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are stored the huge specimens of Cymbidium Lowia- 
num, nine of which astounded the good people of 
Berlin with a display of one hundred and fifty 
flower spikes, all open at once. We observe at least 
a score as well furnished, and hundreds which a 
royal gardener would survey with pride. They 
rise one above another in a great bank, crowned 
and brightened by garlands of pale green and 
chocolate. Other Cymbidiums are here, but not 
the beautiful C. eburneum. Its large white flowers, 
erect on a short spike, not drooping like these, will 
be found in a cool house—smelt with delight before 
they are found. 
Further on we have a bank of Dendrobiums, so 
densely clothed in bloom that the leaves are un- 
noticed. Lovely beyond all to my taste, if, indeed, 
one may make a comparison, is D. luteolum, with 
flowers of palest, tenderest primrose, rarely seen 
unhappily, for it will not reconcile itself to our 
treatment. Then again a bank of Cattleyas, of 
Vandas, of miscellaneous genera. The pathway is 
hedged on one side with Begonia coralina, an un- 
improved species too straggling of growth and too 
small of flower to be worth its room under ordinary 
conditions ; but a glorious thing here, climbing to 
the roof, festooned at every season of the year 
with countless rosy sprays. 
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