March 19, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
457 
bsaring branches drooping in a graceful manner. 
Standards could be formed by training up the leading 
stem to the desired height and then allowing it to 
branch from the top. They are usually however 
grafted at the desired height on the stems of Pereskia 
aculeata, or P. Bleo, belonging to the same family, 
namely, the Cactese. 
STRIKING CARNATION CUTTINGS. 
It may not be known to all of your readers that 
Carnation cuttings can be rooted as easily as 
those of Pelargoniums. Have some clean well drained 
pots filled with a mixture of loam, leaf soil and sand 
in equal parts, and pressed down firm. Then get the 
cuttings, in the preparation of which lies the secret 
of success. Instead of cutting it square across under 
a node or joint, make a longitudinal cut through two 
or three joints as is done in cutting a tongue for 
layering. Having dressed the cuttings in this manner 
dibble them in the pots closely and go per cent, 
will strike root. I have several times tried this plan 
during the last two years with all sorts of varieties, 
and found it very successful.—IT. N. 
ACACIAS. 
Among other plants that add materially to the riches 
of the greenhouse or conservatory at this season the 
Acacias are well worthy of cultivation. The well 
known A. armata, A. grandis and A. Riceana are 
each very showy species, and when grown to a height 
of 3 ft. or 4 ft. in a mixture of good peat and loam, 
form magnificent specimens when in full bloom. A 
small plant of the latter kind, which I received in a 
y-in. pot a few years ago, was grown on and last year 
stationed as a climber in a lofty conservatory, 
where it is at present flowering freely. The long 
trailing racemes of bloom which abound from base 
to apex of the pillar on which it is trained presents a 
singularly graceful and pleasing effect.— D. N., 
Ayrshire. 
ERANTHUS HYEMALIS. 
I noticed the subject of this note in full bloom a 
fortnight ago, the numerous yellow flowers contrast¬ 
ing admirably with its green foliage, and the moss- 
covered rockwork. At this early date many seed¬ 
lings can be seen in their first leaf. The plants 
in question seem to fully enjoy the position they 
occupy, which is under some standard Yew trees with 
shrubby surroundings. There is another variety of 
Eranthus cultivated, E. Sibiricus, having only five 
sepals while the former has six. The flower is yellow 
and it blooms in March and April. They are natives 
of Western Europe and Siberia, and are both pretty 
little hardy tuberous-rooted perennials.- IT. N. 
DAPHNE MvZEREUM. 
A fortnight ago I noticed two fine examples of 
this useful shrub in full flower, c.ne specimen grow¬ 
ing in a herbaceous border being fully 5 ft. high 
and 4 ft. in diameter. It was densely covered with 
its red pear-like blossoms, which quite filled the air 
with their delicate perfume. This Daphne is a deci¬ 
duous shrub, perfectly hardy, and thrives best in a 
deep moist soil.—IT. N , Abergavenny. 
AMARYLLIS PRINCE OF ORANGE 
Although this is an old variety which may not bear 
much comparison with modern sorts in point of 
size, it yet does not lose by comparison in the matter 
of floriferousness. Some three years ago I had three 
good bulbs, and now I have two dozen, so free is it 
in producing, off-sets. Our large bulbs this year., 
potted three in a 7-in. pot, gave us two spikes each 
many of which had three blooms on a spike. Another 
merit in this variety is that the bulbs bloom in quite 
a small state. A gardening friend to whom I gave a 
few bulbs recently wrote me that he never saw such 
small bulbs of Amaryllis bloom so freely before ; he 
had two spikes to each bulb. Tree blooming plants, 
whatever they may be, are most valuable to every 
gardener. I never allow this variety to get dry at 
the roots, or put it into a low temperature. Some 
of the plants were in bloom at the beginning of. 
January, and with a good stock, a long succession is 
maintained. — Con. 
GOLDEN STAR OF BETHLEHEM 
The plant to which this name may be applied, 
namely Ornithogalum aureum, was originally intro¬ 
duced to this country in 1790, that is over a hundred 
years ago, but like O. arabicum, has only been culti¬ 
vated intermittingly during that time. The flowers 
of O. aureum are of good average size with obovate, 
deep golden or almost orange-yellow segments 
having a green line down the back of each. The 
ovary occupying the centre of the flower is olive 
green, but unobtrusive, and does not in any way 
detract from the general appearance of the bloom. 
The leaves are lanceolate and of a deep shining 
green, while the scape arising from amongst them 
varies from 10 in. to 14 in. long, bearing on the top a 
short raceme of flowers from the axils of leafy 
bracts. The plant is a native of the Cape of Good 
Hope, and requires greenhouse treatment in this 
country, but might well be grown for forcing pur¬ 
poses along with the white flowered O. arabicum, so 
that one might serve to show off the other by con¬ 
trast. A batch of O. aureum is now flowering in the 
cool conservatory in the nursery of Messrs. J. 
Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
SPIR/EA THUNBERGII. 
As this comes into bloom very early in spring, even 
out of doors in this country provided the weather is 
mild, it follows that very little forcing is required to 
urge it into bloom under glass. The slender, twiggy 
stems look very graceful when covered with their 
linear-lanceolate leaves and white Hawthorn-like 
blossoms. Out of doors there is a liability of the 
flowers and even of the first expanded leaves getting 
injured with the late frosts; but under glass they 
expand with all the freshness of a warm, showery, 
and genial spring. The plant is naturally of dwarf 
and bushy habit, even when it attains full size, so 
that young plants may be kept for several years of a 
suitable size for pot work. Like Deutzias they 
must be properly cared for after flowering until the 
weather gets sufficiently warm for them to be placed 
out of doors. 
GOLDUFSSIA ANISOPHYLLA. 
This free winter-blooming plant does not need near 
so much heat as many gardeners think it does. 
During the past winter I have had it standing in a 
cold greenhouse where the temperature went down to 
40° at night during January and February, and it 
has bloomed most satisfactorily. It is an old plant 
of the easiest culture and should be more often seen 
in private gardens than it is.— Con. 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 
Cypripedium Brysa. 
This new' garden hybrid was raised from C. Sedeni 
candidulum fertilized with the pollen of C. 
Boisierianum. Both parents belonged therefore to 
the section Selenipedium, the New World type of 
the genus. The leaves are linear-lanceolate, pointed, 
keeled on the back, of a rich deep green and 12 in. 
to 18 in. long even in the present young condition of 
the plant. The flower scape of a plant shown by 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, at the Drill Hall 
on the 8th inst., was about 18 in. high and had just 
commenced to flower, so that the number of blooms 
each is capable of developing cannot yet be deter¬ 
mined, suffice to say from four upwards. The upper 
sepal is oblong, and straw-coloured, with wavy and 
netted pale green veins. The lanceolate petals are 
of the same hue on the lower half with a boss of 
purple hairs at the base, and pink on the apical half, 
while the edges are wavy and the upper portion 
twisted. The lip is large and of a peculiarly rounded 
shape with a curious ear or lobe on each side of the 
claw'. It is of a pale pinkish hue slightly tinted with 
green, and the claw is spotted w'ith red. An Award 
of Merit was accorded the hybrid. 
Cypripedium ianthe 
Here again we have a garden hybrid, but the 
parentage has not been given. The leaves are 
elliptic-oblong, about 3 in. to 5 in. long, greyish- 
green and tessellated or marbled with rich green 
The upper sepal is roundish, heavily suffused with 
brown, darker on the veins, suffused with green 
upwards, and white at the edges w'hich are ciliated. 
The petals are spathulate and of a defp shining 
brown. The lip is also of a shining brown with 
deeper veins. The one flowered scape is purple, 
hairy, and about 6 in. high. The whole plant is 
therefore dwarf and compact. It seems to have 
some affinity with C. villosum, and some of the species 
or hybrids' having beautifully marbled foliage. 
An Award of Merit was accorded it when shown by 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, at the same time 
and place as the above. 
Odontoglossum Pescatorei Jackson s Var. 
The pseudo-bulbs of this variety a r e ovoid and much 
tinted with brown as we frequently see in the type. 
The sepals are lanceolate and white, with one, two 
or three large red blotches sometimes variously 
amalgamated into one on the middle of each and 
shaded with rose externally. The petals are broad, 
lanceolate-ovate, beautifully crisped at the edge and 
coloured like the sepals. The obovate, spathulate 
and apiculate lip is white with three crimson blotches 
in front of the golden yellow crest, and striated with 
crimson on the lateral lobes of the crest On the 
whole the variety is bold, attractive and showy, and 
must be highly appreciated by the owner, J F 
Jackson, Esq., J.P. (gardener, Mr G. Dowsett), 
Bourne Place, Bexley, Kent, who exhibited it at the 
Drill Hall on the 8th inst., when an Award of Merit 
was accorded it. 
Dendrobium Jamesianum 
Among the large flowered Dendrobes of this section 
none are more amenable to culture than the above. 
Ours are grown in the coolest end of the Mexican 
house, and last year, when in bloom about the end of 
April the largest plant was removed to the cool 
house, where it continued in bloom nearly two 
months. The rest has certainly suited it, for it is 
more vigorous than ever this year. The new bulbs 
average newly a yard in length already, and with the 
old ones are already showing flower buds in pro¬ 
fusion. — Jas. Brown, Arddarroch , N. B. 
Odontoglossum Rossii Humeanum. 
This was supposed by Reichenbach to be a hybrid 
between O. Rossii and O. maculatum. The most 
striking feature is the yellow ground colour of the 
sepals and petals. A remarkable fact relating to this 
Odontoglot is that seldom are the flowers of two 
plants exactly alike in a batch of imported plants. 
Some time ago we noted three plants in bloom in the 
nursery of Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & 
Co., 213, Park Road, Clapham, and all three were 
entirely different. The other day they sent us two 
spikes of bloom, and they too were quite distinct 
from one another and both good. One of them 
having two flowers on the scape has been in bloom 
for two months. The sepals were heavily blotched 
all over with chocolate brown, leaving only thin 
lines of yellow. The petals when fresh w'ere of a 
beautiful chrome yellow, but were even darker when 
we had them and blotched with deep chocolate 
brown on the lower third of their length. The lip 
on the contrary was primrose yellow with a deep 
bright yellow crest. The other flower scape carried 
four flowers of large size—an unusual number. The 
sepals were almost of a deep chocolate brown, the 
yellow lines being very faint. The petals were 
sulphur yellow with a few large reddish brown 
blotches at the very base. The lip was pure white 
with exception of the prominent bright yellow crest, 
faintly marked with red on the inside. 
Trichopilia suavis. 
Few if any of the Trichopilias are more floriferous 
or produce a finer effect than this one when in bloom. 
This effect is also due to the great size of the flowers 
as well as their clean and pleasing colours. The 
sepals and petals are lanceolate, and white, spotted 
with faint rosy markings. The lip is the boldest and 
most conspicuous organ of the flow'er, and is folded 
round the column, but with an open, somewhat 
funnel-shaped lamina, richly spotted and marked 
with deep rose all round the base on a pure white 
ground. A large number of flowers are produced 
from each pseudo-bulb, so that a plant possessing a 
few pseudo-bulbs of a suitable age presents a hand¬ 
some appearance when in full bloom. It is a capital 
subject for cultivation in pots or small Orchid pans 
and suspending from the roof of a house so as to be 
on a level with the eye or nearly so. We noted a 
handsomely flowered piece of it in the nursery of 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
Dendrobium Harveyanum. 
Although the flowers of this species are much 
smaller and perhaps less striking in their way than 
those of D. Brymerianum, yet a well-flowered plant is 
equally pretty and as interesting. The stems are 
fusiform and 12 in. to 18 in. long. The flowers are 
produced in short, lateral, drooping racemes of four to 
six flowers from the old or leafless stems, and are of a 
rich golden yellow. The sepals are oblong-ovate, 
and possess no special characteristic beyond what is 
the case with many other Dendrobes. The petals 
are very remarkable however, inasmuch as the} are 
