A. YD THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



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Dendrobium. 



a cool house, and give it only just sufficient moisture to keep 

 its pseudo-bulbs from shrivelling. It usually blossoms during 

 spring and early summer. It is a native of China and various 



parts of India ; the first plant known in cultivation Avas intro- 

 duced from Macao by Reeves, in 1836. (Fig. 68.) There are 

 numerous beautiful varieties of this species in cultivation. The 

 best of them are : u r 



Var. «//?«.— Pure white, excepting the primrose disc on the lip. 



