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planted ; here they flourished most luxuriantly and seeded all over 
the rock garden. It is usually said that this must be planted on 
the slope, but in talking over it with Mr. Wolley Dod the other 
day, he said that it was not absolutely necessary, and that it 
flourished with him quite as well when planted on a level surface. 
I said to him that I found it was not a very long-lived plant and 
that I had noticed that my larger plants had become hard, the 
leaves less luxuriant and the flowers not so abundant. He did not 
agree with me in this, but said he had plants twelve and thirteen 
years old flourishing and flowering very freely, and that probably 
mine had by some means or other been bit by the sun which 
frizzles them up. This may be possible, although they occupy the 
same place as they have done for years. It is a very attractive little 
plant with flowers resembling somewhat some of the Solani, 
although in truth it is more allied to the Mulleins and used to be 
classed under the Yerbascum, and was called the Mountain Mullein. 
A white variety has been introduced of late years by Froebel of 
Zurich, and is very attractive. 
Phyteuma comosum.—A rare and very curious Alpine plant, 
which it is almost impossible to describe, and seems to be very 
difficult to grow. It requires rough grit and to be planted, I 
believe, amongst broken stones, and is impatient of wet in the 
winter. There is certainly no more curious Alpine than this, and 
yet I have rarely seen it in good condition in the gardens I have 
visited where Alpine plants are grown. 
Pinguicula grandiflora. — This great Irish Butterwort is a 
most beautiful bog plant. I have tried it, but I fear it is hopeless 
unless where a bog can be imitated. It does well on Messrs. Paul’s 
grounds at High Beech, in Epping Forest, and I saw them the 
other day in an artificial bog at Mr. Carrington Leys at St. Helen’s, 
near Maidstone. Probably it does better in the cooler and moister 
parts of our islands.—D., Deal. 
Cattleya Acklandias. 
Though by no means a new addition, yet this remarkable 
•Cattleya is seldom seen in flower. It was named by Dr. Lindley 
after Lady Ackland of Devonshire. In shape the flowers are some¬ 
what like C. bicolor. The growths are about 6 inches long, terete, 
and jointed, with a pair of terminal leaves, elliptical and fleshy. 
The peduncle, bearing one or two flowers, rises from between the 
leaves. The sepals and petals are spreading, each nearly 2 inches 
long, fleshy, greenish yellow, finely blotched and spotted with dark 
blackish purple ; the markings are seen less distinctly on the under 
sides. The lip is large and three-lobed ; side lobes small, not 
covering the column ; centre lobe, after a slight contraction, 
broadens considerably ; colour deep purple with slightly darker 
veinings. The column, which is very broad, is also most conspicuous, 
and is an intense purple. The plant is a native of Brazil, and may 
be grown on rafts or in baskets suspended in the Cattleya house. I 
have seen excellent plants grown in peat and moss, but which never 
flowered. It requires but little moisture. A plant now flowering 
in the cool Orchid house at Kew is growing on a block of birch, 
with a Jittle sphagnum kept over the roots by means of wire. If 
someone could solve the secret of successsfully flowering C. Ack- 
landise it would soon become extensively cultivated.—C. K. 
Bulbophyllum barbigerum. 
In this Orchid we seem to have a kind of connecting link between 
•the animal and the vegetable world. Though not by any means a 
'* florists’ flower,” this wonderful plant is certainly something more 
■than a botanical curiosity. I believe that a plant was exhibited at 
the Temple Show of 1891 in Sir Trevor Lawrence’s group of 
Orchids, and attracted crowds of people by its curious actions. 
A plant is at present flowering in the warm Orchid house at Kew, 
and having been noted in a local paper many visitors have gone to 
see the “thing.” The pseudo-bulbs are small, and surmounted by 
solitary fleshy leaves about 1£ to 2 inches long ; the peduncles rise 
from the base of the bulbs, bearing racemes of six to twelve floweis. 
The sepals are small and brownish red, and petals minute. But the 
lip makes up for their shortcomings ; it has a long body, covered 
with very short yellow velvety hairs ; at the end, on both upper 
and under sides, are tufts of fine purple hairs, and at the extreme 
tip a cluster of longer purplish threads ; these hairs ali continually 
move about. The lip is articulate with the column, and moves up 
and down in a manner that makes one wonder if in this case 
animal sense has not become connected with plant movements. 
A figure may be seen in the “ Bot. Mag.,” vol. 87, t. 5288. 
B. barbigerum was introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, from Sierra 
Leone, in 1836.—0. K. 
Anguloas and M. Linden. 
In reference to our note on Anguloas on page 51, we have the 
pleasure to publish a correction we have received from M. Lucien 
Linden, of the “ Horticulture Internationale ” of Brussels. This 
being of some historic interest we give his communication in 
detail:—“ My father has read this morning the note on Anguloas 
published in your estimable Journal, p. 51, and he has been surprised 
to see it there mentioned that he had been sent to South America 
at the expense of some gentlemen to collect Orchids. He instructs 
me to make known that this is an error, his different voyages 
having been undertaken by the order and on account of the 
Belgian Government. What has given rise to this mistake is, that 
when on his third voyage, undertaken in 1842, in Yenezuela, 
Columbia, and the Great Antilles, my father had sent some cases 
of Orchids to Mr. Sigismund Riicker at Wandsworth. In these 
cases were found the Anguloas mentioned in the article of ‘ C. K.’ 
The thousands of species of dried plants which figure in the large 
herbaria of Europe, as well as the numerous zoological collections 
collected by my father in these voyages, indicate sufficiently that 
they have not been the work of a collector whose special mission 
was to collect Orchids.” 
NOTES BY THE WAY. 
Chester. 
Chester is one of those towns which have their surprises for those 
who do not weigh its richness of historical association with its nearness 
to the great western port on the Mersey, but class it with the hum-drum 
provincial places of which types must be familiar to everyone. The 
connection between the two is so obvious that a little reflection usually 
suffices to correct the mistake ; but even if this should not be so, the 
truth dawns upon the visitor when his name in the hotel book is seen to 
follow that of a stranger from Mashonaland, half a dozen others from 
the “ hub of the universe ” and other American towns ; while in p'ace of 
the expected provincialisms in speech his ears are saluted by Yankee 
nasalities. The truth is that large numbers of the Americans who support 
their expressed contempt for this effete old country by pouring into it 
via Liverpool, find in the ancient border town an attraction too power¬ 
ful to be passed by. In the average American the bump of anti- 
quarianism (if the phrenologists admit such a landmark on the human 
cranium) is largely developed, and in Chester there is abundant 
material with which to gratify it. Thus it comes about that ideas 
formed of the town as a kind of Sleepy Hollow are rapidly dispelled, and in 
reality it proves to be a Wideawakeville of the most pronounced descrip¬ 
tion. The contrast between the town and its inhabitants is very 
striking. The former is quaint, mediaeval and stately, savouring of past 
centuries ; the latter are bustling, alert, and up to date, with a business¬ 
like 1892 air about them. If in the grim recesses on the city walls at 
the foot of which flows the rock-lined river, the imagination can replace 
an armoured sentinel of the middle ages, the vision is knocked down, 
skittle-like, by the blandishments of a guide book seraph, whose per¬ 
sistency would strike a Maltese shore boy aghast with admiration 
and envy. If in the glorious form of woman there is an anatomical 
unit anywhere in the wide world 60 utterly deaf and blind to every 
form of negative, expressed or implied, as the guide-sellers on Chester 
walls, she should be preserved for use at fashionable bazaars. Her 
talents are at present wasted. As for the journalist who relieved him¬ 
self of her presence by turning her unwelcome attention to a harmless 
and inoffensive companion of the pen musing peacefully on the past, he 
displayed a resourcefulness in extremity that would have done credit to 
a Fleet Street fruit-seller, who will contrive to cheat you even while he 
is obeying the “ moving-on ” command of the policeman beside him. 
A Gardenless City. 
Chester, like many of Hodge’s Pear trees, has overgrown its walls 
and spread out branches far beyond the stream which encircles it. On 
one side, which I can only localise by saying that it is opposite the 
spot where our guide insisted on relating his boyish experiences of out¬ 
door executions, notwithstanding strong hints that they could be 
dispensed with, there is much tree beauty, albeit the view is rather 
distant, and the residences of Chester’s great peer out from amongst the 
foliage. The aforesaid guide, who mingled hi3 professional explanations 
with minute details of his personal character and career, had apparently 
stuffed himself too full of antiquarian lore for the delectation of the 
wandering American to hold any information about modern gardens for 
the benefit of those interested in them. But we were casual customers, 
so to say, and judging by his other exploits there is little doubt that 
he would have fully prepared himself foT the emergency had he 
received fair warning that we were going to be there. Still, he knew of 
Eaton and Hawarden, and was able to inform us of the various means 
of reaching them, the cost ranging from 6s. to 9d .; but, unfortunately, 
time did not admit of their being visited. So far as can be seen from 
its walls Chester is not a city of flowers, and if an occasional garden 
was seen it was a half-hearted, out-of-place-looking thing which did not 
