Plate 321. 



ROSE ' HAEEISON WEIB,' 



This splendid hybrid perpetual Eose is one of a fine batch of new English Eoses of rare 

 quality in course of distribution by Mr. Charles Turner, the Eoyal Nurseries, Slough. It is 

 supposed to have been raised from a cross made between Charles Lefebvre and Xavier Olibo, 

 it resembles the latter somewhat in colour, with the form and habit of growth of the former ; 

 the foliage is large bold and handsome, and the constitution robust. 



The colour is a rich velvety crimson enlivened with scarlet on the edges of the petals, 

 the flowers are very large, of full substance, very smooth and finely symmetrical ; and it 

 promises to make a first-class exhibition variety. Mr. Turner considers it the finest English- 

 raised Eose yet sent out from the Eoyal Nurseries, and to this well-known grower we are 

 already indebted for Oxonian, Eev. J. B. M. Camm, Eoyal Standard, Penelope Mayo, and 

 John Stuart Mill. We are not now compelled to go to France for new roses, as fine home 

 productions are more frequent year after year. 



This fine new Eose was awarded a First-class Certificate of merit by the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society on July 23rd last. 



Plate 822. 

 MAXILLAEIA GEANDIELOEA. 



This fine species is a native of Peru, and possesses excellent qualities which commend 

 themselves to the attention of Orchid cultivators. The pseudobulbs are ovate in shape, have 

 sharp edges, and are dark green in colour ; the leaves also are dark green, and about a foot 

 in length ; the flowers are produced singly ; sepals and petals pure white, the lip tinted 

 with dark purple at the sides, the triangular middle lobe yellow in front, and white towards 

 the base. It is a very desirable plant, blooming in the autumn, and possessing a most delicious 

 perfume, and worthy of cultivation on that account alone. 



Maxillaria grandiflora flourishes in a very cool atmosphere, indeed to succeed with it the 

 coolest end of the odontoglossnm-house should be selected for growing it in, and the atmo- 

 sphere kept very moist. 



The plant from which our illustration was taken flowered with Mr. B. S. Williams, at 

 the Victoria Nurseries, Ilolloway, who has just imported a fine lot of this rare species. 



