THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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habit, hence wo recommend them to be grown in baskets. 
Fill these with fibrous, rough pieces ot peat, and place 
the plant in the centre. When growing keep it well 
supplied with water. The Mexican house is its proper 
habitation. It is a free grower, flowering in June. 
31s fid. 
Saccolabium Bluniei (Dr. Blume's Bag-lip flower). 
Java. This is a most beautiful species. A casual ob¬ 
server would take it for S. guttatwn, to which fine 
species it is nearly allied. The racemes are more pen¬ 
dulous, and thicker; the individual flowers are a little 
larger, and the spots more confined ; ground colour pure 
white. The sepals and petals have a bright streak of 
violet below the apex; the labellum or lip is blotched 
with the same colour, but the tip is white. This is a 
scarce and expensive plant. 168s. 
S. denticulatum (Toothed Bag-lip flower).—-India. 
Though not so handsome as the last, this species has 
much to recommend it. The flowers are produced on 
short footstalks, and are arranged in corymbs ; each 
corymb having five or seven flowers upon it. Sepals 
and petals greenish yellow, spotted all over with red. 
The lip is large, with a yellow pouch expanding into an 
open white margin. We have a plant in a basket with 
more than twenty corymbs of flowers in bloom at once. 
In that state it is really a pretty object. 42s. 
S. guttatum (Spotted Bag-lip flower).—East Indies. 
A truly elegant species, which no collection, however 
small, ought to he without. The flowers are produced 
on long drooping racemes, often eighteen inches long. 
We have seen a plant in the collection of orchids be¬ 
longing to J. Blandy, Esq., of Beading, with twenty-five 
of these elegant racenres of flowers upon it. This is 
probably the largest plant in cultivation. It is supposed 
to be one of the first of the kind introduced into Great 
Britain. Tho ground colour of each flower is pure 
white; the sepals and petals are dotted all over with 
dark rose colour. The labellum has a blotch ot purple in 
addition to the spots. 105s. 
S. pmmorsum (Bitten-off Bag-lip flower).—East 
Indies. Also a very fine species with long pendant 
racemes of flowers. The sepals and petals are white, 
stained with a delicate rosy lilac ; the lip is more highly 
coloured. This species is extremely rare. 210s. 
S. ampullaceum (Flask-shaped Bag-lip flower).—East 
Indies. We have very lately been gratified with a view 
of the lovely blooms of this new and rare plant at 
Messrs. Loddige’s. The colour of the entire flower is of 
the richest crimson rose. The flowers are produced on 
short racemes; the flower-stalks and short branches 
gave them quite a distinct character. It was a lovely 
object even among its beautiful relatives. Being so new 
and rare and slow to increase, the price is necessarily 
high. 420s. 
S. miniatum (Red-lead-colouredBag-lip flower).—Java. 
The flowers of this species are small, and produced on 
short racemes, sometimes branched. The colour is 
pleasing, and the plant altogether a gem of its kind. 
105s. 
This closes our list of the best species of Saccolabiums. 
The culture they succeed best with, is to place them in 
baskets in proportion to their size. The S. denticulatum 
and S. miniatum are small species, and will thrive well 
on blocks till they become moderate-sized plants, when 
they may be placed in small baskets, but keeping them 
upon the blocks till they decay. The other species may 
bo put into baskets in proportion to their size. Fill the 
baskets with moss (sphagnum), and place the plants in 
the centre, tying them to a stick till they are established. 
They root very freely, and the young roots will soon 
work their way to the outside of the moss, clinging 
partly to the wood of the basket, and part of them will 
hang down into the warm moist air of the Indian house, 
which must bo their habitation. They require plenty of 
water during the hot months of growth, but should be 
kept moderately dry and cool during the winter, to give 
them an annual rest. They will grow and thrive in one 
of these baskets for two years, and must then have a 
larger basket and fresh moss to grow in. 
Scuticaria Steelii (Steel’s Whip-plant).—Demerara. 
This plant has very long leaves; they are round like the 
lash of a whip, whence its name. The flowers are large, 
of a cream colour, and beautifully striped with reddish 
brown. It thrives well on a block, but better il the 
block is plunged as it were on one side of a basket in 
moss. The flowers are produced on short footstalks at 
the base of the long leaves. It is a desirable plant, and 
loves a damp moist atmosphere. 42s. 
Stanliopea aurea (Golden Stanhopea).—Guatemala. 
This genus is the most remarkable of the whole tribe; 
the flowers are large aud of the richest colours, and 
freely produced. The S. aurea is a fine species. A 
writer on it has said, “ Imagine a plant, of which the 
flower is the size of S. insignis, the form of S. venusta, 
the smell of S. ocidata, and the colour of Maxillaria 
aromatica, and arranged on a spike two feet long, and 
the reader will have a tolerably distinct conception of 
this beautiful thing.” The sepals, or outer floral leaves, 
are pale orange-dotted, with small spots ol light pimple; 
the petals, or inner floral leaves, are of a deeper orange, 
with darker spots; the lip is dark orange, with a blotch 
of dark purple on each side. 21s. 
S. Barleerii (Mr. Barker’s S.) is like S. TlarJit,except¬ 
ing the spots. It is very fragrant. 31s. fid. 
S. Bucephalus Quito. — This is a fine rare species, 
very delicately fragrant. The general colour ol the 
flowers is yellow, with two dark spots at the base of each 
petal, and thinly spotted all over with crimson. The 
sepals, also, are spotted with the same colour; the lip is 
of the deepest orange. 42s. 
S. Devoniensis (Duke of Devonshire's S.).—A beautiful 
species; sepals and petals yellow, with deep ci'imson 
brown blotches. The lip is white with few spots, and a 
deep purple stain over half the lower part. 21s. 
S. eburnea (Ivory S.).—Brazil. This is the same as 
S. grandifiora. The flowers are of the purest white; the 
lip is like ivory, polished and shining, and on being 
touched the resemblance to that substance is still 
greater. It is a beautiful species. 10s. fid. 
S. graveolens (Strong-smelling S.).—Peru. The scent of 
this fine species is so strong as to be disagreeable if ap- 
proached too closely. If the flower be handled, it will 
taint the fingers even for a considerable time; but if it 
be hung up at some distance from the walk, so as to 
diffuse the scent, it is not disagreeable. The sepals and 
petals are of a most delicate straw colour; the lip and 
central pai'ts of the flower ai'e of a clear apricot coloui, 
the upper paid is like yellow ivoi - y. It is a free 
bloomer. 15s. 
(To be continued.) 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
Auriculas.— The plants to flower next year should 
he growing strongly, and accumulating the power to 
produce fine blooms. The care they require now, is 
a constant supply of water during dry weather, and pro¬ 
tection from heavy rain. The tine lover of flowers will 
take care of them quite as much when they have ceased 
to give him the pleasure of seeing them decked with 
floral beauty. He will bestow this care, in the hope ot 
seeing their loveliness in increased amount the follow¬ 
ing year. Small plants, that were detached from the 
large ones at tho time of potting, should now have 
another shift into larger pots. With this treatment 
some of the strongest may be expected to bloom the next 
spring. Seedlings should also receive a due share ol 
attention. Such as have been pricked out into pans 
