. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Apples weregenerally so poor a crop, Worcester Pear-main, Lanes Prince Albert, King of thePippins, and other varieties fruited heavilyat Impney. Dr. Corbett is one of the best-known andinfluential men in Droitwich, a town forwhich his family has done a very great little park which he has lent to thetown, and which he maintains at his ownexpense, is a very popular rendezvous forthousands of visitors. P. has appeared among Barkeria elegans sent directfrom Mexico, and sold by Messrs. Protheroe
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Apples weregenerally so poor a crop, Worcester Pear-main, Lanes Prince Albert, King of thePippins, and other varieties fruited heavilyat Impney. Dr. Corbett is one of the best-known andinfluential men in Droitwich, a town forwhich his family has done a very great little park which he has lent to thetown, and which he maintains at his ownexpense, is a very popular rendezvous forthousands of visitors. P. has appeared among Barkeria elegans sent directfrom Mexico, and sold by Messrs. Protheroe &Morris in the spring of 1903. In appearance the Epidendrum nonchinense, asit was named by Prof. Reichenbach, resemblesthe E. elegans, with which it is associated, soclosely that the two can scarcely be separatedwhen not in flower. Both have slender pseudo-bulbs, furnished with rather fleshy leaves anderect terminal flower-spikes. The flowers of , however, are much smaller and morenumerous, and white, with dark-purple markingson the labsllum. It is singular that two plants. Fig. 48.—impney hall, droitwich, the property of dr. corbett. markings upon the foliage. Some of hisplants, when these notes were taken, wereso handsomely marked that they mighthave been profitably used as foliageplants. Of Primula sinensis there werethree-hundred, and a similar number ofplants of P. obconica. The Kitchen-garden includes 6 acres of land, two of which arc en-closed within walls. Hardy fruit-trees havebeen planted wherever suitable positionscould be found for them, and Mr. Jordanhas himself worked a number of stocks withchoice varieties of Apples. Last season the ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. EPIDENDRUM is interesting to note that this pretty littleplant has appeared again after many years, andin such a way that any doubt as to its origin isremoved. Lindley, on erroneous information,described it originally as Ljeliopsis chinensis, butnothing was known of plants in
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