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THE FLORIST AND POHOLOGIST. 
[February, 
The Gardeners’Chronicle (Dec. 24—Jan. 21) 
describes the following novelties :— Nepenthes 
Hookeriana, H. Low (p. 812, fig. 157), the Bprnean 
plant, with subglobose or elongated green crimson- 
spotted pitchers, grown in gardens under this name, 
allied to N. Rafflesiana but sufficiently distinct for 
horticultural purposes. Gongora similis, Rclib. _f. 
(p. 812), a novelty supposed to come from Colombia, 
has the flowers yellow, with large cinnamon blotches, 
the lip white with brown blotches; these grow in 
loose elongated racemes. Nepenthes Courtii , Hort. 
Veitch (p. 844, fig. 160), a fine hybrid between N. 
Dominii and an unnamed sort from Borneo ; it is a 
handsome form with the pitchers cylindrical above the 
middle, dull green spotted with red, and having in 
front a pair of sharply laciniate wings. Masdevallia 
picturata, Rchb. f. (1882, p. 10), a little gem, with 
the leaves tufted, 2—3 inches high, the peduncles 
one-flowered, the flowers with white green-ribbed 
and green-tailed sepals, spotted with blackish-mauve, 
the lateral ones orange at the base ; it is Colombian— 
probably 7 . Pescatoria Lehmanni (p. 44, fig. 5), a 
very beautiful Orchid, the sepals andpetals converging, 
broadly ovate acute, deep velvety violet, traversed 
longitudinally by several white lines; the lip is 
smaller and paler, clawed, three-lobed, the front lobe 
oblong-lanceolate, concave with revolute edges, the 
upper surface clothed with coarse setae, the side lobes 
bent upwards; the side view of the column and lip 
closely resembles an elephant’s jaw. Masdevallia 
triangularis, Rchb. f. (p. 44), a small densely tufted 
plant, with cuneate oblong leaves, and numerous 
small light ochre-coloured flowers marked with innu¬ 
merable brownish-purple spots ; native of Venezuela ; 
flowered by Mr. Sander. Columnea Kalhreyerana 
(p. 44), a very remarkable grower, noticed at p. 26. 
Bomarea Shuttleworthii, Masters (p. 76, fig. 11, 14), 
a very fine conservatory climber with scarlet and 
yellow flowers, see p. 26. Lcelia callistoglossa (p. 
76), a very beautiful hybrid Orchid, bred between L. 
purpuraia and Cattleya Warscewiczii (gigas ); the 
stem resembles those of the Lsclia; the sepals and 
petals are rose-coloured, the lip has the anterior part 
of a warm dark purple, the upper edge yellowish, 
the disk whitish, with numerous purple lines; it 
promises to be a grand acquisition. Cypripedimi 
microchilum (p. 77), another hybrid Lady’s Slipper 
between Cypripedium n iveum and C. Druryi ; remark¬ 
able for its unusually small lip; the leaf is obscurely 
marbled; the flowers broader than in niveuin, the 
upper sepal marked with a dark cinnamon stripe 
inside, and the petals also with a dark purple-brown 
middle line, while the lip is marked with purple- 
brown stripes; it was raised by Mr. Seden. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
* HE Schedules of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society are notv issued, and 
contain those severally put forward 
by the National Auricula and National 
Carnation Societies (Southern Section), by the 
Pelargonium Society, and by the National Hose 
Society, as well as that for the R.H.S. Great Summer 
Show on May 23—25. In the latter, the prin¬ 
cipal prizes are £16 for 12 Stove or Greenhouse 
Plants ; £16 for 15 Orchids; '£10 for 8 Greenhouse 
Azaleas; £12 for a group of 100 fine Foliage and 
Flowering Plants ; £12 for a group of miscellaneous 
Plants occupying a space not exceeding 300 square 
feet; £12 for 20 Poses in 10-inch pots; and £15 for 
9 Roses in pots. 
— 3The Pelargonium Society, besides its 
usual prizes for specimens and novelties, offers 
this year two £5 prizes respectively for the 
best Hybrid having for one of its parents Geranium 
pratense or Geranium sanguineum, and for the best 
Hybrid having for one of its parents Pelargonium 
oblongatum. The object is to introduce blue and 
yellow into the flowers. 
— ®he National Rose Society includes 
in its prize-list a Challenge Cup value sixty 
guineas offered by amateurs, to be held for 
the year, by the winner of the first prize for 72 
single trusses in the nurseryman’s division; and a 
corresponding Cup on the same terms is offered by 
nurserymen to amateurs in the class for 36 single 
trusses. A Gold Medal is offered for 3 trusses of 
any New Seedling Rose, not yet in commerce, or 
announced. 
— ®he Royal Caledonian Horticul¬ 
tural Society has issued its Prize Schedule, 
which includes the list of prizes for the Great 
International Fruit and Flower Show to take place 
on September 13th and 14th next. That for the 
Spring Show runs to 116 classes, while the Interna¬ 
tional goes up to 175 classes. There are two prizes of 
£31 10s. offered by the General Horticultural Co. 
(John Wills) for the best 6 sorts of Grapes, 
two bunches of each, and for the best collection of 
12 sorts of fruit; besides which there are upwards 
of 40 classes for Grapes, 6 for Pine-apples, 6 for 
Stone Fruits, and 14 for Apples and Pears. The 
Veitch Memorial Trustees have placed three medals 
with £5 prizes in the hands of the Society, to be 
awarded as extra prizes to the best Black and 
White Grapes, and the best collection of Fruit. In 
the Gardeners’ Plant division £20 are offered for 10 
Stove or Greenhouse plants, £10 for 6 plants, £10 
for a Table of plants 30 ft. by 5 ft., for quality and 
effect, £10 for 6 Orchids. In the Nurserymen’s sec¬ 
tion £20 are offered for a Table of plants 30 ft. by 6 ft., 
and £10 for 8 Orchids. 
— IJThe Northern Florists’ Societies— 
the National Auricula (Northern Section), 
Royal National Tulip, and National Carnation 
and Picotee Societies (Northern Section) hold their 
Annual General Meeting on February 1st, at 3 P.M., 
at the “Old Bull’s Head” (off the Market Place), 
Manchester, to arrange the dates and the schedule 
of prizes for this year’s Exhibitions, and to transact 
any other business that may arise connected with 
the management of the several Societies. 
— IEhe Loranthus europ.eus is, it ap¬ 
pears, no longer living in the Glasnevin 
Botanic Garden, to which it was introduced 
a few } 7 ears ago by the late Dr. Moore, and conse¬ 
quently the plant, though a native of Europe, is 
still a desideratum in our British gardens. Dr. 
Moore induced the seeds of this parasite—a near 
relative of our Mistleto—to germinate on the oak 
and other trees at Glasnevin; but we read that the 
young plant progressed very slowly, just forming 
two tiny leaves, at which stage it stood for some 
time, and then died off, the cicatrix left by it being 
now the only remnant of its short-lived existence. 
— $n reference to the growth of Timber 
in Australia, we learn that Mr. Charles 
Moore, Director of the Botanic Garden, 
Sydney, N.S.W., has announced the determination 
of the Government to propagate trees of commercial 
value for distribution amongst the colonists. 
