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bright rose, but the lip is white or of a most delicate blush tint, not only 
partly bilobed, but with a distinctly undulated margin, which where the 
infolding is deep appears like an approach to the four-lobed lip of the 
Calanthe vestita. Another curious character is the manner in which the 
flowers are arranged in the raceme, being much closer together and chiefly 
to one side of the flower stem, imparting a clustered appearance to the 
inflorescence. Writing in reference to the plant, Mr. Bennett observes :— 
“ This Calanthe has a curious history. For some seasons our Calanthes 
have not bloomed for three years ; this season they have done fairly well. 
They have been here for thirteen years, or before I came to the place. 
This season I exchanged some Eucharis with a neighbouring gardener for 
some Calanthe Veitchii. These have bloomed with ours, and, seeing the 
two together, the distinction is so great no one could help noticing it. 
Hence my sending you and others a bloom. We have thus had this 
I sidered by many superior in attractions, while for arranging either with 
the ordinary form or its parent C. vestita it'must prove most valuable. 
VINERIES. 
All things relating to vineries and the use to which they are gene¬ 
rally put in connection with the production of Grapes were carefully con¬ 
sidered at the time my notes on this subject were penned. They were 
also well thought over before the range of vineries and conservatory 
erected here some few years since by Messrs. Weeks & Co. of Chelsea 
were heated. The result was that the pipes were fixed in the customary 
way—viz., four 16 inches from the front wall and two 5 feet from the 
back one ; and that this distribution of the heating surface has given me 
the utmost satisfaction. Hence my reason in recommending the pipes 
Fig. 19.—Calanthe Veitchii, Rangemore variety. 
variety for thirteen years without knowing it was so distinct. It is a 
time of year that I seldom move from home, and I do not know the time 
when I have seen Calanthes in bloom elsewhere. I have been com¬ 
paring a small spike or two that is left, and they bear out most re¬ 
markably all the points you name, and they are all alike, therefore 
constant.” 
Slight variations in colour are common amongst a number of plants 
of C. Veitchii, and seemed to be influenced to a certain extent by cultural 
differences, but so well marked a form as this we have not previously 
seen, though it is often said that there are two forms of the plant. This 
one is, however, so clearly different from the ordinary type, that it may 
be appropriately named the Rangemore variety. Beautiful as the well- 
known hybrid is, that now illustrated presents such a delicate and 
pleasing contrast in the white lip and rosy sepals, thatjit would be con- 
being so fixed. And having read Mr. Molyneux’s note in reference to this 
subject at page 83, I fail to recognise his plan as “ a better way ” of dis¬ 
tributing the said pipes. Fixed as he advises, though the heat may be 
better equalised over the house and the Vines be less liable to the attacks 
of red spider in consequence, the work of making or renovating the border 
must be considerably impeded by having to perform it through a trellis- 
work of piping. Moreover, the attacks of red spider, sometimes resalting 
from the heat necessary for the production of Grapes being somewhat 
centralised, can be prevented by evaporating pans forming part of the 
flow pipes being kept filled with liquid manure. The ammonia arising 
therefrom is antagonistic to insect life as well as being beneficial to the 
Vines by reason of their inhaling it through their leaves. 
Mr. Molyneux further objects to the pipes being placed as recom¬ 
mended by me on the score that the Vines are more forward in the neigh- 
