December 27. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
I GO 
Twenty Orchidaceous Plants requiring Moderate Heat, 
and Otherwise easily" Managed. 
1. Arineta Biirkeri (Mr. Barker’s Acineta) Mexico ; yellow flowers, 
requires to be hung up in a basket. Price 21s. fora strong plant. 
2. Barkeria Skinneri (Mr. Skinner’s Barkeria) Guatemala; rosy 
purple. Sec last week’s number for the culture of this pretty 
species. Price 15s. small specimen ; 42s. strong. 
3. ,, spectabilis (Showy B.) Guatemala; a beautiful species; 
requires hanging up in an airy part of the stove on a log. Very 
hardy. Price, 21s. small; 42s. strong. 
4. Bletia Shepherdia (Mr. Shepherd’s B.) Jamaica. This is a ter¬ 
restrial species, requiring rest in winter. Grows best in a com¬ 
post of loam, peat, and leaf-mould. Dark purple, very hand¬ 
some. 10s. (id. 
5. Calanthe veratrifolia (Veratrum-leaved C.), pure white flowers, 
produced on a long spike, lasting a long time ; a terrestrial spe¬ 
cies, requiring the same treatment as Bletia, excepting having a 
little water given to it even in winter. Price 10s. (id. 
0. Cattleya crispa (curled-flowered Cattleya). Rio Janeiro; sepals 
and petals white, labellum or lip with a splendid purple spot; 
pot culture. 10s. (id. small; strong, 21s. 
7- ,, Mossise (Mrs. Moss’s Cattleya). La Guayra ; rose petals 
and sepals; labellum or lip yellowish, stripes upon a rose ground; 
a superb species; pot culture. There are several varieties. 
Price 21s. 
8. Cattleya Skinneri (Mr. Skinner’s 'Cattleya). Guatemala; rosy 
purple; best on a log close to the glass. Price 21s. 
9. Cypnpedium insigne (Noble Lady’s slipper). Nepal; sepals and 
petals yellowish green, the upper petal deeply tipped with white, 
labellum orange, the outside of a rich brown; pot culture, in 
turfy sandy peat and loam. Price 7s. 6d. 
10. ,, venustum (Beautiful Lady’s slipper), Nepal; hand¬ 
some variegated flowers, and prettily mottled leaves ; pot cul¬ 
ture. Price 7s. 6d. 
11. llendrobium chrysanthum (Golden Dendrobium), Nepal. Basket 
culture. Price 15s. 
12. ,, nobile (Noble D.), China; sepal and petals flesh- 
coloured, tipped with rose, labellum yellowish with a dark pur¬ 
ple spot; a truly handsome species ; pot culture, easy to grow. 
Price, small 10s. Gd.; strong, 21s. 
13. ,, pulchellum (Pretty V.), Sylhet; small branching 
species, basket culture ; sepals white, petal marked with a rose- 
coloured spot; labellum fringed and spotted with a large blotch 
of rose. Price 7s. Gd. 
14. Epidendrum macrocliilum roseum (large-lipped, rose-coloured 
Epidendrum), Guatemala; log culture; a beautiful variety. 
Price, 31s. Gd. 
15. ,, vitellinum (Yolk-coloured E.), Mexico. The whole 
flower is of a rich golden scarlet; log culture; cool treatment. 
This is a truly splendid species, but rather scarce. Price 42s. 
16 . Loelia autumnalis (autumn flowering, L.), Mexico; equal in 
beauty to any orchid in cultivation; sepal and petals blush- 
deepening to rose, labellum white, tipped with rose ; log cul¬ 
ture. 
17- Lycaste Skinneri (Mr. Skinner’s Lycaste), Guatemala. The 
colours of this splendid species are so rich and varied, that it is 
almost impossible to describe them ; the sepals are pure white, 
tinged with crimson at the base, the petals have more rose 
colour in them, lip covered with spots and stripes of the most 
brilliant scarlet or carmine; pot culture easy; requiring a cool 
treatment; well worth having. Price, small, 21s.; strong 
flowering plants, 42s. 
18. Odontoglossum grande (magnilicent tooth-tongue flower), Gua¬ 
temala—well named. It is the butterfly flower trebly magni¬ 
fied. The flower is from five to seven inches across ; sepals and 
petals yellow ground, barred with purplish brown like the back 
of a tiger, labellum delicate French white ground blotched with 
dark pink spots. The flowers are produced on long footstalks, 
sometimes as many as eight on one stem, and lasting a long 
time in flower. This is an accommodating plant, it will grow 
in a pot, in a basket, or on a log. Price, small, 15s.; strong, 25s. 
19 - Oncidiuin erispum (curled oncidium), organ mountains; large 
flower, rich brown, barred with brownish yellow ; a handsome 
species ; block culture. Price, 21s. small; 42s. strong. 
20. Oncidium papllio (butterfly O.), Trinidad. The flower has a 
great resemblance to some gigantic butterfly ; the flower stems 
rise to the height of two feet, and the flower sits upon them so 
like, the insect that an ignorant person might be excused for 
mistaking them for a real butterfly ; colour, rich brown, barred 
with yellow. Price, for strong plants, 21s. 
Being confined to 20, we have necessarily omitted 
many splendied species. All the fine family of Stan- 
hoped require more heat than a stove. Also the fine 
families of JErides, Vanda, Saccolabium, and, in fact, 
all the Indian species that grow in the hot jungles of 
that country. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
We beg to refer our readers to our instructions in 
the last two or three numbers. These months may 
he denominated protective, as the great art of the 
fiorist is now to protect his plants, whether in frames 
or in beds, from this adverse season. As we have 
frequently stated, the great object is to preserve 
these favourites from damp, insects, and over excite¬ 
ment, we had prepared a few remarks upon shading, 
when such plants as auricula, polyanthus, carnation, 
&c., had been accidentally frozen; but our good friend, 
Mr. Fish, has anticipated us, and we cordially agree 
with all his excellent remarks on the subject. 
T. Atpleby. 
THE KITCHEN-GARJDEN. 
Routine Work.— At this season all cauliflowers 
young carrots, beans, and^cas, that are above ground, 
as well as lettuce plants, late endive, young radishes, 
&c., should be kept tolerably dry, and also clear from 
decayed leaves. Abundance of air should be given 
on all favourable occasions, to keep them in a healthy 
and vigorous state, and dry dust should be occasion¬ 
ally applied, not only for the same purpose, but also 
on account of its beneficial influence in frosty wea¬ 
ther, when such crops are under temporary shelter 
only. Radishes sown in frames, as soon as they are 
all fairly up, should be nicely thinned out with the 
hand, and have a little dry earth afterwards sifted 
amongst them. Young carrots, too, sown in frames, 
should be treated in the same way. 
Onions, potatoes , carrots, and all other varieties of 
root vegetables that may he thickly stored away, 
should be examined, and those shewing even the 
slightest symptoms of decay should be picked out for 
immediate use. The autumn-sown onions would he 
better secured against the influence of a severe frost 
by a dredging of charred dust, or dry dust of any 
kind. 
Successions of endive should he secured, when dry, 
for blanching, and that which may be growing in 
different borders and quarters should be secured by 
taking up each plant with a hall of earth attached, 
and placing them all in pots or frames, or on sloping 
dry hanks under hurdles, or, indeed, putting it in any 
place where it can he easily protected in frosty 
weather. 
The Bath Cos, Hardy Hammersmith, and other 
varieties of lettuce that are now of a tolerable size, 
may be stowed to advantage in the same way, when 
required for use throughout the year. 
Peas and Beans may be sown in succession, and 
a dry border selected for sowing the early short-topped 
radishes, and the early Horn carrots, in alternate 
drills of six inches apart, protecting them with 
thatched, slightly-made frames or hurdles, or mulched 
with litter. The blanching of cardoons and celery 
should be attended to on dry afternoons, and garden¬ 
ers must he careful to have some kind of protective 
material in readiness for frosty weather. Ferns, 
mulch, leaves, pea or bean haum, or evergreen 
boughs, are all, as has been before stated, useful for 
this purpose. 
Continue to sow small salading, according to the 
supply that may be required. 
Radishes may also be sown in the open warm 
borders, to be protected in various ways ; hut the best 
way at this season is to make up snug little slight 
hotbeds for such purposes, and if a good frame can¬ 
not be spared, four boards may be nailed together, of 
any depth from six inches to a foot, to receive a 
light—an old window-sash, canvas, or thatched hur¬ 
dle will serve for the purpose, though of course there 
is nothing so good as glass of any kind. Let the 
materials be well worked up and turned over three 
or four times previous to making up the beds, which 
beds should he, when finished, at least a foot higher 
at the back than in the front. Let the soil on the 
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