Plate 325. 



LiELIA DOMINIANA. 



Our illustration represents a new Hybrid raised at Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Eoyal 

 Exotic Nursery, King's Eoad, Chelsea, by Mr. Dominy from a cross hetween Cattleya 

 Doiviana and some Lcelia, probably elegans. Professor Eeichenbach described it as 

 possessing " the habit of a Venezuelan Cattleya mossice, but the leaves are longer and 

 remind one of Lcelia elegans. The sepals are light purple, with dark reticulations which 

 remind one of the just-named species. The petals and lip are nearly those of Cattleya Bowiana, 

 even as to the diameter. The lip has nothing of the yellow of that species, but its deep 

 blackish-purple makes a wonderful impression." 



The fine hybrid, which Mr. Fitch has been highly successful in sketching, was recently 

 awarded a First-Class Certificate of Merit by the Home Committee of the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society ; it has also been established in Prance where it proved an object of 

 considerable interest. It was named by the Messrs, Veitch in honour of one of their 

 most successful and valued servants. 



Plate 326. 

 SHOW TULIPS. 



We refer our readers to the notes on these fine Tulips given on another page by Mr. 

 Samuel Barlow, one of the foremost amateur Tulip cultivators of the day, and the Hon. 

 Secretary of the Eoyal National Tulip Society. 



The Show Tulips are late-flowering varieties, and quite distinct from the early blooming 

 forms which are grown in pots for exhibition and for decorative purposes. These last 

 come into flower a month earlier than the Show Tulips, even when grown in the open air : 

 and they are in great request for spring bedding. The show varieties are never grown in pots, 

 but in raised beds in the open air, over which coverings are put when the Tulips are coming 

 into bloom. The bulbs are planted in lines across the beds. Seven bulbs in a line, and as 

 the tallest growing varieties are in the middle of the beds, and the dwarfest at the sides, 

 Tulip cultivators class them as first, second, third, or fourth row flowers ; the fourth row 

 comprising the tallest, as a Tulip bed faces both sides. Formerly Show Tulips were much 

 grown in Camberwell and other suburbs of London, but those gorgeous flowers are now 

 scarcely grown at all in the neighbourhood of London ; more the pity, for they are far too 

 beautiful to be neglected. 



