. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. of nature. Roses anddecorated dinner-tables remind the Englishman thus encouraging the pursuit of horticulture,,and from the reports which we have receivedwe can say that his energies and devotion are-meeting with full measure of success. Chief among the plants which figured at theShow were Carnaitlons, Roses, Pelargoniums,.Marguerites, and—toy a Chinese exhibitor—blooms of the double-flowered Opium Poppy. ORCHID NOTES lAND CLEANINCS. ODONTIODA BRADSHAWI/E MOCATTAS-VARIETY. A specimen of the handsome
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. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. of nature. Roses anddecorated dinner-tables remind the Englishman thus encouraging the pursuit of horticulture, , and from the reports which we have receivedwe can say that his energies and devotion are-meeting with full measure of success. Chief among the plants which figured at theShow were Carnaitlons, Roses, Pelargoniums, .Marguerites, and—toy a Chinese exhibitor—blooms of the double-flowered Opium Poppy. ORCHID NOTES lAND CLEANINCS. ODONTIODA BRADSHAWI/E MOCATTAS-VARIETY. A specimen of the handsome cross between a.blotched Odontoglossum crispum and the scarletCochlioda Noezliana is flowering with ErnestMocatta, Esq., Woburn Place, Addlestone (gr.Mr. Stfevenson), the finely-grown plant bearing, two spikes, one with twenty-seven, and the otherwith sixteen flowers. The variety is intermediate between theoriginal form raised by Messrs. Charleswortb.and Co., and illustrated in the GardenersChronicle, January 19, 1907, p. 36, and 0. Brad-sttawhe Cooksons variety, illustrated March 13, .. Fig. 1E5.—the cherry-blossom dance at a shanghai flower show. of home, and the troupe of Japanese Geishas(see Fig. 185) who present the cherry-blossomdance express the joy universal among men inthe presence of spring with its re-quickening oflife. They even more than the splendid specimensof floristic art exhibited at the .show reveal thisu, .ison of East and West. For the Japanese loveof flowers is a finer, mora subtle love than ours, and their sense of beauty is at once more perfectand more mystical than that which we enjoy.Yet ours, , if heavy-handed, has at leastthe merit of being practical, and there as.something to be said for our somewhatcommon-place but real appreciation of thebeauties of flowers, in that it is accom-panied by the desire to improve and com-pare. To the West, therefore, must be giventhe credit of organising their far-away flowershow, of filling the hall (142 feet by 78