Plate 29e3. 



BEGONIA. ' MOONLIGHT.' 



This represents a very free-flowering variety, raised by Colonel Trevor Clarke, ofWelton 

 Park, Daventry ; it is a garden hybrid obtained, it is supposed, from a cross made between 

 B. Weltoniensis (which, as its name implies, originated also at Welton Park) and one of the 

 small flowered varieties. This new form has pure white flowers, which are produced with 

 great freedom ; in its habit of growth it greatly resembles B. Weltoniensis, and it is a charm- 

 ing companion to the last-named. Colonel Clarke very generously presented the stock of B. 

 Moonlight to the Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society, and by this means it is be- 

 coming pretty widely distributed. 



As a decorative plant it bids fair to take high rank, not only because it is so free of 

 bloom, but also because it is in flower for a considerable part of the year ; and, indeed, by 

 careful management it might always be gay in a warm greenhouse. B. Weltoniensis is one 

 of those useful things that might be denominated " everybody's plant," and we have reason 

 to believe the same measure of popular success will be meted out to the subject of our plate 

 when it becomes more widely known. The plant from which our illustration was taken 

 was kindly forwarded by Mr. A. F. Barron, from the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, 

 at Chiswick, where it flowered continuously during the past summer. 



Plate 29-1 

 DENDEOBIUM SXJPEKBIENS. 



We are indebted to Mr. B. S. Williams, Victoria Nursery, Hollo way, for the oppor- 

 tunity for figuring this lovely Orchid. From a description given by Professor Reichenbach, 

 in a recent number of The Gardener^ Chronicle we learn that D. Superhiens must not be 

 regarded as identical with D. Sumneri, as some have supposed. It is a stove epiphyte in- 

 troduced from North Australia. Professor Reichenbach states that "it is a great satisfaction 

 to have this great beauty at hand." The flowers, the prevailing colour of which is purple, 

 but paler on the lip, stand very near to one another on the peduncle; and they are ex- 

 ceedingly like those of the unicpie Lcclia alhida TucJeeri, with its splendid purplish flowers ; 

 the texture of the flowers is unusually firm ; the sepals are whitish, rosy outside, with darker 

 rosy veins, inside of a beautiful warm purplish-lilac colour.'' It has not flowered before in 

 England till it was shown in bloom by Mr, B. S. Williams at the last meeting of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, where it was awarded a First-Class Certificate of merit. In a com- 

 munication made to The Gardeners Chronicle, Mr. B. S. Williams referring to a remark that 

 D. Super Mens " is notoriously a shy bloomer," states that in his experience it is quite the 

 reverse, being in his estimation the finest flowering Dendrobe that has ever come under his 

 notice, judging from imported plants. The flowers last for a considerable time. 



