LHORTICULTURE INTERNATIONALE 
(LINDEN). 
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A house containing several thousand plants of Dendrobium from northern 
Australia, all in splendid health, and most of them coming into flower, was 
pointed to with pride, by both the veteran Monsieur J. LinpEn and his son, as 
being likely to reveal some treasures in the way of D. Phalaenopsis, D. Gol- 
dicanum, etc., before very long. A big batch of Cattleya Buyssoniana, another of 
the new Coryanthes Bungerothti, another of Grammatophyllum Ellisii, and still 
another of the new Bornean Coelogyne peltastes followed each other in rapid 
succession. These may be taken as an example of the richness of the collection 
which was revealed as we walked through one house after another; they also are 
evidences of the enterprise of this company in the work of introducing new 
plants, for in these plants we have new discoveries made by Monsieur LinpEn’s 
collectors, and under his directions, in Australia, Borneo, Madagascar and 
South America. At present there are five collectors employed solely in the 
search for new plants, two others being told off to look after those which are 
in great demand, such as Odontoglossums and Cattleyas. 
Smaller houses contain many rarities such as delight the eye of the con- 
noisseur in Orchids. I noted in them living plants of the beautiful Telipogons, 
which are certain to rival the best Masdevallias if they can only be induced 
to stay with us, Trichoceros muralis, Lissochilus giganteus, Haemaria Otletae, a 
prettily veined ally of Anoectochilus, Cattleya Rex, which Monsieur LinpvEen 
declares is the most lovely of all Cattleyas, and which has been seen by his 
collector with fourteen flowers on a spike; Cattleya Randii, the white variety 
of C. superba; Oncidium Leopoldii, one of the most beautiful of recent discove- 
ries. I might go on to enumerate all the best Orchids hitherto described, and 
add to them nearly fifty new ones as yet undescribed, but here growing under 
Monsieur Linpen’s watchful eye, and even then I should not have exhausted 
the list of interesting Orchids to be seen at this nursery. 
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Although Orchids are the principal plants, there are many others which are 
objects of Monsieur Linpen’s Special care. Nepenthes of all kinds are grown 
in large numbers, a large house being entirely filled with them, so far as roof- 
space is concerned. Stove plants of the choicest kinds, such as Aroids, Palms, 
Ferns and many flowering plants, are represented by many beautiful species, 
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