separating the pseudo-bulbs when fully matured, and placing them in a warm, shady- 

 position until they show signs of breaking into growth. 



Acineta Humholdtii is an evergreen plant, furnished with short, stout, furrowed, pear- 

 shaped pseudo-bulbs, and broad nervose leaves about a foot or more in length, coriaceous 

 in texture, and dark green in colour. The flowers are produced on many-flowered, 

 drooping racemes about two feet long, they are sub-globose, fleshy ; sepals deep tawny 

 yellow on the inner surface, faintly spotted with pale chocolate- purple, outer surface 

 same colour, suffused and densely spotted with deep chocolate-purple ; petals much 

 smaller than the sepals, deep rosy red covered with crimson spots. The plant flowers 



during the spring and early summer, and lasts only a short time in perfection 



Vanda teees vae. Andersonii. — A remarkably fine form of this Orchid has recently 

 been flowering in the fine collection of W. C. Pickersgill, Esq., Blendon Hall, 

 Bexley. The growths are from three to four feet in length, and the plant has 

 four spikes bearing twenty-eight flowers, ranging from six to eight flowers each. 



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The plant is in the most vigorous condition, and Mr. Moore, the head gardener, 

 attributes the successful cultivation of this plant to its being grown in the full 

 sun, with plenty of moisture. In the same collection was 'a magnificent lot of 



well-flowered plants of Epidendrum vitellinum majus, having by far the finest flowers 



we have seen on small plants. A large quantity of well-grown Odontoglossum 



vexillarium were also in flower, amongst which w^ere some splendid varieties, with 



broad and beautifully marked lips. The collection is not large, but the plants are 

 well grown, and does Mr. Moore the greatest amount of credit. 



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