WOLSELEY." 



This new seedling, Hybrid Perpetual Eose, was raised, and is now being sent out by 

 Messrs. Cranston and Mayo's, of the King's Acre Nurseries, near Hereford. It was 

 awarded a first-class certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society at the Grand National 

 Eose Show July 1st, 1874 ; and it secured a similar award at the Oxford Eose Show on 

 June 25th of the same year. As will be seen from our Plate, the individual flowers are very 

 large, full, and perfectly formed, standing out bold and erect from the foliage ; the habit is 

 strong and vigorous, and the plants produce flowers at every shoot ; the colour is the 

 richest vermilion, shaded with bright carmine, and this tint is well retained throughout. 

 We are informed by Messrs. Cranston and Mayo's that the new Eose, " Sir Garnet 

 Wolselej''," was a seedling raised from Prince Camille de Rohan. Another new Hybrid 

 Perpetual Eose, of great merit, now being sent out by the same firm, is Cranston's " Crimson 

 Bedder," a rose which is said to surpass every other variety for brilliancy of colour and 

 continuous blooming. Its habit of growth is moderate, with short-jointed shoots, which 

 produce a mass of flowers all over the bed from June to November. This plant, introduced as 

 a bedding-rose only, is scarlet and crimson in colour, with clean glossy foliage, free from 

 mildew. It may be well to mention here Cranston's climbing Perpetual Eose, sent out 

 under the name of " Climbing Jules Margottin," a sport from " Jules Margottin," with 

 flowers exactly similar to its parent ; a free and vigorous climbing habit, not in a robust 

 form, but branching as freely as an evergreen climbing rose. This latter is a great 

 acquisition as a free-growing, perpetual climbing rose. 



Plate 158. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM MAXILLARE. 



This handsome Orchid was received from Eoezl by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of 

 Chelsea, from Mexico in 1872; and the plant here figured, and which was flowered by Mr. 

 Edwin Gh Wigley, at Broadoaks, Bury, Lancashire, was, we are informed, purchased at one 

 of Messrs. Veitch and Son's sales. 0. maxillare was originally described by Dr. Lindley 

 from a bloom obtained from Mr. C. B. Warner, in 1847, at which time its native country 

 was not known. From its resemblance to certain other Odontoglots, however (notably 

 0. Cervanfesii, which is now in all our good nursery catalogues), from Mexico, it was rightly 

 presumed by the late Dr. Lindley to belong to the latter country. Indeed, the majority of 

 Odontoglots are now well known to principally inhabit the cool mountain regions of Mexico, 

 Peru, New Grenada, and Venezuela. Our plant differs from most, if not all others of the 

 same genus, in being powerfully fragrant of hawthorn ; but 0. tigrimm, an allied plant, has 

 an odour equally powerful of violets (like Oncidium cucullatum and Cgpripedium Schlimi), which 

 odour is said to be made use of by the Mexicans under the name of Flor de Muertos. 0. 

 angustatum integrum is lilac scented. 0. cristaticm resembles the Spiraa. 0. Lindleyanum 

 has the odour of the he-goat, like our own Orchis hircina. 0. nevadense has a scent re- 

 sembling orange blossom. 0. pulchellum, vanilla; whilst 0. iriumphans bears the odour of 

 pansies. Many of these odours (as in our own native orchids) are intermittent, the scent 

 being strongest during the morning or evening hours, as the case may be. At times, too, the 

 odour varies during the hours of day and night, being suggestive of one thing during the 

 morning, and a totally different thing at night. The ground colour of 0. maxillare is not 

 white, but pale cream, the blots being intense brown on the petals and sepals, and bright 

 orange on the lip. 



