AMATEURS OF ORCHIDS will learn with pleasure that L’Horticutture 
InrerNATIONALE (Linpen) has received a fine importation of the famous Laelia 
grandis tenebrosa, one of the most beautiful Orchids known. Owing to its being 
distributed at a comparatively low price, it can now be diffused through all 
collections, and may be represented by numerous examples. There are numerous 
varieties, and all very pretty. i 
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CATTLEYA LINDENIAE. — We may also point out the discovery by the 
collectors of Mssrs Linpen, directors of L’HorticutturE INTERNATIONALE, of a 
new sensation; a Cattleya with large pure white flowers constituting a new 
type, and not only a variety, and which the collectors have already named 
C. Lindeniae. This will be a fitting conclusion of the year, and one of the 
richest acquisitions of the Orchid family. 
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THE NEW CATTLEYA ALEXANDRAE presents a very curious phenomenon, 
which we think has not been previously observed in any other Cattleya. Many 
plants of this species in the houses of L’Horricutture INTERNATIONALE have 
produced at various heights, on the nodes of the old bulbs, adventition growths 
furnished with roots, like certain Dendrobiums. One plant also has produced 
a growth at the summit of the bulb, arising from the base of an old dry 
flower-stalk. 
This fact is very curious and probably new. It augurs well for the vigour 
of growth of this new species. 
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