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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 14, 1890. 
A New Sweet Briar. 
This is a hybrid between the common Sweet Briar and 
Rosa lutea Harrisoni. The leaves are deep green, with 
ovate serrated leaflets, glandular on the under-surface. 
The flowers are the size of R. lutea, with obcordate 
petals, pale buff except at the base, where they are pale 
sulphur. The foliage is fragrant, like that of the Sweet 
Briar. It was shown by Lord Penzance, Eashing Park, 
Godalming, at the Drill Hall on the 10th inst., and 
received an Award of Merit. 
Xerophyllum Asphodeloides. 
The flowers of this Liliaceous plant are small, pale 
creamy white, and very numerously produced on a 
lengthening raceme. The leaves are narrow, rigid, and 
grass-like. Flowers were shown by Messrs. Paul & Son 
at the Drill Hall on the 10th inst., when an Award of 
Merit was granted. 
Achillea Mongolica. 
The leaves of this Sneezewort are narrow, linear, and 
distantly serrulate or almost entire. The flower heads 
are large, with white rays and a creamy disc, and are 
produced five or six together in an umbel terminating 
the stem. Cut flowers were shown at the Drill Hall on_ 
the 10th inst., by Messrs. Paul & Son, and received an 
Award of Merit. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
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Orchid Growers’ Calendar. 
Immense numbers of green-fly infest the Plum trees in 
the open, as well as the Strawberries and Raspberries, 
so that it is no wonder they find their way into the 
houses during the prevalence of drying east winds, and 
it needs all the vigilance possible to combat them when 
they are but few, so as to prevent their unlimited 
increase, and consequent dire effects upon those plants 
or flowers to which they seem so firmly attached. 
Dipping, sponging, and fumigating must therefore be 
resorted to, bearing in mind that two or three mild 
applications of smoke are less inj urious to the plants 
than one strong dose, and quite as effectual in ridding 
the houses of thrips and aphis ; but it must be done 
when the foliage of the plants is thoroughly dry, and I 
cannot advise Odontoglossums being smoked at all. 
The onlyreally safe method which is effectual—besides 
dipping and sponging—is to steam the houses with 
tobacco juice by means of the Thanatophore. This 
subject of insects may appear to be an oft-recurring one 
in the Orchid-growers’ calendar, but it is one of the 
first principles of a successful Orchid-growers’ creed to 
keep his plants free from insects, and therefore it 
scarcely seems necessary to apologise for the apparent 
repetition. 
Plants of Thunias which have flowered and therefore 
have completed their growth, are frequently turned out 
into some out-of-the-way corner because they begin to 
be unsightly, and thus do not always thrive in a satis¬ 
factory manner, as they soon get thrippy, and to keep 
them right they should be dipped occasionally in some 
insecticide, and not dried off at the roots too suddenly. 
Trichopilias will now probably be fit to re-pot. 
Shallow pans or baskets are the best for them, so 
that they can be hung up in convenient positions to 
display their beauty when in flower. 
That good old useful plant, Pilumna nobilis, is now 
growing freely, and should have a light place in the 
cool house and plenty of moisture, so that it may make 
a show when the glut is over. Odontoglossum grande, 
0. Insleayi Leopardinum, and O. I. splendens are all 
well started into growth, and may now be allowed a 
good soaking at intervals of six or eight days, ac¬ 
cording to the weather ; and these remarks will also 
apply to Oncidium tigrinum, which, for convenience, 
we grow with the above varieties, and allow the same 
long rest on a shelf, in a temperature of 50°- at night in 
winter. Any of them requiring more root room may 
now safely be attended to. for they are appreciated on 
account of being in flower in the autumn, when the 
houses are not very gay. Where there is generally a 
dearth of flowers in the show house during September, 
it is as well to work a batch of Gloxinias along to 
come into flower then, as they seem to enliven the 
house considerably, and may easily be had in bloom at 
that time. 
Cypripediums growing in the hottest house will be 
greatly benefited by a slight dewing over with the 
syringe on the evenings of bright, hot days ; in fact, 
I always water Cypripediums overhead during the 
summer months, and, perhaps, no species appear to 
benefit more than C. bellatulum and C. niveum, which 
are both, I think,‘sometimes kept too dry. Cool 
Orchids watered overhead early in the day, and 
allowed plenty of fresh air, and damped down often 
enough to keep the atmosphere humid, will now be 
plumping up fine fat bulbs, and storing away strength 
for future use.— IF. P. 
Odontoglossum Smeeanum. 
TnE plant here named has received various titles at differ¬ 
ent times. The late Professor Reichenbach first referred 
it to Marriottianum, which he had named and described 
some time previously, and with which he was much 
puzzled. He afterwards, however, referred it to 0. 
Wilckeanum. It has also been called a variety of the 
latter, and also a variety of O. crispum Andersonianum. 
It is not exactly matched by any of those kinds, 
although it comes nearest the form originally named 
0. Marriottianum, but differs in the colouring, and 
especially in the spotting. The sepals are lanceolate 
acuminate, pale sulphur, with two large irregularly- 
lobed deep chocolate blotches and a few smaller ones. 
The petals are somewhat broader, and toothed on the 
margins, white at the base, and of the palest sulphur 
upwards, with six or seven separate chocolate-brown 
blotches about the middle, and free or irregularly run 
together in a mass. The lip is oblong, somewhat 
pandurate by a constriction near the base, and made 
more prominent by the margin being revolute there, 
thus giving prominence to the angles at the base of the 
lamina. It is shortly fringed all round the margin ; 
the ground colour is white, with a large chocolate 
blotch in front of the crest, and a few small ones on 
each side of the two front lamellae, which are slightly 
lacerated. The radiating row of fringes are short and 
yellow, with orange-brown lines between them. The 
column is white, and the lacerated wings are marked 
with brown. It flowered a short time ago in the col¬ 
lection of A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Wallington. 
L/elia lobata. 
A specimen of this by no means common Orchid has 
been sent us by Mr. H. King, Westwood House, West 
Hill, Sydenham, who had. the name given him as 
Cattleya lobata rosea. Lindley did originally name it 
Cattleya lobata in 1848 ; but it is now more correctly 
known as Lselia lobata. The specific name was given 
by Lindley, as he said, on account of “the excessive 
lobing of the petals and lip.” The figure accompanying 
his description does not give a true representation of 
the petals and lip, because they are too deeply lobed. 
The lobes are really very shallow, but the petals and 
lip are very much undulated and crisped, as they were 
in the flowers sent us, giving the appearance of lobing. 
The sepals and petals were rosy purple, the latter being 
netted with a darker hue. The lip was a shade or two 
darker, with numerous amethyst-purple veins on the la¬ 
mina which was stained with crimson at the base. The 
interior of the tube was creamy white mottled with 
purple. The species is allied to L. crispa, as shown by 
the lower half of the sepals being revolute at the margin, 
and by the petals being folded backwards longitudinally 
almost throughout their length. 
Epidendrum prismatocarpum. 
The Epidendrums as a rule do not enjoy great popularity 
in gardens ; but notwithstanding there is a number of 
very pretty species amongst them, including the subject 
of this note. The flowers are produced on terminal 
erect racemes, and in the best forms have the sepals and 
petals with a few prominent blackish purple spots or 
blotches on a yellow ground. The terminal lobe of the 
lip is rosy purple. A grand specimen grown in a pot 
is now flowering in one of the Orchid houses at Blenheim 
Palace, Woodstock. It carries from twenty-five to 
thirty spikes of its beautifully marked flowers ; and 
when seen in such proportions is certainly fine. The 
flask shaped pseudo-bulbs and the leaves are of a rich 
dark green, and show off the flowers to great advantage. 
Orchids from Westbrook, Sheffield. 
We have received from Mr. Edward Pidsler, gardener 
to A. Wilson, Esq., Westbrook, Sheffield, a box of 
Orchid blooms, containing amongst others, Thompson’s 
variety of Odontoglossum crispum. The sepals and 
the broad jagged petals and lip are marked with 
afew very large reddish brown blotches on a pure white 
ground. The variety has been flowering for the last six 
weeks, and when we received the blooms the colouring 
had faded to purple, leaving only a few pale brown 
stains. There was also the beautiful Cattleya Mossise 
Reineckiana with pure white sepals and petals, with 
the terminal lobe of the lip of a deep purple bordered 
with white ; the tube externally was also white. One 
of the most distinct forms of Odontoglossum luteo- 
purpureum is 0. 1-p. Vuylstekeanum, the segments of 
which are narrow compared with the type, but their 
colour alone compensates for this deficiency. The 
segments are incurved, revolute at the margins, and 
undulated, while the deep chestnut-brown of the type is 
replaced by rich nankeen-yellow, and the yellow by pale 
sulphur-yellow. 
Odontoglossum Galeottianum, 
The flowers of this Odontoglot are of rather small size, 
and almost pure white. The lateral sepals are lanceolate, 
the upper one much broader, and the oblong-ovate 
petals are about twice as broad, and all pure white with 
a few small purple shots at the very base. The lip is 
white with a pale lemon, prominent crest, slightly 
marked with orange. An Award of Merit was accorded 
it when it was shown at the Drill Hall on the 10th 
inst. by T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Vhitefield, 
Manchester. 
Cypripedium Aylingii. 
This is a hybrid between C. niveum and C. ciliolare, 
and a pretty thing it is. The leaves are oblong, short, 
shining green, faintly tessellated with a darker shade, 
and slightly suffused with purple beneath as in C. 
niveum. The upper sepal is broadly ovate, white 
marbled with rose, with darker longitudinal veins. 
The flowers measure about 4J ins. across the petals, 
which are oblong-elliptic, coloured similarly to the 
upper sepal, and each about 2j ins. long. The lip is 
inflated, pure white, shining, and spotted internally 
and on the inflexed side lobes with purple. The 
sub-orbicular, emarginate, slightly angled staminode is 
marbled with green and yellow on a white ground, and 
pubescent. It was exhibited by A. J. Hollington, 
Esq. (gardener, Mr. Ay ling) Forty Hill, Enfield, at the 
Drill Hall on the 10th inst., and received a First Class 
Certificate. 
Phaius Humblotii albus. 
The leaves of this Orchid are lanceolate, strongly 
ribbed, and 6 ins. to 10 ins. long. The racemose 
scapes bear about ten or twelve flowers. The sepals 
and petals are broadly ovate, concave and pure white. 
The three-lobed lip is concave at the base with a large, 
bifid, prominent, orange-yellow crest on the middle ; 
the side lobes are rounded and rose coloured, shaded 
with orange on the infolded sides, while the terminal 
lobe is obreniform, bifid, and rose coloured, mottled 
with a darker shade. It was exhibited at the Drill 
Hall on the 10th inst. by Baron Schroder, who received 
a First Class Certificate for it. 
Batemannia Wallisii. 
The remarkably curious flowers of this species resemble 
the face of an owl. The sepals are ovate, acuminate, 
spreading, fleshy, raised into little elevations like the 
scales of a fish, rich orange-brown, traversed with a 
yellow line a little above the base, which is white. The 
petals are similar but shorter, with a blood-purple 
blotch at the base resembling the eyes of an owl. The 
lip is broadly rhomboid, coloured like the petals on the 
upper part, and white on the lower half, and curiously 
bent about the middle of the white claw, upon which 
is inserted a half-cup-shaped, deeply fringed white 
crest with purple laciniie. A First Class Certificate 
was awarded it when shown by Messrs. F. Sander & 
Co., St. Albans, at the Drill Hall on the 10th inst. 
Odontoglossum Pescatorei, Tilgate Var. 
An Award of Merit and a Cultural Commendation were 
accorded a plant of this with two huge branching 
panicles, when exhibited at the Drill Hall, on the 10th 
inst., by J. II. Nix, Esq. (gardener, Mr. R. Young), 
Tilgate, Crawley. The flowers were rather small, 
owing, no doubt, to the great number borne b} T the 
plant. Their special characteristics were the violet- 
purple spots towards the outer sides of the sepals, with 
a few spots of a similar hue about the middle of the 
petals, while the lip had two or three large blotches in 
front of the crest, and a larger one on the top of the 
claw on the side lobes and the area behiud the crest. 
Dendrobium lineale. 
The fusiform stems of this new species from New 
Guinesr range-from 12 ins. to 18 ins. iu height, and 
taper upwards. The younger ones hear a number of 
broad, oblong-ovate, dark green, shining leaves above 
the middle. The flowers are numerous, and borne on 
an arching raceme about 2 ft. in length. The sepals 
are lanceolate, slightly undulated, and like the spathu- 
late petals, are pure white. The three-lobed lip is 
erect, traversed longitudinally by five slender lamelke, 
suffused with violet, and more or less striated with that 
colour on the sides ; the terminal lobe is purple with a 
narrow white margin. A specimen was exhibited by 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, on the 10thinst., at the Drill 
Hall, when an Award of Merit was granted. 
