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Ccelogyne cristata, and Phalsenopsis grandiflora, many are now being 

 grown for market, and, together with the coloured Dendrobium nobile, 

 make a feature in the flo.ists' windows in Covent Garden Market. 

 The following is a selection of the best white-flowered Orchi.ls : 

 Aeranthus Leonis, Angrsecums, Anguloa eburnea, Calanthe Turneri 

 nivalis, Cattleya Domimana alba, C Percivaliana alba, C. Skinneri 

 alba, ToelogYne cristata alba, Cyrnbidium eburneum, Cy[>npedium 

 niveum, C. Sedeni candidu'um, Dendrobium Deari (very useful), D. 

 infundibulura, D. formosum, D. Jamesianum, Lselia albida, L. anceps 

 alba, and other varieties, L. elegans alba, Lycaste Skiuneri alba, L. 

 Harrisoiiize alba, Masdevallia tovarensis, Odontoglossum Alexandras, 

 Pescatorei, 0. pulchellum, 0. Roezli album, and 0. vexillarium 

 album. Some of these are not pure white, but there is very little 

 colour in the majority, the Laslias, Odontoglossums, and Coelogyne 

 being valuable for cutting. 



ORANGE AND SCARLET-FLOWERED ORCHIDS. These tints are not 

 very abundant, though shades of yellow are very numerous in the 

 Oncidiums and Dendrobiums. The following are a dozen of the best 

 of these tints, which are very effective, arranged with other lighter 

 coloured flowers : Ada aurantiaca, Epidendrum vitellinurn, E. 

 aurantiacum, E cinnabarinum, Laelia cinnabarina, L. flammea, L. 

 harpophyllH, Masdevallia coccinea, M. ignea, M. Veitchiana, flenan- 

 thera coccinea, and Sophronitis grandiflora. 



ORCHIDS FOR EVERY MONTH. 



A supply of Orchid flowers can be easily obtained throughout the 

 year ; some like Odontoglossum Alexandra, producing its blooms at 

 all seasons, others like Lycaste Skinneri, last for a considerable time, 

 and others are almost constantly in fbwer from the succession of 

 blooms they bear. Orchids are by no means constant in their time 

 of flowering, but the great majority of flowers are produced from 

 March to midsummer, some of the Lamias, Calanthes, and others 

 jielding an autumn and winter display. The following list by Mr. 

 Cummins, gardener to A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Wailington, is 

 a record of the times of flowering as observed in that establishment, 

 where large numbers of species are grown. It will be understood 

 that the months under which the plants are arranged are those 

 in which the flowers expanded, and that some consequently 

 extended into the next or perhaps the following months. Though 

 the periods named cannot be taken as fixed, they will serve to indicate 

 what rcay be expected to flower at the principal seasons. 



JANUARY. Cypripedimn insigne and varieti s, C. venustum, C. Boxalli, 

 Ccelogyue cristata, C. eparsa, C. ppeciosa, Dendrobium Ainswprthi, D. 

 craseiiiode, D. Devonianum, D. nobile, D. revolutum, D. primulinum, D. 

 speciosum, D. "Wardiauum, Dendrochilum uncatum, Laelia albida, L. anceps, 



