76 ORCHIDS. 
CYMBIDIUM HOOKERIANUM. 
Tuts variety, represented by Plate No. XXI.,—is a native 
of the Himalaya Mountains, and was named in compliment to 
Dr. J. D. Hooker, a director in the Kew Gardens. This very 
curious specimen, attractive from its prominent and parti-colored 
bulbs, was impossible of complete representation on these pages, 
from the large number of its bulbous and leafy portions, form- 
ing a mass two and a half feet in diameter, while the flower- 
stalk was two feet long. 
. The specimen from which our drawing was made was evi- 
dently a plant of many years’ growth,—which fact is known 
from the size and number of bulbs. It was in the orchid house 
of Mr. Ames, of North Easton, Mass. 
Few persons are aware of the magnificence of the Kew 
Gardens in England; the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh; the 
College Gardens of Dublin; or similar establishments in Glas- 
gow, Manchester, and other cities, especially of Western Europe. 
Thousands of deeply interested people are attracted to these 
floral centres, from nearly all parts of the world. We are told 
that large cargoes of plants, chiefly orchids, and very costly, are 
brought nearly every week to the great emporium upon the 
Thames, —from South America, from Southern Africa, and Asia; 
from Queensland and the Islands near the equator, —to be dis- 
tributed throughout the United Kingdom, and by agents in this 
country. 
Our own country is far behind England in the cultivation of 
