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made of any required size to order, but the size here 
shown is 6 feet in diameter, adapted to fix round 
a tree 2 feet 6 inches or less in thickness. The seat 
is both light and strong, and is sufficiently portable ; 
while as to colour it can of course be painted to suit 
any taste. 
THE BEADGATE PARK SEAT. 
Imperial Horticultural Shading— Samples 
of this new shading material in four qualities have 
been sent to us. It is a cotton fabric of different 
stoutness, and woven so that there are interstices 
between the threads which admit light and air. It 
is thus well adapted for protecting fruit-trees ; while 
for shading hothouse roofs the open texture will be 
a great advantage, because it will temper but not 
altogether obstruct the light, while the fierce rays of 
the sun will be effectually broken.—It. H. Hampson. 
NEW BOOKS. 
The Botanical Magazine for May figures 
Phalcenopsis Stuartiana, Rchb. f. [t. 6622], a 
charming Philippine Orchid, already figured by us. 
Stigmaphyllon littorale, A. Juss. [t. 6623], a mal- 
pighiaceous stove climber from South Brazil, with 
orbicular ovate leaves, and corymbs of yellow flowers 
having five unguiculate petals, all parts of the plant 
except the petals furnished with forked hairs.—Kew. 
Pinguicula caudata, Schleclit. [t. 6624], a beautiful 
Mexican perennial cool stove herb, with the leaves 
small ovate densely imbricate while young, becoming 
obovate obtuse spreading with a thick midrib when 
older, the flowers spurred of a deep bright violet- 
purple.—F. Sander. Satyrium nepalense , Don [t. 
6625] , a pretty terrestrial Orchid common on the 
hills of India, with erect spikes of rosy-pink very 
fragrant flowers.—Kew. Olobba atrosanguinea [t. 
6626] , a pretty scitamineous stove herb, from Borneo, 
known aPo as G. coccinea.— Veitch & Sons. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (April 29—May 13) 
gives us notes on Euadenia eminens, Hook f. (p. 557), 
a beautiful shrubby capparid from West Tropical 
Africa, with trifoliate leaves,and racemes of pale yellow 
flowers remarkable for having two very long erect 
petals—W. Bull. Cattleya Wallisii, Lind. (p. 557), a 
fine Orchid noticed at p. 75. Thrixspermum Berkeleyi 
Rchb. f. (p. 557), an Indian Sarcochilus with cuneate 
ligulate leaves, and pendent racemes of white and 
amethyst flowers as large as those of AeridesLarpentse. 
Angrcecum dependens, Rchb. f. (p. 558), a fine species 
from Madagascar, in the way of A. Ellisii, but with 
longer spurs to the white flowers.—II. Low & Co. 
Odontoglossum ligulare, Rchb. f. (p. 558), a fine plant 
supposed to be a wild hybrid, with orange yellow 
brown spotted flowers, having the lip a paler yellow 
nearly covered by a large brown blotch.—Sir N. M. 
de Rothschild. Phaius Blumei assamieus, Rchb. f. 
(p. 558), a fine Indian Orchid from Assam and 
Birmah of which four varieties are noted : luteo- 
albus with yellowish flowers and a light yellow lip 
bordered with white.—W. Bull, Veitch & Sons ; pur- 
puratus with deep yellow flowers, the lip orange bor¬ 
dered with purple.—Veitch ; picturatus pale yellow, 
with the lip yellow, its edges light purple with dark 
purple stripes.—W. Bull; oculatus with brownish 
flowers, the lip yellow, with a purple blotch on each 
side lobe.—Ritter. Vanda Sanderiana, Rchb. f. 
(p. 588), a fine Orchid with the habit of Saccolabium 
violaceum, but with broader leaves, audmany-flowered 
spikes of flowers five inches across, the upper sepal and 
petals mauve with basilar purple stripes, the lateral 
sepals yellow with broad purple veins and mauve bor¬ 
der, andthelipdark brown with green sides; presumed 
to be of Asiatic origin, and the grandest novelty r intro¬ 
duced for years.—F. Sander. Catasetum Christyanum, 
Rchb. f. (p. 588), an ally of C. saccatum, with reddish 
brown flowers, the lip light greenish yellow with an 
irregular fringe.—T. Christy. Odontoglossum angus- 
tatum stylites , Rchb. f. (p. 588), remarkable for the 
styliform process on each side of the callus.—B. S. 
Williams. Odontoglossum Pescatorei Veitchianum, 
Rchb. f. (p. 588), the O. Pescatorei Veitchii, Hort., 
noticed at p. 76.—Veitch & Sons. Phaius Tanker- 
villice foil. var. Mariesii, Rchb. f. (p. 588), a Japanese 
garden variety, in which the cinnamon colour of the 
sepals and petals is more vivid than in the ordinary 
forms, with the floral organs shorter and broader.— 
Veitch & Sons. Masdevallia rosea, Lindl. (p. 628), a 
charming Ecuadorean species, with ouneate-oblong 
acute leaves; the mauve-rose recurved flowers, 2—3 
inches long, have short crimson-purple tails to the 
lateral sepals, and grow on shortish peduncles not 
much elevated above the leaves; now flowered for 
the first time in Europe.—Sir. T. Lawrence. Cata¬ 
setum Christyanum chlorops, Rchb. f. (p. 628), a 
variety with frog-green sepals and petals, and a dark 
green fringed lip.—T. Christy. Phalcenopsissumatrana 
paucivittata, Rchb. f. (p. 628), a variety having the 
white flowers marked with three or four cinnamon- 
purple bars, and the lip finely striped with mauve.— 
Veitch & Sons. Rhododendron Hookeri, Nutt, 
(p. 628, fig. 96), a very handsome evergreen shrub 
from the snowy mountains of Bootan, with bluntly 
oblong leaves, having on the under surface scales 
scattered in tufts aloDg the veins, and fine heads of 
blood-red bell-shaped flowers in tbe way of R. 
Thomsoni.—J. H. Mangles. Odontoglossum lyro- 
glossum, Hort. (p. 632, fig. 97), a grand novelty some¬ 
what resembling O. Wilekeanum; the flowers are 
large, in racemes, bright yellow wiili bold blotches of 
chestnut red, the lip small twisted fringed and 
toothed.—W. Lee. 
The Garden (April 29—May 6) figures Meso- 
spinidium vulcanicum [pi. 334, Lot 339 as marked], 
a pretty cool-house Orchid, from the Upper Amazon 
region,bearing graceful racemes of bright rose-coloured 
flowers. Double Cinerarias [ pi. 335], a group selected 
from plants grown by Mr. Canned, of Swanley ; in 
due time these double forms will become very useful 
decorative plants. Salvias [pi. 336], a group of 
ornamental species consisting of : 1, involucrata 
Bet belli; 2, leucantha ; 3, splendens Bruanti; 4, 
splendens M. Issanchou ; 5, cacalicefolia. 
The Gartenfloba (April—May) figures :— 
Corydalis Sewerzowii,Tlege\ [t. 1077], an interesting 
fumariad from Turkestan, with a tuberous rootstock, 
glaucous ternate leaves, the leaflets again divided, and 
having obovate leaflets, and the long-spurred yellow 
flowers in terminal racemes.—St. Petersburg!! Botanic 
Garden. Verbascum olympicum, Boiss. [t. 1078], 
