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TnEORY AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING. 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS, Tab. MORELLIANA. 
Nat. Order, OncnrDACE,E. 
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Miltonia spectabilis, Lindley. — Pseudo-bulbs oval, com- 
pressed, smooth ; leaves ligulate, spreading very much ; pe- 
duncles one-flowered ; scales large, striated, imbricated, keeled ; 
sepals oval, flat ; petals uniform with the sepals, revolute ; la- 
bellum very large, rounded -wedge-shaped, with three lanielhe 
at the base ; column with very acute narrow wings. 
Tar. Morelliana. — Morell's Miltonia. — Sepals and petals 
violet purple, the labellum lilac rose with deeper veins, not 
nearly so strongly marked as in the type. 
Generic CnAitACTEit. — Miltonia, Lindley. — Perigone with 
sessile, spreading segments, the outer lateral, of the same form 
as the inner, revolute, connate at the base. Lahclhim very 
large, dilated, undivided, sessile, slightly adherent to the co- 
lumn, lamellated at the base. Column short, semi-terete, auri- 
culate at the apex ; pollen-masses two, adherent to an oblong 
oaudicle, — Brazilian herbs ; epiphytic, pseudo-bulbous ; scape 
one-flowered, sheathed ; scales equitant, flowers very showy. — 
[Endlichcr, Gen. Plant, supp. i., 14G7-1). 
BESCRIPTION. — This plant has a sort of creeping rhizome, sheathed with scales and sending 
out rather slender roots below, and pseudo-bulbs, distant from each other, above. These 
pseudo-bulbs are oblong, compressed smooth, with two large membranous scales, one on each 
side at the base. Leaves two, sessile on the pseudo-bulb and terminating it, ligulate, sub- 
coriaceous, awned downward. Scape from the base of the pseudo-bulb, sheathed at the joints, 
with compressed equitant green membranous scales, and bearing a solitary large flower. Sepals 
and petals nearly alike, all spreading, or more or less revolute, oblong, obtuse, slightly waved, 
of a rich violet purple colour. Lip very large, pendant, obovatc, subunguiculated, waved, 
longitudinally plaited and obscurely obliquely veined, terminating at the base in a short claw, 
and having three distinct lamella?, of a light rosy lilac colour, marked near the base with deeper 
veins. Column small, greenish ; anther-case conico-hemispherical. Polleu-masscs two. 
History, &c. — This plant, which was introduced from South America by M. Morcll, of Paris, 
was obtained from the continental gardens by Messrs. Knight and Perry, under the name of 
Miltonia Morelliana. There does not seem to be sufficient ground for separating it specifically 
from M. spectabilis, of which we already know two such differently coloured forms. In the 
original type of M. spectabilis the petals ore almost white, and the lip much more deeply 
coloured; in the variety purpureo-ccerulca, figured by Sir W. J. Hooker, in the Botanical 
Magazine, the sepals and petals are deep purple, while the lip is pale. In the present form the 
sepals and petals are also all uniformly dark, but the lip is of a different colour, and the 
veinings, so distinct in the type, are only well marked in the lower part ; it is also without the 
yellow colour of the column and of the lamella; of the lip. The bracts appear to be more green 
Hum in the other forms, in which they are represented as fuscous or yellowish. Our figure was 
made from a plant which bloomed in the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, in November last. — A. H. 
Culture. — The Miltonias require the hot part of the Orchid house. They should be potted 
in light turfy peat raised an inch or two above the rim of the shallow pots, so as (0 allow the 
creeping stems to spread freely over and root into the soil ; in order to assist them in this, tiny 
may be fixed down with hooked pegs. Like most of the race to which it belongs, it should 
have a moderate degree of shade in summer during bright sunshine. 
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING. 
By Mr. IT. BAILEY, GAiiDExr.it to G. IIaucoukt, Esq., M. 1'., Nxtkbham Pass, Oxi 
THE GRAPE-VINE. 
SF all the fruits wc cultivate, the Vine claims precedence, whether we consider 
the wholesome quality of its produce, or its importance in wine making j 
the interest which has ever been attached to it from the remotest ;iL;es of the 
world, or the gratification it affords to every man " to sit under the shade of his 
vino or his fig-tree." If proof of the mutability of our English climate were want- 
ing, the existence of vineyards in many parts of the country funnci-lv. would 
go to prove it; for in these very localities, in the present day. grapes do not 
ripen in one season out of three with certainty. In the old town of Abingdon 
(near this place), formerly written Abbey Town, there existed a large abbey, and 
as the ecclesiastics of old did not neglect to provide things temporal as well as 
spiritual, there was attached to it a vineyard. But such an experiment would 
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