September 29, 1892. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
277 
Mealy bug has a liking for the axils of the leaves, and should never 
be allowed to establish itself. R, secunda may be grown in an 
intermediate temperature, but it does not flower so freely as in a 
warmer house.—C. K. 
Cattleya Statteriana. 
Lovers of Cattleyas would hold themselves particularly fortunate 
in the introduction or exhibition of fresh and beautiful forms were 
all of these at their command on reasonable terms, but this is not 
always so, and it is markedly the reverse in the case of the magni- 
its characters point to a hybrid origin, and, as intimated in the 
reference to it last week, it is more than likely that it is a natural 
hybrid resulting from the crossing of C. gigas and C. aurea. There 
is nothing in the whole collection of fine Cattleyas now possessed to 
excel it in size, beauty of form, or rich colouring. In the latter 
respect it is conspicuously distinct. The apical area of the lip is 
rich velvety crimson, and purplish streaks radiate from it into the 
throat. The side lobes are deeply coloured with the rich nankeen 
yellow of C. aurea, approaching to orange. There is a suffusion of 
carmine on the outer surface of the tube, and along the whole of 
Fig. 38—CATTLEYA STATTERIANA. 
ficent hybrid exhibited by Mr. Johnson, gardener to T. Statter, Esq., 
Stand Hall, Manchester, at the last meeting of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society under the name of C. Statteriana. There is little 
doubt that, so far as Great Britain is concerned, Mr. Statter can 
claim an absolutely unique possession in this remarkable form, and 
as his great object is to secure a collection of special interest, it is 
hardly likely that he will allow so striking a plant to leave it for 
any financial consideration, though tempting offers would, no doubt, 
be made were it for sale. 
We have referred to C. Statteriana as a hybrid. There is no 
definite and precise knowledge that such is the case, for the plant 
was an imported piece, and there is no history about it to give, but 
the edge of the flower runs a feathering of rosy carmine, recalling 
a heavy-edge Picotee. The sepals are ivory deepening to lemor, 
and the petals, which are broad but much recurved, are pure 
white. > . 
The flower is also effective both in size and form. It is a star 
of the first magnitude. The tube is somewhat short and is not 
closely folded. The lip is very long and broad, rounded near the 
throat, flattening and curving down towards the apex, but the tip 
is elevated and, like the petals, beautifully fimbriated. Considered 
in relation to no special feature, but as a whole, this noble Cattleya 
has a dignity and charm that command the deepest admiration. 
Fig. 38 represents it. 
