THE ORCHID ALBUM V1, Warner and Al

l(f s^ t.-^K/\'L^m *i ^^^.^f-r" /*>jr a^ *^ L r v.v THE '^J-'^K t_j^ COMPRISING COfcOURED FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW, RAEE, AND BEAUTIFUL * ORCHIDAGEOUS PLANTS CONDUCTED BY J 'a # ROBERT WARNER, F.R.H.S., Author of SELECT ORCHIDACEOFS PLANTS, F.L.S., f AN'D i * BENJAMIN SAMUEL Author WILLIAjVIS, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., the ORCHID-GROWERS' oi" OF the etc THOMAS MOORE, The Botanical Descriptions by CURATOR MAXUAL, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., CHELSEA BOTANIC GARDENS r f TBi: COLOURED FIGURES BY JOEM JfUGEXT FITCH, F.L.S B i A^O L TJ ]Vd[ E I LONDON: % Published by B S WILLIAMS, AT THE VICTORIA AND PARADISE NURSERIES, UPPER HOLLOWAY, N MDCCCLXXXII ^ MTSSr ItTT p GA jE T i DEDICATED TO i> i> •r BY HEE EOYAL HIGHNESS' Very obedient and humbl e Servants, EGBERT WAENEE, BENJAMIN S WILLIAMS "j" * RE FA The and introduction of which advances great devoting the cultivation methods successful concerning them as the and purchases, his management much These Oechid in we in object its may the be various have* found have the induced confident we have no reason and amateur in also the to professional, cultural feel tliese that we Being of likely find enable the to style, we growers of us our patrons in directing mas and discreet the of commence to expectation we that disappointed, for for it, we better the shall of varieties publication meet with the of sufficient and, so far as our experience find we hope illustration, prove Quarto size, sufficiently the produce ample confidently hope Orchids of useful information that Orchid growers, both only in the plates but in due course to figure not distinct and meritorious It for is our subscribers and readers will most anxiously look becoming cumbersome their r anticipate artist to such the more popular and interesting species, but also the all when they Eoyal these of notes only the typical form of varieties, desirability best forms supply figures the in explanation of the most taking a marked interest not are In regard to the subjects leading the points that the of to years suggested the being to support and encouragement to enable us to continue goes, have also few last request considerations Album, them, the illustration and plants, suggesting Moreover, Orchids are the to Orchid Grower in within Exotic Orchids, of aristocratic growing of made been monthly publication a and captivating singular have and, ; and as they will generally pages of Thus intelligible prove trust Album are portraits of sufficiently the large to without plants be drawn and coloured in the best they will w^e the to be acceptable the to we may be permitted an acceptable Annual Album of Floral Pictures, which to will lovers lay be, at and before once, welcomed both to the Drawing-room and the Library The work has been commenced in deference to the urgent representations of many have of of we which and remarkable these fiiscinatinof & now endeavouring are to plants, wlio meet The advantage and pleasure which Orchid Growers have derived from the publication such illustrated instructions ther the cultivators pointed out to us the want jreat of leading tlie as a exists are works the and may in a Orchid taste some Orchidaceous Select given in the desire Orchid Album as G such Mamcal, lead us further for and Plants, considerable Orchidic degree to believe that which literature, supplv practical we Our chief the plants, trust aim will r be give to authentic disseminate correct new Orchids, with qual grateful to as information instructions well as the fidelity, in older as to the regard to nomencl their meritorious of cultural species and and described with equal accuracy those Amatem-s or Trade growlers who may The requirements varieties, We shall will at be all they are such as will be The Annual Volumes in each year suitable for the volume will be completed Monthly Parts issued up by the pubhcaticn B Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, June 1st, 1882 figured give us information as to th pecially m S to of a Title and Index N., finer figurino- will consist of the Upper Holloway, London, to times feel flowering either of novelties or of remarkably fine forms of the older kinds if and WILLIA3IS June Pag INDEX TO PLATES ry- PLATK PLATE AE RIDES LOBBII, 21 Hort Veitch ANaR^CUM EBURNEUM, Du CALANTHE CATTLE YA lAnd et VEITCHII, Jlclib CATTLBYA FLORA, f Li7idl 18 MASDEVALLIA HARRYANA 31 CATTLEYA MORGANS, WiUiams et Moore Lem 33 CYPRIPEDIUM Rchh f Bchb f 45 26 Eclh f Bchb / 29 CELORONEURUM, 37 DENDROBIUM ROSEUM, f Itchb f, Lindl 47 Batem FLAVEOLUM, ALEXANDRAS Williams et Moore 35 ODONTOGLOSSUM BREVIFOLIUM, 27 ODONTOGLOSSUM KUAliEM, lAndL PAPHINiA CRISTATA, AINSWORTHII 12 Lindl PESCATOREA KLABOCHORUM, Bchb 82 34 f 17 PHAL^NOPSIS AMABILIS DAYANA, 20 Uod Idndl 36 40 Bchb f ONCIDIUM CONCOLOR, Hook 43 Bchb f ONCIDIUM K^MATOCHILUM, Moore ODONTOGLOSSUM ANDERSONIANUM, 22 46 ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRiE, , DENDROBIUM BIGIBBUM, lAndl DENDROBIUM SUAYISSIMUM, llchb.f DENDROBimi SUPERBUM, Ikhb f EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM MAJUS, 88 13 42 11 Jlort PHALiENOPSIS NOBILIS, Bchb STUARTIANA / ' PIIOMEX^A CITBINA, Doji TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS ALBA, Eort 39 14 48 R:hb /, 15 ZYGOPETALUM GAUTIERI, Lem 28 L^LIA ANCEPS DAWSONI, Anders, L^LIA ELEGANS ALBA, Williams et Moore SlTUTTLEWORTIlil, ONCIDIUM GARDNERI, CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM, CYPRIPEDIUM POLITUM, Bchh CYPRIPEDIUM STONEI, Low 21 Lindl 25 Uchh f CCERU- Eort ODONTOGLOSSUM CATTLEYA SUPERBA SPLENDENS, CYMBIDIUM PARISHII, Lindl MILTONIA CUNEATA, Ca:]LOGYNE MASSANGEANA, LESCENS, MASDEVALLIA Moore CATTLEYA VELUTINA, 23 GBANDI- et L^LIA XAN^rniNA, 16 CATTLEYA TRIAN.^, Und 19 et L^LIA SCHRODERII, WUUams et Moore LEOPOLDII, MENDELII Williams Lindl GUTTATA 9—10 41 Pet.-Th BURLINGTONIA CANDIDA, PURPURATA WILLIAMSII, Bort ANGULOA RUCKERII SANGUINEA, Lindl L^LIA 44 30 VANDA VANDA CO^PtULESCENS, PARISHII, Griff *:: s SYNONYMS AND NOTES INDEX TO UNDER PLATE 24 UNDER PLATE Aerides Fieldingii, Dr Ainsworth^s Aerides Leeanunij Mr Law-Scliofielt Aerides odoratum majus^ Mrs Arbu Aerides Sctroderii^ Dr AinswortV Aerides suavissimum Mr Coates' graecum eburneum virens 37 14 18 41 Angrascum sesquipedale^ Mr Coates* Angrsecum superbum^ Du Pet-Th 41 Bletia xanthinaj Rchh / 23 BoUea Bolleas^ Cattleya Cattleya Cattleya Cattleya 40 a block plant as coelestis^ 18 Mr, Gair^s Dowiana, Mr Dodgson's Dowiana, Mr Lee's gigas^ Mr Bockett^s gigas^ Mr Lee's 17 19 45 45 Karst sya Cattleya Leopoldii^ Cattleya superba, Hort 16 Versch Lawrence's Cattleya Trianie^ Mr Wright's Cattleya Triana3 Dodgsoni Cattleya Trianae Sir Osmani Cymbidium eburneum^ Cypripedium Dodgsou's Cypripedium Cypripedium Cypripedium Cyrtocbilum 41 T 40 40 29 correction barbatum Mr superbum^ msisrne Mr Haywood's Spicerianum^ Mr Bockett's villosum, Mr Wyatt's Rooh citrinum, 27 19 42 Dendrobium Ainsworth Moore Mara Dendrobium Findlejanum, Mr Bowring's Dendrobium Hillii, Mr Wyatt's Dendrobium macrantlium, Eooh Dendrobium macropbyllum, Lindl Dendrobium nobile, a three-lipped Dendrobium um (macro phyllum)^ Prince of Wales Dendrobium Wardianum, Mr Salamon's 42 42 42 48 Dendrocliilum filiforme Mr Hill's 15 um Epidendrum elatius, var Sir T Lawrence's Laelia anceps Dawsoni, Mr Dodgson's Loolia autumnalis atrorubens, Laelia Lffilia Dominiana 32 36 44 45 28 Mr Cliam- berlain Laelia 44 16 Rchb f nemorale 20 23 rosea, Hort Veitch elegans prasiata Philbrickiana, Hort 12 40 Veitch Limodorum eburneum, Bory Masdevallia chimaera Dr Ainswortli 41 26 Masdevallia Harryana, RcJib Masdevallia Lindeni, Hoolc / 24 24 Masdevallia Lindeni Harryana^ AndrS Maxillaria citrina^ Maxillaria cristata, Lyons Lindl , Miltonia speciosa^ Kl Odontoglossum Alexandrse^ Dr Ainswortli' -• Odontoglossum Hardy's Odontoglossum Odontoglossum Odontoglossum Odontoglossum Odontoglossum flaveolumj AlexandraB Alexandree reginse Bluntii^ / Mr crispum flaveolum^ Rchh Londesborougbianum^ Law- Scbofield' s - Eoezlii, autumn-flowering variety Odontoglossums at Trentham Oncidium luridum purpuratum^ Oncidium speciosum, Rchh, / Dr Ainswortb's 34 48 47 47 43 27 Mr Todd's Bull' Mr vexillarium Odontoglossum Odontoglossum OrchidSj Mr ItcTtb / crispnmj Lindl 34 46 26 43 23 43 32 46 26 Lodd Mr Dodgson's Orchids, Mr Dorman's Orchids_, Mr Hardy's Orchids^ Baron Schroder's Orchids at Arnot Hill 40 Orchids at 18 Orcbids, Ferguslie 22 15 Orchids at Manchester, 1881 Orchids in Belgium, Dr Boddaert's Orchids in Belgium, M D Massange's Orchids, from Dr Paterson Orchids, from Perth, K.B Orchids, raised blinds for Orchids, shading 30 intermedia , 11 Portei, Baron - Phalsenopsis Stuartiana, RcJib f Eestrepia antennifera, M D Massange's Batem Sphagnum, best kind for Odontoglots Rodriguezia Candida, Trichopilia Vanda Vanda Vanda Vanda Vanda Vanda saavis, Cathcartii, LindL M D Massange's Marquis of Lothian's Lowii, Sir T Lawrence's coerulea suavis Dr Ainsworth's Mr Dodgson's tricolor, Mr Broome's suavis, 45 48 35 35 17 Mr Gair's Phala^nopsidSj Mr Bockett's Pescatoreas, Phalsenopsis Schroder's 16 i ^ )* ONCIDIUM CONCOLOR V- i^ p ONCIDIUM CONCOLOR [Plate Mdive of the 1.] Organ Mountcdus of Brazil, Pseudohidhs Epipliy tufted, ovate oi cssorl furro-w Leaves suljcoriaeeous, oblong-linear or ligulate, acute, bi green Sea I radical, sprin fr the base of tlic youiio- ]),scudobull)s, droopino-, furn witli small Floivers yellow, racemose sepa ovate-l.incculate or obovatc, acute, the lateral ones smaller, lance-shaped, and united behind the lip for aljuut f pafc'Js obovate, acute, somewhat undulated, about ns long as the sepal ibcllum) large and prominent, roundish subpanduriform, em iriiinate, somewh ed, furnished with a pa of or lamcllse (bilamelhite) at the base, of clear the sepals and petals Column about half as long as tlic petal ; projecting tooth on each side Oncidiu Oncidium, No 65 Art Botanices St/stcmaticce, Cy (excl vi the brilliant great genus plant little Oncid> ; Botan here figured the to t as and the at uished from the o same time the petals, lip, are in group of pals are This species, although not new, was until seldom met with in collections ; now, however, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of our it ma\ oT)tain it at a very small tly collectors, cost The the and beautiful of the Oucldlums, producing, gr( new bulbs, subject house, for in little as where the in iitl) a pan or basket flowers to be to gem the petaloid {tetrapetala) the 'pals and rare, is very plentiful possess one of the most comr is it arc indeed growers docs, fr many-flowered drooping spikes of rich yellow blossoms planting Lindley named number size o extremely so species in Vandece of that so lited eciu comparatively small by comparison with the remainin of Buriyiah J^ative ' Epiphytal Stem one to two feet liigli or more, producing long stout flcxuous roots from the leaf bases Leaves close set, disticlious, lincar-liginatc, trunrntolybilobed, coriaceous, cliannelled, five to seven inches long, of a deep givon colour, carmate, the l>:cel forming an angular projection at the tip Scapes or rcdunclcs slender, distantly vaginate, with small appressed sheaths, axillnry, erect, bearing a ten to twenty flowered raceme longer than the leaves Flowers neat and very pleasing, pale mauve-blue ; sepals incurved, cuneate-ovate, obtuse, clawed, of a pnle greyish blue ; petals similar in size, form, and colour, twisted at the bnse, w itli iha two lateral lobes tawny-yellow, and adnate to the column, the middle or front lobe obcuncate dilated and emargmate at the apex the margins dcflexcd, of a rich violet-blue, with a pair of keel-shaped deep violet calli and a shoi-t intermediate one Column on the disk, the spur straight or incurved, conical, tipped with green small, blue Vanda Lindley, Folia CCEKULESCENS, Griffith, Notula;, 352 ; JJ., Icones, t 331 ers^ Annales Botaniccs art Vanda, No 19; Reichcnhach Jil., in 1870, 529, fig 97; vi., 868 ; Id., in Gardeners' Chronicle, 18G9, 498 Williams, Orchid Growers Botanical Magazine, t 5834 (colour faulty) 5, 305 ; Orchidacea, Systematicce, Hooler fil, Manual, ed ; The Vandas beautiful species, such as V mavis, V and make well furnished with leaves, are including amongst most noble family of Orchids are a Batemanni, and V tricolor, splendid specimens, them many The} others derablc requiring *.4 in which to gi-ow them, but they are space in as bloom make grand they flower at 2T0W as at of times of all Chatsworth, the y many have seen as 193 as :l in blossom f-j one at presenting a most glorious sight time, The Vandas small, are of taken from a The easy cultivation and plant, free-blo ele & beautiful specimen Dorman, Esq., The Firs, L grow collections of Orchids we have Turie C g: Park, seen, \;vhich speci also o which gives a good repr o will be seen from the was w^e attraction when net No collection should be without them ar< 'Where a number of tliose Orchi beauty of great we now figure very distinct in character, in of the it iplendid a is ns Our di'awing of collection Sydenham, who has one of one which does great the dit to Mr Coningsby, the gardener Vanda plate ca^rulescens In this instance is it a compact g: species, as may be seen from our habit fifteen inch drooping a of spike flower produced a ^ which lono- an exception, as the flower spikes arc quite is The erect or ascending It t)lue altogether most distinct is a collection in blooms at We Orchids of the iphagnnm heat moss during the thri\ either for sake the' must and and have pot or contrasts to because '5 rest moisture less suspended basket a in at igenial dr les»^ greatly required is yields it continues for several weeks house Q;ood O when season; charming the of or the lip of a deep and a plant that colour, the East India of growing in of the times' diflferent find and petals are of a bluish pals more generally must it be equired IS from the keiDt moist The plant that so roof, beauty, grows well in It it It may it get plenty of light, but must be shaded from the sun Odoxtoglossum AlexandkIe has sent us two fine of of —F A Philbrick, Esq., grand variety, the white this It is Orchids Woodlands, curious produced one of the from Perth, growing fi-om spotted forms finest a nice We N.B Perth, pike ^" -J of Orchid, an the base of the one seldom sees eed-like The plant makes a from the shows was a spike of three produced stronger, d a a half from that a it ofl" fine plant fine and leaves variety of inches will its across with from W with three Mr small Woodlands a grand specimen of in it and leaves, The blossom are flowers to bulbs and yellow, There flow( Cama picrpurea, "W S f was also Esq flowers distinctly flo\ informs us that ;pects, "W S as in this a:re suspended this measuring spike the plant flo"s\ is spotted Accompanying advantage he reddish This flo^ specimen for a block, and when Macdonald open.—B with Macdonald Odontoglossum Fescatorei, with produce larger pretty rosy pink flowers fully Steelii, which are valuable species.^B received Scutica of petals, H with crimson roof have of this Bickley, Oldiield, flowers good form and profusely blotched, both on the sepals and crmison a spikes regix.'E at with about 100 spikes of was gets The its ... such the more popular and interesting species, but also the all when they Eoyal these of notes only the typical form of varieties, desirability best forms supply figures the in explanation of the. .. first Botanical plant was the admiration of First Class and who saw all ill the in others there are colouring many of the The It and last purposes, edge from since produces and sej^als magenta... forwnrdii at the inch and a half across converging, similar to the sepals in size, j9Cfa?5 yellow, also tip, bright yellow; form, and colouring; h'p larger and broadi-r than the sepals and petals, spreading,