Plate 83. 
UTRICULARIA MONTANA. 
No one has more eontributed to the increased taste for Orchids than Lord Londesborough, 
nor has any one better shown of what they are capable than Mr. Denning, his Lordship’s able 
and intelligent gardener. We have from time to time taken the oppoi’tunity of figuring many of 
the newer forms exhibited from this collection, and we now add that of a very curious and 
beautiful plant which was shown at one of the meetings at South Kensington during the 
present summer. We are indebted to Mr. Denning for the following remarks : — “ Utricularia 
montana is a dwarf-growing plant of an epiphytal nature, and is thus unlike our British 
species which always grows in or under water. The plant in question requires an abundance 
of water all the year round, and seems to grow well in an ordinarj'’ Orchid basket filled with 
a very loose material, in our case of the fibre only of peat and sphagnum, and this is placed 
in the basket as lightly as possible. In this loose stuff the little tubers grow almost as freely 
as potatoes in ordinary soil, and the roots, if such they are, branch out in all directions in 
the atmosphere as well as in the material ; but these roots have more the appearance of 
runners than roots, as they throw out little plants at the joints or places where they are 
continually branching off at right angles.” 
ddie beautiful clear white of the flowers, and the freeness with which they are produced, 
make the plant not only interesting, but beautiful, and justified the admiration bestowed 
upon it when exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society. 
Plate 84. 
SILENE PENDULA COMPACTA. 
All who are interested in spring gardening know how very useful for the formation of 
masses of pink colouring is the old Silene peyidiiJa ; so easy of cultivation and so profuse in 
blooming, but owing to its height it is generally inapplicable for small gardens, and we are 
quite sure that the variety which we now figure, will at once be seen to be a valuable 
addition to our list of spring flowering plants. 
Si/eue pend/ila compact a is of the same colour as the type, but differs entirely from it 
in its mode of growth, being very dwarf and compact, and entirely covered with its bright 
pink flowers ; in fact it forms dense cushions from two to three inches in height, and from 
nine to twelve inches in diameter. It will therefore be a most useful plant for the edging of 
large beds, for ribbon borders, or for small beds. 
As it reproduces itself true from seed, no difficulty will be found in keeping up a supply 
large enough for any garden. Like .all spring flowers of this description, the seeds should 
be sown in the previous July, and then transplanted into store beds, so as to give them a 
nice close habit, and then planted out in the autumn after the summer flowering plants 
have been removed. Many persons do not take the trouble of transplanting, but plant out 
at once from the seed beds ; the extra trouble is, however, as in the case of all annuals, well 
repaid. 
We have only to add, that it has obtained a first-class certificate from the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, and that the entire stock of seed is in the possession of Mr. William Bull, 
of King’s Road, Chelsea, by whom it is now being distributed. 
