crimson-scarlet, its side lobes and its prominent crest being also of a bright crimson- 
scarlet. The flowers are produced during September and October. 
This Dendrobe, which comes from the west coast of the Malayan Peninsula, as 
we learn from Mr. F. Sander, “grows naturally on small trees, at about six feet 
from the ground, and not far from the coast line, where it is exposed to the full 
sun. It requires a hot and dry rest from October till April.” 
Mr. Howe, the gardener, grows this plant in a pot, with fibrous peat and 
sphagnum moss, well drained, and suspended from the roof in a warm house with 
other Dendrobes. It requires the same treatment as others of its class. The great 
secret of success in the cultivation of Dendrobes is to give them a good season of 
growth, and to let them go on without check until the growth is completed, after 
which they require a season of rest. When they begin to flower they require 
nourishment, which should be given them in the form of more moisture. When 
the blooming season is over they generally begin to grow; this is the time to 
place them, with fresh material, in pots or baskets, should they require it; if not 
a little fresh material should merely be put about them without disturbing their 
roots. This will encourage them to root more freely. As our seasons are short, 
nothing should be left undone that would tend to invigorate them, in order that 
they may make good ripened stems for flowering the next year. Another important 
matter affecting their well being is to keep them free from insects. Many of the 
Dendrobiums are short-lived, especially if they are neglected, and when this is the 
ease they often die through the remedy being too late of application. 
OpoNnTOGLOssuM JosEPHINa.—There is now flowering, in the collection of R. -H. 
Measures, Esq., Streatham, a fine new Odontoglossum of great beauty, and undoubtedly 
a mule between Odontoglossum gloriosum and O. Alexandre. It has sepals and 
petals after the shape of those of O. Andersonianum, and a lip like that of 
O. Alexandre. The flowers are white, the sepals faintly marked with rose, am 
the whole of the flower distinctly spotted with chestnut-brown. . The variety 1 
named after Mr. Measures’ youngest daughter.—B. 8. W. 
