1884 .] 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CBISPUM VEITOHIANUM.-MR. SANDERSON’s CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 177 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM VEITCHIANUM. 
[Plate 623.] 
f UR plate represents one of the most 
remarkable and. beautiful forms of 
Odontofjlossum crispum (Alexandrcc) 
which have yet become known to us. 
It is analogous in some sense to the highly 
coloured 0. Pescatorei Veitchianiim, flowered a 
year or two since by Messrs. Veitch, and 
which is by far the most beautifully marked 
form of 0. Pescatorei yet seen. These two 
plants, which are both exceedingly rare, form a 
pair of floral objects of surpassing loveliness. 
The plant we now figure was imported by 
Messrs. Veitch & Sons, and was exhibited by 
them at the Regent’s Park Show in June last, 
when it was certificated, under the name of 
0. crispum mirahile. Shortly thereafter it 
found its way into the recherche collection of 
Baron Schroder, at Staines, by whose desire it 
was re-named Veitchianuni. Thus the Messrs. 
Veitch have dedicated to them two of the 
handsomest forms of the two most popular of 
the Odontoglots. 
The variety, as will be seen, is one of those 
bearing large-sized flowers, with the broad 
sepals and petals wavy and toothed at the 
edge ; the lip is also broad and well displayed. 
The great beauty of the plant, however, lies in 
the colouring, which is peculiar, the border 
being pure white, within which comes a zone of 
purplish-rose surrounding a white field which 
is heavily blotched with brownish crimson, a 
large irregular patch usually occupying the 
centre, and a few smaller spots equally irregu¬ 
lar being distributed around it. The lip has 
the usual yellow disk, with a few crimson 
spots and marginal pencillings, the rest of the 
surface being white. The colours are so 
strongly marked that they are seen through 
the texture of the flowers, consequently both 
sides of the inflorescence show the ornamental 
character of the plant. 
This beautiful species, named by Mr. Bate¬ 
man in honour of the Princess of Wales, is 
now known to bo the same as Dr. Lindley’s 
much earlier 0 . crispum, which name conse¬ 
quently claims precedence.—M. 
MR. SANDERSON’S CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
'V'^OT long since I paid a visit to the 
^ w'orthy President of the National 
K Chrysanthemum Society, Mr. E. San¬ 
derson, at his residence at Harlesden 
Park, Willesden, just when his flowers were 
in the full flush of their beauty ; and how fine 
they were is shown by his having been first 
with 24 blooms, second with 18, and first 
with 12 incurved varieties at the recent Exhi¬ 
bition at the Royal Aquarium, and that not¬ 
withstanding the blooms were a -week or ten 
days past their best. There could be seen at 
Willesden some 160 plants, comprising about 
50 of the best varieties, all with upright 
stems, crowded into a house about 22 feet 
by 10 feet, and yet admitting of a passage 
round the house. They were superbly grown 
and flowered, and all by Mr. Sanderson’s own 
hand, for he is an amateur in the strictest 
sense of the word. He takes his cuttings in 
November, strikes and winters them in his 
house, which can be warmed by means of a 
flue, pots them on in spring, keeping them in 
a cold frame, and places them out of doors in 
the summer, until it is time to house them in 
October. 
Mr. Sanderson grows nothing but incurved 
varieties, and I never before saw such Prince 
Alfreds, so full, finely coloured, and exquisitely 
symmetrical. Empress of India, Barbara, 
John Salter, Hero of Stoke Newington, Jeanne 
d’Arc, Jardin des Plants, Lord Alcester, Lord 
Wolseley, Mr. Bunn, Mr. Corbay, Mr. Heale, 
Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales, and many 
others too numerous to mention, were of the 
finest development. For nearly half a century 
Mr. Sanderson has grown and exhibited his 
favourite flower. Almost from the first he 
was connected with the Old Stoke Newington 
Chrysanthemum Society, which subsequently 
became the Borough of Hackney Society, and 
eventually, though only recently, the National 
Chrysanthemum Society. It was at one of its 
earliest meetings he won his first honours, and 
for some 40 years he has been Committeeman, 
Secretary, Chairman, and President in turn ; 
but never a better President or a more suc¬ 
cessful exhibitor than now, when he is reaching 
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