Dendrobium Ainsworth rosewm requires treatment similar to that given to 
D. nobile. We have found it to do well in a compost of peat and sphagnum moss, 
planted in pans suspended from the roof of the East India house, in a position 
where it can get plenty of light and air. During the growing season this plant 
enjoys a liberal supply of water, which after the bulbs have completed their develop- 
ment may be gradually withheld, and the plant cooled down by placing it in the 
Cattleya-house, where it should remain until the time of flowering, which extends 
from February to June. Mr. Stevens, of Trentham, grows it very successfully, 
suspended in a well-appointed plant stove, where it has abundance of light. 
We remember seeing a splendid plant of Dendrobiwn Ainsworthii rosewm exhibited 
by Mr. Mitchell, at the Whitsuntide Manchester Show, in May, 1877, in the form 
of a well furnished specimen two and a half feet in height and two fect in breadth, 
the stems being literally smothered with some hundreds of its beautiful crimson- 
lipped rosy-tinted flowers. 3 : 
Referrmg to this same Manchester Show of 1877, Mr. Anderson, of Meadow 
Bank, a well-known Orchid grower, writes of this plant, as follows (Gardeners’ 
Chromele, N.S vii., 750):—* Possibly the gem of the Exhibition was Dendrobium 
Ainsworth roseum. This is a most remarkable seedling partaking of the character 
of both its parents (D. nobile and D. heterocarpum), and in some respects superior 
to either. In point of floriferousness none of its parents can lay claim to such a 
quantity of nodes on the deciduous stems, each bearing, or rather emitting, its quota 
of flowers. I counted on one stem sixteen short racemes, each two and three-flowered. 
The flower itself has the sepals and petals of moniliforme rather than of nobile, white 
shaded with an almost imperceptible tint of rose, and tipped distinctly with that 
soft pleasing colour. The labellum is flat, like an expanded heterocarpum, reflexing 
a little towards the centre, with a blotch covering three-quarters of its surface with 
deep veined purplish or rather mulberry-crimson, edged very distinctly with white, 
and the extremity slightly tipped with crimson. This I look upon as one of the 
greatest gains in hybridization, whether we regard the colour of the flower, or the 
general floriferousness of the plant, or its free although not awkward habit of growth. 
As an Orchid enthusiast of the last five and twenty years, I] would pronounce it one 
of the greatest gains that may be counted up in the whole known Orchid family.” 
Altogether this is a most desirable plant, and being easy of cultivation, and of 
remarkably free-flowering habit, it should find a place in every collection. 
