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RODRIGUEZIA PUBESCENS. 
RoODRIGUEZIA pubescens is a most beautiful, autumn-blooming Orchid which 
always seems to have been rare in cultivation, and although re-introduced 
in quantity a few years ago we now seldom meet with good specimens. It 
is not even mentioned in the last edition of Williams’ Orchid Grower's 
Manual, unless the plant mentioned as Burlingtonia Knowlesii (p. 136) be 
identical. The example here figured flowered in the collection of R. 
Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, and shows what a floriferous and 
graceful species it is. It is a native of Brazil, and we believe was first 
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flowered by Messrs. Loddiges, in November, 1846. In November, 1851, a 
plant, which had been sent by some friends at Pernambuco, flowered in the 
collection of John Knowles, Esq., of Manchester, and received a Silver 
Medal from the Horticultural Society. Lindley then described it as “a 
wide tuft of dark green, rigid leaves, pouring forth from their bosom a pro- 
fusion of bunches of snow-white blossoms.” It should be grown in baskets; 
in the Cattleya house, and requires abundance of water when growing; 
and even when resting, it should not be allowed to become dry at the root, 
