May 2G, 1892. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
897 
CaTTLEYA ScHEODERxE Leyswoodiensis. 
The beautiful and fragrant Cattleya Sibroderse has gained a 
firm position in the estimation of Orchid growers. The flower is 
built on bold, yet graceful lines, is distinctly coloured, and agree¬ 
ably perfumed. There is little cause for surprise that varieties 
should crop up one by one, and so long as the best characteristics 
of the type are retained variations will be welcomed. On May 17th 
the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society gave 
A Fine Cattleya Mossle. 
This superb Cattleya still maintains its position in collections, 
notwithstanding the many valuable introductions of recent years. 
When seen in a good state of cultivation it is a grand Orchid, and 
it is evident that some time must elapse before it will take a second 
place. There is a plant under my charge at the present time at 
Mrs. Haslam’s, Ravenswood, Bolton, carrying the enormous 
number of thirty-nine flowering spikes, and over eighty fully 
expanded flowers. On an average the individual blooms attain a 
measurement of 7 inches from tip to tip of the petals. I may say 
that this plant has been under my charge for sixteen years, and I 
have watched its development with a great amount of interest. 
—James Hicks. 
Broughtonia lilacina. 
This plant is a native of St. Domingo, and was formerly called 
Lselopsis domingensis. The pseudo-bulbs are slightly compressed 
FIG. 69.—CATTLEYA SCHRODER^E LEYSWOODIENSIS. 
an award of merit to a variety exhibited by Mr. Bristow, and 
emanating from the garden of his employer, J. W. Temple, Esq., 
Leyswood, Groombridge. It was flrst shown under the name 
of Cattleya Schroderae Leyswoodi, but the obvious inaccuracy of 
this was pointed out in the Journal, and the name C. S. Leyswoodi¬ 
ensis was substituted for it. It was greatly admired when exhi¬ 
bited at the Drill Hall on the 17ch inst., and is represented by 
fig. 69. The flower is of considerable size, the petals and lip being 
particularly broad and well developed. The former are nearly 
white, but with a very faint rose shading, and the sepals pure 
white. The lip is beautifully frilled, as the engraving shows. The 
apical area is white, the throat deep orange, edged with a band of 
mauve, which extends to the exterior of the tube. It would not 
be easy to imagine a more beautifully marked flower than this, 
and it should take a high place as a varietal form. 
and the leaves are oblong, dark green, and leathery. The peduncle 
rises from the apex of the bulb and bears several flowers of a 
pretty lilac colour ; the lip is two-lobed, and has a wavy margin, 
the centre veined with yellow. Fig. 70 (see page 401) represents 
three flowers turned over from opposite sides of the stem so as to 
bring the lip into position. I he plants flower during February and 
March, and may be grown in the Cattleya house in baskets with 
peat and sphagnum. Although the flowers are pretty and interesting 
Broughtonia lilacina is a p'ant which does not seem to take kindly 
to cultivation.—C. K. 
Notes and Comments. 
Odontoglossum Notzlianum, or more correctly, perhaps, 
Cochlioda Notzliana, forms the subject of a coloured plate in ihe 
last issue of “ Le Moniteur d’Hordculture.” It will be remem- 
