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centre is yellow and the bases of the lateral lobes are 
striped purple. It is quite intermediate between the 
parents and very pretty. The plant is only four 
years old. Award of Merit. Messrs Jas. Veitch & 
Sons, Ltd. 
Cypripedium Orion. Nov. liyb. —The pale and chaste 
colours of this variety mark it out as a new and 
distinct shade of colour in the genus. The dorsal 
sepal is pale yellow ; spotted all over with purple and 
creamy at the margins. The creamy petals are 
flushed with pale rose or blush ; and the yellow lip 
is flushed and spotted with crimson. The scape on 
this occasion bore twin flowers, and was only 6 in. 
high. The seed bearer was C. insigne and the pollen 
bearer C. concolor. Award of Merit. Messrs J. 
Veitch & Sons, Ltd. 
Phaiocalanthe Niobe. Nov. hyb .—This comes 
between Calanthe gigas, itself a hybrid, and Phaius 
grandifolius, the latter the seed bearer. There were 
four scapes, each 18 in. high, to the piece shown. 
The sepals and petals are rosy purple, and the lip is of 
a deeper rose-purple, with a large white throat. 
Award of Merit. Messrs J. Veitch & Sons, Ltd. 
Masdevallia falcata. —The lateral sepals are 
long, orange, shaded with scarlet at the sides, and 
have tails £ in. long. The dorsal sepal is triangular, 
narrowed to a tail in. long, and orange, shaded 
with salmon. Award of Merit. Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart, (grower, Mr. W. H. White), Burford Lodge, 
Dorking. 
Restrepia leopardina. —The lateral sepals unit¬ 
ing to form the showiest part of a Restrepia are here 
yellow and finely spotted with crimson all over, 
except at the base, where the spots are iarger on either 
side of the column. Botanical Certificate. R. I. 
Measures, Esq. (grower, Mr. H. J. Chapman), Cam¬ 
bridge Lodge, Camberwell. 
Catasetum discolor.— The sepals and petals of 
this species are of a dusky green. The short, sac- 
like lip is cut into long, brownish-purple fringes, 
presenting a most singular appearance. 
Floral Committee. 
Hippeastrum Sir William. —This bold variety, 
which is one of several batches recently raised in the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, has very large, funnel-shaped 
flowers of a rich crimson intensifying to maroon in 
the throat. There were two vigorous flower scapes 
on the bulb, one carrying three flowers fully 
expanded, while the other carried buds only. Award 
of Merit. Royal Gardens, Kew 
Narcissus trimon. —The flowers of this pretty 
hybrid are produced singly on the short scapes, pure 
white and intermediate in size between the parents, 
N. triandrus and N. monophyllus, from which the 
name is derived. The general aspect of the flower 
resembles the latter on a smaller scale. The cup or 
crown is crenate and slightly plicate. Award of 
Merit. Messrs. Barr & Sons, King Street, Covent 
Garden. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee. 
Apple Sanspareil. — This Apple is above the medium 
size, oblate, five-angled towards the top, and yellow, 
suffused and slightly splashed with red on one side. 
It may be used either as a kitchen or dessert Apple, 
is of excellent quality, a good cropper and a good 
keeper. First-class Certificate. Messrs. George 
Bunyard & Co., Maidstone. 
Rhubarb The Sutton.— A bundle of stalks that 
had been forced had a very fine appearance, being of 
a soft pinkish-red, and judging by their size and 
colour, the variety possesses quantity and quality in 
no small degree. Award of Merit. Earl of Ancaster 
(gardener, Mr. J. Butler), Normanton Gardens, 
Stamford. 
Mallet's Patent Fruit-basket. —This is similar 
in form to the market basket, which is made of 
willows, but differs in having a thin wooden bottom, 
and the sides made of upright laths not quite coming 
in contact with one another, and held in position at 
the top by a wooden band or rim outside and another 
inside. It is meant to replace the wicker baskets as 
being smoother for the fruits. Award of Merit. 
Mallet Patent Basket Syndicate, 52, Union Road, 
Rotherhithe, London, S.E. 
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Agathaea .coelestis, the blue Marguerite, is grown 
to a considerable extent in this country, but in 
America it is in such request that the demand's in 
excess of the supply. 
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Production of Apospory by Environment — 
At a meeting of the Linnean Society of London, on 
February 2nd, Mr. F. W. Stansfield, M.B., read a 
paper '■ On the Production of Apospory by Environ¬ 
ment in Athyrium Filix-foemina, var. uncoglomeratum , 
an apparently barren Fern.” This had been effected 
by cutting off parts of the immature fronds and 
allowing them to expand during eighteen months in 
an uniformly humid atmosphere. The result was 
the production in the ultimate divisions of a meriste- 
matic tissue which gave rise to (1) gemmae or bulbils ; 
(2) prothalli, producing both apogamous buds and 
ordinary sexual axes of growth. One of the prothalli 
had been examined, and found to bear both arche- 
gonia and antheridia. On layering the primary 
fronds produced by apospory, it was found that these 
readily gave rise to fresh aposporous growths. The 
ease with which apospory was induced in the 
primary fronds, as compared with the extreme diffi¬ 
culty in the case of fronds from an older plant, was 
said to be characteristic of aposporous Ferns in 
general, Mr. Stansfield having observed it in every 
case (eight in all) in which he had raised Ferns by 
apospory. Assuming the truth of the " recapitulation ” 
theory, he suggested that this fact indicated that 
apospory was an atavic trait in Ferns. 
Mr. Stansfield’s culture was exhibited, and showed 
the primary aposporous prothalli with fronds of the 
sporophyte proceeding from them, the latter being 
layered and having secondary aposporous prothalli, 
bearing root-hairs, growing from them. 
In a discussion which followed Prof. Farmer and 
Mr. C. T. Druery took part, the latter taking occasion 
to exhibit a new form of Scolopendrium vulgare, showing 
apospory profusely developed in the heavy fimbriated 
crests peculiar to that variety, and distinguishing it 
from Scolopendrium vulgare var. crispum Drumniondiae, 
also shown for comparison. A culture from said 
crests was also shown displaying prothalli with root- 
hairs, archegonia, and antheridia as developed after 
layering. A variety indistinguishable from var . Drum- 
mondiae was also exhibited in conjunction with, and 
originating from, a mass of prothalli produced from 
material supplied by Mr. E. J. Lowe in connection 
with his paper " On Discoveries resulting from the 
division of a Prothallus of a variety of Scolopendrium 
Dulgare" (Linn. Soc. Journ., Bot. xxxii. p. 529). Mr. 
Lang s culture yielded similar results; and Scolopen¬ 
drium vulgare var. crispum Drummondiae beiDg an apos¬ 
porous Fern, this leads to the presumption that the 
phenomena recorded by Mr. E. J. Lowe were mainly 
due to inheritance and not all induced by division, 
although young plants raised by the exhibitor from 
var. Drummondiae did not present such extreme 
aposporal features as did Mr. Lowe’s, which in some 
cases bore all the sexual features without being 
layered. This and the stunted nature of the young 
plants might perhaps be referable to the check of 
repeated division, but not the apospory per se. 
PEOPLE WE HAVE MET. 
Mr. Brian Wynne. 
The subject of the accompanying portrait, Mr. 
Brian Wynne, was elected secretary of the Royal Gar¬ 
deners' Orphan Fund on the 17th inst., to succeed 
Mr. A. F. Barron, who had resigned. He was 
originally a gardener, and before he came to London, 
he served for some time under his father, George 
Wynne, gardener to Miss S. E. Darwin (the sister of 
the world-renowned Charles Darwin), at The Mount, 
Frankwell, Shrewsbury. 
In March, 1866, he left The Mount, and went to 
Chiswick as a student under a scheme brought 
forward by the council of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, for the education of young gardeners. In 
1867 he was appointed foreman of the fruit depart¬ 
ment at Chiswick. Whilst continuing his studies at 
Chiswick he took several First-class Certificates in 
fruit and vegetable culture, and in floriculture at the 
examinations of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
He also attended the examinations of the Society of 
Arts during the same period, and secured a First- 
class Certificate in each of the above-mentioned 
subjects, as well as the Society of Arts’ second prize 
in floriculture, and the Royal Horticultural Society’s 
second prize in fruit and vegetable culture. He was 
beaten in floriculture for the first prize by Mr. F. 
W. Burbidge, M.A., now of the Trinity College 
Botanic Gardens, Dublin. Those were stirriDg times 
and Mr. Wynne looks back upon them with pleasure 
and satisfaction. 
Mr. Brian Wynne. 
In October, 1868, Dr. M. T. Masters, of The Gar¬ 
deners' Chronicle, gave him the option of joining the 
staff of that paper, an opportunity of which he 
availed himself. During a period of sixteen years, 
while at work in connection with The Gardeners' 
Chronicle, he came into contact with, and made the 
acquaintance of, a large number of people in all 
branches of horticulture. In the early autumn of 
1884, h e resigned his connection with that paper, 
and along with some of his friends established The 
Gardening World, of which he continued 
manager and editor till May, 1895, when, after a 
dissolution of partnership, Mr. Wynne went into 
business on his own account. 
Independently of his editorial work, he has had 
connections and duties with various societies and 
institutions. He was vice-chairman of the National 
Chrysanthemum Society for two years, and afterwards 
chairman for a similar period of time, being no* 
enrolled amongst the honorary Fellows. He is also 
an honorary member of the Cercle d’Arboricuhure 
de Belgique. 
For nineteen years he has been a member of the 
Caxton Lodge of Freemasons, became Worshipful 
Master of the Lodge in 1891, and has been secretary 
to the Lodge since 1892, an office from which he is 
about to retire in April next. He was also one of 
the founders of the Hortus Lodge, in 1893, and has 
been secretary of the Lodge from its consecration 
to the present time, and at the last meeting was 
unanimously elected Worshipful Master for the 
ensuing year in succession to Mr. G. J. Ingram, who 
retires from the chair in April next. 
From the inception of the Royal Gardeners’ 
Orphan Fund in 1887, by Mr. H. j. Clayton, of Grim- 
ston Park Gardens, Tadcaster, Yorks, Mr. C. Penny, 
and others, he has taken a very keen interest in the 
management of the Fund ; helped the late Mr. George 
Deal to draw up the rules ; and out of a total number 
of 155 committee meetings, which have been held 
during the eleven years which have elapsed since the 
Fund was founded, has been present on no less than 
146 occasions (a higher record than has been made 
by any other member) besides having served on nearly 
all the sub-committees. This record augurs well for 
the attention which the new secretary will give to 
his duties in connection with the Royal Gardeners 1 
Orphan Fund, whose interests have been well served 
by Mr. Wynne in various other ways. He is no 
straDger to the duties involved in the affairs of this 
charity, whose welfare he has had at heart since it 
was founded. 
In concluding this brief sketch we may say that 
Mr. Wynne has had the honour of being a judge at 
most of the leading exhibitions in London and the 
provinces, and at several of the Ghent Quinquennials. 
