Plate 365. 



CCELOGYNE OCELLATA MAXIMA. 



At a recent meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, the above chaste and beautiful 

 Orchid was exhibited by Mr. B. S. Williams, Victoria Nursery, Holloway, and awarded 

 a First-class Certificate of Merit. We cannot do better than give the description of 

 it given by Professor H. G. Eeichenbach in the Gardeners' Chronicle : 



" According to my taste this is a great beauty. It is far stronger than the common 

 plant, having a rich eight-flowered raceme of expanded blossoms coming near those of 

 C. cristata. The colour is a usual one ; the lateral yellow blotches spread widely apart ; the 

 anterior central is confluent, and overrun by side-keels, those quite outside being the 

 adventitious ones urged already by Dr. Linclley. I am told that the bulbs are a good 

 deal larger than those of the genuine plant, being three inches in circumference. The 

 inferior sheath under the inflorescence usually persistent in this species, is very much 

 developed." 



When this variety becomes distributed there is no doubt it will take a high position 

 in collections of Orchids, — a prominence to which it is justly entitled. 



Plate 360. 



PEG OXI A— SOUVENIR DE GAND. 



A number of very fine tuberous-rooted Begonias have put in appearance at the 

 Exhibitions of the Eoyal Horticultural and the Eoyal Botanic Societies, during the present 

 season. One of these, Souvenir de Gand, a fine new variety in the possession of Messrs. 

 Osborn and Sons, the Nurseries, Fulham, S.W., was exhibited at the meeting of the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society on June 1 0th, and awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit. 



Souvenir de Gand is a remarkably fine single variety with very broad and massive petals, 

 the flowers being fully three and a half inches across when naturally expanded, the 

 colour rich crimson scarlet of a very bright hue ; the plant possessing a free and neat 

 habit of growth. 



Now that the race of tuberous-rooted Begonias is being recognised as Exhibition plants 

 (and in some parts of the country very finely grown for this purpose), this superb 

 variety under notice is likely to take a leading position on the Exhibition stage. It has 

 the habit of a good show plant, and its massive flowers suggest that it will journey 

 well to the place of Exhibition. 



