May 16, 1896. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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mediate. The flowers are waxy in character with 
ovate sepals and cuneate petals, all of a creamy 
white with a large salmon blotch at the apex. The 
lip is three-lobed, with yellow lateral lobes and a 
salmon-red, terminal one, veined with creamy lines. 
The column is white on the back and yellow on the 
face, spotted with red. The combination of colours 
makes the hybrid distinct and attractive. Award of 
Merit. Messsrs, J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
Laeliocattleya Eudora. Nov. hyb. bigen .— 
This bigeneric hybrid was derived from Laelia pur- 
purata crossed with Cattleya Mmielii, resulting iQ a 
beautiful form intermediate between the parents, 
both as to the form and colour. The sepals and 
petals are rosy lilac. The lip is very large, 
expanded at the throat, and having a white tube 
suffused with purple. The lamina is intense purple 
fadiDg to white in the throat, while the interior is 
soft purple lined with yellow. In all these characters 
it departs widely from either parent. Award of 
Merit. Chas. L. N. Ingram, Esq (gardener, Mr. T. 
Bond), Elstead House, Godaiming. 
Mlltonia Roezlii alba Cobb svar. Nov. var .— 
The flowers in this instance are wholly white with 
the exception of an orange blotch on the base of the 
lip and two brown lines in front of the crest. The 
variety is therefore choice, chaste, and beautiful. 
Award of Merit. Walter Cobb, Esq, (gardener, Mr. 
Howse), Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells. 
Odontoglossum Hallii grandiflorum. Nov. 
va r .—Not only are the flowers of this variety 
unusually large, but they are dark in colour. The 
sepals are of a deep chocolate with yellow tips and 
some streaks at the base. The petals are yellow, 
with numerous small blotches. The lip is fringed, 
and the crest has a very bristly appearance. In front 
of it is a large chocolate blotch. The variety is a 
showy one. Award of Merit. C. J. Lucas Esq. (gar¬ 
dener, Mr. Duncao), Warnham Court, Horsham. 
Odontoglossum orispum Princess. Nov. var. 
_Both in form and colour, this variety is very 
handsome. The sepals are white shaded with rosy 
purple on the back, the colour showing itself on the 
inner face as if shining through. On the inner face 
there are one or more blotches in the centre. The 
broad petals are even more interesting owing to a 
large purple blotch on the back but shining through 
on the face. Award of Merit. W. Vanner, Esq. 
(gardener, Mr. W. H. Robins), Camden Wood, 
Chislehurst. 
Catasetum macrocarpum.—The varieties of 
this are so numerous and distinct that several of 
them have been described as distinct species. In 
this case the large petals are pale green, densely 
blotched with dark brownish-purple. The lip is green 
externally, yellow internally, fleshy and pouch like. 
Botanical Certificate. The Hon. Walter Roth¬ 
schild, (gardener, Mr. E Hill), Tring Park, Tring. 
Stenoglottis longifolia—The flowers of this 
pretty terrestrial Orchid are soft lilac, beautifully 
spotted with purple. The curious lip is cut into five 
segments. The leaves are radical and the stems pur¬ 
ple. Botanical Certificate. Messrs. F. Sander & 
Co., St. Albans. 
Eria bractescens.—As the name would indicate, 
the bracts of this species are very large and pale 
straw yellow. The tip of the petals and the side 
lobes of the lip are blood red, otherwise, the flowers 
are similar in colour to the bracts. Botanical Certi¬ 
ficate. Messrs. F. Sander & Co. 
Catasetum trifldum.— The specific name in 
this case refers to the curious, flat and trifid lip, 
which is green and blotched with dark brown. The 
sepals are deep brown and the petals are heavily 
blotched. A long raceme of bloom was exhibited by 
Sir Weetman-Pearson, Bart , Paddockhurst, Crawley, 
Sussex. Botanical Certificate. 
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PLANTS RECENTLY CERTIFICATED, 
The following awards were made by the Royal 
Horticultural Society on the 5th inst. 
Floral Committee. 
Posoqueh i A macropus —The noble looking flowers 
of this plant are less often seen than their 
appearance would warrant. The flowers are tubular 
with a four-fid lamina something in the style of a 
Bouvardia, but having a tube 3 in. or 4 in. in length. 
The ovate, leathery, evergreen leaves are soft and 
velvety beneath, Not the least recommendation of 
the flowers, is their powerful scent filling the stove 
in which they are grown. A shoot bearing three 
trusses of bloom, and another with one truss, were 
shown by Messrs. W. Balchin & Sons, Hassocks, 
Sussex. First-class Certificate. 
Pteris Drinkwaterii. —In this we have a new 
market Fern in the way of P. cretica umbrosa, but 
with much larger and more leathery fronds, of a 
deep shining green, with pinnules often an inch in 
breadth. They have great powers of endurance in a 
dry atmosphere. Award of Merit. Messrs. Stroud 
Bros., 182, Green Lanes, N. 
Darwin Tulip, The Sultan. —This may be 
described as a form of Tulipa gesneriana in the 
primary or breeder form. The segments are of a 
rich blackish-maroon with a violet base so that if it 
were to become rectified it would become a bybloe- 
men. As a decorative or bedding Tulip it differs 
very much from those already in use. Award of 
Merit. Messrs. Barr & Son, King Street, Covent 
Garden. 
Tulipa saxatilis. —The flowers of this species are 
of medium size and of a soft rosy-pink with a golden 
base occupying about one-third of the length of the 
segments, and exceedingly pretty. Award of Merit. 
Messrs. Barr & Son. 
Tulipa vitellina —In this we have a garden 
form that finds great favour for bedding and other 
decorative purposes. The flowers are large, with 
long, pointed, straw-yellow segments. Award of 
Merit. Messrs. Barr & Son. 
Acer Palmatum linearilobum. —The stems and 
branches of this Japanese Maple are slender, 
twiggy and much branched. The deep green leaves 
are deeply divided into five or seven, slender, 
lanceolate lobes. The variety is distinct and pretty 
even amongst the numerous Japanese Maples, and 
worthy of extended cultivation. Award of Merit. 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
PYRUS FLOR1BUNDA SCHEIDECKERII. —To all 
appearances this variety is of stiffer, less branching 
habit than the type, with the branches more or less 
densely covered with rosy-pink flowers. The latter 
are larger than in the type with much more numerous 
petals, as if semi-double. Award of Merit. Messrs. 
Paul & Sod, Cheshunt. 
Cardamine pratense, Miss Jekyll’s var. —The 
flowers of this variety seem smaller than those of 
the ordinary double form, but that may be the 
result of crowding, for the large plant shown by 
Messrs. Paul & Son was densely crowded and 
extremely floriferous. They are also of a darker 
lilac-purple. Award of Merit. 
Rhododendron Profusion. —As the name would 
imply, this variety is extremely floriferous. The 
flowers are of a soft, spotless pink. Award of Merit. 
Messrs. Paul & Son. 
Canna Roi de Rouges. —The large flowers of 
this noble variety are of a uniform, intense scarlet, 
with very broad segments. Although produced on 
the first stem from a very small plaDt, the number 
of flowers in the bunch was simply extraordinary. 
Award of Merit. Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, 
(gardener, Mr. Bain), Burford Lodge, Dorking. 
Rose, Mrs, Frank Cant. —In this we have a new 
and very beautiful Rose, whose chief fault is that it 
comes too near some others. It is of a soft silvery- 
pink and intermediate between La France and 
Madame Gabriel Luizet, having the shape and 
revolute petals of the former. Award of Merit. Mr. 
Frank Cant, Braiswick, Colchester. 
Pelargonium, King of Denmark. —This variety 
of zonal Pelargonium seems of dwarf and sturdy 
habit. The leaves have a very dark and decided 
bronzy zone, and the large flowers are semi-double, 
and salmon, tinted with scarlet. Award of Merit. 
Mr. R. Jensen, Mansfield Hill Nursery, Chingford, 
Essex. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee. 
Radish, olive-shaped, bright red, leafless.—This 
name is somewhat cumbrous, but explains the 
general features of the Radish, which, however, is 
not leafless, The leaves are round, dark green, 
crumpled, and remarkably short. Award of Merit. 
MM. Vilmorin, Andrieux et Cie, 4, Quai de la 
Megisserie, Paris. 
Rhubarb, Victoria. —The characters of this 
variety are so well-known that description is 
unnecessary. Award of Merit. It was brought up 
from the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at 
Chiswick. 
Rhubarb, Collis' Seedling.— Apparently this is 
intermediate between Victoria Rhubarb and 
Monarch. The stalks are somewhat paler than 
those of the former, but often twice as thick, and, 
therefore, very bulky and apparently good. Awaid 
of Merit. Royal Horticultural Society. 
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uf Science 
The Genus Stemona.—At the meeting ot the 
Linneau Snciety, on the 2nd ult., Mr. J. G. Baker, 
F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair, a paper was read 
by Mr. C. H. Wright "On the Genus Stemona 
(Lour.),” one of the few monocotyledonous genera 
whose flowers are constructed on a tetramerous type, 
and remarkable for the diversity of its vegetative 
characters, while its floral structure varies between 
comparatively narrow limits. In habit the plants of 
this genus are generally climbers, but S. sessilifolia 
(Miq ), and S. erecta (C. H. Wright), are exceptions. 
The leaves, whose primary veins are connected by 
very numerous approximate transverse ones, can be 
either alternate, opposite, or whorled, and in a few 
cases their petioles are adnate to the peduncles. 
The most remarkable structure in the flower is the 
stamen, in which a broad connective, surmounting a 
very short filament, is produced on the inner side 
into a keel completely separating the anther-cells, 
and also prolonged for a considerable distance above 
their apex. The pollen'of each cell is united into a 
mass connected with that of the other cell by an 
appendage resting upon the top of the keel. Of the 
twelve species enumerated by Mr. Wright as con¬ 
centrated in Eastern Asia, two of them extend to 
North Australia. The paper was commented on by 
Mr. J. G. Baker. 
Colour 1 Measurement.—It is possible, by aid of 
an instrument, for colour and luminosity to be 
measured and permanently recorded. This instru- 
m<-nt, named the “ tintometer,” was on view" recently 
at Farringdon Avenue, Farringdon Street, and is the 
invention of Mr. John Lovibond, of Greenwich and 
Salisbury. Strictly speaking it is not a new invention, 
although only now brought prominently before the 
public. Several years ago Mr. Lovibond designed 
the instrument for his own use in his business as a 
brewer, and it has been adapted to many technical 
industries and scientific investigations. By this 
system every variety of tint or shade of colour may 
be matched to a nicety by small glasses used in the 
instrument, and these ^glasses have all a fixed 
number, so that an unfading record can be kept of any 
colour. Not only this, but the value of materials 
where dependent upon colour, as in the case of flour 
or petroleum, may be judged at a glance when looked 
at through the instrument alongside glasses showing 
the colours of different qualities. In the case of 
water supply the colour and turbidity may be 
accurately gauged. The instrument, it is suggested, 
is applicable to a great variety of manufacturing 
purposes, where an exact knowledge of colours is 
necessary for record or otherwise.— Daily Chronicle. 
A Californian Soap Plant.—A plant which 
grows from a subterranean tuber in the valley of 
California has been used from early times by the 
Spanish colonists for the purpose of cleaning the 
hands and washing clothing, for which it is said to 
be quite as suitable and more pleasant to use than 
the coarser kinds of soap. The country people still 
use it to some extent. The saponaceous matter is 
chiefly stored in the subterranean tuber which sends 
up tall and slender stems bearing purple and white 
flowers. It is known as the soap plant by the people 
who so utilise it. 
A British Soap Plant.—Time was when artificial 
soap was less plentiful than it is at present, and 
plants yielding it were as much valued as the 
Californian plant was in former times. Though a 
European plant, Saponaria officinalis is not truly 
British, but has evidently become truly naturalised 
in North Wales, the South and South-West of 
England. We ha've noted it growing rather 
abundantly in gravelly soil close to the sea shore. 
Popularly it is known as Soapwort and Fuller's 
Herb. At the present day it is almost, if not solely, 
grown for decorative purposes, and the double form 
is perhaps more plentiful than the single one in 
gardens. A decociion of the plant contains a con¬ 
siderable amount of soap, for which it was valued in 
early times, 
