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THE GARDENING WORLD 
July 8, 1899. 
robin's nest is shown in the accompanying illustra¬ 
tion, is growing on the stage of the temperate house. 
The plant does not appear to be any the worse, and 
the two baby red-breasts are now strong and happy. 
No doubt the parent birds will attempt to rebuild in 
the plant next season if it remains in the same place. 
Both are very tame, and have been well fed and 
otherwise petted. 
The Odontoglossums are not in so great variety at 
this time, but the “crispums” were represented in 
profusionfine, clean, and vigorous plants they 
were. The clear, deep yellow O. macranthemum, so 
slow to open its buds, is now in its height of grace. 
O. hunnewellianum, of a yellowish-brown mixture, 
was seen carrying some fine, strong spikes; O. 
Andersonii comes from O. gloriosum and O. cris- 
pum, and is a brightly coloured, large bloom with 
broad segments, and O. triumphans sums up a fine 
diversity. Sobralia macrantha alba was a very 
large and a grand white flower. Cattleya Mendelii, 
in a great number of shades, C. Trianaei, C. Mossiae, 
C. Lawre-Mossiae, and C. gigas, in many splendid 
types, some varying according to conditions, from 
almost pure white to the deepest and clearest of 
marked lip or segments were all flowering freely. 
In a division flanking at right angles to the grow¬ 
ing houses, there is a brilliant show; for rockwork 
having been built and the pockets and spaces 
furnished with foliage plants and Ferns, the part 
lends itself for a show house. Other showy and 
interesting Orchids were Oncidium flexuosum, with 
nine long spikes, and others of the same species; 
O. sarcodes, very deeply coloured and large; 
Anguloa eburnea, Brassavola digbyana, greenish- 
white in colour with a densely fringed lip ; Laelio- 
cattleya Hippolyta, a fine buff-yellow, having 
originated from Laelia cinnabarina and Cattleya 
mossiae ; and numerous Masdevallias, as M. Veitchii 
grandiflora, M. chimaera, with dark purple sepals 
thickly mottled ; that most curious thing, M. 
macrura, M. rupestris, M. antillifera, and many 
more. 
The notes on fruit trees, must appear on 
another occasion. The above mentioned are but a 
few of the plants found in the general display. House 
after house is complete with young and advancing 
plants as well as others well established, and a 
continued export and import is constantly being 
made.— D. 
BUSH HILL PARK NURSERY. 
The very extensive Orchid ranges and plant houses 
together with the vast acreage of nursery grounds 
belonging to the widely-known firm of Messrs. 
Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, are 
Among the Phalaenopsis which I first reviewed, 
the breadth and substance of the foliage was 
particularly conspicuous. 
I have seen longer leaves but none, I tbiDk, any 
broader or fatter. Questioning my guide as to 
whether he dewed his plants or no, he gave his 
A Robin’s Nest in a Plant of Cypripedium dominianum. 
within easy reach of London ; and to the city worker 
in need of a day’s freshening in the country amid 
far-stretching scenes, piping larks, songs of hay¬ 
makers and fragrant breezes, a run from Liverpool 
Street Station to Bush Hill Park will provide the 
scenes described. And as the “ G. W. " readers are 
all interested horticulturists, business and recreation 
will both be secured by an inspection of the varied 
and highly creditable wealth of stock found in the 
ranges and in the nursery brakes. The houses them¬ 
selves afford wrinkles in economy of space and 
naturalisation. In the new Orchid houses, built by 
Crompton and Fawkes, instead of dividing walls sep¬ 
arating each span-house from its contiguous neigh¬ 
bour, the roofs have been made to meet with only a 
strong gutter clasping in union, the lower eaves of 
the opposite surfaces. With such plans the economy 
in heating, and various beneficial influences are 
furthered, 
Mr. I'Anson, the foreman in this department, 
proves himself master of his work by the quality of 
his plants. Before I bring to notice some of the 
finer Orchids in bloom at my visit I may summarise 
a few points in the notes on the general culture of 
the different stocks. One thing I noted in the 
Cattleya houses was the moderation of moisture in 
the atmosphere. It is not uncommon in a warm 
afternoon to find cultivators damping down, and 
dewing over immoderately to provide a saturated en¬ 
vironment, but by the moderate culture more firmly 
built plants are produced, and a brighter and more 
numerous array of blooms. Cleanliness and free¬ 
dom were other two points. The great care evidently 
taken to have finished workmanship in the potting 
could not be overlooked. In the use of the sphagnum 
some pains are taken to have it in a green and 
growing state. Decaying sphagnum generates an 
unhealthy and acidulous medium, detrimental to 
Orchid roots Careful ventilating and thought for 
the needs, so far as light and shade affect the plants, 
are all manifest in Mr. I'Anson's work. 
opinion that dewing, if dewing is done, should be 
very fine and only around the base of the baskets or 
blocks upon which they grow. Root waterings 
should be decided as opposed to the faint supplies 
often thought sufficient by the inexperienced. P. 
amabalis, P. sanderiana, P. grandiflora and P. 
schilleriana were in grand form. Utricularia 
montana in flower had been slightly injured by the 
fumes of the XL. ALL fumigator. 
Though large numbers of the young and hybrid 
Cypripediums, which are now filling many stages are 
yet to flower and show their qualities or want of 
them, yet some of them have long been well tested, 
such as C. Lowii, sent home from Borneo in 1847 
by Mr., now Sir Hugh, Low ; C. callosum Sanderi, 
worth 120 guineas, a plant of a form which, where- 
ever seen, has been well taken to, being pure white 
with a greenish lip and broad green veins in the 
petals and sepals; C. Euryale.a fine cross between C. 
Veitchii and C.lawrenceanum, and C. William Lloyd 
resulting from C. swanianum and C. bullenianum. C. 
macroptrum has a good deal of the likeness of both 
parents C. Veitchii and Lowii; in fact, it falls 
between these two exactly. C. i’ansonianum though 
scarcely yet in bloom was showing a very strong 
spike. C. Schroderae and C. callurum, the latter 
showing forth four grand spikes of its soft, pinky 
and white diffused flowers ; and C. rothschildianum 
with its long drooping sepals, furnished a fine show, 
as did C. Curtisii, C. grande, and C. tonsum. C. 
Calceolaria and C. hirsutissimum were both-just a 
mass of dark blooms, on rather too short stalks, 
Cypripedium niveum is another of the most valuable, 
and the prettiest of its class, being as the name 
suggests, pure white. C. bellatulum made a massive 
and interesting batch of bloom over the white 
mottled foliage. C. lathamianum with its white 
upper segments and brown or orange petals also 
appeals to our beauty sense. Both the form and 
colour are very desirable. 
The Cypripedium dominianum in which the 
PUNTS RECENTLY CERTIFICATED. 
The awards, mentioned hereunder, were made by the 
Royal Horticultural Society on the 27th ult. 
Orchid Committee. 
Laeliocattleya Eudora eximia, Nov . var .—In this 
we have a gorgeous variety of a bigeneric hybrid. 
The sepals and petals are very pale, but the lamina 
of the lip is of huge size, bifid, and of a uniform 
velvety crimson-purple, the colour extending down 
into the tube, towards the base of which are 
numerous crimson lines. The outer face of the tube 
is dark purple. The parents from which this form 
originated were Laelia purpurata (female), and 
Cattleya Mendelii (male). (First-class Certificate.) 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Ltd., Chelsea. 
Masdevallia Rushtoni, Nov. hyb. —A clue to the 
appearance of this hybrid may be gleaned when we 
mention that M. ignea Eckhautei (female) and M. 
racemosa (male) were the parents between which it 
is intermediate. The scapes bear twin flowers of a 
fiery-red, with crimson veins. The tail of the dorsal 
sepal is 1 in, long, but those of the lateral ones are 
reduced to short points like those of M. racemosa. 
It is a very pretty hybrid. (Award of Merit.) 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. 
Cattleya gaskelliana Formosa, Nov. var. —The 
sepals and petals of this chaste variety are pure 
white, and the only foil to the purity of the lip is a 
faint netting of mauve in the centre of the lamina, 
and a blotch made of yellow lines in the throat. It 
is a charming light coloured variety. (Award of 
Merit.) 
Odontoglossum crispum Seraphim, Nov. var .— 
Connoisseurs describe this as the best pure white 
crispum that has been seen. The segments are very 
broad, overlapping, the petals being triangular and 
jagged. The golden disc of the lip remains, and 
some brown blotches on the column, but that is all 
