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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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he very base ofeven sepals, which are a little narrower than the oddone. Small petals whitish. Lip yellowish, with a darkknob at the apex. It has been believed in Englandto be Masdevallia Wageneriana, Lindl. No doubtthere is a certain similarity between the two, but thissuggestion is founded on a mistake. That species is MASDEVALLIA ROSEA. Our illustrations, tigs. 117, 118, taken from a sketchby M. Lehmann, represent this lovely Masdevallia,which, though old in one sense, may yet be describedas new. The history of the plant has more than oncebeen given in our columns by Professor Keichenbach(see p. 64S). Suffice it now to say that it resemblesa rose-coloured M. Harryana. A HAMPSHIRE GARDEN. AiiOltT 4 miles from Romsey and 8 from South-ampton, on the borders of the New Forest, pleasantlysituated in a park of some 400 acres, lies PaultonsHouse, the seat of H. Sloane-Stanley, Esq. Thegardens are commodiously and conveniently situatedat the western side of the park. An occasional visit to
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Fig. 118.—MASDEVALLIA ROSEA : MUCH REDUCED. FLOWERS ROSE-IINK. really well represented in £of. Mag., 4921, whichshows the best feature, the triangular nicely tooth-letted blade of the lip, while our plant has a nearlysquare, entire blade. The figure in Iaxtons Flo-verGarJcit, iii., p. 74, is a very indifferent one, almostgood for nothing, giving the impression of the flowerbeing shut. I have to thank for this the Messrs.Veitch, of Chelsea. H. G. Rdib.f. M.^XCHESTER WhiI-Week Siiow.—During theseven days on which this show was open to thepublic, we learn that it was visited by nearly60,000 persons. It has consequently been a verysuccessful enterprise. Masdevallia .vaiit/ii/tn.—Aft. M. Wagenerianae : folio apctiolari basi cuncato-oblongo obtusibsime acutiusculo: florissepalis omnino expanbis ; sepalo imparl ligulato oblongo g:i!eatom caudatn longiorem cxtenbo, sepalis paribus pauIo angubiiori-bus, omnibus sub-caudis rctusiusculis, aiitico carinalis, babiangulatis ; labelli uugue a

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