. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. anner at these mysterious mounds. Thatthey contain buried treasure we hope wehave made apparent. Tbe three beds shown in the photograph(fig. 24) produced at this gathering 508 Mushrooms, or an average of 5k lbs. totbe yard. New or Noteworthy Plants. CATTLEYA X JUNO hyh. nov., (C. FORBESI x C. VELUTINA.)This hybrid has been raised in the col-lection of C. G. Roebling of Trenton, ,where it was in flower June, 1895. In generalappearance the flower maybe likened to thatof C. velutina,
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. anner at these mysterious mounds. Thatthey contain buried treasure we hope wehave made apparent. Tbe three beds shown in the photograph(fig. 24) produced at this gathering 508 Mushrooms, or an average of 5k lbs. totbe yard. New or Noteworthy Plants. CATTLEYA X JUNO hyh. nov., (C. FORBESI x C. VELUTINA.)This hybrid has been raised in the col-lection of C. G. Roebling of Trenton, ,where it was in flower June, 1895. In generalappearance the flower maybe likened to thatof C. velutina, brightened ; the growth re-minds one of the other parent ; altogetherit is a decided acquisition in a section butlittle cultivated. Flowers 3^ to 4 inches indiameter, borne erect on a three-floweredscape, highly fragrant; sepals and petalsequal, light yellowish brown, irregularly andsparsely spotted with intense rose, undulate,recurved at the apex, flushed rose at tbebase, where they are narrowed almost to aclaw. Lip prominent; median lobe°semi-orbicular, white with .[rich heavy veins of. Fig. 23.—mosheoom culture : making the spawn. roBe; side lobes wrapped closely over the column, purewhite flushed with rose on the margin ; yellow-veinedin the throat. Leonard Barron. The Rosary. A WHITE MOSS ROSE. Me. Newnham Bbown, of Reigate, has in his gardena white Moss Rose tree, which twice during this seasonhas produced a flower half-white, half-red, all the othersbeing white The white and red do not melt into eachother, but are sharply defined, one petal, in fact, being half-red, half-white. According to Mr. W. BottingHemsley, who writes in Nature, there are severalvarieties of Rose which revert or sport in thismanner to the ancestral colour. The striped white andred York and Lancaster Rose is an , the proportions of red and white are thesame in any two flowers; but sometimes a pure pink—if not also a pure white—flower is seen. This re-version is ascribed to a
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