September 20, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
41 
England better than myself, and especially in the 
district to which Mr. Ellacombe refers. I made 
many pilgrimages in years gone by over the Haldon 
Hills and Dartmoor, those weird and romantic 
places, in search of this treasure, for I too had gleaned 
from private sources that such an uncommon thing had 
been seen, and at length I found it, or rather an 
apology for it. It was not pure white though by any 
means, but a vastly superior kind to the so-called 
original plant which Mr. Fuller sold us in 1882, and 
from Passiflora ccerulea, because vast numbers of the 
seeds of the common blue Passion Flower have been 
grown from time to time, and the seedlings so far as I 
can prove have still been common Passion Flowers ; this 
certainly was our experience. However, if Mr. Fuller 
did really raise the plants from seeds of P. ccerulea, 
as he said he had done, and sent to the Exeter 
Nursery, and which by the way were comparatively 
young plants, can he kindly give us the history of one 
oldjspecimen in particular at St. Mary’s, Bovey Tracey, 
believed to have a stronger constitution than the type. 
This form i3 represented by the accompanying illus¬ 
tration, and differs from the type only in the golden or 
orange lines of the lip being broader, more prominent, 
and almost obliterating the crimson-purple ones. It is 
now in season, and proves very welcome at this dull 
time of the year, when Cattleyas and other large- 
flowering sorts are almost absent, except in those 
collections where the varieties and forms of L. elegans 
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Cattleya Dowiana aurea. 
which he described in writing as the only white Passion 
Flower he had, and the only one from the batch of 
seedlings. 
The fate of Fuller’s plant at the Exeter Nursery was 
the rubbish-heap ; and to cut a long story short, the 
Passion Flower known in gardens as Constance Elliott 
was introduced for the first time by my late employers, 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co., of Exeter, and their 
stock was raised from cuttings obtained from the 
specimen I discovered in a large private garden on the 
borders of Dartmoor. My own private conviction has 
always been that this white Passion Flower was a sport 
that was at ieast, in my humbie judgtnent, thirty to 
forty years old ? Itj seems surprising that with the 
many sharp and speculative nurserymen we have, past 
and present, that such a chaste and beautiful Passion 
Flower should have remained in obscurity for so long a 
time.— IV. Napier, Chelsea. 
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CATTLEYA DOWIANA AND ITS 
VARIETIES. 
Much was made of C. Dowiana aurea when it first 
appeared in cultivation, and it was also generally 
The variety C. D. aurea has now been quite put in 
the shade, as far as distinctness from the type is con¬ 
cerned, by C. D. Henrick’s var. and C. D. Statteriana, 
descriptions of which we published in last issue, p. 27. 
The petals of the former are heavily or closely tessel¬ 
lated with rose ; while the lip of the latter has a broad 
golden-yellow area along each side of it, confining the 
crimson-purple and orange lines to a broad band along 
the centre of the lip. Both are valuable acquisitions 
considering their distinctness and the season of flowering; 
while they give rise to the hope that more varieties will 
follow in their wake. 
