June 28, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
675 
L’HORTICULTURE INTERNATIONALE (Linden), 
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. 
NEW ORCHID, 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME, " 
CATTLEYA WAROCQUEAHA, Linden. 
See R. A. ROLFE'S description in Gardeners' Chronicle, June 14, 
page 735. 
The discoverer of this Cattleya, M. BUNGEROTH. of Cata- 
setnm fame, one of the Collectors of the Company, writes about 
this grand introduction :— 
“ This is a most beautiful Cattleya. Never during my travels in 
Columbia or Venezuela have I seen Cattleya Mendelii, Trianoi, or 
Mossice to be compared with. The flowers are of enormous size, and 
exquisitely rich colour. I have seen a number of plants in bloom, 
one seemed still more beautiful thin others. I am assured that 
there are also some pure white forms among them. This species is 
very free flowering, bearing from five to six flowers on a scape." 
The plants arrived in Europe on April ISth last in splendid 
condition, with healthy dormant eyes, and well leaved. On 
arrival several plants were found in bud, on opening of the 
flowers fully verified the statement above. 
This Cattleya is of very robust habit, with large thick leathery 
leaves. In culture this species seems specially easy ; since the 
arrival the plants have without special care or treatment pro¬ 
duced an abundance of roots 
We recommend Orchid lovers the acquisition of this grand 
Cattkya ; the plants offered are all unflowered, e\e are certain 
that some magnificent varieties will turn up among them. 
We have spent a large sum of money in the researches of this 
magnificent Cattleya, and offer the same on the LOWEST 
POSSIBLE TERMS. 
IFe offer good semi-established Plants in excellent condition, rooting 
freely, on the following low terms, cash :— 
One good Plant . 
.. fl 1 
0 
Three good Plants. 
2 17 
6 
Six good Plants . 
5 5 
0 
Twelve good Plants. 
8 17 
6 
One strong Plant . 
1 12 
6 
Three strong Plants . 
4 12 
6 
Six strong Plants . 
8 8 
0 
Twelve strong Plants . 
.. 14 14 
0 
One extra large Specimen. 
4 4 
0 
Three extra large Specimens 
11 11 
0 
Six extra large Specimens. 
.. 20 12 
6 
CARRIAGE FREE to any part of the United Kingdom. 
Apply to the Company, 
“L’Horticulture Internationale” (Linden), 
_ LEOPOLD PARK, BRUSSELS. _ 
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21st YEAR OF DISTRIBUTION. 
Williams' Superb Strain, Is. Gd. per dozen ; 10s. per 100. 
CINERARIAS same price, also DOUBLE WHITE PRIMULAS, 
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By Permission of the Hon. Board of 
Customs Free of Duty. 
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that no Insecticide will bear comparison with 
it for its deadly effects on Insects, combined 
with perfect safety to the plants themselves. 
Some hundreds of Testimonials lately 
received from men of considerable ex¬ 
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Sold in Japs, 8 ozs., Is. 6d.; 20 ozs., 
3s.; 40 ozs., 5s. 6d.; and in Tins, 
14 lbs., 15s. 6u.; and Drums, 28 lbs., 
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Have received the highest award of the R. H. S, 
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for their large and fine group of 
SINGLE AND DOUBLE BEGONIAS 
Exhibited at the TEMPLE SHOW. 
15 Certificates have already been awarded to our 
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WE cordially invite an early inspection of our collec¬ 
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Next Week's Engagements. 
Tuesday, July 1st.—Rose Shows at Canterbury, Hereford, and 
SuttOD. Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Wednesday, July 2nd.—Rose Shows at Hitchin, Croydon, and 
Dursley. Flower Shows at Bexley, Cliertsey, and Twicken¬ 
ham. 
Thursday, July 3rd.—Rose Shows at Bath, Farningliam, 
Norwich, and Dundee. Flower Shows at Trentliam and 
Wanstead. 
Friday, July 4th.—Sale of Mr. Larkin’s Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
Saturday, July 5th,—National Rose Show at the Crystal 
Palace. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1890. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
7jTiie Rose Season.— The pretty little display 
of Tea Roses at the Drill Hall on 
Tuesday, the more general exhibition at 
Richmond on AVednesday, and the show at 
the AA^estminster Aquarium on Friday and 
Saturday, mark the opening of the Rose 
show season. Happily the Rose contests 
about to begin and to be indulged in so 
largely all over the kingdom, are not floral 
debauches in the sense that some other floral 
fierhts are, to which we have before alluded. 
They are honourable and manly contests, in 
which the best growers, because they have 
the best flowers, win. the honours, and usually 
very substantial honours also. 
Roses are both wondrously varied in colour, 
in variety, and in character and beauty, so 
that v r e do not tire of them as we do of the 
wearisome Daffodil. If we could infuse some 
of the glorious hues found in Roses into 
Chrysanthemums, what a grand display of 
those flowers wo should see in the winter! 
Richer colours may come some daj’, but for 
the present we must be content to look for 
the brilliant reds, crimsons, roses, pinks, 
yellows, &c., in our beautiful queen of 
summer flowers, the Rose. That we shall 
have a good season of bloom in spite of some 
drawbacks there is good reason to hope. 
AA r armer weather with genial showers have 
helped the buds immensely, and it is hoped 
that blooms will be very fine. 
About next week we shall be in the thick 
of the combat, and as of course the chief 
interest lies with the trade growers, it will 
be especially instructive this year to find how 
far the season may have favoured this or 
that district, for almost every season shows 
that some one locality comes out the best, 
but rarely is it the same for any considerable 
period. 
HThe Proposed City of London Fruit 
Show. —Here is, as we published last 
week, a proposition revived which was put forth 
in a most complete and practical way by an 
esteemed correspondent of ours some two or 
three years ago. It was then suggested that 
the Fruiterers’ Company should invite the 
co-operation of the Lord Mayor, of the City 
magnates, and of the fruit-growing and trading 
interests, and arrange for the holding of a 
grand hardy fruit show in the Guildhall and 
its annexes immediately succeeding Lord 
Mayor’s Day. This proposal was not only 
published at the time, but as we have learnt 
since, was the subject of some correspondence 
with a then influential member of the City 
Corporation, and only fell through because the 
chief agent was at the moment not able to give 
the needful aid. Thus we have again illustrated 
the old saying that there is nothing new under 
the sun. 
It must he regarded as somewhat unfortunate 
that the Fruiterers’ Company should have 
brought forward their proposal at this time, for 
we have this season about the worst fruit year 
on record, and a show of hardy fruits will he 
something of a satire upon our comparative 
scarcity of those fruits. Still, a fruit show in 
the City will be a novelty, and certain to com¬ 
mand great attention, so that it is all the more to 
be regretted that this year at all events it cannot 
be a truly representative display. It is all very 
well to urge as an argument in favour of hold¬ 
ing such a show, that it will be valuable to 
ascertain what sorts of fruits are bearing in a 
sparse season, hut it does not follow that those 
hearing this year will not he the reverse of 
fruitful for the next few years ; indeed, it may 
safely be asserted that they derive their fruit¬ 
fulness now more from accident than habit, and 
on that account the facts to he ascertained are 
of little or no value. Still, we commend the 
action of the Fruiterers’ Company in striving 
to do something for hardy fruit culture, and a 
show in the City cannot fail, even in a bad 
year, to he productive of some good. 
As to studying the wishes of the Royal 
Horticultural Society in the matter that is 
hardly worthy of consideration. The society 
might long since have approached the City 
authorities if it chose, but it initiates nothing 
beyond its own restricted circle, and does 
not show by its own management that any 
assistance it may proffer would be of the 
least value to the Fruiterers’ Company, or 
any other body. If the Court of the 
Fruiterers’ Company cannot manage such an 
exhibition as they propose to hold in the 
City without the aid of a crutch, they had 
better let the business alone; hut we have 
greater respect for their business capacity 
than to believe anything of the kind. 
HThe Royal Horticultural Society.—A 
v '^ pretty little dispute as it stands is that 
which has arisen between our respected con¬ 
temporary, the Journal of Horticulture, and 
Air. Morris, the treasurer of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society, respecting the mode of 
presenting that society’s accounts to the 
Fellows. The journal complained, without 
impugning the accuracy of the accounts, that 
they were presented in such a way that those 
who were entitled to know the actual facts' 
with reference to the cost of the Drill Hall 
and of Chiswick could not get them ; and that 
Chiswick was made to appear as costly as 
possible. Like ourselves, our contemporary has 
long been a stickler for the interests of 
Chiswick, and does not like to see the 
reputation of those valuable and time-honoured 
gardens minimised to satisfy the somewhat- 
greedy maw of the Drill Hall, 
