June 21, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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WALLINGTON MANOR. 
Close by the small village of Wallington, and on the 
main road to Portsmouth, is Wallington Manor, the 
residence of Edward Ellis, Esq. It is closely em¬ 
bowered amongst trees, so that little is seen of it from 
the highway. Amongst indoor plants Orchids receive a 
large share of attention, including a fine collection of 
Cattleyas. many of which were in bloom on the occasion 
of a recent visit. 
An unnamed variety of Cattleya Mossiae had rosy 
mauve sepals and petals, and the latter were broadly 
ovate and curved towards the lip, the lamina of which 
was reticulated with purple and broadly margined with 
lilac. Another form, with much smaller flowers, 
appealed to the connoisseur by their neatness and lively 
colours. A plant of 0. Mendelii produced eighteen 
flowers, and six others were on the point of expansion. 
A light variety close by had white sepals and petals, 
tinted with blush. The massive flowers of C. San- 
deriana are always welcome ; like all its allies, the 
deepest colouring is centred in the lip. We noted a 
curious freak in C. imperialis. It naturally flowers on 
the young growths when the leaves have been fully 
developed, but in this case the young shoots simply 
consisted of a number of large green bracts arranged 
round the axis. This was surmounted with the flower 
buds unaccompanied by foliage, reminding us of what 
occurs in C. Walkeriana, where a small pseudo-bulb is 
produced to carry the flowers, and another to bear the 
leaves. The erratic behaviour of C. Trianae was also 
noticeable, for having made its young growth in winter, 
it is now showing for flower. C. Warneri contributed 
its quota to the general display, and close by was a 
floriferous piece of C. Mendelii, with a beautiful lilac 
veining on the white sepals and petals.- 
In the same house were some other kinds, including 
the sweet-scented Epidendrum ciliare, with its curiously 
fringed lip. The large leathery leaves and the brightly 
spotted flowers of Oncidium carthaginense make this 
one of the prettiest of the 0. luridum type. The 
yellow Tulip-like Angnloa Clowesii, and the sober 
tinted green and white flowers of Lycaste Schiileriana, 
were very quaint in their way. The cool house con¬ 
tained a large number of Odontoglossums in flower, 
chiefly of 0. crispum and 0. Pescatorei. Amongst the 
former were some fine broad-petalled types with varied 
markings. Here also were 0. Hallii leucoglossum, and 
the pretty little O. Hunnewellianum. 
In the East Indian house was a piece of the rare 
Aerides Reichenbachii, with its variously-marked 
flowers. Alongside of it was Yanda Roxburghii, by no 
means a common plant, the sepals and petals of which 
are spathulate, undulated, and tessellated with yellow 
on a brown ground. The outer surface is of a uniform 
Chinese white. The lip is purple, and contrasts strongly 
with the other parts of the flower. The beautiful 
Cypripedium bellatulum is nearly always in bloom, and 
right welcome it is ; but it would be a great advantage 
if its flower stalks were a little longer. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
Aerides Sanderianum. 
The stems of this fine Aerides attain some length, and 
bear broad, oblong, deep green, leathery leaves in two 
rows. The flowers are borne on a long drooping raceme, 
and exhibit an evident affinity with those of A. quinque- 
vulnerum and A. Lawrenceae. The spreading sepals 
and petals are white, with a magenta blotch at the tip 
on both surfaces. The lip is pale yellow, with the 
middle lobe fringed and deep magenta, and all the 
three segments are folded against the column. The 
large yellow spur is curved forward, and is a very con¬ 
spicuous object. A Botanical Certificate was awarded 
to a plant exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander k Co., St. 
Albans, at the Botanic Society’s show on June 11th. 
Phaius Humblotii and P. H. albus. 
The broadly ovate sepals and petals of this beautiful 
species are somewhat concave and rose-coloured. The 
lip is three-lobed, incurved at the sides, with a large, 
orange-yellow, bifid crest on the middle. The side 
lobes are rounded and rose-coloured, with a large 
brownish orange blotch, while the middle lobe is 
obreniform and rose-coloured, with irregular purple 
blotches or markings. P. H. albus differs by having 
pure white sepals and petals and a paler lip. Both 
forms were exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. at 
the Royal Botanic Society’s show on the 11th June, 
and both received Botanical Certificates. 
Odontoglossum crispum Rothschildianum. 
The flowers of this strong-growing variety are produced 
on long arching racemes. The sepals are elliptic, light 
yellow, and marked with a few large dark brown 
blotches, The petals are elliptic, rather deeply toothed 
on the edges, and of a pale sulphur-yellow, with a few 
brown blotches. The oblong lip is pale yellow, with a 
large brown blotch in front of the crest. The variety 
was shown by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. at the Royal 
Botanic Society’s show, June 11th, and received a 
Botanical Certificate. 
Epidendrum Randii. 
The spreading sepals and petals of this Epidendrum 
are spathulate, spreading, slightly undulate, greenish 
yellow, and slightly but irregularly stained with 
brown. The three-lobed lip is white, with a rosy 
purple blotch on the middle of the terminal lobe, but 
the colouring is often more or less broken up into lines; 
the lateral lobes grasp the sides of the column m d 
project beyond it. A plant was exhibited at the Royal 
Botanic Society’s show on June 11th by Messrs. 
F. Sander & Co., who received a Botanical Certificate 
for it. 
Cattleya intermedia Parthenia. 
The sepals and petals of this beautiful variety are 
oblong, fleshy, and pure white. The three-lobed lip is 
convolute over the column, and the deltoid, obtuse, 
dentate, lateral lobes extend considerably beyond the 
column ; the middle lobe is obreniform, reflexed at the 
sides, and like all other parts of the flower, pure white. 
A plant was exhibited by Malcolm S. Cooke, Esq. 
(gardener, Mr. D. Cullimore), Kingston Hill, at the 
Drill Hall on the' 10th inst., when a First Class Certifi¬ 
cate was awarded it. 
Cattleya Warneri. 
The sepals and broad ovate petals of this Cattleya are 
of a warm deep rose. The lip has a rich crimson-purple 
lamina with a narrow lilac margin, and two white 
blotches shaded with lilac, one on each side of the 
entrance to the tube of the lip. An Award of Merit 
was accorded it when exhibited at the Drill Hall on 
the 10th inst. by Malcolm S. Cooke, Esq. (gardener, 
Mr. D. Cullimore), Kingston Hill. 
Cattleya Mendelii hackbridgensis. 
The sepals of this variety are white, faintly tinted with 
lilac towards the margin. The petals are also white, 
with a deep purple blotch at the apex extending for 1§ 
in. down the midrib, reminding us of what occurs in 
C. Trianns Backhouseana. The lamina of the lip is of 
an intense purple, with a white blotch shaded with 
yellow on each side of the entrance to the tube. It was 
exhibited at the Royal Botanic Society’s show on the 
11th June by A. H. Smee, Esq. (gardener, Mr. G. W. 
Cummins), The Grange, Wallington, who received a 
Botanical Certificate for it. 
Cattleya Mendelii, Alfred Smee. 
The sepals of this beautiful and distinct variety are 
rosy mauve, while the broadly ovate petals are erect in 
the lower half, recurved above the middle, and a shade 
or two darker in colour. The lamina of the lip is 
broad, much crisped, with overlapping lobes, and of a 
deep crimson-purple. The white blotches, usually 
confined to a small area on each side of the entrance to 
the tube, are of great size, and continued down the 
sides of the lamina for the greater part of its length. 
This latter feature is one of the special characteristics 
of the variety, making it a well-marked one. It was 
exhibited at the Royal Botanic Society’s summer show 
on the 11th June, by A. H. Smee, Esq. (gardener, Mr. 
G. W. Cummins), The Grange, Wallington, when he 
received a Botanical Certificate for it. He also received 
an Award of Merit for it the previous day at the meeting 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, in the Drill Hall, 
Westminster. 
Brassia antherotes. 
The Brassias are notable for the great length of their 
spreading sepals ; and although the petals are usually 
much shorter, yet they and the lip combine to make 
the flowers both interesting and ornamental. From a 
horticultural point of view, B. ocana is perhaps the 
least ornamental species in cultivation. That under 
notice sometimes attains a diameter of 7 ins. from tip 
to tip of the sepals, and in a specimen we noted at The 
Grange, Wallington, recently, both the sepals and 
petals were greenish yellow, with a large black blotch 
at the base. The lip was white or nearly so, with 
black and violet-black blotches on the lower half. The 
species was introduced from Tropical America about 
eleven vears ago, and is by no means very common in 
cultivation. The climate of a house kept at a 
night temperature of 45° seems to meet its require¬ 
ments admirably. 
Masdevallia Chim/era Gorgona. 
This beautiful variety differs from the type chiefly in 
the greater hairiness of the sepals, which present a very 
hirsute appearance, and by the dense arrangement of 
the dark reddish purple spots on a pale yellow ground. 
Towards the base of the sepals the spots are more 
scattered, and the small lip is tinted with orange-red. 
The flowers with their long tails are equal to those of 
the type. It has been flowering for some time past at 
The Grange, Wallington. 
Oncidium stelligerum. 
Amongst the taller-growing Oncidiums with medium¬ 
sized flowers this is certainly effective and pretty when 
grown as we saw it the other week at Blenheim Palace, 
Woodstock. The panicled or much-branched flower 
stems were about 10 ft. high, but were trained upon 
stakes and tied round them, so as to occupy the more 
limited space of 4 ft. or 5 ft. high by 2 ft. in diameter. 
It is a Mexican species allied to 0. hastatum, which 
also comes from the same region. The sepals and 
petals are heavily blotched with chocolate on a pale 
yellow ground. The lip is somewhat simdar in shape 
to that of 0. maculatum, and like that variety, 
proceeds at an acute angle from the column ; it is 
three-lobed, with the lateral lobes and the disc white, 
the latter striated with purple, and the terminal lobe 
of a livid pale brown. The pseudo-bulbs are of great 
size, as they might well be to support a flower stem of 
such length, bearing as it does a great quantity of 
flowers. The plant is stood against the end of the 
central stage in the large Cattleya house opposite the 
door, and is therefore shown off to the best advantage. 
Cattleya Brymeriana. 
The pseudo-bulbs of this supposed natural hybrid are 
slender, somewhat compressed and ridged, and bear at 
the apex one or two rigid, deep green, oblong leaves. 
The oblong sepals and elliptic petals are rose coloured. 
The tube of the lip is darker, and the bifid, deep purple 
lamina is toothed at the margin, while the throat is of 
a golden yellow. A Botanical Certificate was awarded 
to a plant exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. 
Albans, at the Royal Botanic Society’s show on the 
11th June. 
Cattleya Mossi/e decora. 
The sepals and broadly ovate petals of this variety are 
of a warm soft rose, and the latter have a small purple 
blotch extending from the apex downwards. The lip 
has a purple tube, and a dark crimson-purple lamina, 
with a lilac margin. Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, 
Upper Holloway, exhibited it at the Royal Botanic 
Society’s summer show, June 11th, and received a 
Botanical Certificate for it. 
Cypripedium californicum. 
The stems of this pretty deciduous species are leafy, and 
range from 6 ins. to 8 ins. high. The leaves are short, 
ovate and pubescent. Both the upper and lower sepal 
are broadly ovate, acute and yellow. The petals are 
lanceolate, much narower, ciliate and nearly of the 
same colour. The lip is sub-globular, inflated, with an 
orbicular mouth, and white. The staminode is roundly 
deltoid, obtuse, and white with a yellow stripe along 
the centre. Four small flowers were borne by the plant 
exhibited by Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm Nurseries, 
Tottenham, at the Royal Botanic Society’s show on 
June 11th. A Botanical Certificate rvas awarded. 
Cattleya Mossi/e Measuresiana. 
The sepals and broadly ovate, crisped petals of this 
variety are pure white. The tube of the lip, externally, 
is creamy yellow, while the lamina is purple and much 
crisped, with a broad, white edge. The yellow blotch 
in the throat is very pale. Messrs. F. Sander & Co. 
received a Botanical Certificate for a specimen which 
they exhibited at the Royal Botanic Society’s show on 
June 11th. 
Sarcanthus paniculatus. 
Few of the species of Sarcanthus are considered of any 
value from a decorative point of view, on account of 
the diminutive size of their flowers, and their want of 
brilliancy ; but, notwithstanding this, the quantity 
more than compensates for the lack of size. The 
scapes are much branched, and bear a great profusion 
of flowers. The sepals and petals are pale yellow, with 
a rich brown stripe on each side of the midrib, leaving 
the centre and the margins yellow. This striped 
character furnishes a ready means by which to recognise 
the species, and, notwithstanding the small size of the 
individual flowers, collectively they are very pretty. 
The species is also known under the name of Aerides 
paniculatum. A vigorous plant has been flowering for 
some time in the fine collection at The Grange, 
Wallington. 
