March 16, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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petaloid stigmas and the narrow spathulate standards 
are lilac, blue, or purple. Tire standards are notable 
in this species, inasmuch as they spread horizontally 
or droop instead of being erect. The falls are much 
broader and arching, lilac in the lower part, with a 
medium yellow ridge, and of a deep violet-purple on 
the upper half. In colour, however, different in¬ 
dividuals vary considerably, as that shown by Messrs. 
Barr & Son was darker in all its parts. 
Amaryllis, John Ruskin. 
Great regularity is shown by the flowers of this 
species, which are borne in pairs on the top of short 
peduncles. They are of great size, and almost or 
quite orbicular, with the lower segment of the perianth 
only slightly smaller than the rest. The tube is short, 
and the flowers widely expanded almost to the base, 
and all parts are of great substance and have a refined 
appearance. This is accounted for in a great mea¬ 
sure by the almost uniform distribution of the soft 
scarlet colour, shading to a somewhat darker tint 
towards the base, with a very small six-rayed greenish 
star at the base only, It is a noble acquisition to 
this gorgeous class of plants. A specimen was exhibited 
at the Drill Hall on Tuesday last by the Messrs. 
Veitch, when it received an unanimous award of a 
First Class Certificate by theFloral Committee. 
Olivia, Lady Wolverton. 
In this we have a wonderful advance upon the varie¬ 
ties of this that have previously appeared before the 
public. The whole plant exhibits unusual vigour, 
with leaves of enormous width, and great flattened 
peduncles bearing huge trusses of flowers. Individually 
the latter are also of great size, with broad segments 
of an orange-scarlet, and yellowish white in the throat. 
The flowers also show themselves off to great advantage 
by the way in which they spread open. A large plant 
was exhibited by Mr. P. Davidson, Iwerne Minster 
Shaftesbury, at the Drill Hall, Westminster, on 
Tuesday last, when it was unanimously awarded a 
First Class Certificate. 
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ORCHIDS AT NUNFIELD, 
DUMFRIES. 
At the present time the Orchid houses belonging to 
W. H. Scott, Esq., are quite gay with many species 
and varieties of great excellence, Cattleya Trianaj 
being in the foremost rank. C. T. Williamsii, with its 
blush sepals and deep crimson lip is far ahead of its 
congeners, and at first sight reminds one of C. T. 
Osmanii, only smaller in all its parts. Another noble 
specimen, carrying sixteen spikes, had a grand appear¬ 
ance, and demonstrates what a valuable winter¬ 
flowering Orchid this is outside the London fogs, C. T. 
delicata also being in good form. Dendrobiums made 
a grand show ; one specimen with fifty-three flowering 
growths, carrying over 600 blooms, was an imposing 
sight. D. Wardianum and D. Jamesianum were also 
in flower. Ccelogyne cristata is grown in large 
quantities, from huge specimens with dozens of spikes 
to small pieces with two or three spikes, hanging from 
the roof in baskets, which had a very pretty effect. 
Dendrochilum glumaceum filled the house with its 
delicately-scented flowers. Odontoglossum Cervantesii 
was well represented, as also in good form, one having 
twelve fine spikes. Various Cypripediums, Lycaste 
Skinneri, and others also added to the show. A fine 
specimen of Cymbidium eburneum, carrying thirty 
spikes, will soon be at its best. The whole collection 
reflects great credit on Mr. Rowe, the head gardener. 
— R. C. Fraser. 
[A box of flowers has reached us from Mr. C. J. 
Rowe himself, showing that the collection must contain 
some fine things. A form of Cattleya Trianae was 
particularly distinct, inasmuch as the markings in the 
tube of the lip looked as if the plant had been the 
result of a cross between C. Trianae and C. Dowiana, 
the former being the seed parent. The whole of the 
lower part of the tube was deep purple, much darker 
along the centre, and striated with yellowish white 
lines. There was a large yellow blotch in the throat, 
but this did not run down to the base as usual ; the 
upper portion was of a dark purple. Besides these 
particulars, the petals were 3 ins. long, of unusual 
width, and deeper purple than is generally the case. 
Another variety with delicate blush sepals and petals 
was notable for the rich crimson-purple covering the 
whole of the lamina of the lip. A flower of Ccelogyne 
cristata sent us was as large as that named the 
Chatsworth variety. A spike of smaller flowers with 
a shorter lip than is usual for the species, but in no 
other way differing from the type, does not seem to 
have received any special name. The side lobes nearly 
touched the column. It may, however, ultimately 
grow out of this character.—E d.] 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
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The Orchid Growers' Calendar. 
The Flowering House.— There can be no doubt that 
when a house is devoted to Orchids in flower in any 
establishment where a good collection of plants exist it 
forms a very useful and attractive feature, and this 
plan of moving those flowering plants which may safely 
be transferred from their growing quarters has been 
carried out for some years past in many well-known 
establishments. The advantages are many where the 
necessary accommodation exists, and experience teaches 
us that such a house in which the flowering plants are 
mixed with Palms and Ferns proves attractive to 
ordinary visitors who hardly care to go through a lot 
of houses on purpose to see a sprinkling of blooms in 
each, though, of course, to enthusiastic cultivators the 
plants are almost as interesting as the flowers. 
In the case of very large specimens it is not advisable 
to transfer them, though it is a matter for regret that 
in many places fine masses of Cattleyas, Lielias and 
many other things bloom on tall stages almost unseen 
from below, and consequently unappreciated. Many 
houses are ill adapted for showing off flowers to the 
best advantage, and therefore it is all the more 
necessary to have a flowering house, or to set apart a 
portion of the structure, so as to make one or two 
groups of blooming Orchids. Where, however, the 
houses are well adapted for displaying the flowers 
without removal this may be unnecessary. 
The flowering house here is kept at the same tem¬ 
perature as the Cattleya house, but a little drier, which 
tends to prolong the flowering season, but care must be 
taken not to allow the plants to suffer too much, 
through flowering for too long a period, nor is it 
advisable to put weakly plants into the house for any 
length of time. Many of the Dendrobiums are best 
removed to their growing quarters as soon as the flowers 
are over, if the young growths are pushing from the base 
of the bulbs. This remark applies also to such things as 
Zygopetalums, Chysis, Odontoglossum eitrosmum, and 
other things which push up the flower spikes and 
growth together. 
It is not advisable to remove Phalsenopsis or the 
choicer varieties of Cypripediums into the flowering 
house, nor do we take any Odontoglossums in, except 
such as 0. Eossii majus, 0. Humeanum, 0. aspersum, 
0. eitrosmum, and a few others which grow in pans or 
baskets : but there are plenty of other things which 
help to keep the house gay. At the present time 
Cattleya Trianae is making a nice show, and other 
plants in flower are Ccelogyne cristata Lemoniana, 
Chatsworth and Trentham varieties ; a plant of C. 
cristata alba, with sixty spotless flowers ; Cypripedium 
villosum, C. Harrisianum, C. Boxallii, C. insigne, 
C. Maulei, C. calurum, C. Sedeni, and six strong spikes 
of C. Sedeni candidulum, a plant which should be in 
every collection ; Lycaste Skinneri, in variety ; 
Oncidium splendidum, 0. Cavendishianum, 0. Phal¬ 
senopsis, and 0. cueullatum giganteum ; Laslia 
harpophylla, and L. cinnabarina, which, with Ada 
aurantiaca, help to give bright colour in place of 
Sophronitis grandiflora, which is now over. Odonto¬ 
glossum Rossii majus, in 6-in. pans, look very nice 
suspended from the roof when well bloomed ; while 
small plants of Ccelogynes in pans, with two or three 
spikes on each, are very pretty. 
We find Oncidium Marshallianum, 0. crispum, 
0. concolor, 0. Forbesii, 0. varicosum Rogersii, and 
allied plants grow best in the coldest house, supplied 
with abundance of water, but they are taken into the 
flowering house when their spikes are well advanced, 
and seem to benefit by staying there a month, after the 
flowers are over, in the drier atmosphere while at rest. 
In several collections which I have visited lately I 
have found Mr. Outram’s Orchid Flower Holder in 
use. Like all simple contrivances, it is very con¬ 
venient, and certainly must be admitted to be well 
adapted to show the flowers to best advantage when 
cut off the plants for the sake of easing them. — JF. P. 
Cymbidium eburneo-Lowianum. 
The name of this hybrid indicates its origin. In habit 
and general appearance, it, however, bears a greater 
resemblance to C. Lowianum, especially with regard to 
the arching spike, which bears a number of flowers. 
C. eburneum bears one flower only, or two under good 
cultivation. The spreading sepals and petals are pale 
straw-yellow, while the lip is paler, almost white in 
the interior of the tube, with a yellow blotch in the 
throat like that seen in C. eburneum. The upper 
portion of the lip is also furnished with a large horse¬ 
shoe-shaped, reddish brown blotch. A specimen of it 
was exhibited by Messrs. J. Veitch k Sons, Chelsea, at 
the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society in the 
Drill Hall, Westminster, on Tuesday last, when it was 
unanimously awarded a First Class Certificate by the 
Floral Committee. The next object of the hybridist 
will be to get a pure white form having a long raceme 
of flowers, as in C. Lowianum. 
Cypripedium Rothschildianum. 
A fine plant of this new and noble species bearing two 
flowers on a spike was exhibited by Lord Rothschild 
(Mr. Hill, gardener), Tring Park, at the meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society on Tuesday last, when a 
First Class Certificate was unanimously awarded to it. 
Both the upper and lower sepals are large, roundly 
ovate, yellow, and striped brownish purple. The petals 
are of great length, spread nearly horizontally, and are 
striped and spotted with brownish purple on a yellow 
ground ; they are ciliate on both edges with brownish 
purple. The huge lip is almost wholly of a brownish 
purple slightly stained with yellow, and from its shape, 
as well as in the various colours, bears some affinity 
with C. Stonei and its variety, C. S. platytsenium. 
The staminode, a most curious structure, is bent in the 
middle, above which it is spathulate, notched at the 
apex and covered with purple white-tipped hairs. The 
great rigid deep green leaves are strongly channelled. 
When established this will no doubt prove a magni¬ 
ficent species. Cypripedium Elliottianum was shown at 
the same time by Mr. Whillans, gardener to the Duke 
of Marlborough. The peduncle bore one flower only, 
which was smaller in all its parts than that of C. Roths¬ 
childianum, and the petals being much shorter, the 
brownish purple markings were less developed. The 
upper sepal was also narrower. C. Elliottianum can 
therefore only be a sinall-flowered variety of C. Roths¬ 
childianum unless it improves greatly when thoroughly 
established. 
Odontoglossum Harryanum. 
If the several parts of the flower of this bold species 
would grow in a flattened-out manner, in the same way 
as Miltonia vexillaria and others of that class, they 
would be much more effective for horticultural purposes 
than they are, yet none the more distinct for botanical 
purposes. From Mr. P. McArthur, The London 
Nursery, 4, Maida Vale, we have received a very fine 
form, the upper sepal of which measured somewhat 
over 1 in. in breadth. It was of leathery consistency, 
deep chocolate-brown, and ornamented with a scroll¬ 
work of yellow. Much of this was, however, lost by the 
way in which the edges became strongly revolute. The 
violet and white reticulation at the base of the petals 
and lip were also well marked. The broad upper portion 
of the latter was white, more or less tinted on the sides 
with canary-yellow. The flower exhaled a moderately 
strong but not disagreeable odour. Accompanying 
this was a twin-flowered spike of 0. Rossii majus, the 
lip and petals of which were pure white, except at the 
base. The sepals were heavily blotched with brown 
on a white ground, and the whole flower was of great 
size for the species. 
Cypripedium bellatulum. 
This is evidently going to be one of the most vigorous 
of the group which includes C. niveum, C. Godefroyse, 
and C. concolor. A large batch of plants of last year’s 
importation, now nicely established in the nursery of 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, are showing 
for flower. The leaves are of great size, and beautifully 
tesselated, while the under-side exhibits the same 
variability as occurs in the rest of the group. A freshly 
imported lot is also about to flower, having advanced 
considerably on their way home. The leaves made in 
the native home of the plant are even longer than those 
established last year, but the conditions under which 
they had been grown there would determine the cause. 
The soil adhering to the freshly imported pieces 
resembles red clay in its nature—or, at least, a very 
heavy loam. We have also seen other species of this 
group grown in loam in this country, but we should 
still be cautious in recommending potting material of 
that nature. 
Odontoglossum odoratum baphicanthum 
Amongst the various forms of 0. odoratum, few are 
more distinct than the subject of this note. The pale 
ones are generally known in gardens as 0. gloriosum, 
but there are no structural differences to separate them 
from 0. odoratum. The sepals and petals of the 
variety under notice are of a uniform canary-yellow, 
with four or five deep chestnut-brown spots about the 
middle of each. The lip is similarly coloured, with a 
broad triangular base. In this latter respect it differs 
somewhat from the typical form, and is certainly very 
distinct. We noted it in the nursery of Mr. B. S. 
Williams, Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper 
Holloway. 
