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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOOIST 
[January, 
veined with purple and green, the oblong spreading 
petals claret-purple, and the succate lip green-pur¬ 
plish towards the edge ; R. Warner, Esq.— Oncidium 
PhaIcBnopsis, Lind, et Echb. f. [t. 96], a lovely plant 
of slender habit, tbe flowers with white margined 
sepals and white banded petals, and a large pandu- 
rate lip which is white flushed with purple and 
spotted with dark purple-crimson, with a golden 
yellow crest; Ecuador, E. Salt, Esq.— Lcelia elegans 
prasiafa, Echb. f. [t. 97], a fine species in the way 
of L. Turneri, with a fine head of large flowers of a 
light magenta flushed with green, tbe lip with white 
side lobes rolled over the column, and a transverse 
reniform front lobe of rich magenta-crimson veined 
with deeper crimson; Brazil. Baron Schroder.— 
Corganthes maculata punctata, Lindl. [t. 98], a most 
curious and interesting epiphyte,Stauhop'ea-like in 
habit, with large yellowish crimson spotted flowers, 
the sepals resembling bat’s wings, and the lip stipi- 
tate and cup-shaped, yellowish heavily spotted and 
blotched in fron<^ with deep wine purple ; Demarara, 
W. McDonald, E.sq.— Pendrohium Farmerii aureimi, 
Williams and Moore [t. 99], a showy variety, with 
short club-shaped stems, and drooping racemes of 
golden yellow flowers, the pubescent lip being of a 
rich orange-yellow; Moulmein, B. S. M^illiams.— 
Lycaste Harrisonice ehurnea, Moore [t. 100], a very 
handsome form in which the flowers are of a pure 
ivory white and the lip pale yellow, heavily veined 
with red dish-purple, the front lobe being white, with 
fewer veins; Brazil, B. S. M’illiams.— Odontoglossum 
Leeanum, Echb. f. [t. 101], a very beautiful Odon- 
toglot, tbe stellate yellow flowers being covered with 
small spots of brownish-crimson and the lip having 
a larger blotch near the tip ; New’ Grenada, W. Lee, 
Esq.— Pleione humiJis tricolor, Echb. f. [t. 102], a 
variety in which the lip is sulphur-yellow with longi¬ 
tudinal and transverse lines of tawnv brow’u spots ; 
Indian Alps, B. S. Williams.— Dendrobium Praconis, 
Echb. f. [t. 103], better known as D. eburneum, a 
pretty plant having pure white flowers w’ith an orange 
spot at the base of the lip; Moulmein and Cochin 
China, B. S. W illiams.— Oncidium Forbesii, Hooker 
{t. 104], a remarkable species, which presents a good 
deal of variation ; the form figured has the flowers 
nearly covered with rich brown, the margin yellow 
with close-set transverse bars of brown; Brazil, 
E. Bonny, Esq.— Masdevalha Harryana atrosan- 
guinea, Williams [t. 105], a choice variety in which 
the singular three-lobed flowers are of a rich glowing 
crimson flushed with magenta; New Grenada, E. 
Warner, Esq. —Maxillaria luteo-atba, Lindl. [t. 106], 
a singular-looking epiphyte, the large tawny yellow 
triangular flowers of which are brownish externally, 
and the smallish lip yellow, the side lobes veined with 
purple; Colombia, B. S. Williams. — Saccolabium 
curvifolium, Lindl. [t. 107], a dwarfish interesting 
plant, with distichous recurved leaves, and dense erect 
racemes of cinnabar-red flow’ers; India and Ceylon, 
W. Lee, Esq.— Cattleya Triance formosa, Williams 
[t. 108], a very richly coloured variety, in which 
the large flowers have the sepals and petals of a very 
delicate blush, and the well-displayed lip rich 
magenta purple in front, the mouth of the tubulose 
portion being of a bright orange-yellow, the magenta 
being continued as a border all round the orifice; 
Colombia, B. S. Williams. 
Eamiliae Wild Flowers.— Of this interesting 
hook a fourth series has lately^ been issued. It consists 
as we have said on former occasions of a series of 
coloured figures of "Wild Flowers, very nicely hit off 
by F. E. Hulme, F.L.S., and also described by him in 
a popular and flowing style, suited to win over young 
people to the study of plants, and also supplying short 
chapters which can be taken up at any lime with 
pleasure and profit by those w'ho have the good taste 
to prefer reading of this cla.ss. For the most part 
the figures are good, and we think the artist-author 
improves in both his pen and pencil sketches as the 
work becomes more familiar. It is just the sort of 
book for a New Year’s present. 
GAKDEN GOSSIP. 
— ^HE following dates have been fixed for 
the Shows and Meetings of 1884 : —Eoyal 
Horticultural Society :— Scientific Com¬ 
mittee : January 8, February 12, March 11 and 
25, April 8 and 22, May 13 and 27, June 10 and 24, 
July 8 and 22, November 11, December 9. Fruit 
and Floral Committees: January 8, February 12, 
March 11 and 25, April 8 and 22, May 13 and 
27, June 10 and 24, July 8 and 22, August 12 and 
26, September 9, October 14, November 11, Decem¬ 
ber 9.— Eoyal Botanic Society: Spring. Shows, 
March 26, April 23. Summer Shows, May 21, June 
18. Evening Fete, July 2.— Manchester Bot¬ 
anical AND Horticultural Society : Spring 
Shows, March 18, 19, April 29. Grand National 
Exhibition, Mav 30. National Eose Society, July 
19. Autumn Chrysanthemum Show, November 25. 
—Glasgow and West of Scotland Horticul¬ 
tural Society : Spring Show, March 26. Autumn 
Show, September 3.— National Eose Society, 
Metropolitan Show at South Kensington, July 1. 
Provincial Shows, Salisbury, July 9; Manchester, 
during July.— Kingston and Surbiton Chry¬ 
santhemum Society : Annual Show, November 
11 and 12.— National Chrysanthemum Society 
(late Borough of Hacknpy) : Annual Show at Eoyal 
Aquarium, November 12 and 13. 
— 'SThe Pelargonium Society, which was 
instituted in 1874, appears to have done its 
work. At the annual meeting on December 
11, it was announced that from deaths and resigna¬ 
tions the number of members had become reduced, 
so that an effort was required to raise the necessary in¬ 
come to carry on the shows—a proof that the growers 
and admirers of this flower did not care to have it 
kept up. It was submitted that the Society had done 
good work during its existence by stimulating the 
raising of new varieties, and by the exampleof its ex¬ 
cellent annual exhibitions, but that in face of the lan¬ 
guid support now afforded, it would be better to wind 
up its affairs while it could pay its debts, than to drag 
on its existence in a state of impecuniosity. Ulti¬ 
mately the meeting was adjourned in order that the 
question might be more fully considered. The 
accounts showed a balance of £4 11s. 7rf. 
— 'SThe Campanula Barrelieri and its 
ally C. FRAGiLis are excellent plants for cottage 
windows. Writing of the former, E. D. says, 
“ I met with this plant in a country town, and was 
pleased to see that it was the occupant of not a few 
cottage windows. It was in Julj’ when the plants 
were full of blossom, and they were generally trained 
over trellises, and so formed charming masses of 
flower. One occasionally meets with it in a green¬ 
house, but generally in a starved condition; and it 
is only when grown in a window that its beauty and 
freedom of bloom are seen to the best advantage. 
The flowers are produced from the axils of the leaves, 
on a pendulous, leafy stalk, or in clusters of three or 
four flowers at the extremity of the stem. This 
Campanula makes a very pretty and effective basket 
plant. It remains for a long time in flower when 
properly cared for, and it can be easily propagated 
by division of the root or by cuttings.” 
