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and two dark crimson spots in the centre : it lasts four or 

 five days in beauty. This will grow either in a pot or basket, 

 with moss. Specimen plants of this are scarce, and justly 

 prized by those who possess them, as it makes a good plant 

 for exhibition purposes. This plant was exhibited by Captain 

 Shaw at Blackburn, 1872 ; it had forty-three spikes, many of 

 which had fourteen flowers on them ; there were 440 flowers 

 in all, 400 of which were open at the same time, the individual 

 blooms measuring four and a half inches in diameter. 



D. densiflorum. — A magnificent compact and free-flowering 

 evergreen Orchid from India. The stems are erect, a foot or 

 more high, and produce their beautiful pendent spikes of rich 

 yellow flowers from their sides near the top ; it blooms in 

 March, April, or May, and lasts from four to six days in per- 

 fection, if kept in a cool-house. This is one of the showiest 

 Orchids in cultivation, and one of the choicest plants we 

 have for exhibition on account of its colour. It should be 

 potted in peat. I have seen this with nearly one hundred 

 flower-spikes on it at one time in the collection of J. Day, 

 Esq., Tottenham. 



D. densiflorum album. — An Indian kind, distinct from the 

 former, and called Schroder's variety ; it grows to the same 

 height as D. densifiorum, and has foliage of the same colour ; 

 flowers pink and white ; lip yellow ; blossoms in April and 

 May, and continues about ten days in perfection. It grows 

 best in a pot in peat. This is one of the finest of the genus. 

 There are several varieties of D. densifiorum album sold, but 

 none are equal to "Schroder's variety" — sometimes called 

 Z). Schroderi ; when the plant is known, it can be distin- 

 guished from any other by its stems. 



D. Devonianum. — This is one of the finest of the genus ; 

 it is a deciduous and pendulous-growing species. The flowers 

 are produced from the nodes, for fully three parts of the 



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