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Brazil. I saw a fine plant of this, grown by Mr. J. Williams, 

 gardener to the late C. B. Warner, Esq., Hoddesdon. It had 

 many branching spikes of its beautiful flowers, some of them 

 numbering twenty blossoms on each, and was grown in a 

 basket with moss and peat. 



B. Farmeri, — This is a very pretty species, and well 

 worthy of general cultivation. It resembles B. Candida in 

 habit and appearance, and is a very free bloomer, producing 

 its elegant white and yellow flowers in early summer. It 

 succeeds best grown on a block or in a basket with sphagnum 

 moss, suspended from the roof in the Cattleya house. 



B. fragrans. — A charming Orchid from Brazil. The flowers 

 are deliciously fragrant, the perfume resembling that of the 

 hawthorn ; sepals and petals white ; lip white, stained with 

 yellow down the centre ; they are produced in April and May, 

 on a drooping spike, and last three or four weeks in beauty 

 if kept free from damp. 



B. Knowlesii. — A beautiful plant, somewhat similar in 

 habit to B. venusta, very dwarf and compact. The flowers 

 are white, slightly tinged with pinky lilac, and produced in 

 long racemes. It blooms during the autumn, and continues 

 in perfection a long time. A scarce Orchid. 



B. venusta. — A very pretty species from Brazil, in which 

 the blossoms are white, with yellow down the centre of the 

 lip. It blooms at difierent times of the year ; lasts two or 

 three weeks in good condition. 



Calanthe. 

 There are some beautiful species belonging to this genus, 

 and consequently these plants are great favourites. They 

 are of easy culture, having handsome evergreen foliage — 

 except, however, C. vestita, C. Veitchii, and C. Turneri, 

 which are deciduous, losing their leaves during the season 



