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white, more or less freckled and suffused with rose-purple towards the base. 
Mr. Goodson’s plant had a long twining inflorescence and about forty-five 
flowers, borne in short side branches of two to six flowers each. For the 
loan of the block were are indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. R.A.R. 
DENDROBIUM PINIFOLIUM.—An interesting Bornean Dendrobium is 
flowering at Kew, which was presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, 
Ashton Wold, Oundle, and proves to be D. pinifolium, a species described 
in 1896 from materials collected at Sandakan by Pryer (Ridl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc., xxxi. p. 269). It is nearly allied to the Burmese D. pachyglossum, 
Par. & Rchb. f., which it much resembles in habit, but the flowers are 
larger, and the sepals and petals closely lined with red-brown on a light 
yellow ground. The lip is honey yellow, with a brownish suffusion in front, 
the side lobes being acute, and the front lobe terminating in two rounded 
auricles. The lateral sepals and narrow petals are much reflexed. The 
stems are somewhat channelled, as in the D. revolutum set, and are about 
six inches long, and the leaves are narrow, acute, and very rigid, their 
sheaths being covered with copious black hairs when young. We had not 
seen the species before.— R.A.R. 
ORCHIDS IN THE War AREA.—M. Henri Graire, St. Fuscien, Amiens, 
France, is well known to our readers as a very successful Orchid hybridist, 
and the raiser of Odontioda Graireana, O. Devosiana (named after his 
gardener, M. De Vos), O. Euterpe, O. ignea, O. Margarita, the handsome 
0. St. Fuscien, Adioda St. Fuscien, and several interesting Odonto- 
glossums, which he has exhibited at meetings of the R.H.S. On October 
3rd the Gardeners’ Chronicle published part of a letter received from him on 
September 24th, 1914, from which the following is extracted :— 
“Up to the present my greenhouses are intact. The Germans passed 
through St. Fuscien, and neither entered my greenhouses nor my living 
house ; they were satisfied to take all the fruit and vegetables out of the 
8atden—no great matter. Shall I be as lucky till the end? I trust to see 
NO more of them; nevertheless, we hear ceaselessly the boom of the 
‘annon in the neighbourhood. Amiens was occupied for eight days; it 
Was very sad; but the Allies returned, and pow we. have 100,000 .men 
Near us.” 
The note appeared under the heading, 
Nursery,” a mistake which was subsequently 5; , Som 
n amateur, grower, though, like many others, he disposes of some . : 
Surplus stock, There are other establishments in the war area about whic 
Mxiety is felt, but we hope they will escape destruction. — 
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