November 22, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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exceedingly well filled, and the competition keen. 
For six of one sort of Japanese Mr. Glen staged some 
marvellous blooms of Stanstead White, taking the first 
prize as well as the Certificate of the National Chry¬ 
santhemum Society for their superior excellence ; Mr. 
Hopkins was a good second here with extra blooms of 
Thunberg. For twelve Pompons Mr. Russell, gardener 
to C. Lewis, Esq., Henfield, was first, and Mr. Phillips 
second, both showing well. Fruit was shown in 
quantity, the best Grapes comiDg from Mr. Glen, who 
won with Muscats, and Mr. Phillips with Gros 
Colmar, in their respective classes. Apples were best 
shown by Mr. Goldsmith, gardener to Sir E. G. Loder, 
Bart., Leonardslee, Horsham,and Pears by Mr. Glen and 
Mr. Bunney, gardener to W. C. Campion, Esq,, Danny 
Park, the former winning with dessert kinds, and the 
latter with culinary. The Pears were a good class 
throughout, likewise the Apples. Vegetables were 
present in good numbers, in response to special prizes 
offered by Messrs. Sutton & Sons, and other firms, 
Messrs. Sutton’s prizes brought out a good competition, 
the first prize going to Mr. Mantin, gardener to Mrs. 
Clifford-Brown, Bolney ; Mr. Phillips taking second 
place. Miscellaneous productions were present in good 
numbers, consisting of Apples from the Messrs. Cheal, 
W. Balchin, and others ; plants and cut flowers from 
Mr. W. Miles, West Brighton Nursery, and cut 
blooms, &c., of Chrysanthemums from Mr. Rupert 
Miller, florist, Shoreham. The committee of this 
excellent society, with its chairman (Mr. Millar) and 
the indefatigable secretary (Mr. Mark Linghurst) 
deserve all the success they have achieved in making 
this show undoubtedly one of the very best of the 
season.— J. H. 
Liverpool. 
The eleventh autumn exhibition of this society was 
held on the 18th and 19th inst. in the St. George’s 
Hall. The number of entries was the largest the 
society has ever had. In cut blooms especially there 
was a great increase, some 1,700 blooms being entered 
which, on the whole, were fully up to the Liverpool 
standard, while the Japanese showed improvement. 
There was a falling off in the specimen plant section, 
the huge examples that were generally staged with 
such marked effect being replaced by smaller specimens. 
For three trained plants, large-flowering, Mr. Wilson, 
gardener to 0. H. Williams, Esq., Aigburth, was the 
only competitor. For four Pompons, distinct, Mr. 
H. Shone, gardener to R. Bennett, Esq., Halewood, 
was first with well-bloomed specimens; while Mr. 
T. Wilson had the best single Pompon, a beautiful plant 
of the Anemone-flowered Marie Stuart. For the single 
standard, Mr. Thomas Gowen, gardener to J. A. Bartlett, 
Esq., Mossley Hill, was first with Airs. George Glennv. 
The best six untrained plants came from Mr. D. 
JiIcKellar, gardener to A. G. Steel, Esq., Aigburth, a 
fine lot, the plants carrying from 60 to 150 flowers 
each. For the single variety Mr. McKellar staged 
a splendid plant of Prince of Wales with about fifty 
flowers. 
For the group of Chrysanthemums of 60 sq. ft., Mr. 
Harrison, gardener to Mrs. W. G. Bateson, Allerton, 
had a very fine bank of distinct and grand blooms. 
For six stove and greenhouse plants, three in flower, 
Mr. Jellicoe, gardener to F. H. Gossage, Esq., J.P., 
Woolton, took the lead with Thrinax elegans, Croton 
Mortefontainensis, fine colour ; Anthurium Andre- 
anum, Cypripedium insigne, &c. The stove and green¬ 
house plants of Mr. A. R. Cox, gardener to W. H. 
Watts, Esq., Wavertree ; the Orchids of Mr. J. Wilson, 
gardener to J. E. Reynolds, Esq., West Derby : the 
Cyclamens of Mr. Green, gardener to J. Gee, Esq., 
Allerton ; the Mignonette of Mr. S. H. Johns, and the 
Poinsettias of Mr. Coates, gardener 10 W. H. Verdin, 
Esq., Winsford, also deserve mention for their fine 
quality. 
The premier class of twenty-four incurved and 
twenty-four Japanese varieties, cut blooms, brought 
out eight competitors, who made up a magnificent 
array of fine flowers, notwithstanding that in most 
of the collections the flowers were too crowded to show 
them off to the best advantage. The post of honour 
was secured by Mr. C. Osborne, gardener to Major H. 
J. Robinson, Woolton, with as grand a collection as 
has ever been staged in Liverpool; Mr. G. Burden, 
gardener to G. Coekburn, Esq., Oxton, being second ; 
Mr. A. R. Cox, third ; and Mr. J. Edwards, gardener 
to H. Tate, Esq., Allerton, fourth. The best eighteen 
incurved, distinct, came from Mr. J. Brantingham, 
gardener to W. Radcliffe, Esq., Aigburth; and Mr. C. 
Osborne had the best twelve incurved. For eighteen 
Japanese, Mr. G. Eaton took the lead amongst twelve 
competitors with a fine even stand, remarkable for 
their freshness and depth. For six Japanese, distinct, 
Mr. J, Watson had the finest out of ten lots. The 
other classes were all well contested. 
There was a capital display of fruit in most of the 
classes, and a good average level of quality prevailed 
throughout. Mr. Bennett, Rhug Gardens, Corwen, 
sent the best collection of fruit, and the best Pines. 
Mr. Barker, gardener to J. W. Itaynes, Esq., Rockferry," 
had the finest Alicantes ; Mr, Scriss, Prince’s Pali, the 
best Barbarossas; and Mr. W. T. Wytton, Garst’ang, 
the finest Muscats. The last named also showed the 
best four bunches distinct. Dessert Apples and Pears 
were very well shown, but call for no special comment. 
The staging arrangements were carried out by Mr. T. 
White, Mr. G. Blackmore, and Mr. E. Bridge, the 
secretary, and gave complete satisfaction. 
ORCHID NO TES AND GLEANINGS. 
TAINIA SESSILIFOLIA, Nov. Sp. 
A short time ago I received from Messrs. Charles- 
worth, Shuttle worth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, some 
specimens of a Tainia which does not agree with any 
other known species, and I therefore propose to 
describe it as being new. The pseudo-bulbs are small, 
oblong, tetragonal, longitudinally wrinkled and fur¬ 
rowed when old, and one to two-leaved. The leaves 
are lanceolate, sessile, plicate, coriaceous, glabrous, 
dark green, with three strong ribs along the central 
portion, and numerous more slender veins ; they are 
about 12 ins. long, and narrowed to the base. The 
flower scape arises from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, 
is racemose, and 15 ins. to 18 ins. long. The bracts 
are ovate, acute, and three to five-nerved. The flowers 
are numerous, of medium size, and greenish white. 
The lateral sepals are lanceolate, acuminate or almost 
caudate, three-nerved from the base, with two to three 
more slender ones upward, and adnate to the foot of 
the column, forming a short mentum or chin ; the 
upper sepal is narrower and free at the base. The 
petals are like the upper sepal, but narrower and 
shorter, with similar venation. The lip is erect, three- 
lobed, and narrowed to the base, where it is attached 
to the apex of the foot of the column ; three strong 
brown ridges run along the centre from base to apex. 
The lateral lobes are short, ovate, obtuse, and clasp the 
column ; the middle lobe is spreading, subulate, acu¬ 
minate, with five longitudinal ridges. The column is 
short for the genus and slightly curved. The anther cap 
is didymous, but not horned as in some of the species. 
The eight pollinia are arranged in a double series of four 
each, and are quite characteristic. The ovary is clavate 
and acutely trigonous, or even alate, with undulated 
wings. 
The six or seven hitherto described species are natives 
of the East Indies, southern China, and the Malayan 
Archipelago. The present species was imported from 
Java, coming from a collection of plants cultivated in a 
garden there, but amongst them were plants from 
Borneo and other East Indian islands, so that the 
precise habitat of this species cannot at present be 
determined. The most marked distinctions between it 
and other species consist in the two sessile, not stalked 
leaves, and in the short column. The species of Tainia 
generally are neither showy nor of any great commercial 
value.— J. Fraser. 
Calanthes at Burford Lodge, Dorking. 
A few of these beauties and rarities of Sir Trevor 
Lawrence are now making a great display in the Orchid 
houses. The following are in beautiful bloom now ;—• 
Calanthe rosea, rosy sepals and petals, white centre ; 
C. Sedeni, deep rosy red, purple eye; C. Yeitchii 
lactea, a pure white with two spikes ; C. V. splendens, 
very rich deep rosy colour; C. Burfordensis, very deep 
crimson-purple; C. bella, rose, white lip, centre purple; 
C. nivea, pure white with faint yellow centre ; C. 
porphyrea, a little beauty, deep crimson, Limatodes- 
shape flower. I may add that Calanthe Veitchii is of 
the deep rosy strain, and is just developing its spikes 
which will be most acceptable.— Calanthe. 
Cypripedium Spicerianum. 
In the gardens at Swanswell, Coventry, the residence 
of J. Powers, Esq., some fine specimens of this beautiful 
free-flowering Cypripedium are now blooming in the 
Orchid houses. One variety is of dwarf habit, with 
purplish dorsal sepal and dark shining pouch ; this has 
some thirty-eight blooms upon it. Another variety is 
a much larger flower, and produces several twin-flowered 
stems ; this has a large dorsal sepal, white, with a 
purple line in the centre, and the pouch is yellowish 
green. This specimen produces thirty-six blooms in 
perfection. Mr. Stuart, the gardener, grows them 
remarkably well.— Cypripedium. 
Odontoglossum Duvivieranum. 
The sepals of this plant are lanceolate, acuminate, 
keeled, and yellow, blotched transversely with tawny 
brown on the lower half. The petals are oblong-ovate, 
acute and revolute at the tip, yellow and spotted with 
tawny brown on the lower half. The lip is triangular 
acuminate, revolute at the tip, creamy white, and 
blotched all over with tawny brown, having a large 
prominent blotch of the same colour on each side of the 
bilobed crest. The leaves are lanceolate, bright green, 
and the ovate pseudo-bulbs are much compressed. The 
ascending flower spikes bear about six or seven blooms 
each. A plant was shown at the Drill Hall, West¬ 
minster, on the 11th inst., by M. Linden, Parc 
Leopold, Brussels, when he received an Award of 
Merit for it. 
Odontoglossum Ncezlianum. 
The pseudo-bulbs of a plant shown under this name at 
the Drill Hall, Westminster, on the 11th inst., by M. 
Linden, Parc Leopold, Brussels, were ovate, compressed; 
and the ascending flower stems were sometimes 
branched. The flowers are small and scarlet, with 
elliptic, acute sepals, and broader petals. The three- 
lobed lip is adnate to the column, and the middle lobe 
is three-toothed, with a four-toothed crest at its base. 
The column is scarlet, with a purple blotch at the top. 
A Botanical Certificate was awarded the plant. 
Cypripedium hybridum Eyermanianum. 
This hybrid was raised by fertilising C. Spicerianum 
with the pollen of C. barbatum grandiflorum. The 
leaves are oblong, narrowed either way, light green, 
marbled with a darker hue, and 4 ins. to 6 ins. long. 
The scape is one-flowered and about a foot in length. 
The upper sepal is nearly orbicular, revolute at the sides, 
and white suffused with purple, and having darker 
veins ; the upper part is pure white, while the base is 
green. The petals are linear-oblong, dull brown, 
shining, ciliated on the edges, and dotted with black at 
the base. The lip is very large and purple, like the 
male parent. The staminode is semi-lunate, toothed 
in the wide notch and violet-purple. A plant shown 
by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, at the Drill 
Hall, Westminster, on the 11th inst., was accorded an 
Award of Merit. 
Cypripedium Antigone- 
The seed parent of this hybrid was C. Lawrenceanum 
fertilised with the pollen of C. niveum. The leaves 
are short, oblong, and beautifully marked with a deep 
green on a greenish yellow ground. The scape about 
12 ins. high is one-flowered. The upper sepal is broad 
and ovate-rotund, white suffused with darker veins, 
and having a few green veins near the base. The 
petals are nearly horizontal, oblong-spathulate, ciliated 
with black hairs on both edges, and rose-coloured, 
dotted with black in lines, especially near the base. 
The lip is large and creamy white, heavily suffused 
with rosy purple near the mouth in front. The stami¬ 
node is lunate, with a tooth in the notch, pubescent 
and rosy, reticulated with green veins. It was shown 
at the Drill Hall, Westminster, on the 11th inst., by 
Messrs. J. Yeitch & Sons, Chelsea, who received a First 
Class Certificate for it. 
The Orchid Growers’ Calendar. 
We are striving now as opportunity offers to get the 
Orchid houses and their contents thoroughly cleaned 
through, so that the plants may enjoy the full benefit 
of all the light obtainable during the dull months of 
the year, and as there is but very little re-potting to be 
done just now, it affords more opportunity to overhaul 
thoroughly all the plants, whether grown in pots or 
baskets. Our practice is to first clean the plants by 
sponging, and then put stakes to support new bulbs, or 
to replace such as are useless. The plants are cleared off 
the stage until one side or a section is free, after which 
we syringe the roof-glass, woodwork, and walls under 
the stages with water in which is enough Hudson’s 
Extract or soda to ease the dirt, together with a wine- 
glassful of paraffin to two gallons of water. After 
cleaning out the laps of the glass, the woodwork, glass 
and stages are scrubbed and syringed down, the shell, 
shingle or spar is washed, and all made clean and 
ready for the clean plants and pots to stand on. 
By doing the houses one at a time it is possible to 
prevent being in confusion all over the place at the 
same time, besides getting through the work more 
comfortably. The mixture of soap and paraffin quickly 
dislodges any insects or eggs which may lurk in cracks 
or crevices, but care is required in using the syringe so 
that the plants are not splashed with it, or the 
consequences may be serious. 
Cattleya Bowringiana makes the flowering house 
cheerful just now, and there is no lack of odour while 
a plant or two of Trichosma suavis are in flower, as 
well as the sweet-scented Oncidium tigrinum, or a 
spike or two of Vanda suavis, to give a spicy scent to 
the house. Trichosma suavis thrives best in the cool 
house, and should not be over-potted ; a pdaut in a 
6-in. pot, producing six or eight flower spikes, being 
quite enough to scent a fair-sized house. 
Cattleyas of the various sections now at rest should 
be kept as quiet as possible, for where young growths 
of C. gigas and C. Dowiana start in the winter months 
they only weaken themselves, without any prospect 
of making flowering bulbs. CAVarneri is now pushing 
its young growths, and will continue to grow steadily 
through the winter, but should be watered very sparingly 
for a long time yet, or it will probably shirk flowering, 
and so cause disappointment.— IV. P. 
