. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. redwith long soft white silk-like hairs, the attraction ofthe specimen here described will not be doubted, notmentioning the disagreeable odour which excitesmuch curiosity among visitors until its source is dis-covered. This Stapelia thrives only when grown ina hot moist stove—in fact, the Kew plants are grownalong with Dandrobium Phalaanopsis. Possiblymany other species of Stapelia, which are generallydifficult to manage, or, at any rate, to flower in a drysucculent housp, would grow better and flow
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. redwith long soft white silk-like hairs, the attraction ofthe specimen here described will not be doubted, notmentioning the disagreeable odour which excitesmuch curiosity among visitors until its source is dis-covered. This Stapelia thrives only when grown ina hot moist stove—in fact, the Kew plants are grownalong with Dandrobium Phalaanopsis. Possiblymany other species of Stapelia, which are generallydifficult to manage, or, at any rate, to flower in a drysucculent housp, would grow better and flower with are borne on a crowded, branched , which ispartly enclosed in a large boat • shaped spathe18 inches long, springing from the axils of the oldestleaf. A figure of it has been prepared for the Botanical Magazine, Cycnoches distinct species first flowered at Kew exactlythree years ago, a year after it had been receivedfrom Mr. E. Rand, of Para, Brazil, along with , which flowered at the same time. was first described by Rodriguez, and the. PlG. 83.—MESSES. DOBBIE AND ASTER FIELD AT OBP1NGT0N, KENT. (SEE P. 484 ) after the flowers have faded, and assume a brightred colour. The same character occura in the alliedgenera Muatrenda and Ilowardia. There are onlytwo apeciea ol Alberta, the second being a native ofMadagascar. A. magna is evergreen, and is a hand-some Laurel-like shrub when not in flower. Itprefera a peaty soil, and erjoys plenty of sunlight. Stapelia giqantea,A well- flowered example of this magnificent Stapeliahaa lately been exhibited in the stove at Kew. Itbegan by developing four large flowers simultaneouly,and bore at the same time thirteen buds in variousstages of growth. The plant ia growing in a 9-inchpan auspended from the roof, and its fleshy, four-angled etema almost completely hide the pan. Asthe flowers are each nearly a foot in diameter, and in greater freedom if treated more liberally in respectt
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