August 21.] 
THE COTTAGE GAliDENEJR. 
cam pyls are gay stove or greenhouse plants, prized by 
cultivators for the ease with which they are increased 
seen stated somewhere. Two other species of this 
genus, bractescens and Icevis, have been introduced from 
and grown, and the little room they occupy in winter 
when at rest. Flowering, as they chiefly do, on the soft 
shoots made the same season, like the old garden 
Lobelias, they may, like them, he well cut down before 
the winter, and stored away where many good things 
could not be trusted. 
"With botanists these plants are considered as anomalous, 
for they partake of the structure of Bcll-worls in the hairs 
which clothe the stigma, as do the collectors, or brusli-like 
style of Bell-worts; and they also participate in more than 
one of the commonest forms met with among Composites, 
as, for instance, their Syngenesious anthers, and the split 
divisions of the dowers, so much like a ligulate doret in the 
Composite order. The genus was named by Pohl, a German 
botanist and botanical traveller, long before any of the 
species were subjected to cultivation. In the system of 
Linnaeus the Siphocampyls are stationed in the first order 
of the filth class, Pentandria Monogynia. The name, taken 
| from siphon, a tube, and kampylos , a curve, alludes to the 
I curved form of the tubed dower. 
| _ Siphocampylus microstoma was discovered by Mr. Purdie, 
in New Grenada ; and its large scarlet flowers are, perhaps, 
I superior to any other in size and richness. Stem, smooth, 
inclining to climb ; leaves, pointed egg-shaped, with glanded 
teeth on the edges; flowers, with top-shaped calyx, corolla 
j downy, rather contracted at the mouth, and unequally lobed; 
j lower two anthers bristly. 
The Spotted Golden Chysis (Chysis aurea, var. 
I maculata).—Botanical Magazine, t. 4576.—This is a 
; beautiful variation of the type species on which the 
genus Chysis was founded by Dr. Lindley, and is from 
Colombia, the same country where the first form of the 
species was discovered—not Columbia, as we have 
Mexico. Cliysis aurea, of which this is only a variety, 
has the flowers of a golden yellow, as the specific name 
imports; and maculata, the subject before us, differs 
from aurea in having the middle part of the labellum, 
or lip, white, with distinct purple blotches, or large 
spots, while the rest of the lip is of the same hue as 
that of the species—clear yellow. The upper part of 
the sepals and petals are also blotched with orange- 
brown spots; lienee the distinguishing name maculata, 
or spotted. 
These two forms of Chysis partake also of the same habit, 
they hang down from the branches of trees, suspended in 
the air by their long fleshy roots, and the long pseudo-bulbs 
wave about with the wind. The flowers of maculata are 
deliciously fragrant, and continue a long time, in the dull 
winter months, if the plant is kept from being excited by too 
much heat and moisture—the two principal agents in the 
cultivation of this tribe. Altogether this may be taken as a 
rich addition, and a new one, too, to the most select collec¬ 
tion, or by the most fastidious in the choice of orchids ; and 
the natural habit, as above noticed, will readily suggest the 
appropriate mode of cultivation, namely, to be suspended on 
blocks of wood, like Aericles or Vandas. It was introduced 
in 1850, by Messrs. Lucomb, Pince, and Co., of Exeter, and 
flowered with them last winter. In the natural arrangement 
of the genera in this order, Chysis is placed between Bar¬ 
ker'/a and Cattleya, in the Lwlia section of the Epidendrums, 
and all orchids are Gynandrous, and in the twentieth class 
of the Linnscan system. The meaning of the word Chysis 
is melting, and alludes to the fusion-like form of the pollen 
masses. B. J. 
THE FRUIT-GARDEN. 
Stopping Fruit-trees. —There has been some con¬ 
tention of late years about the propriety of stopping, as 
it is termed, the young shoots of our more tender fruits, * 
but it is easy to perceive that the practice annually i 
gains ground. Indeed, when wo come to consider the ' 
