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AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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been making a little tour in Ireland, tells me of a 

 remarkable specimen of this grand old orchid — a 

 good variety, also, now bearing thirty-nine fully- 

 expanded flowers, in one of the hothouses at 



Disa grandiflora superba and D. Barrelli are 

 growing like weeds in one corner of a house filled 

 with herbaceous Calocelarias. The door stands 

 open quite near to them night and day, but dry- 



Straffan. It is a veritable specimen, well grown, i ness is counteracted by copious syringings. In a 

 perfect in shape, every leaf perfect, and a great { a few weeks' time they will be well worth seeing, 

 contrast to the "made-up" specimens we now and ' the flower-spikes being both many and vigorous, 

 then see at exhibitions. In the same collection I Oncidium macranthum var. hastiferum is also 



