August 9, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
781 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
The Orchid Growers’ Calendar. 
Calanthes which have now filled the pots with roots 
and are making stout bulbs, will he benefited by- 
having a dose of weak manure water once a week, and 
the many varieties of Ccelogyne cristata will likewise 
he helped by having an occasional dose. Where sheep- 
droppings are procurable, it is best to put some into an 
old bag, and let it remain tied up in a tub, so as to get 
the liquid clear ; hut if sheep-dung or cow-dung are 
not to be had, a pinch of guano may be used instead. 
Care must be used in applying manures to Orchids, for 
it is better to let manures alone than to overdo the 
thiDg. 
Many of the Cattleyas, such as C. Trianse, 
C. Percivaliana, C. Bowringiana, C. Mendelii, and 
other varieties are now well advanced with the new 
growths and are showing sheaths, and will be all the 
better if tied up, so as to keep the plants in shape, for 
if left unstaked they soon get ungainly, and occupy 
more valuable room than they would if tied nearly 
upright. After the bulbs are finished up the plants 
will enjoy more light and less shade as the season 
advances, and if the Cattleyas are grown by themselves 
a much better opportunity is given to suit their re¬ 
quirements. The Pleiones which have now finished 
growing will be best removed to a shelf near the glass, 
where they will ripen up and produce flowers later on ; 
while some of the Dendrobiums will soon be ready to 
be transferred to drier and more sunny quarters in a 
vinery or Peach house, from which the fruit has been 
taken. 
One great advantage of a collection containing a 
good many species and varieties of Cypripediums is 
that there are always a good number of kinds in flower, 
even in the dullest time of the Orchid year. At 
present amongst others we have a good trio in C. 
Stonei, C. superbiens, and their offspring C. Morganire. 
I am free to confess that the latter is my favourite, 
and when produced by thoroughly strong plants, is a 
grand ornament even in the choicest collections. 
Temperatures for August. —East Indian house, 
75° to 85° by day, 70° at night; Cattleya house, 70° to 
75° by day, 65° at night; Odontoglossum house, 60° to 
65° by day, 55' at night.—fU. P. 
Cattleya gigas Shuttleworthii. 
The great feature of this splendid variety is the lip, 
the lamina of which is of a rich dark purple-lake, 
shaded with crimson towards the base, and having a 
narrow, pale mauve, finely-toothed margin. It is also 
bifid at the apex, and slightly mottled with mauve in 
this region. There are two very characteristic eye-like 
yellow blotches, one on each side of the throat, below 
which is a large yellow blotch striated with purple. 
The petals are oblong and pale mauve, while the ovate 
petals are slightly darker, with a purple midrib. They 
are also undulated above the middle with a finely 
dentate margin, close to which they are marked with 
slender, forking, white veins. The tube of the lip 
externally is dark purple with darker veins, and 
becomes very much intensified towards the lamina. 
There is a piece of the original plant now flowering 
in the nursery of Messrs. Charlesworth & Shuttlewortb, 
191, Park Road, Clapham. The only plant known to 
have been imported was broken up into four pieces, of 
which only one now remains. The flowers measure 
1\ ins. across the petals, and nearly as much longitu¬ 
dinally, whereas the flowers that first opened on the 
original plant were about 8£ ins. across. The pseudo¬ 
bulbs vary from 6 ins. to about 8 ins. long, are ribbed 
on the faces, and the green spathe is 4 ins. long. 
The Bee Oncid, 
The crest of Oncidium dasystyle is of a blackish purple, 
and bears a remarkable resemblance to a bumble-bee or 
some similar insect at rest upon the lip, which varies 
from pale primrose to a bright yellow, thus affording a 
striking contrast to its crest. The sepals are yellow or 
ochre, and, like the petals, are spotted with brown. 
The wings of the column are ample and yellow, closely 
spotted with purple internally. The plant is dwarf, 
and well adapted for growing in a basket suspended 
from the roof, as we saw it the other day at 191, Park 
Road, Clapham, in the nursery of Messrs. Charlesworth 
& Shuttleworth. 
Stanhopea insignis. 
The genus Stanhopea was founded upon this species, 
and when it first appeared no doubt created sufficient 
surprise to earn the specific name, which means 
remarkable. Since its introduction, however, in 1826, 
several others have been imported, equally if not more 
remarkable, including S. Wardii and S. tigrina. The 
species under notice has large flowers, borne three or 
four upon a pendulous raceme, emerging, as in many 
other cases, from the base or sides of the basket in 
which it is grown. The sepals are very broad and 
yellowish, blotched with purple, the upper one being 
hooded, as in most other species. The petals are 
narrow, reflexed and coloured like the sepals. The 
most important points of distinction reside in the lip 
and column. The hypochile or base of the lip is very 
large, globose, and closely spotted internally with 
almost black spots. The horns are incurved, fleshy, 
and rather shorter than the terminal lobe, which is 
broadly ovate ; all these parts are of a pale creamy 
yellow spotted with purple. A strong recommendation, 
besides the beauty of the flowers, is their fragrance. A 
specimen flowered recently in the Orchid house at Kew. 
Cypripedium javanico-superbiens. 
The flowers of this hybrid present a form and colour 
intermediate between C. javanicum and C. superbiens. 
The upper sepal is broadly ovate, and pale green or 
almost white, with numerous parallel bright green 
veins and a white margin. The long declining petals 
are pale green, with rosy tips, and much spotted with 
fine purple markings, which are less numerous towards 
the tips. They are also conspicuously ciliate on both 
margins. The large purplish brown pubescent lip is 
also very prominent, but the petals and upper sepal 
constitute the most conspicuous and ornamental parts 
of the flower. The leaves are ample, and variegated 
with oblong and square markings of a deep green 
colour on a pale or grey ground. We noted it in the 
nursery of Messrs. Charlesworth & Shuttleworth, at 
Park Road", Clapham. 
Acineta Barkeri. 
The flowers of this species are developed during 
summer, and are notable for the length of time during 
which they remain in perfection. They are of large 
size, globose, and yellow, with a remarkable saddle-like 
process on the lip. This peculiar organ is crimson, 
three-toothed in front, two-horned behind, and ridged 
along its back. Just behind it, and proceeding from 
the lip, is a peculiar tongue-like process, of a flesh- 
colour, projecting backwards, and about { in. long. 
The parts of the lip around these remarkable crests are 
also red or crimson. The pseudo-bulbs are ovoid, and 
strongly ridged on the two faces. A fine piece has been 
flowering for some time past in the nursery of Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Shuttleworth, 191, Park Road, Clapham. 
There were two spikes from one bulb, bearing fourteen 
and eleven flowers respectively. The flowers are 
fragrant when in their prime. 
A Changeable Orchid. 
The way in which the colours of Odontoglossum Rossii 
aspersum violaceum change from one shade to another 
in the course of a week is both interesting and remark¬ 
able. The sepals are dark brownish red with a few 
yellow streaks, and do not seem to change. The 
petals open of a primrose-yellow, with a few rich brown 
blotches at the very base when they first open, and in 
the course of three days they become pink at the edges, 
and in the course of a week change to a violet- 
purple. The lip is cordate, triangular, crenate at the 
margin, blush when it first opens, but on the third day 
it is rose coloured, and in the course of a week from the 
time it first opens it changes to violet-purple. We 
noted some flowering specimens of it the other day in 
the nursery of Messrs. Charlesworth & Shuttleworth. 
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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
Woodside Horticultural. 
The tenth annual exhibition under the auspices of this 
society took place on Saturday, at Woodside, near 
Aberdeen, and though the number of entries showed a 
slight decrease as compared with last year, the quality 
of the exhibits on the whole was very superior. Many 
exceedingly beautiful pot plants were shown, Fuchsias 
forming a magnificent display. Mr. Duthie, Woodside, 
opened the show, and in his opening remarks eulogised 
the society, which he said could lay claim under 
slightly different names to a history of nearly fifty 
years. Proceeding, he said it would be in the 
remembrance of many of them, how Dr. King, an 
eminent Aberdonian, was instrumental in saving the 
lives of thousands in India during the terrible famine 
there by his knowledge of plants. When the people 
were perishing owing to the failure of the rice crop, 
Dr. King, by means of his botanical skill, was enabled 
to provide food for a very large number of districts by 
using the roots of plants that were not formerly known 
to be edible, and he thus became a public benefactor. 
Then, need he say that the efforts that had been 
put forth in comparatively recent years, and the vast 
amount of skill bestowed had added to the comfort of 
the people and to the wealth of the country. Gardeners 
had ever been, as a body, a specially intelligent class of 
men, and had produced many leaders of progress. Let 
them visit any carefully-kept garden and examine the 
plants and flowers there, and compare them with the 
originals of those plants and flowers as they appeared 
first on the earth, and they would be struck with the 
vast amount of skill that had been expended in pro¬ 
ducing such magnificent results. Then let them con¬ 
sider the value that was to be attached to soil cultiva¬ 
tion in forming a preventative of the formation of 
irregular, useless, it might be positively evil habits. 
Mr. Duthie then, amid loud applause, declared the 
show open. The most successful exhibitors were : — 
Division 1 (professionals and amateurs). -Pot plants : 
Messrs. George Maitland, John Yule, and D. Fraser. 
Cut flowers : Messrs. Anderson, Yule, Maitland and 
Munro. Fruit : Messrs. Anderson, Davidson, Fraser, 
and Maitland. Vegetables : Messrs. Anderson, 
Fraser, Maitland, and Yule. Division 2 (working 
classes only).—Pot plants: Messrs. Duff, Glennie, 
Maitland, Scroggie. Penny, Grieve, and Glass. Cut 
flowers: Messrs. Grieve, Laing, Reid, and Glennie. 
Fruit: Messrs. Grieve, Thorn, and Glass. Vegetables : 
Messrs. Grieve, Glennie, Reid, Thorn, Duff, and 
Scroggie. Mr. Alexander Thorn gained the Medal for 
twenty-five Strawberries of best flavour, shown by 
amateurs ; and Mr. William Anderson, Lower Cornhill, 
gained a similar honour offered to market gardeners. 
Mr. Anderson also gained the Silver Medal for the best 
basket of vegetables. The whole arrangements, as 
carried out by the committee, were of the most complete 
kind. During the afternoon and evening the show was 
largely patronised. — Cor. 
Beddingtoc, Carshalton, and Wallington 
Horticultural. 
Under the above title an annual show has been 
organised for the benefit of cottagers residing in the 
three above named parishes. The first show was held 
in Beddington Park on the August Bank Holiday. 
The day being fine a large concourse of visitors was 
drawn together, and by the afternoon something like 
£40 had been taken at the gate. In connection with 
this show prizes were offered for the best kept allotment, 
cottagers’ and flower gardens, of which there is a large 
number in the district. The day appointed for the 
judging of these gardens was a pretty hard one for the 
judges, as there were forty entries in the three sections. 
Many of them were of a high order of merit and 
required close discrimination in the matter of judging. 
The leading exhibits by cottagers consisted chiefly of 
vegetables, and the competition in some of the classes 
was pretty keen. Potatos were shown in quantity, 
and many of the samples gave great credit to the 
growers as far as size and shape were concerned. Some 
of the more popular kinds were Beauty of Hebron, 
Myatt’s Ashleaf Kidney, Early Puritan, and Snowdrop 
Kidney. Other vegetables shown in quantity were 
Peas, Beans, Scarlet Runners, Vegetable Marrows, 
Cabbages, Turnips, Carrots, and others. The first prize 
for six dishes of vegetables went to Mr. H. Haxell, 
Caledon Road, Carshalton. Window plants were also 
shown in some quantity, and the prizes offered for a 
basket of wild flowers brought out a large number of 
competitors, and the exhibits, together with other cut 
flowers, made an attractive feature in one of the tents. 
The wild flowers showed that the district is pretty rich 
in native flora. 
In the miscellaneous class, some groups of Palms, 
Sarraeenias, Gloxinias, Kalosanthes coccinea, Bouvardia 
jasminiflora, cut flowers of Roses, Gloxinias, and others 
were shown hy Messrs. John Peed & Sons, Roupell 
Park Nurseries, Norwood Road. The small size of the 
tent prevented their plants from being shown in one 
group. A beautiful group was also staged by Mr. G. 
W. Cummins, gardener to A. H. Smee, Esq., The 
Grange, Wallington. He had some fine samples of 
Odontoglossum Harryanum, Cypripedium ciliolare, 
dotted amongst stove and greenhouse plants, including 
Impatiens Haw r keri, Jacaranda, Ferns, and tuberous 
Begonias. Mr. Glover, gardener to Edward Ellis, Esq., 
Wallington, showed a pretty group of Begonias, Torenia 
Fournieri, Gloxinias and others. Border-grown Carna¬ 
tions w r ere shown by Mr. E Gilbert, Ringstead Road, 
Carshalton. Mr. J. Thackray, Bridge Road, Walling¬ 
ton, exhibited some small groups of Begonias, Ferns, 
and Gloxinias. Mr. J. King, Wallington, had a small 
but showy collection of herbaceous plants, including 
Monarda didyma, Anemone japonica elegans, Phloxes, 
and others. A collection of vegetables, the largest in 
the show, was shown by Mr. W. Ames, Beddington 
Corner, representing cottage gaiden produce. 
