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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ I'e ember 6, 1833. 
great variety of purposes. Thus, for fans, the handles of which are 
delicately ornamented, as well as for hand-screens, tobacco-pouches, 
coverings for hats in wet weather, paper is equally applicable ; for the 
latter purpose, however, it is steeped in oil, which makes it thoroughly 
waterproof. The hand-screens are made by first forming a foundation 
of thin strips of split bamboo radiating from the handle, which is after¬ 
wards covered so completely on both sides with a thin paper film and 
varnished that a strong and durable article is the result.— (Nature). 
ODONTOGLOSSUM IIARRYANUM. 
Like most of the cultivated Odontoglossums this species is 
evidently extremely variable, and it is somewhat strange that by 
far the best varieties have come into notice some time after the 
type was made known. It was introduced several years since by 
Fig. 56.—ODONTOGLOSSUM HARItYANUM. 
Messrs. Horsman & Co., Colchester, but subsequently passed into 
the hands of Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. It was named in 
honour of Mr. Harry J. Veitch by Professor Reichenbach, who 
said, “ It is a fresh type, a grand and unexpected surprise, com¬ 
parable with 0. luteo-purpureum and 0. tripudians.” The original 
form as figured in Veitch’s “ Manual of Orchidaceous Plants” is 
much inferior to that represented in our illustration (fig. 56), 
which was prepared from a flower shown at one of the meetings of 
the Royal Horticultural Society in the past season. In most large 
collections of Orchids O. Harryanum is now included, and is 
rapidly becoming a favourite, though we have not yet seen estab¬ 
lished plants with many flowered scapes 2 to 3 feet long, as 
promised by some who have described the plant. Messrs. J. 
Veitch thus describe the originally introduced form :—“Pseudo¬ 
bulbs oval-oblong, compressed, furrowed and ribbed when old, 
to 3 inches long, diphyllous. Leaves leathery, oblong, obtuse, 
7 to 10 inches long. Scapes but imperfectly developed from the 
imported plants. Flowers 3 to 31 inches across, vertically ; sepals 
elliptic-oblong, wavy, deep chestnut-brown marked and tipped with 
golden yellow ; petals oblong, acute, reflexed at the tips, the basal 
half white, traversed longitudinally by broad, close-set mauve- 
purple lines ; central area chestnut-brown, apical part yellow ; lip 
oval-oblong, three-lobed, the side lobes rotund, turned upwards, 
white, heavily striped with mauve-purple, the anterior lobe sub- 
cordate, white, changing to pale yellow ; crest deeply fimbriate in 
front, golden yellow. Column terete with two minute apical 
toothed wings, white at the base, changing to yellow upwards.” The 
variety represented in our woodcut is distinguished by the great 
breadth of the sepals and petals, especially of the former, the colour-, 
ing being also deeper and richer. 
ORCHIDS IN FLOWER. 
In Mr. A. H. Smee’s garden, The Grange, Hackbridge, the 
following Orchids are now in flower in the different houses, and the 
list will give an idea that they are by no means dull. Angrcecum ses- 
quipedale, Birkeria elegans, B. Lindleyana, Cattleya Dormaniana, 
Coelogyneassamica, C.speciosa, Cymbidium giganteum,Cypripedium 
Harrisianum, C. insigne, C. insigne Chantini, C. insigne Matt lei, C. 
Schlimii album, C. Spicerianum, C. venustum, C. villosum, Den- 
drobium bigibbum, D. heterocarpum, D. Wardianum, Dendro- 
chilum uncatum, Disa graminifolia, Epidendrum xanthinum, 
Lselia autumnalis, L. a. Protheroianum, Lycaste plana Cumminsi, 
Lycaste Skinneri, L. Smeeana, Masdevallia attenuata, M. amabilis, 
M. Chimsera, M, Chimcera Gorgona, M. Davisi, M. Harryana, 
M. Houtteana, M. macrura, M. tovarensis, M. triangularis, Maxil- 
laria nigrescens, M. palmifolia, Odontoglossum Alexandras, 0. Cer- 
vantesi, 0. constrictum, 0. Insleayi splendens, 0. luteo-purpureum. 
0. maculatum, 0. nebulosum candidulum, 0. Pescatorei, 0. pulchel- 
lum majus, 0. Rossi majus, Oncidium cheirophorum, O. crispum, 
O, flexuosum, 0. Forbesi, O. ornithorhychum, 0. Phalseaopsis, 0. 
varicosum, and Pha'aenopsis leucorrhoda. 
One large plant of Oncidium crispum is very remarkable. The 
pseudo-bulbs were made out of doors between July and September, 
and when taken in the flower spikes were about 14 inches in length, 
the two spikes together produced 100 blooms ; unfortunately the 
point of one was broken off or there would have been twenty more 
flowers at least. The Disas are thriving. 
The following Orchids are flowering, now in Messrs. John 
Laing & Sons' Nurseiies, Forest Hill:—Calanthe vestita, C. vestita 
rubro-oculata and rosea, C. Veitchi and the variety superba. 
Cattleya gigas, Coelogyne Turneri, Cypripedium Harrisianum, 
C. insigne and the variety Maulei, C. Spicerianum, Dendrobium 
formosum giganteum, Galeandra Dives, Lycaste Skinneri alba, 
Masdevallia Harryana, M. Lindeni, M. tovarensis, Odontoglossum 
Alexandras, 0. grande, 0. Pescatorei, Oncidium Marsliallianum, 
O. tigrinum, 0. varicosum Rogersi, Phalasnopsis amabilis, P. grandi- 
flora, Pilumna nobili-, Soplironitis grandiflora, and Zygopetalum 
intermedium. 
ONCIDIUM AUR05UM. 
I have three plants of Oncidium aurosum, which I fail to 
flower to my satisfaction. I have heard of it being grown with 
200 flowers on a spike. I have had it now for three years, and have 
never been able to get more than twenty to thirty flowers on a 
spike at the most. Perhaps some of your correspondents will be 
able to enlighten me on the subject as to temperature and the soil 
it requires. Our plants are grown in a temperature of 65 c by day. 
falling to 58° by night, or thereabouts. They are in a mixture of 
peat, sphagnum moss, charcoal, and sand. I may a’so mention that 
the house is an early vinery, and the plants rema’n in it all the year 
round. Would the shade of the Vines have anything to do with 
it ? They make strong growth with stout leathery leaves. I 
manage to flower amongst others Oncidium ornithorhynohum, 
Cymbidium eburneum, Cattleya crispa, and C. Mossne supeiba in 
the same house.—B. P. D., Wakefield. 
A VISIT TO BOLTON HALL. 
Now that the season for Chrysanthemum shows is drawing to an 
end, I have sent you a short account of what I saw of fruit-growing in 
Wensleydale, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Having a little time 
to spare I paid a visit to the above named establishmrnt, the Yorkshire 
seat of Lord Bolton, when I was met by the courteous gardener, Mr. 
Hall, who kindly took me round the grounds. He evidently is an en¬ 
thusiast in fruit-growiDg, and although such a bad season I was agree¬ 
ably surprised to see a very fair crop of fruit, both Pears and Apples. 
Some of the Pears were of a good size and well coloured for the north 
of England— i.e., Pitmaston Duchess, Souvenir du Congres (good colour), 
Doyenne Boussoch, Jersey Gratioli, Beurre Diel (very good), Beurre 
Clairgeau (good colour), Hacon’s Incomparable, and many others. Mr. 
Hall likes to try experiments, for the trees are grown on the wall and 
are very old, the stem being carried along close to the ground and a 
number of verticals taken up from them. I enclose the measure 
of some and number grown on each. No. 1—length 26 feet, height 
II feet, thirty-six vertical rods, ten varieties as follows : Fondante 
d’Automne, Doyenne d’Ete, Marie Louise, Napoleon, Marie Louise 
d’Uccle, Doyenne du Comice, Prince of Wales, Doyenne Boussoch, Citron 
des Carmes, Dr. Trousseau. No. 2 Pear, II feet high, 17 feet long, eight 
varieties—Beurr6 Clairgeau, Passe Crasanne, Beurr6 de Ranee, Beurre 
Diel, Comte de Lamy, Winter Nelis, Marie Benoist and Thompson’s. 
