The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ould be like, would ventureto picture to themselves a plant so like the maleparent, and so utterly unlike the one which bore theseed as Epi-Cattleya x matutina, exhibited by theraisers, Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, Ltd., of Chelsea,at the Royal Horticultural Society on March 23, provedto be. A glance at the illustration (fig. 77) shows that AtRlt 10, THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 233 the plant has much the same habit as Epidendrumradicans, even to the air-root bearing characteristicof that species. T
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ould be like, would ventureto picture to themselves a plant so like the maleparent, and so utterly unlike the one which bore theseed as Epi-Cattleya x matutina, exhibited by theraisers, Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, Ltd., of Chelsea,at the Royal Horticultural Society on March 23, provedto be. A glance at the illustration (fig. 77) shows that AtRlt 10, THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 233 the plant has much the same habit as Epidendrumradicans, even to the air-root bearing characteristicof that species. The base of the stem showed atendency to thicken, which may increase with age,bat up to the present there is little evidence of theCattleya. In the flowers, too, it will be seen thatthe character cf the labellum does not appear to bo NOTES ON THE NARCISSUS. (Continued from p. 200.) Diseases of the Narcissus.—A very great dealhas been written of late years, since Narcissus-growingfor pleasure and profit haB become so general, uponthe so called disease * basal rot/ its causes and cure,. Fig. 77.—epi-cattleya x matutina. (see p. 232.) fixed, for one exhibits a distinct attempt at a tri*lobato form, and is different from the others. Thesepals and petals are yellow, tinged with vermilion ;the lip, yellow at the base, reddish in front. Likeother crosses with Epidendrum radicans, it willdoubtless improve when thoroughly established, andlike them be easy to grow and propagate. but no wholly satisfactory or helpful diagnosis orremedy has been forthcoming. The reason seems tobe—and I have been led to the conclusion after manyyears of careful observation in my own garden andelsewhere, and after much correspondence and read-ing of all that has been advanced by others on thosubject—that bnsal rot is no truly specific disease with its own ascerta;ned or possible ant rote b tsimply the fuiluie of r -taction in the pl»nt who. itsenvironment is found unsuitable. When an entiregenus of p
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