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ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. 



D. NOBILE ALBUM, Hort. — Tliis variety has pure white sepals and petals 

 lip J'ellowish-white, with the usual crimson-purple blotch in the throat. 

 i'la.—Lr Moniteur cVIIon., Aug. 10, 1889 ; L' OrchhlophiU'. 1890, p. 304. 



D. NOBILE BALLIANUM, O'Brien.—" The flower is of fine form and wax-like 

 substance, and its chief peculiarity is that the more or less dark purple disk seen 

 in] the lip of the type, and the purplish colour in the segments of many of the 

 forms are almost entirely suppressed. The flowers of D. nobile Ballianuin are of a 

 clear shining white, with a pale pearly-pink blush, which is more pronounced 

 towards the tips of the sepals, petals, and lip ; the disk of the labellum is of a 

 very pale soft dull rose-pink, the front pale primrose, and the apex blush jiink, 

 and differs from anj- form of D. nohile imported" (J. O'Brien, in Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. 3rd ser., 18.93, xiii. p. 322). — India. 



DEXDRODIUM NOBILE COOKSONIANUJI. 

 (From the Gcinlrning M'urld.) 



D. NOBILE COOKSONIANUM, Bchh. /.—A very curious and wonderful sport, 

 whicli first made its appearance in the collection of Theodore Lauge, Esq., of 

 Heathtield House, Gateshead. Some plants were thence acquired l)y N. C. 



