October 18, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
109 
ORCHID NO TES AND GLEANINGS, 
The Orchid Growers’ Calendar. 
Calanthes that are now freely pushing their flower 
spikes derive an amount of benefit from occasional 
waterings with weak liquid manure, but where the 
leaves begin to ripen, and thereby give notice that 
they have performed their functions, the supply of 
moisture at the roots should be gradually diminished, 
and the plants may with advantage be removed into a 
somewhat cooler and more airy house after the flowers 
have commenced opening. Though a very old and 
often abused species, Cypripedium insigne is a very 
useful plant, coming into flower as it does in the dull 
end of the year, and seldom failing to pay for its room 
by the freedom with which it flowers, besides which, it 
is a plant that any amateur may safely start with in 
forming the smallest collection, and considering that 
many good varieties have flowered during the past 
year or two quite unexpectedly, there is also a chance 
of securing a prize without much risky expenditure. 
Our plants are grown in the cool house during the 
summer, as also are C. Boxallii and C. villosum, and, 
with the exception of the latter, are now showing 
flowers. Since the introduction of C. Spicerianum the 
East Indian house is decidedly more attractive at this 
season of the year, for not only does that variety seem 
to be a general favourite itself, but it has become the 
parent of others that also flower about this time, and it 
is concerned more or less remotely in the parentage of 
many more. 
Phalfenopsis which are just pushing out young flower 
spikes will prove very attractive objects to cockroaches 
should any be resident in the locality, and some device 
must be resorted to, in order to save the flower spikes 
and young roots. Chase’s Beetle Poison and a good 
beetle trap are, I think, the most effectual. Where 
a number of Odontoglossum crispum and 0. Pescatorei 
are grown, there will be a quantity of flower spikes up 
by this time, and it is necessary that the plants should 
be kept free from aphides and yellow thrip for their 
good development, and also that the flower spikes be 
eased occasionally to prevent crippling. A thin bamboo 
twig put to each spike when about 6 ins. long and tied 
occasionally afterwards often prevents ill-shapen spikes, 
for the sticks can be so stuck as to preserve to some 
extent the natural arching habit of the flower spike. 
Some growers have to go over the Odontoglossums with 
the shears to cut off the sphagnum, which sometimes 
threatens to overgrow the plants; but if the house is 
very light, with plenty of air on day and night, in all 
but very cold weather, the moss will seldom give much 
trouble, in fact with us it is quite the other way. 
Very little shade will now be needed, though, after 
the exceptionally bright weather we have recently had, 
we cannot advise any hard and fast line to be followed, 
when we are experiencing very strong sunshine, while 
fifteen or twenty miles away the sun is obscured by 
dense fog. Where it is not thought necessary to pull 
down the shades, and yet some of the plants cannot 
stand the sun, a few sheets of tissue or newspaper 
covered over the plants would most likely meet the 
difficulty. 
The fires should be thoroughly under control during 
the time we are getting bright days and frosty nights, 
so that the temperatures may not rise too high suddenly 
when the sun appears in the morning, or sink suddenly 
when it has gone down. These may appear but trifling 
matters, but attention to details plays an important 
part in the successful cultivation of Orchids.— W. P. 
Notes from Arddarroch. 
The past summer has been anything but bright, and 
one would think anything but favourable to extra 
vigorous growth. On looking over the plants it is 
very satisfactory to note what growths have been made. 
Cattleya Trianse has done remarkably well, finishing 
some stout, promising - looking bulbs, with sheaths 
that mean a fine show a bit later on. C. Mendelii has 
done equally well thus far, and by the size of leaf and 
growth will no doubt make quite as good a finish as its 
neighbour. Laelia anceps is bristling with flower 
spikes in every case (the white form excepted, which 
does not seem to respond at all readily in that respect, 
in spite of the strong bulbs it makes). Next season 
they will be treated to a full share of sun, as possibly 
better results may follow then. I have often thought, 
in a dull season where blinds are used on the Cattleya 
houses, whether the plants really gain or lose by a spell 
of dull weather; be the shading ever so thin, the house 
is quite as dark when the shading is down, with bright 
sunshine, as when they are up on a dull day, and 
possibly the'balance might be in favour of the latter. 
The summer of 1890 has been most trying for outside 
crops as a rule. Weeds have had it all their own way, 
but Orchid growers I think will find that for their 
part it will be found they have not come off at all 
badly .—James Brown, Arddarroch, Loch Long, N.B. 
Cattleya Warocqueana amethystina. 
The sepals and broad elliptic petals of this variety are 
of a uniformly rich, deep rose. The lip is large, bifid, 
and of a rich purple, striated with yellow lines in the 
throat. The plant shown at the Drill Hall last 
Tuesday by M. Linden, Parc Leopold, Brussels, had. 
two flowers of large size ; but this is only its first time 
of flowering. A First Class Certificate was awarded it. 
Cattleya Warocqueana flammea. 
The sepals and the broad ovate petals of this variety 
are of a more delicate of softer rose than those of 
C. W. amethystina. The lamina of the large lip is 
bifid, orbicular, undulated at the margin, and pale 
purple, striated and banded in the centre with deep 
purple. There is a yellow blotch on each side of the 
throat of the lip. The leaves are very broad, deep 
green and leathery. A plant was shown last Tuesday 
at the Drill Hall, Westminster, by M. Linden, Parc 
Leopold, Brussels, who received a First Class Certi¬ 
ficate for it. 
Catasetum Bungerothii Randii. 
The leaves of the species are lanceolate, plicate, and 
of moderate length. The type has white flowers or 
nearly so, and the present variety differs in having 
bright sulphur sepals, pale sulphur petals and a bright 
yellow lip, with a spur-like cavity of a golden yellow 
or orange. The latter organ is curiously shell-shaped 
and shallowly fringed or toothed at the margin. An 
Award of Merit was granted it by the Orchid Committee 
at the Drill Hall, Westminster, last Tuesday, when 
shown by M. Linden, Parc Leopold, Brussels. 
Cattleya aurea Lindeni. 
Such was the name given to a variety of Cattleya Dow- 
iana at the Drill Hall, last Tuesday, when shown by 
M. Linden, Parc Leopold, Brussels. The sepals are 
nankeen-yellow; the petals are broadly ovate, un¬ 
dulated and revolute at the margin, and clear bright 
yellow. The lip is of a rich crimson-purple, except 
towards the sides, which are golden yellow, with faint 
purple lines and markings along the stronger veins, and 
again purple at the margin. An Award of Merit was 
accorded it. 
Angr/ecum Kimballianum. 
The leaves of this species are oblong, obliquely bifid, 
horizontal, deep shining green, and arranged in two 
ranks along the short stems. The sepals and petals 
are linear lanceolate, acuminate and white, as is also 
the lip. The latter organ is somewhat three-lobed, 
with the lateral lobes rounded and toothed on the 
margin; the middle lobe is subulate and arises 
suddenly from a slight depression between the lateral 
lobes. The flowers, like the leaves, are also arranged 
in two ranks, and although moderate in size, are 
numerous and pretty. It was shown at the Drill Hall, 
on Tuesday last, by W. Yanner, Esq. (gardener, Mr. 
W. Robins), Camden Wood, Chislehurst, who received 
a Botanical Certificate for it. 
Cattleya du Buyssoniana. 
The plant shown at the Drill Hall, Westminster, on 
Tuesday last, is closely allied to, or a form of, C. 
granulata. The sepals are broadly oblong or oblanceo- 
late, shining, straw-white, of great substance, and 
somewhat incurved, the lateral ones being strongly 
falcate. The petals are similar in shape, but paler in 
colour, thinner, and slightly undulated at the edge. 
The lip is three-lobed and also pale, except the middle 
lobe, which is transversely oblong and covered with 
granules or little warts, and rosy purple. An Award 
of Merit was granted the exhibitor, M. Linden, Parc 
Leopold, Brussels. 
Cattleya Dowiana Imschottiana. 
The flowers of this variety, at least when shown at the 
Drill Hall last Tuesday, were considerably smaller than 
those of the type, but the plant was also small. The 
sepals are oblong and white ; and the petals are ovate, 
revolute at the apex, undulate at the margin, and also 
white. The lip was lined with purple and gold on each 
side of the middle line, which was of a deep purple ; 
outside of this was a white band with the purple and 
golden lines running through it, and the margin itself 
was pale purple, presenting on the whole a beautiful 
combination of colours, quite different from those of any 
other variety of this species yet shown. The exhibitor 
was Mr. H. Ballantine, gardener to Baron Schroder, 
The Dell, Egham, who received a First Class Certificate 
for it. 
Oncidium varicosum Rogersii. 
A handsome specimen of this very showy Oncidium 
has lately been in bloom in Mr. P. McArthur’s col¬ 
lection at the London Nursery, Maida Vale, W. The 
variety is a very fine one, and the specimen bore 150 
buds and open blossoms at one time. 
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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
Royal Horticultural. —October 14 th. 
At the meeting on Tuesday last, one of the central 
tables was chiefly occupied by fine foliage plants, Roses 
and Orchids ; the other was occupied by Roses, Ferns, 
and fruit, chiefly Apples. A large collection of Apples 
and various other fruits, both in the fresh and dried 
state, and other articles of food were arranged on one of 
the side tables. A Silver-gilt Banksian Medal was 
awarded to Mr. H. B. May, Dyson’s Lane Nursery, 
Upper Edmonton, for a large collection of fine foliaged 
plants, including Adiantums, Davallias, Nephrolepis 
davallioides plumosa, also Selaginellas, Palms and 
Crotons, amongst which was a finely coloured one, 
named Etna, and a narrow-leaved one, named Countess, 
also well coloured. A Silver Banksian Medal was 
awarded to Messrs. William Paul k Son, Waltham 
Cross, for a collection of autumn-flowering Roses, both 
Tea and H. P. varieties, selected for clearness of colour 
and freedom of flowering. A similar award was made 
to Mr. H. J. Jones, Hither Green, Lewisham, for two 
groups of Chrysanthemums, consisting of Pompon and 
Japanese kinds, well flowered and dwarf. A Bronze 
Banksian Medal was awarded to Mr. C. Turner, Slough, 
for some fine exhibition Dahlias, as fresh as they might 
be at mid-season. Messrs. J. Veitch k Sons, Chelsea, 
showed a large box of cut trusses of hybrid greenhouse 
Rhododendrons. Mr. C. J. Salter, gardener to 
T. B. Haywood, Esq., Woodhatch Lodge, Reigate, 
exhibited a Chrysanthemum sport from Mrs. H. 
Wellam named Memoir. Mr. George Fry, Hither 
Green, Lewisham, exhibited a salmon-pink flowered 
Fuchsia named F. triphylla alba-carminata, evidently 
tending towards being an albino or white variety. 
F. Day Dawn had scarlet sepals and (for want of a 
better term) pale pinkish lilac petals, and was rather 
novel in its way. Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm 
Nurseries, Tottenham, showed some Dahlias, including 
a scarlet Cactus variety named G. Reuthe and Chry¬ 
santhemum Pink Lacroix. A Silver Banksian Medal 
was awarded to E. Mawley, Esq., Rose Bank, Berk- 
hamsted, for Roses, Chrysanthemums, Begonias, and 
Dahlias done up in decorative style with Ferns and 
other foliage. Mr. R. Mitchell, Orleans House 
Gardens, Twickenham, showed a bloom of Mrs. 
Alpheus Hardy Chrysanthemum. Sir C. W. Strick¬ 
land exhibited a species of Achimenes which had been 
imported on a piece of Epidendrum raniferum. 
A Silver Flora Medal was awarded to Baron 
Schroder (gardener, Mr. H. Ballantine), The Dell, 
Egham, for a fine collection of rare Orchids, amongst 
which was a piece ot Cypripedium Fairieanum, with 
six open flowers and a seed pod ; also Laelia porphyrites, 
Cattleya Fausta, C. Imschottiana, and some fine varie¬ 
ties of Dendrobium Phalfenopsis. Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart., M.P. (gardener, Mr. White), Burford Lodge, 
Dorking, showed Epidendrum radiatum fuscum, and a 
piece of the curious Bulbophyllum amplum. M. 
Linden, Parc Leopold, Brussels, exhibited a consider¬ 
able number, including Mormodes maculatum, Laelia 
grandis vera, a finely-flowered piece of Aganisia 
ccerulea, bearing fifteen blooms ; also Cattleya Waroe- 
queana and its varieties C. W. regalis, C. W. delicata, 
C. W. amethystina, and C. W. flammea, Catasetum 
Bungerothii Randii, C. aurea Lindeni, and C. du Buys¬ 
soniana. A Cultural Commendation was awarded to 
Alfred Sanders, Esq., Camden Road, N.W., for a piece 
of Odontoglossum grande, bearing twenty open blooms 
and four buds. A similar award was made to James 
Crispin, Esq., Fishponds, Bristol, for a piece of Odon¬ 
toglossum Londesboroughianum, with a branched spike. 
He also showed a large piece of Lfelia Perrinii, on a 
block. Messrs. Pitcher k Manda, Hextable, Swanley, 
Kent, showed Lfelia Arnoldiana. Capt. Hincks, 
Breckenbrough, Thirsk, again brought up Masdevallia 
stella, with rose-coloured flowers borne on an erect 
scape, and raised by him from M. Estradse, fertilised 
with the pollen of M. Harryana. Wm. C. Atkinson, 
Esq., Aigburth, Liverpool, exhibited Vanda coerulea. 
A Silver Banksian Medal was awarded to Messrs. 
