1882 .] 
PHAL.ENOPSIS STUARTIANA.-TEA ROSES IN POTS. 
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PH AL2EN OP SIS STUARTIANA. 
[Plate 559.] 
* 0 the Messrs. Low & Co., of Clapton, 
we are indebted for the opportunity of 
figuring this beautiful new Butterfly- 
plant, which they have recently im¬ 
ported from the East. 
It has been named by Professor Reichen- 
bach in compliment to Mr. Stuart Low, and, 
as will be seen by our illustration, well merits 
the attention of our orchid growers. 
It has been suggested that this plant may 
be a natural hybrid ; but, whether this be 
so or not, it is evidently allied to Phalainopsis 
Schilleriana, with which it agrees in the 
general structure of its flowers, and especially 
in the anchor-like tails of the lip. 
The habit of the plant is that of other 
Phalaenopsids, that is to say, it is stemless, 
with a tuft of leathery leaves, and large branch¬ 
ing panicles of showy flowers. The plants 
cling to their supports by means of their 
flattened roots ; the leaves are ligulate ob¬ 
long acute, channeled, distichous, equitant at 
the base, the under surface purplish red, the 
upper surface marbled with transverse grey 
blotches, which disappear with age ; the scape 
springs from the base, and bears a many- 
flowered branching panicle of lovely blossoms 
-—as many as 120 having been counted in one 
panicle on a three-leaved plant. The indi¬ 
vidual flowers are of medium size, cream- 
coloured at first, becoming white when fully 
blown, the lower half of the lateral sepals 
being bright yellow thickly dotted with cinna¬ 
mon-red, the side lobes of the lip being simi¬ 
larly coloured, except at the top, where they 
are white ; the callus is orange-coloured, and 
the middle or front lobe sulphur-coloured, 
less thickly spotted with red. 
A very fine variety named Phalanopsis 
Stuartiana nobilis has also been flowered by 
Messrs. Low. In this, the flowers are larger 
in all their parts ; the anterior lobe of the lip 
is rhombic with broader lacinim at the top, 
and the callus orange-coloured. 
This is a fine addition to the now somewhat 
numerous species and varieties of Phalanopsis 
which exist in our collections, and will no 
doubt secure many admirers. — T. Moore. 
TEA ROSES IN POTS. 
f w ■ t HE portability of Pot Roses is one of 
their chief merits. It enables the 
cultivator not only to select the time, 
but to appoint the place of flowering. 
It is impossible to exaggerate the importance 
of these advantages, especially to amateurs and 
florists. The majority of these are cramped 
for space, their zeal not seldom being in the 
inverse ratio to their convenience. But half 
a dozen, a dozen, a score or more Tea Roses 
may be packed in almost anywhere, anyhow, 
and it is astonishing how much sweetness and 
beauty may be reaped from very small areas. 
Besides, the portability afforded by pots gives 
the utmost possible control over the time as 
■well as the place of flowering; they may be 
placed in or taken out of heat at will, and so 
be had in flower at any season when wanted. 
And if all this is true of roses in general, it is 
far more true of Tea Roses, which may be had 
in flower all the year round with a little manage¬ 
ment. For Tea Roses are the true successors 
of the real Monthly or China Roses, and are 
endued with the power of continuous growth 
and perpetual blooming. By resting these in 
the usual w T ay, we simply lose time as well as 
flowers, and not seldom sacrifice health and 
strength into the bargain. 
Tea Roses are naturally evergrowing as well 
as evergreen. Feed them liberally, or place 
them under genial conditions, and they will 
go on yielding harvests of fragrance and beauty 
in perpetuity. It is not kindness but cruelty 
to them to allow the biting frosts and piercing 
winds of our climate to check and arrest their 
progress. Should any check be needed, the 
partial withholding of water for a time affords 
all that is safe or good for them. But as a 
rule no checks are wanted. Why, indeed, 
should an evergrowing evergreen everflower- 
ing plant like a Tea Rose be checked ? Why 
indeed ? Cultivators have much to learn, or 
rather unlearn, on the checking of plants. 
Natural phenomena, accidental circumstances, 
mostly furnish checks in excess. It is more 
the business of the cultivator to foster than to 
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