April 18, ir95. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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This digression may serve to point the moral, that adverse 
surroundings form no barrier to mental energy, though they may 
present an excuse to those who are but too ready to avail them¬ 
selves of one. If the will exists the W'ay will be found. Let 
your journey through bothydom be such that in after years the 
retrospect of it will be of “the happy, the bright, the unforgotten.” 
—An Old Boy. 
(To be continued.) 
Piiaio-Calanthe irroeata rosea. 
One of the latest results of the hybridist’s skill with distinct 
genera was staged at a recent meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society at the Drill Hall, and received an award of merit. 
Calanthe vestita gigantea and Phaius grandifolius were utilised, 
the former being the pollen parent. Evidences of both were 
readily perceptible in this interesting exhibit, which was staged 
by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea. The 
colour of the flower, the form of which is portrayed in the 
engraving (fig. 56), is rose shading to white at the edges of the 
sepals, petals, and lip. 
The Selwood Collection of Orchids. 
As will be seen by advertisement the extensive and choice 
collection of Orchids, which was formed by the late G. D. 
Owen, Esq., at Selwood, near Rotherham, is to be sold by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris on the 24th, 25th, and 26th inst. The first 
day’s sale includes 370 lots, the second day 375, the third day’s 
list nearly 300 lots of Orchids, besides greenhouse plants. Several 
of the Selwood Orchids have been honoured by the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society, and the whole of the plants are to be sold without 
reserve by order of the executors of the late proprietor. 
Burlingtonia fragrans. 
To many connoisseurs this charming Brazilian Orchid is 
insignificant, but the delightfully fragrant flowers, the sepals and 
petals of which are white with a yellow tinged lip, entitle it to be 
grown in almost every collection. This short note is prompted by 
the Hawthorn scent which is emitted from the opening spikes on 
a small plant growing in a basket in the fernery, the compost used 
consisting of good peat, potsherds, and living sphagnum. During 
the growing season we give it abundance of water, reducing the 
supply as winter approaches. The plant takes little room, the 
leaves being only 6 to 9 inches in length, and does not require 
much heat during the winter, the fernery temperature often falling 
as low as 38°.—R. P. R. 
Odontoglossum triumphans Lionel Crawshay. 
The appearance of the figure of this variety in your issue of 
April 11th, 1895, is, I think, a remarkably quick piece of work, 
the time occupied from the sketching of the flower by your artist 
to the time I received the paper at Sevenoaks by post being only 
forty-six hours. He had completed the sketch on Tuesday, 9'.b, at 
2 P.M. ; I received the paper at mid-day on Thursday, the 11th. I 
think this worth recording, and for those of your readers who 
“ think,” they will see the extremely perfect organisation with 
which the Journal of Horticulture is managed.— De B. Crawshay, 
Rosefield, Sevenoahs. 
Brassia Lawrenceana. 
Mr. H. J. Chapman writes :—“ On page 287 you request my 
opinion on the Brassia Lawrenceana figured on page 275. The 
plant exhibited was bought some years ago, with four others, as 
Brassia Lawrenceana, and has flowered regularly under this name. 
It was considered by all who saw it a very fine variety, and 
much superior to any of the others we flowered from the same 
importation. The plant you figure is certainly the plant I have 
known for years under the name, and is at the present time in 
commerce as Brassia Lawrenceana. 
“ At the time it was exhibited before the Orchid Committee I 
did not hear any question as to its correct nomenclature. Sir 
T. Lawrence, Bart., was in the chair, Mr. O’Brien and other experts 
being present. I left the Committee while the plants I had an 
interest in were under consideration, so I am not in position to 
give you any information how the F.Cl.C. was awarded. Mr. Kent 
did not see the plant until the afternoon, when he expressed a 
doubt about the plant being true, and took a flower to determine the 
matter, subsequently writing to Mr. Measures to say it was not the 
true B. Lawrenceana but a form of Brassia brachiata. I have no 
doubt this is correct, and the plant is now labelled accordingly ; but 
I have sent a flower to Mr. Rolfe at Kew for final decision, and 
will let you know what he decides.” 
Epidendrum fragrans. 
As the specific name implies, this is a very fragrant Orchid, and 
on this account should be grown. The habit is that of a small 
growing Cattleya, the pseudo-bulbs being similar, and each bearing 
a single leaf. Pot culture in peat and moss suits it best, and it is 
easily grown in the Cattleya house. The blossoms are produced 
in short racemes from the top of the pseudo-bulbs. They 
are peculiar in having the lip uppermost, or upside down as it 
appears. The sepals and petals are creamy white, and the lip is 
streaked with purplish crimson. It is a common plant in the West 
Indies, and lasts a very long time in perfection. 
Cattleya intermedia. 
This handsome Orchid is an old species in cultivation, having 
been brought from Brazil as early as 1824. It belongs to the tall 
growing section, bearing two leaves on the top of the pseudo-bulbs, 
as C. bicolor or C. guttata, and when in good condition attains to a 
height of nearly 2 feet. It is, moreover, a free-flowering, eaS'ily 
FIG. 56.— PHAIO-CALANTHE IRROEATA ROSEA. 
cultivated species, which is worthy of a place in the most select 
collections. The flower spikes issue from the apices of the pseudo¬ 
bulbs, and often bear from six to nine flowers each 4 inches across. 
The sepals and petals are narrow, soft purplish rose, the lip enfold¬ 
ing the column similar in colour, but with a deep violet purple 
blotch in front. C. intermedia should be repotted immediately the 
flowers are past in a compost consisting of good peat and sphagnum 
moss with abundance of rough pieces of charcoal and potsherds. 
Good drainage must be given, and the plants grown in the usual 
Cattleya house temperature. There are several varieties of this 
species, C. i. alba bearing pure white flowers, while those of 
0. i. punctatissima have blossoms spotted with crimson purple. 
C. i. superba is slightly different in habit to the type, and usually 
flowers somewhat later in the season. 
Cattleya Lawrenceana. 
This was a very valuable addition to the spring-flowering 
Cattleyas, and quite distinct from any other. The pseudo-bulbs 
grow nearly a foot high, and are usually of a bronzy reddish 
appearance with a similarly coloured leaf. The flowers are 
5 inches across, and borne on strong erect spikes which spring 
from the previous year’s sheaths at the top of the pseudo-bulbs. 
In its best forms these are very deep rose in colour with a 
purplish shade, having a deeper blotch on the lip, the throat 
white. This fine Cattleya will not usually be satisfactory in the 
temperature advised for the labiata group generally, but delights 
in a strong moist heat and plenty of sunlight while making its 
growth. 'The compost may be similar to that usually recom¬ 
mended for Cattleyas, and in other respects the treatment may be 
identical. Although discovered many years ago, it was not in 
general cultivation until 1884, when, thanks to the exertions of 
Messrs. Sander & Co., it was introduced in large numbers. It is a 
native of the mountainous regions of British Guiana, and was 
named in honour of Sir Trevor Lawrence.—H. R. R. 
