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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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for in the originaldescription of the type, in which he refers to otherspecimens of it, Gardeners Chronicle> vii., 1877,p. 271, he says, This is a very pretty novelty, some-times with very large flowers. This week specimensof it have been received from W. C. Walker, Esq.,Winchmore Hill, and H. Cary Batten, Esq., AbbotsLeigh, Bristol. The flowers are large for the species ;white, with the tips of the sepals and petals colouredrose-purple for about one-third of their length, andthe front lobe of the lip of a rathor darker rose-purple with an orange keel in the centre. It is apretty variety of a very useful winter-floweringspecies. LUDDEMANNIA LEHMANNI. In describing this very striking and showy Orchid,Reichenbach designated it a fresh member of themysterious genus Luddemannia, and until recentlybut little was known of the plant. For some timepast it has been in flower in the collection ofR. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell(gr., Mr. H. J. Chapman). The large pseudobulbs
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FlQ. 18.—SPECIMENS OF CRESTED CYCLAMENS. (SEE PP. 70, 81.)! Sandene, which differs from both the above ? Boththese varieties must be spurious, since they are notC. i. Sandene ; but, at any rate, the one Mr. Ball has isreally a very fine flower, aud much superior to Mr.Hardys in point of size and colour. Orchidists seemto have a curious way of sometimes multiplyingnames for the same variety, and also of reversingthis process by having several varieties under thesame name. S. S, (The statement of J. H. T.referred to above, is quite correct. There are nottwo varieties of C. insigne Sanderse, though possiblythe allied, but inferior, C. insigne Sanderianum, andother similarly inferior varieties, may have gotconfounded with it in some gardens. Ed.) Cypripedium callosum Sanders.Not until Norman C. Cookson, Esq., of Oakwood,Wylam, in a letter dated January 18, conveyed theinformation—So far I have no seedling Cypripe-dium callosum Sandene up—was I aware that theremarks in the Gardeners

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