February 11, 1886. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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hybridum, C. Danthieri, and C. Warneri are all in flower. In one house 
in the o'd nursery is a group of Coelogynes, principally the Chatsworth 
variety, which has six, seven, and eight flowers in a spike, and the buds in 
opening have a brownish appearance outside, which readily distinguishes 
them from other forms. Amongst some Oneidiums in flower was 
0. Phabenopsis, and a note on this must conclude the remarks on the 
Orchid collection. It is a charming species far too seldom seen ; the 
flowers are white with bright purplish crimson blotches on the sepals and 
petals and at the lower portion of the lip. 
The fine-foliage plants certificated were Alocasia Sanderiana, a bold 
green, with bands of white from base to apex, a very distinct and striking 
plant. 
The general collection of foliage plants is remarkably rich in Cycads, 
some extremely handsome specimens of all sizes being grown in the large 
conservatory. Ferns also are numerous; Palms, Dracaenas, Crotons, 
Bromeliada, and Aroids of various kinds, such as Dieffenbachias, Alo- 
casias, and Anthuriums occupy several houses. 
The flowering plants comprised Eucharis Mastersi, a species with 
smaller flowers than E. grandiflora, but pure white and without the 
corona that some consider a disfigurement in the latter. Hremanthus 
Fig. 19.—Aris.ema fimbriatum. 
handsome plant, of an intensely dark green with strongly marked silvery 
veins. Bentinckia condapanna, a*pinnate-leaved Palm, of elegant habit, 
the ribs yellow. Caladium Comtesse de Maille, one of the semi-trans¬ 
parent varieties veined with red and margined with green. Euterpe 
plumosa is a graceful, pinnate-leaved Palm, having as the name implies a 
feathery appearance, and Oreodoxa plumosa, another Palm, is similarly 
elegant in habit. Sarracenia Atkinsoniana, one of the S. flava maxima 
type, but really a hybrid between that and S. purpurea. The pitchers are 
tall and green with a broad lid and red veins. Vriesia janeirensis variegata 
is a Bromeliad with leaves 18 inches long and 3 : nc -s broad, brijht 
Kalbreyeri maximum, a variety with large globular heads of brilliant 
scarlet flowers. Aristolochia elegans, a curious species of Birthwort with 
saucer-like flowers 3 inches in diameter, white marbled with crimson 
purple ; and Azalea Illuminator, one of the amoena type with rosy purple 
flowers of good size. An Azalea now flowering in the nursery is very 
attractive, and though not a novelty it is by no means common ; this is 
A. balsamiflora, which has reddish salmon-coloured double flowers of ex¬ 
cellent form, very neat and well adapted for cutting. Some fancy winter¬ 
flowering Carnations are also bright and pleasing, three new varieties 
being especially notable—namely, J. Veret, crimson streaked on a light 
