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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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Disa Kewensis, 
This is a newr hybrid which has been raised at Kew from 
D. grandiflora and D. tripetaloides. It is decidedly pretty. The 
leaves, scape, and general look of the plant are like those of the 
hybrid D. Veitchi, the parents of which are D. grandiflora and 
D. racemosa, but the flowers of D. Kewensis are smaller, being 
1 \ inch across. The lateral sepals are 1 i nch long, ovate, slightly 
recurved and coloured rich rose ; the posterior sepal is hooded, as 
in D. grandiflora, three-fourths of an inch in diameter and coloured 
rosy lavender, with red spots ; the lip is yellow inside, with trans¬ 
verse lines and spots of crimson. The scape is 18 inches high and 
bears six flowers. The seeds were sown in November, 1891, so 
that this plant is only eighteen months old. There are numerous 
other plants of the same age, but only one has flowered.— 
W. Watson (in “ Garden and Forest.”) 
L.elia majalis. 
This is a dwarf, compact-growing species, and rather a shy 
bloomer, but when well flowered it is very showy. The flowers, 
borne singly on the spike, appear on the young growth in spring, 
and are about 5 inches across, the petals broader than the sepals, 
rose colour, lip large and streaked with purple. It should be 
grown in a sunny position in the Cattleya house, and when the 
growths are made the plants ought to be removed to the open air 
for a time. This species succeeds best on a block or in very shallow 
pans. 
LiELIA PURPUBATA. 
This magnificent Orchid is now flowering in most places, but 
it is not everywhere that fine specimens are seen. Small plants 
do not show the character of the species ; but when seen in good 
condition, and specimens 2 to 3 feet through, it is one of our 
grandest Orchids. The habit is very robust, therefore the culture 
is comparatively easy, and as plenty of water is required at the 
root while growing an open compost is necessary. It should be 
kept with the Oattleyas, and in a genial temperature while growing. 
Aerides. 
This is a beautiful genus of epiphytal Orchids, most of the 
species of which are easily grown. The flowers are produced in 
cylindrical racemes from the axils of the leaves, mostly near the 
tops of the plants. They are usually fragrant, last a long while in 
perfection, and vary in colour from white to pink and rose. All 
the large growing species, of which 4. odorata is a well known type, 
can best be grown in broad and shallow wood baskets. Small plants 
should be suspended, but larger ones may be grown on the stages 
if allowed plenty of room. 
Aerides require a strong moist heat in summer with something 
for the long white roots to catch hold of as they grow, and there is 
nothing to equal sphagnum for this purpose. If this is renewed 
every spring together with a few lumps of charcoal or ballast, large 
plants may be kept in health for years without being disturbed at 
the roots, and the number of flowers they produce under these 
conditions is remarkable, the growth also being very free. In the 
winter they should be kept drier at the root, but not sufficiently so 
to cause shrivelling of the foliage or the lower leaves to fall off, as 
this greatly disfigures the plants. 
As a proof of the rapidity of growth under these conditions, 
it may be worth mentioning that I once grew a plant of A. odorata 
in three years from a small piece in an 8-inch pot to a specimen 
over 2 feet through, with five or six stems, the highest of which 
would be about 30 inches, and which the last season it was under 
my charge produced sixteen racemes of flowers, many of them 
18 inches in length. The smaller growing species, such as 
A. affine and A. roseum, are rather more difficult to grow. They 
require more attention in the autumn to ripen the growth made, 
and should in all cases be suspended near th.e ventilators, a con¬ 
stant supply of fresh air being of the utmost importance. 
—H. E. R. 
PhALASNOPSIS ScilILLERIANA. 
Enclosed is a photograph of ten plants of Phalaenopsis 
Schilleriana, which were grown here this year, and bloomed in 
March ; the most blooms on one plant were sixty-two, and the 
least twenty. If you think this note worthy of a place in your 
valuable paper you will oblige by inserting it.— Wai. McHutciieon, 
The Gardens, Auchindennan, Alexandria, Durnhartonshire. 
[We are always ready to insert records of good cultivation such 
as the photograph represents ; it is, however, not quite suitable 
for reproduction in our columns, and we suspect hardly does 
justice to the plants as they were when in full beauty.] 
Sale op New Orchids. 
As announced in our advertisement columns last week, Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris will sell by auction at their rooms in 
Cheapside, E.C., to-morrow (July 7th) a number of new Orchids 
which have been imported by Messrs. F, Sander & Co., St. Albans. 
These will include Eulophiella Elisabethae, Habenaria gigantea var. 
sumatrana, Cypripedium Nicholsonianum, Dendrobium Phalaenopsis 
var. Schroderianum, and a rosy red Oncidium from Yenezuela. 
CAMPANULA PERSIOIFOLIA ALBA BACKHOUSIANA. 
The Peach-leaved Bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, is a very old 
garden plant. According to a writer in 1797 the species was then 
FIG. 1.—campanula PERSICIPOLIA alba BACKHOUSIANA, 
becoming uncommon in gardens, its place having been taken by the 
improved varieties which had made their appearance even at that early 
date. The number of varieties has been considerably increased since 
then, and perhaps the most popular as well as the most useful is the 
white form C, persicifolia alba. This has in turn been undergoing 
improvement, and the variety now under notice is a considerable 
advance on the older form, the pure white flowers being much 
larger and finer than in the type. It is a first-rate variety for pot 
culture, as it continues a long time in flower, and is said to force welL 
Fig. 1 represents it.—A. B. 
