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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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the kiudnesB of the Hon. Walter Rothschild,wo are enabled to give an illustration (fig. 16) of thisremarkable species, which was imported a few rearsngo by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, throughtheir enterprising Swedish collector, Ericsson. It wasdescribed from dried specimens sent by that collector slender flower-stalk, and you will get an idea ofthis extraordinary new Ilulbophyllum. The flowershave a yellowish white ground colour, the sepals andpetals are heavily spotted with dark brown, the lip isred, and has a very strange spongy texture at thedisc. Not only is tho species remarkable for itsshowy flowers, but its large shiny green leaves, sur- Wylam on-Tyne, for his successful hybridisation ofOrchid*, extending over many years, by which a largenumber of new and beautiful forms have been addedto this remarkable family of plants. To Martin R. Smith, of Warren House, Hayes, aneminent amateur, who has been most successful inthe raising of Carnation*. By his efforts many new
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FlQ. 16.—BULBOPHYLLUM ERICSSONI. to Messrs. Sander, by Dr. Kbanzlin, in ih*s GardenersChronicle, October 28, 1803, p. 522. The illustration represents a very fine and distinct new .species ; anda still stronger specimen, which is sending up twostout flower-spikes iu the Hon, Walteu LioTHSCUlLDsCollection, may probably quite come up to tho wordsofDr. Kuan zl iss description:—Thisis by far the moststriking new Orehid received for some time past.Imagine a group of from nine to twelve flowersOf a large Chimeeroid Ma*devallia, surmounting a mounting its long and rather slender pseudo-bulbs,render it an ornamental plant wbeu not in bloom.It is probably a native of New Guinea, and thereforea warm-house plant. Veitch Memorial Fund.- The Veitch Me-morial Trustees have decided to present, this year,a large Silver Medal for distinguished service tohorticulture, to each of the following gentlemen : —To Norman C. Cookson, Esq., of Oak wood, and beautiful varieties have been raised, especiall

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