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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ March 32, 1«8B. 
0. splendidum is not one of the easiest Orchids to grow, but 
several orchidists have proved that it can be had in very satisfactory 
condition. It requires the temperature of a Cattleya house, and 
should be placed on the sunny side, as the growths must be ■well 
ripened. 
A single flower is represented natural size in fig. 28. 
SELECT ORCHIDS FOR AMATEURS. 
( Continued from page 218.') 
CY.MBiDii.Uf.—Evergreen strong-growing plants with long 
narrow dark green leaves and pseudo-bulbs. Flowers large, white, 
and handsome in few-flowered erect scapes (eburneum), or various 
tints of yellowish brown and red in long curving or drooping 
racemes (Lowianum). India, China, or Australia. Intermediate 
house. Pots, peat and loam. Chiefly winter or spring flowering.— 
eburneum, Lmoianum, Mastersi. 
CYPKiPEDniM.—All these popular Orchids are distinguished by 
their flowers possessing prominent slipper-like lips and a bold upper 
(dorsal) sepal. They can be classed in two groups. 1, Evergreen, 
epiphytal plants with dwarf stems without pseudo-bulbs. Leaves 
narrow, green, or beautifully marbled. Flowers usually singly or 
few-flowered scapes, white, yellowish, rose, crimson, variously 
streaked or spotted with green, crimson, maroon, brown, or purple. 
Native of the tropics in Asia and America, the group of species 
referred by some to the genus Selenipedium being confined to 
America. Warm house. Pots, peat and sphagnum. Flowering at 
all seasons, some like C. insigne being very useful for winter. 2, 
Deciduous terrestrial plants with tuberous roots, hardy or half-hardy, 
natives of temperate regions in America, Asia, and Europe. Pots, 
loam and leaf soil. Cool house, or damp position at the base of 
rockeries out of doors. Tropical epiphytes (warm house).— Argus, 
harhatuin, Boxalli, conrolor, Dautliieri, Harrisiamun, hirsutissimum, 
insigne, insigne Maulei, laevigatum (Philippinense), Lowrencianum, 
Leeanum, Lowi, n'veum, Spicerianum, Stonei, villosum. Selenipedium 
group.— caricinum (Pearcei), caudatum, BoezU, Schlimi, Sedeiii, and 
several beautiful hybrids of great value, such as calurum, cardinale, 
grande, and Schroederte. Temperate terrestrial species (cool house 
or frame), guttatum, Irapeanum, japonicum, macranthum, spec- 
tahile. Rockerj-, Calceolus, pubescens, and spectabile. 
De.vdrobium.—N umerous beautiful plants are included in this 
genus, having either long cylindrical stem-like pseudo-bulbs, with 
short leaves and racemes of flowers from the nodes or apex, or 
spindle-shaped pseudo-bulbs frith larger leaves and long racemes 
from the apex. Flowers showy, often fragrant, yellow of various 
shades, white, tipped or blotched with crimson and maroon or rosy 
crimson, the lip frequently differently coloured from the sepa's and 
petals. Chiefly natives of India, with a few in Australia and Japan. 
Pots, shallow pans, or baskets, according to the strength of the 
plants ; peat for the former and peat with sphagnum for the latter. 
Nearly all require a 'warm house in which to make their growth 
after their flowers have faded, and a period of rest in a cooler house. 
A few can be constantly grown in a cool house, the Australian 
species, bigibbum and superbiens, succeeding in an ordinary plant 
stove near the glass and exposed to the sun. Winter and spring 
flowering :— Auisworthr, chrysotoxum, heterocarpum (aureum), 
luteolum, nobile, Wardianum. Spring and summer flowering :— 
aggregntum, Bensonice, bigibbum, Brymerianum, cUrysanthum, 
crassinode, Deari (white), densiflorum, Devonianum, Falconeri, 
fimbriatum oculatum, formosumgiganteum, infundifulum (cooH, 
Jamesianum (cool), lituiflorum, Pierardi majus, primulinum 
giganteum, thyrsiflorum, tortile, 
Dendrochili'.m (Platyclinis).^—Evergreen plants of elegant 
dwarf habit, with narrow grass-like leaves and small ovoid pseudo¬ 
bulbs. Flow'ers very small, of a yellowish tiiit, in long drooping 
racemes, and delightfully fragrant. Philippine Is’ands. Pots ; 
peat and sphagnum. Intermediate house.— filiforme (flowers June 
to August) : glumaceum (flowers February to April). 
Dis.f.—Terrestrial Orchids, with slender leafy stems bearing 
several large handsome scarlet flowers at the apex. South Africa. 
Pans ; rieat and sphagnum ; abundance of water during growth 
and shade. Cool house. Summer.— grandiflora. 
Ei’Idendru.m.—F our hundred very diverse species are included 
in this genus, but many are of little horticultural value. Pseudo¬ 
bulbs ovoid or spindle-shaped, or tall leafy stems terminating in 
racemes or panicles of durable flowers. The following are useful.— 
bicornutum (Diacrium) ; flowers white, dotted purple. April and 
May. Trinidad. Pots; pe.at. Warm house, nemorale majus; 
flowers pale rose with darker markings ; handsome. Mexico. 
Pots. Intermediate house, paniculatum; flowers delicate mauve 
jiink, fragrant. April. Peru. Pots. Cool house, vitellinum 
maj'is; flowers orange scarlet; very strong and useful. Pots. 
Summer and autumn. 
G.aLE.YNDRA.—Deciduous; stems tall, slender, cylindrical and 
leafy, the young growths terminating in racemes of flowers with 
large funnel-shaped lips. Tropical America. Pots. Warm house. 
— Devoniana; sepals and petals dark purple, lip white streaked 
purple. 
Goodyera.— Plants with pretty foliage, similar in habit to, but 
less delicate than the Anoectochilus. Found in Europe, Asia, and 
America. Warm or cool house. Pans ; peat and sand .—discolor 
(Hajmaria) ; macrantha (cool) ; pubescens (cool). 
Gram.matopiiyllum. — Epiphytal Orchids of strong habit. 
Pots. Warm house.— Ellisi. Long quadrangular pseudo-bulbs ;; 
broad leaves ; flowers in racemes from base, yellow streaked red. 
July and August. Madagascar. 
Houlletia.— Epiphytal plants, with ovoid, ribbed, and furrowed 
pseudo-bulbs ; broad leaves, and erect racemes from the base of 
curiously coloured flowers. Brazil, New Grenada, and Colombia. 
Pots. Cool house, odoratissima; flowers of a strange purplish 
tint with a fragrance resembling Violets. 
loNOPSis.—An epiphyte of delicate habit, small stem, with 
narrow leaves, and panicles of pale mauve flowers at different 
times of the year. A charming little plant. Tropical America.. 
Block ; sphagnum. Cool house.— paniculaia. 
(To be oontinuef). 
ORCHIDS AT STREATHAM. 
The collection of Orchids possessed by R. H. Measures, Esq., The 
Woodlands, Streatham, has become widely celebrated for the rare and 
valuable plants it contains, as well as for the cultural skill displayed in 
their management. Combining an enthusiastic admiration of his 
favourites with an accurate knowledge of their characters and require¬ 
ments, Mr. Measures has not been contented with merely acquiring so 
many hundreds or thousands of plants, but he has been careful to 
secure the most beautiful species, varieties, or hybrids in the principal 
genera, and to grow these in the best possible way. Selection, in fact, 
has been the rule rather than collection, and the result is that in the 
value and health of the plants this interesting suburban garden rivals 
some of the best establishments in England. 
THE HOUSES. 
The garden is of moderate size, but the most is made of the space at 
command, the portion near the house being chiefly occupied with the 
lawn, and the lower division, which is well open to the south and nearly 
quadrangular in form, is devoted to vegetables and fruit. On three 
sides—namely, on the north, east, and south, this space is bounded by the 
ranges of glass houses, the majority being span-roofed and running east 
and west. There are about forty houses altogether, but thirty fine 
structures are filled with Orchids, and much consideration has been 
given to these houses with a view to adapting them to the requirements 
of their occupants. In the first place they are very substantially built, 
yet light and spaeious, the sides being in most cases glazed down to the 
shelves. In the wider houses there is either a central stage or a space 
with ornamental supports for large specimens like the Cymbidiums. 
which are represented by some wonderfully fine plants. There are also 
side shelves in all cases, and frequently bordered with Pilea muscosa, 
which thrives everywhere like a weed and has a very pleasing appear¬ 
ance. Upon the shelves a finely sifted shingle is used throughout ia 
preference to any other material, though several kinds have been tried. 
This is found to retain sufficient moisture, it is much cleaner than most 
materials, affords little refuge for insect pests, and has a brighter apr 
pearance than anything else. Most of the side stages are double— 
that is, shinple is placed upon cement slabs supported by cross bars of 
T. iron, and the plants are arranged on open trellises a few inches 
above this. Ventilation is an important matter, and this is provided 
by means of a lantern-like ridge in several of the newer structures, to 
arranged the current of air admitted can be. regulated to a nicety and 
is first directed upwards ; beneath the stages there is also liberal pro¬ 
vision in this respect, apertures in the walls being covered with per¬ 
forated zinc, and closed by small shutters or glazed fames hinged on to 
iron rods in the centre, so that they can be readily opened or closed^ 
Near the doors upon the side they open, the plants are protected from 
draughts by small glass partitions secured to the shelves and end of 
the house, a simple method of preventing much injury to delicate plants, 
in severe weather. The supply of water has received careful attention, 
as the value of rain water is fully recognised ; between eighty and ninety 
zinc tanks have consequently been provided to catch the rainfall on all 
the glass, and sufficient is stored in this way to provide for at least 
three rainless months. More attention to this matter would be advan¬ 
tageous in many e.stablishments. The heating throughout is conducted 
in the same business-like manner, liberal supplies of piping being 
allowed in preference to smaller quantities to be highly heated, and 
they are coloured with a reddish composition of a special character, 
which is said to be preferable to anything else for the same purpose. 
The occupants of the houses are very diversified, and comprise 
rep-csentatives of most of the best Orchids in cultivation, but specialties 
have been made of some genera or even species, and to them alone can 
these few notes be devoted, but at another time further details will be 
given respecting the general collection. 
