Plate 445. 



EPIDENDRUM RANIFERUM. 



This pretty and effective species is by no means of recent introduction, but it is very 

 rare. Mr. Fitch's sketch was made from a plant growing in Mr. Bull's Nursery, in the 

 King's Road, Chelsea, who imported it from Mexico, and cultivates it among his cool 

 orchids. Although said to be a good deal like B. nutans, this species is really very 

 distinct, and indeed far handsomer, in consequence of the rich purplish-brown spots with 

 which the sepals and petals are profusely decorated. The plant is of free growth, with 

 lustrous bright green foliage ; its fine racemes of flower are highly attractive, and they 

 last a long time in bloom ; indeed, it is one of the best of the Epidendrums. 



E. raniferum succeeds well in a pot amongst turfy peat, and should be liberally 

 supplied with water during the period of growth. It is of easy management treated as a 

 cool orchid. When the growing season is past, it does not require so much water, but 

 should never at any time be kept too dry. 



Plate 446. 

 ROSE H. P. MARY POCHIN. 



This beautiful Rose, so fine in outline and rich in colour, was raised by the Rev. 

 E. N. Pochin, and the stock of it has passed into the hands of the Cranston Seed and 

 Nursery Company, Hereford, for distribution in the autumn of the present year. 



Rich as we already are in bright red and scarlet Roses, this fine variety will prove a 

 valuable addition to the class. It is a bold and vigorous grower with a hardy constitution, 

 the flowers large and very full, of considerable substance and fine outline, and of a 

 singularly bright and effective glow of colour. As an exhibition variety it has already 

 taken a high place, as is seen from the fact that at the National Society's Rose Exhibition 

 at Manchester, on the 1 7th of July last, it was awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit. 

 It will not be the less welcome as a brilliant and effective garden Rose. 



