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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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than all other districts in England put together ; at least, the salesmen 
says eo. It would gladden the eyes of many a gardener, and take the 
“conceit” out of some, to see the miles of vineries, Tomatoes, and 
Cucumber houses, and managed by me^i who started life differently from 
a gardener’s. Certainly, the Worthing growers are blessed with a climate 
second to none in Britain, and an idea of it may be gained when I say 
that in the open Fig trees grow to the^ize of standard Apple trees and 
bear abundantly. Cucumbers are not grown at Worthing on the non¬ 
ventilating system, as, upon inquiry of the largest growers, I was informed 
that the plants become worn out too soon, but by giving air judiciously 
and only when it was needed according to the outside temperature, that 
the plants continued in health and free hearing much longer. That, I 
hold, is the best system for private gardeners to(adopt, as we wantja steady 
supply.—A. Young. 
COMMITTEES OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY FOR 1887. 
The following are the names of the members of the three Committees 
of the above Society nominated for the ensuing year. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, 1887. 
CHAIRMAN. 
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, K.C.S.I., M.D., C.B., F.R.S., V.P.L.S., The Camp, Sunmngclale. 
VICE-CHAIRMEN, 
Godman, F. Du Cane, F.R.S., 10, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square. 
Masters, Maxwell T., M.D., F.R.S., Mount Avenue, Ealing, W. 
Berkeley, Rev. M. J., F.R.S., Sibbertoft, Market Harborough. 
GIANT ORCHIDS. 
Orchids vary greatly in size, but though there are many of minute 
dimensions there are comparatively few that exceed 10 feet in height. 
The Vandas and Vanillas are the best known of the taller-growing 
Orchids, but the Genus Galeola (no member of which is in cultivation) 
contains the giants of the family. G. altissima is found in Java, and has 
been described as attaining the height or length of 120 feet. Another 
species named Galeola L e dg er ‘ is a native of Australia, and though 
smaller than the first mentioned yet its stems reach a remarkable length. 
A coloured illustration of this plant was given recently in Fitzgerald’s 
“ Australian Orchids,” where it was described as the largest known Orchid 
in Australia, “ found only in dense scrubs on the east coast, and not 
farther south than the Macleay River, on the banks of which, and on 
those of the Bellinger, I observed it clinging on the Rosewood (Dysoxylon 
Fraserianum) and other trees peculiar to the tropical forests. It attains 
a height of 30 feet, and one spike of flowers measured 6 feet in length 
and 3 in breadth. This Orchid adheres to the tree (from the base of 
SECRETARY. 
Rev. Prof. G. Henslow, M.A., F.L.! 
Benuett, Alfred W., M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S., 6, 
Park Village East. W. 
Boulger, G. S., 9, Norfolk Terrace, Bays- 
water, IV. 
Bnrbidge, F. W., F.L.S., Trinity College 
Gardens, Dublin. 
Church, A. H.,F.C.S.,Royston House,Kew. 
Dod, Rev. C. Wolley, Edge Hall, Malpas, 
Cheshire. 
Ellacombe, Rev. Canon, Bilton. 
Fream, Professor William, Coll, of Agr. 
Downton, Salisbury. 
Gardiner, Professor Walter, Clare College, 
Cambridge. 
Glaisher, James, Dartmouth Place, Black- 
heath. 
Houston, D., F.L.S., 179, Mayall Road, 
Herne Hill, SJS. 
Lowe, Dr. Wm. Hy., Woodcote, Inner Park 
Road, Wimbledon. 
Llewelyn, J. T. D., F.L.S., Penilergare, 
Swansea. 
Lynch R. Irwin, AL.S., Botanic Gardens, 
Cambridge. 
>.,F.G.S., Drayton House, Ealing. 
Maw, Geo., F.L.S., Benthall, Kenley, Surrey 
MoLachlan, R., F.R.S., Westview, Claren¬ 
don Road, Lewisham. 
Michael, Albert D., F.L.S., Cadogan Man¬ 
sions, Sloane Square, S.W. 
Morris, D, F.L.S., Assistant Director, Royal 
Gardens, Kew. 
Murray, G., F.L.S., Natural History 
Museum, South Kensington, S.W. 
O’Brien, James, Harrow-on-the-Hill. 
Pascoe, F. P., F.L.S., 1, Burlington Road, 
Westbourne Park, W. 
Plowright, C., F.L.S., 7, King Street, King’s 
Lynn, 
Ridley, Henry N., B.A., F.L.S., Natural 
History Museum, South Kensington, W. 
Smee, A. H., The Grange, Wallington, 
Surrey. 
Smith, Worthington G.,F.L.S.,High Street, 
Dunstable. 
Ward, Professor Marshall, The Laurels, 
Englefleld Green, Staines. 
Wilson, A. Stephen, North Kinmundy, 
Summerhill, Aberdeen. 
FRUIT COMMITTEE. 
CHAIRMAN. 
Hogg, Robert, LL.D., F.L.S. 99, St. George’s Road, S.W. 
VICE-CHAIRMEN. 
Lane, John E., Berlthampstead. 
Rivers, T. F., Sawbridgeworth. 
Sutton, Arthur W., Reading. 
SECRETARY. 
Archibald F. Barron, Roval Horticultural Society, Chiswick, W. 
Barr, Peter,12, King Street, Covent Garden 
Blackmore, R. D.,Teddington. 
Bunyard, George, The Old Nurseries, 
Maidstone. 
Burnett, J., The Gardens, Deepdene, Dork¬ 
ing. 
Crowley, Philip, IVaddon House, Croydon. 
Denning, IV.,The Gardens, Londesborough 
Lodge, Norbiton, Surrey. 
Fitt, Joseph. Cashiobnry Park Gardens, 
Watford. 
Ford, Sidney, The Gardens, Leonardslee, 
Horsham. 
Goldsmith, G., The Gardens, Fioore 
House, IVeedon. 
Haywood, T. B., Woodhatch Lodge, Reigate. 
Lee. John, 78, Warwick Gardens, IV. 
Miles, George T., The Gardens, Wycombe 
Abbey, High Wycombe. 
Myers, Jonathan, The Grove, Watford. 
Norman, G., Hatfield Honse Gardens, Hat¬ 
field. 
Paul, William, Waltham Cross, N. 
Pearson, Alfred H., The Nurseries, Chil- 
well, Notts. 
Roberts, J., The Gardens, Gunnersbnry 
Park, Acton. 
Ross, Chas., The Gardens, IVelford Park, 
Newbury. 
Rutland, F., The Gardens, Goodwood, 
Chichester. 
Saltmarsh, T. J., The Nurseries, Chelms¬ 
ford. 
Smith, James, The Gardens, Mentmore, 
Leighton Buzzard. 
Veitch, H. J., F.L.S., Royal Exotic Nursery, 
Chelsea, S.W. 
Warren, IV., Worton Gardens, Isleworth. 
Weir, Harrison, Hinwick, Lansdowne 
Road, Tunbridge Wells. 
Willard, Jesse, Holly Lodge Gardens, High- 
gate, N. 
Woodbridge, John, The Gardens, Syon 
House, Brentford. 
which it grows) by attaching hand-like roots which grow from the nodes 
and opposite to the spikes and spikelets, which form the large dependent 
Fig. 1.—'J; pr pcd utn csllosu ■. 
FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
CHAIRMAN. 
Geo. F. Wilson, F.R.S., Heatlierbank, Weybridge Heath. 
VICE-CHAIRMEN. 
Hibberd, J. Shirley, 1, Priory Road, Tte Green, Kew. 
Wilks, Rev. W„ Shirley Vicarage, Croydon. 
Lendy, Major, F.G.S., FX.S., Suubury-on-Thames. 
SECRETARY. 
Archibald F. Barron, Royal Horticultural Society, Chiswick, IV. 
Baines, Thomas, Fern Cottage, Palmers 
Green, N. 
Ballantine, H., The Dell Gardens, Eg- 
ham. 
Bennett, H., Shepperton, IVaiton-on- 
Thames. 
Bradshaw, A. Waddesden Manor Gardens, 
Aylesbury. 
Dean, R., Ranelagh Road, Ealing. 
Dominy, John, 11 , Tadema Road, Chelsea, 
S.W. 
Douglas, J., The Gardens, Great Gearies, 
Ilford, E. 
Duffieid, G., The Gardens, Bramford Lodge, 
Winchmore Hill, N. 
Fraser, John, Lea Bridge Road, Leyton- 
stone. 
Goidring, Wm., 52, Gloucester Road, Kc' 
Herbst, H., Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey 
Hill, E., The Gardens, Tring Park, Tring. 
Holmes, W., Frampton Park Nurseru 
Hackney, 
Hudson, James, The Gardens, Gnnners- 
bury House, Acton. 
Lowe, Dr. W. H., Woodcote, Inner Park 
Road, Wimbledon. 
Masters, Maxwell T., M.D., F.R.S., Mount 
Avenue, Ealing. 
Maw, George, F.L.S., Benthall, Kenley, 
Surrey. 
Noble, C., Snnningdale Nursery. Bagshot. 
O’Brien, James, West Street, Harroiv-on- 
the-Hil). 
Paul, George, “ Old ” Nurseries,3 Ches- 
hunt, N. 
Perry, Amos Isaac, Stamford Road, Page 
Green, Tottenham. 
Pilcher, Charles, 84, Ringford Road, West 
Hill, Wandsworth. 
Pollett, H. M., Fernside, Bickiey. Kent. 
Turner, Harry, Royal Nursery, Slough. 
Walker, J„ Whitton, Middlesex. 
Wynne, Brian, 17, Catherine Street, 
Strand, W.C, 
panicles of waxy yellowish flowers. Though originally named foliata 
it has no true leaves, but only leaf-l'ke bracts at the nodes, 
and for thia reason and in honour of Mr. Ledger (who first 
introduced the Llama into Australia), Baron F. Von Mueller requested 
me to change the name he had originally given to that of Ledgeri, his 
genus Ledgeria being reduced to a sjnooym, but the Baron has since in¬ 
cluded the species in his census under the original name of foliata.” It is 
rather curious that specimens of this Orchid were found by Mr. Fawcett 
at Richmond River at the same time as he found the smallest Australian 
Orchid, Bolbophyilum minutissimum, of which a number of full-sized 
plants can be placed in the space of an inch, an extraordinary contrast 
with the Galeola. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CALLOSUM. 
This Cypripedium is a recent introduction from Cochin Ch'na, and 
has within the past month flowered in several collect! ns. Mr. \V. Bull 
exhibited the first plant at South Kensington on Decern 1 er 7ih 1S8G, 
when a first-class certificate was awarded for it, but if the arcing had 
been a day or two later F. G. Tautz, Esq., Studlev Hi me, G ldhawk 
Road, Hammersmith, would have had an opj oitnnity of sharing the 
honours, as a fine flower expanded in his collection from which the illus¬ 
tration (fig. 1) was prepared. 0. callosum resembles the well-known 
handsome C, Lawrencianum in general appearance ; the dorsal sepal is 
