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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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welcome to the readers of the Journal, although I have carefully 
moted these for future reference, but two or three of the most 
noteworthy may be of interest. One of the most beautiful is a white 
ground with bright yellow spots near the throat, the top lined and 
■tinged with bright lilac, spur canary, distinct clear white marks 
“below the spots near the throat. Another is also white with very faint 
lines and faint spots of yellow near the throat, and is without lilac 
■tinge. This variety was admired by a lady florist as a “ beautiful 
dwarf white Antirrhinum.” Another has the spurs yellow and 
white and the remainder of the flower lilac-purple with deeper lines 
and spots near the throat. The other variations differ more or less 
from any described, and all appear worthy of preservation in the 
trock garden or border of choice dwarf hardy plants. 
The habit of the plant makes it suitable for rock work or for 
■raised stone edgings. It forms a neat tuft of about G inches in 
height, composed of many stems of glaucous, alternate blunt leaves 
bearing terminal clusters of flowers. These bloom in succession, 
and a good plant is in flower for some months at a stretch. It 
appears to prefer a light warm sandy soil well exposed to the sun, 
•and it is doubtful if plants will stand the winter on cold or heavy 
-soils, but a few seedlings might be raised annually or cuttings kept 
£n a cold frame through the winter. On my soil, which is very 
light, strong plants seemed to suffer little, but weak ones succumbed 
to the slugs, which were unusually numerous last winter. In one 
.•garden further inland all the plants succumbed to the winter, 
while in another in the same town the only plant in the garden 
•survived. L. anticaria is easily propagated by seeds, cuttings, or 
•division, and while I would carefully warn all that it is not a showy 
plant, I can as surely recommend it to those who can appreciate 
■quiet unobtrusive beauty in flowers, and who are willing to take 
•some little care of plants which are only of doubtful hardiness.— 
3$. Arnott. 
LiELIA J0N3HIANA. 
This very little known and beautiful species flowered for the 
'first time in this country in 1873, and it is thus described—Rhizome 
very stout, creeping, with remarkably thick root fibres. Pseudo¬ 
bulbs 14 to 23, inches long, approximate, narrow, ovate oblong, 
compressed, green, clothed with a white membranous appressed 
•sheath, that ends in a short point, and is usually split on one side ; 
:a short outer boat-shaped sheath also envelopes the base of the 
pseudo-bulb. Leaf sessile, short, 3 to 5 inches long by 1J to If of an 
■iEch broad, broadly oblong ; tip rounded (rarely acuminate accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Luddemann) or emarginate, very coriaceous indeed, 
deep bright green and shining ; scape stout, much shorter than the 
leaf, one to two flowered. Flowers 4 inches in diameter across the 
•petals, which as well as the sepals and convolute body of the lip, 
■are of a bright amethyst colour. Sepals linear lanceolate, acute. 
Petals larger and broader than the sepals, broadly elliptic, oblong, 
■obtuse. Lip convolute ; lateral lobes very shallow, and, as well as 
•the short emarginate midlobe white, with crisped and waved 
minutely toothed margins ; disk of the body of the lip white, with 
seven parallel, slender, undulate, golden yellow ridges, which are 
not prolonged on to the midlobe ; column slender, not winged. 
It blooms during the spring months. Native of Brazil. 
L2ELIA PR2E3TANS. 
A lovely specie 0 , of dwarf habit, sometimes confounded with L. 
pumila, from which, however, it may be readily distinguished by the 
‘larger flowers, which are wonderfully thick and fleshy. It seldom 
exceeds 6 to 8 inches in height, and thrives best when kept upon a 
block of wood and suspended near the glass. Pseudo-bulbs fusi¬ 
form, 3 to 4 inches high, bearing a single oblong, acute, coriaceous 
•Qark green leaf, which is 4 to 6 inches long. Flowers terminal, 
-solitary, 4 to 5 inches in diameter, very thick in texture. Sepals 
oblong, acuminate, If inch long, by scarcely 1 inch in breadth ; 
petals ovate oblong, obtuse, ending in a point, about 2 inches long 
and 14 inch broad, like the sepals deep rcse, in some varieties 
rosy lilac or light purple, and very thick and fleshy in texture. 
Lip three-lobed, lateral lobes rolled round the column, extremely 
thick and wax-like, the whole margin and front deep rich purple, 
throat yellow, with a few elevated lines on the disc ; the reverse 
side of the labellum is rosy lilac. It usually blooms about the 
months of October and November, but sometimes it will bloom 
in early summer, make a new growth and flower for the second 
time, in the autumn. Native of St. Catherine’s Island, Brazil. 
1857.—G. T. 
HOLMSKIOLDIA SANGUINEA. 
The Holmskioldia represented in the accompanying illustration is 
the only species of the genus yet introduced, and is by no means 
common, although it has been grown in this country for upwards of a 
century. It is an evergreen shrub growing about 3 feet high with deep 
green cordate leaves. The flowers are crowded on the ends of the 
shoots in dense racemes 6 to 8 inches in length, and are bright scarlet. 
Being from the East Indies, II. sanguinea enjoys an abundance of heat 
and moisture, and thrives best if kept in a stove temperature. It is a 
charming plant when well grown. Cuttings strike readily in the propa¬ 
gating pit if put in some light sandy soil. Well drained pots should be 
used, and a bellglass or handlight placed over them. When they are 
rooted they are potted singly in peat and loam of about equal propor¬ 
tions, giving them a shift into larger pots as they require it. They soon 
make good sized plants, and will produce an abundance of bloom 
during the autumn months.—G-. 
THE NATIONAL DAHLIA SHOW. 
September 6th and 7th. 
This vear being the one hundredth anniversary of the introduction 
of the Dahlia into England, an opportunity arose of introducing a fresh 
feature into the annual Show- of the National Dahlia Society at the 
Crystal Palace, and it was taken advantage of in an interesting and 
effective manner by forming a “ centenary class,” fully referred to in 
the report. The Show itself was of much the usual character, and of 
perhaps about the usual merit; but comparisons made from recollec¬ 
tions of former years are not easy. The names of Messrs. Turner, Cheal, 
Keynes, Williams & Co., Humphries, Rawlings, West, Glasscock, and 
Boston are a guarantee for good quality, and these, with many others, 
