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casual market-gardener hazarded thirty shillings, 
brought it round so far that he could establish a 
number of young plants, and sold the parent for 
forty pounds at last. There are, however, several 
fine varieties of D. mzobzle more valuable than 
nobtlius. D.n. Sanderianum resembles that form, 
but it is smaller and darker. Albinos have been 
found ; Baron Schroeder has a beautiful example. 
One appeared at Stevens’ Rooms, announced as 
the single instance in cultivation—which is not 
quite the fact, but near enough for the auction- 
room, perhaps. It also was imported originally 
by Mr. Sander, with D. 2. Sanderianum. Biddings 
reached forty-three pounds, but the owner would 
not deal at the price. Albinos are rare among the 
Dendrobes, 
D. nobile Cooksont was the fons et origo of an 
unpleasant misunderstanding. It turned up inthe 
collection of Mr. Lange, distinguished by a reversal 
of the ordinary scheme ofcolour. There is actually 
no end to the delightful vagaries of these plants. 
If people only knew what interest and pleasing 
excitement attends the inflorescence of an imported 
orchid—one, that is, which has not bloomed before 
in Europe—they would crowd the auction-rooms 
in which every strange face ismarkednow. There 
are books enough to inform them, certainly ; but 
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