or three blossoms at the end; the sepals and petals are pure white, of good form 
and substance, and the lip is of a dark rosy purple edged with white, the disk orange 
coloured, the lower part of the throat pale orange veined with crimson, and the: upper 
part white. It generally blooms in January and February, and continues in perfection 
for two and three weeks. 
This variety must be very rare in its native habitat, as we have received 
importations on several occasions purporting to be this white form, but after the 
plants have been grown on and _ flowered, they have invariably proved to be the 
type with rosy-coloured flowers. This is also the experience of other importers of 
Orchids. | 
The plant is best grown in a pot or basket suspended ‘from the roof, where it 
can obtain all the light possible, which induces it to grow with greater vigour and 
to flower more freely. It thrives well in the Cattleya house owith. a moderate supply 
of water in the growing season, but when at rest less water will suffice. We have 
found good rough fibrous “peat to be the most advantageous material in which to 
grow it, allowing ample drainage; and when fresh potting material is ‘required the 
operation of supplying it should - performed just as the plant _ begins to grow, 
which is after the _ blooming season. Always bear in mind Has the plants must be 
kept free from insects. 
Propagation is effected by dividing the plant just as it begins to break into 
growth. In pettrinins the operation two or three pseudobulbs should “be detached 
Ait the plant, having a leading bulb; when taken off at this stage the plants 
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Dineonopne Warpranum.—A fine variety of this grand Dendrobe comes from 
D. Alroy Salamon, Esq., Clapham Park. The specimen has very large flowers, 
four and a-half inches in diameter, and of great substance. The sepals and petals are 
one and a-quarter inch broad, of a pure white, heavily stipped with rich magenta; the 
lip is very large, and also heavily blotched with magenta, the throat a rich orange 
with two dark brown eye-like spots. These flowers were from an’ imported plant, 
and we are curious to see whether it will produce equally fine flowers from the home 
made growths. If so we shall hope to figure it at some future time, as in the state 
in which it has just bloomed, it is certainly one of the finest and best forms of this 
splendid species which we have met with. It is also a free grower.—B. 8. W. 
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DENDROBIUM FALconert. —Mr. Priest, Gardener to the Marquis of Lothian, has 
‘sent us some. fine flowers of this favourite Dendrobe. He informs us that the plant 
from which the flowers were taken has 150 blossoms upon it. This must be a remark- 
“ably fine specimen, and well cultivatéd, to produce flowers in such profusion. —H. W. 
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