. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Ganges. It was a cruel disappoint-ment, as it was my first collection, a most valu-able one; many of the plants I have never metwith again. The single plants kept by me togrow died. Hence I lost sight of these two plantsfor many years. Other plants of the Cymbi-dium, however, appear to have been afterwards last in flower, and for the first time in bought the plant of Messrs. Hugh Low & May, 1870, being part of the private collectionmade in Burmah by the Eev. Mr. Parish. He saidit was
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Ganges. It was a cruel disappoint-ment, as it was my first collection, a most valu-able one; many of the plants I have never metwith again. The single plants kept by me togrow died. Hence I lost sight of these two plantsfor many years. Other plants of the Cymbi-dium, however, appear to have been afterwards last in flower, and for the first time in bought the plant of Messrs. Hugh Low & May, 1870, being part of the private collectionmade in Burmah by the Eev. Mr. Parish. He saidit was a fine thing, superior even to C. eburneum,which as regards the colours of the lip it certainlyis. The plant has been strong enough to flowerfor three or four years,and I have been disappointedevery spring until now; but it is worth waitingfor. Mr. Days plant is said to have beenpurchased by Mr. B. S. Williams for 100 guineas,and when it flowered again was figured in theOrchid Album, ii., t. 25. Messrs. Sanders specimen is from a new andquite distinct locality, and considering how com-. FlG. 147.—POMADEERIS VACCINIIFOLIA FLOWERING IN THETEMPERVTE-HOUSE, KEW. obtained, for there is a dried specimen at Kew,and on the ticket is written—* Flowered in mygarden in 18G7 or 8, and also a note that plantswere sent to Kew and to Mr. Low. In June,1878, it flowered in Europe for the first time, in*he collections of W. Leech, Esq., Fallowfield,Manchester; J. Day, Esq , of Tottenham; andwith Mr. B. S. Williams, when Eeichenbachwrote an interesting note about it. The Fallow-field plant, according to Mr. Swan, produced two-spikes, and he added: I may say that it is amost beautiful thing, fully answering to thedescription I had with it; and that it succeedswell in the Cattleya-house, giving it in thegrowing season very copious supplies of Day made an excellent painting of it, andwrote as follows.—This lovely Cymbidium is at plttely the original plant has since been lost sightof
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