Plate 353. 



CYMBIDIUM LOWIANUM. 



This beautiful novelty, which attracted so much attention at the meeting of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, on March 1 1th (when it was exhibited by Messrs. H. Low & Co., of 

 the Clapton Nurseries, and awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit), is considered by Professor 

 Reichenbach to come near to C. giganteum and C. longifolium. It is thus described by this 

 authority in the Gardener s Chronicle: — "The large flowers have sepals and petals green, with 

 a few faint sepia-brown lines on the strongest nerves. These organs get more pallid by- 

 and-by, changing to a yellowish-green. The lip is whitish-yellow, disk of anterior lacinia in 

 the beginning purple, later maroon-brownish purple, with a very narrow pallid border, and 

 there are some purple spots on the base of the lip. Calli washed on their anterior parts 

 with purple. The anterior part of the base of the column has a few spots." 



Notwithstanding the prevailing hue of green in the sepals and petals it is of a very 

 attractive order, being bright and pleasing, and it contrasts admirably with the deep-coloured 

 lip. Mr. Fitch has made an excellent drawing of this fine novelty. 



Plate 354. 



CAMELLIA MADAME DE STREKALOFF. 



This beautiful variety is a Continental seedling of comparatively recent introduction, 

 and occupies a high position among its class, no less on account of the softness and purity 

 of its colour, than of the size and regularity of its flowers, the excellence of its habit of 

 growth, and the freedom with which its blooms are produced. Their colour is of a delicate 

 shade of peach, with occasionally a band of a paler tint running down the centre of each 

 petal, altogether most distinct from any other variety. The foliage is ample and handsome, 

 the growth free and vigorous. 



We are indebted to Messrs. William Paul & Son, Paul's Nurseries, Waltham Cross, 

 for the opportunity of figuring this beautiful Camellia. It was seen to fine advantage in a 

 very large collection of cut blooms shown by this well-known firm at a recent meeting of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society. 



