Arrt 20, 1895.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
485 
one of the parentse—S. X grande. In the white 
abnormal flower taken from the same plant, S. cau- 
datum appears in a marked degree, and the 
2 is in every detail of the flower — — 
suppres 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE VARIETIES, 
is often asserted that the true D. nobile nobilius 
ome — 
ve, will de dangerous rivals to it. A flower o 
very beautiful variety, se sent by Messrs, Hurst & 3 
Bur , ia even more 
d petals, and is even better, “a 
ele of view, than is D. n. nobilius; but li 
Hursts' flower is not 30 ‘ene a circumstance which 
weakly pseudob 
another beautiful it with white sepals and 
petals, having a decided yellow oa over them, and 
es with rose, e ee of t e deing 
aroon, comes fro de ae e very 
— — 20 ethene that they night be 
mistaken for distinct species. 
ALOCASIA THIBAUTIANA, 
(Masters). 
OrniGinatty described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
April 27, 1878, from a plant received from Borneo 
Wh eed JE 
Fic 68 —ALOcASIA THIBAUTIANA (MASTERS), 
by Messrs. — —— & Sons of Chelsea; this 
fine Alocasia cultivation for a consider- 
able time, and pes = is a not s es the present day to = 
und in many 2 ns, auty of ita brigh 
green leaves of various Ver with er — 
silver veining, eee it the handsomest of its 
and on 
hey are growing, and 
a brief rest, with a derer amount of water, but 
still kept in a warm se after the foliage has 
matured, they are not difficult to manage. It is pro- 
bably due to their being placed in too cool a house 
during the resting season that they ndi often perish, 
and are consequently always scarce, e illustration 
(ñg. 68) is from a photograph by aie. Armstrong, 
of Dublin. 
SOUTH LODGE, HORSHAM. 
u 
probably in none outside them, doe 
such a wide range of beautiful and interesting 
as F, Du Cane — . ; by hie = 
subjects 
e best, and h 
treat of Orchids and a few o — er hing observed in 
bloom at the time of a Bat soon = 
beauties of the large and pretty rden, in 
which flo getting abundant, will rival the 
inmates of the ani houses in beauty; and tte 
lofty winter with giant 3 of 
Indian Rhodod rons and their hybrids, already 
exhibiting many hundreds of large 
