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purple flowers : it does not flower very freely, but is quite distinct 

 and novel. 



A further selection from the hybrid Dendrobiums should in- 

 clude — D. Blackianum (Z). Findlayanum x D. Wiganice), D. 

 BouNDii {D. Findlayanum x D. Hildebrandi'i)^ D, Bryan {D. 

 Ittteoliim X D. Wardianuni)^ D. Cheltenhamense (Z). aiireum x D. 

 luteolicm\ D. Cordelia (Z). aureinn x D. euosmuni)^ D. Cypherii 

 (Z). crass'inode x D. Findlayanum)^ D. Dominyanum (Z). Linawi- 

 anmn x D. nobile)^ D. Doris (Z). Ainsworthl't x D. moniliforme)^ 

 D. Gattonense (Z). Curtisit x Z). Findlayanum)^ D. Niobe (Z). 

 «o^/7^ X Z). tortile)^ D. Pitcherianum (Z). «o/5'/7f x D. primulinum)^ 

 known also as D. Rolfe^e ; D. Scylla (D. Cybele x Z). monil'iforme)^ 

 and D. Thompsonianum (Z). Cheltenhamense x Z). nobile). 



DISA 



To amateurs who do not care to provide and maintain accom- 

 modation for tropical Orchids, the genus Disa offers a fine oppor- 

 tunity. Everyone who knows the Disas agrees that they are 

 beautiful, elegant, useful, and easily grown, and yet there are very 

 few indeed who take up their cultivation seriously and make them 

 the success they deserve to be. The hybrids, and all the species 

 except D. grandiflora^ are finely grown at Kew, where several 

 hybrids have been raised. Z). grandiftora flowers at Kew, but 

 is not the striking success there that it has been at Joldwynds, 

 Dorking, or at Messrs Cripps & Son's nurseries at Tunbridge 

 Wells ; indeed this, the finest member of the family, is flowered in 

 first-rate style in but few gardens, owing probably to insufficiently 

 moist and cool atmospheric conditions during the growing season. 



The Disas are terrestrial, and chiefly from South Africa ; 



