The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . the upper white portion bears manypurple markings ; ornatum, the arrangement of spotson the standard in three different sizes had a curiouseffect. Other good varieties we have no spaceto mention. M. Linden sent also two varietiesof Cypripedium Iiebaudyanum, one remarkablefor the good proportions of the flower. Moortebeckiense, from MM. et Cie., had a largo and unusually darkstandard ; (J. microchilum (from the same exhibitors),was very distinct-looking. M. Moens showed
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . the upper white portion bears manypurple markings ; ornatum, the arrangement of spotson the standard in three different sizes had a curiouseffect. Other good varieties we have no spaceto mention. M. Linden sent also two varietiesof Cypripedium Iiebaudyanum, one remarkablefor the good proportions of the flower. Moortebeckiense, from MM. et Cie., had a largo and unusually darkstandard ; (J. microchilum (from the same exhibitors),was very distinct-looking. M. Moens showed Moensi and C. Laddensis. Phajus X Mar-tina; (P. Blumei X tuberculosis), from M. A. VanImshoot, was remarkable for richness of colouring;Cattleya TriauEei lucid*, from M. Linden, is purewhite with a lip, delicate yellow in the throat, purpleat the , and with a frilled white edge ; Odon*toglossum X flavo-marginatum, also from M. Imshoot,has all the divisions of the flower bordered withyellow ; Oncidium Phahcaopsispuuctatum, the wholeflower daintily speckled, is a gem ; Mesospinidium. hearty vote of thanks was passed to the retiringpresident, Mr. Arthur \V. Sutton, for the greatinterest he had shown in the association during histerm of office. A beautiful collection of Primulaobconica was Bhown by Mr. Townsend, gr. to SirWilliam Faurer, Sandhurst Lodge, and was greatlyadmired. Meetinq of the Brussels Orchideenne.—Among other exhibits at the last meeting werethirty plants of Cypripedium insigne from Linden et Cie., of Moortebeck. ThesoOrchids were all so Hue, that to solve the difficulty ofdeciding which of them were the best the jury voted,with the result that the following varieties receivedawards:—pictissatum (unanimile), the standard ofwhch is spotted with purple on a white ground,and the form and colouring are exceptional ; fuscum,standard all mahogany-brown, well set off by a widowhite margin ; tigrinum, very spreading standard,with large spots; supcrbie
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