. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. g new garden planta. Tbe apeciea croaaedare aa dissimilar aa they can well be, and have little incommon, except that they both inhabit Burmese terri-tory. D. Dalhoaaieanum waa firat introduced in 1837,and D. chryaotoxum aome ten yeara later. The formerhaa tall terete atema, leafy when young, and tbe latterclavate pseudo-bulbs, bearing a few leavea at the top,and yet in Meaara. Veitchs hybrid the amalgama- lip being purple. It ia a remarkably intereating andbeautiful plant now; when it waa exhibited b
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. g new garden planta. Tbe apeciea croaaedare aa dissimilar aa they can well be, and have little incommon, except that they both inhabit Burmese terri-tory. D. Dalhoaaieanum waa firat introduced in 1837,and D. chryaotoxum aome ten yeara later. The formerhaa tall terete atema, leafy when young, and tbe latterclavate pseudo-bulbs, bearing a few leavea at the top,and yet in Meaara. Veitchs hybrid the amalgama- lip being purple. It ia a remarkably intereating andbeautiful plant now; when it waa exhibited byMeasra. Jas. Veitch & Son at tbe meeting of theOrchid Committee of the Royal HorticulturalSociety, June 25, it received a Firat-claaa Certificate. Royal Horticultural Society.—The nextmeeting of the R >jal Horticultural Society will beheld in tbe Drill Hall, Jimea Street, Victoria Street,Weatminaler, on Tueeday, July 9, when a apecialahow of Roaea will be an attractive feature. At 3oclock, Mr. Francis Daewin will deliver a lecture onThe effscta of Dirkneaa on the forme of FlQ. 4.—DENDROBIUM X ILLDSTRE : FtOWEHI 1 ELLOW ; LIP PURPLE. in speeoh, he rushed into the fray, and therailers and vituperators soon found they hadan antagonist who could, when necessary,use their own weapons with overpoweringefficiency. One may regret that each party didnot keep to its own department, and we mustdeplore the unscientific temper that was mani-fested, but we must remember the provocation,and bear in mind that the means used were atthe time the only ones that could be , though a naturalist in the broadlensc? of the term, contributed little to botanioal,vnd bothing to horticultural literature. Hispaper on fientians, in the Journalof the LinneanSociety, is suggestive rather than practical. tion of the two ia diatinctly traceable, the awollenatema and fleshier leavea indicating D. chryao-toxum, while tbe way in which the leavea areborne, and the cbaracteriatic li
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