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at high pressure, but the actual losses have been 
„and the enfeebled already begin to show im- 
rovemen t with the return of bright sunshine, 
j In the first division of the intermediate range there 
Arranged with the 
— (Hookerianum) with a spike of thirteen 
; several varieties of the beautiful C. ebur- 
neam, 500 being pure white with —— lip, 
2 a and a third having purple spots 
^n the lip. Lycaste gigantea has three flowers, 
L Skinnerii appears in 0 tenei and occa- 
N 
of 1 anceps, Dendrobium Ward- 
— phylla, L. 3 Epiden- 
. — Plaan fragrans, Cœlogyne gra- 
minifolia, Dendrobium primulinum, Odontoglossum 
um, &c, assist in making and 
etire display. 3 
2 division is devoted chiefly to Cypripe- 
10 Puggle ap vite Wallisii, with two mag- 
eas the other three flo 
in 1886, and it hae flowered 
. . but never so well as now. 
paring tà nearly 3 feet in height, and 
the — foan, flowers, 
sat ti 
d at the entrance was a noble example of ` 
In the same house were varieties in bloom of C. 
villosum and C. v. Boxallii; a gue Tinsin form 
of C. peripe an callosum,C. X selligerum, 
C. x Leeanum, C. barbatum Warnerii, C. Haynald- 
ianum, — Platyelinis 3 Sending upa strong 
spike, was a fine plant of Schomburgkia 3 
whose white and purple flowers, . on lon 
pedicels, and arranged in bouquet-like 3 
1 e — handsomest of the genus. 
a-house had ea fine show of forms of 
8 Tiel: of which C.T. Courtauldiana, with 
its bright violet-crimson lip and perfectly-shaped 
flowers, is far the best, Among the rest are several 
“remar 
kably distinct fermionai On 
attractive. In the same same house is a finely- 
Lelia e an old but very elegant ni pies 
a, the E was a capital show of 
flowers from t asses of D. Devonianum 
suspended against Pee wall, together with D. 
port D. hoye ien “and other species. Here, too. 
was the finest example of D. atroviblanedin which we 
have seen, and which bore three spikes carrying 
between 
and-violet flowers, flower here 
of Miltonia Roezlii, Angrecum citratum, Odonto- 
glossum EAwardii, &e. Rising favourites at Bocking 
Place are choice Ferns, and alrea dy sey yeas nd 
rare species are there to be found. Itis 
ast, 
well-defined rare species are always being looked for 
to add to the collection, 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE VARS, 
prays of some very fine and distinct 
varieties of D. nobile, sent for our inspection by Mr. 
Weetman, ‘he Hawthorns, Little iadi, 
tafford, “ prove,” as that gentleman Ne “the 
train imported . 
one * aa very closely approaches. Mr. W 
that no two come exactly alike, but all are 
beantiful, and the plants easier to grow than the 
older forms, so far as, he sayr, his experience goes. 
DENDROBIUM ad Rolfe, 
We le that — eal 2 Co., of 
the Clapton — have now aus d further 
materials of the above splendid new species, which 
yet oe introduced to cultivation. 
many n Mount Kina Balu, in Borneo, by 
Sir Hugh Low, — found it growin g on a olia. 
being mu 
are much more thickly covered with short black 
hairs. The flowers are pure white, except a blotch 
at the base of the lip, which is of a rich purple-red 
colour. The plant is of dwarf habit, and very flori- 
ferous, bearing i 
trusses | 
are ge than those of D. formosum. 
` n ó 
MEGI GALPINI. °° 1 
his handsome greenho 
SEEDS 5 
sent to Kew | in 1890 by Mr, E. E. Galpin, who found 
i i at an elevation of 
pared 
published in the Bo ne, t. 7239. Last 
autumn it flower lie was very effective 
with its silv 
bright orange-coloured flowers. 
almost to the base after flowering, but fresh shoots 
are pushed out from below, and these may either be 
taken off and rooted to be grown on to flower in the 
on the plant which, with proper treatm 
a compact specimen 18 inches high, such as that 
shown in Fig. 38, which is from a photograph 
of a plant grown in the Cape-honse at Kew last year, 
The basal leaves are 6 inches long, ¢ inch 
5 wallet 
Sof, hed 10 
plied by means of cuttings, 
at 
eee ae gleaned Galpini, V. 
